Show TILE THE sweetening few persons have any concept of the magnitude of the sugar industry take all the sugar used in homes confectionery shops ice cream parlors and it is our largest article of diet there are about one hundred beet sugar refineries in the territory west of of tho the great lakes the 1918 19 sugar crops of tile the un tel states and cuba have a market value of or more adding to this vast total the amount received by tile the producers of the british west indies santa domingo and other important sugar growing sections of the western hemisphere we have a grand total of roundly as the money return from the current sugar crop of the americas Ameri caa substitution of sugar for foe alcohol as a result of national prohibition makes intakes sugar consumption in tile the form of candies and sweets a national necessity instead of a luxury |