Dale News, Volume 5, Number 5, Dale, Spencer County, 6 March 1942 — Page 4

PAVE THE WAY

THIS BUSINESS OF SUSAN THAYER

A MATTER OF COMPARISON

"Hold on there!’' said I to my daughter last Saturday morning when I saw her getting out the big yellow crock and the wooden spoon and the butter and sugar preparatory to making our Sunday cake. "Perhaps we’d better have ginger bread or fruit for dessert instead. You know there’s a shortage of sugar and we’ve got to go mighty easy.” "But we have been going easy,’' she reminded me. "No chocolate sauce for ouf ice cream last night. No candied apples with the pork the other day and never any candy. Besides, they say we’ll be allowed 77 pounds of sugar for eabh of us this year and that’s quite a lot.” "What do you mean ‘quite a lot,’ ” I asked her. “It’s a lot less than we’re used to and everybody is warning us to be careful.” "Well, it all depends on how you look at it,” my philosophical daughter, now a junior in high school, declared. "If you compare it with what we used to have here in the United States when the sky was the limit, it isn’t much. But when you compare it with what they ate before the war in other countries, we’re still rolling in sugar. "Do you happen to know how much they did eat in these other

countries?” I asked, pinning her down.

"It’s all in my school notebook. Just wait until I get it.” And in another few minutes she was giving me chapter and verse on the world sugar situation. Maybe you’ll be as surprised as I was at the actual facts.

It seems that in 1937 and 1938 when things were still going along in a fairly normal way, the average Frenchman ate only 55 pounds of sugar per year, in spite of all their wonderful little “gateaus” and fancy chocolate concoctions. The Russians at only 29 pounds per person and the Poles 28. The Dutch, whom we’ve always thought of living well, ate about 64 pounds of sugar each year. In Great Britain they had a much sweeter time with 109 pounds per person, but Australia did even better getting 113 pounds each. But that was still well below the American average. So, you see it’s all a matter of comparison. And Americans in war time live better than many Europeans in the days of peace We’ve taken too many of our advantages for granted and too often overlooked the fact that our free industrial system has made us used to a standard of living undreamed of in many lands.

Willard Combes cartoon courtesy of Cleveland Press.

Miss Emogene Schaaf of Evansville spent last week end with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schaaf.

Mrs. Chralotte Musselwhite and baby have returned to their home in Sullivan, Ind. after a visit here with her parents Mr. and Mrs. As L. Medcalf and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Prior of Huntingburg called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Wedeking Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Schroer of Louisville, Ky. and the former’s mother Mrs. Anna Schroer were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Schroer Sunday.

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Chester Nielsen of near Bristow here Monday enroute to New York where he is in Defense Work.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Martin and daughter of Indianapolis spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Schroer.

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Mr. and Mrs. Donald Medcalf and baby returned to their home in Gary after several days visit here with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Medcalf.

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