(Canegata)
remarked:
Mr.
Chairman
Ten members
have
come
in the Council
anew,
it is not
right to bind them by the
decision of the other 8 members.
(To be continued.)
|
LOCAL.
The circus
company
gave its last show
last night.
The
tent
was
crowded and
the performances
were of the usaal
high
order.
:
The Christiansted
T
eatre
also
was
a
place
of
attraction
last
night
and
al-
though
the attendance
was
not all
that
could
have
been
desired
many passed
a
very pleasant
evening there.
A rather
shocking accident
is
reported
as
having
occurred
yesterday
on
the
Centre
Line somewhere
west
of Kings-
bill,
as
a
result
of
a
collision
between
one of the trueks of the St.
Croix
Sugar
Factory
and
an ordinary
mule-cart,
the
driver
of the latter
sustaining
fractures
of aleg
and
an
arm,
and
ather
injur-
ies eonsidered
grave.
The
disabled
man
was brought
to the Hospital here.
-
Correspondence
Christiansted,
June
2,
1921
Editor ‘‘St. Croix Avis.’’-
After reading
the communication
in
your issue
of today,
my ‘‘risibles’’br >ad-
ened
instead
of ‘‘drooped’’ for more
than
one
reason:
1.
Through noting
tha fact
that the rector
of
St.
John’s
Church
is
writing in the Avis after all,
despite
the
confident boasting of certain
bigots
who
have declared
that
he never would
stoop
to enter
a discnssion
in
the
newspapers
(this alone shows
how little they
know; I
can
see
no reason
why a minister
of
the
gospel
should be
averse
to writing in the
papers,
if he knows what
he
is
writing
about).
2.
At the old time-worn
e:cle-
siastical hobby of ascribing
new
mean-
ings to words
in
order
to
justify
their
misapplication.
3.
But
®hy
take
up
time
with
this-
feature
of
the
case?
These
days
are too
full of other
duties
to admit of muech else
than coming to the
point
right
-now.
Revd.
Pigott
in
his
letter
states
that ‘‘correspondence
has
arisen
out of
a
letter
that
showed
omne
‘Enguirer’ to be igno ant of the ordinary
meanings of the terms pontiff and
ponti-
fieal.”
Now
is
that
really
the
case?
The
evidence
before
us
discloses
hat
at
least
two
readers
had
their
curi-
osity
aroused by the
use
of
the
term
“‘pontifical’”’, and
also
found
the
same
meaning
of
the
word,
while
a
third
found
a
meaning
different
to that
or
what
the
rector
now
advances.
Truly
then these
must b 2 the
ordinary
mean-
ings and
not what
is alleged to be
given
by
Webster’s
New
International
Dic-
Sa3IL RO lIIX
A V]S
tionary.
a
work
of
which
there
are
probably
but
a
couple
copies
on
the
island,
and
these
not
within
easy
reach
of
the
congregation of
St. John’s
which
is
made
up
of a very
varied
col-
lection of intellectuality,
and for
whose
informatior and
guidance
it
must
be
as-
sumed
the
advertisement
was
published
at the time.
It
is
safe
to
believe
that
nineteen
persons
in every
twenty in
the
rorgregation
would either draw the same
conclusion
as “"Enquirer’’ and others
or
not know
th> meaning
at
all.
We
are
few of us
masters
of
the
English
lan-
guage
and still fewer
of
us
are
pecuni-
arily
able
to
"own,
mueh
less
to
be
cashiering
our
dictionaries
as
often
as
the
Anglican
Church
changes
its cere-
‘monials and
thereby
occasions
a revision
of
definitions
of ecertain
terms.
Let
us
be fair and square
in
this matter.
Tha
rector
may
be
ecorrect
in his pesition
as
backed
up by thé
Webster’s
New Inter-
national
Dictionary,
but
the
ordinary
Jayman
is equally
right in drawing his
conclusions
according
to
the
general
and
accepted
meaning
of
the
word.
Otherwise,
the
dictionaries
we consulted
are wrong,
and
the
rector
is
silent
as
to whether
the W, N.
1.
D.
does
not also
give
the meaning
as
'‘pertaining
to the
Pope’’..
Why?
.if the very dictionary to
whichhe refers
gives two or more
mean-
ings, how can
he prove a man wrong tor
accepting
one of those meanings,and
that
the
apparently
-applicaole
one!
How-
ever, if the rector
had stated
his position
at
first, oil would. have
been
thrown
on
the troubled
waters.
It should
be
borne
in
mind that
not because
scores
accept
and
believe b'indly.
"are others
prohibic-
ed from
investigating,
nor does
investi-
gation necessarily
infer lack of
sincerity
of motive.
AN AMUSED ONLOOKER.
3
TELEGR
A MS.
ST.
CROIX STATION.
Boston,
May
29th.
—The
Cornell Var-
sity
eight
defeated
the
Harvard
crew
by
three
and
a
half lengths,
ina mile
and
seveneights
race
on
Charles River
yesterday.
Cornell’s time in the Varsity
race
was
9.49 Harvard 10.1.
Delpzig, May 30th.— Captain
- Mueller,
the second
German
Officer
to
be placed
on
trial,
charged
with
criminal
acts
during
the,
war,
was
today
sentenced
to
six
months
imprisonment.
He
was
tried
on
the
charges
of having
prac-
ticed cruelties on- prisoners
at the Flavy
le
Martel Prison:
Camp
in the
Aisne
Department
of France.
The
state
pro-
secutors,
declaring
that
Mueller
was
to
blame
for
kicking
and
striking pri-
soners
and for
compelling
sick
prison-
ers
to
work,
asked
for
a
sentence
of
fifteen
months
ordinary
imprisonment.
Cn
the
other
hand,
Mueller’s
Counsel
pleaded
that
six
months
confinement
in
a
fortress
would
be
ample
punish-
ment.
London,.
May
30th.--The
coal
strike
situation has taken
a
drastic
turn
over
the
week
end.
The
Miners
and
Own-
ers have been given
to
understand
that
the Govt has said its
last
word
to them
namely,
that they must
either
agree,
or
submit
their dispute
to
compulsory,
ar
bitration.
The
proposals
of
the
Govt.
in short according
to a report of the
pro-
ceedings
at the
last Govt.
conferenece
in
clude both temporary
and permanent
set-
tlement ofethe dispute.
The Govts.
propo-
sal
is
that
during
a
temporary
period
wages will be scaled
down gradually toan
economic
level by
the
aid of the
Govts
grant
of
£10,000,000
and
the
owners
profits will be used
toassist
in
breaking
the fall.
The
permanent
settlement
is
to be
one of
three
forms
of
arbitration
viz.
A National
wage
Board
or Tribunal,
of three,
or
a
single
arbitrator.
The
terms
of
reference
are
virtually ready,
and exclude
the
raising of the
question
of a pool of wages..
The
Govts propnsals
will
now
go before the district meetings
of the
miners
union
{or discussion
and
the men’s
vote wiil be considered
by
the
executive
on
Friday.
The
Owners
met
on Wednesday.
v
Oppeln,
May 30th.
The
first batallion
of
the
Black
Watch
arrived here today
and
was
met
by
hundreds
of
children,
who threwflowers
at the British soldiers.
Ihey
broke
into
the
warching
squads,
trying
to
hold
the
soldiers:
hands,
and
shouting
gleefully
as
the
baspipes
screeched
the
music
on the march
The
residents
|l'ned
the
pavements
smiling
and
the
men
doffed their hats
as
the kil-
ted
troops
passed.
The Scothmen
were
pleased
at
the
reception
and patted
the
childrens
heads,
and
exchanged
greet-
ings with
the
crowd.
The
German
pou-
lice stood
at
rigid
salute
until the whole
colump
was by, then
went laughing about
their duties.
The expreszion
was repeat-
edly
heard
from
the
croaxds
the
Poles
now
have
something
to
reckon
with’'.
The
Italians
appear
eager
to cooperate
with
the
British
driving
out the insur-
gents.
They
have
heard
that
this
was
the plan.
Ar
Ita’ian
officer remarked”’
It is high time
they
let
us loose
on
these
fellows’’.
The
Black
Wateh
will
be
quartered
here until the
remainder
of
the British forces
arrive.
It is said
they
will then
be
ready
to take
the field with-
in.a
woek
=
.
-
St.
Cloud
May
30th.—The
defeat
of
Mrs. Mallory, United States
Wamen
Ten-
nis Champion,
and
W.
Tilden
of Phila
delphia,
worlds
grass
court champion
by
Miss Holman
and J.T.
Baines of England
in the
mixed
doubles
of the worlds hard
championship
here
today,
completed
a
disastrous
day
for
the
United
States
team
members,
'
New
York, May
3lst.—The
Conufer
ence
of cotton
growers
and
manufac-
torers
bhas
asked
Federal
aid
for
the
rehabilitation of the
industry,
including
reduced
loan
rates
by
Federal
Bank
and foreign selling.