Just Received
AT THE
Lestrade Brothers Butter
in 1 & 2 Ib. tins Viking brand.
Christiansted,
29th August
1921.
M. A. PRETTO.
RR
RS
TNSRRIy
T
"."A CARD
,
The
children
and grandchildren
of the late Mrs. Philippa
Schmedes
through this
medium beg
to thank
all friends
and
acquaintances
who
showed
them sympathy
during
the
illness and at the death of their aged
mother and
grandmother.
_
LOCAL.
;
The Governor
has appointed Mr. A. R.
Me Intosh to a seat
in the Colonial Coun-
cil vice Mr. Francis
Lunney
disqualified
as
member
under
the
provisions
of an
act of
Congress
declaring
aliens ineligi-
ble
to
hes~me
members
of
the Colr~*
°
Countus
ot the Virgin Islands.
The Governor returned
to St.
Tho
by the
Vixen
yesterday
afternoo
Excellency
delivered
an
address
Coancil the text
of which
will be
1
in this issue.
Before boarding
the '
the
Governor
revie
"ed the
police
drawn
up on
the
wharf
and
addre
the men.
Former
Despatching
Secretary
R.
G.
Williams,
now
in
the
service
of
the
United States
Shipping
Board,
is paying
a short
visit to St.
Croix.
The Parima
with
a
full cargo
of
su-
gar sailed from
Frederiksted
this
a.
m.
and
the
Raporel
S.
S.
Vinton
County
arrived
there
today
also
with
260
tons
of cargo for Frederiksted
and 1,946 tons
for Christiansted.
CORRECTION.
In yesterday’s
editorial,
15th line from
the bottom,
the
word fatthful is
correct-
ed
in such copies
as
the
error
appears,
to read fruitful.
’
Governor’s
Message
to Colo-
nial Council St. Croix, 29 Au-
gust
1921.
ha
ot
U
i
It
was
my intention
to have
returned
ST.
CRUI
X
AVLES
to
St
Croix long ere this, but the
press
of covernment
work has been
unusually
heavy and
has tied me down
very closely
to the main office.
[ inherited, from the
previous administration,
a tangle
in
the
judiciary, brought
abouf
by strange
and
unusual
personal
factors.
In this matter
I
had
no
personal
concern,
whatsoever,
save
to preserve
intact
the dignity
and
integrity
of the
island
government
and
to
see
that the pecple
shoald have
good
and
faithful service
and
not be imposed
apon.
Owing
to
misunderstandings
in
Washington,
due
to
the long
distance
and
slow postal
communication,
..
great
amount
of time was
consumed
in
bring-
ing
to iight the
true facts
of the
case,
but
when
these
facts
were
finally
and
fully understood
in the National
Capital,
the
fog was quickly cleared
away and
I
trust
that
we shall not
be further divert
ed,
by such complications,
from our
im-
mediate
duties and responsibilities.
2.
In
my last
letter
to the
other Celonial
Council,
I
mentioned
the
active
part
taken
by
Senator
Kenyon,
in
securing
for
the islands
the
two provisos recently
passed
by
the
Congress.
1
neglected,
however,
to state,
through lack of earlier
information,
that
‘ve
are
also
greatly
indehted
to
Judge
Horace
M.
Towner,
ot. C..
tor
ws influence
in the Hous2
of
Representatives.
Both
Senator
Kenyon
and Judge Towner
are sincere
friends
of
these
islands anfl have
the true interests
of the islands
at heart.
S
.m pleased
to learn
that the Commit
;e of the Colonial Council is giving care-
ful
consideration
to
the
local
tax
law,
and
thinking to make
'more clear
any of
the
provisicns
of
the
proposed
law
that
may
not
be
fully uanderstood,
I
hav:
broaght
with me
the
Governor’s
Finan-
cial
Aide, who will gladly place
himself
at
your disposition
for as
leng a
period
as
you may
desire.
I
re
lize
that
you
all
wish
to have
concrete
examples
of
how
the law will work in
special
cases
and
it is much
more
gratifying to
have
the law thus carefully considered
by you,
rather
than
to
have it jammed thr-ugh
as
a purely
gavernmeut
wmeasure.
We
want
the
best
and
most
just
tax
law
possibile.
4
I congratulate
the
Colonial Council
up-
on
the
passage of the judiciary law
and
from the best
legal advice,
I am convine-
ed that
it
will make
for
economy
and
efficiency in
the
courts
of the
islands.
oy,
The Head
of the
Department
of
Pub-
lic Works
has
just
completed
carefully
worked
out plans
for a water. supply in
Christiansted
and
Frederiksted.
These
plans
will be
submitted
to
you
at
this
session
sndI will ask you to
give
them
careful
consideration,
to
the
end
that
you
may
enact
legislation
autborizing
the work
to
be
undertaken
at an
early
date.
Water
works
of sufficient capa-
city are
essential
to
every
community,
and
in the
States
the
money
necessary
to construct
them
is generally
obtaired
throuzh
a
local
issue
of honds,
guaran-
teed by
the
local
government.
I
know
of
no
duty
that
should
be
held
para-
mount
to
this
one
of affording
an
as-
sured
water supply
to
our towns
on
-this
island.
:
:
6
The Seeretary
of Agriculture has
taken
the
keenest
personal
interest
ir
these
isiands
and
has
gone
to unusual
trouble
and
has exercised painstaking
care in the
selection
of the
man
to
take charge
of
the Agricuitural Experiment Station here.
The man selected
has had
very long and
and wide
experience
in the tropics,
hav-
ing served
in
the
Philippines,
Guam,
Honolulu,
California
and
Florida.
The
|
Secretary
of Agriculture
is
very
sym-
pathetic
toward
my
desire
to make
the
Virgin Islands
self-supporting
in
vege-
table and frvit culture
and
has
express-
ed his willingness to cordially assist
us in
this work.
!
%
I
will bespeak
the
same
cardial
sup-
port
of the
new
Despatching
Secretary
that you have always accorded
his prede-
cessor,
the
latter
having
been
recalled
from civil and assigned
to naval
duty
in
the due
course of National
Government
policy.
It is not well that
young officers
should
remain
away
from
naval
duties
for too long a period,
so
that Ensign
Fox
has
again taken
up the regular
duties of
his
Corps; butI know
that you
will
be
glad
to learn
that the
Government
con-
siders
that
he has
performed
the
duties
of
Despatching
Secrstary
with
marked
ability and that this fact will be rocorded
in his official record
in Washington.
The
Navy
Departnsent
has
been
more
than
generous
in
lending
trained
officers
to
the
Colonial Government
and
the
island
budget
has
been
saved
thousands
of dol-
lars
in
consequence.
The
Despatching
Secretary,
in
the
absence-of
the
Gov-
ernor,
is the Governor’s immediate
repre-
sentative
in St. Croix, and Mr. Rappolee
will at all times
be
in
the closest
touch
with
the G)ivernment,
devoting
himself
|
entirely to the interests
of St.
Croix.
SUMNER E.
W. KITTELLE,
Gavernor.
In addition
to my
message
there
is
a
subject
upon which I find it
necessary
to
speak
at
this time.
It has
come
to
my
notice that certain
persons
on this
island
who
labor
have
quit work.
It has also
come
to
my
notice
that
other
persons
who labor do not wish
to quit work.
The
right to work or not to work is an inaliena-
ble right under the American flag.
Fur-
|
ther
information
has
been
received
by
me
to the effect that those
who
wish
to
worrk have been
threatened
that if they