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Show ;kov jioiik si ukkts. The enormous increased consumption consump-tion of confectionery, ice cream, and soft drinks can only be explained on the theory of the food value of the suar used in the manufacture of sweet stuffs. Time was when the confectionery business was a small affair confined in the retail with children for customers. cus-tomers. Today confectionery and allied trades are among the great industries indus-tries of America. The American people are using candy, sweets and ice cream as they use meat and flour. If half the energy used in howling about hoarding sugar were spent in growing more sugar beets, there would be no shortage. Tons of paper are used by Government Govern-ment bureaus in shrieking pleas that we use only one teaspoonful of sugar in a cup of coffee instead of two. Half as much effort put into planting plant-ing sugar beets on the rich lands of Sanpete valley and other fertile valleys val-leys in Utah and the neighboring states would grow so much sugar that it would be selling at 5 or 6 cents a pound. i!ut that would be constructive work and people with constructive minds rarely seek jobs in Government Govern-ment bureaus, nor keep them long. |