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% & ~ ries the germs; the proper screening of houses and the-steril-zation by quinine of the blood of himan malaria carriers. ““As a econsequence of thesz demon- strations’’, the report continues, ‘‘public funds for malaria control operations are now being appropriated faster than sani tarians can be found to do ‘the work. From the outset the Foundation’s Inter- national Healtn Board nas entered an area only at the invitation of the Govern- ment concerned. All of its work has been based upon at least *hree primary considerations: co-operation with the authorities. the ccmmunity’s assumption of so.e part of the expznse and an agroement that if the experiment is suc- cessful the Government will take over the enterprise as part of its official machinery. : ““In June, 1919, a conference was heid to plan a concentrated campaign against malaria in the Southern States. Repre- sentatives of the United -States Public Health Service and of the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Founda- tion were present, and these men work- ed out a program which was subsequently approved and adopted in ten Southern States.”’ : President Vincent said that hookworm control has proved a most successful means of ceonvincing communities that heaith is purchasable. In 1919 hook- worm econtrol measures were continued in® twenty-five States and countries and the campaign extended into eight new areas.—Porto Rico Progress, July 23rd TRUE SYMPAIHY. It you hive a friend who has sul- fered some bereavement. 3do not men- tion “the 'faet. or anything' whieh will bring thoughts of it. You may rhink that your words of condolence were not as impressive as you would wish, but is it not cruel, merely for your own sat- isfaction to open up wounds made by death? Do not be thoughtless in such matters. Above all things, do not be the low, 'mean, hypocritical kind, bringing up matters which touch the heart of the afflicted one, just to see how the sufferer behaves. There are some who delight in an act of the sort, just to be abie to have a ‘'subjeet of gossip.”” There is a time when words of sympathy should cease. COontinued too far, they stamp those who utter them, as insincere, and in somegeases malicious. The true friend soeeks to make others more comfortable and happy. Are you a true friend, or a hypoerite? Barbados Times. 10th July. S{IGAR NOTES. The last week in June the Amalgama- ted Sugar Company, of Utah, distributed another lot of sugar at the old price of $13.73 per hundred woight. The allot- ST ¢ s AN 15 ment is 4,800 bags and comes as a sur- prise to the sugar. frateinity which does not understand what the motive is be- hind this generosity. None of the sugar was sold in Salt Lake City. —Louiswana Planter, July 24th. ° There is a general feeling everywhe:e among manufacturers in the United States that though sugar regulation may nhave been necessary during the war by federal authorities, yet they believe it has signally retarded the sugar industry in the whole country. Germay has been itching with what is called the ‘'Zwangs- wirtchaft,”” a forced policy, and they claim that that has so deteriorated the whole tone of the industry that it will be years in recovering.;—lbid, - The Holly Sugar Company ils planning to buiid a 35-mile railroad from Pueblo, | Colo., along the south side of the Arkan- sas River and thep a branch for about ten miles into the Wilson district. This would give the company more adequate railroad facilities to get beets, say from the Swink district and other thiifty dis- tricts. It is believed the project will | cost close on‘to a millicn dollars. Co- operation is asked of the farmers who | will guarantee to raise beets for some | seasons for beet growing has been hin- | dered in these parts just because there | were no adequate railroad facilities.-Ibid. fe et | Great things are expected from the | Rocky Mountain states in the line oi beet | sugar. From the glaciers and I)fty heads of this mighty range will be poured out | water and moisture that will see 25 fac- tories in operation this fall turning cur | sweetness and light on the sugar situa- | tion. Colorade alone will have 40,000 more acres than last(year, an increase of 12 per cent. Seventeen faetories will be vperated in Colorado alone. The Great | Western Sugar Company will have ten | plants alone doing business. Two plants | will run for the first time gat Delta and | tort Lupton. Nebraska boasts of five | factories.—lbid. A grand jury in Ohio has been condact- | ing an investigation into labour problems | and has concluded that the cause of in- ! creased building costs everywhere is due | ‘to the fact of ‘‘labors refusal to do a | day’s work for a day’s pay.’’ It was al- so shown that the labor unions capitaliz- | ed this '‘laziness’’ and that it was not the | individual so much as the authority of | men higher up, whose aim was to cripple | industry and use the sledgz hammer of | autocracy to make men of means ‘‘come | across’’. That there will be a readjust- | ment is believed when a more sane view of the whole industrial situation will clear | up and in rhis the sugar men expect 0 | share as they now share in the excasses. | —lbid. ? The web worm has cut its way into the beet fields around Longmont, Colo.. and ils raising hob instead of beets, much to the chagrin of the planters and sugar makers. The eut worm is another cut- throat doing business on the same de- structive princirles. Halt!--Ibid. The latest memorandum of India places the raw sugar production at 3,001, 000 tons in contrast to 2,370.000 tons last year. The acreage was only 2,667, 000, and the year before 2 884,000. This does not include 28,000 tons reported later. It also does not include 101,000 tons of date sugar, 35,000 tons of palm sugar and 125,000 tons of refined sugar. Ibid. Egypt expects to have a sugar shortage this year and the Societe Generale des Sucreries et la de Raffinerie d’Egypte has been permitted to import 9,500 tons cos sugar tftor refining oHurposes. COwing to frost in certain regiors, a condition which seldom occurs in Egypt the crop has been short and the government has permitted anoth r 11,500 tons to he imported and also has raised the sugar prices. On April 7 Port Said paid 90 pounds per ton. On May 8 it was 106 pounds per ton, It has even gone to 109 pounds. From reliable sources it is learned ihat the Japanese government has ne- gotiated for the purchase of 437,000 long tons of superior white crystal su gar from Java at 55 guilders per picul which is equi alent to 16 cents a pound f. 0. b. Java port-—lbid. From the be®t sugar section east of the Mississippl. River word comes of in- creasing tonnage of sugar beets. There are 33 plants in this section and of these four will be new ones. The factory at Mount Pleasant, Mich., ¢t the Colum:bia Sugar Company, the Green Bay, Wis,, Sugar Company at Green Bay, the new factory at Belmond, lowa, and the Wav: erly, lowa, plant will resume work this year. The latter belongs to the lowa Sugar Company. The ecrop outlook is good. There has been considerable hoe- ing ard thinning and there is no percepti- ble labor shortage, the companies having fair suecess in getting help, generall speaking. It is estimated that this e gion will have an inreased acreage of 15 per cent and the states will be jubilani over these encouraging reports. -7bid. :'T = ? o L !Good News! THE FAMOUS SEN-SEN CHEWING GGUM Throat-Ease and -Breath Perfume to be had at CHRISTIANSTED & FEFEDERIK- STED APOTHECARY HALLS