Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1920 — CHEAPER CANDIES ARE PROMISED FOR CHRISTMAS [ARTICLE]

CHEAPER CANDIES ARE PROMISED FOR CHRISTMAS

Candy for the kiddies will be one-third cheaper this Christmas than last but it will cost the same for the young man possessed with the “cosmic urge” to “say it with chocolates” to his lady fair. It isn’t that the candy manufacturers don’t join the rest of the world in loving a lover, but according to Albert Levy, general manager of D. Auerbach & Sons, large candy manufacturers, of Chicago, fancy box candy sold now was made six months ago when sugar prices were soaring. “The public generally does not realize that all the best box chocolate candy has to age before it is good,” said Levy. “All good box candy is about six months old. Fresh candy is harmful to the stomach and not so tasty as that wMch has been aged in the box.” Candy for the kiddies—jelly beans, creams, hardtack, lollypops and the like—will retail one-third cheaper, according to Levy. The sweets munched by children and the grownup whose teeth will permit, will sell at from 30 to 85c a pound lower than last year. The same grade last year brought aroun 50 cents. Levy declared the price of candy has been gradually receding with the sugar but the price is still from two to three times greater than before America joined the war. Greater declines have not taken place because the sugar price is not back to pre-war levels, and labor is still more costly, he said. —