spirit which prevails
among
that class of.
aliens
who believes
they are “‘IT.”’
““An Alien’’ has lost
sight of the fact
that there
are
many
natives
who
hold
some of
the
greatest
positions
of trust
and confidence
in this
island—as
refer-
ence
is made
to the Public Schools,
allow
me to inform ‘‘An Alien’’ that with few
exceptions,
the
principal
teacher
in
every
school
in this
island is either
a
na-
tive or an American Citizen—but they do
not
blow
their
own horns,
no,
they
are
too modest
But, to get to the point.
Has ‘An Alien’
deait
with
my subject,
re:
the deporta-
tion of officious aliens,
or to
use
a better
term,
UNDESIRABLES®1 guess
not;
and
the .insolence
of
that party,
he
or
she,
shows
clearly
that
the
‘‘cap fits
well’’, and
also
that
the
‘‘nail went
home’’.
We
have
aliens
in this island
who be-
‘have
in
a
very
commendable
manner,
no one
would ever
molest them, for they
do
not
interfere with what does
not con-
cern them;
but when
we meet
those
who
are obnoxicus
it is
high time
to cry out
for their deportation.
I
believe
the
Government
is
wide
awake,
and can
see
that the
time
is
about ripe to show
taese
aliens
that thay
will not
be tolerated
in St.
Oroix when
they
behave
in
a manner
which
is unbe-
coming
to
the ideals
of true
American-
ism.
Yours truly
-
A NATIVE.
We hear
that
‘‘Fighting Boney’’ and
his
sparring
partners,
and
the
young
ckampions
of
the
Frederiksted
High
School will give
a
Boxing
Exhibition
in
Christiansted
on
Wednesday
evening,
Nov. 2nd. Particulars
later.— The Herald,
Oct.
29th.
NEWS
AMONG VIRGIN
ISLANDERS
IN NEW YORK.
By ASELBY L. ToTTEN
Despite
the
information coming
from
Mr.
Acdoliph Sixto of
St. Thomas
which
is
to the effect
that
the
inhabitants
of
the Virgin Islands
look upon
an offer of
Charity
or
Benevolence
as
IMPERTI-
NENCE
a
benefit
committee
was
ap-
pointed
on the 9th
inst. by the new
Vir-
gin
lsland
Protective
League
to raise
funds with which
to give
the poor in the
islands
a Christmas
dinner and
toys for
the
little orphan
children.
Miss
Isabel
George
is Chairlady of the committee.
Business
depression
in
the
United
States
has
reached
an
alarming
stage,
and strenuous
efforts are being
made
to
find work for the unemployed.
f
Highway robberies
of a bold nature
is
taking
place in Harlem flats,
and
many
2
L, CRUIIIX
AV 1S
Virgin [slanders
have
been
made
victims
of a general clean out.
{t is rumoured
here
that the
laboring
classes
in St.
Croix have
been
made
to
believe that Virgin Islanders
are starving
in
New York,
and are
very
anxious
to
return
to
the islands.
This is not true.
If there
are sufficient
inducements
to
affer,
Virgin Islanders
will ret
rn, until then,
they arecontent
to
remain
and
take advantage
of
the
op-
portunities
afforded here.
There
are
no
people
anywhere
who
have enjoyed
the
happiness
of this coun-
try to a greater
degree
than
the la' oring
classes
who vame
here from the
islands.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
Washington,
Oet.
24th—An
amend-
ment
to the
Foreign
debt. refunding bill
providing that
the
rate
of interest
paid
the
United
States by
the
Allies should
average
five percent,
was defeated
in the
House by
a vote
of
128 to 68"
Londnn,
Oct.
24th.—A
demonstration
in favour
of
Sacco
and
Van Zetti before
the American Embassy
failed completely,
bat
smal|
groups
of
Communists
in
Whitechapel
and
speeches
were made
by
Sylvia- Pankhurst
and others,
protesting
against
the condemnation
of the two Ital-
ians.
:
Chalons
Sur
Marne,
Oct.
24th.—The
ceremony of the selection
of an
unknown
American soldier togk place
this morning
before
the
military
and civil authorities
and
a large gathering of others.
General
Duport,
addressing
General Rogers,
ex-
pressed
the
gratitade
of the French
sol-
diers for their American brothers-in-arms
who had contributed
to the victory which
saved
the
world.
“General
Rogers
ex-
pressed
his
thanks
and
the
American
sergeant
Younger then
selected
a
coffin
by placing there
on 8 bunch
of white
ros-
es.
The
coffin
was placed on
a catafal-
que in the Town
Hall,
where
the people
filed past
and
placed
flowers,
around it.
It will leave this evening for Havre where
the
cruiser
‘‘Olympic’’ has
arrived for
transporting
it
to tue United States.
Jacksonville,
Oct.,
25th—The
business
section
of
'l'ampais
practically
flooded
under
three
feet
of water
ms
a result
of a
Gulf Sterm,
aeccording
to advices
reaching
here
tonight
over
crippled
transmission
lines.
No
loss
of life have
been
reported,
but
industry is at a stand
still.
The entire
west
coast
of Florida
is feeling
the
effects
of the
storm
and
is virtually isolated
in
so
far as
com-
munication
is concerned.
Tampa
is with
out lights, telegraph,
telephone
or street
car
service
according
to
the
advices
which
were
received
here
byway
of
Plant
City,
about
thirty
miles
north-
east
of Tampa.
Chicago,
Oct. 26th. —The payment
by
Germany of her reparation
debt to Great
Britain
and repayment
by the
Allies of
war
loans
from
Great
Britain
‘‘might
prove rather
a curse
than
a
blessing’’,
said
the former Chancellor
of
the
Ex-
chequer,
Mr. Mec Kenna of Great Britain,
last night in an
address
on
International
finance
and
trade
before
the
commer-
cial club of Chicago.
We have
lost
more
in
our country by
the
existence
of
two
million
unemployed,
he
said,
than
we
shall
ever get
in value from
the
German
reparation
over
a periog
of thirty years.
I would
rather
see
our reople
employed
and
producing
wealth,
than
receive
a
dribble
of wealth
from Germany
at
the
cost of being
unemployed.
And what
1
say of ourselves.
is true in a lesser degree
of the United
States.
When
[
see
these
things I really begin
to
doubt whether
it
is for the benefit of the
United Kingdom
that §ythese
areparations
should
be
paid
and whether
the debts
of the
Allies to
us
might
not,
if they
were
paid,
prove
rather
a curse
than
a blessing.
New York,
Oct.
26th.—The
raw sugar
market
was firmer today
and prices
were
1/16c.
higher
for duty
free
sugars,
on
the
basis
at
4.06
for
centrifugals.
Re-
fined
was steady
at
5.20 to 5.30 for fine
granulated
and
with
refiners
behind
in
deliveries.
Refined
futures
were
with-
out transactions.
>
Tampa,
Fla., Qct. 26th.—Five
persons
are known
to be dead
in thls city ana
St.
Petersburg,
across
Tampa
as
the
result
of yesterday’s
storms
which
caused
a
local
property
damage
estimated
be-
tween=sl,ooo,ooo
and
$2,000,000
Ap-
proximately
four hundred
houses
were
washed
away into
the
bay,
at Palmetto
Beach,
on
the
outskirts
of
Ybor
City.
The
residential
section
along
Bayshore,
Boulevard
was covered
with
water
over
an
area
of two blocks
back from
the
sea
wall.
Fort
Meyers,
Fla.,
Oct.
26th —(Via
Punta
Rassa
Cable
Station.
The fiercest
gale
this section
has
known
in
several
ye.
rs raged
here
36 hours. beginning
at
midnight
on
Monday
and
attaining
a
maximum
velocity of one hundred
miles
an
hour.
Transmission
service
was
prostrated,
while
the
property
loss
for
Lee County is expected
to
total well over
a million and a half dollars. Reports from
San
Ibel and
Captiva Islands
said
that
water ccvered
the entire
island.
Estera
Island,
near
here.
on which
two
beach
resorts
are located,
was badly
damaged,
the
cottages
ard other
buildings
being
wrecked.
Local
railway
officials
said
this city would be without
transportation
service.
The
highways
out
of
Fort
Meyers
are almnst
impassable
and
many
bouses
in Punta
Rassa
were either
dam-
aged
or washed
away,
Washington,
Oct.
26th.
—United
States
exports
to Europe during ‘Septemker fell
off by
about
$31,000,000
as
compared
with
August,
while
imports
increased
by
$4,000,000,
according
to
foreign
trade figures issued today by the Depart-
ment of Commerce.