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“A WOST EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCTION”
Powerful,
Thrilling And Exciting From Beginning
To End
“The Sleeping
Lion”
A Six Reel
Universal
Feature
This
is
a picture taken from real
life in the
Italian quarter
in
New York and
the
Wild West
and
is of the most sensational
kind.
The
Production
is literallyfilled
with
picturesque
effects,
splendidly
vortrayed,
touching the heart strings.
_
_
You can simply not afford to
miss
this
performance
where
you
see
the father
and
motherlessismall
boy being saved
by
an Italian
sculptor
from
stalling into the }ands
o
the police and
later following the sculptor
to the wild west after being adopted
by him
ADMISSION:
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B e
i
s
e s
(General
Entrance..........
e
e
s et
r s
Lecture.
_ There
will be
a
Ipéture
in
Sunday
Market
on FRIDAY
NIGHT,
bth
inst.,
at 8 o’clock.
Subject:—'‘WHAT
IS
MAN”’
Speaker:-
A. C. BOUGH
All
are
cordialiy invited.
Revd.
Wolter
begs
to
thank
all
who
have
contributed
towards
the
purse
presented
to him
last
Sun-
day.
We
also thank
the
members
and
friends for
the sympathy
and
kindness
shown
to him during his
sickness.
All these
tokens
of love
and goodwill are highly xppreciated
and willnot be forgotten.
Friedenstahl,
March Ist 1920.
We have
been
asked
to
mention
that
the Christiansted
Native Brass
Band will
give a concert
on the Whart Friday even-
ing, sth.
inst.
Program
later.
OFFICIAL
NEWS.
March 2, 1920.
Governor
Oman
returned
from
St.
Croix on the U. 8. S.
Vixen last evening.
The
U. S.
S.
Henderson
sailed
from
Charleston,
S. C., last friday
on her
trip
to WestI dian ports
and
is
due
in
St.
Thomas
about March
10th.
Co .responde
ce.
The
delegates
of
the
Virgia
Islands
Prorective
League
received
the following
cablegram
yesterday,
“Return
immediately,
letter
follows
with information.”’
(Signed)
KOBERTS.
New York.
Feb.
10, 1920.
42 West
132 St.
.
New York.
.y
Editor St.
Croiwx Avis.
Christiansted,
St. Croix,
Virgin Island,
U.
S. A.
Dear
Sir:
-
There
appeared
in the
Herald of the
24th ultimo an article bearing
the caption
"The
Virgin Islands
Protective
League
in
New York and
the work of
its
Dele-
gates
here’’, in which
the Editor
of said
paper,
by statements
and inferences,
at-
tempts
to cas” a
reflection
on
the aims,
objects,
and
purpeses
of
the Virgin
Is-
lands Protective Leagne.
‘
Kven
though
we.
have
our Delegates
in the Island, whom
we feel confident are
able
to
defend
the
principles
of
the
League
of
which they
are
th>
founders,
we none the less feel it a duty incumbent
upon
us
as
a body to refute
those
state
ments,
and
condemn
those inferences
in
which the distinguished
Editor? attempts
to cast
a reflection upon
our organization
by misrepresentation.
First,
(he
gentleman
inferred
and
stated
that
he had promised
the
League
through
its members
his “*‘Wholehearted
Support’”.
We
wish
to state
very
em-
phatically
tha. said
statementis
en
un-
qualified
falsehood,
for
rhree
cfticial
letters
were
sent
to
him by
our
corres-
pondence
department
soliciting
his
co-
operation,
and
all
have
been
ignored.
To
none did he respond.
Sa dsilence
was
s 0 ominous,
that
we
logically concluded
that
he
was
totally
indifferent
to
our
movement,
-
if
not
absolutely
opposed
to it,
Secondly,
in his
attempt
to
calumniate
our Delegates
and
leave
a lasting stizma
on
our
cause,
he
cast
all
gentlemanly
principles
to
the
winds,
and
published
private letters
that were written
to
him
at
a time when
reports
of atrocities
and
abuases
in the
[slands,
came
to us
thick
and fast,
and caused
us
to use
caustic
as-
sertions,
against
those
whom,
according
to reports,
were responsible
for same.
" May we ask right here
in justice
o all
coneerned:
what
man or woman in
whose
breast
there
is
respect,
dignity
and
honor,
that would
remain
mute,
cailous,
and
indiffereat
at such
a
time,
and
not
voiced
his
or
her
protest
in
the
rmcst
rabid language?.
Thirdly, taking the pugnent
letters
of
Miss Hendrickson
and others coupled with
the
“‘overdrawn and in many
cases
false
statements’’
of
the
News
Papers,
the
Editor
eould
have®rend=red
the
lLe:zue
the
invaluable
service
which
he
cliims
t 0 have promised,
by correcting
the ialse
report,
(if false
they were),
rather
than
“*lonk upon the activities
of the
League
with suspicion’’.
The article
he reterred
to in the New York Call on July 28,
1919,
should
not
have
taken
so
much
of
his
“"breath
away’’, as
not to
allow
him
at
least to correct
the misstatement
and
mis-
information,
that
were made
and
sent
to
the
League,
especially
as
he
claims
to
have
proffered
it
‘‘wholehearted’’
sup-
port’’.
I have always
made
it a point to
stick
to facts
as I know them,
and
state
*filem
hunestly,
says
the
learned
gentleran.
Forsoothe!
Did
hot
a
splendid
oceasion
present
itself in which to manifest that spi-
rit by correcting
an
erroneous
statement
which
would cause
other
well
meaning
people
to
be led astray?
But
we are
in-
clined
to believe
that
the attitude
of
si-
lence
maintained,
was
in order
that
the
League
to
wvhich
he
had
promised
his
“*wholehearted
support’’,
should
labor
under false
impression,
so far as
he
was
concerned,
and that at an opportuned
time
take
advantage
to
cast
reflection
upon
it.
Concluding,
the
writer
asserts
thet
to
his
mind and
the
mind of
the
majority
of
the population
more
harm
than
good
had
been
done by
the visit
of the
Dele-
gate
.
That remains
to be
seen.
and
his
prematured
conclusion
the
near
future,
will prove
to
the
contrary
not
with-
standing.
For
this aistinguished
Editor?
to
as-
sert and affirm that the
entire
field
nad
already,
béen
covered,
would
be
ridicu-
lousé
were
1t not that
so great
a principle