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ac ion on the ordinance, but if we went | to work hastily and taxed oorselves not | knowing wheare we were goina to get the | meaans to pay, it would not Lo to our cre- ' dit. Persanal tax as I understand isa | verv troublesoma tax, and the method of | collecting it, as far as I can see, lakes E it a very unpopular tax. The Congres- | . sional Commission was heve for a short | time, and [ don’t believe they were just- | tified in condemning our present method . of taxation ir such a whole sale manner as they did. I want to say something | on waste land. the subject assign- | ed me by our Chairman for the St. T'ho- | mas convention, but for som2 reas>n | better known to himself than to me | ha failed to call up f.4nd not put to any usn according to | Government Statisties for the years | 1830-19132 15 divided as foilows: | Kast End Quarter A. ......1,232 acres S LR 2 '- Company’s ‘' Si.. 4l i Queen’s - o . ma Northside * ... ' Northside ** ... | Total 4914 | This aecreage has only bean rveduced 12 acres since the year 1362 and is practicai- | lv speaking a tropieal jangle, which the | cost of eleariag would be prohibitive, for | ii they ever were cleared, there ils no- | thing yet discovered that they could be used for that wou!d produce a proiit. 1 s cannot believe thut the Conaressional | Conmission whea hore in 1920 could have been weli posted on this w-ste land tlat bas always be2n exempt fron tax- atinn, or they would not have sugge. ted that it be taxed heavy eaough to com el its ovners to cultivate it, which woul' oaly inean their ruin. , . To be contin-d. | _3_4()(:(? : i 3. S. “'Paria’”’ {from the Islands arrived here this morning and s oiding 2,250 bars sugar from St Croix Sugar Fae- tory, Ine. Eh 2 sails this p. m. We have bzen asked to mention that | the Native Brass Band will give acon- | rert on the Wharf to-morrow evening. | By request ‘‘Banddidntstrike’ (Fhe Band Didn’t Strike) will be played again. The agents advis2 scrvice by steam- ship Marina temporailly witndrawn, effactive May 17:h. = ] The results of yesterday’s elections of members for the Colonial Council for the otwons are as follows: < hristiansted, Dr. D. C. Canegata, only nominee, eiect- e« with 106 votes; Frederiksted, D. Hami'ton Jackson, elected with 43 votes. One hundred and thirteen veotes were cast in this town, 6 invalid and 1 no. In | “rederiksted Messrs ¥. Coulter and 3. 5T U 01X 2V, M. Goldan received respectively 42and 5 | votes. Congratulations to the sacces=ful | candida.es. The Industrial and Native Bracs Bands sarenaded the suecessfuly candidates last night, = Today is election day {for the country district., Two seats are vaeant in each jurisdietion; as far as Frederiksted tis concerned, the retired members, Messrs, F. Andersen and G. B. ®ieminz have been renominated and it may be safeiv | assumed will be reelected. Fom Chris- | tiansted counrtry district there arve three candidates; one of them, Mr. H. Jessen, has served a previous term, and 2s has already bezn pointed out ir this paper. macea good record. The ‘‘game-law’’ which has pa2en charged agninst Mr. Jes- sen by those who have probably been hunting for some grauna on which to | opponse his reeleedion, was, as far as we | ¢sn understand, a government bill | which nhe as a member ot the council. was requested to introduce and speak upon as is the eustom. 'l'Lis bill preba- bly has merits anywayv. The other candidates, Messrs. H. Berg and O. (. Granady. are new . mer: men with | ability and we have no doubt sin- cere desires to fulfill a publie dutyv. As we knew at the openinz of the | campaign, Mr Berg. as he has since publieiy advised the elcctorate, is run- ning not against, butin cooperation with | Mr. Jessen. With the test made of the | one, and the z nlous earnestness of the other, it is our belief that thev will work sirengly and conscientiously to forward the interests of the electorate and the public in generai. Mr. Berg is a man of independent mnd, powerful and reason- able in his conclusions and ready to stand by his convietions regardless of versonal feeling or pariy prejudices. Ipn solicit- ing support for him at the polls this alterroon, 1t is believed that the elecio- rate can countidently depend on it tisat taey will not regret their choice. “TARENTAGE’ APPEAL T 0 THZE CHILDERN. Ifyon are interested 1n your caildran—- if you care for their growth, their edu- cation, and futuve havpinesy, ""PAREN (- AGE’’.a heart drama, now to be shown a: The West End Movies, is a film which will make a direet appeal to you, Vital questions of everyday life are brought oat in a most sincere, human, and entertaining wanner. Questions, such as: ‘Do you teach your childien the vital truths of life?”” —**Do you de- mand hea!th rather than wealth from the man who is to marry your daughter?’’ Do you know who are your children’s companions?’’- All come in for their share of treatment in this thought fiiin of real life. _ Into a story that is clean, wholesome and entertzining, are injected these vunches, which make porents thick about the weltare of their ehildren. In the first thread of the story, a child is born under the handicap of coming into a loveless home; another child is born into quite a different home, where cond cheer and happiness radiate, The inflnence ofthe two fathers upon the e children 1s made particuluriy emphatie, and the charvacter of the boyvs, uniolding in their honze live, in their school days, and in rheir hours outside of school, is humarly and dramatically portraved. Both boys fall in love with the same virl, and then is brought out the vital necessi- ty of parents protecting their davzshrers: of pavents understanding the motives and ideas e! (leir chiloren and their children’s lives, Then while the story develons and the forces build into hemt pulling eftfects, the thought punches be- come stronger, actine for the heart ap- peal, human interest and plot develop- ment. Every advit will be glad that they saw “PARKNIACGY —any child can see it, it 1s so ciean. and so well produced by Hobart Heniey, that 1t never offends, but Interests inspires, and instructs, TELEGRAMS. S ORI S 'AIION Bt, Johns, N. F . Bay sth--The Squires Governmient tonight bid a sub- stantiz!t majority in election esults tab- uiated to date in the generalelection. Os the 30 seats in tne Assembly the Govern- ment now has 17 the oppositien 10 and the remainder have no! been Lheard from. Perth Austrvaiia, May &Sth.—Mr. Don- ald Mackinnon, Ex-Attorney General, has been appointed Australian Cemmiss- ioner to the United States. Lausanuce, May 8 b, - Turkey today re- fused to pernnt insertion in the Lau- sanbe trealy ol an articie authovizing pelginm, Poland, Portugal and Czecho Slovakia as powers who fought with the Allies duting the war, to subscribe to the treaty when the document is signedi. Ismet Pusta suid these powers were not invited 1o Lausanne and Turkey prefer- red to inaugurate special negotiations with them for such reciprocal arrange- ments as seemed desirable? Nothinge definite was accombiished by the confer erce today, as Ismet Posha interposed ghiections G aimost every clause con- sicered and all matters were sent hack to the experts. Ismet deelined (0o com- mit Turkey to the signature ol any con vention zoverning .tratfic 10 arms, em- phasizing that to do so might embarrass Turkev's relations with a third power. Ailied dell gates said iater that this was mtervreted as an ailusion to Russia and as indicating Turkey’s ingention to main- tain free om of actior, so uas to be zble to export arms to the C.ucasus in case Russia called on her for help,