Correspondence
Christiansted
St.
Croix,
9-6-24.
To the Editor of the
'Bt Croix Avis'’
Sir:
kindly
allow
me
space
in
your
es-
teemed
columns
once
more
to
clearup
a
misinterpretation
of the erticle written by
rme that
appeared
in
your
esteemed
pa-
per,
under
the heading
(correspondence)
dated
H-0-24.
Ir. connection
with said article,
1 wish
to state
that
I did
not expeet
to be
eon-
mended
by
the
newspapers
that took
1t
un,
for
those
are
the
said
newspapers
thal
arte
advoecauing
lor
the
change,
therefor 2 no
one
could expecet
anything
difforent.
They
have tried
to eamouflage
the article by
terming
it
a
camouflage;
out
in spite
of thatl
wish
to
state
that
that
does
not
discourage
or change
my
ideas
in the least.
1t
is
rather
strange
hut certain
that if on 2 does
not agree
out
and Dut with another’s biddings and ideas
they
ave
ridiculed
and branded
according
to their sentiments:
so it is
in this
case,
beeiuse
1 did not
come
cut and
say
tha
|
was wholely
and
solely
in
favor of
the
civil govt.
movement
they try to
inter-
uret
the
articie
their
own
way and
say
that it is inconsistent.
Therefore
for the
benefit
of
those
who I would
not liketo
misconstrue
my meaning
and
viewpoint
that
the
other
newspapers
have
misin-
rerpreted
T will make
clearly understood
what
| mieant
when
I said
that
the
peo-
ple have benefitted
‘'nothing,”’ | wish
to
state
that they
have
benefitted
nothing
financially and
isdustriatly,
for
they
thought
that
the
chanzes
would
have
hrought
them
indusitiali
asd
financial
enterprizes,
ior
these
are
the
thinzs
that are causing
the
people
to emigrato,
{or many
other
changes
have beeno
m i
and
no
ehange
or
solution
has
been
found for the
two most important.
Aoain
when
I
said
that
a
new
form of
govt.
will bring
new
grievances,
I mean
that
the pocr
people
will feel
the
bhardships
for at
present
they
can
hardly
meet
their demands,
and
when
a new tform
of
govt. steps
in
and
taxes
are
raised
and
ivelihood
on
the
whoie
becomes
more
ex-
pensive
and
no
new
industry
is
intro-
dueced
with which
to kKeep
them financad
to meet
their
obligations
what
will
be
the resulits? bankruptey
is sure
to ensue.
I wouid like it to be understood
that
1
amnin
saver
of anything that wiii be
bzn-
e'icial
to the people.
I am not thoroughly
acainst
a civil form
of govt. forI fully
agree
that Imperialism
is
un-American,
bis
my point
is that
under
present
c.r-
~umstances
the pzople
are bound
to
suf-
fer.
If we get the form of govt.
that is
being
asked
for
we
will have
a
few
chapges
such
as:
Citizenship
Zranted,
the code revised
to suit
a lawabiding peo-
ple that
receive
cents
and
not
dollars,
instead of appeal
cases
going
to
FPhiia-
delphia they may probably find 2
way of
appealing
to Porto
Rico and what
appro-
priation
we receive
will come
through
a
different department,
but
these
changes
will not telp industrially and
financially.
when
taxes
are
rais2d
the
appropriation
will
not
help
proverty
owners
to
pay
their
taxes
nor will it help the
p2ople
to
meet
their
oblizations
when
the
high
cost
of living ensues.
So the best thing our politicians could do
is
to get busy
and study
out
some
indus-
trial devices
anl
have them
matured
by
the time the change
is made
so
that
the
people
would
not
feel
or be
depressed
with their
new
enterprize,
for
tn hring
in a
new
form of
go.t.
that
will bring
hioh
taxes
and nn)ntm:hwri."m
of
indus-
try with
which
to support
it
will
mean
the
same
uneasiness
and
E.
E. B
will
not K 1 P.
Thanking
you
for
space
Mr.
Editor,
Respec. fully
E.
E. BRYAN.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CRUIX STATION.
London,
June
6:h—Tne
West
(ndies
pavilion at
the British Empire Exhibition
at Wembley
is receiving excel
ent
pubhi-
city in
the Press.
The
latest
'edition
of
“Puanch’” devotes
two pages
to
an
amus-
ing
article
rogarding
the
various
West
Indian exhibits.
Mr. Freeman,
the Com-
missioner
for Trinidad,
is returning
to
that colony
op Saturday
tak
ng with him
a colleetion
of lantern
slides of the exhibi-
tion.
Th
fifty thousand
West Indian
sou-
venir
balges
which
are
heing
sold
are
me-tine
with
a
very ready
sale.
New York, June
sth Another
low
re-
card
for the
past
two years
was establish-
ed
in the
raw sugar
market today,
whea
sales
of Cuban
were reported
at 4.77,
du-
ty paid.
(osiantinople,
June
sth
—The
confer-
ence
between
representatives
,of
Great
Britain and Turkey,
regarding
the
delim-
itation
of
the
Turco-Iraw Mesopotamia
boundaries,
has
been
broken off
because
the Turks refusad
to agree
to terms
un-
der which
the Mosul question
was
to be
submitted
to
the
arbitra'ion
of
the
League
of Nations.
It is now suzgested
that the
two Governments
should
enter
into negotiations,
with
a view to submit-
ting the questions
to
some
other
arbitral
tribunal.
A despatch
from
Constantino
ple
on June
2ad said
Sir Percy
Cox, Brit-
ish High Commissioner
for Mesopotamia,
had informed Fathi Bey, head
of the Turk-
ish Dalezation
meeting
with
the
British
regarding
the Mosul distriet,
that
he had
heen
instructed
to return
to London
un-
less the Turkish Government
modified its
attitude
in demanding
the complete
te-
turn of
the disputed
territory,
which
is
rich
in
oil.
London,
June Bth—The
Prime
Minister
announced
in the House
of Commons this
afternorn
that Justice
Freeman,
of the
Union ofy, South
Africa,
wouli
be
chair-
Supniemen
to St. Croix Avis, 10th June 1924,
man of
the Irish Boundary
Commission,
Paris,
June sth
M. Herriot,
the
Radi-
cal Leader,
hus declined
to undertake
the
formation
ofa Ministry
to succeed
the
Tokio,
June
sth.—Japan
gave
the
United
States
Ambassador
Mr.
Cyrus
Woods
an
impressive
demonstratlon
of
¢
its atfection
as
it
bade
him tarewazl]
at
the
Tokio
railway
station
today.
Des-
pite popular irritation
over
the Japanese
|
exclusion
clause
in
the
new
American
4
Immigration Law,
more
than
10,000 per-
3
sons
crowded
the
station
and
cheered
°
the
Ambassador
as
he
ardved
to take
a train for Yokohama,
where
he
will sail
for home
tomorrow,
following
his resig-
nation.
The police
were
unable
to
con-
trol
the
enthusiastic
erowds
which
swarmed
the Ambassador
and
his
party,
giving chzer after cheer.
Hundreds
of peo-
pie
left
a,wedding
celebration
near
the
station
to join in
a
demonstration
of es-
{
teem for the
man
who
had
done
so much
to foster
good
Japanese-American
rela-
tions
and
whose
resignation
they
feel
is
a silent
protest
against
the
exclusion
ciause,
Scores
of
high
officials,
includ-
ingz
Baron
Matsui,
cam 2in
person
(o
the station
to
wish
the Ambassador
bon
vayage.
Poincare
Cabinet,
it is
announced
thls
evening.
The President
offered
the
Pre-
niership
to M. Herriot, which he did
af-
ter taking the advise
of
the President’s
coutinuation
in otbice.
President
Miller-
and
reirterated
his
determination
to
re-
main for the Constitutional
term
and
M.
Herriot
then
declined
the
task
of form-
ing a
Ministry.
AT THE
Caristiansied
‘Thaat
: “8.‘3“3..}
B uguare
200
SHARF.
SHARFE,
SHARPF,
MADAM ALTABROWNE,
Dramatic
Soprano,
of Washington,
1 L
will appear for the
first
time
in St.
oroix in a
GRAND MUSICAL REGITAL,
Among
her
selections
are
included
CLASSICS:
‘A Dream’’,
by
Bartlett:
**A+ Dawning’’, by Gadman;
‘"Morpinz”’
hy Oley
Speaks;
"‘Rose
in the Bud’’, by
fostor:
Thank
God
for
a
Garden’’, by
.
De!
Riego,
and others.
SPIRITUALS: By HARRY BURLEIGH,
America’s
most
noted
colored
ecomposer,
inelnding
*‘Deep
River”’,
''Go
Down
Moses’”,
‘'Did’'nt it rain’’ ete.
ete.
Assisted
by
DR. CLIFF HARPER,
in Comiecalities,
Impersonations,
Dances
and
Songs.
This
ie
nnly
a
part
of
the
elaborate
program
that
will be staged
TO NIGHT,