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9
75TH YEAR.
THE ST.
CROIX AViS
18 printed and published
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antee of good faith.
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ALCOHOL AND CANDY.
I'hat
there
wili be
a
direct
relativn
between
prohibition
ané
an
increased
* consumption
of sugar
is
asserted
by
a
writer
in Zhe
American
Food
Journal,
who observes
:
“Aleohol
owes
its
popuiarity
to
the
same
basic
causes
Aas
gives
sugar
iis
widespread
use.
The
raste
is
att.aclive
(to some people) and
its
censumption
1s
‘followed by various jphysiclogical
resuits
considered
(again,
zccording
to- the
in-
dividual) more
or
less
beneficial.
Alco-
hol is very quickly
taken
up and diffused
through
the system,
where
its rapid oxi-
dation
produces
a quick
return
of
ener-
gy,
with
rhe
development
of
about
11,
200 British therinal
units
per
pouad
of
ale~h@l.
Sugar
also
is quickly assimilat-
ed after
its
preliminary
iaversion by
ithe
digestive
agents,
and
iis
beneficinl
ef-
{feets begin
to
appear
in
half
zn
hour,
with the greater part of
its energy
de-
veloped
within
two
hours.
A pound
of
sugar
thus produces
about 6,944 B. T.
U.
Asa
pound of sugar
(invert)
gives
rise
in fermentation
to
about
42
pounds
of
alcohol, it follows that the
dynamic
en-
ergy developed
in the
oxidation
of this
alcohol will beonly 68 per
cent-of
'hat
given out
by
the
direct
combustion
of
the sugar
in
the
body
without
the
in-
termediate
conversion
into alcohol.
'T'his
indicates
the
gain
in
efficiency
in
the
direct consumption
of sugar.
The quick
and
enduring
energy
derived
from
a
sugar diet has been
amply demonstrated
in numerous
experiments
and
has
been
fully
borne
out
by
experience.
The
growing
popularity
of
sweetened
be-
verages
confecrionery,
ice
cream,
eic.,
has followed closely upon improved
me-
CHRISTIANSTED.
¥.l U.§A,
TUESTAY
litn
DECEMBER
1920.
tnods of manufacture
and
better
facili-
ties
for
transportation.
The
United
States
already
econsumes
annually
about
300,000
tons
of
sugar
in
confectionery
and
136,000
tons
in
bottled
soft
drinks.
It has
been
a
ecnmon
observation
that
those
individuals
who drink
much
alco-
holie liquor do not
care
for candy.
This
is only
to be
expected,
11
view
of
the
lagely similar funetions
subserved
by the
two
substances.
-t
is
equally
evident
that
a cessation
of
alc-hol
consumption
is likely to.
be accompanied
by a
hunger
for
sweets
as
the
most
nearly
allied
substitute.
The
purveyors
of
sugar-
containing Jspecialties,
such
as
candies,
soft
drinks
ice
cream
sw et
crackers,
glaced
Iruaits
Taad
nuts,
should
make
special efforts to present
their
wares
in
attraciive
and
easily available
forms
so
that their
use wiil
be
even
.nore
widely
popularized.
A
decided
extension
of
automatic
seliing
devices
which
would
offar
a wide
variety
of sweetened
deli-
cacies
at
suitable
prices
will
probably
prove
one
of
the
most
advantageous
steps
in this direction. —Literary
Dige
t.
—Lowisiana Planter.
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2nd Dec.
1920.
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road
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.nd
UNIVERSAL JOINT.
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to Marine Barracks.
Raporel
Line.
THE
S.
S. “‘Cupper”’ sailed
from
New
‘York Wednesday
evening
with
130
tons
cargo for St. Croix.
e
“The next sailing will be on the 27th inst.
"
"RORT.
1.. MERWIN
& CO.,
&
Agenls
No. 289,
BONUS
of
113,435674
Rit per
hun-
dred
pounds
ot
cane
delivered
last
crop
to the
St. Croix
Sugar
WFactory
.
will
be
paid
at the
Office of the
facrory
WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER
1571H,
1920,
between
1 and
3 (}’clock p.
m.
AKTIESELSKABET
Si'"
CROIX SUKKERFABRIK.
g
the
office
of
the
St.
Croix
Sugar
Factory, Christiansted,
the coupons
for
the tinancial
year
Lst Sepcember
1919-
3lst
August
1920,
of
the
new
shares,
will be redeemed
with 30
per centof
the
sum
specitied
n rhe shares
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;
ST.
CROIX SUKKERFABRIK.
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»
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Tteatre
Dec. 15,
1920 atß
p
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PROGIRAMME
:
1.
Selection
by the Navy Band.
2.
Ist R-el of Comie Picture
3.
Selection
by the Navy Band.
4.
Introductory
by
Chief
Sanitation
Cfficer
.
5.
Illustrated
i.ecture
by
Sanitation
Officer.
6.
Intermission.
5
7.
Stereopticon
Views
of
rthe
Virgin
Islands.
8.
2nd Reel
of Comic
Picture.
;
9,1
reel
comie.
10.
Star Spangled
Banne:.
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St.
(roix.
4
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