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Show si (iit, si(;.ii, srGAR. A HU;ir man .says: "The world world Is short perhaps li.UOD.OUO tons a year of its suRar needs. Knrope is making less than two-thirds two-thirds of its normal crop. Many regions there are famished for sut'ar. 'Some Heel ions of the United Slates, nuw that the canning season is i. em-Ins lis height, are reporting bhoiUmes. Prohibition, with its asMiin-il Increase in craving for av.i-c'ts, lias arrived." Candy was never in such demand as during the war and since peace came. .Millions of people in Kurope who had but little sugar before the war have aeq'iiircd a desire for more sugar through closer contact with American ways of living. The war proved beyond a doubt that sugar is a main article of diet to day and (here Is bound to be a greater consumption con-sumption per capita than ever he-fore. he-fore. Western sugar beet growers have a wonderful opportunity for development, develop-ment, before them. |