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Il 0OG4&@ W4O44
THE first and third Members OF the
l Colonial Council for the town If
Christiansted, Christiansted Juris-
dia5.on, Messr5. VIM, S. AB8ANSON
and JOS. ALEXANDER, having va
Gated their seats, an election OF two
members will according to order
from Government be held at the
Police court House, Christiansted,
en-
FRIDAY, 1st May 1925.
Polling will commence at [ o'clock
%. m: and in accordance with para
oraDh 30 OF the Colonial Law, close
at the earliest 4 clock p. in.
Pursuant to publication Of l5tE
November 1905, paragraph l "a
2, candidates in order to be Oily sid
cred shall be announced By diane Of
the electors of the Elect al DIS
tricf Tor announce themSITea) as
candidates either by written an
~nQnncement signed by the amour
por and sent to the chairman OF
Ne Electoral Board, at bis official
office not later than 4 O'Clock, pm,
on MONDAY 9th April 1925, or
by the personal meeting of the an
n0uncet before the Electoral Board
at the place where the election is
to be held between 3 and 4 o'clock
., m. on Tuesday 18th April 1925.
The Electoral Board for the town of
Christiansted, CnrisJiansted jurisdiction.
ST. Croix, Virgin Islands Of the United
States Of America, April 22nd, 1925.
CHARLES H. GIBSON,
Chairman.
, 1925-04-28
Publication.

ca
THE third AMI fourth members Of
patutb4 ColoniaI Council for the
from BY Dist let of Chr~istian5ted,
Parls.ans5edfJmisdiction, Messrs.
Pre- ff9r,I $.',KRQcH and THos. RAM
SAY, hlVs,lg VdceaRd their seats, an
election OF two members will, ac-
cording to order frc3n Government
be held at the PoIic2i Court House,
ChristianSted, on
SATURDAY, May End 1925
Polling will commence at l o'clock
b. M, and in aG gfQance with para
graph 80 Of the Colonial Law, close
the earliest at Z o'clock p. m.
Pursuant to publication of 18th
November 1906, paragraph 4 and
z, candidates In order to Ne consid-
cred snail be ANNOUNCED be- q me Of
the electors oIrgRlsoE lecl 6Nl Dis
trict Tor an~@Jnce tIP!f"dblves) as
candidates { Cher ofN A@sten an
nouncT F'Ht signed.@ " the announc-
eli, ne sent to the chairman OF
ind electoral Board, at his official
BEIGE, not later than 4 O'Clock p. m.
IN TUESDAY, April 28tn 1925, or
by the personal meeting OF the an
nouncor before the Electoral Board
at the place where the Election is
to be aeId between 3 and o'clock
pm. on Wednesday April Z)Ch, 1925.
The Electoral Board for The town Of
Christiausted, Chlistiansfed Jurisdiction,
ST. Croix, Virgin Islands Of the United
States vi America, April 22nd, 1925.
CHARLES II. GIBSON,
Chairman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DOCTOR FRANK CRANE.
Useless Religion

4 RECENT article in The Church Times Of London
~ deals mercilessly with book recently wrote,
= - titled why Am Christian"
It's objection book be that bocms Chris
tanity as good business proposition"
Tour Lord says The Church Times "seems to be- In his
view elorfed American business If not what is the
this sentences Jesus the great Master Artist IN
the business of getting along?'
The Christian Century comments this to the effect
that the weakness Of American Christianity is that is
under the peril of making obvious success the end and the
test Of the religious life.
With all due respect to these authorities the position IS
insisted upon that being Christian best in the average
for the purposes Of getting along
1T found that the extreme orthodox and fundamentas
and others who backward their adherence to the old
standards and the rregous people the outside who
do not believe in Christianity at all unit IN thinking
that Christianity is entirely useless belief.
The notion be rather dominant that the thing
characerizes Christianity and the following of jesus
is its uselessness in this world.
There be doubt that at times strict adherence to
rules Of Christ leads to sacrifice, failure and to
misery
But at the these exceptions the general
rule proposition still holds that Christianity applied
with common to all the affairs of life is about the
best of getting along.
One reason for the success Of Christian Science and Of its
brother Jewish Science the fact that they
ligion
better citizen and get out of life by following the
teachings Of Christ than otherwise This is statement Of
averages and it believed that in most it holds true
The difference between philosopher and who thinks
wildly that the former believes in and the other
in exceptions.
The laws Of Christ Are the laws Of business and the laws
Of commerce. and they best for the purposes OF getting
along This conclusion adhered spite of the attacks
Of both the ultra orthodox and the rreligious.
The fact remains that to Christianity is true mostly
because it presents the best for making of
ones life Outward does not always conform
inward success but rule any that will use the
sayings Of Jesus with common all his life will get
along better than any who will not.
Christianity is not profitseeking means of profit
getting, but it is OF right living and
eventual success IN the largest
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON LIGHT
RAYS, STARS AND PLANETS

, Of the sun must have been =
controlling mechanical principle
in the formation Of the solar sys-
tenn.
The fundamental plan Of the
solar system is projected upon
a vast plane. The same Is APP
parently true of the enormously
greater system of the Milky Way,
or Galaxy. The mighty dggrega-
ton of hundreds of millions Of
suns composing it, is spread out
Flat" The thickness Of the sys-
tenn is small compared with its
length and width.
Looking outside the Galaxy we
see the so.called spiral nebulae,"
or "island universes," and they,
too, are flat in plan. From
dense center luminous spiral
arms, studded with glowing
masses, and terminating often in
whiplashes of stars, curve away
through billions of miles Of space,
but all lying in practically one
Long before proof that such
was truly the case had been OBJ
tanned the ordinary principles or
Newtonian mechanics had con-
WINGED every thoughtful observer
that there must be outward mo-
'tion along those sprawling ten
tacles of the spiral nebulae. Re-
cent studies have furnished evil
dence Of the truth OF this con-
lecture. The spiral nebulae are
not only rotating, as who.es'
around their central cores, but
the nuclei strung along their oil
verging arms are slipping out
ward upon the great curves.
These objects have been sup
posed to resemble the Milky Way
system. but the latter presents
no known analogy to the motions
in the spirals. The spiral nebulae
offer even less resemblance to the
solar system, except in their pos
session Of a common plane, or a
flat ground plan.
The Laplacean idea Of the for
nation of the solar system did
not suppose that the planets were
produced through a throwing off
Of some substance from the cen
trail mass by centrifugal force.
but assumed that whenever the
centrifugal and centripet1l ten
denotes were balanced along the
equator of the rotating mass, the
continued shrinkage of the In
terror left off a ring, which sub
sequently became planet
But in the spiral nebulae the
mechanism Is different, since
there the motions are spirally
outward from the central mass.
and the arms of moving matter,
shaped like curved spokes, take
their rise from the 3hublIko 1n-
cleus. Yet, just as in Laplace q
system, the centrifugal tendency
creates flattened plan, or a pre-.
vailing common plane In which
the movement occurs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
By ELSIE ROBINSON

big With luncheon clubs and COM
mltsee meetings-or any other
aggregation that specializes In
noise, rather than results. But
here's one lively Agnostic that
doesn't give twtI boots for that
DON'T THINK THE RE.
TURN OF THE OLD FASH.
ICNED HOME WOULD SOLVE
OUR PRESENT PROBLEMS.
NOR DO THINK THAT THE
OLD FASHIONED HOME WAS
A 1902 BENEFICIARY ASSO-
CATION EVEN WHEN 1T WAS
IN FULL SWING.
IN FACT. TO BE BRUTALITY
FRANK, BELIEVE THAT
THE OLD FASHIONED HOME
IS LARGELY TO BLAME FOR
MUCH OF THE SPINELESS.
NESS WHICH ROW HAMPERS
OUR PROGRESS.
Suppose we park our sentiment
tally outside the door for a while
and calmly consider what the Old
Fashioned Home was and what it
did. At it's best, the Old Fash
Toned Home was haven and a
work shop. 1t was a right, light
little community in itself. 1t sup
Piled food, clothing, affection,
amusement, discipline, nursing
and much of the education, re-
lieious and secular, to the chill
dren of its midst. It did these
things not because the father and
mother were trained specialists,
but because there was no one else
to supply them. There were no
hospitals or clinics, few schools,
fewer places Of amusement. The
stores were simple affairs in com.
parison with our present en-
poriums.
Moreover, the whole school and
industrial system was simpler.
People didn't move around much,
because transportation was ex-
pcnsive and crudely organized.
Nor were there as many places
10 go, Prior to the middle of the
last century, most Americans
spAnt their lives within short dis.
tances of their birthplaces. They
lived In close communities, as the
ground squirrels live today. And
the Old Fashioned Home, with all
it's snug protection and comfort
was very much like a burrow in
which old creatures snuggled and
Young creatures were born. Out
soc lay a vast, strange, men,
acing world, a world into which
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16

quite so enhancing. IneTS was
fear, as we'll as tranquility, IN
those burrow.brew souls--fear OF
strange people and ideas and ex-
periences-fear which hardened
into bigotry and intolerance and
softened into morbid, secret ten
denotes that rotted the pith In
mems souls as fungus rots q tree:
"But think 9f the splendid
things they did, Indignantly pro-
test the advocates of the. OLD
Fashioned Home. Think OF the
PiIgrims-think of the Argonauts
of 1849." ~
Hold on brothers! Do a little
thinking yourself. 1t wasn't the
burrow dwellers that conquered
the west settled America. IL
was the people who. facing sus.
picious and gloomy prophecies OF
their neighbors, left their burrows
and established a brave record.
The rebels, the adventures, Ine
maynard boys, the unladylKe
girls. the mavericks of the tribe
THEY were thf ones who nave
given us our her itage. They nave
always been the ones who nave
carried the race onward.
And so say, I'm GLAD that
the old fashioned home is pass
ing. I'm glad that we have
thousand pulls to draw us from
the fireside. I'm not saying TINS
with enmity toward the old bur,
row life. l grew up in an Ola
Fashioned Home myself, the
sweetest, merriest, rose-emoow-
cred, gingerbreaded, disciplined
AMI guarded burrow one might
wish. I'm mighty homesick for
it every now and then-I'H ad-
NIT. But l am glad haG TO
get out of it. And I'm glad the
whole human race is getting out
OF it. At best it merely kept US
our of iaiI. At worst it made US
into bunch of SNUG, stupid
cowardly nonentities. And the
ferment which we're facing now
is the natural outcome OF looslns
burrow.crippled spirits on etne
world.
We're going to grow splnes'
now that we haven't burrows to
hide in. We're going to grow
minds, now that we have to go
on our own, And though our
manners will be rougher on the
surface, there1f be more real de-
ccncy and justice in the world
more freedom and generosity,
than there ever was IN the era
of the Old Fashioned Home.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
SAP AND SALT
BY Bert Moses

Fat beggars inspire little pity.
If you keep away from snakes
they won't bite you.
It is easy to cure rheumatism
in others, but not in yourself.
A man may hate his neighbor,
and yet love his neighbours wife.
Bad teeth probably have AS
much to do with encouraging d.
vorce as bad morals.
Opinions are much like things
put up at auction-worth only
what they will fetch.
An expert" is one who charges
a high price for telling things
that everybody already knows.
Hez Heck says: Scrub wimmin
has this advantage over stenog-
raphers: They amt subject to
% many temptations"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
Fits and Misiits.


NOWADAYS a man must be
IN either an acrobat to Olsen
tangle himself from one love af'
fair after another, or a skilled Jug
gler to keep several going at
one time.
Some husbands act so much
like guests" in the house that
the family heaves a sigh relief
when they go out and everybody
can be natural.
Most men have delicatessen
hearts in which they keep just a
little bit of everything. from
sweet picked sentiment to can
ned ideals, denatured romance
and pre.digested emotions.
A man no longer falls head
over heels" in love. Head over
hearth is his slogan, and Keep
your equilibrium" his watchword.
For a man "knee-deep in
June" usually means ankle deep
in a Irritation: for a woman 1t
means up to the chin" In love.
: Alas, on the journey of love a
man never puts out his mana
to signal warning to a girl when
he is going to take a sudden turn.
Somehow, the fashion OF offer
ing to shoulder a womans Dur
dens for life seems to have gone
out among men,. along with the
wearing of suspenders.
Bv the time a man has ceased
to be wary OF a woman. he has
usually commenced to be weary
of her, and the moment she
ceases to be dangerous" she be-
comes just~a little bit "tiresome.
Love is the light on the can
vas Of life. Without 1t the most
brilliant career is nat, uull anu
uninteresting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
FOrd's Idea
The President Is With Him.

Henry Ford brings great hipload of steel rails without
transfer reoading from Europe all the way by water
loaded at Antwerp, unloaded in Detroit.
Ford imports steel rails, not merely to money by
poyng Europes cheaper labor but to build up Detroit
seaport and emphasize the Importance of ship canal
connect all the Lake cities with the Atlantic Ocean.
In that project by the way, the President is deeply
interested Mr. Ford other resident Of the Great
Lake cities.
Those that know the President and have heard him talk
will be disappointed it, between and 1892 he doesn
start canal and other gigantic national enterprises that
make the Panama Canal and the suez Canal trivial
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
WOman's Expert Service

Lady Oxford had visit here to wonder
what share the American woman contributes the
prosperity.
One is easy and obvious The American woman is
the skilled purchasing agent for the American home
She thoroughly understands questions quality and price
and extent unknown any other land devoves
her economically to administer the family income.
Thus the great advertising industry in this country
dresses its selling arguments primarily to And it
gives most effective publicity to these arguments
papers and magazines that have the strongest appeal
women
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
Kind Hearted French
But the Gas May Come

The darsknned gentlemen follow Abdul Krim haras
sing French and Spanish soldiers in Northern Africa may
be grateful that Europeans tender hearted with Af
rebel tribes than they with each other.
Certain French royas urging that the deaest
be used against the Riffs But the French Republic has, thus
far, refrained from using them.
To distribute such gases from flying machines the heavy
gases that cling the ground dropping them Riff villages
and sronghod would have deadly effect undoubtedly
terry the Riffs who think that Mohammed fighting
with them.
The French deserve credit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
TAKING A
MANS ARM
Mrs. Cornelius BeeckmanI


Answering an Engagement An
nOuncemeT1t.
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN;
n I would appreciate it very
much II you would kindly inform
me the proper way to answer
an engagement announcement. I
have received an announcement
from a cousin whom have
never seen, but whom have
correspondent with at regular in
tervals. She lives In South
Africa. B. S.
THE natural and correct way to
L answer this announcement
is for you to write q cousinly let.
ter of best wishes and hearty
greetings. You might include,
in one of your sentences, a re-
quest to your cousin to give your
congratulations" to the groom.to-
be.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
Inviting q Teacher.

nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ I know a young man who
has taught me in one subject at
school. Outside of class we often
chat about points that come up
in regard to the lesson. He is
very friendly in teacherIy sort
OF way and I like him very much.
Would it be ''Quite terrible"
to invite him to house party
at our country place along with
a crowd Of other young people?
BEEBEE.
MO indeed! This would be
IN very friendly, if you extend
the invitation through your
mother. But he sounds too well
bred to accept an invitation
casually given through you. So
get mother to write him. Have
her write the note, not telephone
him, for this will make it easier
for him to regret" the invita-
ton, IL he wishes. I'm sure
that he will love to come. And
Ill never tell him that you said
he was friendly ''in a teacherly
sort of way! / like the word
you coined, however.
Taking a Mans Arm.
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ A says the lady should take
the gentleman's arm when
crossing the street or boarding
a street car.
B says the gentleman should
place his hand under the lady's
elbow and assist her IL neces-
sary, Please tell me which is
correct. BILLIE.
DOTH are correct. If the lady
ID needs assistance the gentle
man either offers his arm to the
lady to help her, or he places his
hand under her elbow and helps
her in that way.
Mrs. BeeclGman will be glad to
answer questions on etiquette
submitted by rAaders.)
Copyright 1925, by Premier syndi-
cate, Inca
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
E !, Z. v .,Rss Wien Homes We're Burrows

er Sat began
G u I ting sue h
6 o n 5 picuous di.
does, we h a v 9
been hearing loud
means for the
return of the Old
Fashioned Home.
According to the
Gloom CHI oru
the one t in &
that is needed in
this country is
about q million
Old F a 8 h i o ned
Homes with Yale
locks on the out
side of the doors
and the Younger
Set on the in
side. This ia an
adeal theory. It's
the sort OF talk
that goes over
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
LISTEN, WORLD!

wise burrow dwell
lers did little
venturing, either
mentally or ply
sically. /" Nice =
little girls, "good"
Iittls boys, ire
spe ct able" old
folks stayed close
and safe, count
Ing their pennies,
repeating I h . ir
c o m m andments,
m e n d In g their
manners.
Al warm, de-
lightful picture
yes. A quiet, COM
Portable scheme
of existence in
which there was
very little waste
or disorder. But
there's a n o t her
side of that pic
+,,rn which ism {
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16
By Garrett P. Serviss,
Noted Astronomer and Writer on
Scientific Topics Of Popular
Interest.

Noted Astronomer ana writer on
Scientific Topics Of Popular
Interest.
"In looking at distant lights
and at the stars, the eye APP
parently sees rays shooting out
in all directions. Are these &C
tual emanations or optical tllu-
sions7
"a second query: Are the
planets of our solar system on
practically one plane, and Ii so
is it explained by the island iii
space idea of a solar system In
evolution?"-M. D.. Washington,
D. c.
THE rays surrounding the
l. image Of a bright object are
not attached to the object, as YOU
can easily prove by holding the
edge of a card close to the imass
of a distant electric light as
shown in the diagram. Instead
of half the rays being cut off,
as you would expect If they really
emanated from the light, they APP
pear to stream over the face OF
the card between you and the
light, thus showing that they are
a phenomenon originating in the
eye itself.
Only those rays proceeding from
a star that come directly to the
eye are perceived. Those that go
of in all other directions are
unseen. They could be made vis-
ible only by something like dust
scattered through space, and CT
pable Of reflecting them. In other
words, a ray Of light is not in
itself visible and cannot be seen
If viewed Sideways" but only
END on" -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-16

AS to the orbits of the planets;
yes, they are all In about the
same plane. and since that plane
is practically coincident with the
planes in which nearly all OF
them rotate on their axes, as
well as with the plane cf the
suns own rotation, we. have In
that fact strong evidence that
common motion of revolution
around what La now the center
Evening star., 1925-11-09
POLICE PRECINCTS
INSPECTION BEGUN
No. 4 and Harbor Stations, First
/ Studied Today, Found in
Splendid Condition.

annual inspection Of the several
police commands, men. equipment
and buildings started today under
the direction of Maj. Edwin 3. Hesse
Superintendent. Other members of
the inspection party were Commits
siene~ Frederick a. F'enniIg,. Assist
ant Engineer Commissioner Maj. w
l.. X. Covel and Inspectors Charles A.
Evans, Henry q. Pratt and w. H.
Harrison.
,The several inspectors conducted
an inspection in May. Number pre-
cinct, near Sixth and Z streets south
west. in command of Capt. A. J.
Readley, was first inspected, and
members of the committee We're
unanimous in praising the showing
made. The building is an old one,
but. due to splendid janitor service
and interest taken by members of
the command. it is stated, it present
cd a splendid showing.
Lieut.. Harry +. Lohman's harbor
command was next inspected. The
harbor precinct is housed in a com
paratively new structure, and did not
require so much care and attention
and was in splendid condition.
At / o'clock this afternoon the com
rlittee inspected the command of No
precinct, and later those of the fifth
and eleventh precincts. The inspec.
ton viii be finished Thursday.
Evening star., 1925-11-09
CAUSES ASSIGNED
IN CRIME INCREASE
Head of Juvenile Agencies
Cites Obsolete Laws and
LACK of Administration.

JACKSON, Miss, November C4o).-
Institutions and agencies dealing with
juSenfle offenders have Il record since
$50 of which they are justly proud,
and which, if nationally adhered to.
would have kept the United States
frsltI becoming Il world laughing stock
BECAUSE. of prevailing lawlessness,
Bxfdette G. Lewis. president of the
National Conference of Juvenile
Aaences, said in his annual address
before the congress of the American
Prison Association in convention here
today.
Mr. Lewis, who also is president Of
The New Jersey State Commission OF
Institutions and Agencies. with head
quarters at Trenton. addressed the
congress on Crime and Criminals.
"Whfle there may be some blame
assigned for multiplying the indeter-
mAnate sentence" .he said, there un-
doubtedly is a retarding influence in
the prevention of crime in the prac-
tice of some criminal lawyers ana
some judges. who thirsting for pow
err have dealt with the criminal in a
spirit of barter. Some of our politt-
cal leaders cannot be permitted to 80
tree of this blame
Held International Problems.
Crime and dependency, SAID MT.
Lewis. are problems of international
hhportance.
whether we have crime waves,
crime tides or an ocean of crime is
relatively unimportant," he asserted,
"as the extent of crime and delin-
quency is now little short OF appall-
ing. But these facts should not dis
Courage leaders in the warfare on
crime"
launching into a discussion of the
causes and remedies of crime, he said:
Crime is even better organized
than society. Modern methods of liV-
iTrg. the steam engine, automobile and
modern haste are direct factors bear
ing upon the increase in crime. An.
other cause is the gradual disintegra-
tion of the American home and its
institutions.
;:There is a marked decrease in the
fear of the consequences of crime.
Obsolete laws and Worn-out machinery
for their administrations. poor pay for
judges, compleXity of governmental
machinery and the lack of national
control of the sale of firearms are all
among the reasons for the spread OF
crime.
e.Society must organize" he con.
cluded, sufficiently to keep abreast
of the forces which attack It."