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; i | to anybody who can give informa- tien leading to the conviction of the p rson or persons responsible ! for any of the recent canefires. Bethlehem, Feb. 16th 1921. WEST INDIA SUGAR FACtIORY. | LOCAL. Q We are glad to learn that the work of putting the electric plant in order is forging along nicely and that it is ex- pected to supvly current again in a few, | days time. All the old “'junk’’ has been seraped and every consideration given to ensure good service. The schnr. Vigilant with St. Thomas mails arrived here at 2.30 p. m. yester- day. She sailed from St. Thomas at Bn’ clock yesterday morning thus com- pleting the run in but 6' hours. It is understood that she will return to St. Thomas at 8 tomorrow fmorning, mails closing accordingly. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan’s yacht ‘‘Cor- sair’’ on its West Indies cruise, touched at Frederiksted yesterday. The tower of the public clock so- | Frederiksted is in course of erection and | in a short time the town will pave a civic | convenience for which there has been a demand for many years. [t was under- derstood that a commission had been | formed to decide upon the site where the clock should be installed and that this | commission had chosen the east hill from | which the clock would com.mand gr-at- | est visibility. However, it is being | placed on the battery of the Fort. Correspondence 3 —e Sw— l Te the Editor of the Avis. | Dear Sir.— ] We beg to tkank the Chairman | of :he Food Commission Mr. Thomas | Ramsay for his prompt action on the fish | question. Respectfully, PHILIP K. G. TUTEIN. T’HORVAILD SLATER. Christiansted, 16th Feb. 1921. ’ -HE IS NOT | - ' » | [ ——- L It is a curious position, and also a very i amusing oue, for a person to be '‘Some- | thing that he is not”’, but the under- ' 84 Swirl X A Yls signed has actually got that great honor conferred upon him. and now occupies this very humorous and ludicrous posi- tion. How I come to enjoy this distinction I will now tell The Sanitation™Department says that I am agent. for the owner of a c:rtain yard, which required cleaning, and that as such agent it is encumbent on me to do the said work., I denied being agent and declared it was no concern of mine. I am hauled up to the Police Court as a criminal; the learned judge says 1 AM the agent. Fine $lO. . As I denied being an agent, I am now logically a liar. Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, all whe forwerly believed in my integrity, and might contemplate ~ntrusting your busi ness to me, ] am a liar; so carry your busines: somewhere eise, don’t entrust it to a liar! You Councilmen, expel me from your midst, a liar has no right to sit among y_u! I am therefore aceording to judgment, nolens volens, the agent, but as I am not the agent, I have Become ‘‘a person who IS something, that he is not’’. Now I don’t minu under the prevail- ing fcircumstances being mbde a liar, and still less do I eare about the ftine, but what interests me in the case is this, that should this judgment on ap- peal be confirmel, and being of a pes- simistic mind, I wiil for the sake of ar- gument suppose this to be so, then how long am I to contirue to be '‘something that lam not’’,' and shall I in my ca- pacity of being “‘something that 1 am not’’ be fined, every time the yard in question in the opinion 0" the Chief of the Sanitation Department ought to be clean ed, for not doing ‘'what [ should not do?”’ Help me, ye men of genius, to solve this conundrum ! Oh, Odin, thou one—eyed god of wis- dom of the Vikings and Norseme: of old, send thou thy two ravens, Hugin and Minun, which sitteth on thy shoul ders, and at thy bidding escend to this sinful world to procure for you infor- mation of all that is happening on this earth, send them down to procure for me the means by which I may prove, that I am not that, which I am not, and thus rid myself of the enviable position of being an objects for Barnum’s show, as a ‘‘person wh: is something which he is not.”’ . Oh, Hamiet, thou famous Prince of Denmark, why dost thou not now live 1n these Virgin Islands, where thou wouldst have found so many subjects for thy moondy : nd inquiring mind? Awaiting your, or your readers aid, in my sore delemimna, I am, Mi. Editor, Yours truly, "*A PERSON WHO IS SOMETHING THAT HE IS NOT.” NEE A. E. STAKEMANN. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. New York, Feby. 10th.—Raw sugar was firm early and while there were sales of 12,000 bags of Porto Rico for prompt shipment, at 5.02 for centrifu- oal, there were no offerings of Cuba’s, The demand for refined sugar improved owving to the firmness in the spot mar- ket. Prices were steady at 6.75 for fine granulated. Futures were firmer covering and trade buying with offer- ings light. At noon prices were 18 to 21 points higher. Washington, Feb. 103h.—The House Immigration Bill, which would virtually stop im nigration for one year, was dis- approved yesterday by the Senate Im- migration Committee bya vote of five to four. The Committee agreed to adopt a substitute measme today restricting immigration on a percentage basis. Chairman Oonlt said the substitute woul:l ‘““Allayall fears of a flood of undesirable aliens from Europe.”’ Washington, Feb. 11th. -Th2 state- ment that he had r2ceived suzzestioas that Great Britain was ‘'Circalating propazanda’’ in th2 United Stat2s in ordar to datail naval bailding was made in tha Senate by Senaror Borah, Repub- lican, Idaho, during a general debate on disarmament. He understood, h 2 said, that the fac:s ware in possession of tho Navy Dapt.: 32nator Poindex -er, Re- publican, Washington, author of the Sen- ate Naval Committees recent adverse report on Senator Borah’s suggestion for asix montas’ naval holiday, io an swer to a g'lestion as to wnether the Committea iaves igation hal diszlosad any such situation, said that there had been some testimony on the subjeet, but the Committ22 did not believe it should be made public. Sznator Borah again urgaed that an agreament be reached be- tween the Naval powears for raduection of building programmas and also advo- eated a c®2fu investization to doters min 2 whether capital ships are cactieal- ly absoiut2. ‘‘Uniass there is an agrae- ment r2azhed s2cwezn the Uaited States and the Powers compz2ting in naval building’’, he said. ‘lt will lead to war inevitably’’. Opinions of British. Uni- ted States and other naval experts that capital ships have become obsolete were presented by Senator ,Borah. Senator Poindexter in defending the Naval Com- mitiee’s veport; supporting the capital shipbuailding programme declared- that if the United States accepted the build- Ing postponement pian it would *‘be- come at once a defeated nation, would loose irs insular possessions and it would be able to travel the seas only upon terms laid down by rival nations’’. Be- fore sitting down with those nations at the coaference, he said, the Commiftee feels we should take precautions not to sit down disarmed. If -he six months’ suspension was adopted we would loose