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DESCRIPTION
THE RIODLE WOMAN isa
drama
of
the mysteries
of
a woman’s
soui;
the
un-
eartainties
of a woman's
heart,
It
is
a story
in
waich
blind
nesain
i<
eon
rasted
with
true
love: bad
men
with
good
men;
weak
women
with
stréag;
in which
the frailty of
woman
proves
to be
hor
tower of strength
—the d=feadar
of her
purity.
.
:
It is
a bartle of the
sexes.
It depiets
the attvaction
of evil for good.
The
tensity
of its
sex
appeal
grips,
sways
and
thrills.
It is
a
pbotoplay
thn” speaks
as
tellinzly
as
the spoken
drama
from which
' he Riddle Woman’”
was
pretunze
d,
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.
i
el
d
Ao
hyu
Carl Jacoby
wrote this sensational
story of three
women
whohav?
faizn, 008
Ry
one,
into the arttul wils of
a
roue.
How the second
worsan
saves
the
first and
the
Arst
.
5
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,
s
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i
maßog
¢
woman
saves
the
third
from
the machinations
ot
this unsnealcible
hiackouard,
makes
a
three-ply plot of unusual
dramatie
interest.
The
aetion
of
the
play takes
place
ia
Co-
penhagen,
Denmark,
and
New Yok,
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OF
THE
LONIAL
COUNCIL
COLONIAL COUNCE
FOR
ST.
CROIX
(Continued from yesterday’s
Avis.)
ond
Member
for
Christiansted
Town
(Canegata)
remarked:
Mr. Chairman.
|
am
certainly
not
prepared
to
speak
on
this question
today and
that’s the
reason
why
1 did not
venture
any jexplanation.
Had
1
known
that
I
would
have
been
called
upon
I
would
have
spenta hittie
time in getting my thoughts
to
ether.
I
have
no
authority
to
speak
for
any
of
tae other members
so
what
I might say
tolay is purely my owr personal
opinion.
FEvery
scheme
or
system
of taxation
is, I think, generaliy
based
or
supposed
to conform in
some
way
tcthe four
car-
dinal maxims
of taxation
which
was first
Jaid
down
by
Adam
Smith,
viz:
(1)
equailty,
(I1)
certainty,
(1Ii)
conveni-
ence
and (IV) economy;
and
all
discus-
sion
or criticism
as
to
the
merits
of the
scheme
is based
as
to the
extent
or
man-
ner
in
which
the
system
conforms
to
these
four
canons.
This
system
does
not
conform
to
these
canons
in
many
subjects,
a complete analysis
with refer-
ence
thereto
I
am
unprepared
to make
today.
First
and
foremost
this
is mainly an
agricultural
aoountry
and
every
execep-
tional
tax would obsiousty
tend
to
checek
agricultural improvements,
and
knowing
as
well as
we do
the pecaitar
and
uncer-
tain
conditiofls
our
staple
induastry
we
cannot
as
we
stated
in
our
memorial
enact
legislation
that
would
unduly
bur-
den
our
resources
and
tend
to
check
our
commearce
and
business.
A tax
on
per-
sonaf
property
is
a cneek
placed
on
accu-
mulaiion
and
in consequence
indirect
pro-
duccion
will be lessoned.
One
more
point
regarding
the
asses-
sor—No
assessor
however
export
ean
ever
he expected
to
assess
ail
Kinds
of
personal
proper:y
to satisly
tne
require-
ments
of
the
laws
with
even
approxi-
mate
areuracy
except
he
is endowed
with
divine
wisdom.
[
happened
to
oome
across
sometime
ago
a
report
of
the
Juint
Committee
on Tax Revisicn
in
the
State
of Virginia, an extract
of
which
I
have
heve
at
presant,
and
-which
shows
the
injustice
wrouzht
by
sueh
a
tax
throuzn
the disproportionate
assessment
of large and small prop:riies.
Theinves-
tication
covered
over 16,000 pieces ol
pro-
perty
and showed
that
watle
the
average
ratio of assessment
to the
true
value
was
33%, parcels
worth
less
than
$390
were
assessed
at 47% of fuli
value,
and
par-
ca2ls
worth
more
than
SIO,OOO at only 28%
of full value.
Thatiuvestigaiion
|
think
will furnish
us
with
a
fair
estimate
of
what
we can
expect
from
our
assessor.
Again, another point. from the
maxim
ofteconomy
is the amount
of
unnacessa-
ry vexation
which
the
tax
wou'd
cause,
and
while it may
be
argued
thut
vexa-
tior
is
not
expense,
it
is
ecuivalent
to
the
expense
to
which
every
man
is willine to redeem
hims-i
ivom it
Pefora
the Congressiorzl
party
in .
Thomas
His
Excellency.
the
Governor
stated
in
response
to a member
that
it
was uselese
to enact
taxation when
thare
was nothing to tax.
We all «i.drse
this
statement.
1 understood
too
‘hat
this
erdinance
is
a
result
of
the
visit of the
first Cangressional
Commission
in
1920,
and the object
aimed
at
was
not
so
muen
to
increase
taxation
as
to
chance
the
system,
now
this Council
has
jast
pre-
pared
a memorial and placed
batore
Uo-
oress
its
view
on
the
matter,
vi7:
that
the Conaressiona!
report
of 1920 had
no,
besring
on
St.
Croix
and
was
due
to too
hasty
investization
of
the
subiect
and
reguested
an
investigation;
that
state-
ment has
been
unanimously
adepted.
i
don’t
sea
therefore
nonx
we
can
consiit-
entiv
2o aread
today
and
maxe
contrary
stulements
10
those
records
which
ara
before
(‘onygress.
According
to
iny
cai-
calation
even
if you eliminate
the
tax
on
personai
p:operty
and
tax
onlv i¢al
pio-
perty
on
ibe assessed
basis
proposed
by
the Com ittee
you will
have
an increas2
of $3,000
over
the
amount
now collected
under
the
pgresent
system.,
Further
1a eliminauny
wue personal
tax
we can
do
away
with
the
assessor
and
all
the
expens=s
of
his office
and
then
effect
a
saving
of
$3,00).
At the
very
most
we
reckon
that
cot
more
than
€3,000 personal
tax
can
be
collected
on
this
sland
fr m
which
the
expenses
of
th
assessur’s
offize
wiil
have
to ke
de-
gucted.
Now
the
ordinance
ehminates
the
Horse,
Carrviage
and
Boat
Tax,
we
propose
to maintain
this still which gives
us
a net inenme
of over $5,000.
I think [
have
said
ail
that I wish
to say.
:
Government
Seeretary
Goffney)
re-
marked:
3r
Chairman.
The
2nl Mem
ber for Chrisriunsied
Town
has
enunciat-
ed
the four
poinis
of
taxation
and
the
first is equality.
1
would
like
to
know
if it con{irms
to the canon of
equality
to
tax
real
property
and
ailow
personal
property
to
go
without
any
tax?
The
Boat,
Horse
and Carriage
Tax
was
pr
-
posed
to be stricken,
we found since
ths
ordinance
has
bkeen
before
the
Council
that
the proposed
exclusion
is a
mistake.
Some
one
nas
said
that
every
new
tax
is
2 bad
tax and every old
tax is
a
good
tax: this is only a ehange
in the
form
of
taxation.
Tae
Congressional
Commis-
sior.
which visited
these
islands
in
1920
has
these
words
to say
:
“The Commission
found
the
system
of taxation in
the
islands
unjust,
in-,
efficient, and archaic.
We
recommend
that
the
entire
system
be
reformedsg
with a view of securing
a
greater
in-
come,
which
we
believe
possible,
and
in
order
also
to
more fairly equalize
the burdens of taxation.’