years
with
profit
and
four
years
with
loss. - That’s the condition
we have
b-en
working under and
vet kent
the laboring
class
employed.
To be continued.
:
P OCAL
The
s,
s, ''Paria’’ is due
at
Christian-
sted
on
Saturday
morning
at
deaylight.
S.
S.
Bolivar
from
New
York
is due
here today sailinz for th= islands.
The polling for tha
elcetiin of a candi-
date for the seat
us
s2cond
elezted
mem-
ber fer
Christian:ted
town
begzinsatl
p.
m.
today.
Dr.
D.
C. Cansocatais
the
only nominee,
anlit
would
be
a fitting
evideuca f appreciation
of hispast
faith-
ful services
to the publie,
if all the elect-
ors turn out in a
boly
and
record
their
yeas.
The six recl
drama
entitied
"The
Rid-
dle Woman’’ sercened
at
the
Christian-
sted
Theatre
'ast
night
was
indeed
a
very pretty
picture.
The
audirnce
was
not as
large
as
could have been
expected.
~Corraspondence
Christiansted,
May 10ih, 1923.
Me, Voter,
Dear Sir:—
-
As
a
candidate
{or
the
votes
of
vour
Distriet,
I dirvecet
this
personal
ap-
pal
teyou.
I
am
not
any
mean’s
man,
[amin
an independent
profession.
[am
an
American
Citizen,
having
livea
con-
tinuously
in the United
States
for al »ut
thir-y
vears; aithouzia
I was
bornin
St.
Thomas.
1
have
seiected
this
place
as
mv
permanent
and
fixed
ahode.
[
am
har2
to
stay.
Your
poverty
is
mine,
taera2fore
your
prospgrity
shall
be
mine
also.
Six years
of American
occupation
of
these
islands
have
vot
imoroved
the
P litical
and
Economic
condition
of
our
Isiand
Hone.
(an
any
candidate
now
seaking
your
vote
state
the
reasons?
Honestly
none
of
th:m
ecan.
Yet the
rea=ons
are
very
clear.
You nead
men
in the Colonial Couneil,
who can
and
will
dra’t and introduce
measures,
American
in principle.
bat local in their application.
M n
to make
laws,
baving in
mind
the
nee’'s
of
the
majority.
‘'For
truly
no
man
liveth
uoto
himself,
and
no
man
di2ih uato
t imself”’, Is
as
true
today
as
when
first said.
Cur
only hope of existence
in this
is-
land,
is irom the
soil,
the
backbone
of
us all (Agricuiture.)
WATER,
MONEY
end LAND.
Water
can
be had
is my
be-
-1 »f. by
the sinking of Artesian
Wells.
or
eb; bor:n ior sane,
or by the erection
of
Reserv .irs to caich
and retain
such
rain
as
may
fail.
Private capital
in
this
is-
‘jJand
1s not sufficient
1o
undertake
this,
*
7 g
3y
o=
At present,
we as
a people,
have
not the
meins,
by taxation
or otherwise
to
raise
mcaey
to
do
it.
The
Congress
of
the
United States
will not
give it tous.
No
Governor,
however
2ood
his
intentions
may
be,
towards
us,
ean
give
us
this
needed
help.
We eannot
iive without it.
Hence
we
must
do
as
all
other
people
irave Jone
to get it.
Our Colonial
Coun-
cil must by petition to
Congress
get the
power
to borrow
money
dy
loaans
to give
us Water
for Man
and
Boast:
and
(o
as-
sist.
The present
bad conditions
of our home
will not,
and cannot be betrered
by them-
selves.
[t will take
constructive
legisia-
tion
to change
them.
looking
at
what
was,
will do'no goud
now.
By
Congress
giving
us the power through
the Colonial
Council seeking
it,
we
will
raise
money
for Muanicipal
Improvements.
This
will
give
work
along
mary
lines
to
large
numbers
of our people,
so
that they will
have
work, and
thus
keep
them at home:
nay,
it will also
draw
to
our homes
out-
siders
who
will
settle
among
us.
The
more
people,
the
more
money
must
be
circulated
in the ilsland,
which
must
ben-
efit us all.
To that end thorefore,
I ask
your
vote
on May 12th,
1923,
for
one
of
the two
seats
in
the
Colonial
Counecil,
so
that
|
be given
the chance
to put
in
execution
these
my political opinions,
for
the
bet-
termen
of our common
hone.
Having as
my metto
“'Principies
not Men''.
Yours
tru'y,
L O
GRRANADY.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
London,
Mav
Trth.—Great
Britain
will
despatch
a note
to
Germany
within
36
hours
expressing
disapproval
of the latest
German
reparations
proposals
and
ure-
ing Germany
to
present
a
more
pracii-
cil and
liberal
solution
of the
problem.
London,
May Teth. —Considorable
agita-
tion Las
been
aroused
arcund
the
luns
of Court
pecanse
tie
benchers
of-Giravs
lan called
to the bar
Mr. James
M.
beck
ex-Solicitor General
of tie United
States.,
Mr.
Beck
is
an
honorary
member
of
Grays [on.
London,
May
T7th.—The
recent
an-
nouncement
that
excavailens
are
to
be
made
at Jerusalem
in a search
for David's
tomb has
arcused
anxiety
in
some
re-
higious
cireles
here,
where
it
is feared
that
the
work
would
devastate
sacred
st
es.
The
Colonial
Department
has
is-
sued
a reassuring
statement,
asserting
toat
the
actual
location
of
the
ancient
city of David
was
not
op
ihe
spat
men-
tioned by
tradition.
Archaelogisis
long
ago established,
the statement
says,
that
the
City
stood
cn
a
little
triangulay
square
of
ground
called
Mount
Ophzl,
South
of
the
present
Jerusalem.
It is
on
this site,
which
has
heretofore
bee,
of
no
relizious
interest
to
Christians,
Jews
or Mohammedans,
that the
excava-
t:ons
in the search
for
David’s
tomb are
to be made.
New York, May
T7th. --The
market for
raw sugar
was
a
little
steadier
in
tone
early today,
but
there
were
no
sales
re-
ported,
with Cubas
oifered
at 61/4 cents,
cost
and freight,
equal
to
8 03
for
cen-
trifugal
and
Porto
Rico’s
at
the
same
level,
:
Tasa
French
Moracco,
May
7th.—A
French
army of 25,000
mon
has
heonn
a
campalzn
against
the
wairlike
tribe
of
the
benibousert;
as
one
phase
of
the
pacification
of the
Tasa
tribesmen
whieh
commenced
on
April
12th.
The
French
troops
in
four
eolumns
surrounded
the
lower
end
of
a
rebellious
strip
in
the
middle
Atlas
Mountains,
75
miles
long
and 50 miles
wide,
where
the
unconquer-
ed natives always
have rvesisted
invasion.
The first engacoments
have
taken
piace
with the
North-rn
tribe and
the French
expect
to work
southward,
meeting
the
columns
entering
the
savave
country
from
the other
end
of the line.
A hoa vy
action
has
been
reported,
but
the exten:
of
the
casaalties
is
unknown.
The
Frencir
are
preparing
for
a
hard
cam-
paign,
as
the
waconquered
tribes always
have foughit
with
fanatical
enthusiasm,
fredericton,
N.
B.
May
Tth.—The
St.
John
River
is
receding
here
lodav and
is now four
feor
below
the
nighest
level
reached
during
the
freshet.
The
rail-
ways
are
gradluaily
being
put
into shape
and
by
the
middle
of
this week
trains
wili be running
on all lines out of Frederie-
ton, with the
exceprion
of
the
St. .john
Valley
railway,
between® here
and
St.
John,
where
the water
has
not yet fallen
sufliciently
to even
tell
how
muzh of the
road
bed
has
been
carried
away.
Pzris,
May
Tth.—The
French
note to
Germany
was commuuicated
in substance
to Signor Mussolini before
the final draft
was
made,
it
was deciared
in
official cir-
cles
this morning,
and
he
expressed
full
approval
of
it,
agreeing
with
M. Poin-
care
that
the German
procozal
eould
not
be taken e
consideration.
Peking,
May
Tth.—Unconfirmed
re-
ports
have
been
reecived
here
that
the
Su Chow
tran bandits
have
killed
one
or
two oi their prisoners,
Constantinople,
May Tih.—The
Turk-
ish authorities
have
sealed
all
safes
and
private
deposit
boxes
belonging
o
Greeks
leaving
them
under
military
sruard.
as
was recentiv
done
in
Smyrna.
It
is
understood
that
this
aetion
was
taken
because
of
rumotrs
that
the
Greeks
mtend
to
seize
Turkish
funds
in
Greo&n
Vienna, May
Tth.—Two
hundred
per-
sons
have
been injured in
riots
between
Socialists
and
Monarchists,
the
latter
anti-semitic.
The
disturbance
lusted
a
week.
Rome,
May Bth. —1,500 rebels
were
de-
feated
and
200
killed
by
the
Italians in
their iatest
operation
in ‘l'ripoli, involv-
ing the occupation
of an
advanced
point
it is announced
in
the
oificial siateinent
tcday,
covering the
latest
developments.