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5. LE YU L 2 A L= ~ NDAY EVENING 8.15 8. 150 MGL ; 1 : B ® At Bethlehem Wednesday 7.30 Qo littl2 need be said and so much can be abont the ‘‘The Prizoner of Zenda.”” The story is established as one of the great romantie tales of mylarn tin2s—a story of the sort that ecan rever be written again, for the war, for one tm;r.':. has stampe ! out the picturesque, gaily uniformed little kingdom of Europe, where Sir An hony Hop 2 found his setting for the love story of Rudolf Rassendyl, the younz Kngiishmia who resem bled so closely the ki of Raritania, and of the Princess Fluvia. In can never be written again in print, but it can on the screen, with al his glam- or and birilliance. ‘'The Prizoner of Zandy’’ is romance embodied: love in 112 net of court intrigue, eries ar night by the black moat about jhe castle, duels to the death in tae dark dungeons of tha citadsal, the elatter of hootfs along roads, white in sh2a moon- light. The action i 3 broathless, the excitem:2nt fairly stabs at you, the suspense is tightened to concert pi ca. Sueh a story, as dramatiz~d by Fidmund Rose, given into the hand: of 3o masterly a director as Mr. Ingram, and enacted by a cast including Atice Terrv, Terry, Robert Edeson, Lewis S one Stuart Holmes, Barbara La Marr, Kdward Conuelly, Maleoln Mae G egor and Lois Lee, cannot faii to be on 2of the most splendid and thrilliug achieve- ment sos tbemaoiion pictures, ~TYY/ y s gy A Xl7ly my DI DDO DA Y/Y TV Y ii O .[)IJL()IZ‘ (_),L.:l"l‘\t LN O 1 ;i O PLich 3[:..\51.(&.\ (_‘f'u\.\‘ mN£&l 11 . L . To Be Concluded Thursday. e e A EXIRA EXTRA. “PATSY’S JIM” ? é (3-8 B §. SN 1 2 !‘\I(J 111I_4\\‘- ADBRISSION Reserved Seats.. ....A(_'B"l. Gieneral Enbance .. ..... 150 fhen. . .rdren.. - .. - . doOs ~ their butter and meat, but imports ail its cupplies from the United States. There _4is little hope of better conditions so long os the islands are adniinistered by naval offeers under a governeental system that i a combination of archaie nionarchism with medern wilitarism. The Virzin Islands were unler a civilian government when they were peaceably tran.ferred to the United Seates, and e only excuse for pucting them even tem- porarily under naval rule was that they were tzken over just as America was en- tering the European war, when Washing- ton was too busy to elaborate a suitatle ad:ministraticn, 'Tnat excuse his been outlawed these four years since ihe sizn- ing of the aimistice. Ihe islands ave stiil administered under the hastily drawn act of March 3. 1917, which vested virtually a.l power In the Piresident, stipulating tuat he might assizn an ofiicer of the Atmy or Navy to serve as Governor. In the preoecupation of the moment Presi- gent Wiison practieally turned over the ouvarnment o (he Navy, officers of which have administered it ever since. The most serious omission of oar six vears®in the Virgin [slands is the taiture to gran citizenship to the natives. “ine civil néh‘s and politieal status of the inhabitants of the isiands shall be deter- mined by Congress,”” the treaty of sas- sion said. Congress has not yet taken action under this clause, meanwhile a native who wishes to go abroad travels with a passport deseribing him as ‘“‘an inhabitant of the Virgin Islands entitlad to the protection of the United States.”’ I he comes (o the United States to live ard there are said to bz 8,000 Virgin Is- laiders in New York City-nefinds himseif literaily “‘a man without a country’’. He.is not an American citizen, and yet uander the ruling of the State Department he is denied an aien’s opportunity Lo become one thiouzh naturaiization. Porto Ricans thorouzhly in sympathy with American sovereiguty have told me that the greatest mistake of the United States in that istand was its delay of nearly 20 years in granting the natives citizanship. This delay laid the founda tion for an anti American sentiment by giving the natives the impression that the peopie of the United States were eager to add the land of Porto KRico (o their national domain but unwilling to accept its inhabitauis as fellow-members of their body polities. Are we to repeat in the Vieain Islands the mistake mad» in Porto Rico? [aterwoven with the issue of Ameri- cun eitizenship is that of eivilizn Goevern- ment. When the Urnited States took over the islands they had a eivilian gov- ernment, although not of a democratic oir forward-looking sort. For fifty vears Denmark had been negotiating for the sale of her West Indian possesions and, with this as a more or less imminent pro- bability, had apparently tlLougzht it not worth while to extend to the islands the prozressive measures which in recent times it established for i's own D2op'e, T e franchise was limited to m=:le land- owners whose property vielded $69 a vear or (o other men whose income amounted tos3oo a vear. The income res- triction may seem trifling, but with the low wages paid in the Virzin Islands it prevented virtually all industrial work- ers from voting., KEven possession of the vote carried littic parwer -only the right to elect members of the Colonial Couneil, There were two Colonial Councils, one jointly for sue i-l nls of St. Thomas and Bt. John. the dther for St Cruix, i each case the Colonial Couneil fixed the the taxes and autiovised the expendi tures, with tie approval of the gavernor. The woverncr’s natural influence over tne e lonial conaeits was inereased by his right to appoint tour ol ibe sixteen mem- bers for St. Thomas and St. John and “ve of the twentv men for St. Croix. All v all, an unrepresantativ , unprogres- o un-American system, * Ameriea adopted that system as its .. !—at least what was convenient of it. Under the Congressional ast it is possiblie, apparenty,ito do away with the entire Danish heritaze, but the Navy offie- ers have chosen to establish their adminis- tration uyon the body —or shall one say the corpse ? —of the oid civilian govern- ment. Ilademoeratic as was this gov- ern™ , it was more popular than the P ore. Danish civilian gNern- _uv ~as conducted in the interest of the property-holding classes, but it was tolerant and tri ndly towairds the money- less masses. American naval govern- ment is condacied in its own interest, and it 1s claniish and unsympathetie to- wards both the possessing classes and the d':possessed masses, 10 be continued. I'ELEGRAMS. Sl. CROIX STATION. London, Juanz l.th.—{t was officially announced toduy thar Sir Herbert Sam uel whose guards yesterday were report- ed attacked by brigands near Mutail b, is safe and proceeding to laifa. Muelheim, June I:th.-felegraph wives were cut durinZ the night outsi e this City. I'rench linemen were buasy today repairing the damagze. Coloune, June 12 h.—-A bomb was ex- ploied on the railway tracks near Weile- wirth, on the main line between Cologne and Kreuzhirechen, early today. A freight train jumped tic track, bit no fata'ities resulted.