down
in
submission
to
the
will
of Al-
michty
God and
to pay
out of
tull hearts
the ho naze of love and
reverence
to the
m
mory of the great and
good
President
whose
death
has
so
screly
smitten
the
N:tion.
In
witness
whereof
1
have
hereunto
s-t
my
hand
and caused
the
seal
of the
U ited Siates
to be atlixed,
irone
at
the
City of Washington
the
£ urth dav of August,
in
thg
vear
of our
L rd
one
thousand
mnwe
hunived
and
t veeniy-three,
and of
the
independenee
of
the
United
States
the
one
hundred
a
d forty eighth.
CALVIN CCOLIDGE:
|
By
thie President:
CHARLES E. HUGHES,
Secret ry of Stat>.
The Po:'al Bullet
n, Aug 7th,
1923.
NEGLECTED ISLAND WARDS.
We bouzht
the Virgin
Islands
of Den-
mark
to prevent
their
falling
into
Ger-
many’s
bands
during
the
war.
When
the
war
was
ended
nur
interest
in them
appears
to have lapsed.
The
Danes governed
the islands
softly.
If ot prosperous,tie
natives
at least
had
sow seriots complaints und
r Daii.bh rul-,
This is vot true now.
From
St.
Thou
=
as the
natives
are emigrating
at the rate
of 500 a vear.
In twenty
years
this rate
would depopulate
it.
Unskilled laber,
which can here
get $6
a
day,
receives
but
forty
cents
in
St.
Croix.
Masons,
who
here
receive
§l2,
Lhere
get from eighty cents
to $1.25.
Drought,
dechine in
the
sugar
market
and the diversion
of shipping
bhave
pro-
cuced
economic paralysis,
Arnd rothing
51
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3 Ve
4
CHRISTIANSTED
THEATRE
Bethleiiem
Tteatre
Sunday
7.30
p.m.
THIRD INSTALMENT OF¥
7 REELS
OF
“THE HOLY BiBLLE”
28 REEIL.S
PRODUCED
BY
THE SACRED FILMS CORPORATION
“FIRST JOURNEY
OF JOSEPH’S
BROT{ERS”.
“SECOND JOURNEY
OF JOSEPH’S
BROTHERS’’,
*THE
EXODUS".
-
THURSDAY (August
23rd)
7 REELS.
«CONT!NUATION OF THE EXODUS”, “RU TIPS BOOK”
“THE PROPHECY OF SOLOMON”
Securc
your tickets
in time
for
these
exhibitions
and
avoid
the
rush
iy the
vening
AUMISSION
Reserved
Seats..
.
... 250
General
Entrance
...
.., sil
ISilaiean
...
.00
00
.
, ‘IHU:
ix done
to help.
Even
the
government
of
the
islands
i:
aromalous.
Congress
has
neglected
to devise
a plan
of
permanent
adming
-
tration.
Meanwhile
the
navy
doces
the
b-st it ean,
:
Its best
is
not
sufficien
to
cope
with
utter
prostration
of
insular
industry.
Correetive legislation
will
be requir
soon
if acu'e
misery
is not
to b 2 the
per-
manent
fate of men and
women
to whom
we
ow
2 fair play.— New York Americ i,
Aug
7th.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
Berlin,
Aug.
14th.—The
new
cabinet,
by
Chancclior
Stressemann,
was
give
a
vote of confidence
today
by the
Reici
-
stage,
240 Deputies
out of a
total of
2
1
balloting
in favour of
the
Governmen
,
Seventysix
10
es
were cast
in oppositio
25 D 'puties,
rupposed
to
be of
the Bave
r an People’s Party,
abstzined
from
VOt
ing
The other opposition
came
from
th»
Na‘ionalists and Chmmunis
s.
The
v.
e
came
atter
Dr.
Stressemanp
had
aa-
dressed
the
Reichstagz
and
given
that
body
the
new
Government’s
view-
point
on
the
general
situation
and
particularly
with
reference
to
the
eris
s
brought
about
by
the
occupation
ol
tte
Rubr
and
the
Rhineland.
He
in-
formed
the
members
of
the
Chamber
that Germany
required
complete
restora-
tion of her rights
in
the
oceupied
terri-
tory as
essential
to
the
abandonment
of
passive
resistance.
The setting
free
of
all
Germans
impriso ed
in
th~ distric:s
occupied
by the French
and
Belgians
ard
permission
for the
return
of
those
who
have
been
sent
out
of the oceupied
area,
also
were
made
conditions
for 'a cessatin
cf
passive
resistance.
Dr.
Stressenan
declared
the
change
in
the
Goverrm
nt
was
not
a sign of weakness
on
the
part
of
Germany.
On
the
contrary,
the
change
hrd
brought
into
being
the
strongest
eabinet,
as
regards
eppositien
to any
idea of permitting
the vidla ion
o f
Germeonvy,
that
the
country
had
had sirce
the
Republir
was
formed.
Pussing
al-
mest immediately
to
the
gues
ionoftle
orcupa
jon es
the
Bubr,
'n
his
address,
the
Chancellor
said
passive
resistanc
was deeply rooted
in the
firm
ecnvicticn
of its justice.
This
he declared
has
been
un¢quivocally leccgnized
by
the
B itish
Government
ard
we
may
gssune
that
this statement
of the
British
comception
will find
echo
in
France
and
Belgiun
Asserting
that
Germary
will
we'co
e
arbitration
of
the
Ruhr
question,
!
Stressemran
added.
"'We
have
po doul
that ary impartial decisicn
would restore
to
us
our Ruhr territery ard
on
the
oy
this happens
all
foiees
wi'l
wark
to e: d
the
intolerable
paralvsis
«f
the
main
o
tery
of
Ge'man
econonic
life,
If the
free
unrestricted
adminiztration
of
the
Rubr
is assured
us,
if the
situstion
n the
Rhineland
is
such
as
is
pusranteed
by
interrationa!
treaties,
if every
imirison-
ed
German
in
the
Rubr
and
the Rhine-
land
is restored
to
hiberty,
then,
after
a
breathing
<pell
has
been
gianted,
we
shall
-be
able,
Iy
«(xerting
tle
whole
economic
force
es
the ccuntry,
to furnish
means
for scttl
ment
of
the
reparations
question,
provided
the
buitdens
imposed
upon
us
permit
of
the
existence
of our
economic
life
and
®he
fuither develop-
ment of our nation.
Berlin,
Auz.
14th.—All the
vietims
in
the
Aix La Chapelle
riots
were
ZSerman
civilians.
The
crowd
was composed
for
the
most
part of idle
workmen.
It
laid
regular
siege
1o
the
headquarters
and
refused
to
heed
the police
warnings
to
disperse.
After throwing hand grenades
into the crowd
and firing several
volleys,
the security
police
emerged
and charged
the
mob
with
sabris
and
rovolvers.
Mounted
pilice
now
are
patroling
the
city.
The
Belgian
troops
did not
inter-
fere
in
'he
affair.
The
strike
of
the
Hamlbuo
and
Bremen
pilots, which
has
been
t
i
¢ up North
Sea
t aflie at
these
ports,
ended
today.
The
general
strike
in Berlin
was
called
off by the
Commun-
ists
this
mor. ing,
all
the
(ransportation
l.nes reopening.
Ordor has
been
restored
at
1 uebeck,
where
there
was
a Comn
un-
ist eruptiom yvesterday
and
work has
been
resumed
in all establishments
there.
New
York,
Aug.
14th.
All
Italian
exchanges
have
been
closed
until August
20th,
because
of
the extreme
heat,
the
financial distriet
learned
today.
Londor, Aug.
14th.—A Central
News
despatch
from
Berlin
sayvs
Commiunists
stermed
the Town Hall at Alsdorf,
eight
miles
lor.h
of
Aix La
Chapelle,
with
I nl
¢r nades
and
that
one
hundred
persons
were killed or wounded.