for the 2nd Ordinary Meeting of the
Colonial Council for St.
GCroix, MO N-
DAY, AUGUST 29, 1921,
at
ONE
-
OCIOR PR
L.
xamination
of Patents
of Klection.
2.
Colonial
Counecil Bill No. 8.
Additional Money Bill to the
Bulget
for the*Municipality of
St. Croix foOr
the fiscal year ending
June
30,
1922,
to
the
Department
of
KEducatlon,
Maintenance,
is hereby granted
trom
funds
in
the
Municipal
Treasury,
not
otherwise
obligated
the sum
of
Frs.
15,000,
to
provide
means
for
huilding a
two
room
school
house
at
Estate
‘‘Annally’’
Introduced
by
4th Appointed Member
{Blackwood).
3.
Dissussion
hy
the
Colonial
Council
of
the fee bill
covering
court
costs
according
to
Title
1,
Chapter
1,
Section
27 of the Code.
4.
Election
of
a
member,
in
lieu
of
Lawyer
A.
E.
Stakemann,
on
the
Educational
Board
6f
Review,
ac-
cording
to Titl> 1, Chapter
2, Section
3a sub-item
4 of the Code.
Colonial
Council
Office,
St.
Croix,
August
22,
1921.
F. COULTER,
Vice-Chairmam.
What?
Red
Cross
Movie Benefit
When?
Wednesday
at 8.15
Where?
Christiansted
Theatre
Reserved
seats
Wednesday
at
ticket office.
THERE
will be
a regular
meeting
of
the
Home Service
Committee
of
the
American
Red
Cross Tuesday
afternoon
Aug.
23
promptly
at
3.30
in
the
Red
Cross
rooms.
All members
are urg2d
to be present.
LOCAL.
We
have been
asked
to
mention
that
the
concert
by
the
Native
Brass
Band
advertised
for
to-morrow
evening
has
been
postponed
on
accoumt
of
the
Red
Cross
entertainment.
[t is I\nderstood
that
laborers
on the
estates
would not
accept
the
terms
pro-
vidinga reduced
scale
of
wages
effec-
tive yesterday.
A
meeting of the dairy
hoard
is to be called
to
consider
the
re-
dqctinn
of
wages
for
pasturemen
and
milk, it is reported.
The
first
instalment
of
the
Secret
Kingdom last night
was
found
very pro-
g
L
B
X
5 VLB
mising
and
so
far
as
has
beeu
seen
this film
can
be recommended
as
one
Oi
special
class.
The
advertising
matter
for same
was received
too late
the mana-
ger
tells
us
so
permit
of pnblishinga
synopsis,
but this may
be
looked
for
in
next
advertisement.
The
S. S.
Parima
arrived
at Frederik:
sted early this morning, and will be there
some
days loading
sugar.
Correspondence
The Election
Mr, Editor & Voters:—
:
A
great
deal
of
consideration
18
made
as
to
“SOCIAL STANDING”,
in this unpietentious
community of ours,
and
yet after
all
(supposing
that
we
could
even lay
claim
to
be
necessarily
fustidious
or particular,
in
any
or
even
all matters,
business
or transactions)
it
should
be
distinctly
understood
shat,
where
the chief calculation
is the
ability
of
a
man
to
conduct
himself
orderly,
soberly
and
uprightly,
and
the
other
requisite,
namely,
his fitness
to
perform
according
to the necessities
of the
case
his
duties
in
the
office
or
position
to
which
an otherwise
diseriminating public
may
elect
bim,
then
‘‘social standing’’
is of hardly
any count,
If the majority of
a people—and
this
is
a
very
large
majority
too—be
com-
posed
of those
whose
‘‘social
status’’
is
least
to be considered,
what
matters
it
therefore,
if
in
the
T.egislative
Body,
their
representatives
be
also
of
little
weight in the same
scale?
Sufficient
be
it that, if their interest
demands
repre-
sentation,
then
the best
man
to so repre-
sent
them should be
one
of
themseives.
Their constitutional rights
and privileges
call not, for the
‘‘social qualiiy’’ of their
representative;
but for @ man, and
so long
as his standing otherwise,
and his
quali-
fications,
are satisfactory
to his
constitu-
ents,
then,
the letter
and
spirit
of
the
law is complied
with.
In the large
masses
of tke
half-illiter-
ate
people in the
foremost
Countries
of
Europe,
and even
in the
United
States
of
America,
their
representatives
are
often
from the best
of their own ranks.
Why should
there
be
such discrimination
in this small
dot of tke map?
Times
are
now changed,
and
che
things
that
would
have greatly
astonished
before,
are
and
must
be today,
and
sure.
The
Boss
that
makes
his obsequeous
bow,
and
courte-
ously extends
the hand
to a voter simgly
because
he wants
your
vote today,
that
he
may be
elected
to the
Council,
and
tomorrow
will ‘‘like the
Priest
ia
the
Parable
of the
Good Samaritan,
pass
by
on the other
side’’—will not suit
longer.
Voters
must
be awake,
and with
wide-
open
eyes
look
out
for their
own
man
a
man of their ‘‘own standing’
and
get
him
im
the
Council,
to stand
for
them
in
need
the poor despised
man,
and
to
heip to guard their interests
aiways
Mr. JAMESROBERTS,
may or may not
hold
a
‘‘Social
Standing
Diploma”’,
we
care - .pot.
He
18
ope
of
svou
and
remember
he
got
18
vctes
at
last
election,
to a so-called
Big
Boss
21,
look
on
this
as
a Moral Victory for ROBERTS,
and
help him
up
with
a
few
adore
this
time, and yol will get him in.
Do not
be
misled
by
any
of
the
Agents
who
are
against
him, and
who will perhaps
try to
show
vou,
how you
should fill up the
vot-
ing ticket in crder
that
you
will mak:?
an
error,
and disqualify the
Ticket, and
so
be
lost
to Roberts.
You
have
only
one
single mark
to write
on the Tiekai;
thus
X and
take
cave
and
make
that
X
oppo-
site
Mr. JAMES ROBERTS
name and
no
other; otherwise
you Bob,
Tom and
Jim
all three
of you,
who can give him
a vote,
and
fail
to
do
so,
will
rue
it for
your
life time,
and
your descendant
after vou.
A WARNING FRIEN[‘,«,
A
C’sted 22-8-21.
ol
St. Thomas News.
This morning
at about
9 o’clock.
while
the sloop
‘‘Alliance’ of
St.
Jan
was
on
her
way
to
the
Careenage,
she
unfor-
tunately
ran
into
a
bumboat,
belong ag
to Benjamin
Smith
filled
with
laborers,
belonging
to
the St. Thomas
Labor
Union
on
their way
to t
ie coal-harge
‘Benmore’
owned by the
Pendleton
Bros,
with
the
result
that
two
women
Rosita
Richard-
son
and
Albertina
Vanterpool
were
drowned,
while
three
others,
were
res-
cued jand
taken
to
the
Municipal
Hos-
pital for treatment.
Efforts
were
immediately
made
for
the
recovery
of
the
drowned
bodies,
but
up
to
midday
all
attempts
had
proven
futile.
Pending
a
fuller
inves-
~
tigation
we
understand
that
the
crew
-
of the
vessel
responsible
for the accident
has
been
placed under
arrest.
We are iglad to report
that
those
taken
to
the
Hospital
are
progressing
favor-
ably and
may
be
out
this
afternoon.—
St.
Thomas
Mail Notes,
August
16th.
OPENING
OF
LAW
OFFICE.
A large
number
jof persons
responded
to the
following invitation:
Judge
McCants
Stewart
presents
his
compliments,
and,
he
has just completed
arranging
his
Law Offices for business,
and
as
you have
touched
his professional
life, he cordially invites you
to call social-
ly at
any
moment
convenient
to
your
good self
on to-morrow
Wednesday
after
noon,
August 17th
instant
between
4 and
5 o’clock.
Mrs. McCants Stewart,
Mme.
Manecke
and
Miss
Gladys McCants Stewart,
who
is
her
father’s managing clerk, received
the
callers,
and
after
partaking
of
re-
freshments
they
passed
through
the