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Post
Office,
Christiansted,
St.
Croix,
V. I. Nov. 22,
1920.
i
B. R. LARSEN,
Postmaster.
EDITORIAL.
:
Says
the
Pathfinder
for
November
18th.
““Ifa man wishes
to take
a drink over
the bar at a place
under
the
jurisdiction
of the United
States
he can do so
by go-
ing to the Virgin Islands,
the one legally
wet spot
The treaty of sale made with
Denmark for these
islands specified
that
the laws they had should remain
in effect
until congress
enaciedggpeciai
iegisiation
for them.”’
What
degree
of accuracy
is
contained
in the above is difficult to determine,
the
importation
of certain
spirituous
liquors
being sanctioned
at one moment
and
pro-
hibited the
next.
'The
Colorial
Council
passes
a
prohibition
bill at one
sitting
and
repeals
it the next,
so
that under
these
circumstances
mere human
judg-
ment
is evidently too feeble
to confirm or
refute
the Pathfinder
view of the
mat-
ter.
Wet
enough
we
are;
there’s
lit-
little
doubt about
that; but
as
to
being
legally
wet
we don’t know, except
that
means
the right
to manufacture
rum,
which
is
understood
to
survive.
Yet
authorities
apply
the
18th
Amendment
a~d the Volstead Act to these islands.
LOCAL.
The schnr.
Creole sailed fro
: this port
for St. Thomas
at 8 a.
m. yesterday
with
mails and
passengers.
y
:
The schnr.
Vigilant loaded
a
cargo
of
live cattle yesterday
and sailed for Fajar-
do, P. R. last night.
S RO
A NVTES
The
Vixen is understood
to ;be
expect-
ed here tomorrow for ¢-party which; will
spend
- Thanksgiving
Day ‘in St. Thomas
returning
on Friday by same
boat.
---
The firstinstalment
of the new:--gerial
film
‘“The Great
Radium
Mystery’ at
the Christiansted
Theatre
last
night was
well
patronised
and
favorabiy received
by
the
audience.
lhis
serial
will
be.
shown
twice
a week wntil coneluded.
.
CORRECTION
;
In yesterday’s
issue,
second
page,
first
column,
fourth
line. from
the
'
bottom,
the word secure
should read andis
here-
by
corrected
gsecures;
second
column,
second
line from the bottom,
the
word
decreased
should
be
deleted and deceased
inserted
before
Food
Commission;
the
correcte
i line
to read:
the deceased
Food
Commassion.
;
~
TELEGRAM-.
ST. CROIX STATION.
Geneva,
Nov.
17th.—Speaking
on
the
report
made
to the Assembly,
Lord Rob-
ert Cecil,
delegate
for South Africa,
re-
marked:
‘‘While it has teen
sai.l in some
countries
that
the
League
of
Nations
is
dead,
the
Council’s
results
show
it
to be very
much
alive.”’
Referring
to
criticisms
of
the
League
that
it
was
‘spending all its time getting
ready
to do
i something,
Lord Robert said that
a
ma-
chine
to work well
‘must
be
set
up
well.
Considered
the reports,
they
showed
great progress
had been
made.
* The cost
of the
League
to
date
had
been
£SOO,
000, the delegate
said:
‘‘Thissounds
like
a large
sum
to
some
minds,- hi€
con-
tinued,
‘'but compare
the
a.nount
with
a- single
day of the
cost of the war and
you have
a iidiculously cheap
insurance
rate.
Lord
Robert
made
a
fervent
ap-
peal
to the Assembly
for
some
sort
of
action
to
save
the
Armenians.
Do
not
let us separate
after
this-
first
assembly
of
the
league,
he
urged,
without
hav-
ing taken
some practical
step
to
secure
some
kind
of
aection.
He
found
dis-
quieting
situations
in
the
conditions
between
Poland
and
Lithuania
as
re-
ported
by
the
League
Council,
and
strongly
regretted
that one
of
the
par-
ties
submitting
the
case
to
the
coun-
cil
had
proceeded
to
a
hostile
act.
If such things.are
tolerated,
he declared,
article
15
of the covenant
is a dead let-
ter.
He asked that the
Council
publish
all reports
and faets
bearing on
the si.
uation,
in order
to arouse
public
opinion
throughout
the
world against
such
ac-
tion.
‘‘Public opiniun ‘well informed
is
the best
we have
in such cases’’.
‘
. Washington, Nov.
18th.—Price
stud-
ies
given out by the United States
Dept.
of Labour show
marked
declines
in-
Uc-
tober
in
practically
all
items
entering
into the cost
of living
in
the
United
States,
except
house
furnishing.
Cloth-
ing, it is said,
dropped
18X below
1919
costs,
and farm products
21%:
,
Copenhagen,
Nov.
18th.—M.
Tchite-
herin,
the
Russian
Soviet
Fereign
Minister,
has
sent
to
Earl
Curzon
a
wireless
message
in
which he
says
that
participat:on
of
the
British
Fleet
in
the evacuation
of General. Nrangel
in the Crimea wnuld constitute
a
hostile
act
towards the
Soviet.
and a
violation
of the
assurances
Great
RBritain gave
to
the
Moscow Govt.
The
message
added
that,:‘‘the
Russian
Government
expects
that
the British Govt.
will abstain
from
all acts of this kind from
whieh the
Rus-
sian
Govt. would draw
inewitabie
conelu-
sions’’.
A
Washington,
Nov.
18th. —Counsel
for
some
250
wholesale
grocery
companies
in New
England,
New
York, Pennsyi-
vania,
Delaware
and
Maryland
yester-'
day
presented
arguments
to Attorney
General
ralmer
in
support
of their pe-
tition
asking
that
the
American
and
Franklin-
Sugar~ Refining
~Companies
be
prosecuted
for violations of war time
food
control
legislation.
The
groecers
asserted
that
the
refiners forced them
to
sign contracts
to
buy sugar
@
224e.
a pound for fall delivery, and
compelled
the econsuming
public
10 pay
an excessive
price
which
involved
many
millions of
dollars
for sugar
during
the
past
six
months.
Grocers
representatives
agreed
to furnish the Dept.
of Justice
with
fur-
ther evidenceto substantiate
their claims.
Lucerne,
Nov.
18th.—Ex-King
Con-
stantine
has
received
a
despateh
from
Athens
that
the Queen
Mother Olga has
been
appointed
Regent
of Greece,
and
would
take
the
oath
today,
it
was
an-
nounced
this
morning
by
M.
Georgios
Streit,
former Foreign
Minister,
who is
with the
ex-King
here..
King Constan-
tine expressed
himself as greatly pleased
at the
news,
considering
that the
action
of the
government
in this respect
consti-
tuted another triumph
for dynasty.
London,
Nov.
18th —Latest
returns
from the Scottish
prohibition poll
show
that in Clyde Bank,
a leading ship-build-.
ing centre,
three
out of five wards
voted
wet,
but Radnor,
a residemtial ward,
vo-
ted for a complete dry regime. In Alyth'
Dalbeattie,
Dysart,
Haddington,
Rothe-
say,
North
Bute
and Selkirk, the
voters
_decided
that they
did not want
a change.
A number of districts
will
vote
early in
December.
London,
Nov. 18th. —Sir Hamar Green-
wood
stated
in the
House
of Commons
today that during arecent
raid in Ireland
the troops
eaptured
a
doeument
sent
by
the
Commander-in-Chief
of the
Irish
Republican
Army
to his Chief
of Staff,
containing
a series of remarkable and
hor-
rifying statements
regarding
the spread-
ing of typhoid among
the troops and glan-
ders among
the eavalry
horses
Sir Ha-
mar read the document dealing
with
the
possibility of spreading
typhoid
among,
the
troops
by
infected
milk,
the
document
deseribed
the
difficulties