USVI Public Records

Document text

on the increase since and no doubt it has become a recognized fact, that rubber tires and hich speed are expensive, and require well built and srrjooth ro:ac%s €0 says oxcessive; wear and tear. 1t s therefore obvious that if St. Croix is to be kepl in sugar cultivation, that we need better constructed roads for the fu- ture,and it would seem that we should try our best to own and opera‘e at least one road roller to help put our roads in the desired and much needed shape to stand the changed method of road traffic. Un- fortunateiy our present conditions are the reverse of those in Porto Rico, here we see fine sugar estates being turned out and a general decay taking place, no market for anything, in fact at pres- ent one can hardly sell a pig at a living profit. Production is decreasing and expenses increasing what is the reason ? the answer is written all over the island and can be easily read by those who de- gire to do so. Porto Rico has the advan- tage over us by havinga diversity of erops and an ahundance of labor, also a marKket both local and foreign for all they can produce, and every one there including the laborers seem keen on keeping up the production of the island to a high state of effic eney; if a rabbit had to live on the grass and weeds to be found in their cultivated fields he would starve to death. In couclusion permit ma to say, that I still have a strong hope that local condi- tions will so shape themselves for the better, that in the near future we may see our little island increasing its pro- duction, decreasing the cost, and become such a desirable place to live in, that some of our wealthy Americans who wish to escape the cold winter months and enjoy a fine climate will choose this island for that purpose. A. J. BLACKWOOD, Member of the Road Commission St. Croix, V. I. February 2, 1922, A TOPER’S FAREWELL TO HIS Alas! In awful anguish do I see I'he dawning day approaching that I fear When evermore for me will vetoed be My brinmiong bumper bright with bub- bling beer. ; How oit’ in blisstul moments of the past I’ve quaffed my beer with unalloyed delight But now the time is comhing. coming fast When joy for me isfled and midday night. Who can describe my grief when first the news Arrived that Congress had decreed us dry. : All day I sang ‘‘Tue Aleoholic Blues”’ And even now [ aimost want to cry. 5 1. L A A NI > For neither worl rors niie of maiden fair Could touch this sionv heart of mine as when With heart so light and mind that knew no care My foaming glass 1 seized and said ““Amen’’. On summer days when 1 felr warm and dry And my bouffet, if anything. was drier, Two francs, at least, to borrow 1 would try To send out for a quart from gonod Hans Bgje. Farewell dear friend, the time has come to part = E’en though in this world we may meet no more. One thought at least gives me a little heart I’ve got a bogtle now behind the door. -~ Contributed by A LOCAL BARK- EAST, TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. Berlin, Feb. Ist. M. Charles Lauren the French Ambassador to Germany who had intended to leave today for Paris was requested bty M Poincare to remain at his post and demand explanations from (Germany concerning reparations. Bombay, Jan. 30th. —Many non-coop- erationist leaders In Bembay, including Madame Sacrooi Naidu, leader of the wo- mens movement in 'ndia, enlisted as vol- unteers for Ghandi’s Civie Disobedience Campaign at a meeting held here yester- day, under the ausvices of the Bombay Provineial Congress Committee. A num- ber of speeches were made at the meet- ing, urging the enlistment of volunteers of vhom it was claimed ten thousand were required for Bombay. Advices re- ceived here from Bardoli in t'e disfrict of Surat, announced thnt a conference of representatives of Bardoli and Talqua, which Gandhi selecied for the inaugura- tion of mass eivil disobedience, unani- mously adopted a resolution declaring that Talqua was ready for such inaugu- ration. Gandhi explained the conditions necessary for civil disobedience and the conference declared that unlessa round table conference was held or the working committee of the corngress decided other- wise, mass civil disobedience and non- payment of taxes would commence forth- with. London, Feb. Ist.-Field Marshal Prince Yamagata, one of Japan’s elder states- men, diec today, says an Exchange Telg- graph despateh from Tokio. He was §4 years oid. Belfast, Feb. 2nd. —The formal confer- ence on Irish soil bet seen Sir James Craig Premier of Ulster and Michael Collins, head of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State, will be held this afternoon in Dublin. Sir James Craig, accompanied by his secretary, left this merning for Dublin where the conference will be held. Following the meeting, Sir James will preceed to London Rome, Feb. 2nd.— The Governnent of Premier Bonomi has decided to resigmn. the semi official staff agency announces. The Cabinet Council met this morning to discuss the situation created by the atti- tude of the Parliament, says the state ment, and as a result the Government’'s decision to resign was reached. Belfast, Feb. 2nd.-Michael Tobin, Bel- fast correspondent of the Dublin Free- man’s Journal, was arrested today by officers of the Irish Repablican army in Westport, Count: Mayo, and is detained in a local barracks for reporting a sern:on Archbishop Gilmartin denotncing the re- cent outrages in Belfast. Tcebin. who is prominent as a newspaper man has been ordered to be sent to Dablin. London, Feb. 2nd. High appreciation of the approval by the Washington cor- ference of the naval treaties and the Shantung agreement is voiced this morn- ing by the newspapers which have been giving the proceedings of the conference much attention during the last few days. News of yesterday’s development is dis- played prominently by "the '‘Times’’ which says editorially ‘‘yesterday prom- ises to be a great day for all time in the history of the world.”’ Paris, Feb 2nd.-France will be official- ly represented at the international con- ference in Genoa early next menth. 'The assurance of France’s attendance was given in a communication from the tfor- eign office which dces not say in so many words tha: France will be represented but letsit be known that : he is already committed s a member of tne Supreme Counpcii. The statement is in the form ofa denial that Premier Poincare had telegraphed ycsterday to Premier Bonon cos Italy accepting his invitation to the confererce. The anpouncement resds: “*Contrary to the account published in certain newsypapers, it is inexact that the French Government made known vesterday, by a telegram addressed to Rome, that she accepted the invitation to participate in the con erence at Genoa. As the Premier explaired in the Cham- ber of Deputies, Premier Bonomi in con- voking the conference merely executed the decision taken at Cannes by the al- lied Fowers, including France. It isin the name of the Supreme Council that he sent the invitation apd it was also at Cannes that the programme was adopt- ed Therefore there is no oceasion for the French Government to give formal acceptance on either point’”’. In politi- cal circles it was explained that the com- munication was intended to establish that France was already bound under M. Briand’s action at the Cannes confer- ence of the Supreme Council. Washington February3+rd.— Mr. Hoov- er, Secretary of Commerce, speaking of South American trade conditions stated that they were much improved.