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STECROLR AVLES - CHRISTIANSTL. THEATRE 8.15. MONDAY EVENING 8.15- “The Flam e , e Flaming "™isk.” . WiTH ; “ELMOQ LINCOLN* Episode No. @: '‘THE FLOATING MINE.” Episode No. 10: “"SPIKED DEATH.” . Show gtart with a 2 Reel Comedy. ' Secure your tickets in good time. ADMISSION Reserved Soafß.. .\ o ccvee -nse sbsescersoniocons 00, . vdeot) and She. Geme 2l Entrance. .......cocc ccnvcoconecnnnnn.. Chilibi a0 : ; Children Ibsc. and 10c. - HE Constitution is the Fundamental Law of the United States of America: | 1t is essential to citizenship that all should study and understand the Consti- tution. It is therefore directed that, in all schools in the Virgin Islands, both Public and Private, the Constitution be syste- matically taught in all grades above and including the Seventh Grade. Government ofthe Virgin Islands of the United States, St. Ttomas, 23 March 1922. SUMNER E. W. KITTELLLs, Gowvernor. [SEAL} Those Tent Meetings - i -—o o GREAT MEETINGS AT THE TENT LAST WEEK. WHAT ABOCT THE COMING WEEK ? D. C. Babcock (the live wire} Evange- list of forty-six years of experienee in the mission fields, will preach in the Tent, Sunday night, April 2, at 730 o’clock. He may give a stereopticon view of SPIRITUALISM IN ALLIT§ PHASES. No weak religion in these last days of peril can save a man from the great dan- gers of the future. Your stout words will not help you out of the schemes of the enemy. Intelli- gent people should not speak against wise, godly preaching. COME OUT AND<EAR FOR YOUR- SELF. DON'T TRUST TO YOUR NEIGHBOUR’S EARS. The infidel, agnostic and the free- thinker are specially invited; also, THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY. L.OCAL. The U. S. S. *“*Vixen’”arrived here yesterday afternoon and sailed again this morning. : ; The Native Brass Band rendereda very choice program of national and other airs in the bandstand last night much to the enjoyment of an appreciative and ap- plauding gathering. Den tapre Land- soldat commonly known as Good-bye my Buddy Ben, a popoular Danish selection we had not heard for many years, took well with the crowd. Some mail from St. Thomzas was re- ceived by the Vixen yesterday. Football. DREADNOUGHT i&vo ATHLUETIC TO MEET ONCE MQORE, < Womorrow on the Parade Ground, the Dreadnought No. 1 Football Club will meet ocnce more against the Christiansted Athletic Associatior Football Club, both of this town. We hope to see all lovers of this sport on the Ground to witness this contest, as these Clubs have not had the pleasure of meeting against each other since Novem- ber las. year : Game commences at 4.15 p. m. pre- cisely, and hope the day will be a favor- able one, as there is much talk on the Athletic saying that the powerful Red D. is going to be defeated by that Club, but that is a very hard nut to crack, because the Dreadnought Jolly Boys are prepared to use their powerful seige guns.—Com. THE EVIL OF PROHIBITION IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS By ASHLEY L. TOTTEN. Prohibition bas proved to be decidedly harmful to business interests gin Islands. ¥ perfiEpy something else =, gcen “ oered in its place, by which mea®s the islands may thrive, it wounld not be quite 8) bad. To send a eountry dry merely to please the whims and faneies of certain would ®5- reformers is an Injustice ta those who are made to suffer by it. ' Take St. Thomas for an instance. There we have an island whose inhabi- tants depend wholly upen the coaling of steamships eailing there for their means of livelihood. : Apart from that, there is no other in- dustry oy means of agriculture suppori- ing the masses. There was a lime ‘vhen a visit from an American battleship meant thousands of dollars in cireulation on the island. Those whe did not coal ship, d(ii%veli in the laundry business, anG ven ot all kinds sold their goods at a remaikable profit. : . During the winter months, teurists from Burope and America flocked to St. Thomas and spent money freely. In these days with prohibition’s banner flying alongside of the flag of the U. S. A., all these steamships are going for their eoal and water up to Barbados, St. Lucia, and other British West Indian ports where liguor ean be bought. If the islands had remained undexr Danish contyol, probibition in America would have been a boom for them, just as it has proved to be for the Bermudas and the Bahamas. = The American official enforees the law. but he makesa BEE line for either of these islands when be desires to take a vacation. The rich man of America gees to the Bermudas and the Bahamas in the win- ter, and in thg summer he draws upon Lis stock securely placed in the cellar of his heme. Qur great American battleships that used to visit the islands after disband- ing from their annual winter target practices of Guantaname, Cuba, go in large numbers to the British Islands to give their men liberty, and overlook the grape juice intended for them at their naval base—St. Thomas. ® The manufacture of rum in St. Croix and the sugar industry almost paralyzed ought to give the few reformers there something to worry about, since tihis situation threatens their pocketbook just the same. Os course we do agree that saloons could be avoided, since it has proved ‘o be detrimental to the ciass that the is- land reformers seek to protect. Respect- able citizens never visited the saloons or rum shops. It is also well that the spirit of teeg-to- talism exists for the good of humanity but humanity has no thanks to offer when it is being starved in the bargain. rohibition may last yet awhile in the