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Qur attention is invited to a strained, and undesirable condition in the local su_gar market which is_being aggravated instead of yelieved. . The question is.primarily. what may be regarded as a- private affair, but, affecting, as. it-does, ipublic econoniics, - it is epen’ for : discussion, - The facts briefly stated are these: when the price of sugar -was at. its high‘est in the New York market, the Governmérnit induced the local factories to defer shipment of a certain quantity,” some.2oo bags from the, factory at this. end, and 500 from Bethlehem, for local consumption. This the factories did, and local mere:.ants bargained-for that sugdl, -in ~various-lgts at the then ruling orices, pay_gble as. the: :sugaris -removed, with a -gmall storage fee ‘for what is. actually earted. Itis plain that the fac}ories.h_ad nothing to gain in’ affording this facility to local dealers, inasmuch as they could have shipped the same sugar and, scored _the advantage of the high cash prices abroad. However,sume of the parties have removed -their sugar and sold it off at a reasonable profit,- thus fulf_illing their -obligation as..well- as r:warding the ractories for the interest shown the public. Others by levying: huge prices on the consumer have not been able to dispose of the sugar they. engaged, mean while the price is going Jown in the New York market. Consequently their sugar is ST 'CRUT X AWI S —__'—'—'—'—_'*T'*—'m"" B R N R P d" “?;,‘-', . ‘still at the fadtories'ts be paid for at the - old High prided GRGH thoy WY scAriely be able to colthand'at this tine” Bat which is their ‘oqn fault’” Now thoge who are willing to 'pay ‘the ‘préSent pricds ' _of sugar are unable to, gét "the articie bé“cause the factorfed sh¥ink “front’ flooding | the market with chéap'sugar when they ‘have unredéeméd Stoeks’ which- must ‘be “paid for at higher prices” ‘THe reésult ‘is | that the island.will eithér have to import ‘sugar while" ther'¢ 'is "“enough “for local ' needs. or humor the' pfo~téers who by . their ownunbusiagssike tactics have their hands tied ‘with ‘goods they can not sell, _or rather . céqfi%fi"sfgfl.ngt*}l?fi'pfit‘.' It is partjcalarly poinfed ‘oat thdt members of the Food Commission ‘are’’ among ‘thoge coneerpad.in ‘this ugly, ‘busiriess, and'this explains the ineftia pre vajßhg jnthe Food Commission the decisionisnf'which the faetorjes are.understood so be awaiting before doing anything, or fixing prices at all, "Principle is fast becoming ‘& dead letter _and the community suffers each time this valuable asset takes a backward step. The prospects now are that shoula another such “occasion arise and the factories are asked to hold shipment of sugar they have an ‘excellent excuse ' for not !doing so." They' carnot be blamed anyhow. We' have said frem the - beginning that “the Food -Commission was'a humbug, and. without any "effort. this is ciearly shown through its crooked proceedings.” One’ member told us the Food Commission is abolished’as far as he is concerned; he considers that the Government dissolved it, and consequently he and. another member “will not attend apy meetings for all the good that such meetings may be. "Isn’t -it now . high time the Coungil look into this matter and take appropriate steps to declare the Food. Comhmission:déad and_buried. Tt refiécts anything except credit upon us as an intelligéntcom-munity bogsting. of some rights ;Q al- Jow such a state of chaos in our éédtomic lite t¢ continue. . - eBT ~. 'With reference to the. above, serious attention . is directed to “the urgent necessity for a readjustment of prices in general. Singe ' the Food'. €ommission almost a year ago fixed thé price’ of fresh beef at 30 cents a pound, it has’ ~ remained at” that exhorbitant figure. ~ Linported beef retails here at 20 cents a-.pound . whieh- should, be. sufficient . to convince the;,'inostf_skeptiygfii. thal'wé are ~ being gouged. ' And so‘it'is with-a’' list ~ of items that space and time do not. per~ mit us to cite.' Can’t “or won't ‘some. thing be done, and done guickly? . b cdrze it 00l SRR B v . Tomorrow being: * Thanksgiving ; Day «and a public bohday. there will; bene.is‘sue-of this pape:. :*-We wish our.readers ‘an enjoyable day .of recraatiop -angd trust -each ‘and. every one -will. observe the, “dayig.befitting manner and . witbh appro- - ~prigfe ceremony. Isi; v pran 1 o New Admiral For Denmark. | Danish newisidners seport fe i tion_to the rapk "of Rear-Admiral, of Commander. Henri Konow, who_will he remembered bere -as’in charge of the _eruiser 'Valkyrlen’” in' these waters in -1916-17, and governor ad, interim of the -Danish West Indies following theé remignation of Mr. Helweg Larsen. "Admiral - Konow who.is Knight of Dannebrog, and . Dannebrogsmand, and has been honored . with many . forejgn decorations ¢nd erders was the representative of the Danish go ernment at the transfer of these is lands in 1917, he being the one wHo tarn‘ed the adminpistration over .- Goygrnor Pollock the temporary Goverior appointed by the United States for.that océasion. He is 58 years of age and has seen "considergble military Servica and filled many - _distinguished posts’ under the povern. ment of Denmark,” as well as served ' as _Cemmangder in_ the French naval .service IO BRI, e - The 8. 8.- ““Mohican” of the Raporel Line’ 'sailed frém New York-on Sunddy =« “mornjng, 21st- inst., having 225 téns of cargo -for -Frederiksted, and 150 tons for Christiansted 'l'he next steamier of