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TSTH
YEAR:
CHRISTIANSTED.
V.
1. U. S
A.,
THURSDAY, 4t MARCH
1920
No.
51
THE
ST.
CROIX
AVIS
;
is printed
cnd published
daily (Sundays
|
and
Holidays excepted)
by
G.
Johoansen
|
at the Avis Office.
:
Q
TWR MS---50 cents
momthly
in w.ivvice,
|
2 cents
per single copy.
‘
Kntered
s
second-class
matier
May
26th
1917 at
the Post
Office at Christian-
stad,
St Cvrois,
V. L of the U.
S. A.,
un-
dey the Aet of March
3.
1879.
Contribution
to this paper will b 2 glad-
ly received
when the
same
deals
with mat-
ters of generul
interest,
and is
accompa-
nied with
the
author’s
'niwe,
as
a4 quar-
antee
of gool faith.
The editor
cannot
be
resoonsible jor the views of his correspon-
dentsnordoss
he necessarily endorsethem.
Ri e
;
TOWN
RAND TALK.
Bg
W. D. Ackley.
A good
bord is
a town’s best
advertis-
in: medium
We ail
admit
that it
pays
to advertise.
{Support
the band).
she
town
.with
a
good
live
band
is
!
pever
spoken
of as
‘‘a dead
town’’.,
The
|
two
do
not
20
together.
(Drop
that
hammer
anc
vet alive yourself.)
deereation
that
ils
not
wdieness
makes
happier,
beccer
and
more contented
men
and
bhoys.
Good
citizenship
and
good
feliowship
zre
the
mainstays
of
every
community.
(Join
the band).
|
‘'ne town. band
should
srand
for
good
citizens:ip.
its objeet
should
be
co ad-
vanee
music
anl
to -assist
every
publie
encerprise;
in fact,
to
boost
the
town.
|
(Boost
tne band)¢
Public
seric2
makes
good
citizenship.
The
tow:
ba
dis
a
public
serviee
insti-
tution.
To belong
to it, or ‘o listen
to it,
ereates
ome
'prervest.
(S ill
there
are
some
wi.o krock
the band.)
Good
amaieur
bandsmen
are
seldom
among
the
I.employed.
Because
busi:
ness
men
all bandmen
need
them
in
|
thei:
tovn
2ud
find them
employment. .
Siav with
tae band.)
'
|
{0 succezl,
the
band
must
have
the
|
vespect
ooi
the community.
(Gei busy.)
(Keep buasy.) —The Musical Messenger.
|
SUAR
NOTES.
-
|
ee
e
|
Os the desperate
coilapse
of
the
Rus-
|
siaa
sugar
inlascry only those
can
speak
|
who have
wiinessed
che ialiing apart
of
|
<1 loduscry
chat
once
nad only onerivalin
'
the world.
Every
one
"nows how it came
|
abouc
throuzn
tne
war
and
revolution.
;
[t began
wiin an
wnsuificient
quantity
of
|
beet
roots reaching.
ine
factories
as
the
ind®strial
leaders
felt
that
that
output
|
had
to be curtailed.
In normal
times
100,
i
000,000
poods
were
producad,
but as
t(ae
|
production
{ell peices
bexan
.0 cis:.
T.en
came
inside
troubles
in
the
factories
|
Lhemseives.
It bega:
with
beet
cutting
knives.
Most of the
machinery
n.d
been
brougnt
from Germ:ny
an’
thhe manufac-
turers scoured
Swed:n
for kaives
to
cut
ine beets,and
these
were not fortheoming.
{
No one
ever dreamed
that
43 insigningcant
|
a matcer
as beer
kaives
simply
could
de-
moralize
the iidustr,
buc
the trouble
ba-
.
ean
tnere.
Than
as
vinws could
bz
pro-
cured
for d2ep
vlow.ng
and
the
second
.
or
third
year
there
were
thousands
of
acres
that
had
to go
aatilled.
The
Ger-
mans
also plundered
tne
cattie
and
re-
duced
the
area
to 255,000
dessatines.
In
1917 the output
was oa:y 30,000,000
poods
and
the
price
was
2>
rubles
per
pood,
while
in
normagl
¥ismias
-
swas
oHly
2
rub.es.
Then
in 1918
nhe land
was largely
turned
over
to
grain
"aising and
the
area
further
reduced
to
159,000
dessatines
|
or
onlv
27
pev
cen
of
the
nrevious
e
'
area
and
the vroduciion
was only
15,000,
000 poods
or only 15 p2r eent
of
the
owi-
ginal production.
No.
1919
finds the
ins
-/
dustry
worse
than ev..
I'ne
whole
Bol-
sitevik secheme
failed snd
40 factories
opn-
, |
ly averaged
25,000
poods.
May the indus-
-
try arise
out of the
asies
of politieal wis:
|
takes,
lest
the
dry
kiln
of
selfishness
|
burn
out
every
bt ol
initiative
left
in
Russia
of old. —Louwisiana
Planter.
-
}
I'he ladian
soldiers
deveioped
a
sweet
tooth
during
the
war
afier
taey
had
served
intiast
Africa
and
Mesopotamia
{ney learned
to drink bear
and
the
beer
consumption
has
gone
ahead
with
leaps
DEAFINESS
And Noises in The Head.
IF
YOU ARE A SUFFERE=6o
1o
.
your
Loeal
ilruggist
snd
order
'CON-
.
CENTRATED
SOTRDAL,”
price
4/6
'
per tin.
lhis New remedy
gives
aimost
.
immediate
relief,
and quickly
edects
a
.
permanent
cure. It penewrates
(o
the
actual
seat
of
the
eomplaint,
aid
has
complecely cured
many
cases
which
were
|
considered
hopeless
If your
Chemist
.
does
not yet stoek ‘SOURDAL’, do
not
|
|
aceep;
any substitute,
but
send
money-
.
order for a
supply direct to
th§
'SOUR-
\
DAL’ DISTRIBUSING CO.,‘G’
STA-
.
TION ROAD, CROYRON,
SURRLY,
'
ENG.,
and
a_package will be
mailed
per
-
return
with full directicns.
~
and
bounds
and
that
means
that
the
Indians
are
consuming
more
sugar
in
~
their
brews.
The
Indian
soldier
was
also fed
on lumps of sucar
and
it
is
one
-of the interesting things
we
saw
a
num-
ber of years
ago in the
land of the Sultan
to
see
little
cubes
ol
sugar
passed
about
amony
the soldiers
whenever
a
higher
officer came
for
inspection.
In America
it would
come
ia
the form of eandy,
but
che
use
of
caaudy
is
a
typical
Western
invention if we
have
the
data
right
on
the
beginnings
of
this
form
of
food.
—lbid.
In a debate
at a session
of the
Bohemi-
an
people’s
industrial society
th» matter
of wages
and hign
cost
of Hving
got
an
inpning.
Kari Kominek,
a
noted
indus-
trial
leader,
argued
that
thoes
who
thought
that
the nigh cost
of living
was
due to hich wages
were
largely mistaken.
-1t
was
irue
that high
wages
had
to
be
held in check,
but the
cause
of
the
high
cost of iiving
was
a
lack of production.
Professor
Mildsehuh
replied
that
the
»
populace
had
to work
to reduce
the
cost
of food products
and
that
wages
had
to
be held
in check
bee
use
the wage-earner
.
did
not
know
the
side
of
the
producer.
*
And this
was
well authenticated
in sugar
b
factories.
Ibd.
°
|
German
Austria
has settled
on
a
defin-
.
ite beet price
for thie
season
of
1919-20.
Beets
will bring
the
farmers
30
kronen
per
one
hundred
kilograms.
Last
season
it was
only
15 kronen.
As
five
kroner
made
a
dallor in
the
pre-war
times
the
price o beets
last
year amounted
to
$3.
par 212 pounds
or
S3O
a ton.
This
year
tirey wiil be S6O
a ton,
but then
the
kron-
en is worth only
about
a
eent
and
a half
.
now,
so
the
reader
can
draw
his
own
-
ernclusionsasto
what the
farmers
will
.
get for their beets.
And siill people
believe
~a
good
war settles
a lot
of
things
when
.
the fact is
it unsettles
nations’
e 2onomic.
.
industrial,
political and moral
conditions
|
for years
to come.
Ibid.
—— .
.————— . <
—"e... o
.B
.
——— .———r .A7
5
.
.i
Lecture.
|
There
will
be
a
lecture
in
Sunday
~
Markei
on
FRIDAY
NIGHT,
sth
inst.,
at 8 o’cloek.
Subject:—'"'WHAT
IS
MAN”
Speaker:-
|
A. C. BOUGH
All
are
cordialiy
invited.