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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 15, 1916

Money Spent for Gum

ONE of our exchanges calls its readers’ attention to the figures furnished by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce as to the amount of money spent by the American people for gum during the last ten years. The cost of this habit is given as nearly $35,000,000. This is almost five times the sum paid Russia for our Alaska possessions. What a large amount might be added to the contribution to missions if all would put into the collection box pennies unnecessarily spent for gum.

To say nothing of the saving which would thus be made, onlookers would be spared the annoyance of seeing the devotees to the habit indulging in it on cars, and sometimes even in public assemblies.