OREGON CITY, ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1921.
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NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY j
Correspondence From All Over the County Tellinig of Improvements and Local Happenings During
The Past Week Your Subscripton Will Receive Prompt Attention.
Newlyweds Honored
Bv Rebekah Order
ESTACADA, Dec. 22. The local or
der o? Rebekahs had a special enter
tainment last Wednesday night, for
the several newly-wed couples of their
order . Seven couples were expected,
but only three were able to be present.
However, the program was carried out
as planned. A table was especially ar
ranged for the guests of honor and an
other for the Rebekahs present, who
numbered about 75. There were
speeches, music and games to enter
tain and a most enjoyable time had.
"Ted" Howe and sister, Miss Lelia,
spent Saturday in Portland.
Mrs. b- O. Sarver returned Satur
day night from a visit at Portland.
"""Work on finishing the front of the
Reed garage has been delayed on ac
count of the extreme cold spell.
"Word came from St. Vincent's hospi
tal in Portland, that Mrs. G. H. lach
thorn is still improving.
" The annual banquet and 'joint instal
lation of the Masons and Stars, took
place Thursday night.
Russell Reed, student at the O. A. C.
has arrived home to spend the holi
days with his mother and sisters.
Lloyd Saling has returned from
Eastern Oregon to spend Christmas
with home folks. 1
The Standish brothers, Pi S. and R.
M., who were formerly residents here
and well known, have become heirs to
quite a large sum from the estate of
their father.
Landlord Hauser has been having
troubles of his own since the storm,
when the water pipes froze in the
hotel. And to make bad matters
worse, he had the misfortune of cut
ting his fore finger on the left hand,
nearly off Tuesday while splitting
wood.
Carl Kimmel another student at O.
A. C. from this place, is home for the
holiday vacation.
Mrs. Julius Kreager and baby visit
ed Portland Wednesday.
Joe Demoy, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
Demoy of this place, arrived home last
Saturday from Corvallis where he was
a student of O. A. C, to spend Christ
mas holidays with his parents.
Albert Lichthorn is home during the
holidays and is helping in the store
while his mother is ill.
A. N. Johnson is again back in Es
tacada from a long stay in Portland.
He has invented a crutch which he ex
pects to get a patent on.
Those who attended the funeral of
the late George Hislop in Portland last
Thursday, were H. L. McKenney, C. F.
Brown and wife, Harvey Gilgan and
wife and Miss Elsie Fuller.
A. G. Ames, who is a hunter of pred-.
atory animals for the state, arrived
home the latter part of last week to re
main with his family until afterthe
holidays.
Miss Ruth Huitt of Portland; spent
a few days last week with her cousin,
Helen Wooster.
Mary Alice and Florence June Reed
went to Portland last Friday to meet
their friend Ardella Dunlop, formerly
of this nlace.
Mrs. Ennis Townsend and "Vernon
Woods came over from Bull Run re
cently arid spent a few days at the
James Smith home.
Ltwrence E. Davies, a reporter on
the Portland Telegram, was an Estaca
day visitor Monday.
Died At his home in the Garfield
section, Monday morning, December
19, from an illness with heart trouble
of several months, R. G. Pa'mateer,
bettefr known as "Doc" Palmateer,
aged 77 years. Mr. Palmateer is an
old resident here and in Oregon, where
he came when only seven years of
age. He was born m Caiada. Besides
his wife and children, there are several
gracrirfi'ldren and a brother who are
mourning a k'nd husband and father
and a ood neighbor and friend. Fun
eral serv'cs were held from Mt. Zion
church Wednesday, and interment was
made in the cemetery at that church.
The sorm which hit this section and
was ereneral all over the state, was the
worst vines 1919. A strong east wind
made the air cutting and cold and it
kept people busy trying to keep warm.
Many water pines are frozen and a gen
eral depression is felt in all business
houses pnd offices. Quite an amount of
snow fe'l pnd at times the storm as
sumed the raure of a young blizzard.
Tuesdav m'rht the wind went down
and Wednesday there is a decided im
provement in the weather.
Instsad of the regular service next
Sunday nirht at the M. E. church,
there w!l be a musical program.
Manager Sparks of the Family
Theatre, will give all the children of
the localitv a free show Christmas.
Th3 W. C. T. U. will hold their next
meeting on December 29, at the home
of Mrs. Hassell. Meeting will begin
at 2:30 after a' luncheon at noon.
The Ladies Aid of the Christian
church held their annual bazaar last
Saturday and served lunch at noou.
They had many pretty articles on
sale, but not all were sold. The art!
, cles left over will be on sale at the
Bazaar on Broadway. Their lunch was
delicious and well patronized. The
amount realized from the bazaar was
$66.00.
Next Monday night there will be a
Community Christmas tree in the high
school auditorium and a treat for the
children. Old Santa Claus will be
there and a program given. A good
time is expected and everybody invit.
ed. '
I Miss Helen Wooster arrived home
j the first of the week from O. A. C. to
1 spend her Christmas vacation.
Chester1 Womar came over from
Portland Saturday night to spend the
week end with his parents.
Mesdames W. J. Symms and O. E.
Syroa arrived fopme from Portland
Friday night, called there bythe death
of their father, George Hislop.
Eagle Creek Grange
Meet Well Attended
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Telephone 86
f 7th and Water Sts, Oregon City i
EAGLE CREEK, Dec: 20. Mrs. Wal
ter Douglass invited a few of her
friends to spend the evening with her
the other evening in honor of her
' birthday, but the funny part of it wa3
no one knew it was her birthday until
it was almost time to go home A short
time after partaking of delicious re-
reshments all went home wishing their
hostess many happy returns of the
day.
Eagle Creek Grange held its regular
meeting last Saturday with about 51
present including the children. With
the election of officers, initiation and
other busienss, it was quite a busy ses
sion. An interesting program was ren
dered and enjoyed by those present.
The following officers were elected
to serve during the ensuing year. Mas
ter, F. W. Bates; overseer, L. Webber,
lecturer, Mrs. J. R, Hughes; steward,
Millard Trullinger; assistant steward,
D E. McConnell; chaplain, Mrs. Clara
Hickenbothem; treasurer, J. C- Duus;
secretary, Linnie V. Gibson ; gate-keeper,
J. O. Tunnell; Ceres, Mrs. Louise
Douglass ; Pomona, Mrs. Marie Heiple ;
Flora, Mrs. Linda Hofmeister, lady
assistant steward, Mrs. Audrey Duus .
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hoffmeister were
Portland visitors last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Douglass were the
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Preister, of Logan, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Douglass and
children visited with Mrs. Rosa Baker
Sunday.
After a short illness Grandpa
Evans died at the home of his son,
Will Evans, last Wednesday noon.
Ms. Rosa Baker was a Portland vis
itor last Friday.
A new saw mill is soon to be built
on the E. E. Elliott place. The timber
was sold to a Mr. Phillips, of Portland.
Ladies Circle of
Stafford Elects
STAFFORD, Dee. 20. A new wood
sawyer has moved into one of the Au
gust Delkars houses.
Mr. Delker and Mr. Oldham will put
gravel into the lower end of the Gage
lone as soon as the machine at the Wil
sonville bunkers ha it to spare.
The Ladies Circle met with Mrs.
Gage on Thursday the 15th. Officers
for the ensuing year were elected by
ballot. Mrs. Maggie Gage was re
elected president and Mrs. Wilde secretary-treasurer.
A bountiful dinner
was served at noon as usual and when
the hour for the good of the order ar
rived nearly all responded with songs,
recitations or readings. Mr. and Mrs.
C. T. Dickenson from Alto Park and
Mrs Perry of Stafford visitors at the
Circle helped with song and appropri
ate speeches, then the annual Christ
mas pie was placed upon a stand and
all marched to music, children first,
and as they passed the big dishpan on
the stand covered with a brown paper
crust, each pulled a string and out
came a plum after which each unwrap
ped their plum and exhibited it amid
great hilarity the plums being compris
ed of small articles purchased for a
few cents or made at home.
Harry Ellegsen has received the ap
pointment of mail clerk on the S. P.
from Portland to Ashland and left Sun
day afternoon to assume his new
duties.
Friends to the number of 60 gave a
surprise on Mrs. Oldham recently to
celebrate her birthdayand had a very
enjoyable evening .
Lyle Teideman and his young wife
who have been in the hospital for some
time returned to their home on .the
Frobase place a few days ago,- and
while they are not fully recovered,
they are able to be about the house
and direct things. Walter Gage of St.
Helens is staying with them, and see
ing to the out-doors work.
Marquam Bazaar Is -Financial
Success
Barlow News Items
BARLOW, Dec. 20. Miss Dayton,
Lovina, Florence and Abe Widdows
and Laura, Lyle Pennell spent an even
ing recently at the Nelson's home play
ing "500".
Charles and Edward Dregnie who
have been attending school at Corval
lis, are spending the holidays with
their parents Mr. and Mrs. Dregnie
of Barlow.
The Barlow Parent Teachers Assn.
has purchased basket ball apparatus
for the young folks.
Mr. and Mrs. George Veteto from
Idaho are spending a few 'days with
the formeri's sister, iParmenteir, of
Barlow.
Mr. Owens and family of California
have moved in the Peterson house in
Barlow.
Anton Nelson and Ray Smith of Bat.
low have returned from their fishing
trip at Tillamook.
The Lutheran church is trying to
get a Sunday School started in Barlow-
Cecil Ross of Portland is visiting hi3
father Mr. Ross of Barlow.
Vernie Kimsey who is attending
high school at Mount Angel is spend
ing Christmas vacation with her par
ents Mr. and Mrs. Tull of Barlow.
Misses Kerstina and Bernice Nelson
spent an evening recently at Boords
playing "500."
MARQUAM, Dec. 19. The Ladies'
Aid Society held a bazaar Saturday
evening, December 10. Among the
events of the evening was the auction
eering, when two handsome quilts
were sold, one bringing $7.50 arid the
other $5.00. Other articles were sold,
including aprons, rag rugs. Tho
amount taken in from the sale was $75.
The Rebekah and the I. O. O. F.
Lodge were at the head of a meeting
held on Sunday at the M. E. church.
Rev. Hawkins, pastor delivered the
sermon. Dinner was served at the
I. O- O. F. hall.
Mrs Ferguson and children called on
Mrs. M. Stockwell Wednesday evening.
Albert Barth was called to Portland
a few days ago. He will be there for
some time, and during his absence his
father, John Barth, will have charge
of the farm duties. Mrs. John Barth is
visiting her daughter-in-law during the
absence of the latter's husband.
Nettie Albright, Mr. and Mrs. Wal
lace Albright and daughter were Ore
gon City visitors a few days ago. While
in that city they were 'guests of Mrs.
Alice Quinn. They also visited Mrs.
Izetta Albright, whose husband recent
ly died in that city.
Prayer meeting was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Riding
Thursday evening, December 15.
On Monday evening there was a
community club meeting at the M. E.
hal. The subject for discussion was
the establishing of a moving picture
house. Some were in favor of the pro
position, while others opposed it
On Tuesday Mrs. Mary Albright
spent the day with Ms. M. Stockwell.
Others also visiting her and enjoying
dinner were Wallace Albright and Ed
Albright,
spend the holidays with her parents
Mr .and Mrs. George Adams.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. criswell and son
Allen and daughter Elizabeth of Port
land visited Sunday at the home of
E G. Miller.
Community Social
Is Held at Logan
LOGAN, Dec. 20. Word was receiv
ed of the death of Thos. Mostul in.
Portland. He had been sick a long
time. His family reside here.
There was a Community social at
Harding Grange hall last Saturday
night and all who attended had a most
enjoyable time. Music for dancing
was furnished by Arthur Funk.
Miss Margaret Hutchins expects to
spend the holidays wit,h her brothers
family near Bend. Miss Ethel Hutchins
who has been visiting up there is ex
pected home soon.
The Creamery company has to get
another butter maker as Mr. Franklin
is going into other business. Through
the death of a relative he will have
charge of a large dairy near Portland.
The little folks of Upper Logan also
of the Sunday school will see Santa
Claus at the church Saturday evening
December 24. There will be g. Xmas
tree and program.
Thus far the cattle that have been
tested for tuberculosis around here
were O. K. It was a step in the right
direction and should receive, the en
dorsement of all.
see the ground laden with snow Sun
day morning.
A Christmas program will be given
by the teacher and the children at the
Mountain Road school house Friday
afternoon December 23. Everybody
come.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Knicker moved back
to their farm on Petes Mountain last
week.
Mrs. Chas. Heinz and daughter vis
ited Mrs. J. Robinson and Mrs. Scof
fern last Wednesday.
Mr. Koeler Is boarding with the
Louis Koellermeier family again.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Forquahson are go
ing to spend Christmas with relatives
in British Columbia.
Little Marion Robinsjon took an
active part in a piano recital given
at Miss Dorothy Staffords home Sat
urday afternoon.
Quite a number of the kiddies were
absent from school Monday on account
of the snow.
Redland News Items
Contributions For
Xmas Tree Liberal
Molalla Legion to
Give Dance Xmas
MOLALLA, Dec. 19. Announce
ments are out for a dance Christmas
eve at the Band auditorium given by
the American Legion.
Mr. and Mrs. Clay Hungate spent
Sunday with W. J. Avisons.
John Cole spent several days at
Corvallis this week with his daughter
Vida, who underwent an operation for
the removal of her tonsils. They ar
rived home Sunday evening.
Mrs. J. R. Cole and daughter Neta
were Oregon City visitors Saturday.
The Molalla high school basket ball
team will entertain Parkrose team on
Friday the 23rd.
Edward Miller who i3 attending
school at Corvallis came home Thurs
day to spend the holidays with his
parents Mr. and Mrs.'E. G. Miller.
Hubbard Bowman and wife visited
relatives in Oregon City Saturday.
Reva Everhart of O. A. C. returned
home to visit her parents, Air. and Mrs.
W. W. Everhart, during the holidays.
Mrs. Charles Buell was shopping in
Oregon City Saturday.
Every one was , surprised Sunday
morning when they found about two
inches of snow on the ground which
had fallen during the night.
Ofa Adams, who is attending O. A.
C. at Corvallis came home Thursday to
BEAVER CREEK, Dec. 20. Prepar
ations for our Christmas tree next Fri
day evening are progressing nicely.
The contributions for it have been so
liberal that the committee in charge
has been puzled to know how to spend
all the money. Everybody attending
may be sure of receiving- a sack of
candy and nuts, among other things.
A large crowd attended the dance
given by Coxey Thomas at the Beacon
Heights hall Saturday night. A very
good time was reported.
, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Orr are rejoic
ing over the arrival on December 13 of
a baby girl. She has. been named Vir
ginia Mary.
A. W- Foglesongs mother and little
sister of Molalla were visiting at his
home here a few days last week.
Miss Erana Bluhm is home from
Monmouth for the holidays.
The Henrici school will have a
Christmas tree and program Friday
night.
Among the Beaver Creek people
who were Christmas shopping in Ore
gon City and Portland last week were
Mr. and Mrs.' John Watts, Mrs. Guy
Woodard,' Mrs. Hannah Hehn, Mrs.
George Havill, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Foglesong.
Snow fell here to a depth of 3 inches
Saturday night, our first this season.
REDLAND, Dec 19. Quite a few at
tended the show given by the Elks in
Oregon City on" Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Herman Fischer Attended her
j cousin's funeral, the late Mrs. Guen-
ther last Wednesday.
Many people in the neighborhood at
tended the farmer's meeting at Ore
gon City last week.
On Friday December 23, the Red
land school District 75 will give a
Christmas play. A cordial invitation
is extended to all.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Allen of Port
land spent the week end with home
folks. On Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Allen they motored to Mulino
and spent the day with Don Allen and
family.
Miss Myers spent the week end at
Portland.
Mrs. Hurlburt returned on Monday
after a two week's visit with her
daughter at Portland.
BIG NAVY DENIED
FRANCE; REJECT
SIIBJBOLITIOH
WORLD PEACE IS NOT
THOT POSSIBLE
Man Arrested In Bomb Ffot
Gives Names of Six
Accomplices.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Tfc Am
erican arms delegation opposes grant
ing France a top-heavy allotment of
submarines or other auxiliary crafk.
It also will reject Britain's plea tor
abolition of submarines.
6 ACCOMPLICES NAMED
WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 21. Wolfe'
Lindenfeld, held here in connection
with the Wall street bomb murders,
has named six accomplices for vkom
detectives are now searching. Dr.
Oulkowski, chief commissary of the
Polish political police, declared today.
BEAVER CREEK ITEMS
Mountain Road to
Have Xmas Program
MOUNTAIN ROAD, Dec. 19. Every
one of this vicinity was surprised to
BEAVER CREEK, Dec. 22. Miss
Erana Bluhm has returned to her home
to spend the holidays.
Mrs. Lottie Phelps is visiting at the
home of Mrs. Fred Steiner.
Arnold Fisher of Portland spent the
week end visiting relatives in Beaver
Creek.
Mrs. Geo. Havill called on Mrs. W.
J. Herman Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Shaw and family motored-to
Portland Saturday where they spent
the day shopping.
The Christmas program given by
the Beaver Creek school Sunday
school and Grange will be held at the
Beaver .Creek hall Friday evening,
December 23.
The Beacon Heights hall company
will give a dance at the hall New
Year's eve.
COINAGE ON INCREASE
DENVER, colo., Dec 21. A total
of 29,928,333 in bullion was handled
by the United States mint here last
year, according to an announcement
today by Robert Grant, superintend
ent. The annual coinage report shows,
that this year's operations exceeded
last year's approximately $19,OO0,tOO-
FLOODS STOP TRAINS
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21. Nearly
2000 "passengers on Overland trains
of the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific
and Sante Fe systems are marooned,
by floods at various points within 108
miles of the city. Supplies of food are
being rushed to the trains.
"WORLD PEACE" DOUBTED
OMAHA, Neb., Dec 21. When Mrs.
Daisy Van Scoy, an Omaha mother
told General John J. PershinJ here
that war is going to be made im
possible, the general told her "not to
run away with that notion," accord
ing to the Omaha World-Herald,
which published an account of the
general's brief visit while en route to
Lincoln to spend the Christmas holi
days with members of his family.
H. C. OF L. TAKES DROP
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Food eosts
for the average family were 1 per cent,
lower in November than in October,
according to labor department esti
mates. The compilation of the esti
mates was made from reports ' of'
prices of forty-three food articles to
the department statistical bureaa by
retail dealers in fifty-one cities.
ARMS COIN DESIGNED
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec M.
The arms conference will be reflected
in a new series of silver dollars mint
ing of which will be started Immediate
ly. The new dollar will have the nsnal
head of Liberty on the obverse side,
while the reverse will have a large
figure of an eagle perched on a bro
ken sword and clutching an olive
branch bearing the word "Peace." The
background will show rays of a rising
sun.
This is the first time since 1878 that
a new design has been adopted for
the silver dollar.
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,By GARRET SMITH
AMERICA is tbe world's big
gest sugar user. Into her
tea, coffee, pastries and
other foods and drinks
goes over 20 per cent of the sugsr
produced In the entire world. Out
of the 17.000.000 long tons manu
factured annually by the world at
large we Americans consume 4,000,
00 tons. And besides that we ex
port somewhere around a balf mil
lion tons every year.
And yet Ve produce within the
boundaries of the United States
and our territories considerably
less than half the sugar we handle
here either for our own use or for
shipment to other countries. How
does It come about that America,
which must Import about half tbe
sugar used here, Is also a large ex
porter of that commodity? Where
do we get tbe sugar we can't pro
duce ourselves? Where does the
world's sugar come from, anyhow?
These are some of the questions
that are puzzling the layman who
is trying to follow the debate over
the proposed sugar tariff Just now.
In which it Is advocated that we
adopt the highest rates assessed In
over thirty years by maklnc per
manent the 60 per cent increase on
sugar enacted in tbe emergency
tariff bill.
In tbe first place, ' the United
States and Its Island possessions Is
a large sugar, producer, now 'rank
ing third among the" nations of the
world, although a rather bad third.
Juba "tbe Sugar Bowl of tbe
Vorld," as she Is called, ranks first
.vltb an annual output, crordinjtto
;rop estimates of tbe present year.
f about 4,000,000 feng tons, Brit-
INTEBIOR OF W&RFMrtiKv: cuauam:
SUGAR READY TO SHIP WE EXPORT
SOME 00,000 LONG TONS OF
REFINED SUGAR ANNUALLY
tsh India comes second with 3,000,
000 tons and the United States, in
cluding her territories, follows with
2,290,000. The only other sugar
producer that comes anywhere near
kthe United States in quantity of out
put Is Java with 1.51.1,000 tons.
The United States Is unique as
sugar producer In that we have a
large output of both- cane and beet
sugar, although both together sup
ply only half our consumption. Of
the 2.290.000 long tons estimated
for this year 1.340,000 Is cane sugar
and 950.000 beet Hugar
Climate that will produce sugar
cane will not produce sugar beets
and vice versa. The tropics and
subtroplcs produce cane sugar in
abundance but no beet sugar. North
and South -America, Including the
Islands, together produce about half
the world's annual supply of 12,
580,!W0 long tons of cane sugar an
nually. Asia falls a - little under
with 0,065,000. Africa produces only
500.000 and Australia 235.000
Beet sugar which, under Ger
many's leadership, once tied cane
sugar for supremacy In the sugar
market, has declined In ratk"to the
whole until It Is less than 25 per
cent of the total supply. There are
4.505.000 long tons of It produced
annually in the temperate climates
of Europe and America. Germany
still leads the United States In an
nual beet sugar production with
1,150,000 long tons. Other consid
erable, producers of beet sugar are
Czecbo-Slovakia. Hungary. Austria.
France, Belgium. H"?'i4. KiMMia,
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,.. e.4a rANE IN JAVA -THIS
ONrjrSg BIGGEST
SUGAR PRODUCERS.
Now with American conditions as
outlined above, how does It come
about that we have sugar to export?
The answer Is simple. Cuba does
practically no sugar refining. The
United States does a great deal of
it. Before the war the American
refiners did practically no export
busi""ss. England, the largest im
porter of sugar, secured ier sup
plies mainly from the continent.
buying both raw ana rennea susn.
A BIG SUGAR REFINERYSSv " - ? r?-c s. - J
A BIG SUGAR REFINERY
IN BROOKLYN. NEW YORK- MOST
CUBAN SUGAR COMES HERE RAW
TO BE REFINED.
Sweden. Denmark, Italy, Spain,
Switzerland. Bulgaria, Koumania
and Canada
These figures, as we have said,
are hustd on estimates of this
jear's output and if lived up to will
represent an increase of one million
and a quarter long tons in the com
bined annual, output of cane and
beet sugar.
Now, then, with this vast world
supply to draw from, where does
the average American get the
ighty-flve pounds of sugar, he eats
annually? For that is the per
capita consumption of sugar In the
United States. " ' -
Of the 4.000,000 long tons we
consume every year, tbe Louisiana
and Texas cane crop give us only
150.000 tons, the Hawaiian cane
500.000. Virgin Islands cane 8.000.
Porto Rlcan cane 450,000 and Philip,
pine can 70.000. Then we consume
875.000 long tons of our own beet
sugar crop and make 35,000 tons
out of foreign molasses, American
uiapleetc. This covers most of our
available domestic supply, or about
1,900,000 long tons. For the rest
we buy some 60,000 tons In normal
years In scattering lots among the
minor sugar raising countries men
tioned and the rest, about 2,000,000
tons, comes from Cuba.
It will be seen, therefore, that
due to tariff concessions and con
venience of shipping, we buy nearly
one-half of Cuba's total crop. So If
It were not for Cuba and a tariff
arrangement that makes her sugar
available at moderate price, we
would have to go without about half
our sweetening or pay higher prices
for it than now prevalL
Iist year, to be sure, was an ex
ceptional one. With the allurvmeni
of high prices for sugar about
million tons were shipped In here
dnrlng the year from countries other
than Cuba. This was only a tem
porary condition, however. '
from Germany, Austria and other LCuba, the raw sugar producer. None
mmfinental countries. In addition.
he made extensive purchases in
Java On the declaration of war
the continental source of supply was
cut off, and to secure sugar from
Javaybecame difficult because of the
scarcity of ships.
Inasmuch as France's sugar pro
duction was chiefly in the war area,
her own supply was cut about 75
rer cent, so that she also became
n importer. This was Cuba's ond
the American refiners' opportunity.
Cuba built up a large export busi
ness In raw sugar to trie English
and French refiners. In adHtitXJ,
he American refiners haTe done a
large export business In refined
sugar.' They were enabled to do
this by importing foreign raw sugar,
chiefly from Cuba. On this, of
course, they had to pay a duty, but
this duty under our customs laws
was refunded to them when the re
fined product made from these for
eign raws was exported. Thus In
pract'ee it became practically a "re
fining In transit" proposition. The
raw sugar produced In Cuba Is car
ried on steamers to the Atlantic
coast refiners, unloaded, refined an
then exported. At times the refined
product is exported on the same
PHILIPPINE SUGAR STORED READY
eM3 uiomcwt HERE- WE USE
70,000 LONG TONS OP PHILIPPINE
steamer that brings In the raw' ma
terial. There are twenty-two large sugar
refineries in the United States, lo
cated in New York, Boston, Phila
delphia. Savannah, New Orleans
and San Francisco. New York Is
the big sugar refining center 6f tha
country. This country can refine
1.000.000 tons annually for export
purposes without slighting the do
mestic market, and with this refin
in capacity it is important that we
hold our export trade. This can be
d'ne only with the assistance of
of our domestic sugar, either raw
or refined, is exported, as on ac
count of the tariff it hrings a higher
price in the domestic market than
can be secured abroad.
Altogether we should export be
tween 400.000 and 600,000 long tons
of sugar annually to some forty or
fifty countries.
The proposed Fordney Tariff Bill
will have a far-reaching effect on
tbe status of our sugar supply and
on the price which the consumer
must pay for his sugar. If enacted
In Its present form It would make
permanent the present Emergency
Tariff Increase of 60 per cent on
Cuban sugar In spite of the fact
that the domestic Industry pros
pered under the rates In force be
fore the passage of tbe Emergency
Tariff,
The result. It is confidently pre
dicted, would work great harm to
Cuba's sugar Industry ; Impose an
unjust burden on the American
conpumer ; destroy In large measure
our growing export trade to Cuba :
and make Impossible the collection
of several hundred million dollars
due our banks and exporters which
cannot be collected unless the
Cuban sugar business prospers.