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as are necessary to prevent and punish profiteering «nd needless hoarding. To bring bout better cooperation and method in Ji:tributing and marketing goods. . To keep both produeer and consumer tully informed as to what goods are nee led and as to what supplies are avail- able, so that production may anticipate the country’s demands’’. The statement goes on to say ‘*hat goods and not money are the means of life; that better standards o. living are impossible without producing more 200ds that man can not consume what has not been produced, etc., ard concludes with reninding all of the common auty tc work and to save, fully as much now as in the war. It gquotes the President ir his ad- dress to the country on August 25, 1919, as saying: ‘'‘Before only by increasing production, and by rigid economy and saving on ~he part of jthe people, can we hope for large decreases {in the burden- some cost of living which jnow weighs us down’’. St. Thomas. V. 1., 18th. Novbr. 1919. ~rom our St. Thomas Correspondent. Editor St. Croix Avis, Bassin. Dear Mr. Editor: That the readers of the Avis may not be led astray to believe that your correspondent did not report truthfully the proceccinigs of the Colonial Counei’s meeting of the 6ib. inst., in regard to Member Tiraens’s speeeh, I herawith quote from the report of Mail Notes of the Bth. ins . “*“Member Thraen came next in order, and when he 1n a clear, macterly, and coqeise manner defended in an able speech, the adoption of the Reso- lution, he met with the hearty ap- proval »f his eolleagues and that of the majority of the audience’’. The Italics are mine. Readers will note that t ere is no es- gsential difference between the two re- ports Diff rent words are used but they convey the same meaning and express the same sentiments. Your corr:spondent simply reporred to your paper what was said by all who heard Member Thraen And it is the truth. You can verify the two reports. » NAVAL RAND WILL REPEAT PRO- GRAM. COUNTLESS CROWD EXPECTED A. Sebastian Forbes In Charge Because the general Public is desirous of again hearing the program played last week, the Naval Band takes plea- sure in doing that muach, and Mr. A Se- bastian Forbes will conduet. This time your attention is called to the trombone novelty, "*ASlippery Success.”” Tron bone numbers are frequently played vy the =T 2l R AN IB - band, and you are asked to get acquaint- | ed with them. Above all, listen well for the march ‘‘Virgin Islands’’, written by Band.naster Adams, i is ‘he fifth piece on the program, bk sure that you bear it. You want to he in the laughing con- test? Come out again {or another eve- ning of real pleasare. A countless erowd is expected. —Com. iFrederiksted, 19th Nov. 1919. The Yacht ‘‘Segochet’’ arrived yester- : davat 480 p.m. from Fajardo, P R bringing as passenger Dirvector Carl . Lachman of the ‘'Bethlehem’ concern from Copenhagen iDen 2ark. She left this morning 9 o’clock, returning to - Fajardo: Porto Rico. The mail schooner ‘'Creole’” arrived here about one o’clock, bringing St. Thomas Mails. . SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE ME- THOD IN EXHIBITING SERIAL PICTURES AT THE MOVIES. Dear Sir, Please allow me space in your es- . teemed p per for the following answer : In yesterday’s issue of St. Croix Avis is compligined over the manner in which the seri;?l pictures ior the time being are exhibited in the Theatre. 7'he reason why only two episodes are exhibited at | every shew is that only 2 evisodes of the | seriai ‘'The Bulls Eye’’ arrive every Sat- | urday or Sunday with the schooner | “*Virginia’’and only 2 erisodes of the | serial ‘‘The Lions Claw’’ arrive every | Wednesday with "he schooner *‘Creole’” | from St. Thomas, and it nas been im- | possivie to secure three epsodes of any | ot the serials on aceount of the o:her | Theatre’s both in Porto Rico and in | S“. "homas, who exhibit the same .pic- | tures are not shmrgm;: hiore fthan 2 episodes of each sertal at any perform- g ance. | It seems that the cont:iibutor of the | article in vesterday’s issue is under the . ~ impression that there is e::hibited more than 2 episndes of the seriai ‘‘The Lions | Claw’’ in St. Thomas, but 1 can assure | him that it is exactly the same number | . of episodes exhibited in Christiansted as | . in St. Thomas. [ agree entirely with | . the contributor that it would be more | - desirable to show three episodes of a | - serial, and only show one serial at the ; | time instead of two as now, but it was | | impossible at the time to se :ure any seri- | al on said conditions. | | {o orove that it was rot possibie to secure a serial on any other conditions | ' I will give your contributor the follow- . ing information: | ‘ When the present serials were com- } menced I was notified that ihe price for each night,s program was riised $5 U. 8. | ] Cy. and at the same time a night’s pro- gram was reduced from 3 to 2 episodes and the rate of exchange on American meney was raised from b percent to 284 pereent, When ail this is borne in mind I think everybody will beliave that it was not possible to secure any other serials as | would certainly not have submitted to these conditionsif it had been possible, but you can be sure that every effort will be made to secure the next serial in such a manner that three episodes of the same serial ean be shown until the serial 1s finished. Respectfully, EINAR SVENDSEN. OFFiCIAL NEWS, The American four masted schooner Mary E. Palmer in ballast from Bresti, France, bound for Pensacola, Fla. has arrived at St. Thomas. The resignation of l.ieut. (1.2, Wil liam Me. Miller, Chaplain Corps, U. S. N. has been accepted and he will proceed home in the near future. Judge Noll returned to Frede riksted on the Parima which sailed early today. U 5. NAVY PRESS NEWS. November 20, 1919. PHILADELPHIA: A vlot to slay offi- cials with explosions of Christmas mail packages was annourced by Police Super- intendent Robinson here today. Inform- ation of plot which he considers reliable relates it is said to be a nation wide plot directed against Federal States and City authorities who took part in the recent round up of radicals who planned to over- throw the Government., WASHIWNGTON: Fuel Administrator Garfield served notices today that peopie must and will have coal so long as Gov- ernment exists. Declaration made to wage scale committee makes it plain that Operators are entitied to a reasonable profit and that miners are entitled to working conditions as sare as possible and a wage that will allow them to ljve according to decent American standard. Committee now in executive session to negotiate wage contract. BERLIN: Rumcris spreading through- out the city that Baltic German troops are marching eastward. One new spaper suggests that after failure of Baltic ad- venture the troops will mar~h westward. WASHINGTON: Broker and Proprie- ter of Case and Saloon D. W. Sullivan was arrested yesterday in New York as the initial step in a campaign to rid Wall Street of groups alleged to have stolen a million dollars worth of securities in the last three months. This afternoon Nor- man S Bowles, lawyer, said by police to be chief member of firm of Sullivan and Co. is also under arrest in connection with the theft of the securities in New York. Sullivan was held in bond of seventy five thousand dollars.