Evening star., 1916-12-31
BY JAMES B. MORROW.

~ ACH person in the United States.
In at the present price-say. 8
1T, cents pound over the counter
& is yearly consuming 81 20 worth
of sugar.
A man and his wife. then. pay, direct
ly and round aboutly, s1440 for that
small item of their living. Add two
children to the family and the sum is
doubled; add four children and it is
tripled.
There are 100. 900 900 people (estimated)
in the country. The sugar bill of the
nation. accordingly. is s720,O00,0o0. OF
that amount at least 100000 900,
normally, is paid outside the territorial
boundaries of the United States-most-
ly to plantation owners in Cuba.
The balance. s52O.OOo000, is widely
distributed-first. of course, to cane
and beet growers Refiners, as in
cane sugar. and manufacturers. as in
beet sugar, are receiving comfortab BILE
dividends on the capital they have put
into their business.
For example: The 500 shares of the
Great Western Sugar Company are
selling at $3.50 apiece. A stock diyidend
of ~ per cent was declared redently.
The dividend of one shareholder. the
American Sugar Refining Company, had
a value of $15 100000.
Freights, water and land. are also
charged against the consumers. The
retailers profit by the pound is atomic.
but bulks large on 100000 tons. the
years supply of the nation OF the
-. 900 tons. the United States, be-
tween the oceans. east and west, and
Canada and Mexico. north and south,
produces 20 per cent. or. in round
numbers, 100 900, 900 tons. The remain
der is bought in Cuba t55 per cent?.
and in Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Philippines t25 per cent?.
Roughly. 3.500.000 tons OF raw cane
sugar is imported yearly. At cents
a pound. the price is $50 ton. The
gross expenditure. therefore, is $780,
0G0 900
INNER Sc sum ought to he keot at home.
Prepa rcdness. 3s polio. fist hega 1
With the r"rY - d - any. T"" q '"s-
tion then slowly widened,. Eanks we've
thro. II into tn sc n. ert were H.
clrded facto~ies. mi''s a d fr~nac"s.
By and by. orators. publicists and
writers began recruiting the Spirit. The
heart had to be right ard ready as well
as the, hand and fist. No. iaSglnS pc
hind until the last, agriculture takes its
place in the line of national defeuse-
and offense. if any invasion occurs. as
some predict.
Sugar, in this division of the forces
of preparedness is up near the colors
and the fife and drum. Marching at
ITS ID" is WOOL, but wool is matter
in itself
Gu is tire fost er-chi'd Of the repub-
lie Porto Rico. Eawaii and the Phil
ippines are actual members Of the ,e-
public. Advocates of agricult 'ral Ell
cheney say that tie four islands should
be treated generously but that crn;l-
mental United States-Naine to Caiifor-
mia and the lakes to the gulf-sho Nd.
within itself. grow all the sugar that
it eats The island crops. so the argu-
ment proceeds. could be sold some
where else.
workin. steadily at the foundations
of the national sugar ind 'stry. though
unseen by the public. Charles Orrin
Townsend. an officer in the Department
of Agriculture. believes tha' su''star-
tial progress is being made. He expects
at no far-away day in the United states.
anist and pant phys!o'ogist. sugar
years. He has planted ,iid ones and
he is breeding Tee So as to get
sugar and lean in salts.
A student at Ann A-bor. he took care
of horse for his lodgings, and ran .
were experiences. SO he says Ind kind