The Punta Gorda herald., 1918-09-19
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
Win Big VICTORIES
Because Plenty of Sugar Gives
Them Endurance
ENERGIzING ECTS
Sugar Superior to Alcohol in Re-
lieving Fatigue and Renewing
Strength.-Can be Made in
Florida for Three Cents a
Pound.


The agricultural editor has re-
ceived the following interesting
letter on the culture of the sugar
cane in Florida from State Chem
ist R. E. Rose, whose acquaintance
with the subject, practically and
theoretically, is widely known:
Dear Sir: | note a number of
editorials in the "Times-Union"
and various other state papers ag-
itating the establishing of sugar
factories in Florida as a war
measure, in order to produce this
necessary article of food to sup
port our armies and for the use of
our people.
| note the writer asserts that in
1914, the wholesale price of sugar
was two cents per pound. The u
nited States reports as published
in the Report of the Agricultural
Department, show that the cost of
raw sugar in America in 1914 was
3 1-2 cents per pound, while the
price of standard granulated sug-
ar was never below 5 cents per
pound. y
Sugar is now recognized as one
of the most valuable of our foods,
particularly for our armies; and
men and animals engaged in
strenuous muscular work.
The probabilities are that it will
be many years before the price of
sugar again falls below 6 cents, at
which price standard granulated
sugar can be produced in Florida
at 100 per cent profit on the in
vestment, always provided that
modern economical apparatus is
employed, thus saving at least 40
per cent of the sugar or sirup now
wasted in our crude and inefficient
apparatus, and wasteful methods
Of manufacture.
| inclose an editorial from the
Louisiana Planter and Sugar
Manufacturer, "Why Do We Win
in Europe?" which should be Civ
en- wide publicity in all the sugar
producing states, particularly in
Florida.
Why Do We Win in Europe?
All the allied world engaged in
the great combat against Prussian
control are now thrilled with the
successes that the allies have Sc
cured, although they have come
after four years of fighting, (says
the editorial referred to above).
That the million and a half of A
merican soldiers now in Europe
have turned the tide in favor of
the allies is admitted practically
everywhere and the thanks of our
European allies are rendered to
our own people whenever the op-
portunity occurs. I'VE desire, how
ever, to give an industrial appli-
cation to our title and at the same
time to add another proof to the |
thousands that have already been
established, as to the wonderful /
effectiveness of sugar in relieving
fatigue and in quickly building up
our humanity to its highest levels
of physical endurance.
A noted sugar statician in New
York has just reported that our
soldiers in Europe are getting lib
eral rations of sugar, reaching a.
bout seven pounds per month per
man. May we say that there is
no wonder that our men are will
ing to cross No Mans land, to
pluck the fuses from burning
bombs and, in fact, are willing to
take chances that half-fed and
half-diseouraged men would be
unwilling to take? SO we may
say God bless our boys in Europe
and they are welcome to the seven
pounds of sugar per man, al
though our home control has cut