Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-01-02
CANDY.
Its Production Has Developed a Big
Industry.

It's Production Has Developed a Big
Industry.
So strong Is the habit Of thought
that whenever we hear candies spoken
of as a food product we cannot help
ibut bark back to the time, within
memory, when the much more limited
variety then known was regarded as
the indulgence of women and children,
but never as valuable adjunct to
the general diet.
What would our grandparents, and
even the parents Of some Of us have
Thought of a physician who prescribed
candies?
1t ought, perhaps, to be admitted
that this method Of prescription arose,
in part at feast, as a compromise with
the weakness Of the appetite for sweets,
in an effort to regulate their use and
secure benefits, instead Of possible
harm, from overindulgence. Yet there
is now a clearer and fuller recogni-
tion by science Of the value Of sugar
and sugar products, properly used, in
limparting energy to the human body.
And with this added knowledge has
come the effort to improve the manu-
facture Of candies and to bring them
not merely into closer relation with
but distinctly under the head of food
products.
There are undoubtedly many anoma-
lies in the operation Of the pure food
laws which would be amusing were
they not so irksome. But again ex-
US that, given time enough. the ex-
cesses will become modified.
There may also be something in the
well-known truth that those who are
hurt the worst shout the loudest, and
these assuredly are hard times for the
intentional "faker"
1t Is. agreeable to find that, as a
body, confectioners are In full accord
with the policy of pure and wholesome
Iquality In their product and frown
in severest disapproval on those Of
their calling whose greed for gain leads
them to the use of Injurious ingredi-
Ients
The attitude of the National Con-
lfectioners' association Is we'll expressed
in their standing offer Of $500 reward
for reliable evidence of an authentic
case Of poisoning from candy. And
their statement may not be without
Significance that, In all the numerous
cases brought to them for investiga-
ltion they have yet to find the case
which provides conclusive proof Of the
alleged poisoning.
In the provisions Of the most pro-
Igressive of candy manufacturers the
Requirements of the law are discount
ed. The evidence of this becomes more
than apparent in an inspection Of the
most recent examples of the candy
factory construction. Perfect santa
tion and scrupulous cleanliness are
Indicated in every direction. Every
POSSIBLE improvement Is made to serve
the ends of purity and wholesomeness.
And as much prominence Is given. to
the comfort and convenience Of en-
ployees as to any other feature Of the
arrangement.
| The latest authentic figures concern
ling the manufacture of candies are
those given in the census Of manufac-
lures taken in 1905. The 1910 census
reports will not be ready for two or
three months Using the 1905 figures
as basis, an approximate idea of the
condition Of the industry can be gain
ed. There is this to be said, however;
the figures for 1905 include only such
manufacturing establishments as come
under what Is known as the factory
system, excluding all the smaller es-
Establishments. Numerically, these small