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, 1923-09-25

Offering odds Ct four to ore that Papyrus
will not defeat the United States cham
pifn
have been COMPLETED for the triple pre-
sautation of the freedom of the City o
London on October IL al the Guild Hall
to Mr.. Mae Kenzia King, Premier Of
Canada. Mr., Bruce, Premier of Austria
liza, and Mr.. Stanley Baldwin, Pre- nier
Of Great Britain,
London, Sept. 215t,-.The movement
for the extension of an imperial pre-
ference in order to protect British
industries, is gathering strength and one
trade after another is following the eX-
ample Of the wollpn industry, taken last
week, Of demanding government aid in
order to save these staple industries from
ruin. The conservative press processes
the belief that British in lustry is today
on the very verge Of an abyss, owing
to the competitor Of European countries
where the currency has been inflated,
thus causing money to have a lew value.
London, Sept. 2lSt. -AlthOugh the con-
ference of Ambassadors fixed Septem-
Der 9th as the date for the Italian eva
cuation Of Corfu, the Italians actually be-
gan their evacuation today, says a Cen
trail News despatch from Athens. Artil-
lery brigade guns, and ammunition have
already been embarked.
Belgrade, Sept. st,-Fjume prOvi-
dec a lively opening in the Chamber of
Deputies yesterday. The Democratic
line, supported by a the opposition.
iAterpel ated the Government as to whe-
Their it intends to condone the obvious
violation q the RapaIlo treaty and negoti-
ate a new agreement granting Italy
tiume in exchange for Jugo-SIaVia own
territory, the Porto Barros Delta, and
insisting that the Government come out
in the open and inform the nation,
through Parliament, what it was doing.
The reading Of the Interpolation was
accompanied by anti government cries
which the speakers had difficulty in
quelling. Eventually the Government
announced that it would reply today.
St. Johns, N. F., Sept. 21st.-Mr.
Freeman, Managing Director of the St.
Georges Coalields, Ltd. has received a
message from Captain FurIOng, who is
row at work clearing up the st Georges
coa!fields in preparation for the inspec-
ton by a party of mining engineers, who
are due TO arrive here in October. The
message conveyed the information Of
the discovery of a new seam of coal
eight feet wide. Mr.. DoWney, Minister
of Agriculture and Mines, received a
message yesterday from Mr.. Henry Par.
sons, Pond OiIfeIds, saying that on Mon
, 1923-09-25

cert on the wharf this evening, weather
permitting.
The schnr. "VigilanJ" sailed 1t 4 p n.
yesterday for Fajardo, Porte Rico with
81 head Of horned cattle and S hogs.
The s. S. Guiana" for New York is
due at Frederik5ted at 6 o'clock on Sun
day morning.
, 1923-09-25
CORRECTION.

In School Report published in yester-
days Avis under heading Percent Of
Attendance please read La Vallee 96.t9
instead Of 86.l9.
, 1923-09-25
In The District Court Of i39 Virgin Is
lands Of tha Uait9i S!2.3s: Christian
st3d Sab-IddicIaI District.
IN THE MATTER OF THE JOINT
ESTATE or WALDENAR KRIEGER,
DECEASED, AND SURVIV NC WI
DOW OCTAVIA KRIEuEA.

NOTICE is hereby given chat the IN
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator Of the joint estate Of WAL
DEMAR KRIEGER, d ceased, and sur
viving widow OCTAV-A NRIEGER.
All persons having claims against said
estate are hereby notified to present
same to the undersigned al his office,
No. SO King Street il CbristianSted, with
the necessary proofs. within 6 months
from the date of this notice.
All persons indebted to the said estate
are hereby requested 10 make payment
to the administrator.
Cbristiansted, ST. Croix, Y. l. U. S.,
this Oath day of September 1923.
A. Z. STAKEMANN,
administrator.
, 1923-09-25
Notice to Patrons Of thu Chris
tiaast3d Post Office

o0A4NLNAAF0 Ddt0i 'dJ LOLb ilioAoibs
D the mail heretofore carried by the s.
S. Romantic from San Juan via Saint
Thomas 70 Cnristiansted will De forward,
ed by the s. s. Catherine on a similar
schedule with the exception that the
steamer will not call at this port. The
mail will be transported by land from
J. ederiksted and will in all probability
often be received here as late as 800 D.
m. for which reason only the first class
matter will be distributed and delivered
the same evening. P~erishable matter
received outside will also be delivered if
called for before delivery is concluded.
As usual it will be our aim to give the
best and most complete service and pub.
he cooperation will do much 10 aid this
along the following lines: by securing
postage Stamps, registration and money
orders before the mail arrives 50 that or
attention shall rot be divided between
distribution of mail and handling of
routine work. This OF course applies
only to when the mail arrives before the
closing hour on Saturday, as positively
no other business will b. attended to
except the dissolution and delivery Of
mail if it arrives after the closing hour.
Requests for service NOT open to the gen
eral public will not be granted indivi-
duals as a matter OF course, and they are
not anticipated. The delivery Of perish
able mail will invariably be made at the
back of the OlfGe, bat patrons are not
admitted to the WOrkroOm. The Postal
Laws forbid unauthorized persons being
in the Workrooms Of post offices when
mail is being opened, and those who
make ii a practice OF using the back en-
trance to the office will kindly understand
this. Clearly if one or two or more per-
sons may be ad niltedt nto the Workroom
and expedited there for their special
convenience the whole public may be
admitted which would be manifestIy
irregular. The demand for service on
Sunday morning has reached the point
where it has become a burden to us and
actually impairs efficiency in making up
tle outgoing man fJr Wuich purpose we
axe on dIty On Sunday m)rling, and
he 'eatter no business whatever which
calls for the immediate service Of a clerk
will be transacted. The mlll b,x az the
entrance to the Office IS cleared latest
9.45 a. m. Sunday, and the drops inside
to the momant Jna mail is actually dis
pa C led from the Office. 1t will, there
fore, not be necessary 10 inquire whether
mail may be deposited in these drops.
b. R. LAR SEN, Postmaster.
, 1923-09-25
LOCAL

We have b en- asked to mention that
the Native Bros Band will give a con-
Evening star., 1923-08-26

plants that make paper out of pulp
and rags. 1t has steel plant which
turns out locomotives and rolling
smaller industries of various kinds.
The town is perhaps the manufac-
turing center farthest north. 1t Is
about one hundred miles or so from
the Baltic. and its latitude is about
that of Mt. Mckinley, Alaska. Sur
tion of two long narrow lakes con-
nected by the Tammerkoski river.
This has a fall of sixty feet. with a
drop of about twenty feet right here
in the city itself. This fall gives
great water power, which is added
to by the steam produced from the
cord wood of the forests floated in on
the lakes in barges and boats.
The cotton mills of Tammerfors are
especially interesting. There is one
of $4,000 spindles operated with wood.
and another of 10000 spindles run by
electricity generated by water power
Think of running a big cotton mill
with cord wood! Let the wood be
birch and pine sticks cut in the win
ter and sledged over a lake 120 miles
long to the factory. Let it come in
on barges and be thrown into the fur
naces by hand. and you have one of
the wonders of this Baltic republic.
During my visit to this mill I
looked at its wood pile. 1t covers an
Evening star., 1923-08-26

skirts of the town. often thirty miles
away. Lonely roads lead to it. Should
an accident befall the car the chill
dren are miles from assistance and
often have to walk to get II.
Or they may be at the club and
have to send miles for help.
The hours pass and ii is morning
before they get home to a family that
has been fretting for hours.
1t is all very well for the children
to say that they were perfectly safe.
Parents do not feel that way about
il. They have fears that the children
know nothing about. They scold and
say that the car cannot be used for
any more such expeditions.
Then the young man comes along
just about twilight and asks that the
young lady go with him for a spin or
daring and charming in his low
| bodied. bright-colored car for two.
The girl wants to go and one hates to
say no.
Still one should, Cars travel so
much farther from home than the
horse that drew your buggy on sum-
mcr evenings used to do. The horse
never got q puncture or ran short of
gas or fell dead thirty miles from no.
where.
1t would seem that any car that
took young people away for a long
| trip should carry an older person
along for ballast. The young man
with a car for two doesn't exactly
qualify for the job of driving a young
lady in her teens. At least that's the
way IL looks to me.
(Cnpyright 1921
Evening star., 1923-08-26
New Republic OF Finland Prepared Repe Any Military Inv

ionged to the old army of 1903. and
We now have three divisions, each
containing three battalions. regi-
ment of field artillery and several
companies Of machine guns. We have
two regiments of cavalry, a regiment
OF technical troops, heavy artillery,
tank regiment and also a flying
corps"
rs your army well trained?" 1
asked
II think SO. The Firms are natural
soldiers. They are sound and healthy.
They learn quickly and obey well.
They show soldierly respect to
their officers, and are contented. We
could easily increase the army if we
had the officers and equipment to
do so.
Military service is compulsory
All are called to the eolors at the age
of seventeen, and after twenty the
peace service period Is eighteen
months. After that the man goes
into the reserves for five years and
can be called upon at any time until
he reaches forty-five."
How about winter traininC?'
That is an important feature of
the service" said Gen. Enckel. LAS
you know, our country is covered
with lakes and streams, and the win
Evening star., 1923-08-26

sections, which is an improvement
on slices of fabric in opposing colors,
after the true jockey style
In the plentiful showing OF new
autumn hats there Is evidence that
the helmet with an oblong crown
and fat-spreading ribbon bow has
not been shelved. Again 1T Is in COL
ored' felt. White suede with white
grosgrain ribbon varies the collection
Of black, brown and beige.
The high turban of the orient had
short and merry life. but the ban
danna turban will last. You can roll
your own as smart Parisiennes have
done for a decade, or the mlliner is
glad to do 1t for you. Rolling your
own gives the chance to own several
turbans. Odds and ends Of crepe, of
satin, of brocade can be turned to
head coverings If you acquire the
knack or trick Of the southern negro
in twisting gay cotton strip around
the head
T>HE three-piece suit goes on its
- way rejoicing. 1t has assumed the
characteristics Of the costume known
as the commuters delight" The
skirt hem matches the coat and ex-
tends to it. The lining of the coat
matches the blouse, which is rarely
a blouse-more often 1T is the upper
part of the frock.
Women who like variety of
blouscs in winter suit deepen the
hem Of the skirt and attach it to a
pinafore of matching silk. It's a
simple trick that serves well.
The three quarter coat is estab-
lished. 1t is straight and slender;
it flares at the knee-length hem; it
has tiers put on in sections. Jeanne
Lanvin sends over a curious coat
through manufacturer. Its cloth
Is covered with spiderweb tracery
which looks like footprints on the
sand. as one expert said. The sleeves
are arresting. IIanvin must have
Evening star., 1923-08-26

point. Even the horizontally banded
sweaters have given way to the
checkerboard ones, with and without
sleeves. The later fashion Is another
torment to the eyes. by reason Of it's
endless chain at summer resorts.
Pity we pound a style to death before
it has served it's purpose.
Russia, however. lifting her finger
linery.
Those tiny turbans that threaten
to disfgure the large face and the
middle-aged woman. have become as
tonishingly like Russian wedding
bonnets. sometimes like tiaras. In
the former shape, when reasonably
wide Of brim. they are apt to be a
rival of the helmet.
The sliced brim is a feature of new
hats. 1t is shown on the cloche
which covers the heads of half the
women one sees. 1t makes the jockey
cap even more conspicuous.
This visored hat, with its sectional
crown, is the most difficult to wear
OF all the seasons shapes. 1t needs
youth and bravado. Of course. II
will be popular. Hundreds of women
will fiatter themselves by wearing it.
Paul Poiret was responsible for its
nrst exploitation. and the story goes
in the Latin Quarter of Paris that
he seized upon the idea through a
remarkable young mannequin in his
house. She was an artists model
also. One day she wore a jockey S
can over her short sleek black hair.
Poiret saw it, presented it's duplicate
to his smart clientele and it became
the fashion for the elect minority.
No such happy little story Is con-
nected with its present revival 1t
simply came up to the surface with
all the other tiny shapes.
1t is now of black plush or velvet
as often as not. Gold braid or col
cred galloon is used to turn the
pointed crown into sharply designed
Evening star., 1923-08-26

acre and is as high as a ten-story
fiat. 1t takes about 10000 cubic
yards every year. and the managers
figure that six cubic yards equal one
ton of coal.
This cotton mill has eight hundred
employees, mostly women and girls.
They get wages of so cents a day,
and their hours of work are from 7
10 IL and Il until 4. The spinning
rooms are maze of belts and NOV
ing machines. Thirty thousand
spindles are whirling around, and
scattered among them are these
blond-haired. blue-eyed daughters of
Finland. Some are young and many
are good looking. They wear bright
handkerchiefs around their heads.
shirt waists and short skirts, and
almost all are barefooted The mill
owner told me that one-seventh of
the births Of the community are
illeGitimate. He does not consider IL
a disadvantage for a girl to have one
child. If she has two it is a draw
back. and when she has three she is
no good is a worker.
X X
THE mills make every kind of cot
i ton cloth. turning out calicoes,
tablecIoths. sheeting and everything
demanded by the Finnish market. 1t
competes on even terms with Man
chester. England. and with Germany
over the way. The raw cotton now
comes from the United States, some
Of 1t direct and some via Liverpool.
Before the world war it was sup
piled by Russia, but then that supply
was cut off. and the blockade made
1t impossible to get in American cot
ton by way of the Baltic. Never
theless the Firms kept the mills going
by sending ships from New Orleans
into the Arctic ocean and hauling the
bales south over the ice and snow.
They had three hundred miles of
shedding between the port and the
railway, and eight hundred horses
were needed to haul the loads. The
amount imported that way was five
thousand bales. and the freight alone
10 cents pound.
Leaving the cotton mills, went
through several of the big paper fac
tories run by the rapids, all of the
machinery being operated by cleo;
tricity. One of these mills was
founded before our Declaration Of
Independence was signed. 1t is still
using rags, and it furnishes the
paper for the banknotes for most of
the bankrupt nations of Europe. II
supplies book paper for England and
fancy writing paper for Paris. Some
of the other mills are making wood
pulp, and the town ships news print to
Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Yoko-
hama and Shanghai.
Finland is one of the big paper
supply points of the world. 1t sends
wood pulp to all parts of the con-
tinent, and just now it is furnishing
a great deal of paper to Russia. the
establishment Of the alleged freedom
of the press having increased the
Russian demand. The output of wood
pulp now runs into hundreds of
thousands of tons.
Copyright, 1923. Carpenters world rravessx
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fFocesD
Mill

Finland be defended? The Russians
have tens of millions Of people; you
have only three"
II think So" was the reply. Our
country Is such that 1t would be diff
cult to march large armies across it.
Most of Finland is all woods, streams,
swamps and lakes. The roads are
comparatively few and an invading
army would have to cross streams
at every few miles where there are
ample means of ambush and of
harassing the enemy in every way.
This makes a small army effective.
1t can move lightly and go across the
country. while the large army OF in
vasion is limited to the roads in ex-
istence or to those it makes. In 60
ing over the morasses or through the
forests 1t must move in small units
which the small defensive army can
wipe out"
IIERE the general showed me a
i l. military map of Finland with its
thirty-five thousand and odd lakes
and its swamps everywhere, among
which are many islands of trees.
Our great danger" continued Gen.
Enckel, sis from the sea. We have an
enormous coast line on the south and
west, and there are many landing
places where a Russian fleet might
lombard our coast. We expect to
improve our fortihcations, however.
and with the flying machines and
other changes in modern warfare. 1
feel that we are comparatively safe"
"Will you ever have trouble with
Norway and Sweden?"
'"I do not think So" replied the chief
of staff. l.
"Racially the Firms and the Swedes
are more nearly allied than the Firms
and the Russians. Geographically we
are a part of Scandinavia rather than
of Russia. The Scandinavians are
friendly to us, and they are glad to
have a buffer state between them and
the Russians. You will remember we
had a dispute with Sweden over the
Aland Islands and that by mutual
agreement we referred this to the
league of nations. Both nations ac-
cepted it's judgment and that act
marked the first success OF the league
in averting war.
"As to the Russians themselves"
continued Gen. Enckel, 1--WE have al
ways been more or less independent
of them. Finland did not belong to
Russia in the same was the other prov
inces Of that empire. 1t was a grand
duchy, with its own constitution and
practical autonomy in it's internal
affairs. 1t had a national diet COM
posed of the mobiles, clergy, burghers
and peasants. Both sexes had the
right to vote and in many ways we
practically governed ourselves. AS it
II now. the chief powers Of the world
Evening star., 1923-08-26
The Car.

Into a world already full of veXa-
tious problems for parents, came the
motor car. The children were great
ly interested in ii. of course, and
learned to drive il.
Children should learn to drive a
motor car. 1t is part of an Ameri
can childs education. He should know
how to clean il and repair it and drive
IL.
However. in the driving of it there
lies many a vexed situation. OF
course, the younger children do not
even ask to drive, but the young peo-
pie of the family look upon ii as
their right which is all that they
claim it to be under certain circum-
stances
If the young woman who wished
to drive the car is willing to do so
under the traffic rules and regulations
there is no reason why she should not
be allowed to do so.
Women can drive cars with the
same care and efficiency as men of
their class. If il were only the traf-
fic regulations that were under con-
sideration the youngsters might drive
as much as they please.
Things aren't as simple as that.
though. They never are When the
youngsters ask for the use Of the car
in the evening. saying they are going
to a dance at one of the country
, clubs, one is inclined to say yes. Why
not?
The country club lies in the out
Evening star., 1923-08-26

The man who wants some in his coffee
or tea takes as much as he pleases
Ny last lunch consisted of a sandwich
and some rolls, cakes and coffee, and
the whole cost a nickel.
The bread and butter here is es-
pecially good. Finland is noted for
its butter, and it's dairy industry is
growing. A great deal of butter is
shipped from here to Denmark and
thence to England as Danish butter.
The chief butter-eXporting city is
Hango, at the southwestern end of
the peninsula. where there are many
large creameries Much of the cream
is frozen into a mush. in which state
the farmers ship it to Hango by rail-
Most of the daily business is CO.
operative, and this feature of farm
industry is rapidly growing.
Tammerfors is the Manchester of
Finland. 1t is textile center having
large cotton factories. linen mills and
Evening star., 1923-08-26
BY ANNE RIrTENHOUsE.

"A YEW fashions come tumbling
in like surf on an autumn
VI beach. None is sensational
to our worldly wise eyes, for
each has shocked us in it's time and
faded into the familiar commonplace.
Those of US who have seen summer
beaches banked with women wearing
bathing suits which were merely loin
cloths below the waist and suspenders
above, have ceased to gasp or to ex-
claim. Let women dress as they will
is the weak cry of the reformer. The
reporter as usual. goes to the work
of reporting. This season there Is
much to tell, and more Is inevitable
as the autumn gets into its stride.
The annual touch of anxiety Is occa-
stoned by the persistence OF the
straight cylinder gown. Its revival
after the dressmakers' insistence upon
the circular skirt is sufficiently spaced
from its last appearance to give it a
measure of novelty.
Truly, women look out to the skin
in the new clothes. Plated or plain,
they appear to be weighted at the
hem. When belts are added they
are so narrow that they might be q
bit of fancy stitching.
The best dressmakerS in Paris.
however, make immensely wide skirts
Of tulle covered with small ruffies.
Chanel continues her many-tiered
skirt, but Callot and Jean Patou have
the courage to offer instep-length
skirts six and eight yards wide
1t is probable that sharp dis
tinction will be made between eve-
ming and street clothes in the sill
houette of the skirt. Sleeveless
bodies are still worn in the sunlight.
but France will put in long sleeves
as autumn deepens, so the difference
between night and day clothes will
have to come in the length and width
of skirts. This is especially neces-
sary if, fabrics are to be identical in
both sets of clothes.
Women have ceased the custom of
having sunday best" They go to
business in lovely silks. velvets.
crepes. Also. they go to dinner.
dances. card parties in them. The
dressmakers are antagonistic to this
sameness. Probably that is the rea-
son they have introduced tulle.
wear it to the offfce.
1T is quite possible that the circular
i skirt will vanish. leaving the field
to the cylinder skirt for the sunlight
and the Victorian one for the electric
lights.
The tight. fitted bodice rises above
the wide. ruffied skirt. 1t is moder-
ately long-waisted, sometimes en-
in white crystals.
The struggle to revive the hustle
in the form of a glorified bow of
ribbon has died down. 1t may not
be dead. merely quiescent. arising
to alright us in midwint<r.
Another fashion scheduled to dis
appear is the full founce as a finish
to long, tight skirt. Ugliest of all
spring tricks was this. Its tiresome
repetition in cheap clothes wherever
masses of women foregathered
wearied the eye. 1t gave an awk-
ward contour to the body. 1t should
never have been survived from an un-
gracious clothes period. yet when we
saw it for the first time a year ago
in the salons of Cheruit. in Paris
we liked 1t. The furthest thought
from our reportorial minds was that
the American manufacturer would
seize upon it to reproduce over the
continent like 25-cent movie" film.
You never can tell
Fur will again make it's mark as
characterization. Several kinds are to