The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-02
PULL SWEET TOOTH
 WILLIAMS ADVICE
DESIRE FOR SWEETS PROVING COSTLY TO NATION IN PRES.
 ENT GREAT WAR
Food Administration Presents Some Very Interesting Information Deal ing With Questions Of Rations.

"lf you have sweet tooth andI want to be of material assistance to your country, have that tooth pulled, is the war time suggestion of Hamp Williams. food administrator for Ar kansas
 Mir. Williams, however does not mean to infer that one. on reading the foregoing. who has a fondness for candy and other sweets, is to rush to ones dentist and have a tooth eX tracted. Rather though, the pulling is to be in the form of a conserya- ton process--a cutting down. as it| were. of ones participation in those products that demand an excess of sugar in the making In this connec ton Mir Williams presents for thoughtful consideration the follow ing very interesting statement on the question of rations
 "The present day German sugar ra- tion, according to official statistics, is just about one tenth of what we Americans eat Their wheat ration is 27 per cent lower than our wheat consumption Their meat ration amounts to one sixth of the meat we eat, while their fat ration is 47 per cent of ours. Yet we have every as surauee that the Germans are suf- ficiently, even if not well fed. 1udg- | Ing from the best reports available. | their only serious shortage is fats, l especially dairy fats, which unfortu- nately bears hardest on the children.
 What does this mean? 1t must mean either that we eat very much more of those foods than we actually need. or else that the German people so manage their supplies that they get more out of a gwen amount than we do. and so conserve their vital | foods for vital nee0s.
 There is a good deal of evidence that, in spite of three years war and d world shortage, We are still regard ing food from the point of view of our likes and not of our necessities. | Take the recent sugar shortage as an example We made quite d good deal of noise about that. Yet what was the truth of the matter? Why that our 90 pound per annum appetite for sugar was hit blow. But the French are now on less than 13 pounds. and the Italians are getting along on a pound a year ration, while the English, who had a 9S pound a year appetite for sugar, have cut to e pounds
 The fact that the English people can get along with no serious detri- ment to their health on great deal less than u third of the sugar they used to consume, can only mean that a large part of that consumption was | because of a national sweet tooth. and not national need
 But, after admitting that, we must be very sure not to classify our de mand for sugar altogether as a mere l taste Sugar is as necessary to the | human body as coal is 10 a steam engine It gives it energy. It gives | it warmth Clothes keep us warm. | Sugar makes us warm.
 And that puts it up to us this way;
 Many of the pounds of sugar we consume are over and beyond what we need, and represent taste only. We have on the scale before us our taste for sugar and the allies need of it. To which side are we going ] n to allow our national sweet tooth to enaw at the warmth and energy of those who are paying the terrible price in suffering and sacrifice for the freedom of all of us from Ger many's desire?'