El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-05

OILed OLdLSS H4OOHIACS OLSd1 G.
Is War Asset and Necessity to Soldiers
This Nation Sugar England Well
Supply With Wasted Candy and Desserts

carried to the top Of the factory. being
washed on the way They are cut into
little pieces by knives which slice them
into bits the width and thickness OF
slate pencil They look Ike the threads
Of mashed potatoes when squeezed through
a colander 7 picked up some Of these
threads and tasted them They are sweet
but they have also the bitter taste Of
the raw beet
After cutting the threads go into great
iron tanks containing diffusion batteries
so arranged that they move through from
one tank 10 the others The machinery
is so constructed that. as the beets go
through part OF the sugar in them goes
out into the tanks which are filled
with warm water. and at the end OF the
process all OF the sugar has gone into
the water AT the start the water Is as
clear as crystal. but when IL flows forth
containing the sugar. 10 is as black as
ink. and ii has 10 be purified before be-
ing boiled down 10 get out the sugar
This is done by various processes. which
make the sugar water as clear as pure
alcohol The water is now passed through
tanks filled with steam pipes. the liquid
growing thicker and thicker until 10 turns
10 strip and then 20 mixture Of
sugar and molasses-
This mixture is refined in about the
same way as cane sugar. and at the end
# becomes the sweet. white stuff we MS"
on our tables II is now Just like cane
sugar. Pure sugar IS the same every
where and no pure sugars are syreeter
and jeIlies which were formerly exported
from France and England were sweetened
with sugar that came from the beet
Relieving European Famine
And now let US see what we can do TO
help the sugar famine i'm Europe The
food administration viii do all in ITS
power but It depends upon YOU and me-,
and the 90 e9e. 99S other people OF the
United States as TO whether we can ship
a eood'y supply Of sugar 70 the soldiers
and our allies this winter II depends
upon how much candy we eat and how
we gorge ourselves with cakes pies puI-
dinrS and other desserts u depends
upon whether we each use one or two
Jumps or no sugar at all In our coffee
and tea for all these make UP n large
part OF our sugar consumption which To-
lav is the greatest Of the whole world
Do YOU know how much sugar We eat
every YEAR, Our average consumption.
taking every man, woman and child IN the
United States into account. is 80 pound g
or almost two pounds per week. During
the ten years preceding the war our
consumption was only 20 or so pounds We
then ate on the average only f,oto.N0o-oNH
pounds per year. which was an Increase
over the consumption OF the preceding de-
cade OF a bout AZ per cent It is not very
long since we were each eating only so
pounds per year. and n we should cut
down our ration 10 the same amount we
formerly used We would have plenty Of
sugar for any one Of our allies As il Is
now the French people have been living
To-
and Italians hsve not more than that We
are now eating about 20 pounds each i'm
excess Of our average consumption during
the last ten years. and 80 pounds more
than during the ten years before that
We Use Too Much Sugar.
Ninety pounds OF sugar for each one
% use and q pounds for each English
man. Frenchmau and Italia1- How
would you like 10 sit down ~ q Dartre--
ship dinner with three other people and
have one Of them grab three-fourths cf
the sugar. That IS just what we have
been doing in the year - our Lord 1915.
II we could reduce our consumption one
half we should still each have more THAI
twice as much az Is used by our allies.
and the sowing would be 1900. 100000
pounds II we could reduce 70 oue-f1urth
as either the English, French or ltalia-s,
and there would be 159N-fHN-n1N pounds
saved for shipment ~ Europe To do that
We should each have to save about one
ounce OF sugar q fav. a- seven ounces Der
week the year through
Take the single item u candy which
you send 70 your sweetheart in boxes
ranging from one 70 five pounds n all
the sugar we use I'm masking confectionery
could be sent 20 italy 10 would Double th4-
country's supply In 1917 We spent for
candy twice as much as rs needed to buy
Belgium its food supply for one year q he
amount of sugar we use in masking con-
fecti0nery IS ia the reighhorhood ~ 500
100000 pounds per anuum. and this sc'd
equals 5000. 1000. In fact. ra are NOW
spending two-thirds as much for our candy
as we are spending for butter and one
third as much as for our wheat flour. u
the women and children could cut tn ai-
candy consumption IN half. We should
have hundreds OF millions OF pounds more
sugar for export. and NJ the Same time
a much larger sum 20 give TO such chart
ties as the Red Cross and the Y. N. G. A.
war fund
Moreover. candy IS the most expensive
FORM in which sugar is sold Candy costs
all the way from Is cents to dollar
pound according to the varieties. 20 who
makes it and where IL Is bought The
price of sugar as regulated 10y the foo1
administration is practically restricted 90
or 10 cents pound. and the candy iu
which the same sugar contents are sold
at one dollar must be. one would think
Is cents pure profit
Another eXtravaEant place TO buy sugar
IS in some Of the New York city hotels
One Of the largest has on its menu this
item Sugar. two Jumps cents pow
dered sugar a portion. 10 cents
Comes High in BIG Hotels.
T do not know the exact size Of the
portion Of powdered sugar allowed hue
venture 10 say it is not more than one OF
.wo tablespoonful The amount iudi-
Gated Dr. Jumps is better defined. Thsy