> ',“;“""?@,; BN oy & o T .é;-\- = ":w 44%"* /__-; .‘._.{W oy . o ar & Lo ! _ : eees.| ey L b N o S iR ;'q“ bes } Fan el “~ . Q. g& Pa ’ < !g’\‘ N '\\ § NN T TR (B RY £ la | £0 S 0 JLues AN PO W £ B 3 Ao 0 Iy AT R b ;}3 - (=8 imel | SoFal Ry oRt TR NG N L {53 '% i a8 eVT oL DRI 1 io R » { N famawas o IRIHE] HEE IRLS S S e 130 [ Wl i i Py RBs vy W LaEY vy sl & " RN b =al I | "‘?‘,‘;f fa o L %\ e, dl el eS| 0 PR e R L g .- 22 $E s £¥. 4 N 5 b s bitmd - el 4 S '?; N s,-é;._\,_) ~l‘ “g el jol it _‘\x Sl P VAN L MRI L /é,_\!t:?l é > N jEn \E3S oIR h iRI NO Y sAR Reßl i/ \\;}";?v‘«‘&-"h"l‘g@ "e s 7 = - Ny . PN o . ST RN,. o T iL RN & - - LY ,)g.;&négz;@%/ JEBSS R B v!g;,, KY SO R \T e AEOTS XNDP NN A 25T S 2 oy LA €L W -g e’ o g . 5 e s o iz . St ~ =Y AP @ R OV = d e § > \ STA ANQ a2y ¥ Y « A o ITV O ~7r < YTy TNB cHIISTIANEIED V.l L. 5 A, IHURSDALY, &UTH SEPTEMBER 1023 77TH YEAR. No 217 THE ST. CROIX AVIS is printed and published daili (sundays ad Holudeys exzepted) by G. Johausen cl the Avis Office. TRMS:-—SO cents monthly in advance, 2 cents per stngle copy. Entered as sccond class matter May 25th 1917 at the Post Ofice at Christian- stod: »t. Crote, V. Los the U. SA4 un- de: the Aet of March 3. 1879. Contribution to this paper wiil be glad- lq received when the saiie deals with i ti- ters of qeneral interest, and 18 asconipa- nied with the author’'s niise, as a guar- antez of good faith The editor canns? be responsible for ticc views of s corresron- dents nor does he necessardy € dorsethem PROHIBITIONF AJLURE IN FIN- LAND. Addre s:ing the international anti-aleo- holic congress at Co etihazen M. Scaau- mann, a member of th: Yignich ra=ia- ment, declared prohibition in Finlan d was a “‘downvight failure.” ihere is 4~ much drinking, he declared, as before prohibition, whiie arrests have been in- ~eased from 500 in 1919 to 16,000 in 1922. A cilasses, he said, violated tie law, In- el ting members of parliament who vo- ted for it. Wavne B. Wheeler, principal Amerian de egate, took sharp issuee with Prof, W ruine of Copenhagen over ihe effeet Os |»i'|d2?;i’i()ll in the United States, lhe professor had made a four months siudy of eonditions in the U ited Srates and his impressions were adverse to ansolate prohibition. Mr. Wheeler d-clared Amer- ica had tried all systems —licenses, local o) ion. high taxation, ete.— and all had failed, while prohibition was an immedi- ate succeess. Though only partly carried out, deciar od Mr. Wheeler, three y2atrs of prohibit i n had been agreat blessing, statistics