The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-05-22
Amazing Increases In
Sugar Consumption
RY DAVID nAW1YNC1,
IcopyrtgSs BY INA IntsiaSsaesr'l

,bs American people want to bring down
the price OF sugar. they have
simple remedy available. David PRANK
lin Houston, secretary OF the ueasu''
, who used TO be secretary or aSrlcuIta,e,
and who II just now trying TO exert 'ne
influence Of the treasury department, ~
the movement to cut down the cost o.
living, is the author OF the suggestion
that the best way TO handle the SUES,
question is to point out some ss', ,.;iI
facts about sugar consumption that VIII
probabIy be amazing 10 the average
householder.
"Did you ever look over the data as
10 tho amount Of sugar folks used 10 eas
ten and hfteen years ago. rehstNssa sa
Secretary Houston to the writer as ne
,ook from the shelf in his ofhce thlck
volume called The Statistical Abstraet
of the United States" and oEened " u
page 56l.
Down The mage OF figures IL the aver
aye amount that was consumed By every
Individual In the United states slnSe
1858. In that year dividing tne 90
amount consumed by the popu'a.Ioa y.
hounds WAS eaten. At the end OF 1870.
thIs had gone up to IS pounds leu
Years more and the per capita consump,
tion Was 81 pounds. In 1895 II was o
pounds and in 1905 It was ~ pounas:
From that year on the amounts vary
~ SorS xbcp tho food administration
was urging conservation the per csPi1@
consumption was II pounds per indl-
Vidual. ,,, . tbs
average consumed last year? continues
Secretary Houston--'It was 81 poonos'
surely there - no necessity TOT SUN
large consumption. We uscd 70
along on less and II We soula ImtS PmSS;y;Si- i
~ rrica of/sugsr would come down
Immediately.
1T isn't al the breakfast taoic "nele
the overconsump'ion or sugar SccuIS.
~ isn't the sugar We take Win out
So or with cereals, that counts up
Rut We eat so much moro cake; ana pres
and ice cream and candy: IH'e
rhen children were cautioned asSs
aren't observing the rule themselves.
We could get along and De Just as
healthy as people have ocen Tor the last
FORTY wears II We consumed less sugar.
If each individual ate one-tniCu
there wouldn't be any trouoie aDou' '"'
price. r,.,, ar,nhasIzed
that II was to a large extent outside tne
home in the restaurants. cares, soSS
fomNRlns. and pastry snops %h risen @
oI,honxh the extravasant use OF pres
"a ether sweets IN tho nom was oy no
mcans small factor In the 9S pounoS
pcr capita consumption last year
~ 5rh0 ProAt0arB.
>-ahoa~ On the other hand excuses the
nroate.r who has taken advantAsS OF
the demand for sugar 20 rase prSe
bnt IL the demand hadn't eSsteo tno
nroc; GERS would never had tneiL "pDo
tmnity. Some people here are mcnnse
tttnk the coming Of national prohi-
hJtion has had q good deal TO DO wttn
M oyercensumption Of sugar but II
IN, h. observed that the hGures 93 was
siFs average xos tees xe ,,,s..
a,,. ssctions Of the United States Qf
course. in many cities Ike SeT f0sn.
,hec.can ndy shop and SODA iounI1n no. ~
,aken the same quarters presIouSH " ",
ch"nSSomely as to attract constant
a. Of people who are tempted 10 cay
-, With their tuncheons. The gov
nnnsnt used to be able to controt tpe
amount Of sugar that eoale oe os S,oS -,
onsSrnafon conay sSs sIsVthi Is a thing Of the past.
rtrne Tor conesryaHon-
ysrv few EFFORTS are made toward con
.crvation. II is true thar the fooo AZ,
nninistration didn't apply ms powsI os
,aI.. Snt depended upon publicity ana the
~ Lam ~ appeal TO get the cooperation
- tho American people but the ncsns-
u S,..ten, vas as effective as any stat
,,ts conld be. The government tnere-
time zine TO time TO the American people;
And and Secretary Houston believes that @ y
the fathers and mothers ia. %nt ,,aw seSrTrl vii,
snesr, sne. that the world and the United
recai 'narttcuIarly got along just ~
veil and perhaps better In the +, thirty ssfI
years before the EuTS2sshs tn9ss Az var noSsdsxs - sS
Ins s sysrybody conserves Just one
Anc IL 80 will be more available for
thlra, .h ,noIs country and the government
yrg wII, be- better able to cheek up on The
prcfteer whose argument toaay Ina
tbe 9-eat demand is what nxes MS PRICE,