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States will remain dry and that England will be dry in 1930. 5 Winuipeg, Sept. l4th.——That the pro- | motlon of cordial relationship between the United States, Great Britain and | Canada was his constant desire and aim | was the effect of a letter from President | Harding, read at a banquent held at the | Royal Alexandria Hotel last night. : Dublin, Sept. 14th,—The appointment | of plenipotentiaries to the proposed con- | ference at Inverness with British repre- ’ sentatives, to discuss the settlement of | the Irish question, was approved by the | Dail Eireann at its sessiou, and the Daii | also unanimously approved the reply _to | recent proposals of Mr. Lioyd George | regarding Irish negotiations. % London, Sept. 13th. —A resolution com- | mending the work of the League of | Nations was adopted without discussion ¥ and by an almost unanimous vote of the l world’s Methodist conference here this afternoon and was ordered to ve sent | to Geneva. t New York, Sept. 14th.—Mr. Curran, | Coalition Republican, will bhe Mayor | Hyian’s opponent at the polls next November, He won the Republican nomination by a vote of more than two and a half to one over the nearest of nis three rivals in the primary eleetions. yesterday. : London, Sept. 14th.—The Earl gos". ~ Me Ath, weli-known for his advocacysof Empire day movements, has informed his tenants that his expenses on his Irish estates now exceed his income, that he had lately been. living on his capital and that a continuance of this would shortly land him in the bankrupicy court. He had, he said, disposed of the use of his automobiles, horses and car- riages and been obvliged, though with | great grief, to make furcher reductions | among his employees. | (Delayed in Transmission) ! Dublin, Sept. 14th. -The following | plenipotentiaries to the proposed confer- | ence ut Inverness to discuss the settle- | ment of thu Irish question were ap- ’ pointed by the Dail Eireann today. Mr. | Arthur Griffith of the Sinn Fein and | Foreign Minister of the Dail Cabinet, |- Mr. Collins Fi ance Minister, Mr. Bar- | ton one of the lealing figures in the | plenipotentiary negotiations, Mr. Dug- ‘ gan Sinn Feina member of parliament | and ieading figure in the arrangement 1 of the Irish truce and Mr. Dusty, who ) acted as a representative of the Sinn | Fein abroad. It was explained that.they | had not been appointed to go to Inver- | ness in response to the Premier’s invi- | tation, but had been chosen to carry on | possible negotiations which may or | may not follow the receipt by Mr.; Lioyd l George of the Dail Cabinet’s reply. i NEW YORK, September 15th 1921, | Flour, Blendad Clears St. Lawrence brand | oe. bet $l6O. - | Meald Kilndried per 100 tbs $1.95 : 1. LIl &8 A NI S New Season’s i'ork per br!. $37.00. Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $25.4 Sugar---Crystals maximum per 100 ibs. : : $4.25 Molasses Sugar 89° test, no quotation. Cotton, Middling Upiand, at Liverpool per th., 13 24-100 d. Exchange, -Mew York and London, 60 . days’ sight $3.68 ©xehange New York and London, sight $3.70 LONDON, September 15th. 1921 Sugar, Demerara Crystals, per cwt. 445. ; —47s. 6d. ** Muscavado per ewt. 28s. 395. Germ:n Beet 85°¢ 1.0.b. no sales. White Java sugar cif United Kingdom Z4s. September shipment, Demeraia Bum, per gal. nominal. Trinidad Cecoa, Good Middling Red per cwt b6s. 58s. nominal. Cottor. gond Medium West Indian Sea Island pei lb. 26d. nominal. | PR S DRSe OB S e Sl ; 'BARBADOS NEWS { The vaucity of the rainfail continues ‘ ! to give cause for anxiety, Heavy, soak- 1 ing, rains are waned and instead we | ‘have ¢nly had comparatively lighi showers ' This morning however, there wasfairly | good rain accompanied by ajfew peais ~ of thunder,swhich w: s a cheering socund ‘ as it aroused hopes of the ushering in of a real! rainy season. The erops | are freported o be holding out well in | most district, but it is the weather from now on to the end of October, which | will determine what sort of crop we will ! have ifor 1922. One of the sigus oi the distress in the | country districts, is the raiding of pota- | toe fieids by gangs at night. The false economy ihich encouraged planters to | limit ass much as possible the area un- der sweet potatoes, the spread of the | scarabee disease wlich made it impos- | sible to grow potatoes in some distiricts, | and adverse weather influences have all | combined to make this Vegetable, which | naturally bulks so largely in the food | supply of the people, high in price. | ~ When sugar wasjalso high priced and izbor ’ ers ;wages were increased somewhat, | the ‘advance in the prlce of potrtoes | from say 121bh. for ten cent to two ] cents per lb. was felt severely but now when, owing to adverse circumstances in all directions, the wage has come down aud the price of potatoes in around four cents a lb., the tzmptation to raid, open fields has increased. We may de- plore the degradation which the raids im- ply, but those who fail to ssee that the causes have their rogts in the economic position persistin imagining that the sole cure lies in severe and brutal pun- ishment will only worsen matiers, so far as in their power lies. At the same time where orgauized raids occur, it would go to show that there is lack of police vigilance, and that there is some- thing defective,in the staffingof the Dis- trict Stations which is beirg taken ad- vantage of. There is little sugar left to be dis posed of, but there is estimated to be about 9,000 puncheons of syrup remain- ing unsold. The enquiry is very small. and the ovwners are determined not to let it go below 85 cents per gal— For its size Barbados has a very large over sea population in Panama. Cuba New York, &ec. ffom which large mon- ey contributions used to he regularly sent chicfly through the Post Office by registered letter or money order. The world wide depression has therefore affected the isiand not merelyv in the fall of local values but in the shuting off of these over sea contributions. Then the port .rade has also fallen consid- erablv so that the combination of ad- verse circumstances have made the scarcily of tioney severely felt, the more so as there has been but slight reduction in the cost of imported foods’ and of local foed stuffs there was ney- er so small a supply. . The Income Tax has not yet passad through all its stages, but thanks to a timely remonstrance by the Governor in the shape of a message against the House taking a ilong adjounment be- fore the Bill had reached its final stage, its passage now seemed secured. - Bar- bados, Advocate, Awugust 31st. EDITOR HARDING’S CREED. President Harding’s creed «s a newe- paper editor epitomizes the nian: “"Remember there are two sides to every question. Get them both. “"Be truthful. Get the facts. “"Mistakes are inevitable, but strive for accuracy. I would rather have one story exactly right than a hundred half wrong. "‘Be decent, be fair, be generous, "*Boost—don’t khoe. "‘There’s good in everybody. Bring out the gcod and never needlessly hurt the teelings of anybody. “In reporting a political gathering give the facts, tell thz story as it is, not as you would like to have it. Treat all parties alike. If there is any polities to be played we will play it in our editorial. colums. “Treat all religious matter reverently., "It it can .possible be avoided, never bring ignominy to an innccent man or child in telling of the misdeeds or mis fortunes of a relative, . Don’t wait to be asked, but do it with- out the asking, and above all be clean and never let a dirty word or suggestive story get into type. "'l want this paper so conducted that it can go into any home without destroy- ing the nnocence of any child.”’—- The Porto Rico Progress, September 2nd.