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Spacial Friday Evening Goncert,
U.S. NAVALBAND,
Christiansted,
Virgin Islands,
September
5,
1919.
First
Musician
J.
W, Paulus,
Leader.
PROGRAM:
Part
1
March.
Brisk and Ereezy..Sol
Wolerstein.
Waltz.- Bliss
Eterral
... Harold
Bennet.
One Step.
We
Are
All Qut Os Step
But
Jim Irw n
Berlin.
Medley of War Sor gs and Patriotic
Melo-
‘
ies.
United We Stand......Al
Hayes.
Part
11
Mareh.
High Sehoo!
Cadet 5........ John
Philip Sous:.
Selection.
Echoes
irom the Metropolitan
Opera
H0u5e........The0.
M. Tobani..
Song.
When
We
Went
To Sunday
School
... Egbert
Van Alstyne.
One Srep.
General
Persaimg....Carl
D.
Vandersloo:.
NATIONAL ANTHEM.
EDITORIAIL.
In reference
to open
letrers
exchanged
between
Mr.
Einar
Svendsen
and
Mry.
Joseph
W.
Daily
in
recent
numbers
of
this
paper,
several
of our readers
and sub-
scribers.
including
patrons
of the Chris-
tiansted
Theatre,
lLave
called
our atten-
tion
to
a remark
of Mr. Daily, demandin
that
we bring to
th2
notice of the
writer
of
he
letter,
throt gh
this
medium,
tha
public exception
t:ken,
and
resentment
fel:
.gainst
what
is
decemed
''a
nasty
slur’’ thirownewicho
1t
resecvatioa
at
the
whole
community
and
embodied
in the
las:
part
of
the
f rst paragraph
of
the
reverend gentlemar
’s communication
ap-
pecring
in
the
issie
of Wednesday
3rd
ins ant,
and
readin:
as
follows:
‘'lf you
we
e
not
to
put
cn
a
film treating the
sutbject
the
title yroclaimed,
then
the
title was used
simp
y to cateh
the
people
as
it carried with it the promise of some-
thing emphatically
salacious.”’
Notwithstanding
't is
our private opin-
ion
that
the
intenled
meaning
of this
sen.ence
may
not
contemplate
an
asper-
sior
upon
the
moras
o
our community
witich can probably
bear comparison
with
thoe
of
other
plaes
of
like
size
and
sittated
under
rel: tively
similar
condi-
tiors,
we
consider
it
our
duty to repre-
sen . the injured
fe:lings
of
our
fellow
ci.izens
who
decla
e
that
the
press
is
resonsible
for the pablicity of, and
thare-
fore cannot
be
sileat
while
giving
out
broideast,
an insinuation
that the peopl:
of Christiansted
wi.] be
induced
to vis.i
plares
of
public
amusement
because:
lewl
or indecent
e: teriainment
is offer
ed there.
Itis
imjpressed
upon
us that
the
better
classes
in
the
community
are
unquestionably
maligned
in
Father
Dai'y’s
letter
when
it
is
borne
in mind
thac
the
morals
of
the
depraved
could
not
be endangered
by vulgar exhibitions,
=3 (e¥ AN |-
whereas
the
patrons
of the theatre
are
|
made
up of different
classes,
respectable
|
people being
in
the majority.
The best
course
open
to
us
is
to hereby
ask the
Revd.
Father Daily to make
his meanirg
clear
to
the
people
who feel
that they
have been
insulted
without oceasion,
and
we have
no doubt but
that
he will doso.
The mail-boat
Creole
arrived
with St.
|
Thomas
mails
this
mornmg
and
it
is
|
expected
to dispatch
her
-n the
return
trip at
noon
tomorrow
(€th).
|
For
the
information
of
the
publie, it
is
advised
that
no
mai.
for
the
States
will be forwarded
by the
s.
s.
“'Korona’’
expected
to
leave
Chiistiansted
about
Monday
the
Bth
inst.,
it being
under-
stood
that
the
steamer
is
homeward
bound
via Cuba,
in whica
case
it
would
|
be
to advantage
to
use
the
route
via
Porto
Rieo.
The six
reel
drama
‘‘Beans’’
was
ex-
hibited
at
the
theatre
last
night
and
made
quite
a
hit.
It
really
proved
a
catching
series
of acts skillfullyperform
ed
and
so
attractively
arranged
as
to
hold attention
all the time.
The main fea-
ture of the film was
a beautiful
girl’s
er-
rand to San Francisco
with valuable papers
which
were
to
be delivered there
within
a certain
time. Her perilousexploits
across
the country,
her loss and
recove
y of the
papers,
her getting in and
out of jail, and
the
many
comical
exhibitions
of her
ex-
ercises
in booming '‘Beans’’, her father’s
business
which
she
desirad
tr advertise,
concluding
with
her bechrotal
to
a law-
yer who accompanied
ber
on the journcy
and
shared
her
adventures,
form
as
thrilling and
charminz
a
story
asany
we
have
seen
on the.
screen;
and
many
persons
declare
they’d
like
to
sce
it
again.
The show
eonciuded
with a
com-
ic that sent
the
audience
home
in
good
spirits.
OFFICIAL NEWS.
With regard
to
the
use of phosphorus
for poisoning
land
crabs,
Dr. Longfieid
Smith,
Agronomist
in
Charge
of
the
Agricultural
lKxperimen:
Station,
St.
Croix, states
he used
sane
and
found
it
very efficient.
He ad
'«
hat phosphorus
is very dangerous
and
ir
its pure
f‘orm
ought
to be supplied
to experts
only.
The |
mixture
of
phosphorus
and
corn-meal
should
be
made
up by
a
<aemist
and
d.s-
tributed.
It
is
so
poiscnous
that
the |
greatest
caution
must
be
observed
or else
|
pigs,
fowls,
cattle,
dogs.
ete.,
will
be
poisoned.
The correct
way
is to put the
|
mixture
right
down
the crab’s
hole be-
|
low the
reach
of the
other
animals
and
|
not
to put
more in one ho e than the crab
|
is likely to eat.
Dr. Smith
states
he will
|
be
nappy
at all times
to furnish
personal
advice
or
send
literaturz
to persons
om
i
the
subject
of
any
particular
insector
|
pest they wish to destroy.
A private
attached
to
the Marine Bar-
racks,
St.
Thomas,
recently
tried
by
court-martial
for unlawfully eutering
a
grocery
store
in the lower
end of town
and demanding
beer
from the proprietor,
and
upon
being
refused,
using
abusive
language
tothe proprietor,
was sentenced
by the
court-martial
to solitary confine-
ment
on bread
and water
for thirty.-days,
tull
ration
every
third day,
and to per-
form extra duties
for
three
months
and
to lose $99 pay.
The
sentence
has been
approved.
In regard
to present
regulations
cover-
ing the sale
of bay rum as
a toilet article,
which requires
purchasers
to sign an
ap-
plication
blank
showing
the
use
for
which
the
purchase
is intended,
it has
been noted that unserupuloas
dealers
have
made
sales
to persons
who
signed
ficti-
tlous
names
to such
blanks,
and
in ex-
cessive
quantities.
[t
muast
have
been
apparent
to these
d=2alers
that
the names
were
fictitious,
in view of their
unusual
character.
An
amendment
to
che
pre--
sent regulations
is in course
of prepara-
tion whereby
dealers
in bay rum
or alco-
aol
will in
future
be required
tolully
satisfy
themselves
of the identity
<f tae
purchas~r,
and
a
non compliance
of the
regiilations
in the future
will be
deemed
sufficient
t»
warran.
the
revocation
of
he
license
to sell
these
articles.
Under
Government
supervision
there
were
recently
soid
at
St.
Thomias
a
num-
ber
of
surveyed
lows
at publie
auetiqQi.
Throuchi
an
error
more
was sold by
the
auctioceer
than
had
been
intended
for
sale,
the mistake
aceruing
in view of the
ract
rhat
a part
of the original
number
had
been
withdrawn
for sale.
WEATHER
REPORT.
St.
Croix,
Bar.
30.00,
-Ther
36,
E.
partly clouay.
Rainfall
for past
24 hours,
32%.
3
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Reply
to Mr. Svendsen.
Who is the
man hiding behind
you? e
is indulging in
gcuerrilla
warfare.
1 take
up
categorically
the
statements
in
to-
davs
ietier
to
.
o
Paragraph
L.
© ‘‘Surely the film
had
to
deal
with
“'Birth
Control’’ but
having
been
advertised
as
a Comedy only afilthy
mind could place
a filthy consiruetion
up-
on il
Answer.
'Birth Controi’’ is a
stereo-
tvped expression.
You may
argue
that
berth
and
birth
are
convertible
terms,
but
linked
with
the
word
‘‘control
»’Birth’’ takes
on
a
very
specific
mean-
ing.
The
conclusion
to
be
drawn
from
your contension
is,
that because
‘it is
a
¢:medy
it
is
all
right.
In other
word
it the
sa'ne
theme
is acted
in
(ragedy
it
may
be all wrong.
Whetner it is Comedy
o* Tragedy
does
not enter
into the moral-
ity of a theme.
That is only the channel of
the theme.
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