Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-26 | Page 12 | U. S. Finances St. Croix Rum

I UN u. S 8 1 FINANCES ST ST. CROIX RUM j. j Dollar Bottle Liquor Soon to Quench Americans Americans' Thirst t WASHINGTON UP UP-In UP In an another ther month Uncle Sam distiller will fire up his rum boilers at St St. Croix VIrgin Virgin Virgin Vir VIr- gin Islands Thereafter the finished prod product ct in infancy infancy infancy fancy bottles should be 00 flowing to the mainland Prices will be so low that domestic liquor interests are protesting pro testing testing just just how low the government govern ment wont won't say yet but it may be a dollar a bottle The rum will be the kind the pirates pi pi- rat rates used to drink drink potent potent smooth I and of or a flavor navor so o distinctive tint th t tonce once it was as famous ramous around the world The pirates wrote a song about bout it it Fifteen men on a dead mans man's chest chess Yo ho ho and bottle of or rum ruin The governments government's first fling ling at the distilling business is the idea of Oscar of-Oscar Oscar Chapman assistant secretary of or the interior who never has taken a drink drinkin in his Il life e. e Prohibition ruined the Virgin islands where rum rum making used to be the principal industry Chapman figured that in m all aU justice It was the governments government's duty to rehabilitate rehabilitate rehabilitate re re- habilitate the rum business so that the islanders could get back on their feet eel Pre President Roosevelt was The rest was easy The Vi Virgin Virgin Vir Vir- r. r gin Islands Island company a quasi quasi govern government government ment corporation was organized with capital of ot furnished by the public works administration The Virgin Islands company which officials are careful t to td call a private corporation under government auspices auspices auspices aus aus- will pro produce two kinds of rum The first is the Cuban t type pe known as es a brandy rum and used wed principally in cocktails punches and highballs The other is the old fashioned Virgin Islands rum made of pure cane juice It Il is a heavy sweetish liqueur of a golden brown color to be sipped slowly and slowly and reverently according to the experts experts after after dinner