davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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of approximately Z {, 100000 francs
will be incurred during the period
of six months from January LIST,
thus making an additional appeopri-
alton of 30,00O.00 Francs essential.
D. NOLL,
end Appointed Member.
Frederiksted, December LIST 1919.
End Appointed Member (NoID intro
ddced the Money Bill and said, Mr..
Chairman. This Additional Money Bill
which is before you today is a running
mate to the Ordinance passed by this
Council providing fo~ a Police Force Cor
St. Croix. If you remember, the sala-
ries passed in the last Ordinance have
been considerably larger .han what we
have been paying. 1t is now necessary
to Increase the amount under salaries,
and if the reorganization proposed is
to be carried out from January L, thirty
thousand francs will be required to effect
same; probably all of this amount will
not be expended. for several reasons:
the principal reason is, as January | is
close at haAdit might not be possible to
procure all the incumbents TO have them
in office; but | think, in all probability
twenty or twenty-five thousand fra lcs
might be used during that period.
The wages we are now paying are not
sufficient to procure efficient men for
the force. and as | stated before. etician-
cy run in proportion with the salaries
we are paying; however we hope to pro
cure better class OF p~ersonneland the pro-
per way of procuring them is to pay a
higher wage. | ask ""u gentlemen to
further the Money Bill i is before
you.
LIST. Member for Christiansted Country
District (Stdkemnnn) remarked: Mr..
Chairman: The Ordinance regulating The
Municipal Police Force provides for che
Director of Police, four District Chiefs of
Police, Inspectors, Sergeants, Patrolmen
and Matrons. The Director Of Police is
settled by the Ordinance; but the nun
Der of Inspectors, Sergeants and patrol
mon were not specified. | think it is
right for US to know how many Ser
geants and patrolmen that are proposed
before we vote for the money.
End. Appointed Member (NoU) in re-
ply to the last speaker said, Mr.. Chair
man: This matter was presented to the
Municipal Committee and the question
raised by the Honorable member was dis
cussed there; however, | can state that
the total personnel of the force from jan.
l, including patrolmen will be thil ty
men.
LIST Member for Christiansted Country
District (Stdkemdnn) remarked. MIR.
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There being no objection the Chair
man declared the minutes as published
tacitly adopted.
The Chairman then laid before the
House Item | of the Order of the Day.
Item /.
Colonial Council Bill No. II.
Additional Money Bill to the Budget
for the Municipality of st. Croix for
the fiscal year ending June 80. 1920.
introduced by End Appointed Mem,
Der (NolD Increases in salaries to
effect a reorganization of the NUM-
cipal Police Force.
Colonial Council Ball No. II.
end Session 1919-192O.
ADDITIONAL MOfEY BILL
To the Budget TOR the Munlc5paljty of st.
Cr0GG for the fiscal yeGr endinQ June .3Oth
1920.
The Police (0nd PRISON. Department for
increases IN salaries to effect q r~e-orqan1-
cation.
The Police (and PRISON. Depart
ment is hereby granted the sum Of
Francs 80, 100000 to be added to and
expended under item 1---salaries.
during the period from January LIST.
to June 30th. 1920, inclusive.
REMARKS.
On January 1st. 1920 there will
be an approximate amount of
Francs 46, 100000 under the item sal
aries unexpended.
70 effect the reorganization of
the Municipal Police Force contem-
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-28
A POEM OF PEACE

Let's forget the busted kings, for
q while; more uplifting, helpful things
are in style; let us paint up our
abodes, let us boost for better roads,
so the mules may haul their loads with
a smile. We have talked so long of
scraps, and of gore, that our voices
and our maps are bore; let it now be
understood we intend to cut some
wood, so our credit may he good at
the store. Let the Kaiser sit and
nope. in distress; let the kronprinz
hand out dope to the press; I've aban-
doned words for deeds; III supply our
daily needs, buy my wife a string of
beads and a dress. Let our gifted
statesmen frame terms of peace;
doubtless they can play the game,
slick as grease; it is ours to put up
ice, it is ours to earn the price, so the
children may have rice and roast
geese. To the tale Of war we so long
gave tongue, that the old-time chest
nut gong should be rung; now the war
I is done and past, and the guns have
ceased to blast, let US hustle till the
last dog is hung. Let us scrub, on
Bonded knees, all the floors; let US
paint the apple trees out Of doors;
let us mend that broken walk, fix the
I clothesline, wind the clock-we can
/ find an endless stock of such chores,
Walt Mason.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-28
GOSSIP THAT REED WILL BE
CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT

Washington, Feb. 22.-The out
break of applause that followed Sem
ator Reeds speech in the Senate this
afternoon on the League Of Nations
gave emphasis to insistent gossip
heard at the capital during the last
few days, that Reed will be a candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
for President. When the remark was
made to Reed this afternoon that some
of his friends were already running
him for the presidency, he replied:
"My sole concern now is in trying
to save the country from what con-
slider the greatest menace it has ever
faced-this proposed league of ma
tions.'
Copies of Reeds speech against the
league, delivered some time ago, have
been distributed broadcast by persons
interested in the fight.
In connection with Reed and the
presidency, it is pointed out that the
Missouri Senator would probably
have the support of William R. Hearst
whom he recently defended against
the attacks of Deputy Attorney-Gen'
eral Becker of New York before the
Senate Propaganda Investigating
Committee. Hearst, it is said, is pre-
pairing to switch from Champ CLARK
to Reed
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-28
INTERNAL REVENUE MAN
HERE TO ASSIST YOU

Get ready for the income tax man.
He arrived in Pennington on Wednes-
day and will be located at the Court
House, where he can he consulted
without charge.
Bring in ~our figures, your prob
lens, your doubts, and your ques-
tions," is his invitation contained in
the announcement of his coming visit
Collector of Internal Revenue
Moore, is sending one of his Deputies,
George B. Snider, solely to help peo-
pie in this vicinity to determine their
individual liability and to comply with
the laws requirements as to 1918 in
comes.
His office hours will be from a.
m. to p. m. each day, and he will re-
main sufficiently long to close up all
this business, providing you act
promptly.
"This free advisory service" writes
Collector Moore, sis planned for those
who are required for the first time
to consider their liability and to make
sworn returns.
"Many thousands who were not af-
| fected by the prior Federal laws tax
ing incomes must this year file re-
turns. Here are the requirements:
EVERY unmarried person who had
an income Of 1000 or over during
1918; and every married person who
together with wife Tor husband) and
| minor children, had net income Of
$1,000 in 1918"
"The advice and services of the
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-28
HEREFORDS TO THE
ROUNDUP SALE

Members of the st. Francois County
Hereford Breeders Association yes
terday shipped to Kansas City seven
head of Hereford cattle to be sold in
the Hereford Roundup, beginning
March 3rd, and running through the
week to the 9Th. Six hundred and six
ty head of cattle will be sold during
the sale and this will be the largest
auction sale of registered Hereford
cattle ever held, the cattle come from
the herds of SO breeders and consist
of 20 aged bulls, 10 two-year-old bulls,
230 yearling bulls, go cows and calves,
$50 bred cows and 100 open heifers.
Hereford breeders the country over
are watching this sale with great in
terest as it should be the acid test as
to the demand for the whitefaces
whether for the farm, ranch, or herd
headers or foundation stuff for new
herds, the averages here will no doubt
be taken as the established value, as
ali the bloodlines will be represented
and the many herds contributing
means that all classes from top
notchers down will be offered. Those
from this county selling are G. j.
Westmeyer, 8 ycarling bulls; j.: M.
Burlbaw, 2 yearling heifers, and Z. b.
Denman, 2 yearling bulls.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-28
THE NEED

The cessation of hostilities has not
concluded the war emergency. Great
emergency tasks still lie before the
people of America. The problems of
rehabilitation and readjustment call
for response in service from every
citizen.
To secure this response, it is nces-
sary that all citizens in each commun-
ity be brought together in a general
community organization where each
individual will come into intelligent
touch with the emergency program
and the support of every individual
and every agency focused thereon. To
make this response effective further
requires that the work of all agencies
and persons should be co-ordinated
and welded into united action and
that there should be some central
general agency which can undertake
directly those programs for which
there is no special agency in the COM
munity. In word, there must be
peoples workshop where patriotism
is turned into action and where intel
ligent mass action is secured through
freely willed team play. This work.
shop in each community is the COM
munity council. Upon the community
councils the Council of National De-
Tense now relies to do the work of
the present emergency.
When the emergency programs of
rehabilitation are thing of the past,
the need for the organization of each
community will, nevertheless, endure.
Each community will need organiza-
: ton in order that its people may come
in effective working contact with the
problems of the State and the Nation
and that the voice of the community
may become articu!ate in regard
thereto. Each community will need
organization in order to develop a
true community interest and RESPONSE
bility that will lead to community in
itiative and action to meet local needs,
in order that the programs of separate
institutions and agencies may best be
adjusted to meet the particular needs
and opportunities of the individual
community and in order that the well
fare of the community may be safe
guarded through intelligent thorough
going planning and not left to chance
and the competition of individual
agecies. Finally, this organization is
needed in order to provide for every
| individual in the community a true
place in the community life and to
bring to the community as whole a
sense of fellowship and make each
citizen proud of his community citizen
ship.
The need of community organiza-
ton, both now and in the future, can
best be seen, however, in concrete pro-
grams of work and organization.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-28
KEEP THE PROMISE

Under the above heading, the st.
Louis Republic the other day delivered
the following "straight-from-the-
shoulder conversation" to the Cham
Der of Commerce and business men of
that city. Every word of it is the
truth, and doubtless hit the aforesaid
business men squarely between the
eyes:
In 1916, when st. Louis was trying
to have one of the Federal Land Banks
located here, the Chamber of Com
merce issued a booklet setting forth
the reasons why the valley metropo-
lis was logically the place for farm
credit institution.
The document states that the Cham
Der had done much for the develop
ment of the rural communities of Mis-
souri, and even then was preparing to
raise $150,000 to be used by the Fed
Grafton of Missouri Commercial Clubs
for its out-in-the- state program.
st. Louis got the Land Bank. The
Chamber of Commerce started out to
raise the promised $150,000, collected
something like $4,000, lost its enthu-
siasm and then apparently forgot all
about it. That was three years ago.
This incident explains in part why
Memphis, Kansas City, Joplin and
Nashville are getting millions of dol
lars worth of business every year
from sections Of Missouri that are
practically in the suburbs of st. Louis.
There is no surer way to lose friend
than to break promise made to him.
This isn't too late to keep the prom
Use made in 1916, Most of Missouri
looks to St: Louis as its natural mar
ket and has friendly feeling for its
biggest city. All things being equal,
the average merchant out in the
State would prefer to do business
with this city.
| Let the Chamber of Commerce
raise that $150,000 Immediately. 1t
is debt of honor and should be paid
before any other disbursement. There
is no sacrifice the Chamber can make
that would be too great in the emer-
gency. The organization represents
St. Louis in the business world and
the faith of this city must be kept
straight at any price.
After getting the $150,000 it would
be well for the Chamber to confine
its promises to the limit of perform
ance-even at the risk of losing 9
Land Bank.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-28
WOMEN'S COUNCIL
MEETS IN PARIS
Eighty WelI-KnoWn French Wom-
en- Guests Of Y. W. c. A.
for Opening Session.

Paris, Feb. Eighty of the most
prominent women in France who are
interested In all women's problems at
tended the first meeting of the Provi-
sional Council of the American Young
Women's Christian Association, held
at Paris headquarters, Place Edou-
ard VII, Jan. 80.
Mrs. Robert Lansing, wife of the
Secretary of State, who is first vice
president of the council, presided, con-
Quoting all sessions in French, as two
thirds of the members represent
French associations with whom the
Y. W. c. A. has been cooperating.
All women in France are looking for
ward to the findings of the council as
of tremendous importance not only to
women in France, but all over the
world. The purpose of the council Is
to collect and make available informa-
ton about conditions and needs of wo-
men, to become acquainted with wo-
men who are identified with different
kinds of work and to develop a few
typical illustrations which will set
standards for future permanent work.
Following are the societies repre-
scented: Union Chretienne DIES Jeun
Files, Student Movement, Foyer DIES
Alliees, Amies de la Jeune File, Ma
| tional Council Of Women. Among the
delegates were Nine. Jules Slegfried
Nine Avril de st. Croix, Baroness
VAUDEVILLE, Countess POurtales and
Nine. Waldegrave of London.
Mrs. William G. harp, wife of the
ambassador to France, Is honorary
chairman of the council and Mrs. Fran.
els Mcneil Bacon president pro tenn
Miss Charlotte Niven, director of Y
| w. c. A. work in Italy, Is secretary.
Departmental and provincial groups
will hold meetings weekly to discuss
local problems, the entire council meet
ing at the end Of each month. In April
at the last meeting, each group will
| decide how the information and expe
rience may be used most effectively In
the future
| Delegates are guests ut the HOte
Petrograd, the Y. w. G. A. Hostess
House In Paris.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-28
Y. W. C. A. PROMOTES
WORLD FELLOWSHIP
Will Send Industrial Commission
to Meet Foreign Labor
Leaders.

The War Work Council of the
Young Womens Christian Association
plans to send an Industrial commission
of women to England, France and Italy
in April to meet prominent labor lead
ers of those countries with view to
promoting world fellowship among wo-
men.
The commission will be made up Of
Mrs. Raymond Robbins, representing
the National Women's Trade Union
League of America; Mrs. Irene Os-
good Andrews, American Association
for Labor Legislation; Miss Grace
Drake, National Consumers League
Mrs. James S. Cushman, chairman of
the War Work Council of the Young
Women's Christian Association; Miss
Florence SImms, Miss Marie Wing and
Miss Imogene B. Ireland, secretary to
the commission, all of the Y. w. G. A..
and Miss Mary ellison, an authority on
employment management.
Miss Florence Simms says In re-
gard to the commission: "The war
has forced upon us the bearing
OF international relationships In all
things, and our touch with women In
other countries has made us include In
our international thinking the indus
trial life of women. The war has
wrought so many changes In this that
1t seems a timely thing that women In
terested in the larger life of our wo-
men workers should take counsel to-
gether and express their interest with
the hope that certain minimum stand
ards which seem essential to health
and welfare among women Inay be
agreed upon and obtained.
Our War Work Council IL sending
abroad this womcn's commission from
organizations in America directly con
cerned with the welfare and largest
life Of Industrial women" \
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-28
LACK OF LUBRICA-
TON is EXPENSIVE

Watch the fabrication on your auto
mobile and tractor if you would avoid
cost of repairs. 1t is cheaper to buy
oil than to buy machinery, says E. W.
Lehman of the University of Missouri
College of Agriculture. Use only Tub
ricant3 of best quality. The manu-
facturc1 will advise you which brand
of oil is best for the particular ma
chine. Keep oils end greas!s pto-
tected from grit and dust. See that
all oil containers are cleaned before
using. Carefully follow oiling chart
in lubricating your machine. A small
amount of oil at-rsgular intervals
rather than an excess of oil occa-
sionally is best for all machinery.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-28
WOMEN BEGIN Y. W. G. A.
FOREIGN TRADE COURSES
Courses In New York City Prepare
Girls for South Ameri-
can Jobs. N

Sensing a sudden call to Jobs for
American women In South America,
the New York City Y. w. G. A. has
opened Foreign Trade courses. includ-
ing classes in shipping, fling orders.
trade acccptances, tariff, consular In
voices, documents. insurance, mail or
der trade and other lines Of fnterna-
tional work hitherto left mostly to
men. These classes are designed to
meet after-war needs.
South America is receiving particu-
lar attention as the Y. w. O. A. Is In
formed of new jobs that are opening
in the southern countries. Many girls
in New York who combine desire to
see the world with a craving for finan-
cial independence are registering with
the expectation Of going there to get
positions when their courses In train
ing are completed. ~ y s-=siiss'75ss..
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-28
DOMESTIC SERVICE
COURSES PLANNED
Trained Home-Maker Is to Have
an Eight Hour Day and Stand
ard Minimum Wage.

Courses for training home assist
ants, who will 60 into the home by the
day, hour or week and work on a
schedule of hours and fixed wages,
have been inaugurated by the Young
Women's Christian Association as a
means for meeting the problem Of do
nestle service.
The object Of this course, now being
tried out in New York City, is to place
domestic service on the same dignified
basis as clerical work, trained nursing
or other professions open to women.
The home assistant will work eight
hours day for salary of SIS week.
She will not live in the home of her
employer or take her meals there. She
will have an hour for luncheon, when
she can go to a restaurant or eat
lunch which she has brought with her
lust as she would were she employed
in a factory. The employer will not
address the home worker by her first
name. She will be Miss Smith or Mrs
Brown, as the case may be.
Applicants for the course are care
fully selected, and registrants are APP
pearing in large numbers. With the
same independence as to recreation
hours, places Of eating aud living as
the factory girl, house work has a
greater appeal, as being a less monoto-
nous and more interesting work to the
average woman.
The course is thorough one In plain
cooking, waiting on table and door,
chamber work, plain sewing, care OF
children, making Of menus and the
washing and ironing of light things.
Heavy work Is to be done by outside
workers. On graduation the student
receives a certificate which proves her
qualification as a dependable home
worker capable Of attending to all ordi-
nary duties in home.
The Young Women's Christian Asso-
| citation has been interested In the prob
lem of domestic service both from the
standpoint of the employee and from
that of the employer for some years
The first commission on Household
Employment made its report at the
fifth national convention Of the Young
Women's Christian Association held in
Los Angeles, Cal, in May, 1915.
The difficulties of attracting capable
women to this field of work were lait
to the long hours lack of independence
in arranging recreation hours, lack OF
opportunities for growth and progress
and lack of social standing.
Girls have acquired distaste fol
the conditions which govern household
work since the freedom they have ex
perienced In working in munition fac
tories. BY standardizing domestic serv
ice II is believed by the Young Wo
mems Christian Association that
higher type of worker may be at
tracted to the necessary work In homes
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-02-28
INCOME TAX DUE

Work on the collection of $6,000,-
900, 900 has been begun by the Bureau
of Internal Revenue. This is the es-
timatcd yield of the new revenue bill.
The income tax provisions of the act
reach the pocket book of every sim
gle person in the United States whose
net income for 1918 was 81 900, or
more, and of every married person
whose net income was $4,000 or more.
Persons whose net incomes equalled
or exceeded these amounts, according
to their material status, must file a
return of income with the collector of
internal revenue for the district in
which they live on or before March
18th.
Here is what will happen to them
if they don't: for failure to file re-
turn on time, a fine of not more than
81 600 and an additional assessment
of 25 per cent of the amount OF tax
due.
For "willfully refusing" to make a
return on time, a fine not exceeding
$4,000. or not exceeding one years
Imprisonment, or both.
For making a false or fraudulent
return, fine of not more than $lO,-
900, or Imprisonment for not more
than one year, or both, together with
an additional assessment Of so per
cent of the amount of tax evaded.
For failure to pay the tax on time,
a fine of not more than $1,000, and
an additional assessment of per cent
of the amount of tax unpaid, plus l
per cent interest for each full month
during which it remains unpaid.
In addition to the $1,000 and $4,000
personal exemptions, taxpayers are
allowed an exemption of 5000 for
each personal dependent upon them
for chief support if such person is I'M
der eighteen years of age and incapa-
BILE of self-support. Under the 1917
act, this exemption was allowed only
for each dependent Child. The
head of family--onc who supports
one or more persons closely connected
with him by blood relationship, rela-
tionship by marriage, or by adoption,
is entitled to all exemptions allowed
married person.
The normal rate of tax under the
new act is 6 per cent of the first
$4,000 of net income above the ex-
cmptions, and II per cent of the net
income in excess of $4,000. Incomes
in excess of $4,000 are subject also to
surtaX ranging from ! per cent of
the amount of the net income be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 to 65 per cent
of the net income above 81 100000.
Payment of the tax may be made in
full at the time Of filing return or IN
four installments. on or before March
18th, on or before June 18th, on or be.
fore September 18th, and on or before
December 18th.
Revenue officers will visit every
county in the United States to aiC
taxpayers in making out their returns
The date of their arrival and the 10
cation of their offices may be ascer
tanned by inquiring at offices of col
lectors of internal revenue, postof
fees and banks. Failure to see thest
officers, however, does not relieve tn,
taxpayer of his obligation to file hi
return and pay his tax within tn
time specified by law. In this cas-
taxpayers must seek the Government
not the Government the taxpayer.