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79TH YEAR.
CHRISTIANSTED,
V. L IES. A.,
THURSDAY
26TH
MAY 1922.
the wife or mistress
of some
other
man.
‘
It is the mother
who
walks off leaving
|
her
little children
io
suffer,
an
act
not
yet adopted
by the easts
of the serest.
Wemen
drink
and
get
drunk
every
where
just like
mern
did
in the past,
and
a good Lusbar
d is né
longer surprised
to
ccme
heme
{rom wark
to
find that
his
wife is out
on
a
gooG
time,
|
The
law dces
not permit
anycne
to get
!
drunk
legally,
so
men
and
women
are
|
forced
to
go
out
iu
search
of
private
|
liguor and get drunk
anyway.
|
1t
is found
to
be
guite true
that
the
womar
who usually (rank
a glass
of beer
or wine with her meals
and
was satisfied
to stay
at bome,
goes
out for her
hooteh,
and
will positively
drink
where
er
she
gets it, if even
off the hip of
a generous
friend.
E
Again
we
find
some
disappointment
for
.our reformers,
who
are of the belief
that prohibition would make better
Chris-
tians
and bring about
more
respeet
for
the
church.
$
Prohibition
has
ddne
nothing
more
than
set
the brains of the
nation
think-
|
ing
how to make the
best kind of
booze
'
at home.
The average
working
man and
woman
is rapidly finding a new road to presperity
in the
manufacture
of
hootch,
and
itis
usuaily
on
Sunday
that
the
stills
are
placed
in operation.
The best
kind
of jazz music
and
daae-
ing is taking place
in nearly every
home
in
Harlem deginring
from early
Satlur-
'
3
SEIY
4
Pz
CHRIST
THEATRE
.Oa
.Lz -gia,.
af;:c.
«-4...
&2
£~ ATHE
8.15.
THIS EV.i{ING 8.15
.
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39
EDDIE PCOLO
IN
“King of The Circus”
Episode No. 10:
““THE MYSTI” POWER”
:
Episode
No.
11:
““MANAND BEAST”
.
.
Episode
No.
12:
‘‘DEEP WATERS”
;
James
Gray defrauds
Eddie Polo of his possession
of Gray’s Circus
and
succeeds
in
destroying
every evidence
of Eddie’s
ownership,
except
a piece
of canvas,
bearing the
imprent of the orig.nal deed
which
Mary, Eddie’s sister,
hides.
Gray
traps
ddic s
threatenswith
a te:rible death unless
he delivers
it.
’
;
ADMISSION
TieEiR
s
s
o and 2
General IRNCE.
.... ..ovioiioniiiiines
vony
..
L. .
Children
15¢.
and
10,
day nightinto
Sunday
and all throughout
the day.
Yet
on the other hand,
every
possible
effcrt
is
beinz
made
to
round
up
all
places
where
liguor is sold,
'
If half
th:
energy
used
in
making
this
country
dry
had
been
devotzd
tg-
ward
the
enforcement
of a Federal
Law
tv
stcp
the burning
of human
flesh and
the riddling of human
bodies
in
quarters
where
prohibition
was
enforced
many
many
years
ago,
America
could
betier
boast
of her civilization.
Usuzlly
whenevera mob
lynches
the
churech
comes
in for a
share
in the job.
The burning
of a ecolored
m
n
at Waeo,
Texs
was
made possible through
a
meet-
ing previously held in a Baptist
chuveh.
The
KEast St.~Louis
riots
were started
b’
semi-cann.bals
who
had
called
their
meeting in
a church.
And
the
burning
at the
stake
a
few
days ago
at Kirwin, Texas
took place
be-
tween
two churches.
[f=ur reformers
were looking as
seri-
ously toward
the lngical end of it, as they
are
toward the
profits
yielded
by
their
party, they
would be forced
to admit that
this
national
disgrace
which
throws
a
stzin
upon
the flag wherever
it waves,
is
carried
on
by people
not
influenced
by
liquor and certainly not
influenced by the
chureh.
it
bas
been
aiso
said
that
the
vitality
of
a nation
is
wasted
by
drinking beer.
{Contrnuzd
on 4tk page.)
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and Holidays excepted)
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at
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as
second-class
wiatter
}May
26th 1917 at
the Post
O Jéce
at Christian
sted,
Bi. Croix,
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11. S. A.,
un-
der the Act of March
3.
1879
Contribution
to this paper
will be glad-
lg recetved
when the same
deals
winh mat-
ters of general interest,
and
is
ac.ompa-
nied with the
auther’s
name,
as
a quar-
antee
of good fuith
The editor cartnot
be
responsible for the views of his corréspon®
dents
nor does he necessarily crndorsetiem
PROHIBITION AND CRIME,
By AsHLEY L. ToTTEN.
Prohibition
in
America
is
bLringing
about
some
very funny resuliis.
Qur reformers
advanced
as logical
ar-
gument
that
the
vorld,
and most
espe-
cially
the United States,
would be
made
far botter by prehibition.
:
there
would be
no more
erimes
There
would be
less
divorees,
and hap-
pier
hoines
There
would
be
more
Cbristians
and
more respecet
for the chureh,
There
would
be less
poverty.
Let
us
sce
how well this has proved
to be.
In all
the
leading
cities of
Amz=rica,
daring
bandits,
some
of
them
mere
youths, are daily holding up citizens,
rob-
bing
them,
and
ecommitting
murder
in
order to get away.
Indiseriminate
looting of government
buildings,
banks,
the
U.
3.
Mails,
is
taking place every where.
Policemen
are
being
shot
down
like
dogs
on the very
streets
iu the
faith:ul
performence
of duty.
Whenever
a
bandit
or
a
murderer
is
caught
the excuse
Is,
0> work,
no morley.
One
bandit
a few
weeks
ago
Kkilled
a
man snd wife he alleged to secure
money
with which
to feed his
starving children.
Women
too,
have
assumed
a
bolder
attitude.
We
hear
about
suits
for divoree
and
separaticn
daily.
:
Women
are doing the runuing
around
and the breaking
up of homes.
Murder is committed
by women
as
an
alibi
to get away
from home
to
become
No. 118.