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L ; Christiansted Theatrs. AS new arrangements have been made with regard to delivery of Films there will be NO SHOW | THURSDAY NIGHT. | Important Red Gross Meeting. THERE will be an important meeting | of the Christiansted Branch, Santa | Cruz Chapter, American Red Cross, at the High School, Strand Street, on | THURSDAY, MAY 12tH, AT 430P. M. The committee appointed at the last | meeting will make recommendations for | the future activities of the SBranch. ‘ All members are urged to be present. | THE price for ¢ nes delivered tothe Central Sugar Factory for the week ending Tth May is 23,16 cents per 100 | pruads. | AKTIESELSKABET, ST. CROIX SUKKERFABRIK. f Just Received AT TIE | Leshade celebrated BUTTER. £ tin "'Viking’’brand.......... 81.50 | 3 . . os Fancy Cream Butter (loose weight) 70¢c. lb- | Raspberry &Strawberry Jam per pot 50c. | Tey Bin. ... .. ... ..... .BOe. TR L Ihotins. ... .. .9 B ase weieht ... ..... 18 | POLT.OCK (Rlack Scale Fish) 10c. per lb. | .. .. ... Me ROB . ... B R T v NRLNON ler tin..,..00 .........16¢. SARDINES in Tomatoes (large oval tins, | s. . e GREEN PEAS extra fine (1 Ib. 4 oz. Christiansted 10th May 1921. M. A. PRETTO. | SR s e = ® S | LOCAL. The Creole is here today with St. Tho- mas and Porto Rico mails. | The 8. S. Guiana from New York is understood to be sailing for these islands today. ? 599 CROLE ANILS Correspondence Christiansted, St. Croix, May Bth 1921. Tos{ihe Editor of the ‘‘St. Croix Avis’’. ir; Now that the elections are over and the smoke of battle is clearing away, perhaps it is not inopportune to call at- tention to a long felt and very serious want, appertaining to the towns, namely a more bountiful water supply; the long drought that we are now experiencing, is constantly recurring, yet as soon as a heavy rainfall occurs, the privations of a scant wa.tgr supply is forgotten in the present abundance; and the future need is promptly forgotten, on the o'd and pernicious principles of ‘‘Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow you die’’ The Sanitation Department has done very excellent work in cleaning up yards, and demanding that proper accomodations be provided on properties, modern hos- p}tal equipment and treatment, introduc- tion of screening as a preventative against the deadly fly, and other useful measures all for the bhetterment of the people,I would strongly urge the De- partment to go a step further, and en- deavour to provide for a better supply of drinking water, so badly needed by the working class. The larger houses are provided with cisterns for the storage of water, but the cottages or rooms, occu- pied by t e working class are rarely pro- vided with a good drinking water supply, mostly depending upon the brackish well, or on kind neighbours. Now no one will contend for a moment, that the need of good roads, to assist in the up- keep of sugar cultivation i 3 virtually pa- ramount, traffic conditions have very largely changed in the past few years, and every little thing, by road or by field, cannot be ignored, if 1t is for the betterment and continuance of cultiva- tion. But I venture to submit a supply of good drinking water, especially for the working class, has a prior claim’ over even sugar culiivation! standing as it does, for the health of the worker. [ have with others, urged for over a quarter of a century, the need of build- ing a suitable resecvoir, at the back of the Post Office, the water from the roofs of the Post Office, the Custom House, and partly from the old Military Depot now running to waste, could be led to, and stored in this reservoir, the roofing of which, could also be utilized as a catching surface, this of course was only a tentative plan, a better or even addi- tiona! scheme, could with cooperation easily be evolved. The gond work of the ehurches in maintaining large =cis- terns, by which to provide drinking wa- ter for their needy muembers, cannot be overestimated! Without such aid the water conditions here would be a serious one indeed, but surely such anim- portant need to a community as water should not be left to charity, the need now is very pressing! First the wa- ter, afterwards the roads. Such action would prove that the wish and desire of the people is to progress, with such given proof. any future help needed, in time of stress, would lam convinced, receive prompt and hearty consideration by the Govt. of the U. S. whose generosity to the needy, the whole world over, is too great and re- cent to need any remark! But Santa Cruz must show first, that she is willing to help herself, to the extent of her ability. As Mr. Harding, the President, recent- ly remarked, ‘'More business in politics and less polities in business.”’ Truly yours E. GRIGG. TELEGR4MS. ST. CROIX STATION. London, May 6th. A lockout of thirty thousand sea-going stewards and cooks began today, this step being taken by shipping companies because of the men’s refusal to accept a wage cut of about 17%. The lockout may inter- fere with the comfort of steamship passengers. but owners of vessels are said to be confident that all vacancies can be easily filled The Transport Workers Hederation has promised its support to the stewards and cooks union. Paris, May 6th.—The agreement reached by the Supreme Alliel Council in fixing the reparations demands of the Entente failed to satisfv a majority of the newspapers in Paris, which com- mented today in various degrees of gloom on the situation as it stands at present. ‘‘lt is perhaps not all that we might have hoped for’’, said the ‘‘Journ- al’’, "‘but it is perhaps all that it is possi- ble to obtain in the present state of mind of our Allies. If we do not put our hands on Germany’s collar”’, declares the ‘'Figaro’’, ‘‘we will not put our hand into her pocket’’. The London confer- ence let slip an opportunity for action’’, former Premier Clemenceau’s newspaper “L’Homme Livre’” was even more em- phatic saying, ‘‘Germany will not pay, any more *han she will disarm and pa- pers will not force her to’f. A decisive step has been made by the Allies towards the execution of the Versailies Treaty. said Premier Briaud’s organ the '*Eclair’, and henceforth it will not be possible fcr them to turn back and wait for Germany to consent to make reasonable propos- als’’. ‘“‘Cablegramme’’, a newspaper re- presenting business interests here, de- clared, "‘ltrequires a heavy dose of op- timism to congratulate oneself on the mouse to which the London conference gave birth’”’. Marcel Cochin, writing in the Communist organ ‘‘Humanite’’, de- clared himself convinced that the Nation- al Bloc and the reactionaries intend to annex the Ruhr region s¢ that French