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ORDER OF THE DAY for the 3rd Ordinary Meeting of the Colonial. Council for St. Croix, MONDAY, December 13, 1920, at one o’clock p. m. 1. Colonial Counecil Bill No. 50. : 2nd Discussion on Colonial Council Bill No. 50 Draft of Additional Money #iil 0 the Budget for the Municipality of St. Croix. for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921. In- troduced by Government, authoriz- ing the payment of Fres. 60,000,00 from funds in the Municipal Treas- ury, not otherwise obligated, to the Telephone Fund for the purpose of effecting repairs and new installa- tions. 2. Colonial Counci! Bill No. 52. Introduction of, and ist Discussion on Colonial Couneil Bill No. 52, Draft of Additional Money Bill to the Budget for the Municipality of St. Croix, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921 Aid to poor of Chris- tiansted and Frederiksted introduc- ed by Government. 3. Colonial Council Bill No. 51. Ist Discussion on Resolution intro- duced by 4th 'Appointed Member (Blackwnod) authorizing the payment of the unexpended balance of the pension granted former Sicknurse Ritzberz to his widow. Colonial Council Office, St. Croix, De- cember 6, 1920. ROBT. L. MERWIN, Chairmon. Post Office Notice. ACILITIES for exchanging local cur- F reney for United States paper having hecome still more materially restriet- ed since the notice of this office of Sep- tember 16th.. only United States money or Government paper will te accept- able for the purchase of money orders and pay ment of money-order fees (includ- ing C O. D. business). Until farther, Danish money (which for the most vart can be disposed of in local dishursements) will be atcented for the purchase of postaze stamped paper, pox-rent, etfe. : Post Office, Christiansted, V. 1.. De- cember 6, 1920 B. R. LARSEN, Postmaster. EDITORIAL. Under correspondence space is accord- ed two communications on the subject of the autompbile mishap of Friday iast reported in yesterday’s issue We are vlad to accept these letiers which @1 L R 1 X AavVvis indicate that the writers understand the function of the paper: that it is prepar- ed to give all side. chance in all dis- putes; in or.per words at it is a liberal paper open to all within the bounds of newspaper ethics. .Os course there are some contributions that would be ea- gerly given prominen€ée in some papers which could never for any consideration oontain an incii .of accomodation in these columns, but it 'goes without saving that such are the mud-slinging kind of writ- ing which does not (each anything eddifying, and which tends to debase instead of educate, and is a disgrace to newspaperdom. All that has been said about this paper being against the people 1s sheer idiocy and drivelling imbeciles could never utter anything more ridicu- lous than that we are opposed (o the inhabitants of St. Croix—because a few self-styled progressivists in a spirit of intolerance develop ideas overnight and then present them as being the feelings of the whole island when for the most part nineteen persons in twenty hggd nev- er heard of those ideas and ninety- nine out of e¢very hundred do not un- derstasd them. What we stand forand always will defend is the right of every man to his own opinion. We concede and likewise demand and are going tH have that right every«time. Be- cauge a few men get on a box and de- clare something is in fact no business of ours: we investigate for ourselves, but we have no grudge againsi those who take everything for granted. We hope never to become so narrow-minded that we siall condemn a man {or his opinion, when he stands with the majority or in an aggressive minority—but, we look for the same courtesy and consideration. There is some talk that unity is strength and admittedly unity can exisc for good purposes, but that is nn more true than that unity is often responsible for tyran- ny. Without unity there would be no Bolshevism in Russia foday or bloodshed in Ireland. There is much cry aboat the majority, but we know that ma- jorities are not necessarily right; we know that large bodies of men have been frequently wrong; that truth and. wisdoin have ofteca been trampl~d beneath the feet of the multitude. We do not sav whether or not these analo- cies apply loeally but we do say that no allowance is made for them and that as a rule we are repre:ented, or rather misrepresented and maligned without | even acase being stated or we having | said pro or con, —the old stunt of build- ing on the ruins of other pcople’s charae- | ter. i In the present instance before us we | refer readers to our reporier’s comment | appended elsewhere in this issue, and | would emphasize cbservation of the fact | that this incident is so far closed where ! we are concerned. : , | Under the caption oi ‘‘Jensen lzngtes ' ester Jomfrugerne’’ (Jensen longs for the Virgin Islands, ‘‘Nordlyset’’ tells of a tormer Danish gendarm Jens Skydt Jensen who was serving in these islands at the time of thetransfer, eventually go- ing to New York where he volunteered in the Amearican army during the war and did sevvice ‘‘over there’’ returning ul- timately to Brooklyn, where he develop- ed an irresistible desire to see the wav- ing palms of St. Croix, with the result that he has enlisted in the Marine Corps on condition that he may be stationed in “the Virgin Islands, which wish will be granted him. The paper says he i 3 on the way to St. Croix. "*Nordiyset’’ also reports that Ex-Gov- ernor Helweg-Larsen, formerly of the Virgin Islands, filled his sixtieth year the other iy and received many gue :ts and heaps of flowers. / The Automobiie Mishap On Gentre Line With Gowmani On Versions Os The Un- : N ; . lon Ghauffeur And Mr. J. D. Christian, (Specially reported for the Avis.) To deal first with tne account of Mr. J. D. Christian, we admit he has present- ed the matter well. We believe he is honest in what he relates, He has writ- t2n in a genteel maaner and that is se strikingly singular these days, and so different to what we expeect that we feol like giving Christian a pat on the “shoul- der and teil him go edi: ths, Herald which job hc would certainly put some men of degrees and measures in the snade wacre 2videnze of caiture i 3 con- cerned. But th re are other counsidera- tions which must be regarded and we therefore proceed to sustain our report of yesterday by ecalling attention to tne disagreement between Mr. Christian’s report and the cnauffeur’s. These two versions ar2 so contradictory that both cannot be true. Aeccording-to Mr. Chris- ‘tian he heard a horn sounded behind; this Mr. Berjamin says nothing about. If it was heard by the one it was most like- ly neard by the other, and as we un- derstand Mr. Christian is hard of hearingit is quite possibie that he did not hear the preceding toots which it is believed ware heard and ignored. The horn was sounded repeatedly which re- quired both time and ' distance. The spead they were going at made it appear tne crash was away behind but if they had stopped the same moment they vould have been convinced of the close proximity of the ears. -Christian says Revd. Pigott admicted there was no fault on their side; Banjamin says he started an altercation,—how can these state- ments be reconciled? Benjamin says Revd. Pigott was driving recklessly but Christian makes no mention of this, @or does he refer to the eheering of the union