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is hereby
brought
to public
no-
tice
that,
effeetive
this
date,
Lieutenant
Commander
John
J.
Gaffney, Supply Corps, U
S.
Navy,
has been appointed GOVERNMFN {
SECRETARY of the Virgin islands
of the United States. relieving Lieu-
tenant
C.
C.
Timmons,
Supply
Corps,
U. S. Navy.
Government
of the
Virgin Islands
of
the United
States
St, Thomas,
10 Decem-
ber,
1921.
SUMNER E.
W. KITTELLE,
Governor.
ANNUAL R:D GROSS
MEETING
T three
o’clock
Friday
afternoon,
De-
cember
16th,
the annual
meeting
of
the Santa
Cruz Chapter
of the Ameri-
can
Red Cross
will be held at the
Fred-
eriksted
High School.
At ithis
meeting
officers
and executive
committee
will be
elected
for the following year.
Director
of Police
Mr. Frank
Coulter,
who
r pre-
sented
the
Red
Cross
Chapter
of
the
Virgin Islands
at the recent
convention
of chapters
at Columbus,
Ohio,
will give
an
account
of the
meetings,
which
are
reported
to have
been
the
most
inspira-
tional
of any
of
the
kind
ever
held
in
the 3tates.
It is hoped
that every
mem-
ber
of the Red Cross,
who
possibly
can,
will be
present.
LIST OF UNCLAIMED MAILFOR THE
WEEK ENDED DECEMBER
10, 1921.
Miss Elodia Adams,
Miss Anna
Barry,
.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Boyce, Hill St. No. 41,
Mr. Christepher
Charles,
Mrs. Johanna
Daniel,
Miss Wilhelmina
David,
Alexander Dowling,
Mrs. John Maria Emanuet,
52 HillSt.,
Miss Alice Heyliger,
Mr. Joseph
Holst,
Miss Ellen O. lles,
Miss Christiana
A. Isaac,
Eulalie James,
10 Hospital St.,
Miss Margaret
Martin,
Mr. William Pemberton,
Mr. Donald Rock,
Mess Hill,
Mr. Charles Samuel,
Mrs. Sarah
Samuel,
W. L. Sperry,
(2)
Mrs.
Hermina
Thomas,
Darly
Hill,
Mt. Pellier.
Post
Office,
Christiansted,
Virgin Is-
}ands, December
11, 1921.
R. R. LARSEN,
Postmaster.
2T RO
R
&
Y1
LLOCAL.
There will be
a regular
meeting
of the
Home
Service Committee
this
afternoon
at 3.30 o’clock.
Readers
are reminded
of the bazaar
te
be held
in the
Lutheran
Parsonage
this
evening as advertised recently.
The
Tadousac
called
at this
port yes-
terday
afternoon
and
sailed again in the
evenirg.
Owing to
a dead
calm
the Creole could
not
sail for St.
Thomas
unril this
morn-
ing wher.
there
is
just a light breeze.
[t
is
generally
complained
that
the
steeple
is
not keeping
corvect
time,
be-
ing mostly
up to 5 minutes
a day
out of
time.
Itis
claimed that
it lost 20
min-
utes
last
week
besides
20 minutes
it was
put
forward
to
agree
with Washington
time.
This is unfortunate.
Adding
A Littie
Viore
Facts
About Our Citizenship
Rights
By ASHLEY
L. TOTTEN.
Some
months
ago
a bill was introduced
in the British
Parliament
recommending
the
transfer of all the
British West
Indi-
an
possession
as
payment
of
the
huge
war
debt
which
Great Britain
owes
to
the United States
Britishers
in
this
eity
and
Canada
favored
the suggestion.
But Britain’s colored subjects
protest-
ed vigorously agaiunst
it,
It
has
been
the
past
experience
of
those
who have
made
a careful
study
of
the situation.
That
in this
city
of New
York
there
are
in the
many
thousands
able
and
in-
telligent British subjects
who could make
the colored
neighbourhood
of Harlem
be
represeated
by officials of the
race
alone.
But
these
same
British
subjects
who
enjoy certain
economic
privileges
denied
them
in their own homes
will not become
American
citizens
and
because
of this,
they cannot.
These
British subjects
manifest
a greot
interest
in all
things American,
politicai
or otherwise,
they
are making
a wonder-
ful
progress
here,
but
they
balk
at
re-
nouncing
the flag
of John
Bull or
their
allegiance
to King George.
If native
born
citizens
of the Virginls-
lands
were as solid for Uncle Sam
as Brit-
ish
West
Indians
are
for
John
Bull
it
would be
a wonderful
help to our future.
And so it is in
the Virgin Islands,
that
we have
many
thousand
laborers
who are
aliens,
enjoying
far
better
economic
privileges
than
they
did
in
their
own
homes.
We cite for an instance,
that the trans-
fer of ourislands to the United States
came
through the aid of a large alien
vote now
on the islands
who still
cling
to the
Brit-
ish Government
for recognition.
Making
this clearer,
Bntish
subjecls
voted for the sale
of a country not
their
own by Divine rights
or any other rights
But these
same
British subjeets
would
not
su readily vote for
the
sale
of
their
own
native
homes
to
the United
States
even
though
they
know
by
experiecce
that it would be
to
their benefit.
Virgin Islanders
appreciate
the
fact
that
the sale
of the islands
was
the only
redemption
for them.
Therefore it is bu" fair that
we
natives
of the Virgin Islands
who
are
citizens
of
them
should
have
our
status
so
deter-
mined
that
we
can
enjoy
ali
the
rights
and privelege
due
us
according
to
the
principle
of
America
and
all
its
other
insular possessions.
It is fair that
every
law
abiding
alien
British or otherwise
be
made
to
declare
himself
or
hersefl
either
to
become
a
citizen
of the
Virgin Islands
under
the
protection
of the United States,
or to
re-
tain
their allegiance
to ‘reat Britain.
The
idea
is
not
to
discriminate,
but
since
we
are
Americans,
and
it
is
the
ambition of the
U.
S.
Government
that
we
shonuld
first
be
able
te
qualify our-
selves
as
citizens,
then it is
our
duty
to
make
a drive in order
to find out
who
are
with
us and
whe
are not.”’
And the only way
to go about
this
will
be for all those
who
vote
in
the
isiands
to get together and pound
upon
the Legis-
lature
to pass
a law
which
will
make
it
incumbent
on all the alien
inhabitants
to
qualify and
become citizens of
Virgin Is-
lands,
before they
can enjoy all the rights
of native
born.
This,
mark
well,
applies
to
the
law-
abiding.
The
islands
are
over
p-pulated
with
undesirable
aliens
and
have
been
for
some
years
depopulated
by
the
native
born.
If the former cannot
be
made
to
stay
in their respective
places,
deportation
is
the bes:
and only remedy.
The Viirgin Islands
must
cease
to
be
a
dumping
ground
for foreign
criminals.
Our own is
a plenty.
St. Thomas
News
ACCIDENT
An
accident
which
could
nearly have
proved
serious,
or
even fatal, harpened
this morning at 9.25 in the Market Sgquare
where
a
gang
of road-menders
had for
some
time worked
with big sledges
on
a
load
of
stones
used
for
mending
the
street,
carefully
tempering
their
blows
so
as
not
to disturb
or
hurt the
nerves
or
feeling of
the
residents
in the meighbor-
hood,
when
the
foreman
arrived
and,
taking
away
the
sledge from
one of the
men,
and swinging it behind his shoulder
and above
his head,
dealt
an untempered
blow at one of the stones,
with the result