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The resignation of Lieutenant Paul Keller, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, from the Naval Service has been accepted and he has been dotached from the Naval Hospital at St. Thomas and ordered to proceed to his home. Correspondence. Christiansted, St. Croix, 26 July 1920 Editor *'St. Croix Avis’’. 1 Dear Sir:— Pease allow me space for a few remarks to “‘Movie Admirers’’. T agree entirely with ""Moevie Admirers’’ with regard to _rhe pictures exhibited both Monday and Thursday evenings; as a proof that everything is being done to get the best possible pictures for the Thursday performances I can mention that 1 have succeeded in obtaining 2 film for the coming Thursday, which has been released in 1920; this will be the first time so new a picture will be ex- hibited in St. Croix. With regard to th2 Serials [ hope in the near future to be able to show a Serial in the course of 3 weeks. b et the appropriate music for the pictures from the States would not be prssible for the reason that [ do nos: know more than one week in advance, which nievires we get nhere, soit would not be possible to et the gusic in time, but this does n)t naturally prevent a fre- quent change of propram, nor a little more ‘‘tone color’’ and can surely not be any excuse for playing a waltz when a death scene is exhibited; the reason is that the pianist was so ‘‘mowed’’ that he forzot himself; please excuse us (the pi- anist. the bulb and myself) and we will promise to uo bester in the future. Very truly yours BINAR SVENDSEN. Christiansted, ‘St. Croix, V I. U. 8. A. July 26th., 1920. Editor of the St. Croix Avis: Dear Mr. Editor: Seeing you have openly expressed such a broadminded policy in the rather heated prohibition question, we vonture to take advantage of just a wee bit of your valuable space to endorse with all our hearts, and. all our might, and all our souls, the position and views re- vealed by ‘‘Abstainer’’ in his letter pub- lished in last Saturday’s Avis. After reading today’s Herald we feel all the more impeliled to add at least one bolster to the edifice of piain truth and common sense so holdly expressed by the author of that letter. To read today’s Herald is sufficient to convince anyoue of aver- age thinking ability that '“Abstainer’” certainly got the ‘‘goat’’ of -those officious sky-pilots who, leaving the thresholds of the doors in their own native lands piled with rubbish, have 3£ gy b g Y | volunteered to sweep our polished pave- ment with a broom handle. -The old say- | ~ing that ¢ stone thrown in a pa~k of | dcgs will draw a how! from the one - that’s hit is truly exe.uplified in ““Ab- | stainer’s’’ shot which would appear to ' be a sort of repeating ball. We would - like to ask the Herald why, in diiating ‘ on the nativity of the parsons, it singled | ' out 4 German to try and make a naive . of him? We must conféss we had looked . for something stronger from the Herald. . Perha s these mushroom advocates of l prohibiiion can tell us where they were . all the time wher rum was selling '‘to | beat the band’’. Have they only now sud- l denly discovered that prohibition 1s neces- | sary because perhaps in the absence of | strong drink we will use more sugar, and | th:t being so dear, honey from Fredens- | feld will ecome in just handy ? It is a pity \ these brilliant ‘‘stars’’ did not live in . the old days: they might have made his- | tory in reforming Noah and Lot. We | are preparing for a good langh when | these busybodies get their “lemon’’ from . the proper direction. . é Yours for Sincerity, | A FEW MODERATES. | St. Thomas News. We notice we are not entirely forgot- . ten in the United States, for in the May © issue of one nf Chicago’s leading month- . ly trade journals, ‘‘The National Har- ness Review’’ we find the following. A PROSPECTUS ON THE VIRGIN ISLANDS The official Bureau of Information of . St. Thomas, Virgin islands, has issued a profusely illustrated souvenir pamphlet - with the purpose of bringing In an in- | teresting way, more prominently before } . g ' the world at large, the Virgin [slands. ? The book impresses upon the reader that now is the time every ne should be | well-informed on the beauties of these l islands, heir wonderful climate and the great opportunities they pres2nt for in- ‘ vestment of American capital. A copy | of this booklet can be obtained from the ' St. Thomas Bureau of luformation Char- i lotte Amalie, St. Thomas, ‘V. I. U. S. A, i The price is SI.OO. ! If the number of pamphlets Col. Stride | sent out last September 'had reached | their destination, we should have had | many more such kind notices,—St. Tho- | mas Mail Notes, July 17th. i e . | | We beg to congratulate our young | student friends, Misses ‘Sigrid J. Levi, i (‘elda Paiewonsky and Tervencia Daniel | “and Master Roy Bornn, who as students | of phonography at the Conveut Schoul, | (Ben Pitman system) nhave received a | diplomafor efficiency -—over 100 words . per minute—from the Phonographic i Institute of Cincinnatti.— St. Thomas . Mail Notes, July 20th. An American paper just to hand, gives us the information that Mr. Lucius J. M. Malmin, of Chicago, has been appointed Judge of the Distriet Court of the Virgin Islands. Says the paper: “Lucius J. M. Malmin, for more than twenty-five years a member of the Jocal ~ bar association. has been appointed fudge of the District Court of the Virgin Is- lands. This is the first United States =p pointment ofa district judge for those parts. Judge Malmin will assume office - on Sept. 1.”" According to the same news item, Judge Malmin is quowed as having said that the island will be strongly for- tified, and become the Malta of the west- ern hemisphere. —-Ibid. TELEGRAMS 1 UROIX STA(ION Cork, July 21st.—A sensation was created here’ today by the issuance of a proclamation by Major General Strickland, Commander in Southern Ire- land, prohibiting meeting and proces sions within a three mile limit of the Cork General Post Office. The procla mation will become effective tonight. - I: affects many local fixtures, including the city regatta. Beirut, Syria, July 23rd.—French troops, in view of the failure of King Feizal of Syria to hegin the execution of the ultimatum terms, have begun a maich on Damascus. They have en countered no copposition, and are pro ceeding toward Aleppo. Warsaw, July 23rd.—The Polish communication issued on Wednesday announces that the Bolsheviki have captured the town of Grodno, which the Poles defended with ali their strength, in the south, the detachment of Red infantry wheih crossed the East Galicia trontier, was pushed back across the Zbruoz river after an ali day fight. Preceding the loss of Grodno, the Poles forced the enemy from the forts north ol Grodno, trut the Reds counter-attacked with reinforcements, compeliing the Poles to withdraw to the south. London, July 22nd.—A despatch to the London ''Times’’ from Kovno, dated Wednesday, says the Bolsheviki now refuse to surrender Vilna to the Lithuan- ians on the ground of military necessity. The Bolsheviki have begun to establisn a rival administration in Vilna, despite the protests of the Lithuanians. You Are Invited ou Are Invited to call and see the fine assortment of Groceries recelived | ~ Ex S. S. Kerona A. R. Mclntosh. Christianseted, st. Croix. 11 June INy