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dramatization fromn Kipling’s story, will | be rejeated at St. Mary’s Hall thiseve | ning as per programme advertised ab)ve. i This film was well received on its first presentation here last Tuesday night and is described as pulsating with intense vig- our and individuality, mingled with vo- mance and tragedy that secared for it the unanimous satisfaction of the big audi- ence. ; The S. S. Guiana from New York is due at St. Thomns today and looked for in Frederiksted, tomerrow, in all probability l to leave from there for St. Xitts inthe | afterneon. Correspondence Frederiksted, St. Croix, V.1., May 24th 1922. ; To the Editor St. Croix Avis, Christiansted, St. Crozzx. Dear Sir: Although “‘BUSINESS MEN”’ in their article of May 23rd, state, ‘‘.hat the corporation was dissolved with and on the date of the appearance of Govern- ment’s notice’’, 1 still maintai) that Ramsay Coogan & Co., Inc., bave, IN é COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW, still | sometime to remain RAMSAY COOGAN i & CO., INCORPORATED. | [f they were close observers they | would see that Government’s notice, | which is a certificate of comsent, has ap- | peared every Nednesday, for the past three weeks and will again appear in next Wednesday’s issue; thus having been published four weeks consecuiively, once a waek, as prescribed by law, e Within a short timeI believe ‘‘BUSI- NESS MEN”’ will kave the pl:asure of reading Government’s certificate of dis- solution which will settle this contro- versy for all time. , I do not intend to write further regard- ing the matter, but should '*‘BUSINESS MEN?”’ require any more knowledge on the subject, I take pleasure in referring them to the Government, whom 1 be- lieve will be only too pleased to assist in enlightening their clouded brain. Au Revoir, J. H. COOGAN. Christiansted, May 24th. 1922. The Editor ‘‘St. Croiwx Avis,”’ Dear Sir:-- I have been afforded no little - amusement over the controversy which has been going on in your columns be- tween ‘‘Business Men’’ and those writ- ing for the firm of Messrs. Ramsay, Coogan and Ca., Inc., and while it may be true that general interest in this mat- ter is limited. or there is probably no more to be said on the subject, I felt sor- ry when I read Business Men’s letter of today saying that it was their last. The impressionIhave gained is that S 5 URbax A § 1 | both parties are driving at diff:rent | thinzs, snd while both may b> so far ; right, their premises being s:parate a matuil agreem2nt is impossible, It looks to me that Business Men is aiming}to prove that the Government has declared the corporation already dissolv- ed, while the other side (which ought to kaow its own affairs best) holds that it is only in course of dissolution. I, like others, must understand the reading of the notice | that the corporation was dissolved there and then, ‘evidently there is an error ' which is still unexplainad i Very truly yours - AN AMUSED ONLOOKER. The Edaitor of the *‘St. Croix Avis.”’ Dear Sir: Suppose a certain woman, on Fri- day, gets into serious trouble in our town and i 3 summoned before the law. Suppose she goes in her distress, to consult a lawyer, explains to him the charge agairst ker seeking his advice and legal assistance. - Suppose he charges her Fifty Dollars promising her to meet for her in Court, on the following Monday. % Suppose she gas not the money to pay E immediately, and goes ker way. i Suppose, next day, the said Jawyer i sends for the woman in great haste and speaks to her thus:-- | l ““Woman, this is a serious case against i you. They have just rung me up from | the Police Office to say that you will be arrested immediately. You will be ar rested. Now, look here, I have charged you $50.00, tiis case is worth SIOO.OO, anyhow, you pay me $25,00 now, and I will see that you are no: arrested. Suppose the woman went about and gathered together the $25,00 and paid the said lawyer, Suppose I enquired of the authorities, aiter the woman had laid ber story be- fore me, and I found out that the law- ’ yer’s tale was not true. Suppose I found out tha:. no warrant had been ~ issued, mor was going to be issued -for the arrest of the woman, and that - the Police Office had never commu- ~ nicated with the said lawyer on this case. SupposeI went in Court on the day of hearing and found that the case against the woman was dismissed for lack of evidence against her. Suppose I concluded that the lawyer’s action was a rascally trick to extort ex- horbitant fees from a woman whose case he saw was clearly hers. WOULD 1 BE RIGHT OR WRONG? Yours as a representative of the peo- ple. ' . . : W. S. ABRAMSON. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. Genoa, May 20th. The dominant thought in Genoa last night, as the dele- gates were leaving, seemingly was that although the conference was a thing of the past as far as Genca was concerned, its achievements would live and contrib- ute much to the pacification and recon- straction of E rope. The officials of some of the smaller states undoubtedly go home disappointed aud perhaps angry because their troubles had not heen set- tled at Genoa. Lithuania. for example, being chagrined hecause the conference had not removed the Polish troops from her terriiory and the small Russian re- republies bordering on the Caspian and Black Seas are grieved because it failed to free them from Bolshevik rule, but as a whole the belief prevails that the con- ference, despite disputes which almost pushed Europe to the edge of a precipice, resclted in the beginning of better un- derstandings between the nations of Eu- rope, inciuding Russia. Even the French officials admitted this last nighr, saying that France, which came here reluctantly and almost suspiciously, goes away with more confidence. M. Barthou in his firal words to the press, declared his convie- tion that the conference, which he called the child of Cannes, was today in good health and that he saw no reason why the infant ~ould not journey safely to the Hague and there thrive and prosper. The greatest langer of all, he said, was that the child would cause a split between the godfathers who had come :0 Genoa as Allies. *'l was not always in accord with Mr. Lioyd George”, he added, “‘and in- deed we had serious difficulties since the first day, but the desire to affirm the re- lations between Great Britain and France is better today than at the opening of the conference’’. » Lordon, May 20th. According to a press despatch from Moscow, ngl. Bauer has arrived there with other Ge*man offi- ers, with the object of organizing an avi- alion service in accordance with a special plan of the Soviets, and that Russia has already received ten aeroplanes from Ger- many. St. Johns, N. F. May 21st.—After a week spent in conference, in negotiations hetween the Squires Government and the Reid Newfoundland Company, the prob- lem of the deadlock, which have absolute- ly tied up this countrys railway and its allied steamer services for five days, still remains unsolved. Constantinople, May 2lst.—The Gov- ernment of Angora will accept, u-der certain, conditions, the British proposal for an enquiry into the atrocities inAsia Minor. The Turks demand that in addi- tion to the representatives of the Allies, Turkish, Russian and Ameriean Commis- sioners be included in the commission, Madriu, May 21st. A severe storm has been experienced at Ceuta and Tetuan, causing considerable damage to the Span- ish forces and demolishing the hospitals installed in tents. A Spanish column from Melilla has occupied Bufarcos with- out resistance. The Moors have bombar- ded Alhucemas causing some damage.