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Show C.-tXDT AS A WAR RATION. No bill in Congress has occasioned greater enthusiasm among the boys "over there" than the bill which Congressman Con-gressman Gould has introduced o provide the sailors and soldiers with regular rations of candy and chewing gum along with their food and tobacco, tobac-co, subject to regulations by the surgeon sur-geon general of the respective services. ser-vices. - There is no man in Congress who has made a keener study of military questions and who has'the welfare of the Sammies and Jackies more at heart, than Congressman Gould. His close study of army conditions and numerous interviews with the army and navy officers have convinced him that candy and chewing gum are necessities in keeping up the spirit of our fighting forces. When interviewed inter-viewed on the subject, Congressman Gould said: "The officers and army doctors tell me that sweets are an absolute necessity in keeping up the morale. Doctors have known for years that the human system requires a certain amount of sweet things, and to deprive our soldiers and sailors sail-ors of harmless sweets to which they have been accustomed all their lives, is to weaken their fighting qualities." Soldiers and sailors who are ad-'dicted ad-'dicted to alchol, but who are forbidden for-bidden to use it, find that sweets are the only things which will satisfy their intense craving for liquor. The British government has recognized that candy and chewing gum are necessary nec-essary and the Y. M. C. A.'s, Red Cross, K. of C, Salvation Army and -other organizations engaged in war work are purchasing enormous quantities quan-tities of candy and chewing gum for soldiers and sailors. Major Cushman A. Rice, soldier of fortune, big game hunter and world traveler, has just returned from the European front, where he has been In command of the American air force fighting with the British. Major Rice declares, "The boys need candy. They want the old-fashioned brands, the kind ithey used to get back home." |