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//‘( *\\’\. g .?/ &- ; o = :“\‘ ; - f\ yl/ \ 7 // i \i/ , 4 \ ’//'/,/';—~, T / L ST U rawy A Wl4 & > WL ‘i? 2A\ =\ 1k *L? TR YEAR e o « Increased Efficicncy Os Pos- ® N 3 $ tal service In St. Croix Under . ® United States Post Office De- partment. By B. R. Larsen From the bzazianinz of time men have shown a dispositinn to criticize; they have criticized each oth r personally; nave criticized institutions, governmenits, ald in short any and evervthing which the eritic himself nad not invented, for- mul:ted, or developaed. Perhaps this has bDeen an outcom2 of the peculiarities of human nature. At first, criticism was discouraged and maligned, but as it be- cime manifest that genuine criticism prompted oy aciaal, though not neces- sarily obvious, discrepancy in the thing criticized was conducive to improvement and prozress. it came to be tolerateq, even sought, and often compensated. I'here has nevertheless been much abuse of the privileze to eriticize and- in many instances criticism has thus done more harm than good; in many insfances it has positively bs%n instrumental for evil where ignorance, lack of bility o judge or purely prejudicial .notive has clicited eriticism of the sort new analysad to be hypocoadriaz eriticism or that basad up- on imaginary defsets; malicious eriti- cism aimed at persons instead of princi- ples; and non-progressive eriticism ov tnat which resen s echanges and denoun- ces anythinz new. I have come ing eon- tact with naay Jdifferent forins of eriti- cism and especially sinee ta2 aejuisition of tnese isiands by the United States 1 have encounrered among coriain ele- ments a superavundance of non-progres- sive ¢riticism, which had for its object the disparazemean: of things because thady w-re no longer Danish. The very tnings which had oeen in operation tarosghout the Danish regime and tole- rated -. in many cases the things were all right) were now to be criticized be- cause thev were pbeing administrated by another Governinent. In other words a spirit of eclannishness apoz2ars to have crept in and clouded the vision of many, and the ability to look at things fairly s2ems to have been dulled. There seems to be also a very artful phase of this non- progressive criticism which is disclosed in the fact that lest its purely anfi-Ame- rican character should be detected, it 1s aimed at departments or insfitutions eon- ducted by natives; or so ¢)uched as to roflect diseredit on the natives concerned. My attention has just been called to certain criticism of the local postal sys- tem advanced at the meeting of the Co- lonial "Qnuncil of Momday 26th instant by ist member for Hrederiksted Country District Mr. Folmer Andersen, one of tha directors of the West india Sugar Factory, a Danish ¢pncern. I have ot had the time to investigate, or pay any special consideration to what Mr. Ander- son’s motives may ‘be for coming tor- ward with the allgged defects in the postal servise, but consii"lag hac bis complaint has been -directed azainst the ‘‘post offices’’, which is praciically speaking the prstmasters who are repre- sented as being so {ezbie in th2 dis- charge of their duties (hat they snould have some marines to heip them, [ feel attacked, and think lam jascified i de- fending myself. If 1 don’c who will, or can say wnerher the charge is deserved or not? I propose to refute the in- ference that the service is inferior to what it was under tt2 Danish admin- CHRISTIANSTED. V.I.U.S A., THURSDAY 29ta APRIL 1920, No. 97 el EATRE 8.30. HIS EVENING 8.30. 66 ¥ Mary Mac Laren ‘ IN “The retal On T..e Current” Mary Mac laren gives effective pcrtrayal of a girl in night-court in film-adoption of Fannie Hnrst stoty. : This Pictu e contains a wealth of human interest aud treats a subject of vital im- portance—the predicament of the girl in the night-court, sentenced by the testimony of the police and secret service men. ' MARY Mae . AREN puts over in good style a number of emotional scenes, portray- ing splendidly the character of jthe unsophisticated girl to whom the drinkine of ‘a couple glasses of beer proves fatal. . : CAST: : SR .....MARY Mae LAREN fertether. . ... . .. ... Lifh defClhire L. s e Ley T o Relbart Apilaraon flajbmdonkh. . 0 . oeatiee Burnhiam. e NigkaE Dobel s .0 bavid Butler, The desire to do as others do leads Stella to yield to the persuasions of Cora and other membersof a beer carty to drink with them. Under the inflagnce of the liquor she wanders intot e street and is taken by a detective to the night court, where she is sentencec to ten days in jail. ; ADAMMISSION: Reserved. Sea s. .. L Vi 40c¢. I'wn first and two last rows of leserved seats L . :80e. (zeneral Entrance. .. o Ll - , . 2 “hildren 20 and 10ec. istration ;in short ro present the faects as they really are. Nearly fifteen years connection with the postal service under tne Danish and present adminis- trations give me the peculiar ad vantage of being able o judge the situation and to disprove allegations which might be pawned off on people less inform- ed. Mr. Andersen said that he would suggest that tae Governor make repre- sentations o Wasningion to get a batter mail service, and claining that we had a very good service under the former ad- “inistration added that we ought not to have a poor service under the American flag. In refercnce to the Government’s reply on this qu>sti)n to the effeet that the postal service was un.der control of the Federal Government and that the Gov- ernor had represented (o ‘Vashington such complaints as had been ree Ived by him, Mr Andersen asked whether the Governor ecould not do somethine [ Continued on jth page]