ing of the
Counc’i for Wriday,
July
9.
at
2 o’clock p.m.
[ have
to
anasunce
that
I
intend
@
leave
the
island
next
week
for
a
trip
abroad
for
a
period
of
about
four
months.
During
my
absence
the
Vice
Chairman
will
act
in
my
place
and
I
bespeak
for him the
same
patience
and
uniform
courtesy
that
I
have
had
the
honor
o
receive
from
the
members
of
this Council in
exercising
his duties.
There being
no further business
before
the
Council
the
Chairman
declarec
the
meeting
closed
at 3.
p.
m.
EDITORIAL.
In comment
on
the app-intment
of cer-
tain
natives
to public
offices,
West
End
News of yesterday
says
in part:
‘' it gives
us great
pleasure
to
see
our native
broth-
ers
rising
into
prominent
government
positions.
It is gratifying to
know
that
the time when foreigners
were given the
praference
is
fast
vanishing
on the
lo-
vizon of American
‘mprovement
pi liev’’.
The
basis
of
this remark
is
not
elear,
but it appears
to imply that positions
un-
der
the
government
were formery
be-
stowed
upon foreigners
to
the exclusion
of natives,
which
is
decidediy
not
the
case,
Expressions
of
this kind are
mis-
leading and
sheuld
be
guarded
against,
for
if
not
actually harmful,
they
ecan
certainly
do
no good,
especially
when
g 0 nhvicucly
inecorreet
as
in the
present
instarce
where
it is
a virtua! impossibili-
ty tc name
a single
government
position
which has
been
filled by
a foreigner
ex-
cept i
the
department
of
edueation
where, by reascn
of the fact that little na-
tive talent
was available
in
this line, and
few Danes
qualified in English pedagogy,
teachers
were recruited
from
the
British
West
Indies.
Sons
of
the
soil
were
royally appointed
by the
King
of
Den-
mark
and until
1917
discharged
the
of-
fices of collector
of
customs
and
control-
ler
of
customs
in
Frederiksted
and
Christiansted
respeetively,
and the
chief
and
junior
clerkships
in
this
depart-
ment,
in
both
towns,
have
been
held
by
natives;
the
government
treasurer,
and
chief clerk,
were natives;
one
cf
the
police
assistants
(police
judge)
was
a
native.
of
St.
Croix
and
has
acted
as
judge at
times,
aad so
on along the
line.
{he language
was,
of course,
an
impedi-
ment
to many
otherwise
competent
na-
tives,
and this
is probably
the
principai
reason
why
more
born
Cruzians
have
not
been
conspicuous
in
public
service
in former years,
but under
any
circum-
stancesit is desired
to
give
our
present
government
all
possible
credit
for
the
dispostion
shown
to advance
the
inter-
ese
of
natives
in
this
respect,
and
too
much
commendation
cannot
be
express-
ed
in
that' connection.
However,
it
is
believed,
that
the
truest
assurance
we
natives
can
give the government
of
our
loyalty and
deservingness,
18
our
mani-
festation
of a spirit of gratefulness
which
5l
Ukt
d
X
& Vi N
it is hardly fair
to say,has
been
totally
unzroused
in the pa-"
We
want
Unit-
ed States
citizenship;
we
aie
aspiring
t& become
100%
Americans;
'let
us
live
up
to
the
standard
of worthiness
by
which
we
may
justly
feel
entitled
to
thesz
priceless
giftsof the great
mother
nation
of whom
we asjdthem;
let
us
con-
quer
the tendency
to
.nrowing
dirt
be-
hind
us it;
is very un-American.
Saint
Croix V..
1
July Ist 1920.
Dear Mr. Editor :-
Since Mr. B. R.
L.
of
Christiansted
persists
in entertaining
us with dog fights
on the publie streets,
it
's
perhaps
not
unreasonabie,
for persons
who happen
to
witness
these
scences,
to
enquire
as
to
the outcome
of the fights
and
the
after
condition
of his dog, especially
when
we
are informed
that the bath
next morning
1s pertormed
at
a
remote
section
ot
the
water-front
and
that,
as
usual
after
a
fight, Buller is withheid
f{rom
the
gaze
of the pub’ie.
If this econtinues,
we may
be apt
to request
that
the
vet.
sirgeon
reside
in town instead
of in the
country.
AUDIENCE OF FIGHT OF NIGHT
OF JUNE
29TH.
Football
Notice.
Lovers
.of Football
are
invited
out on
Sunday
afternoon
4th July,
at
the
Hol-
ger Danske
Ground
to see
a great
con-
"test between
he
Unique
Football
Club
of St. Thomas
and
the
combined
eleven
of Christiansted.
Game
starts
4.3(
pre-
cisely.
Band
in attendance.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STA iION.
Deiayed In Transmission.
London, June
29th. -The
United States
Army
Polo
Team
which
will
represent
the United States
at
the Olympic games
at Antwerp,
won the Novices Cup yester-
day bv defeating
the Fox
Hunters
Rane-
lagh Club.
The
score
was
nine
to five.
London,
June
29th. —Mr. Lloyd George
stated
in
the
House
of
Commons
last
night
that
he did
not propose
to make
a
further
statement
on
the Boulogne
Con-
ferenc2
until
after
the
meeting
at
Spa
had been
held.
London
June
29th.—Answsring
six
questions
about
Mesopotamia
1n
the
House of Commons
last night, Mr. Lloyd
George said,
consideration
must
be given
to rights existing before
the
war and
the
interests
of
the
Arab
States
must
be
safeguarded.
Lordon
June
29th. —lhe
House
of
Lords last night discissed
the
Rent
Re-
strictions
Bill, which
passed
the
report
stage.
Wimbledon,
June 29th—William
T.
Til-
den
of Philadelphia
and
Zeenz
' Shimid-
zu
ot
Japan
will be
the
competitors
in
the
final
o:
the
Eritish
Tawn
Tennis
Singles
Championship.
Tilden
won
his
place today
as
a finalist by defeating
his
fellow
American
Chas.
A.
Gerland
of
Pittsburg
in the semi-finals
6-4.
8-6,
6-2.
Shimidzu
earned
the right {o oppose
the
Philadelphian
by
defeating
Theodore
Mavrogordato
of
the English Davis Cup
Team,
6-4,
6-0,
6-2.
The
winner
of the
finals
must
mect
Gerald L. Payyerson
of
Australia
in
the
challenge
round
for
the
championship.
The
United
States
doubles
pair
W.
M.
Johnson
and
Win.
T.
Tiiden
won their mateh
in
the
fourth
round, defeating
the British pair Stanley
N.
Doust and
Albert D
Prebble
6-2, 7-4.
Lordon,
June
29th.
Sugar
in stock
on
the 26th inst.
was 153,000 tons.
Last year
223,000
tons,
NEW
YORK,
June
30th
1920,
Flour, Blended Clears Bt. Lawrence
I'rand
'
pr.
brl.
$13.50
Meal, Kilndried per
100 s
$4.60
New
Season’s
Pork
per bri. $41.00
Heavy
Mess Pork
per bbl. $49.00
Sugar---Crystals
maximum
per
100
lbs.
$18.26.
Molasses
Sugar
89°
test,
no
quotation.
Cotton,
Middling Upiand,
at
Liverpoo!
per
b,
25 81--1004.
Kxchange,
New
York
and
London,
60
days’
sight
$3.904
lixehange
New York
and
Londen,
sight
-
$3.944
:
LUNDON, June 30th
1920.
Sugar-Demerara
Crysials,
(free of Govt.
control) duty paid
per
ewt.
1465.
od.
Sugar
Muscovado,
(free
of Govt. control
price for June) duty paid per ewt.
150s.
(zerman
Beet 88°/; f.o.b.
no
sales
White
Java
sugar
cif United
Kingdom
130s.
od.
Demerara
Rum,
per gal. nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good Middling Red
per
cwt
120s,
od.
os.
od.
Cotto~
Medium Fine
Sex
island,
at
Liv-
erpool per b,
nominal
Bank
of England
rate
Hf Discount
per
cent
7.
Consols
463
Three
per
cent
rentes
in Paris
[Fes.
56.75.
Moscovado
Govt.
controlled
prices
for
June
duty paid
141s.
9d.
Moscovado
free
of
Govt,
control
duty
paid
110s.
od.
120s.
od.
*
@
~
Publication.
WITH reference
to
an Ordinanco
passed
by the
Colonial
Coun-
cil of 5t (‘roix;
19 Aprill
1939
in
view
of
the fact
that the 4th
day
of
July, this
year,
falls
on
a
Sup-
day, the Governor has declared
Mon-
day sth July 1920,
a holiday for the
purpose
of observing
“INDEPEN-
DENCE DAY.”
C.
C.
[IMMONS,
Government
Secretary,