Army transporiation
will direct the work
which will bs
ona
of the last big military
operations
of
ne
war.
CHICASO:
Aerial
mail
service
be-
tween
Chicago aund
Omaha
was
opened
today.
Dressed
meat
shipments
were
contained
in the mail sacks
of the planes.
PARIS:
The indemnity for the
Scapa
Flow sinkings
were ready today for four
hundred
thousard
ton= of shipping,
two
hundred and seventy-five thousand
tons of
dock and
harbor material.
The
food
sit-
uation
in Austria
is
critical.
The
food
suprlies
will
bz
exhausted
by
January
thirty-first and
the
population
then
ex-
posed to deaih from starvation.
WASHINGTON:
The
croxd
cheered
a speaker
at the
fiberty
Hut
last nicht
when
he challenged
the
Britich
Govern-
ment and urged recognition
of the
defaec-
to government
of Ireland by
the
United
States.
TELEGRAMS
ST. CROIX STATION.
Washington,
January.
sch.—The
Su-
preme
Court
today
daclared
econstitu-
tional sections
of
the
Volstad
Prohibi-
tion
Enforcement
Aect
prohibiting
the
manufacture
and sale
of ‘‘beer,
wine
or
other intoxicating malt
or vinous liquor’’
contarning
one
half of
one
per
cent
or
more
of
alcohol.
Beer
containing
2.25
per
eent
of
aleohol
is
illegal under
the
war time
prohibition
act,
the
Supreme
Counci! also
deecided.
-
Paris,
Jan.
sth.
The Supreme
Council
this morning finally decided
on Ithe
Note
to the
German delegation
as to indemnity
tor the
Scapa
Flow
sinking.
The
Note
virtually reduces
the demand
for r=para-
tion from 400,000
tons of dock
and
har-
bour
material
to
about
275,000
tons.
The signing of the protocol
21d.the
ex-
change
of
ratificatiors
of
the
Peace
Treaty
now depends,
it
is
stated.
upon
the answer
of the
Berlin
Government
to
the
Ge
man
delegates
heye
on
questions
concerning
the
arrang-ment
on
plebis-
cites provided for by the
Treaty.
It
ap-
pears
certain
therefore
that
the
impor-
tant formalities
cannot
take
place
tomor-
row as
had been
originaily intended.
o
NEW
YORK, Jan.
6th
1920.
Kiour, Blencdzd Clear
St. Lawrence
[‘rand
pr. brl. $12.00
Meal, Kilndried per
100 tbs $3.85
New
Season’s
Pork
per brl. $45.00
Heavy
Mess
Pork
per bbl.
$40.00
sugar---Crystals
(Confirmed by Brokers)
per
100 lbs.
$7.28.
Molasses
897 test pr 100 Ibs. no
quotation
Cotton, MiddlingUpiand, at f.iverpool per
tb. 29 36-100 d.
rxchange,
New
York
and
- London,
60
days’
sight
$3.75
tixchange
New York and London,
sight
$3.782
LONDON, Dec.
31st
1919.
.
Sugar-Demerara
Crystals
duty.-paid price.
fixed hy
the Royal Commission
per cwts
665. od.
-975.
od.
ST
GROGE.
AVS
Muscovado,
89°/~ basis,
floating terms
in
bond, Ditto duty paid. 635.
6d.
-86s. od.
German Beet 88°/¢ f.o.b.
no further
sales
during
the
war
SUGAR SUBSTITUTES IN FOOD
MUST BE STATED
ON THE LA-
BELS.
The Weekly News
Letter published
by
the United
States
Department
of
Agri-
culcure
in Washington
refers
tothe
harm-
ful
substances, . including
saecharin,
which are
prohibited,
and
refers
to
the
fact that
any substitue,
whether
inimical
to health
or
not.
must
be
stated
on
the
label.
Owing
to
the
fact
that
glucose,
or sugar
made
from
starch
with the
aid
of hydrochloric
acid,
is now
used
to
so
great
an extent,
the
information
is given
that only substitutes
which
are
narmless
are permitted
in.foods
under
the
terms
of the
law.
Those
that
are
permitted,
if used,
should
be
stated
clearly on
the
labels
The object of tle
regulation
re-
quiriug that
substitutes
be
declared
on
the
labels
is
not
to limit
in any
way
the
use
of wholesome
substitutes,
but
to let
the consumers
know
what they
are
get-
ting.
A purchaser
of
any food
product
in which
sugar
is
a
normal
incredient,
e T €XPECL T gel
sugar
in tnhai
produect
unless
advised
to the
contrary.
As
the
substitutes
are
usually
cheaper
than
the substances
for
which chey
are
used,
it is only
fair from the
standpoint
of the ‘purchaser,
and 'that
of fair trad-
ing, thata distinction
be
made
on
the
label between
foods
that contain
all the
normal
ingredients
and
ileods in
which
one
or
more
of
the normal
ingredients
are replaced
by a cheaper
substance.
Sacchariy,
a
coat
tar
product,
.which
has
been widely advertised
by its
manu-
facturers
as
a
sugar
sub-titute,
is
said
not
to
be
a
prover
or legal
substitute
since
it
is
held
to he
injurious
to
the
health,
and
as
it has
no food
value
what-
ever
it lowers
the quality of the food
in
which
it revlaces
sugar.
which
has
a
high
food value.
lts
use
is
prohibited.
It is stated
also that the laws and regula-
tions of most
of the states
prohibit
the
use of saccharin
in foods and thar
2
num-
ber of manufacturers
have
been
conivict-
ed for shipping
into intersiate
commerce
foods adulierated
with sae~harin.
" Foods
in
which
harmless
substitutes
have
been
used
and
no
mention
of
the
substitute
made
on the labels
are subject
to seizure
it shioped within the
jurisdie-
tion
of the federal
feod
ard drvgs
act,
and
t
e party responsible
for the
viola-
tion
of the
lgw is
liable
to
pfosecution.
Louisiana Planter.
THE NUTRITIVEVALUE OF SUGAR.
Last year
when
so
many
thousands
of
persons
were dying as the
result
of the
prevailing influenza, our
doctors
found
themselves
norplussed
and scarcely
knew
vhat to do, except
to adopt extreme
care
of the patients
and
to trust
to rest
and
to
time
as
the curative agents,
rather
than
to
any
direct
medicaticn,
which,
in
some instances,
had beeu
found tre cause
of immediate
injury, if not
of
death,
to
"
the
patient.
We
suggested
to
some
-of
our
medical
friends
at
that
time
that it really
seemed
that the influenza
germs
made
a
specific
attack
on
the
heart,
and that pheumonia,
from
which
e
most of the patierts
died,
was
evidence
of such
specific attack.
We clip from
the
Times-Picayune
of
New Orleans
the statement
made
by
Dr.
Soltau Fenwick, presiding
officer at a
re-
cent
meeting ot the
British Institute
of
Hygiene,
to the effect that it was
not
in-
fluenza that killed
the
millions
acerecit-
ed to that disease,
but that those
deaths,
which
were
described
as
from
pheumo-
.
via, brought
on by the
‘‘flu,”’ were
due
to heart
failure
due
to insufficient
sugar
~
in the
system.
|
Dr. Fenwick
states
as follows:
""Sugar and,
toa
lesser
degree,
fats
are essential
to
the
protection
of
the
heart
from
the
pneumonia
germ.
With
the
proper
amount
of
the
intense
.
sugar
carbon
the
sysiem
is
able
to
-
halt
the
development
of
the
insidi-
|
eus
micre-organisms,
but
the
sugar
.
shortage
which
went
round
the world
be-
cause
of war restrictions
lei't
millions
in
a physical
state
where
the disease
germs
.
could
and
did
multiply.
The
influenza
|
perhaps
was
just the same mild disease
in
itself that has
visired
the
world
many
|
times before,
but
the unsugared
or sub-
.
sweetened
needed
but
just
that
further
.
reduction
of vitality to
destroy
the
nice
-
balance
between
the malign
and
benign
.
germs
and
to permit
the former
to
gain
'
the upper hand,
|
"'This
hypothesis
has
evidence
in
its
|
favor in the results
to date of a
new
out-
|
nreak
of
influenza reperted
from
Eng-
|
land.
This
year
the “flu’’ is
merely
a
.
bad cold,
as in former years,
but one
that
|
leaves
the patient
very
much
depressed.
'
Were
those attacked
also
short
of
sugar
'
and fat stimulants
it
1s
quite
possible
'
that the
pheumonia
germ
might
gain
|
control and
renew
his destrueticn
of
Jast
{
season.
|
“'lf the theory
is
correct.
we
cannot
|
look with complacency
on
the
now
su-
:
gar shnrt.ag'e
which
is being forced
upon
l
us.”’—lbid.
l
__——_—-__—'_——_——“-*—_
.’
1
J
Y
0
s
- Ladies, Here’s
Your
Opporiunity!
| { ESSONS
in fancy work of many kinds,
l_
can be
had
from (.
Generow
of De.
|
troit, Michigan,
U. 8. A., who has had
’
long
experience
in
teaching and
whose
'
works
was exhibited
at the World’s Fair.
|
For terms
apply to Mrs. F. HA LL, King
Street,
where
samples
of
wark can
be
seen.