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the
Bth
May
1920.
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K. HIGGINS
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A. E. STAKEMANN
President
Deat Mr. Editor,
.
;
With
your kind permission
to a
little of
your
valuable
space,
allow
me
to comment
a
little
on
the big mountain
of milk which
the
whole
island
is stum-
bling over during the
last
ten days.
During these
long days
since
the
Dairy
has
been
closed
and
no
milk to be had.
there
seem
to
have
been
less
deaths
among
the adults
and
invalids;
and
just
on
the
other
hand,
or
other
side,
whizh
ever
you
care
to
say,
are
the
beautiful
babies
which
have
been
brought
to
be
weighed
on
the
nQw idie milk scale,
the
last one “gaining”qhalf
a pound since the
closing
of
the
dairy.
When
[ told her
that
she
had
gained
haif
= pound
and
did
not
need
any
more
milk from
the
dairy,
she
smiled
and
buried
her
face
delighted
on her
nana’s
shoulder.
May
we
not then
throw
a
glance
at the good
old
adage
whiech
says
‘‘in
every
evil
there’s
a good.”’
Editor Jackson,
in my opinion
was very
liberal
when
he
a short
time
ago
in com-
menting
on
the
precious
‘‘Marriage
sa-
crament’’
said,
that the religion of
many
was only ‘‘skin deep’’; but
my
belief
at
that
time and
up
to
now,
believe it was
and
is only ‘‘surface deep.’’
Just
as you
would
take
a
piece
of
chalk
and daub
the
black
skin
or
a
piece
of soft char-
coal and
daub
the
white
skin, only soil-
ing the surfaces.
‘‘Religion a thing
of
the past,
or
per-
haps
‘‘not yet born’’
as
a friend
remark-
ed
to
me
sometime
ago.
In my opinion
and perhaps
[ am alone,
there
should
be
no competing
with the
milch
cows
and
‘‘their’’ calves
with the
uncertain
sale
or
price
of
other
cattle
which are raised
for working
or market
use particularly.
Through
long years
of
“‘trying’’ experiences
in
the
milk busi-
ness,
the
terrible
losses
in
its different
ways
or forms,
wculd,
as
Editor Jackson
said about
the making of our butter,
*‘fill
a
volume.””
Therefore
I' dare
not
lose
my time,
or
waste,
or
use
the editor’s
valuable
space
to explain it here.
-
I must
now
conclude
in thanking
Dr
Longfield Smith
very
much
for his kind
and
very
much
appreciated
letter
of
Saturday
last,
when
he
gave
a corobo-
rated explanation
and
very
ample apolo-
gy for the
h sty
action
of the membcrs
of the dairy and in
which
appreciation
I
feel sure
I have
the
suave
honor
to be
joined by many.
And now that the stock
which
perhaps
has
been
lying long on
hand of condensed
and* evaporated
milk,
and which
really
‘‘everybody’’ actually
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dislike,
must
almost
be
finished with all
its profits and
non-profits
and
which
the
so
called
poor
people
do
not
thank
the
sellers
for.
I am perfeatiy
convinced
that
the
ma-
jority of
the
customers
and
paironizers
of the dairy
would
be
delichted
at
the
sound
that
.the
dairy
will
serve
them
again
on
such
a
day
at
the
new price.
Now may I ask
for
whose
good
are
the
Food
Commission
punishing,
or depriving
the dissatisfied
people,
for the merchants
pockets
or
the
longing stomachsof the
people
?
For
our
Government
to
prevent
the
sale
of our cattle,
or anything else
which
St.
Croix has
the
opportunity
to furnish
Porto Rico with,
should
cause
us
to say
almost
what
President
Castro
said
when
he
was
denied
the
freedom
of
the City
of New York; he said, ‘‘They should
then
cover
the statue
of Liberty.”’ Butas
there
is
no
such
statue
on
either
of
the
two
isiands,
we shouid
say
to ‘haui down the
flag from
one
or the other.”’
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Yours taithfully,
IC. BRYAN
.
Christignsted,
Sst. Croix, V.
1L U S
A
May 15th
1920.
:
Editor
St.
Croix Avis.
Dear
Sir:—
Please
allow
me
space
in your
valu-
able
paper
to say
these
few words:
I
would like to know
if one
of
the St.
Thomas
Football
Clubs
wou'd
play
the
Dreadnought
Football
Club of this
town
a
matech
on the first Sunday
in June
over
here
on the Holger Danske
Ground
at 4
p.
m. and it would give us great pleasure
to
play the return
match
in St.
Thomas
after.
Having read
in the St. Thomas
papers
about
the
matches
played
over
there
1
hereby
forward
this
challenge
to
any
Club,
The
D
F. B
L.
18
always
ready
fto
play
any Club,
and
if this challenge
is
accepted,
we
hope
to
have
a
pleasant
time,
and prove
which Club is the strong-
est.
Thanking you ior space,
I am,
'
Respectfully.
REUBEN
J. BRUN;,
(forthe D F.
B, C.)
&t. Thomas
papers
please
copy.