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g 12 VLD LUMBER FRESH SUPPLY ARRIVED. Pitch Pine. Yellow Pine. Douglas Fir. 6c. a Fi. 6c. ail In Stock in All Popular Sizes. Elnar Svendsen. o @ Publication. OTICEis hereby given that the sum of N Francs 330 70, income on their Royal Highness Crown Prince FREDERIK and Crown Princess LOUISKE’S Silver Wedding Memorial Fund, wili be available for distribution on the 28th of July 1923. Applications, for participation in this distribution, duly certified, should be tor- warded to the undersigned on or before the 20th day of July 1923. Despatehing Secretary’s Office, Chris- tiansted, St. C#ix, V. 1. 15 June, 1923. R. E. BARRETT. Despatching Seeretary. ® ® Publication. T is hereby\brought to public notice I that the sum of Franes 399.50, inter- est on Former Controller of Customs and Estate Owner in St. Croix PETER CORNELITIS BIRCH and wife ROSA- LINE ANTOINETTE, born CANTOR’S, Legacy for the poor and needy of St Croix, will be on hand for distribution on August Ist, 1923. Applications for participation in this distribution, duly certified, should be forwarded to the andersigned on or be- fore the 20th day of July 1923. Despatching Secretary’s Office, Chris- tiansted, St. Croix, V. 1. 15 June, 1923. R. E. BARRETT, Despatching Secretary. LOCAL Tha Tortola boat ‘‘Dritancia’’ is here with bisk_ts at'2s eants a piece and good charecoal at 5) cents a bag, but it is com- plained that the coal is not movin . It is rather odd that we wont barn coal our- Concert On the Wharf, Sunday Evening BY THE Native Brass Band oo PROB RAN L % 1. .arch...''Election Day’’...Herman H. Sarauw, * .cated to Mr. D, Hamilton Jackson) ....Valse .... *Deliiah.....Nicholls 3. eariiemon Hotime. ... .. Yvin Part 1] l. ..March..''The Governot’s Own’’.. Alton A. Adams (Dedicated to Governor J. W. Oman) 2. .Operatic Melody**. E~hoes From The Opera. Arr Mackie Beyer 5. ... -." Banddidntstrike” ... .. Dalbey STAR- SPANGLED BANNER. FRED. C. JACKSON Jr. Bandmaster, : selves and yet fail to take advantage of buying it at a fair fizure. Tais sort of thing wiil discouraze noats from brinzing the article. Foreign coal like this 1s dutiable and with othor expenses considered 50 ceats is cheap. The s. s. ""Romanita’ is dus today: having 10 tons of eargo for Christian ted and 17 tons tor Frederiksted. Rem2mbeor the football mateh tomor- row afternoon between the Dreadnougsht and Athletic Clubs at 4.30 o’clock on the Parade Ground. As per programme published in this issue it will be noted shat there will be a concert by tbe Native Brass Band in the bandstand tomorrow evening, Spec- ial attention is invited to the iirst num- ber ''Election Day’’ by Mr. Herman Saranw, dedicated to Mr. D. Hamil'on Jackson, and the Governor’s Qwn by Bant aaster Alton Adams, U. 8. N. b e L MARITIME SOCIAL NEWS. The ‘‘Syria’’docked at this 1 rt vester- day afternoon and Mr. Franklin Uen- ners of the Customs Service dit.ed aboard with the Captain and his officers in the evening. A smoker followed which was much enjoyed by the comjany. For bleeks around the savory smeli trum the galley excited the olfactory nerves. “‘CO,n. Political Peonage In Fhe Vir- gin Isiznds By ARTHUR WARNER. {The Nution’s Special Correspondeint in the Caribbean) St. Thomas, Maveh 1. Three tiny dots wheve the Carinhean merges with the Atlantic. An area of 132 square miles, about one-tenth that of Rhode Island. A population of 26,000 persons, 927 of whoin are wholly or partly Negro, Such are St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix, once the Danish West Indies, bur, since their purchuase for $25,000.000 in 1917, known as the Virgin I[slands of the United States. Sratistically speaking they are not worth much of the time or thought of a nation whose total territory embraces nearly 4,000,000 square miles, whose agureaite population approazacs 120,00 v,... 'persons. Yet thare gare reasonsa part from size why the Vip- yin Islands #re deserving of natioral at- #ention, especially at this moment when they have reached political stagnation and all but economie bankruptey. There is national honor—the {ulfilment of treaty cbligations, expressed or impiied. There is what we like to eall the ""Ameri- can standaid of hving"”’ and how iar be- low it we slould be willine to see the peopie of any our of ratinal territory de- scend. There is the influence that the administration of these islands has upon our foreign reputation, espcecially in South America and the West Indies. Finally, there is humanity— what Dives in prosperily owes to Lazarus ir distress, The visitor to the Virgin Islands after six years ol American occupation finds the inhabitants filled with dissatisfac- tion, dismay, almost despair. The Iroy- ble is not ali due to our administration. Th> United States tlook hold ata time when the islands were running down hill economically, a movement wiaich aitain- ed the specd of a rolier coaster when the world-wide tusiness depiession began in 1920. BBut American occuptaion has been ineffective, apparentiy indifferent, in the face of industrial disaster. ‘The naval government has noi even been wiiing to Lep tie farmers of St. Croix by buying