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47~ A Large Stock " 121 ) New -Columbia Records - ‘ .'/ on sale . JOHN ALEXANDER. COLUMBIA DIS{TRIBU TORS.. _: .v|| ‘ ‘ ‘ Special Sunday Night Goncert. " U.S. NAVAL BAND. Frederiksted, Virgin [slands. November 21st. 1920. First Musician ). Sebastian Forbes, : : ‘Leader. - | : Concert begins at 9 o’clock. . . v I RAM. ~ Mareh. .. The Royal Trumpeters. . Séitzer. Grand Selection . -Bohemian Girl. . Balfe. - Waltz ...... La Gitana...... . Buialeesi. Serenade . ... Twillight Echoes.:. Miler. Saleaticn. ... .... Darcarcld from talésof Hoffmann ... .......Offenbach. Operatic Medlev . Echlives from the: Opera: - o e Mackie- Beyer: - Internfer#a . . . . Garden of Roses. ... Pratt. March... The Amerif-*lStride., ..yane TR PRI T ‘der ‘Cook. NATIONAL ANTHEM. - . o EDITORIAL. G 5 In ‘this papef of the Bth. instant thert appeared a news item to the effect that certajn hands had- been-discharged from the St. Croix Sugar Factory, the note: concluding with these words: -~ It s likewise circulated that frequent strikes and the high cost of . labor which no efforts seem _able to satisfy are among . the causes for this condition of things. ~ = Our contemperary ' ‘The Herald’’ which * appeared to resent this part of the news from its first. appearance, contdins the following - editorial paragraph in_yesterday’s isstie: it e s o : ““We are pleased to be able to record -~ the fact, that'the Authorities of the Central Factory repudiate all connection with the statement made *of late in-one of our contemporaries ?xs -to the ‘“‘frequent. strikes’’ aisd ‘‘high cost of labor’’ being - ~ a cause of the stoppage of work and of the dismissal of hapds -at the above“GV%Factory-‘i’ - m bo i | 6 lithout going further the avethge ' ‘readet is convinced that: the _facwm? ~ thorities were not quoted as responsible for tke remarks in Avis'of the Bth.; there _iß no evidence that they io‘spired #hem or that any .such inference is made; therefore they;have nothing ST C RN VIS to révudiate as far as thispaper is;concerned, .. If the #Herald is endeayoring®o ‘have our: bews -item .provounced faise, then so far, this is yet to,bg.done, seeing. that the” ‘authorities’’; geereditted ith the f,‘rephgiag%b"’ aré Htg) eported to- deny. “'all CONNEGTION with the statement’’, . but are. evfectly silent as. to. the CORRECTNESS ofit.. - «wi¥e o7 oo N .T;w. i & ‘ Jelin ‘ ; - Correspondenice. * 2 33 (..,3* Nsl ; , /' - ~ iChristiansted, November 18, 1920. - Editor St. Croix Avis, ~~ - = . | ~ Christiansted. e [N It:-is not. possidle that something could be done toward: putting: the -burial, ground in. this town in presentahle con- - ~ dition? -ft is O vergrqwn witb weeds andgrass, . and there.is bardly a footpath to get around it, -Many graves are almost. " covered with bush, gnd- some .are. posi-- tively invisible so tggt.aone« walks owver - * the - graves.without -knowing A-_it._;;%qettle‘, is in abundance and stings one at every BtéP..~ 1. o-h. A e¥ g gy, - There is.a cemietery commisgjon. we think; the _gentlemeénj comprising it-.are * not known o us,..and we can,. thereiore, - say impartially that we hope they- will not neglect anything half -as badly -as. - they do the.cleaning .up . of the cemetery.. On_ the other hand these men have per:. I bapggélenty'tg do:the couscil mostly. eleets. for these commissions the men with ; . already,:more thap they ean accomplish; ' and they instead of declining, aceepf:and. ’ do. nothing.. ‘lt Is.a great shame_on the | commurity that we appear not to care & fig for. the place we hury our sacred dead - .. and, strangeérs woula'get a very uncom-. iplmentary. impression: of. us if. -they, ~ judged us by the .condition of the .ceme- . tOEW: & . o st Ty o . Despite the faet that. this must be - known to others who are frequently in the cemetery. there’is never a-time when the general cleaning of the burial ground . was more necessary than.vow.. | : ' ol YO T v b s Do ot 2 GITIZENS: IHE GREAT RADIUM MYMELY. - Frederiksted has taken the lead with she new serial, “The Great Radium Mys* tery’’. The first part was advertised to . ~ be shown as the West End Mcvies last . evening, égéx in, A(é,hrls,tiap_stgfl .have to wait patientiy for the first paré on Mon- U el e o ;. o MR o e e T - “TELEGRAMS. A ... ST. CROIX STATION. . London, gov. _lsth.—The Board. of Trade tt‘e “today in the House of Com" moans #hat foreign tovs have beep imported into t.hfifi:flft_ed Kingdom teo: the value of £1.381,000 up. te the end:of September. Al e Sindinhy - AW London, Nov. 16th.==Ageording to the Daily Mail Dublin correspondent there - . is again talk of peage éoncilistion -in bre- - land. He declared the power of the Sinn Fein extmm&hmw extreme Sinn Feinism is no longerpepu- - “lar and the mo%:ate& are agsin being - listened to and the country is rive for a° settlement. s SR Athens, Nov. 14th. —The Govi. i% an official announcement virtually adusstede: the . defeat of the Venizelists -i > s general election through Greéece yester=’ day. It says it will g:%j I results and. then, in confaPmity - witk constitutional princigle‘o,’ ‘pesign ‘before - the - convogation of Parliament. If Pre- - mier Venizelos was unsuceessful in obtaining a majority of 256 votes in the ' Chamber of Deputies, “#¢ i considered here - he will be unable to solve the dynas-: tic problem. Early indieations ~were that he could not definitely, “acgording § to -returns, find 200 Venizeljst deputies. ~' When the votes ,of thessoldiers. from : - Athens Piraeus and the distsicts st-the front. has been cousted, however, the - situation - may -changein favour of Pre- - mier Venizelos TheUßposiion ciaims 8 sweeping- victory and.even -the sgabnhle-- defeat of Venizelos in the city of Piraeas: The election is a great surprise ‘to .the Govt., which mm&gfifig&igfl i »it is defeated. The Venizelists .are ~ alarmed but consider that nothing is certain as yet because the reamdts of oply 400 out of 3,000 districts are known.. The: Cabinet met this worning and later "®3 . sued the following .@m}:}i is evident that.the Govt. was mistadken:” in -its expectattops regarding the elee=r!: tions, altbo'igh definite resunlts’ are not: . known. It will await these results sa as' to turn qver the power .to- the party ' . designated 3{ ‘thee populdar suffrage -in - conformity with the constitution, without: ° :i\)\gaiting the convocation of the Cham, r’’. i : P ER Sk S ~ 'London, Ngv. 16th.—Mueh adverse - ~ comment ha® been. caused here by‘an - announcement 4t zoeiehmmbng on: Saturday that the War nfi%:d” : quested the universities 10+ undertake ~ research in the development tothe utmost extent, of chemical warfare for both - offensive and defensive -‘ The question was’ raised by infertogation in: the House of Commens today, asking in ~ effect how the Govt. recomeiled this .. order with article 171 of the: Treaty of Versailies, under ‘which < the ase of and all analogou§ HgGias, TRt T‘.',.l}‘f: r _.devices are prohibited, ang whether the investigations wonld~<be wby similar declarations by:the Ceuncil of the League of Nations.. Me Lioyd George -replying -said that the whele subjast .of Chemical Warfare, had been under ton= sideration by the Govt. for the past'yage. . - v o o :/«,{_;,.‘