_ L i / é\ \\ k{ X ,"\\r/ v\ LW N & Igr/ . & _,.'\\\/,Q‘,j- /ot \\ ]w l| | !\\k . ‘\(\\\\/z‘ i| | \\lQ‘ B| s \ Ry \l |AI AN -\ l ; ] i ; R . o . : Mé\ !! . \\J» ;//;, %\ k. )\\, 3| /, L @ \\\ Q \ IOTH YHAR THE Si. CROIX AVI } is printed ond published daily (Sundays | and Hclidays excepted) by G. Johansen | at the Avis Olffice. TER VS---50 cents monthly v aloance, | 2 cents per single copy. | Jatered s second-cluss matter May | 28th 19.7 at the Post Office at Christian- | sted. St Croto, Vil of the U, 8; A+, un- | len the det ofitaren 3. 1829, | Contribution to this paper will bz glad- | Ly received ivhen the sune deals with mat- ters of jencrul interest, and is accompa- nwied with tie quthor’s name, asa quar- | antee oj goo ! faith. The editor cannot be respons:ole jor the views of his correspon- | dents nor does he necessarily enaorse them. BETTER OFF IN AMERICA. Rich Amoricans in Englard are pot | hanov ~ Thae do pot incicase thgrs | riches (here, but have hig slices cut off their incomes by the heavy taxatiop that ! tho war ha: made neecessary. Inquiries | in Amervican cireles in. London by the } Daily all show that a numbar ofs wealthy Americans who settled there . for a cood many vea.s have returned home or a'= contemplating doing sopi “owing to the strain on their resources% due to the British super-tax and the tax . a: on at home.”” One American res.dent =% who has lived in London for ten years | says he likes Britisn home life nd the : British hozpitality, but not the super- | tax. apd that '~ when 1t comes (o pres sentine® the Britisa government with haif your income it 1s time (o leave. A person living in England, with an income of $500,000 from an American husiness, pave to the United States ihe | 12 per cent, normal tax of $60,006 and sho 50 per cent. super-tax of $250,000 making, toiether, $310,000 that comes | home: and then on t e balance of $l9O.- ‘ 000 he pays the British super-tax of | $99,750, and finds himself lefL witn just $90,250. A Moriimer Singer, the eldest | son of the inventor of the sewing mach- | ine, is said to have told the British in- | come tax commission in 1919 that, liv- | ing as he does in England, and deriv- | inc his income from the United States, | he enjoys oaly about 30 per cent.,, of | th t income. instead of TO. per cent., | which he would have if he came home. | hat does not appear to be an entirely | accurate starement, but it is s )mething | like the fact ‘‘in the rough.”” Taxation ; is higher and the cost of living is higher | in Bogland than in America. It seems ’ CHRISTIANSTED, Vil U.S. A, FRIDAY. bTH MARCH 1920 that in some American households in Encland there is a swelling chorus of “Fatner, deay suther, come home!”’ And some of the Jathers begin (o hear, but those who prefer the Englisa tane muas pay th2 pipar.— Boston Herald, Feb. 14. A DANGEROUS ALLIANCE Uniess the rwo diplomatiec documents, one Serplan ana (he otier Frencn, pub- lished in the idea Nationale at Rome are forgeries, the government o1 the Serbi- ans, Croats and S.ovenes endeavored 1n September last to effect an alliance wich France against [taly. . While reserving a doubt as to ire-genulneness ot these notes, we sho> d™mot say th .t their au- thenticity is it probable. Suppose they are authentie, wnaat couid have been the origin of the serbian note and what its objee.? ltaly does not appear to have _been pamed in it, buc the alleged con- tenis show quite clearly that attecic by Ltaly was fearet and rnat ffrench assist- ance to repel such attacs was gregtly desired. Serbiui is represenced as sayving that she neaded the :(riendship of France to guarantee her outlets on the Adri- .atie and also 0 preveat any ascendaney ‘ln that sea No power bur ltaly is there fo’ interfere witn Yugoslavic harbors or ~seek supremacy in the Adriade. ltaly ~was obviousiy the power referred to in ‘the promise tna? rance would be allow- ed 'iree aciion on the Daimatian coast in the eveat of a conflet with a Mediter- ranean power,”” and woulid also receive the aid of Serbian trocps and ships. F'rance on her parc was to help Serbia with the building of a fleet ana mercan- tile marine, and to guarantce the integri- ty of Yugonslavia. [ne agreement was to take the form of 2 military eonvention as the basis for a definite a'liance. IThese proposals show a crudeaess of diplomacy that suggests the Serbian hand. [France did not like them. She deftiy turned them aside by saying ithati a commercial agree- ment must precede a military convention. Why did Serbia cnoose France to be her aliv? Possibly because of the . assumption that ltaly and France can never be true iriends owing to Louis Na- poleon having required the eession of Savoy and Nice to France ior the assis- tance given by French troops at Magen- ta and Solierino sixty years ago. The troud.e bet reen &ly and Yugo- Slavia ¢oncernin; Fiune 8d the Daima- tian coast is sufficient to account for the Serbian desire () secare a strong ally. But the proposed alliance, had it been N. D :‘) coneluded, would have been dangerous to the contracting nations as well as the na tion against whom it was directed. And curel” the Serbian government must have Lorectten that every treaty made must be approved and published by the council of the League of nations. If the intend- ed uyreemen' had been made it would not have been approved. What is want- ed is an agr -ment between Italy and Yugo Slavia t¢ accept the decision of the council on the points in dispute regarding Fiume and Dalniatia. let that be regis- tered at the leavre secretariat and peace in the Adriatic will be assured. —lbid. e ee Lecture. There will be a lecture in Sunday Market on FRIDAY NIGHT, sth inst.. at 8 o’ciock. Subject:—""WHAT 1S MAN" Speaker: A. G BOUGH All are cordialty invited. " üblication FROM THE POLICE. rvHE attention of ail owners and drivers E of vehicies in the Island of St. Croix is hereby called to the observance of, and compliance with, Paragraph 27 of the Police Regulations for St. Croix of 20th January 1915 and the Supplemen- tary Fegulaticns ther