The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-06-07
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full along the railroads.
Sugar is, after meat, bread and
butter, easily our next most import
ant and necessary food. You can
put the matter to test very easily.
Just leave off the pie, pudding or
other dessert at your lunch or midday
dinner. You will be astonished to
find how quickly you will feel empty
again, and how unfinished" the
meal will seem. You cannot get a
working man to accept dinner pail
without pie in it. The only thing
that can take the place of sugar here
is beer or wine.
1t is a significant fact that the free
lunch counters run in connection
with bars furnish every imaginable
thing but sweets. Even the restau-
rants and lunch grills attached to sa-
looms or bars often refuse to serve
desserts of any kind. The proprie-
tors know their business. The more
sugar and sweets a man takes at a
meal, the less alcohol he wants. Con-
versely, nearly every drinking man
will tell you that he has lost his taste
for sweets. The more candy ma
ton consumes, the less alcohol it inn
bibes.
The United States Government
buys candy by the ton and ships it to
the Philippines to be sold at cost to
the soldiers through the canteens.
Many thousands Of pounds are used
in the navy, also. All men crave it
in the tropics as well as elsewhere,
and the more they get of it the less
"vino" and whiskey they want.
As a matter of fact, the prejudice
against sugar is born of puritanism
and stinginess, equal parts. What
ever children cry for must be bad for
them, according to the pure doctrine
of original sin; besides, it costs mon
ey. There are families in the rural
districts yet where the head of the
family groans over every dollars
worth of sugar that comes into the
house as sinful and "unwholesome"
luxury.
A brewer in the west is said to
have made tour of the western pro-
hibition states and found that where
the saloon had been abolished candy
stores had taken their places. He
found in all these states big de-
mand for candy and that its consump-
tion had increased in proportion as
the liquor selling decreased. He is
said to have returned home and es-
tablished a candy factory to supply
the western trade. 1t is no accident
that whenever any locality goes
"dry" ice cream and candy stores
or drug stores whose chief business
is candy and soda water-move into
the corners vacated by the saloons.
A statement emanated from Bos-
ton some time ago which affords
pleasing evidence of the widespread
change of attitude with regard to
sweets in their varied forms now OBJ
served among physicians and editors,
and was as follows:
The richest ice cream and plenty
of the finest chocolates constitute
the ideal cure for delirium tremens,d
or plain drunkenness either, accord
ing to DR.. Andreas, leading Back
Bay practisioner.
Take case of man who has been
on a spree for long time, and the
best cure is to give him ice cream, for
it has cooling effect on the stomach
and the GOODNESS absorbs inflamma-
ton.
Let US persuade all our alcoholic
patients and those inclined to be al
coholic to eat candy instead of i'm
bibing alcohol and cultivate a taste
for confectionery and thereby loose
the taste for alcohol.
The value of candy is recognized
by the military authorities in Europe
during the present war. The early
Of the war, sent by
American correspondents, mentioned
the great amount of chocolate the
soldiers had. Hardly an account
came over from correspondents with