was Mr. H. L. Roper,
clerk in
the
West
India and
Panwna
Telegraph
Co’s
office
in this
town,
who
is
being
transterred
~
to
St. Thomas.
During
his
sojourn
ir
st.
Croix
Mr. Roper
proved
himself
a
very amiable
young
man and made
many
friends
with
whom
we
join in offering
him good
wishes.
Our
readers
are reminded
of tonight’s
show
at
the
theatr:
when
‘‘Peg O’ the
Ping”’ will
be
continued
with
6 highly
praised
chapters
in episodes
4,
5
and
6.
The sloop Carib for the safety of which
some
anxiety
was felt aiter
her
depart-
vre
from
Frederiksted
just
before
the
scorm
of
last
Tuesday,
arrived here
on
Friday, all well.
OFFICIAL NEWS.
Ensign
Storer
G. Deeatur,
U.
S. N. R.
1.,
personal
aide
to
Goveranor
Oman,
vho went
to the
States
on leave
via the
{]. 8B 8 Kittery
on
Augist 4,
1919,
has
niade
a reques:
o be
placed
on
inaciive
duty ard
wiil
pot
return
to St.
Thomas.
Fe
is
at present
at
his home
in Kittery
Foint, Main-,
-
Passsed
Assistant
Surgeon
Paine,
U.
S
Pubiiec
Health
and Marine
Hospital
Sarvice,
the chief
quarantine
officer
of
S..
ihomas,
cailed
cn
Governor
Oman
«.this morning.
Dr. Paine
and
his family
will
sail
for
the
Stztes
via
the
8.
S.
{yulana
next Tuesday.
The
1.
B.
S.
Kittery
arrived
this
norning
with
wieut.
J.
W.
Whalen,
M.edical Corps,
U.
S. N.,
and
Mrs,
Whal-
en,
Ensign
V.
Bentley,
U.
S. N.,
Mrs.
S.onroeder,
Mrs.
Geverts,
44
enhsted
mwen and 88
tons
of cargo
on hourd.
The
il 8
8
Guliport
will
arnive
at
ot
Tiomas
next
Tues:ay
ana
will
sail
tkence
ior New
York.
~
The
sloop ‘'Carib’’ from
St.
Croix
is
reported
-to
have
put
into
iattle
Cruz
Bayv at St.
John with
a broken
bowsprit.
|
SN
-
Lieut.
C. C. Timmons,
Supply
Corps,
U
S.
N.,
and
Mrs.
Timmons
arrived
by
the ‘‘Kitiery’”at West
End
on Satur-
dezy
night.
They
are visiting the
Des-
pztehing
Secretery
and
Mrs.
U’Hagan.
Lisut.
Timmouns
is on
duty in
the office
of ‘the
Government
Secreiary
at
St.
Tl.omas.
WEATHER REPORT.
8t
Croix,
Bar.
30.00,
Ther.
86,
E.
partiy cloudy.
-
RQaintall for past
24 hours,
7/8.
['o Editor St. Croix Avis:
Dear Mr. Kditer:
We
have read Father
Daily’s letter
in
. today’s
paper,
and
before
go-
ing
further beg
your permission
to say
» L.
L.80l3 &V
1L
that
we accept
the explanation
he offers.
We have
no animosity
against
anybcdy
and juaging other by ourselves,
we glad-
ly withdraw
our objections
to his remarks
now that
he states
cur
conclusicn
diffors
|
trom his meaning.
However,
in respact
to the logic intenéded
to offset our
vers.on
oi his saying
thé title was
used
to ea ch
the
people,
we
cannot
agree
with him.
Let us examine
the comparison
Father
Daily
has
sketched
for
us:
let
us
see
|
whether
therc
can
be
any
anulogy
be-
tween
the case
before
.s, and
the cateh-
ir.g of fish by bait.
{Caiching fisa by bait
presupposes
certain fixed theories,
among
the principal
beine
tha:
the
fish
we
de-
sign
to catch,
like
the
bait
we
intend
to
use,
will readily
recogn:ze
it, and
there-
fore bite
at
it and
be caught.
We
can-
not leave out the speculation
»f securing
|
bait that
the fish will recognize
as
some-
thing they like.
Even artiiicial bait
made
up for convenience.
is
so
preparad
as
to
pass
for the real
bait it resembi»s.
That
some
fish wilt
not
bite,
even
when
the
hest
bait
is used,
is
not
due
to any fault
in the bait,
but
must be attributed
to
the
fact that
the
bait
contains
a hook which
is
to result
in
the
destruction
of the fish,
which fact
many
fish know.
Failure
to
make
a
baulis,
therefore,
shown
to
be
due,
not
necessarily
to
lack
of
poiency
in
the
bait,
but
(0 superior_intelligence
i, the fish.
And fishermen
with
any
ex-
porienep
wiil
subsiantiate
this
and
tell
you that
they do
not
waste
their
time in
experimenting
to
haui
these
wise
fish,
:
bui
<o
where
the
fish
do
not know of
the
hook
and
will
bite
at
the
bait and
be caught.
Now iet
us supyuso
the litiein quzstion
|
is
offered
as
a
bai:
whies
those
who
offer
it
believe
the
peopile
will like;
what harm
can
it
do
if
the
people
do
|
no: like it 7
Ana
if it
is quite sare
the
!
people
do
not like it there
is no necessity
to be anxious
for fear they
wvould cotos-e
it
For instance,
suppose
you
had
a peid
|
with some
fine fish
and
you
saw
an
an-
gier
throw
in
his line with
a stcne
or
a
piece
of wood
on
the
hook,
would
ycu
|
grow
very
nervous
tha:
that
man
was
|
going
to catch
your rave fish?
Certainy
|
yvou would tell
yourseif
that there
158
1o
|
iear,
because
the fisi. don’t like stone
and
|
wood
and
recognizing
them
as
such
|
wiil
not
bite
at
them.
Furthermore
|
how
can
we
consider
the
title
a
bait
|
any longer when
we
are old at ore
time
|
thet it carried
‘'a promise of something
|
emphatically salacious’’,
and
again
that
'
“‘birth’’is a sterotyped
word whica
when
linked
with
‘‘eontrol’”’ takes
on
a very
|
specific meaning
7
Surely
a
bail
1s
an
aillurement,
something
w 0 deceive;
well
it
the
title
disclosed
so
<mphaticaliy
what it really
carried
behindit,
and the
|
words
used
in the utle give such
a spec -
|
sic meaning,
then
the title ceases
to be
a
l
bait in
the
common
sense
of the word,
|
and
the
people
had
a
right
o
feel
‘
that
it
had
been
said
they
couid
be
indueedto
go
to
the
theatre
be-
cause
something
clearly
vulgar
was
advertised
there.
Tither the
insinuation
taken oftence
at is really expressed.
or it
is implied that the people
are very stupid.
it's
just
the
lopie
we
are
for,
we
all
feel
there
has
been
‘‘much
ado
about
nothing’’ when
the
whole thing is
boiled
down.
We
theretore
bow
off,
forgetting
that
this
incident
ever
oc-
curred.
SEVERAL SUBSCRIBERS
CELEGRAMS
ST. CROIX STATION.
London, Sept.
2nd.—The
Times
which
prints a vigorous plea by Lord Fisher
for
a
recuction
in
naval
expenditure,
does
not support
him
entirely in
its
editorial
comments,
thinking
that
his
inference
that
the
peace
cost
of the
navy
is too
enormous,
1s unjust
and
liable
to be
mis-
understood.
Recent
additions
to the
pay
of officers and
men,
says
the '‘Times’’,
were delayed
till
the
last
moment
and
even
now do
not err on the side
of liber-
ality.
Naval
supplies
bave
doubled.
Toe
British
Empire
after
all
proceeds
the
iimes,
is
ar
association
of states,
whose
highways
are
ocean
highways
Lord Fisher
of
course
knows
this
well
but the letter
which
his zeal for economy
has
dictated
may
tend
to
obscure
the
minds
of men less
wise.
The
peace
pro-
biems
of the Navy involve both
sea
pow-
er
in
the Pacific and
the development
of
the
Dominion
Naval
forces.
Both
are
*in suspense
until Lord
Jellicoe
makes
his
repori,
but they suggest
that
the disap-
pbearaace
of
the
German
Fleet
is not
an
enc
o. all things for the
British
Navy’’.
Paris.
Sept.
Ist.
Cardinal
Merecier
who lcaves
today tor the
U. ~ has
been
entrusted
wi'h
a delicate
Mission
in
that
country
by the
Hoily
See,
according
to
the Journal.
The
newspaper
says
that
the Cardinal
will
lay
before
President
Wilson
his views concerninz
the
League
of
Nations.
Coblenz,
Sept.
2nd.——Wrench
troops
are incomp:ete
in
the control
of the
situ-
ation
at
bLudwigshafen
where
an
at-
tempi
to csiablish
an independent
repub-
lic
in
the
FPai»‘)nate,
appears
to
have
come
tn a
head early Yeste~day
according
to {rerman
newspapers,
a number
of
ad-
herents
of Dr.
Haas
of Tandau
attacked
the
Post
Office at
Ladwigsnaten
and Bl-
ter
a four hours fight suceceeded
in
over-
powering the resistance
of ihe Post
Otiice
Officials.
Two
persens,
the
Postmaster
and another
official aoe
reported
to
have
been
kilied duriny
the fightirg.
Winnepeg,
Se¢pt.
3rd"
News
of
an-
other sensationa:
gold
strike,
this
time
In
the
contract
Bay
District
70
miles
fram Kenona
was bronght
to
Winnepeg
yesterdao
by Robert
Wazhma.
a Chicago
saleman
who
claims
(o
have
made
the
find.
The strike,
according
to Wachman,
isa
pay
streak
containing
$200.000
(o
$300,000 goid
to the ton,
surrounded
by
ore that will mill more
than
SIOO
to
the
tons.