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, 1922-02-08
To the Editor st. CrOiN Avis >"

10 the E01tOF 81. CrOGC AUIS
Dear Mr. Editor, We are NOT in
favor of the proposed change of Sunday
and Wednesday nigh's as flashed on the
screen at the Theatre on Monday night,
for more than one reason, which we are
prepared to give if necessary. if there
are some persons who on account of GER
tain ENGAGEMENTS find it difficult to at
tend the Theatre Monday and Thursday
nights. we say to them, do as several of
us have done, change your engagement
nights to suit the Theatre by way of
recreation. 1t is altogether out of the
question to have the fish of the minority
to rule in this matter. Will some ore
give us his or her reason why the nights
should be changed from Monday and
Thursday?
While we are about this, Mr.. Editor. a
small but important question looms up on
the horizon. What about q drop in the
prices Of admission? We ind il very
hard at this time when wages and other
things are going down to meet the up
hill demand Of 40 and 20 cents. We are
sure the genial Proprietor 0 the Theatre
will take this question up for careful
consideration. Uatil further. We are,
ResDectfully,
STAUNCH THEATRE GOERS.
, 1922-02-08
ORDER OF H DAY
for the 9Th Ordinary Meeting Of the
Colonial Council for St. Croix,
MONDAY, February Is, 1922, at
ONE O'CLOCK P. M

/. Production of copy of Minutes Of the
Municipal Committee for the quarter
ending December 81, 1921, forward
ed by the Chairman of the Commit
tee for inspection of Members of the
Council.
2. Colonial Council Bill No. IA.
Continuation of LIST Discussion on
Colonial Council Bill No. IA, Draft
of an Ordinance, introduced by 4th
Member for Frederiksted Country
District (Fleming), providing 70"
the repairing and rolling of the
Centerline Road.
3. Colonial Council Bill No. Is.
Introduction of first Discussion of
Money Bill to Budget 1922 as ad-
ditional aid to Kings Hill Poor Farm,
introduced by Government.
Colonial Council Office, St. Croix,
February 6, 1922.
ROBT. L. MERWLN,
Chairman.
, 1922-02-08
Correspondence

To the Editor of st. Crojr Avjs."
Dear Sir:-The following article was
sent to the Editor of The HeraId' with
a request for publication, which request
he has denied me. Kindly publish same
in your valuable paper so that fair minded
people may read and think.
Respectfully
HENRY w. LARSEN.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

There seems to be some misunderstanding as to
the practical character of trade agreements made
with Russia by foreign governments. There is moth
ing in the trade treaties between Russia and Eng
land, Germany Italy, other countries. which per-
mis or establishes trade with privatet individuals in
Russia In substance, all that the treaties really pro-
vide is authority for the Russian Government itself to
establish buying agencies in the several countries
To be sure, these treaties nominay permitted cit-
zens of the countries making them, under certain
restrictions, to enter Russia but when they arrived
there. they found that trade was Government
monopoly that they could sell to private
In view Of the fact that the total present imports
of Soviet Russia small the interest of foreign
concerns in selling goods there would necessarily lie
chiefly in the hope eli laying foundations for the
future. ~ such hope be entertained 80 long a.
the Soviet Government monopolzes import trade.
tnjnformcd persons often speak of the so-called
blockade maintained against Russia. As matter
OF fact. for two years time such blockade
has existed The real blockade on trade. not only
with US bat with all the world. is that maintained
by the Soviet Government itself BY its monopoly
of commerce. il has hampored the export even the
small quantities OF goods which were available and
has discouraged the production of goods Our
Government puls 10 obstacles whatever upon selling
to Russia One result has been that even in
tries having trade agreements merchants have
been able 10 establish themselves in Russia or to
undertake manufacturing enterprises.
The trade OF Russia To-Day consists of importing
goods and paying out gold from the old Imperial
reserve. She can not pay for commodities by com
modities The magnitude of these gold bought inn
ports mas been much less than many 10 suppose.
According to official Soviet statistics the 1921 i'm
ports were valued at 24S million gold rubes, APP
proximately $125,00e0o0. This is only one-sixth
of the pTewar imports. Exports amounted to the
sum of S1o,oOo,0Oo; in 1913 they were IS times as
great These exports consisted largely, and probably
chiefly Of commodities left from the pre-Bol-
dies is evident from the fact that before the war,
two-th thirds of Rnssa's exports in value food
stufs while today the country is in the throes of
terrific famine and large part of its imports are
ocdstuffs.
There is little prospect that Russia will have any
more export in 1929 than she had in 1921 Meant
ime the gold reserve is approaching exhaustion and
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
Passing of the Old West.
Seattle Times. J

The Old West is 1t lives only in his
tory, in popular tradition and in motion pictures.
The West of the old days, when cattleraisng was
king, fingered longest in the Southwest and particu-
larry in the vast area in that empire-state Texas,
which wseacres of earlier age dubbed a desert
and predicted could would be available for
agriculture
One Of the last if the last of the Texas cattle
kings recently passed In his day. Samuel Burk
Burnett had been wagon boss, cowboy, ranch hand,
foreman and finally. owner of broad acres and large
herds. This the day before oil found in
Texas, when the Indians still and when
Burnett compelled to sit in council with the Okla
homa tribes to OBJ ain easehold pasurages for his
and other herds, driven steadily west by the fencing
in of lands to the east
The old Chisholm trail, which cattle
driven from the Texas ranges to the railroad in Kan
sas disappeared long before Burnett had found his
open range is farm land The Horse Heaven
country is interested in irrigation and the raising of
bumper crops. The 'two-gun man and his foe
the vgiante have gone the way of the old West The
law, the railroad pillow and increasing population
have changed the face of things.
All this has occurred within the lifetime of the
pioneer who recently passed away in Texas He
the old West and the There few still living
the change in that vast, rich empire.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26

Most of the fantastic and erratic crowd that is
fighting for control of the Republicn Party in the
country is not progressive as it claims to be. it
has relationship to progress. 1t is populistic.
1t delotes its energies tearing down rather than
to progressive Development It stands for cheap
money, for governmental meddling for harrassing
those who have been responsible for the progress
OF the country
IL would he curious thing if this populistic
element that captured the Democratic Party of
the West, and through the capture dominated the
party to such extent that it wandered in the
wilderness until ii accepted The progressive leadership
OF Wilson. should capture the Republican Party.
The real mogressiyes in the Republican Party,
the men whose leadership Will prevail if the party
to lead the country to progress, those who are
represented by such Hughes, Hoover Mellon,
Dawes and others. 1t is represented by the
Ladds, Latolletes Norrises, Fraziers and Jimmy Dun
cans; nor by the Lodges, Fordneys and other
tionaries who would have things remain forey
they were when they first entered public life.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
A QUESTION OF WHICH BOAT.

The manner in which the United States is draw
ing from the best of Continental Europe for her
present and future Americans illustrated the other
day when the Musical Leader, Chicago periodical
devoted music criticised the Cincinnati symphony
Orchestra selecting foreign musical director and
instructor for leader The Chicago paper, to demon
that it unnecessary for great organization
like that of the Ohio metropolis to to Europe for
a leader printed the names OF number of American
bern musical directors who it says are second to
none in Europe And here is the point: The names
submitted included Sperling Stock, Oberhofer, De
Lamarter and others-not Smith, Brown, Jones,
Macpherson, Kelly other name from the British
lees in the bunch.
1t reminds one of the essay of the famous Dooey
the habit in America of measuring patriotism and
other individual merit by asccrtaning which boat
one, or his ancestors, came over.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26

with it is disappearing what might have furnished
start toward reesablishing workable currency.
The paper money of Russia is fastening to the uti-
mate catastrophe of utter unacceptabty within the
country itself
The British have been grievously disappointed in
the results of their trade treaty. Much had been
made of the enormous needs of the huge Russian
population long deprived of goods 1t was forgotten
that need fer goods does not constitute demand for
goods Demand implies ability to produce and pay.
The really important problem confronting Ameri-
can business with respect to Russia is not that
of trade but that investment. Without large
investment of foreign capital a means of restoring
production. prospects that at least for some
years to come there will be even less opportunity
to sell goods in Russia than in 1921, for with the
exhaustion of the gold her means of payment
will Shrink to a minimum The feasibility of invest
ing capital depends essentially the policy
of the Boshevik Government and on the general in
ternal situation and not in any important degree
upon action of foreign governments
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26

When Miss Queen Holden,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ.
Holden, Of Athens, Ga, graduated
from the University of Georgia,
at Athens, She was presented with
the diploma given her great
granduncle, Alexander H. Steph
ems. on his graduation from the
University in 1892. Stephens. a
helpless cripple, was fearless
politician and strenuously opposed
Georgia's seeding from the
Union, though he was loyal to the
Confederacy once the war was on.
The Stephens diploma had been
kept as memento of the esteem
in which the fearless leader was
held by all Georgians.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
Il Il Fits


The strictest economy has to be
practiced in a lor of homes to keep
the family bus in gas.
A young man soon learns it Is a
lot harder to support a girl on sal
airy than it was ON his knees.
A husband hates to carry home a
lot of packages, but his wife hates
worse to see him coming home
with one
Whatever else may be said about
her. at least the modern girl is
never accused of being overdressed.
Every young couple plans to make
their home a little heaven, but a lot
of them discard the plan and pro-
coed to make it a hell.
Honesty is the best policy, but
the bird who insists on always tell
Ing the truth might as well make
the hospital his permanent abode.
Another thing that makes a lot
OF women unhappy is that they
passed up the man who would have
made an ideal husband for one who
simply makes a deal of a husband.
But If they had married the other
fellow their present husband would
have made the IDEAL one.
The only person in the world who
likes pie better than a small boy is
a politician.
If they are in style a woman
doesn give a tink-a-dunk whether
her clothes are healthy, comfortable
or pretty.
One of the strongest arguments
for birth control is that man
simply cannot support a motor car
and raise a family on salary.
A lot of old maids wish they
had got married and a good many
married women wish they had not.
1t takes kittens about ten days to
get their eyes. open, but about three
days of the honeymoon will open
the eyes of June bride.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
Lcnglen's Great Tennis.
New York Post


Suzanne Lenglen demonstrated on Saturday at
Wimbledon when she overwhelmed Molla Bjursedt
Mallory in the final round for the British lawn
tennis championship, that when she is not suffering
from temperament she is the best woman player in
the world. That has long been conceded by experts
the game, who have wavered in their
opinion after the lamentabe exhibition of the
French girl the Forest Hills court last
The game of the cannot be compared. 1t is
different the proverbia chalk and cheese. Mile.
Lengen is artist of the courts when in condition.
She has every stroke the tennis player should have
overhead, the ground, backhand and forehand
drives, and placing. Mrs. Mallory, the other hand,
has little but driving, placing, and tremendous force
She has little inesse, but will win every time her
opponent permits her to play her game-swaps
strokes with her. She is not satisfied however, and
in statement chiefly notable for its bad taste invites
Suzanne here and give her another
chance, saying that she not her game. Her
opponent would not give her opportunity to make
those railroad drives which the only winning
strokes she has.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
AN EVENING PRAYER
FURNISHED by DR.. w. A. ALLEN. }

o Thou whose secret is with them that fear Thee,
inspire with that loyalty of soul. that willingness
TO do Thy will which all things clear Dark
know. oometh upon the proud and dis
obedent; confusion is attendant upon self-w:
while the humble the earnest and the pure
minded, The way of duty and spiritual health is made
clear. Spirit the Eternal. subdue within all
pride all glory all clfseekng and bring every
thought and desire into obedience to the law
II Christ our Lord Amen.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26

Ex-senator Cole of California visited the United
States Senate recently after absence of SO years
and he discovered debating the tariff question He
declared the debate made him feel young again it
was inst like it was when he was in the Senate.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
Shucks, All Ladies Are Valuable

classified Ad in Toledo Blade)
lady's bar pin, Saturday
night, June "a, in or near La
Bounty's dance hill, Lakeside.
Suitable reward for it's return. H.
p. Main, 3844 w.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26

Note please. that Senator Ladd has apparently
experienced a baptism of Non-Partisan League
faith since the North Dakota primaries. He's agin
the Supreme Court for cheap money and strong,
oh, so strong, for Lynn Frazier Election results
affect and Representatives tremendously
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
Ma Butts In

''Pa, what do they mean by going
from the sublimeIto the ridiculous, p"
asked Clarence.
1T means a girl dreams of marry
ing some wonderful Prince and then
goes and ties herself up to a boob
like your father a!snapped Ma.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
According to Censor

A bathing girl these days
Just wears less than she oughter
For one who always stays
So far away from water.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
a!ss*CS%&;
VECVVR
~ w. ~
l~ 49,

Observations of Oldest Hhabitant
The old-fashioned way of court
ing in hammock had on advantage
over the modern motor courtships.
When there was a breakdown you
didn't have to walk 10 miles to get
back home
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
She Knew His Habits

Have you any idea what state
your husband is in?" asked the
lawyer. who wanted to send him
notice of the divorce suit.
You'll probably find him in his
usual state of intoxication, snapped
the wife.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
Fool Questions

A. K. asks: Does a carpenter
always have a numbering gait?" Re
ferred to the birds who answer Tom
Edison's questionaires
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
Relatively In Values

This food expert declares bacon
is twice as valuable as steak from a
food point of view" remarked Mrs
Crouch.
Yes, but steak is twice as valu-
able as bacon from the butcher
point of view growled her hus-
band, who was making out the
monthly check for their meat bill
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26

What cannot understand is why Chief Justice
Taft went all the way to England to make study
of court procedure when Bob LaFoette and Lynn
Frazier were just spelling tell him just what to do.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
Should Saw Not

Money doesn't do some people
any good" remarked Brown.
Especially if they haven't got
it," retorted BLACK.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26

Con gressmen may be underpaid, but there have
been rumbngs, serious ones, of dissatisfac ton,
and there is little likelihood of a general strike
Knoxville Journal and Trbune)
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26

Ex- Bandit Villa says since he quit taking in
trest in politics he has become a model citizen.
Make a note of the recipe
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
Usually HoIIers Follow Pain, But This
Is Different

(Yamacraw Cor. McCreary County
(Ky.) Record)
Sam Pain now owns the show
here that Roy Hollers did own. It
seems that everyone enjoys the
show. Ef
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
Our Greatest Ambition

Is to give our seat in the street
car to some poor old lady who will
leave us 100000 when she dies,
the way they do in the movies.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26

The President. If don't miss guess, soon
is TO need a bigger and heftier clubs than golf
disciplinary purposes in his political house
hold Cincinnati Enquirer)
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26

Us otmers II have to move. This Outside stuff
is gettin' thick around this neck of woods
Cabinet officers. airshps, pullmans, sedans fresh
sggs-next thing know there will be bathtubs
- Fairbanks News-Mner)
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
News Of the Names cIub

Grace Broome. of CHATTANOOGA
prefers vacuum cleaner when it
comes to sweepingsv
Some men never amount to much.
but Ralph Much halls from st.
Louis. T.. ,..s
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26

American ship with John Barleycorn. 1t looks IL
he will have to swim if he gets across Houston
Pos)
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
Daily Sentence Sermon

The easiest person in the world to
fool is your self
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-07-26
saiIiff, Call Sir oliver and Con DOYLE

oN'F'''' Se@'' VT OTFVSF u''U W.T.
Gamped in the Law Journal
1--WE must gather a dead person s
intention from his acts, his solemn
statements and his conduct"
The Pensacola journal., 1922-12-28
This country cannot exist half taxed and half free
Benz jamn Franklin.
A CIC A NvrIC I'M IIrCNrrrnTr

T he announces that the latest operation in
nle sam gigantic financing has been completed
ee9ssluy Secretary Mellon has found ready market fol
5e ta exempt government bonds issued to retire billion
a half dollars worth of federal Indebtedness Those who
ApuEht these gedged securities Will receive four and hal
aEfcoht interest annually for the next thirty years.
tIhe issue oversUbscrbed hundred per cent L.
# words there were two dollars in the market seeking
vi s Investment for every dollar unit offered
1t appears that there is 70 difficulty in s2nc tax exempt
E3cor les, backed by the U. S. A.
The investors who bought this immense amount of gov
nrent Bonds tie people best afford to pay
,a, the whole The fact of their ability to buy
t class Of securities proof of that The buyers came
the ranks OF those wealthy folks who already own more
an thirty billion dollars worth of tax free paper this
untry.
4 Their exemption means that other people, less able to
isa a: burdens, must pay the reckoning Uncle Sans
|Ige tax bill
The farmer the storekeeper the business man who is
ynG out his investment debt from annual -over-these
&c The fellows who get soaked under taxation system.
We have been waking up the injustice of the situation
hurry recently Realization of that injustice gave added
peus to the of protest against intrenched special
Tege and protteeng which recorded in the last cleo
ion.
The big howl is yet to come The people have not yet
arn2d the full truth They do not know that only five
New York the dwelling place of mlonaire were assessed
rr much million dollars last year They do not
ot industrial king left estate of $35O00O00 largely
a& exempt bonds which bring his heirs than 81 10O0
20 Cvo"y veg" in interest
And right according to Secretary Herbert Hoover
furpus capital poured By hundreds of millions monthly
to tex ireo securities and foreign loans The of great
trtune seek the tax free bond.
Wealth invested does not bear its share of i'm
ense debt huuidaton But released from such taxa
il imposes still heavier load upon the productive bus
eSs of America
No wonder that the keenes authorities of the
alton are ugng passage of constitutional amendment
op the further flow of national surplus into tax exempt
8per That amendment is urgently needed and will halt
bis process at time when before the swollen for
OF America being fattened by stock dividends also
taxed through the arbitrary raaconary ruling of Sec
tary Mellon himself great beneficiary OF the
The Pensacola journal., 1922-12-28
JUSTICE DELAYED.

1t discouragng learn that the supreme Court of the
pited States during its fall term, faced docket of $50
ses which possibly get through with in less than
yo years. This that any must wait two
EARS 0 more for hearing.
1t should be remembered too that lawsuits do not
rccy to the Supreme Court Most of the arriving
here have had lengthy history already AS result OF
als and retras and appeals it be four five years
rom the inception of lawsuit to its final determination by
he highest court
Justice delayed is justice denied The involuntary de-
a Of Justice this way acknowledged to be due to two
buses.
Il First there the fact, atested by former Justice
ar great of the carried to the Supreme
our have business there, involving they do merely
bune questions that could easily be decided by the lower
burts Fighting through to the highest court has
ecome vice in American jurisprudence AS result the
highest state federal courts overburdened with
lefty business that they do justice to the mpor
Int matters.
All of the courts cogged with but the highest
rts which should be free clogged the worst
nd this evil seems be due mainly to the laXy with which
tras and appeals granted for slight petty
eehnicalities, in the lower courts.
1t was to seek remedy for this slowing down of Amer
an judicial machinery that Chief Justice Taft went to Eng
and last where fundamental law originated and
here court business admittedly is handled with far more
edon Something ought to come from Mr. Tatts efforts