climb aboard the
band
wagon
and
say:
1 told you so.”
It makes
no difference,
in so far
as
re-
sults
are concerned,
what
name
is
given
this
reservoir.
Call
it
what
you
may,
after any
person
you wish,
Smith’s
dam
cr Brown’s dam.
[The chances
are
thar
some
pcrson
will
transpose
the
words
from
Smi:h’s
or
Brown's
dam
to
that
dam
Smith
or
that
dam
Browr.
What
iz needed
here
at the present
time
more
than anvthing
"else,
is
hearly
co opera-
tion:
a community
with
cene
purpose
in
view: the
desire
to
upbuild
and
create
in
order
that
the
community
at
large
may b besefltted,
not
the indivi lual, and
that
can ouly be asccomplished
by
every-
cne
puiliny
togeiher
and
warking
to-
gether.,
Why
not
adopt
the
slogan
of
the Three
Musketeers;
"‘One for all and
all for one.””
?
There
are
few
cilties
or
ecommunities
elsewhere
rut
which
have
some
sert
of
an organization containing the
represen-
tatives of every
industiy
and
walk
of
life in
its
membership.
Anything,
or
any
organization
which
will bring
thre
people of tLis island
together
to
work
for the ccmmon
goad,
for
ore
cemmon
cause
and for the beuefit of this
ecommu-
nity, will be
a Godsend.
Keen
and
hon-
est
competition i
ths
best
incentive
to
good
business.
Why
can
that
not
ne
obtained
1 this island ?
In
beginning
this
work
of improve-
ment,
let
us build this
reservoir,
forget-
ting personality,
forgetting individuality,
and when it is
completed,
regardless
of
its name,
let
us think
only
of
the
good
it will do for all.
In
behalf
of His Excellency
the
Gov
ernor of the Virgin Islands,
I wish
to say
that
a large share
of the
credit for
this
work belongs
te the Honorable
Members
of the Cclonial
( cureil
who were
guided
by the counsel,
advice
and
experience
of
that
houorable
and
far-seeing
boay
of
men—the
Municipal
Committee.
Gov-
ernment,
through
its
representatives,
has
tried
to work in
co-operation
and in
conjunction
with
this
Committez.
In
years
to
come
the
nates
of
th2
men
coastituting
that
Committee— Canezata,
Skeoch,
Blackwood,
Merwin and
Ander-
sen—will
be earved
upon
the minds
of
mankind
and nothing
shboud
be
left
un-
done
to
give credii
t
o
those
to
whom
credit
is due,
as having
done
something
real, something
big gand something
bere-
ficial for this
Munrnicipality.,
Ile
mem-
bers
of your legislative
b dy §uive
their
valuable
time,
their
services
ind
their
experience
without
remurneration
and
without comvlaint.
Many
days they
sit
in
the Colonial
Council
hall
and
in
the
Committee
rooms
of
this
Municipality
when
they
eould
well
be
weiking
for
their own
personal
benefit;
yet, in
(heir
unselfish,
magnanimous
weay, they
work
hard
for the benefit
of this
community.
To
them credit is due
for the mary
im-
rrovemerts
that bave been
made and the
many
benefits you are enjoyiug todsy,
=1
DUI
x
AN
1&
In
conclusion
let rus
not forget tha
there
is Cne in
whom
we
must
put
oar
feith,
One
whom
we
must ask
to be
kind
and considerate,
and in
lis
hands,
and
His hands
alone.
rests.the
decision
whe-
tker or not this
reservoir
shall
he
kept
full to the brim with the life-giving
wa-
ter so
nmecessary
for us;
and
may He lock
with favor
upon
the
humble
efforts
of
His servants
here
to
benefit
our
fellow-
men.
:
TELEGRAMS.
S
CROIX S 'ATION.
London, Jan.26ih
—Althoudh
~ne of the
main
planks
in the
Laboar
Party’s
plat-
form during its rapid rise
to prwer
in
re-
cent
years,
has
beeg
tull recozni
lon
of
the
Russian
Soviet
Goverament,
it was
made
clear
in
ministerial
ecireles
today
that
the Labour Cabinet
hal
noc
yot
tak-
en any
formai decision
fur an
immediate
exchange
of Ambassadirs.
As
7ar
as
the
officials at the Foreign
Oflice would go
to-
day
was
to say
that it
was
the intentios
of the government
to reestablish
diplom-
atic
velations
with Moscow
as
early
as
was practicable
and
that
the
machinery
to accomplish
that end
would <a
be
sor
in
motion.
They
explained
that
a
res-
amption of normal relations
briween
tne
{wo countries,
after
an
estranZeme=nt
of
so
many
years.
would entaitl
erasideraoie
preliminary enquiries
aald
discassim
an
they
were
not prepared
to say
wnzan
Mr.
Q’urady
m:mber
of
Parhameot
for
Leeds,
or
asy
commission
of
inquiry,
would
proceed
to
Moscow.,
The
terms
for racognition of the Soviet Government
have
been
the subjeet
of
mereased
spee-
ulatiop
siaee
the
death
of Peemier
Lea-
ime.
Mr. MacDonald’s
attitude
i< said
to
he that recognition
of the
Sovist
Govern-
ment
must
be
established
as
a
madrum
for
carrying
on
negotiations
respeciing
iniervational
debts,.
restoration
of prop-
erty and
the like, whicn
would be
lexgally
bindinz
upon
both sides.
lLondon,
Jan,
26th—-The
proposals
of
the
Baldwin Government
for
rad: pref-
erenca
(o the Dominions, which were elab-
orated
at
the
Imperiai
Conlerence
in
1923 will not
be
adovied
by
the
new
ad-
ministration,
according
to
the
political
correspondent
of
the Westmioster
Gaz-
ette.
I'ne writer says
that the report
of
the
conference
of Imperial
Peoference
will be
laid before
the
House
of Comm-
ons,
but that
the
Goveirnment
does
not
regard itself bound
to the
pledges
of
Its
predecessors.
A
free
vote
oi the
Com-
mons
will accordingly
be
taken,
which
the writer
predicts
will certainly
result
in
the rejection
of
the
prozramme,
as
the
Liberals wlil support
the Labourites
hostility thereto.
The
correspondent
al-
s
asserts
that the
governmeat
will
re-
fuse
te accept
the
bargain
proposed
by
Mr. Baldwin,
namely,
that
if
the sugar
duty
is reduced,
the
existing dominion
preference
will ne maintained.
Th>
La-
bourite Ministry desires
to cut down the
suger
levy at
the first
opportunity,
he
peints
out, and it has alreadv b en hinted
that
this
wav
be
done
ian
the
coming
budget.
Another
conference
of
the
Do-
minions in 19°4 is being arrange:f,
accor-
ding to the
same authority,
vat if held it
will
be
along
different lines
than
the
past.
Before
there
was
any
inmcdiate
preospect
of labour
taking cffice
the
sng.
gostion
was
made
that workers
orpariza-
tiens
in the
deminions
send
representa:
tives
to a
lebour conference
here
today
to discuss
guestions
of policy of
interes:
to
thenselves,
as
well
s¢
to-
British
La-
beur.,
This
is
the gathericg
that
is
now
contemplated.
Faris.
Jan:
25th.—The
Chamber
of
Deputies
began
teday
its
discusszion
o
measures
to raise
¢ix and
a
cuarter
biil-
ion francs
yearly
in
new
revenue
fin
¢n
atmosphere
that
reflected
sthe
almost
tragic pesition in
which
Pariiament
has
beer
placed.
The
members
will be
onvin
ged
to commit
political suieide
by
add-
ing 26%
to
the
present
burden
of
ta
e:
or
turn
down
the
measutes
pro-idng
for
the
taxes
at
the
risk
of involving
a firancial
calamity.
In the lobbies
the
talk
shows
even
greaer
opposition
to
M. Poincare’s
propesal
for stabilizing
the
frarnce
than
was
expected.
Thespeeches
from
the
floor
of
the
chamber,
which
were
published
in
the
official
jourvpal
and
circulated
ameng
the
voters,,
are
more
moderatein
tone
though
they
do
not conceal
the gravity
«f the
situation.
NEW YORK, Jan.
26th.
Ficur,
(hard
winter clears
$4.90,
**
hard winter straights
$5 40
Meal, Kilrdried per
100 pounds
$2.20
New Season’s
Pork
per barrel
$37.00.
Heavy
Mess
Pork
per
bri. §26 00
Sugar—Crystals
maximum
per
100
ibs,
06 65
Mclasses
Suguar
89
maximum
5.62.
Cot
on,
Middhng,
Upland,
at
Liverpoel
*
perlb.
19 28-1000,
Exchange.
New
York
und
[ondon,
6t
d:ys’ sight
$4.20;
Exchunge
New York and
London,
sight
$4.23
LONDON,
Jan.
26th.
Sugar,
Demerara
Crystals,
nominal
per
eyt
48s.
od. —sls.
Cd.
**
Muscavado
nomiaal
per
ewt. 48s.
30s.
61
““
White Java's
cif United Kingdom
30s.
6d
nominal.
Demerara
Rum
per gal.
nominal,
Trinidad
Cocea,
good
middling red per
cwt. oUs. od.
Quebec
Steamship
Co.
THE S.
S. GUIANA
will leave
New
York
on
Saturday,
Znd
February,
and
is
due
at
Frederiksted
on or about
the 9th, proceeding
to
Wind-
ward
Islands.
RCET, .. MERWIN &CO.
INc.
Agents