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SALARIES FOR OTHER IXMPLOYEES. BSection 10.-All deputy clerks of the Distriet Court and other employees shall receive such salary as shall be fixed by annual budget, PoLICE COURTS NUMBER. Section 11.-The Police Courts con sists of three in number; one to be held at the Town of Charlotte Amalie; one to be held at the town of Christiansted; and one to be held at the own of Frederik- sted. Each Police Court has jurisdiction throughout Yhe subjudicial Distriet in which it is held of all the offenses cog- nizable by the Police Courts. ADDIFIONAL PoLICE CoOURTS PROVID- ED FOR. Section 12.-The Judge of the District Court, by iand with the consent of the Governor, may create such additional Police Court, Districts :as may from time to time be deemed necessary and may define the jurisdictional boundaries for such newly created sub-districts and Police .Courts. POLICE JUDGE HOwW APPOINTED. Section 13.-The Governor shall appoint the Judges of the Police Courts, and their annual salary shall not exceed franes ten thousand five hundred each. ADDITIONALDuTY FOR POLICE JUDGES. Section 14.-In addition to the duty of administering the Police Courts the Po- lice Judges may be assigned to act as deputy clerks of the Distriet Court. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WHO MAY TAKE. Section 15.-The Judge of the District Court, each Police Judge, the Clerk of the Distriet Court and each Deputy Clerk of the District Court shall have power to take acknowledgments of deeds, and administer oaths and affirmations, and shall be notaries public. (To be continued.) EDITORIAL. The Creole is just getting in, and the tGuiana arrived at Frederiksted at day- break. The former has 20 sacks mail, St. Thomas and Porto Rico, and the lat- ter 30 for Christiansted fiom che States, I'his information is given us by the postmaster here who tells us that for the advantage of receiving regular ad- vices concerning the mails and move- ments of mail vessels we are indebt- ed to Postmaster John Streich of Char- lotte Amalie whose zeilous 60-operation with the St. Croix offices has been thke hasis for the realisation of much added efficiency to the inter-island service, decidedly of great benefit to our local communities, and much appreciated. We are requested by the bandmaster of the Industrial Brass Band to announce that this band will give a popular concert 5k GROILE A VIS on the whrrf on Sunday cvening the 26th which will be the'band’s last appearance in puble for some time until certain pieces of instruments which are being sent away for repair are returned. It is also advised that the band hopes in the meantime to acquire some new additional instruments. The World: Thursday, June 2, 1921 (New York) America In The Vir- gin Islands. To the Editor of The World I wonder if you have any idea of the difficulties created by articles such as that of Mr. Karl Kitchen published in your Sunday Magazine of April 24. There is a small handful of Americans down in the Virgin#lslands trying their best to interpret the id=als of American citizenship to our new fellow-citizens here. We have spent nct just a few days but months and even years here at our tasks. Why not let ue speak about con- ditions in the Virgin Islands ? We know. KEvery time an article based on scanty and biased information and written with smart-Aleck superiority comes out in the home press it is reprinted down here, and it is we who have to combat the re- sulting wave of resentment and anti- American feeling long after its writer has gone gayly on his way and forgotten his snap-judgme:t pronouncements. This, 1 think you will agree, gives us some right to reply. Our towns here are not ‘‘Afcican vil- lages.”” They are well-built cities in which the Spanish-American style of architecture predominates. Houses of thick walled stone nd stucco, arcaded for coolness, give a quaint attractiveness to the streets. Considering that no city water supply is possible, the sanitation is excellent. Your correspondent, while conceding that health conditions are good, asserts that in all other respects the islands have retrograded since the Americans took charge. Did he discover, I wonder, that wages have more than doubled since the American occupation, and that the standard of living of the working pecple has never been so high as at present? On one estate on St. Croix sixty tenant farmers have bought horses in the last two years. Even the field hands in che cane fields usually can and do afford to wear whole and clean gar- ments. Personal cleanliness is the rule. Drunkenness, contrary to your corres- pondent’s statement, is not common among the natives of the islards. Res- pect for law and order is a conspicuous feature of life here. Compulsory educa- tion up to the age of fifteen is strictly enforced, and the schools, which were good in Danish days, have been improv- ed in many respects since the islands be- ame American. It is rare to find an adult in the islands who cannot read or write, Each town has a public library. fur- nished by the Red Cross and the Ameri- can Library Association, and these libra- ries are extensively used and appreciated by the colored population as well as the white. The institutions, publ\jc and pri- vate, comprise three general municipal hospitals, a leper asylum in which the new chaulmoogra oil treatment is bei..g successfully administered, an insane hos. pital, a home for the aged, several or- phan asylums, reformatory for girls and boys now under construction and a penitentiary. All of these institutions maintain ver_ high standards and carry on and improve under the American regime the excellent work that was begun in Danish days. The only comment your ecorrespondent found to make about the Red Cross in these islands was the statement that It sponsored an indecent moving-picture show in St. Thomas. This is an absolute falsehoed, without a thread of founda- tion. The only performance at which films have been shown under Red Cross auspices were given with Red Cross films furnished direct from our national head- quarters and dealing entirely with the work of the Red Cross. In these islands during the last four years the American Red Cross has furnished large. quantities of medical supplies and equipment for the hospitals, has opene' the libraries before mentioned, has instituted a Sys- tem of school nurses and supplied two nurses to organize the work, has pro- vided musical instruments for the use of the public schools-and has assisted in the care of distressed American seaman, be- sides numerous other smaller works of benefi to the islands. A staff of five Red Cross nurses, librarians and social workers has been employed in the Vir- gin Islar ds since November, 1920, and the membershipin the local Red Cross chapters is now well over 10 per cent. of ™ the population, a higher average than in many American commurities, The natural ties of the Virgin Islands to the Unitel States are many. Nearly every family has relatives there. Aj- most all the trade is with the United States. ‘ There was genaine joy in the hearts of the people when the islands became in truth a part of the American Nation. But the complete Amaricani. zation of the isiands can be helped or hindered immensely by t e degree of sympathy and understanding shown to- wards them by the elder citizens of our great Nation. Such prejudiced articles as Mr. Kitechen’s do not help—they hind- er. J. C. COLCORD. Permanent Field Representative Virgin Islands Chapters. Christiansted, St. Croix, V. I. May 20