Evening star., 1935-01-13

NERICAS may may wisdom
~ tooth, but more than 100000 tons of re-
II qured every year satisfy its craving appetite This
demand is Of comparatively recent development too.
when you recall that your grandmohers considered
sugar a frivolous luxury, and not an everyday house,
sugar was utilized for seasoning and
preserving homegrown fruits sugar
exravagant addition tea connections
heavily sWeetened desserts INDUCED only by the uent
and sybartical.
Now Of the most important items
and trade Its transportation requires fleets Of ships and trains
Of freight motor trucks and work.
All that after the long and detailed of refining
in marveosy equipped factories thousands and
laborers and the months cultivation harvesting the
raw products by more thousands
What miracle Of science and invention has been involved
most Americans lived we'll until couple of generations
xuries naturally he sleeps and breahes day
rare-and. incidentally, pretty dissatisfied.
owEvER the development Of the industry won the race
with Americas Unsuitable demand
Sam had to step in and do something about it,
During the World War two-thrds of Europes beet
fields unproducve but the appe-
e for persisted The shortage which
prices to With the usual speed Of modern minds fac
ties to meet crises the in other the world
increased its production and the result oveproducon
American and manufacturers
grown product and imported sugar Naturally with the low
cost Of labor and prolific growing climates islands
ducers in the continental United States that the industry
the mainland jeopardized
Governmental departments
found that the United States required 64OO
every and that Sl72oo tons of could produced
home, which left 4641 800 tons be imported agree
ment formed which distributed imports follows by
the United States Department of Agriculture:
Cuba 1901 1852 ton Philippine Islands, 101585 Puerto
Rico 8O2842 tons; Hawaii TONS Virgin Islands,
546s tons Altogether appetite requires
ton Of some 65Oooo0 of bees and
Columbus was the one who started the problem
America he brought the continent attention
the world 1t rather appropriate that brought this
offering the love of his life
planted the first cane seedlings in santo Domingo in
1893 He attempted to promote sugar growing there large
scale but it successful until brought
West Indies LATER
Then the industry thrived 1742
ket price of London $275 pound
than century after the Revolutionary War remained
luxury.
by the majority with suspicion and fear after the of
all had won
the appeties of ndugents had been used only medicine
after universally a
food it has been effective
1t is excellent remedy nausea as
seaScknesS
STA the first being original source
Of sugar By religion adventure it was
carried to all parts of the world There
references documents where
it is called the honey bearing reed"
1t mentioned IN the Sanskr OF ancient India jeremiah.
IN the Old Testament OF the Bible writes of incense
and sweet from far country Chinese manuscripts
of 200 BE- recorded that kingdom paid its
tribute to China in sugar
Ancient inhabitants of the Valley knew how to boil
juice but refining until between
800 and 600 AID In the Middle Ages the
Egypt today India called Chinese
and fine sugar "Carene" Egyptian"
the Egyptians developed sugar refining to high
degree in the seventh century, through their knowledge
OF chemistry They already bad simple purifying
and recrystazng saler when sugar introduced which
they discovered could be treated similarly
In the fifteenth century citizen of Venice
iooooo crowns ($l94O for nventing making
The idea extracting sugar beets was next advo
so ana Napoleon offered prize of 100000 francs for the