OF
THE
FOR
ST.
CROIX.
(Continued from yesterday’s
Avis.)
2od
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
(Chairman
of
the
Municipal
Committee)
remarked:
It is
my
high
privilege as
head
of the
Municipal
Com-
mittee of this Municipality
to
extend
to
vou the Officers of the Navy, the
Repre-
sentatives
of the United
Srates
Press
a
most
cordial
welecome.
Gentlemen,
we
are delighted
to
see
you
and
it
is
with
unfeigned
satisfaetion
that
I
bid
you
welcome
to
St.
Croix
in
the
name
of
what I may
eall the Cabinet
of our Coun-
cil and
in the
name
of the people
of
:his
island.
Let
me
add
that
it gives
me
great
pleasure
to
welcome
you
here
in
Christiansted,
the Capital of
the
Virgin
I:lands,
in whose
interest
if
you
would
turn
and devote
just
a
little
attention,
her harbor
would,
at very little
cost,
be
made
productive of much
benefit
to
the
inhabitants
ofthe
island,
and
would have
enabled
us to receive
you
at
the
thres-
hold
of
our
island.,
her
main
landing
place,
instead
of at her back
door.
As
|
rave mentioned
this just
let
me
say
in
passing
th
t although
we are
aware
that
estimates
of this improvement
have
been
made,
the
great disparity
between
those
estimates
and
that made
by
our
former
administration
is
what
keep
our
hopes
alive in this respect,
and
we
trust
soon
that efforis will be again
renewed
tend-
ing towards
this mueh
needed
improve-
ment.
This gathering
is
unofficial.
DBut
you
are
here,
if | read
the times aright,
inthe
fuliest
sense
as
the aceredited
represep-
tatives of vour fellow
country
men
and
women,
and
in this capacity
vou
are
en-
titled to express
with authority
attach-
ing
to no other foree,
the conscience,
the
reason
and
the
sentiments
of
a
large
portion of the peopie of
the
Continental
United
States.
Accordingly
yours
too
now
is
the
opportunity
of interpreting
the feelings and
sentiments
of
the
peo-
ple of the Virgin Islands
to
those
whom
vou represent.
lo addressing
you
then
I feel that I am speaking
to
you
not
as
individuals,
but
as
the
exponents
of
priuciples
and
hopes
that
are
common
to
us all and
without
which
our
life
on
earth
would be.a
life without_horizon
or
prospect.
It
is
oudr hope that
your visit
this
afternoon
would
do
much
to
pro-
mote
a closer
understanding
of
our
con-
ditions
here
and
the
problems
with
which we
are
confronied.
I am
not going to
lay
down
any
pro-
gramme,
resolution
or
memorials,
we
have just bad
with
us
a
Federal
Com-
mission
sent out to investigate
our condi-
uions,
the result of whose efforts
we
all
SIL.
LRODIX
AX¥IS
are anxiously awaiting.
We have
alrea-
dy presented
our views to them,
but
let
me say
here
that
while
we
want
to
as-
sociate
ourselves
too
with
your
mission
here this afternona
and
kaowing
what
has
come
from
all
the
Commissions,
Memorials.
Rosolations
and
promises
of
the
past
we wani you
{0 express
tne
sen-
timants
which
I think is dominant
in
the
minds
of all of
us
at
this
moment.
Tell
the people of the
United Srates
what
we
ol the Virgin islands
would live you most
to tell them
‘Example
is better
than
pre-
copt,
and
action
speaks
louder
than
words.”’
Entrezi
them
to
turn
an
ear
to
the
Virgin
Islands.
Our
wants
are
not
many and
none
too exacting.
We are glad
to welcome
you
as
we
all
value
the
presence
among
us
of
a
body
of men
wno
we hope
will faithfully
re-
present
what tney find to be the
feeling,
who
are
in
a position
to send
out
to
the
Nation
of which
we
forin a 'part
a
true
pictur2
of this island,
who we trust
will
speak
the
truch,
and if
you
can
succeed
rot
only in speaking
the
truth
which
is
comparatively
easy,
but
in strivin:
to
know
and express
the truth,
you
will be
rendering
18 the greatest possible
service
we
can ask of you
this afternoon.
Admiral
(Coon'z)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman,
His
Excelieney,
Revoresenta-
tives of the Press
and
Citiz:ns:
This
is
my second
speech
for
the day and
[ will
make
it
very short.
The
Navy
Depart-
ment
is interested
in the Virgin Islands.
The appropriations
for the Virgin Islands
are
charged
against
the
United
States
Navy Department;
perhaps
many
of you
do
not
know
that
like
Guam
we
send
down
here
Naval
Otficers,
Doctors
and
men
and
they ask
us to appropriate
for
these
islands:
and
the
Naval Department
is
willing to have
these
appropriations
charged
against
it.
We have
to
tarnish
a number
of
governors
and
officers
{or
these
islands.
When
the
United
States
Government
takes
hold
of a
territory it
starts right out
on sanitation.
Our Gov-
ernment
believes
that
when
a
wman
is
weil
nhe
is
willing
to work;
we
try
1o
cure
yellow
fever,
typhoid
fever
and
elephanthisis,
we
try
to
cure the geopie
s 0 as
to
enable
them
to
become
better
citizens.
At present
1t is
pretty nard
to
get
appropriations;
1 have
handlea
your
appropriations;
this
ume
it
is
some-
think like $351,000.
The quicker you try
to
get on your
-eat the beuter
it
will be
for you.
If you want your harbor dredge
you will have
to find
the
money
and
do
it yourself.
Secretary
Denby
was here
last Spring
and
through him we heard
of your wanis
and within
48 hours after
his return
we
were
on the job devising
way and
means
to help you upon
that problem.
1
know
you have had
some
rain,
because
I have
some
mud
on my
clothes,
and lam glad
to have it-
Your water
situation
will be
carried
through-
You must
not ask
for
too
many things
aconce,
you
must
ask
for what is most
necessary;
put your
im-
portant
ones
down
first.
1 know
the
Navy
Department
is goinz
to help
you
although
it has
its
own
troubles.
It
is
one of
the departments
that
gets action.
I
am
glad
that
these
Newspapermen
-
have
come
here.
We
didn’t jeonquer
these
islands,
we
paid
$%5,000,000
for
them
und like the other territories of the
Uaited
States
they
have
their
ups
and
downs.
From
unow
on
your
island aod
th: neighbeoring
islands
are going to have
some
ups.
:
To be continuved.
LOCAL
The
s
s
‘‘Surinam’’ arrived
at
this
port
at
noen yesterday,
landed
29 bags
mail
and saited
for St.
Kitis at 4p.
m.
after discharging
general
carzo
and
tak-
ing in mail
for the
Leeward
and
Wiad-
ward groups.
Our leading turf man
Mr. H.
MacKay
has
just purchased
a
new
thoroughbred
racing
mare
from Porto
Rico.
This
sprin-
ter is understood
to be
ahead
of the
best
seen
here and
the prosp=ct
of good inter-
esting
races
is again assurea.
With
the
favorable
weather
the
is-
land
has
been
having
at
the
present
time
the eane
crop
fcr
1925
is
looking
very encouraging
and will probably
=zur-
pass
earlier
expactations.
Frederiksted
is being graced
by
a few
units
of the fleet; small
boats
waich
are
anyway
iving
shore
liberty
to
their
crews.
The
peouple
over
there
are
much
disappointed
at
what they rear
will prove
only “‘air eastles’
so far
as the prospects
of
tha
visii
of
the
fleet
is
eoncerned.
Meorehants
and private folk who prepared
supplizs in
anticipation
are facing losses
they
claim
‘Thisis
rather
unfortunate
although
not
unavoidable.
Meanwhile
the
British
Islands
get
the
‘‘rakeofft’’,
and
dry St,
Croix reinains
dry
and
un-
attractive.
SERMONEITE
- S lf-coniidence
Those who have
the decpest
experience
in the things of God,
are
the farthest
re-
moved
from
pride
or
self-exaltatien.
It is when
men
have
the
most
exalted
conceptions
of the glory
and
exeellence
of Christ,
that self
is
abased,
and
they
feel that the lowest place in his serviee
is
too honorable for them:
Gospel workers,
p- 323,
Let all christians give glory to God and
not’ to finite
man who is like a
flower of
the field and will soon
pass
away-
F. HALL, Pastor.