.
MalsCloce
for
the United
States,
Europe
and
other places
via New York, by
s.
s.
Guiana
on Thursday, &th instant,
at
4 o’clock
p
m.
1OCAL
The
3.
3.
Guiana for
New
York is due
at
Frederiksted
at
6
o’clock
on Friday
morning,
& of a line of rain
was
measured
at
the
Fort
this
morning
and
17
at Frederik-
sted.
MERCURY TO CROSS
SUN’S D'SC
MAY 7,
Vercury,
smallest
of
the planets,
is
due
to
pass
batween
the
earth
and
sun
on May
7.
The
transit
will
take place
inthe late
afternoon.
It
will
be
partly
visible
in
20s'0on
and
the eastern
part of the
Unit-
ed States.
Mercury when
in travsit will
appear
#s
a round
black
dot
on the face
of
the
sun.- Biston
American,
20th
April.
A
DANGEROUS
BILL
(Ottumwa
Courier)
The
Nenate's
committee
on
territorial
affairs
has
voted
favorably
on
the
biil
providing that after
1932 Porto
Rico shall
have the right
to
elect
its own
governor
and the insular fevisiature the right to im-
peach.
In effect
this bill would
grant
the
potition of the unionist party in Porto Rico
which is in the majority at present.
There
is ample
reason
for regarding
the propos-
¢« d step
as
an unwise
one, invelving
a
se-
rious risk not only for Porto
Rico but
for
the United States
Government
itsel',
Porto
Rico
has
a
territorial
form
of
governm
'nt
now.,
‘l'he governor
ils
ap-
pointed
by the president
of
the
United
State
i; so are
soine
of
the other
major
olficials, meciuding
the attorney
general,
The
members
of
the
law-making
body
and several other minor offl :ials are elect-
ed
'l'ne municipalities
have
home
rule.
[here
is a high perecentage
of Wliteracy
in Porto Rico.
(ti
being reduced
grad-
vally by the
American
Government.
It
cannot
be brought
to the
point at
which
intelligent self government
will be practi-
cabla in Porto Rico for manv
years.
The
eight-year
interim
conteinpiated
by the
proposed
legislation
1s
far too short.
Porto
Rico’s vopulation
is
largely
of
African bl.od.
Tnere
is a Spanizh
strain
also.
There
are
few
Americans
on
the
island
Since
the United States
acquired
Porto
Rico, following the Spanish-Amer-
jcan war,
it has
enjoyed
progress
which
cannot
be described
in mere
words.
This
js the testimony
of responsible
Awmericas
ST
CRULILE
2 Vl3
-
citizens
who have known Porto Rico
for
a quarter of a
century.
i
j
San Juan,
the eapital,
is the most
mod-
ern and advanced
city in the
West
Indies
.
with the possible
exception
of Havana.
.
Americac
and ‘oreign
money
is being
in-
|
vested
there;
buildirg operations
are
ac-
'
tive: business
is
on
a sound
basis.
These
.
things
are
true because
investors
have
.
confidence
in Porto
Rico
with
America
~
standing
sponsor.
Just
solong
as
the
.
United
States
government
retains
its
|
present
grasp
upon governmental
affairs
.
in Porto
Rico, relinquishing
its grip
by
not
the
slightest
degree,
progress
can
-
cortinue
on
a sound
basis
and ir vestments
"
will be safe.
That safety will
disappear
|
just
as
rapidly
as
Amerviean
controi
is
.
jessened,
and in the
same
degree.
|
The
American
flag
floats
cver
Porto
~
Rico,
but
an
alien
lancuage
is
spoken
there.
The
children
in the scnools
sing
“*America,’”’ bu: they
have
little
concep-
.
tion of its meaning.
The
nativesin
the
mountains
know
nothing
about
govern-
'
meni; patriotism
Is, for themn,
an
übex-
plored
and undiscovered
mystery.
'
In the mtinicipa! gnvernments
of Porto
.
Rico,swhere
the educated
tew
have
an
{
opportunity
to exploit
he ignorant,
Ithi-
.
erate
many,
graft reigns
supreme.
The
|
insular
legislature
is by
no
means
f{ree
{rom taiot: the coures
are
tar (rom ineor-
ruptibie.
Patriotism
and
respect
for con-
stitutional
government,
as abstract
but
i
real
impuises,
are
hittie
knowa in
Porto
Rico,
even
among
the educated
natives.
It is America’s
du'y
to
save
such
a
|
people
from itsell;
or mere
properly,
to
save
the helpless
many
from exploitation
by the enlightened
few.
No government
which depends
for its
strength
uvon
the sufliage oi the
people
can
be
stable
unless
the reople
are
en-
lightened and patriotic:
They
eannoi
be
patriotic without education
ana
enheht-
enment;
they ean be educated
and enlight-
ened
without embracing
patiiotism.
Un-
til education
and enlightennent
! ave had
their way tor several
generaiions
in Por-
to Rico,
the peopie
will nut
be ¢:pable of
self
governmeni.
Awmerica
15
learning
that s;lf
covernment
18
the
weightiest
responsibiity
the
Creator
has
given
(o
His chidren.
Porto Rico Progress April
26th.
TELEGRAMS.
ST..CROIX
STATION.
Geneva,
May
2nd—-[lhe
League
of
Natiens
has officiallyannoun¢ed
the
eon-
vocation
for
September
Isi,ln
(eneva.
Loudon,
May 2nd.—The
Jap
.nese
Ad-
miralty receatly
bought
from
the
Ger-
than
naval designer
Prof.
Oswarl
Eram,
his plans for a giant submersibie
cruiser,
according
to a report quoled by
the
dip-
lomatie correspondent
of the Daily
Tele-
graph.
The writer
adds
that
Japan
is
beheved
already
to
have
wvrdered
the
buildine
ot one of these
eruisers
of about
4500 tons.
.
Croydon,
Eng.,
May
Zud-—lihe
strike
of the pilots and mechanics
employed
by
the combine
which handles
the air
mails
was settled
today and
the
men
will
re-
suime
work on
Monday.
The
strike
bo-
gan
on
March 3lst.
\
Berlin, May
2Z2nd.—Atheism
is
on
the
decline
in Berlin,
according
to
Profes-
sor
Schmidt
of
the
Protestant
High
Chuich
Council.
In
1922
he said 20,600
persous
who
has
surrendered
their
membesship
and
became
alheists
were
received
back
in'o
the
enurch.
There
was
a
similar
movement
last
year
and
the prospeets
for the church
are
extreme-
ly bright.
Clergymen
of
all
sects
re-
port
a
wide
revival
of religious
activi-
ties
in Berlin,
with
lirger
atteadance
at all services.
Atlanta,
Ga.,
May
2ad.—A
revised
check of the
regions
stricken
in several
South-castern
States
by
violent
wind
storms, placed
the total kuown dead at 109,
more
than
500
ipjared,
scores
homeless
and esti nated
propgrty
damage
of more
than $10,000.000,
London,
May
2nd--In
the
coursc
of a
speech
at
a great gathering
of tne Prim-
rose
Leagzue,
the Chrnservative
Orzaniza-
tion, Marquis Carzon
gave
his first view
of the Labour
Government
and
incident-
aliy predicted
that
the Conservative
ban-
ner would
before
long be
again floating
high
in the
sky.
He asserted
that
the
Conservative
Pariy
was preparing
itsel!
““with ali
the
energy
in our power
for the
renewed
struggle
that
eannot
long ba
do-
layed”’.
Rezarding
the Laboar
Govern-
mwent,
Lord
Curzoe
said-
‘'l'here
is
a
government
in power
which
has only eon-
formed
to its
title insofar
as
it is labour-
ing
in very
decep
water.
The=
Socialist
Government
was
going
to
give
as
the
pure
milk
of Socialisn,
bat
so
far
the
cow has
not providad
muc: beveraze,
In
foreign
affairs the
ounly thing
the
Gov-
ernment
has
done
has
been
to
sit
in
a
friendly conference
with representatives
of the most
cruel
and bloody governme=nt
that Kurope
has
known
since
the
Fieneh
Revolution’.
Mr. Baldwin outlining the
policy
of
the
Conservatives,
suit
the
party
was
ready
to
enter
inic
any
conierence
to
comsider
limitation
ol
armaments,
but
we
cannot
allow
any
weakening
of the
delence
forces.
lhe
Conservatives
he
said,
stood
for sirict
carrying
out
of
the
treaties
of
peace
and
would
make
the
League
of
Na-
tions
the
pivotal
faetor
of
their
poii-
c¢y.
He said that they stood for unity of
the Empire and
of
the
people
at
home
and regretted
that
their
modest
scheme
of preierence
witlr
the
Dominions
had
not been accepted.
The ex-Premier
ex-
piessed
the fear
that
the
ineyitable
1-
sult of the rejection
of imperial
prefe--
ence
would
attrac:
the
Dominions
into
oth r
economic
orbits.
Regarding
the
tariff, Mr
Baldwin
declared:
‘“*We
ac-
cept the sverdict of
the
country
and
do
not
propose
to
put
forward
a
general
tariff, but we fpropose
when
we
reiurn