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DISEASES DANGEROUS TO PUBLIC | HEALTH IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS | 01. & A | During the month of Aug. 1919, the | following diseases of interest to the | public have occurred: - In St. Thomas—St. John: 2 T ... o] 5 TROy . ... L Tuberculosis Pulm... 1 | Trach0ma............ 8 [ 1 imported] | In Saint Croix. ; Amebic dysentery.... -..oooooen.2 | Waee o .PR ' T. e | s | Sl . B E s 8 ' TuberculosisPulm. ... ... -.-.... 2 ' Hook .worm disegme,.. .-.. ... .1 | L. PETERSON. | Chaef Sanitary Officer. | EDITORIAL. | We hereby refute most emphatically | the assertion made by our esteemed co- | tem the ‘‘West Ead News’’ in its issue | of yesterday. to tae effect that ‘‘the Ca- | tholies met in St. Gerald’s Hall yester- | day, (Sunday) and drew up resolutions | oi protest against the Herald and Avis | for inviting them to read books insulting | to their religion’’. The words in italics | are what we object to. This paper exer- | cised its right to accept advertisements, | a right we intend to continue to exercise, | and inserted an advertisement signed | by Mr. C. S. Mayhew, for books which | have caused quite an upheaval in re- | lisious and social circles. The Avis has | nothing to do wth what people adver- ' tise and for the list time we sayitisa | f:lse conception of the rudiments of | newspaper ethics to place responsibility | upon the editor ,or what other people | offer for sale in his paper. We are tired | w.th this narrow--iinded argument now, | and would appreciatc the Avis being | kept out of it. o L ' We have a letter over the signature of | Thos. Gaffney and supplemented ny | several lists of names advising the | editor of this paper that ‘as a protest | against the appearance in your paper of | Mayhew’s advertisement ‘Books you | ought to read’ we hereby cancel our | subscription to the Avis’’. As a "matter | of fact Mr. Gaffmey himself is the only | subscriber among about 300 names. l Attached to this formidable documert isa separate protest signed by a comi- miitee charging tne Editor with bav- ing through insertion ol the ad. re- | ferred to, ‘‘offended the ideals of | Catholies and tlie sense of Com- 3 mon Decency of the Public’”’, and | concluding with a resolution ‘‘to dis- courage subseriptions to such a vilifying sheet”” and demanding ‘‘from the Q% O EHLE AV IE Editor an apology in the Avis”’. We refer these good people to the last re- mark in today’s editorial. A large gathering formed the proces- sion at the funeral of Miss Sarah Quin vesterday afternoon. Revd. 11. Wolter of the Moravian “hurch performed the burial rites. The theatre was well attended last night and ‘‘Peg O’ the Ring’’ in many beautiful and exeiting acts was as popu- lar as ever. (t i now said that the S. S. ‘‘Parima’’ from New York which was being looked for tomorrow, is net due before Satur- day 19th. We have information that sealed bids will”be received at Hams Bluff Light- station until 10 o’clock a. m. October Ist. 1919, for the purchase of a black mare and a buarro from the United States Government. Bidders are requested to examine the items referred to, which are kept at Hams Bluff Lightstation, Fred- eriksted Quarter. and will be sold to the highest bidder on receipt of a raoney order made payable to the Secretary of Commerce, Washington, D. C, Rights are reserved to reject all bids if con- sidered necessary or desirable. e ’ .\' Little Johnny’s Slate. On the Estate, Sept. the fifteanth. Dear Mr. Editor: I could not rite you hefore, because Daddy was in St. Thomas, and [ have to let him see that I o not say anything in my letters against the con- stitushun of St. Croix. Ia St. Thomas Daddy saw barber shops, tay or shops, icecream parlows and oiltanks; but the icecream he thought did not come up to Lzbees. Daddy went to Si. lhomas to report on the grave situashun l >re with rezsrds to the Avis, and to berrow the Vixen (o 0 go to America to get Billy Sunday this way to have these fellows **Hit the trail’”’. Daddy went over on the schooner Virginia; with the "'No ex- pense to the Department’’ engins; he thinks the new mail boat, when they get it, should be called the August the last. As soon as Daddy got home he axed for the Avises he had missed, and if Mr. Svendsen and Mr. Mayhew, and Mr. Yohansen had been ‘‘cleaned up’’. Moth- er told him she could not follow the ar- gument for he had locked up the book- case and she could not get out the dicshunary and the Bible and the enci- clopedia. She told Daddy that she had got some books fiom “‘Ye Littie Book Store’”’ on Company street but Mrs, Pius had borrowed them oaly to sze what kind of paper they were printed on for che is not allowed to rede them; she said she would return them in 2 weeks. When Daddy saw the vis for Satterday he sail we may as well hold the editor responsible that goods advertised in his paper were ‘‘in good condition and in the quantity and quality specified, and that the prices charged were reasonable. correct and just and that payment there- for would be received’’. 1 am sorry some of the people have given up the paper, as Mrs. Pius says the best breins of St. Croix are among them, and Daddy says it tekes brains to rede my letters. I hope they will borrow somebodys pa- per, like Mrs. Pius borrows Mother’s to see the telegrams and rede my letter on the Q.T. - Yours truly JONNIE IGNATZ. e e e MORE ON THE MISUSE OF PUBLIC BENCHES. In its issue of Saturday the 12th. in- stant, the ‘‘Herald’’ disagreed with che objection raised through the ""Avis In regard to the public benches being moeno- . pulized by dirty persons whose ciothes soil by eontact which, according o the Police Regulations, deprives such .ndivi- duals of the right to what is an accomb- dation oren to all others. 'The paper thinks the reculation is mnot quice equitable in that it tends Lo encrogch on the personal liberty of thuse it affects, and draws examples from conditions in the States where the street cars are at the disyosal of all kinds of people, with- out regard to how they are clad, and where in the public parks there may be seen persons infested with vermin occu- pying the benches. Experience in the States, at least in New York, does rot altogecher bear out this comparison. As regards the street ecars, it may be ccn- ceded that they are used by all classes, workingmen in diriy cloibes included; bui it is generally the case that suck per- sons ride on the platform nolcing on to tae strap. Anc even gt a workingman occu- pies a railway compa® meni, he is on an srrand that warrants some accomodation being shown him, and he pays his fare. As for the parks,——the people who ire- quent them are mostly attired in a tidy manner, ana ac all events the place is soo big, and there are so many seats that no- body need be speciallly embarrassed by running up against the feillows with ver- min on them. On "he whole tie conditions in the United States «.nd St. Croix are not always amenable to comparison, anG 'n this matter, regulations ought to be adapted to the peculiarities of the place. The Herald has probably mistaken the Jmotive which is no. directed against persons, but against a nasty and dis- gustin: practice, and it is feared that its remaiks on the sabj:et are likely to b 2 misunderstcod as admounishing dirty people who, from sheer slovenliness wiil