LIST OF UNCLAIMED MAILFOR THE
WEEK ENIED JULY 21, 1923.
Miss Inger Bangamin,
Mrs. Angelina Benners,
Mrs. Mary Braffet,
Mr. Emile Broster,
Reagina
Brown,
Miss Maria Chewitt:
30 King St.,
Mrs. Josephine
Daniel,
Miss Sylvia Jackson,
Miss Agatha Manuel,
Mrs. Rysan
Marcus;
efo Calvia Perkins,
Mrs.
Esther
Oxstead,
Miss ilba S.
Petersen,
Mr. Franklin Rasidue;3 Market St.,
Alvara Stridiron,
Mr. Rezinald
Williams.
Post
O
JYiza,
Christiansted,
Virgin
Is-
lands,
July 23,
1923.
B.
R.
LAR3IEN,
Pustmaster
EDIiD232NAL.
Under
eorres,
:al:n22
in
this
issue
space
is given
t»
Moo A:hley L. Totten’s
views
on how be
thiuks the islands
would
gain
a productivo hoaring
for their
cause
on
the mainlau
.
1t is
a
fact
that
up
to
the present
little or
no advance
has
been
made
in this direciion,
and
as
tiine goes
on the necessity
for action
becomes
more
and
more pressing.
The exodus from St.
Croix alone,
the best of the island
group,
is in itself an indication
ofy the fact that
either notking is expected
in the
way of
amelioration
of the depressed
conditions,
or
that
it
is impossiole
to
await
such
changes
as
may
b 2 coming.
Now is not
the
time
to seruple
about
differences
of
parsonal opinion nor of party
prejudices;
such
tactics
wi'l
gei
us
nowhere
in our
judgement,?
and
it
appears
that
unless
something
wonderful
happens
within a
<hort while ours
will cease
to
be
a ques-
tion at all for there
wiil
be
nobody
left
on whose
behalf
to wage
.it,
or
who will
be able
to wage
it for
bimself.
Mr. Tot-
ten’s article
is well writter,,
and
it must
be conceded
that
he
is
or ought
to
be
fairly well acquainted
with what
he
pur-
pogts
to deal.
LOCA.L
The sloop Mizpah sailed
for
St.
Thom-
as with mails yesterday
afternoon.
Today Mr. and
Mrs. J.
H. Twiford bid
adieu
to these
sheres
aftera
residence
of
29
months
in
St.
Croix
where
Mr.
Twiford
has
been
attached
to
the
Navy
Post Dispensary
as
Pharmacist.
We are
gorry
to see
them
go;
in his
duties
Mr.
Twiford
is
a
capable
man
and he
and
Mrs.
Twiferd have
made
mary
friends
here through
their
urbanity and genuine
kindliness
representing
a
high
type
of
Ameriean
citizen,
We wish them
“‘God
Speed’’.
Y 01X
2V
%
A short
but fairly soaking
shower
fell
here
at 3.30 this morning,
which
meas-
ur=d
at the Fort 23 lines.
Congratulations
ta.
Mr.
and Mrs. Chr.
Frgrup
on the
addition to their family of
a baby girl born yesterday.
v
Correspondence
7-25-23.
We pray
the Police and fdog owners
to
keep
them
off
the
strects
during
the
midnight
hours
thereby
showing
com-
passion
on
:
POOR LIGIIT*SLLCEPERS.
WANTED TO KNOW
~
Has
any
Juvenile
Footba!l
Team
in this island
refused
to accept
a written
challenge
from
tne Alert Football
Club,
that
they
should
resort
to
challenge
through
the
newspapers
?
AN INQUIREZR.
New York
7-6-23.
Elitor of th2 Avis.
Dear Sir:—
As a native
of the Virgin Islands,
a¥d
one
who is deeply
interested
in the
future
weltare of the
people of the three
islands,
{ beg leave
to
submit for
publi-
cation
a positive
solution
for the
econo-
mic depression
in
the
islanuds
at the pres-
ent
time.
I
am
advancing
this
with
absolutely
no
desire
for
controversy,
and
crave
CONSTRUCTIVE
(not DESTRUCTIVE)
criticisms
only.
I
find that after listening
to the
vari-
ous arguments
advanced
from all source
that
the thing most
necded
at the
pres
ent
time is MONEY.
It is also admitted
by all
local
rewspa-
pers
that unless
MONEY iz in circulation
within
the very
near
fwsture,
SIARVA-
TION it will be,
I am writing to advise
that
it is indeed
a
waste of
time
to sit
around
idlv and
await
results
from
any
of
the
recen:
visits
of commissioners,
or
any
of
the
powers
that
be at Washington,
There
is but
ore
thing thzt
they
are
interested
in, and
that
is their
political
future.
I plead with
you to remove
from
your
minds
the sad
impression
that
anything
will ever
come
out these
fal promises,
The
representatives
of
the
IFederal
zovernment,
are
dependent
upon
the
people of the Urited
S:ates
(o k-ep them
in office, arnd the only way
to secure
posi-
tive
results
in anything
relative
to
the
Vi-gin
Islands,
wiit be for you
to
throw
yourselves
in a
gigantic zppeal
upon
the
American
nation,
You
have
got to
get
together
in
the
n ost serious
manner,
ckcese
frem
among
you
leaders
who are not
SELFI.
them
to
this
country,
and
empioy
vuuc
services
of
your
kindred,
te
bring
the
_
knowledge
of these
conditions
to the
peo-
ple throughont
the
United S*ates.
The time
has
reached
when everybody
must estep
down
and stcop
in order
to
conguer.
I
saw the
‘‘Russian Relief’”’ and
saw
millions of dollars
collected in one
single
day.
I
saw American
expatriates
here
col-
lecting pennies
about
the
streats
in littie
box~s,
and millions
were
ecoutributed
to
their
enuse,
I want
to assire
you that the American
reopie
do
uot kuow
anything
about
the
Virgin
Isiands.
‘i'hey 4o inot know
that
the Star Spangled
Banrer
waves
a signul
of distress
there.
Go
to the
American
people.
they
will
never
let iheir flag trai
in the dust.
Start
PUBLICITY
ussa
means
to
an
end,
and
when
you have
done
this,
you
will find an awakening
in
‘ongress.
You
will find
great
statesmen
there
ta'king
about
your conditirn
every
day,
and
do you know
the
reason
why ?
Because
the Amevican
nation
will
an-
swer
your
grievances
t(hrough
their
ballots.
America
is
ruled
and
run by
pelities,
and
American
politics
is
cperated
by
trickery ard schemes.
-
If you
want
beiter
condi‘tons
in
the
Virgin Islands,
wou
must
immediatels
group
wyourselves,
vbecome
clannish,
be
all
for
one and
one for all in this Great
Big
Movement
to throw
wyourselves
upon
tne
American
nation,
and
make
the Virgin
Islands
a big political issue,
In order
§o
make
a successof
ihisitis
Ilso
imperative
that
these
representa-
tives
chosen
by
vou
eome
prepared
to
meet
all the big poiitieal pariies and
their
leaders,
and
to go fearlessly
before
these
large
bodies
and
be
as
impressive
as
possible,
I solemrly
advise
against
going
to
Washington
unti! you have
tirst succeed-
ed in getiing the Americar.
people behind
you,
and
that
task
can
be
so
easily
ac-
complished,
if
those
sept
to represent
would come free {rom selfiza
views, and be
prepared
to
g 0 to the
Arierican
[Negro
whose
aid
is of greater
worth than
211 the
Virgin I.i2ods Socioties
put together.
= Now
as
i have
oft times
been
guoted
ignorant,
and
incapable
of
introcucing
any
constructive
ideas,
[ suggest
that
a
feeler
be
sent
o
som2
¢f
the
leading
colored
and
white edior,
writers
and
other
leauing
men of the. United
States
as
to
whether
such
a pian
is likely
to
bear
good {ruit, and if yoir
readers
will
give
some
attention
tc
tiis plan,
i
am
prepared
o furnish
th»
pames
and
ad-
dresses
of those1 bave
in wind, and
to
render
any other
serviec
that i can.
I advance
this
suggestion
Mr.
Editor
with
no
po.itical aspirations,
but nemely
for lave us
eountry.
-
ASHLEY 1. TOTTEN.