AUCTION.
the 2nd of August a. c.
Al 20CIOUK P
M.
Will be offeied for sale
at public auction,
to
be
held
in
the
Police-Stable-Yard
Christiansted
:
taken
up (empounded)
on Estate
Orange
Grove
land,
Christiansted
Police
Office,
July
the
28th
1920.
-
WILH. JENSEN.
THE Cooperative
Dairy willopen
its
Milk-sale on the Ist of
Au-
gust,
ALL Customers
who
so kindly patroniz-
ed
the
Branch
Store
of
HENRY
CREQUE
are
thus
informed that
after
July
31st
this
Branch
Store
closes
its
Business
in St. Croix.
The
‘‘Manager’’
thanks
all customers
for their
kind
pa-
tronage of the past
20 years
and
make
it
known
that
at
Crequ2s
Department
Store
in St. Thomas,
she will be there
to
serve
the every day Customers
and
with
a thcught
for Si. Croix.
Drop
a
card
and
have
your
require-
ments
filled.
'
SARAH E. PER"Y,
o
Creque’s
Store.
Christiansted
St. Croix, July 29th
1920.
LOCAL.
The S.
S.
Saranac,
Capt.
Mgller,
sail-
ed fror here
for St.
Thomas
at
5 o’clock
yesterday
afternoon,
taking passengers,
and all mail posted
up
to 4 p.
m.
The
schooner
Creole
leaves
for
St.
Thomas
at the usual
hour
today
on
the
return
mail-trip.
The
second
day
of
the
St:
John’s
Chureh
soiree
was as
successful
in point
nos
patronage
and
entertainmeant
as
the
first,
and
everybody
appeared
to
spend
an
enjoyable
evening.
The
re-
ceipts
of
this
enterprise
must
be
con-
siderable;
the
figures
have not been
as-
certained.
We congratuiate
the
rector
and aii his
willing workers
gnd
hepejthat
another
like
effort
on
their
part
will
soon
be
forthcoming.
,\‘
The
agents
say
the
Raporel
steamer
is looked for
this week from
New York,
5
1.
UEulx
& Vs
calling at Christiansted,
thenee
tc
Guade-
-
loupe,
Barbados,
and
possibly
-St.
Kitts
for
-which® pl ces
' mail.willbe
closed
upon due
natice
from thepost
‘office.
We congratulate Mr. R.7 H.
Amphlett
Leader
o
his appointment
as postmaster
at
Frederiksted
which
position he
had
“been fhling
temiporarily.
Mr. Leaaer
has
.
proved
a very satisfactory
postmaster
and
from
our knowledge of him,
we are
not
surprised
at this.
We
wish
him
many
useful
years
in public service.
Correspondence.
Dear
Mr. Editor
:
gz
5
~
The
lLord
made
water
into
wine
and
he
did
so for man
to
use
it, at
the
same
time
he
put
in
the Drink itself
punishment
for those
who abuse
it. —Why
should
we attempt
to impreve
upon
the
methods
of the Savior?
. .
:
JOHNNY.
Mr. Editor!
'
Is
it
correect
that
only two
mem-
bers
of St.
Thomas
ColonialF Council
vo-
ted
for
prohibition
and
that
one of
the
two is
a Bayrum Manufacturer?
:®g
]
X
The Editor **St. Crowx Avis.”’
:
Dear
Sir:—
.
It
is
being
circulated
that
the
views
expressed
in the Editorisls of
The
Herald are the expressions
of foreigners.
An this connection I beg
to state
that this
IS an
erroneous
conception,
asI am stiil
in charge
of the Editorial
Départment
of
that
paper
and
-am
still
directing
its
policy.
No article can therefore
be pub-
-
lished
without
my
sanction;
and all the
views expressed
therein
are those gained
from close
contact -with a majority of the
population.
Yours very truly
:
D. HAMILTON JACKSON.
July 28th 1920.
:
,
Christiansted,
July 28,
1920.
Editor
St.
Crowx. Avis
:
Since
my
letter of
the 24th.,
you.
have
been fairly: overwhelmed
with cor-
respondence
favoring freedom
as against
prohibition,
and I am.
very rleased
to be
able to
conclude
thereby,
that
there
are
still some level headed
people in the
com-
munity.
[ learn withsome
astonishment
-
that you favor prohibiltion yourself,
and
for that reason
this is my
last contribu--
tion on a
platform which, under
he cir
cumstances,
must ineeds
be distasteful
to
|
you.
There
18 iittie
oceasion
{or repiy to
|
the effusions
which have
appeared
in the
Herald
as
result
of my letter; those
pro-
ductions
are of the
sort which
originate
from
those
who
support
self-sufficiency
|
intolerance
and
who
in
spite
of
them-
‘
sélves
have
-betrayed
the truth of
my
contentinrns
here
reteiraed
and
sealed
with
the
advice
that
they
ermit
the
natives
to
do
their
own
legis-
lating,
while they,
not
even having po
litical rights
in the
place
to
which
they
have but just
arrived
and which they. do
not
seem
to appreciate
as
the refuge
it
really is to them,
might look up the
needs
of the places they come from, but
where
probably they are
not
wanted.
llf they
are
in
need
of
political
activity
their
“pative’’ backer
from
Wilhelmsstrasse
may
be: able to find them occupation
to
help straighten
out that
mass
of tangle
in
the
‘‘Vaterland”’.
There
ought
to
be
plenty of' opportunity
for
them
there.
Please
insert the following clippirgs from
St. Croix Avis byway
of showing
those
‘who do not
know, that
while the
contri
‘bution fren, St.
Croix
Avis
reprinted
in
‘today’s Herald
may
seem
well,
these
are
without
doubt
better,
being
of
later
date and attested with the authors’ names:
No.
58 of
July 28.
1915:
“‘The
whole
cry
about
rum drinking
originates
from
personal
‘spite and
is
now
carried
nn
by
fanatics
without
foundation
for
their
statement.””
M A. Pretto.
No. 60 July 28,
1915:
Statistical
proof
from Lawyer
A.
E.
Stakemann
that
by
relative
comparison
this island
consumed
less;
alcohol than
Denmark
(a sober
coun-
try
No. 60 July 31,
1915:
‘'We emphatical-
ly deny there being
many
cases
of drunk-
enness
in the
island
nowadays.
Statis-
tics
and facts
san
be
cited
to prove
that
drunkenness
among
the
laboring popula
tion has
become almost extinet
since
the
great
temperance
movement
in
1900.
Total
. prohibition
with
all its
attendant
objections.and
disadvantages,
we submit,
is highly impracticable,
and would
meet
with
strong
resistance
from all
classes
of the inhabitants
of the island’’.
Mem-
orial
signed
by
planters,
merchants,
tradesmen,
and others and forwarded
to
the Minaster ofFinance,
Denmark.
No. 61 July 31, 1915:
' I would remark,
and I have
very frzquent opportunity
of
coming into contact
with the people,
that
the present
condition of the island,
with
regards
to
the
consumption
of
intoxi-
cants,
bears
favorably
witb
any
other
community
of like
size
and
conditions,
and
it is absolutely
untrue
tc
say that
it
18
addicted
to
drunkemness.”
W.
€.
Watson.
:
.
No, 61 July 31,
1915:
‘‘lam neither
in-
terested
in rum
as
a seller nor as a
con-
sumer,
80 it is
a matter
of no import: nee
‘to me
whether
it finally be
deecided
to
limit or
abolish
the
sale
of alcoholic
li-
quors.
The question, however,
is main-
ly one of cheap
rum and excessive
drunk-
enness
among
the consumers
of this cheap
rum—a wiifui faisehood.
The temperance
cause
is
undoubtedly
a good one,
but
in
this
case it seems
to
be prompted by evil
design.
Like every other community
we
have
the drunkard,
those
who drink with
moderation,
and
those
who do
not drink
at all; but these a:;:‘
I think, proportionate