BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN
ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES.
APROCLAMATION,
.
e
Thanksgiv'ing
Day.
HEREAS,
the
last
Thursday
in No.
vember
of each
year
is customarily
observed
in
our
country
as
a day of
thanksgiving
and
prayer:
NOW,
THEREFORE,
I,
HENrRYy
H,
HouGH,
Governor
of the Virgin Islands
of
the
United
States
of
America,
do
nereby designate
Thursday,
the
twenty-
ninth day of November,
1923,
as
Thanks-
giving Day,
and
do solemnly
urge
that
the
people
of
these
islands
congregate
on
that day at their usval
places
of
wor-
ship and
give
deep
and
sincere
thanks
to
the Great
Giver
of All Good
for
the
manifold
blessings,
both
spiritual
and
material,
enjoyed during
the year
which
is
now about
to end,
and
to petition
that
they may
be
continued
in
the
year
be-
fore
us.
In the
beginning
of
our
country
our
devout forefathers,
who had
hewed
their
homes
out
of
the
virgin
forests
and
suffered
great
hardship
and
danger,
paused
in their work
and
said:
‘'[i2t
us
set
aside
a day
for
thanksgiving
for the
many
blessings
bestowed
upon
us’’.
Thus
the
custom
was
established
and
it
has
since
been nationally
observed
year-
ly by the people
of
ov-
~ountry.
it has
come
to
be,
perhaps,
the
most
charac-
tevistic of our national
observances,
and
a3
the
season
approaches
for
its annual
recurrence,
it is fitting to formally draw
attention
to
this
ancient
institution
of
our people
and
to call upon
them
to agiin
umite
in its approoriate
celebratin,
The
year
now
nearing
its
:nl
has
been
marked
in
the
experienc: f the
world by
a complexity
of
trials
ard
tri-
umphs,
of difficuliies
and
achic
vements.
(Grezt
strides
have
been
made
in science
¢
and invention for
the
good
of mankind.
Realizing
the suffering of the world from
earthquakes,
fire,
tidal
waves,
hurri-
canes,
starvation,
diseace,
war
and
in-
ternal
strife
during
the
year,
we
must
feel that
we have indeed
been
fertunate
in
being
spared
trom
such
calamities.
Uur conditions
of
health
are
excellent:
we
have
been
spared
the
inclemencies
of weather
that
bring
suffering
to the
poor
in
colder
climes;
and
here,
amid
the
natural
beauties
of
our
islands
ve
may
go about
our tasks
freely and
sea--
lessly.
'
=
Qur local problems,
while real enough,
are
not
so
serious
in
comparison
with
those o many countries of the world, and
are
capable
of solution if We work hard
and
cheerfully
to
that
end.
We
have
been
blessed
during the last
two
months
with a bountiful
rainfail.
Therefore
let
the New Yeur bring
forth
the
fruits of
ST
CEULE
A YIS
our toil, bearing
in
mind
that
our
har-
vest
will
be
in
propsrtion
to
the labor
put into it.
1t is within
the
province
of
every
person
here
ro
do something
for
the
good
of
the
Virgin
Islands,
T
each
one
strive
to do Fis
utmost
not
ly
to his individual benefit,
but
to
the
gen-
eral
good
as
well.
IN WITNESS
WHEREOF
[ have here-
unto
set
my
hand
and
caused
the Seal
of the Government
of the Virgin Islands
of the United States
to be affixed.
Issued
at
St. Thomas,
this
nineteenth
day of Novembor,
1923,
HEMRY H HOUGH,
(overnor.
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of
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at
St.
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in
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with
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DISEASES
DANGEROUS
TO PUBLIC
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HEALTH N THE
VIRGIN ISLANDS
;
OF THE UNITED STATES.
During
the
month
of October
1923,
the following diseases
of interest
to the
.~
public
have
been reportad
in the
Virgin
t
Islands:
.
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In Saint
Crove.
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Filarigss,
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H. M. STENHOUSE,
M. D.
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Chlief Sanitation
Officer,
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Municipality of St. Croie.
LOCAL
|
The
Industrial
Band
rendered
a
fine
.
program
on
the whart
last night.
There
|
was
a large applausive
gathering.
i
S e
|
Mr
Armstrong
tells
us
that the owner
'
of the St. Kitts
raczr
has
agreed
to send
|
the horsa
to St. ()rg*x,
so
there will prob-
|
obly be
races
for Xmas.
|
We have
been
asked
to
mention
that
%
the
Native Brass
Bard
will givea
con-
{
ceit
on the
w arf to-mor row night.
Fcctball.
The
Ale.v and Minute
Boys’ elubs
will
oppose
each
other
in a
mateh
at Holger
Danske
pasture
tomorrow
afternoon.
Game
comnierees
precisely
at 3.450'c10ck.
Com.
_
“SCHOOL
AND
TEACHER DAY”
PRESIDENT
COOLIDGE AND THE
TEACHER.
It
would
be
exceedingly
difficult
to
overestimate
the
important
part
that
teachers
take
in the development
of
the
life ¢f the
Nation.
They
e¢xercis2
their
art,
nct
on
(he
materials
of
this
wuiid
which
pass
away,
but
upon
the
huinan
soul,
where
it
will
remain
througn
all
eternity.
ltis
the
teacner
that
m:-kes
the school,
that
sets
its standard
and
de-
termines
its
success
or
fzilure.
Every-
one
is familiar with the assertion
of Pre-
sident
Garfield that
Mark
Hopkins,
sit-
ting
on one end
ot
a
log
with
a
student
on
the other,
would constitute
a
univer-
sity.
HNe did not particularize about
the
student,
but
he
was
careful
to provide
that the head
of the instituiion was
to be
Dr. Hopkins.
Only a
tiained
-and %tyjed
edueator
could fill the
requiremen's
for
the head of a seat
of
learning
that
was
to be dignificd by the name of
a
univer-
sity.
With such
a figure occupying
that