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. . ' Spacial Friday Evening Goncert, U.S. NAVALBAND, Christiansted, Virgin Islands, September 5, 1919. First Musician J. W, Paulus, Leader. PROGRAM: Part 1 March. Brisk and Ereezy..Sol Wolerstein. Waltz.- Bliss Eterral ... Harold Bennet. One Step. We Are All Qut Os Step But Jim Irw n Berlin. Medley of War Sor gs and Patriotic Melo- ‘ ies. United We Stand......Al Hayes. Part 11 Mareh. High Sehoo! Cadet 5........ John Philip Sous:. Selection. Echoes irom the Metropolitan Opera H0u5e........The0. M. Tobani.. Song. When We Went To Sunday School ... Egbert Van Alstyne. One Srep. General Persaimg....Carl D. Vandersloo:. NATIONAL ANTHEM. EDITORIAIL. In reference to open letrers exchanged between Mr. Einar Svendsen and Mry. Joseph W. Daily in recent numbers of this paper, several of our readers and sub- scribers. including patrons of the Chris- tiansted Theatre, lLave called our atten- tion to a remark of Mr. Daily, demandin that we bring to th2 notice of the writer of he letter, throt gh this medium, tha public exception t:ken, and resentment fel: .gainst what is decemed ''a nasty slur’’ thirownewicho 1t resecvatioa at the whole community and embodied in the las: part of the f rst paragraph of the reverend gentlemar ’s communication ap- pecring in the issie of Wednesday 3rd ins ant, and readin: as follows: ‘'lf you we e not to put cn a film treating the sutbject the title yroclaimed, then the title was used simp y to cateh the people as it carried with it the promise of some- thing emphatically salacious.”’ Notwithstanding 't is our private opin- ion that the intenled meaning of this sen.ence may not contemplate an asper- sior upon the moras o our community witich can probably bear comparison with thoe of other plaes of like size and sittated under rel: tively similar condi- tiors, we consider it our duty to repre- sen . the injured fe:lings of our fellow ci.izens who decla e that the press is resonsible for the pablicity of, and thare- fore cannot be sileat while giving out broideast, an insinuation that the peopl: of Christiansted wi.] be induced to vis.i plares of public amusement because: lewl or indecent e: teriainment is offer ed there. Itis imjpressed upon us that the better classes in the community are unquestionably maligned in Father Dai'y’s letter when it is borne in mind thac the morals of the depraved could not be endangered by vulgar exhibitions, =3 (e¥ AN |- whereas the patrons of the theatre are | made up of different classes, respectable | people being in the majority. The best course open to us is to hereby ask the Revd. Father Daily to make his meanirg clear to the people who feel that they have been insulted without oceasion, and we have no doubt but that he will doso. The mail-boat Creole arrived with St. | Thomas mails this mornmg and it is | expected to dispatch her -n the return trip at noon tomorrow (€th). | For the information of the publie, it is advised that no mai. for the States will be forwarded by the s. s. “'Korona’’ expected to leave Chiistiansted about Monday the Bth inst., it being under- stood that the steamer is homeward bound via Cuba, in whica case it would | be to advantage to use the route via Porto Rieo. The six reel drama ‘‘Beans’’ was ex- hibited at the theatre last night and made quite a hit. It really proved a catching series of acts skillfullyperform ed and so attractively arranged as to hold attention all the time. The main fea- ture of the film was a beautiful girl’s er- rand to San Francisco with valuable papers which were to be delivered there within a certain time. Her perilousexploits across the country, her loss and recove y of the papers, her getting in and out of jail, and the many comical exhibitions of her ex- ercises in booming '‘Beans’’, her father’s business which she desirad tr advertise, concluding with her bechrotal to a law- yer who accompanied ber on the journcy and shared her adventures, form as thrilling and charminz a story asany we have seen on the. screen; and many persons declare they’d like to sce it again. The show eonciuded with a com- ic that sent the audience home in good spirits. OFFICIAL NEWS. With regard to the use of phosphorus for poisoning land crabs, Dr. Longfieid Smith, Agronomist in Charge of the Agricultural lKxperimen: Station, St. Croix, states he used sane and found it very efficient. He ad '« hat phosphorus is very dangerous and ir its pure f‘orm ought to be supplied to experts only. The | mixture of phosphorus and corn-meal should be made up by a <aemist and d.s- tributed. It is so poiscnous that the | greatest caution must be observed or else | pigs, fowls, cattle, dogs. ete., will be poisoned. The correct way is to put the | mixture right down the crab’s hole be- | low the reach of the other animals and | not to put more in one ho e than the crab | is likely to eat. Dr. Smith states he will | be nappy at all times to furnish personal advice or send literaturz to persons om i the subject of any particular insector | pest they wish to destroy. A private attached to the Marine Bar- racks, St. Thomas, recently tried by court-martial for unlawfully eutering a grocery store in the lower end of town and demanding beer from the proprietor, and upon being refused, using abusive language tothe proprietor, was sentenced by the court-martial to solitary confine- ment on bread and water for thirty.-days, tull ration every third day, and to per- form extra duties for three months and to lose $99 pay. The sentence has been approved. In regard to present regulations cover- ing the sale of bay rum as a toilet article, which requires purchasers to sign an ap- plication blank showing the use for which the purchase is intended, it has been noted that unserupuloas dealers have made sales to persons who signed ficti- tlous names to such blanks, and in ex- cessive quantities. [t muast have been apparent to these d=2alers that the names were fictitious, in view of their unusual character. An amendment to che pre-- sent regulations is in course of prepara- tion whereby dealers in bay rum or alco- aol will in future be required tolully satisfy themselves of the identity <f tae purchas~r, and a non compliance of the regiilations in the future will be deemed sufficient t» warran. the revocation of he license to sell these articles. Under Government supervision there were recently soid at St. Thomias a num- ber of surveyed lows at publie auetiqQi. Throuchi an error more was sold by the auctioceer than had been intended for sale, the mistake aceruing in view of the ract rhat a part of the original number had been withdrawn for sale. WEATHER REPORT. St. Croix, Bar. 30.00, -Ther 36, E. partly clouay. Rainfall for past 24 hours, 32%. 3 -3 Reply to Mr. Svendsen. Who is the man hiding behind you? e is indulging in gcuerrilla warfare. 1 take up categorically the statements in to- davs ietier to . o Paragraph L. © ‘‘Surely the film had to deal with “'Birth Control’’ but having been advertised as a Comedy only afilthy mind could place a filthy consiruetion up- on il Answer. 'Birth Controi’’ is a stereo- tvped expression. You may argue that berth and birth are convertible terms, but linked with the word ‘‘control »’Birth’’ takes on a very specific mean- ing. The conclusion to be drawn from your contension is, that because ‘it is a ¢:medy it is all right. In other word it the sa'ne theme is acted in (ragedy it may be all wrong. Whetner it is Comedy o* Tragedy does not enter into the moral- ity of a theme. That is only the channel of the theme. .