and the
lecal
retail
price
as
announced
vesterday
is
20
cents.
In
othér
words
the
dollar is going furtaer
and
the
fact
that
some
people
have received
an
in-
crease
of wages
will thus begi
* o be
no-
ticeable.
It is
believed
upon
good
au-
thogity
that
prices
wili continue
to
go
down and it is probably
not
too optimistic
to predict
that in a vear’s
time
markets
will give little indication
of the
prohibi-
tive conditions
so
obvious today.
In the
|
St. Thomas
Mail Notes
someone
suggests
to use the immigration Fund
for the pur-
pose
of buying cheap
sugar
abroad.
This
will not
be necessary
if the present
state
|
of the
sugar
market
c¢ontinues,
and
there
|
is no
reason
o doubt
that
it will.
But
|
what it does
appear
is
very necessary
is
|
the
abolition
of
the
Foed
Commission
!
whni-h while absolutely
inactive
as far as
|
fixing prices
or doing
anything
to
regu-
|
late
them
is
concerned,
is
instrumental
in
uphoylding
certain
high prices
which
were fixed Jong
and merry
ago when they
|
may
have
been
equitable.
Some
groce-
ries
maintain
they have the right
t¢
ask
|
the price
iixed by
the
Food
Commission
|
although
that
price has outlived its time,
and while
the
cutting of
prices
among
|
some
has
helped
to
minimnize
this
profi-
|
teering inciination
it nevertheless
shows
!
itself
when there
is a chance
of
enfore-
ing it.
With
no
power
of
any
conss-
|
quence
from
the beginning,
and its
du-
ties
neglected
as
they
have
been,
the
|
, Food Commission
has
beern
more
annoy-
ance
than benefit,
and
in the name
of the
|
many
sufferers
who
have
been
and
are
|
still the
vietims of its irregular
purposes
|
it is sincerely hoped
that immediate
steps
|
will be
taken
to declare
that
august
or-
|
ganization
at
an
end.
It will
prove
a
!
deiight to write its obituary.
:
|
Talking of
prices
reminds
us
that
we
|
read
in the St. Thomas
Mail Notes
an
ad-
!
vertisement
of vine-grape
at 25 cents
a
pound:
a
select
quality
it
is
claimed.
|
Here
vine-grapes
were
offered for
sale
up
to
last Friday
at
60
centsa
pound.
|
The husbandmen
in our
vineyards
must
be
on strike for hizher
wages..
Our
pec-
|
ple
are
easily
gouged
and
that
is
the
chief
fault.
i
LOCAL.
The
schooner
Creole
sziled
from
here
for St.
Thomas
at
10
a.
m.
yesterday
:
with
mails
and
passengers.
The
wind
|
was fairly favorable
at
that hour but has
since been
so light as
not to be
reckoned
upon.
It is hoped that
we have
seen
the
worst
of the
October
calm
days
which
have played such
havoe
with
our
maii-
|
communication.
_?
T
|
According
to the departure
of the 5.
S.
!
Parima
that boat
ought to be
here about
l
Thursday
this week. bound for the south-
ern islands.
!
Wppreciabl#
and
aimost
continuous
!
showers
h:ve fallen
since
last
evening.,
'
5
LU ROX
AN IS
and today bids fair to be
a wet
one.
The
barometer
which
has
been
somewhat
depressad
since Saturday
indicates
prob-
ably
some
disturbance
elsewhere
this
rain being
our part of it,
According
to
the provisidas
of
Execu-
tive Order No.
12,
the
Natioaal Bank of
the D.
W. I. would redeem
its notes
with
gold.
or exchange
same
for United States
currency
at
the gold value
(34
premiam)
on and after the 25th.
instant,
this order
revoking the privilege extended
th= bank
during
the Danish
adminpistrati'n
when
conditions
rendered
it advisable
to
sus-
vend
the
payment
of gold.
The
Execu-
tive
Order,
however,
has
not
gone
In
foree
so far
as St.
Croix
is concerned,
in
which connection
it is noted that it refers
only to the head office of the ba
.k
at
St.
Thomas.
In all probability
a pubiic nouice
of expianation will be forthcoming.
The
vote taken
Fast
night for the
open
ing hour for
the
ecine
shows
jresulted
in
a
majorityl favoring
8
p.
m.
which
1s
accordingly established.
Oct.
25 1920.
Dear Mr. Editor:
At the Lutheran
Church
in this town
last
Sunday night[was
agreeabiy
sur-
prised
to
see
the
preacher
in the
stand
where
ae
have for generations
been
ac-
customed
1o look for the
minister . hen
delivering
his
sermon.
[
take
this
as
a
welcome
sign
ihat
the
good
old
pulpit
will
once
more
be
restored
to the
use
it
was intended
for.
.
.
Yours
‘
-
LUTHERAN
QUERY.
What
about
those bolshevist
nurses
at
the
Hospital here.
Is‘it
true
they
are
making things disagreeable
jor the other
hands
some
of
whom
have
had
to quit?
ONLOOKEK
Frederiksted,
Oct.
25th.
1920,
The
*'Virginia’® arrived
yesterday
at
poon
with a
large mail
and
brought
the
following passengers:
From
Forto Rico:
Aileen
Ford,
Jose
Zaquievos
and
W.
M. Schrauder.
From
St.
Thcmas:
Mr.
Emilo Homanazal,
Ratael
Danuvitt,
lvan
Jackson,
Mr. Halvor Berg, Rev,
E'r. Mui-
ligan,
Rev.
Fr.
Watson,
Lawyer O.
C.
Grannady,
Lawyer A, E.
Stakemanrn
and
Thomas
H.
brown.
Owing to her late arrival
at both ports
San Juan,
Perto. Riro
and
St.
"honias,
she-was
unable
to load cargo.
-
She
sailed
at
schedule
time 6
o’clock
p.
. with
mail, and
passengers
as
fol-
lows:
For Porto Rico:
Peter
A, Pagai,
Francisco
Elcock,
For St.
Thomas:
Hob-
ert
Jones,
Mr. & Mrs.
L..
Cooke,
Nirs.
Louise Baady,
Charles
Bronstorph,
Elisa
Sewer,
Rosa
Buntin.
.
U. 5. PRESS
NEWS,
* CLEVELAND:
Cleveland
won
the
sixth
game
of
the
world’s series
Dy
a
~score
of one
to nothing.
CONSTANTINOPLE:
One
thousand
Greek,
American
and
Jewish
emigrants
sailed
from here
for
Americs
on
board
the Turkish ship Gulljari, the first steam-
~er
departing for an American
port
from
Constantinople
since
the
war.
She
left
without
consent
of the
French
authori
ties
in
control
here
and
passengers
dc
not
hold
American
passports.
United
States
Consuiar
in this country
is
undep-
stood
to have notified the
State
Depari-
'
ment
in Washington.
The
steamer
does
not
beara
proper
bill
of
sea.
Ship
is
former
Germania
of the White Star Line,
CHICAGO:
A
slip
of
a
pen
in
the
hands
of a
clerk in the
Board
of
Trade
~
here
sent
prices
tumbling,
caused
the
'
©Canadian
Governwent
to consider
taking
over
the wheat
crop
there
and caused
2
.
proclamation
to
be
issued
by
United
|
States
Wheat
Growers’ Association
urg-
|
ing
holding
up
all
sales
of
wheat
by
|
farmers
until
the
price
reached
three
.
doilars,
it was
said.
Clerk
mistook
or-
|
der
for
one
thousand
bushels
for
one
|
million
bushels.
!
OYSTER
BAY, NEW
York:
General
Fayoral,
distinguished
French
soldier
who
came
to
the
United
States
as
the
representative
of
Marshall Foch
to
the
recent
American
lLegion convention
with
his
aid
and
American
Army
officers,
visited
the
grave
of
former
President
Roosevelt
here.
The
party
later
called
at
the
Roosevelt
residence
paying their
respect
to Mrs. Roosevelr,
RIGA:
Polish
and Bolshevik delegates
engaged
in
pegotiatlons
here
will sign
the armistice
agreement
at
seven
o’clock
tonight.
Hostilities
to ceuse
immediate.
ly after
the
adjourning
of
the
conven
tion.
STOCKHOLM:
1 despatch
irom
Ber-
lin says
"‘there
is
no doubt
that the
Sovi
et
army
is
faci.g
demoralizatior..
The
new
peace
terms
were
forced through
as
'
a deep
rate
means
to
prevent
this
rev.
lution
but
that
measure
wuas
too late
to
prevent
the spread
of
demoralization’’.
|
LONDON:
The
threatened
symna-
.
thet¢ strike
of rai'way
men and
trans-
port
workers
in support
of striking
min-
-
ers
which would have
forced
virtualiy all
|
industries
of
Great Britain
to shut
down
i
have
been
postponed
pending
renewed
.
negotiations
which
will
be
inangurated
Sunday
morning.
.
NEW
YORK:
"'Cox warns Business’”
Declares
American
prosperity
hangs
or
i
trade
with
KEurope.
Certain
(0
cease
'
within
year
unless
United
States
enters
!
league.
;
i
MAKION,
OHIO:
Serator
Harding
|
today
in
a formal
statemen:
announced
|
great
democratic
leaders
of
bhistory
to
|
testify
to
their
opposition
to
principles
|
embodied
in
the
league
of nations,
par-
*
ticularly article
ten.