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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-01-15

Sec %. That the inhabitants of the mu-
nicipality Of Saint Thomas and Saint John
and the municipality of Saint Croix are
ySconstituted into bodies polite and
juridic, under the present name of
each municipality, and they shall have per-
petual succession and power (a) to adopt
and use an official seal; (bD to sue and be
sued; (c) to demand the fuIfillment of obi
cations under the law; and to defend and
prosecute all actions at law; (d) to acquire
property by exchange, donation or bequest
or by virtue of proceeding for the collec
ton of taxes or by eminent domain proceed
ings, or by any other means provided by
law, and to possess, administer, and govern
suchproperty icy to ALLEVIATE or cucumber
any of their properties, subject to the pro-
visions Of this Act; and f) that each of the
municipal councils shall be vested with the
authority and attribute inhereat in egisla-
tive bodies; they shall jointly or separately
have the power to institute and conduct in
vestigations and compel the attendance
thereto of the parties concerned and wit
nesses.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-01-15
FAMOUS DANISH OPTOMETRIST
HERE

Mr. Eidel Thiele, nephew of Judg. F. G.
Thiele of the Police Court is now in ST.
Thomas. He is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jean Tanggaard
Mr.. EideI is graduate of the famous
Optical School of Jena, Germany and his
works for the most part has been confined
to his fathers Optical Department in c.
penhagen, Denmark, which is the largest
and most important in the Capital City.
His degree of Master of Education in Optics
corresponds to the American Doctor of
Optics. Mr.. Eidel is prominent person.
ality in the affairs of his country and to-
gether with his father who is purveyor to
the Royal Court in Denmark has won his
place in the esteem Of his countrymen
The Daily News.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-01-15

the President and the Presidents deci-
sion. He shall annually, and at such
other times as he N ~ he required make
official report of the transactions of the
government of the Virgin Islands of
The United States to an executive de-
partment of ths Government
of the United States to be de-
sigma, ed by the President. and his said
annual report shall be transmitted to
the Congress; and he shall perform suvh
additional dules and funcuons as may
in pursuance IF aV be deieca ed 70 him
By the Presdeu,. 10 ime Of war ia
which the Ur ed States sh all he engag-
ed. or when IN the OBJ alon Of thu ire
sident. war is imminent or a national
emergency exists, sucn off Ger Of I'll a.,
my or Navy "a the President may deSiga
ate shal uDln order of the President
ASSUME anu hava exclusive aushoiity and
jurisdiction over the Virgin slaodS of
the Uolted States I'd all OF their al
juOcts. app9nd4n 3. AMI aDptrtenances
including their entire control and gev-
eminent and dur ng he continuance Of
such condition the government shall. ia
all du les, matters and transactions af-
feeling the Virgin Islands Of the Unired
States. b. subject 10 he order and drec-
ton of sucn officer Of the Army or Ma
Wy. In cases of vacancy, tenn lOrary re.
mOvai resignation. disability or temp0r-
ary aOse ace Of tne governor fro t1e
Virgin Islands the President shall desig-
nata . q executive off Ger f ne lminis
ton or an outstaAdng memper of the
community 10 act as governor, and ihs
person thus designated shall nave ell
the power Of the governor during mis- 10
sence or dis buiry Uni the deciSi n of
the President has Dsen obtained. che
Government secretary shall ar as gov
error. All avs passe u bs the municipal
councils ard app 5ved sh~l ueapromulg- =
ted by the Governor.
The governor may attend tthe meet
ings of the councils or may depute aooth
err person to represent him at such
me- .ings and may give TO he counclls 10
formation as TO the affairs of the Inuni
cipaity and recommend such measures
as he shall deem expedient.
Sec. 81. Ihas the following executive
offices are hereby created, namely: %
the offices of government Secretary Of
of theVlrgln ISLANDS Of the United States
(2) the office of treasurer, 90 the office
of Commissioned of Health, "a the Of
flee Ct Director of Education. 90 the
office of Commissioner of Public Works.
80 the office of executive Secretary,
Cd the office Of government Attorney
They shall hold office for the term of
two years and until their successors are
appoint eo ard qualified. unless sooner
suspended or removed by the Governor
for eause TheV shall perform under the
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-01-15

law. The officers above mentioned may
b. reapppinted upon recon- n md alton Of
the governor. In cases Of vacancy arts
ing from death o" otaer causes tho "
erncr shall appoint temporarily another
pa-Son f..
Sec. 81. That fha government secrete-
ry TO- The Virgin Islands s1all have
all the powers of 'he governor in he cas-
of the disability o. me g1vern0r unril
the decision of III President shall b, OBJ
tanned. He shall have Gus cd , of III seal
OF he Vlrgln Islam Is of the Uni'el
States and sh4 coun sr:ign and affix
such seal 10 all laws executive DrDaia-
matlons, and other executive documents.
To be Continued.
Evening star., 1936-03-03
FOrceful Men.

The Democrats in the Senate very
likely rue now the manner in which they
precipitately voted young Rush D. Holt
into his seat Notwithstanding the serious
question as to whether he was consti-
tutionally entitled to it. With his charges
that the w. P. A. in West Virginia has
been administered primarily in the in
terests of politics he has given his Re-
publican colleagues more mirth than
they have enjoyed for many months.
The brunt of his charges, however, have
fallen upon Senator Nicely, who not only
took young Holt under his wing in the
latters senatorial campaign, but pre-
vailed upon his colleagues in the Senate
to accept him in spite of his not being
of constitutional age at the time he was
elected. Senator Nicely is said to have
insisted to his fellow Democratic SEN
ators that: "Holt will give us needed
vigor." He has done something Of that
kind, to say the least.
It is surprising that Holt's charges
do not seem to have stirred up more re-
sentiment than II have. Is It possible
Evening star., 1936-03-03

that the country is not shocked by
matters of this kind any more, or has
it had q surfeit of "forceful men,?
When the country at the bottom of the
depression cried out in despair for "force-
full men" to lead 1t out, it could not
possibly have known there were so many
"forceful men" just waiting around for
the call. Strangely enough--or maybe
1t is not so strange-these "forceful men"
took readily to the use of the National
Guard to enforce their forcefulness. Thus
it was with Forceful Man Huey Long.
Only recently, Governor johnson of
South Carolina resorted to the use of
the National Guard in an effort to carry
out his views in the matter of the high
way department of his State. Now one
of the most forceful of all the forceful
men, Governor Talmadge Of Georgia, is
seen boring through the State vault
with an acetylene torch in an effort to
get funds to run the State in defiance
of the Legislature.
There is reason to believe the people
are rapidly getting their fill of "forceful
men," that the fashion for them is
about out.
Evening star., 1936-03-03
Conscious Planning Has
Proved Benefit to Mankind

To the Editor of The Star:
Now and again a thesis is advanced
the mere statement of which bears the
burden of its own proof. The editorial,
Doctor Moreau," in Saturdays Star is
case in point.
Probably no exception will be taken
lection of schemes of social mutation is
uniformly unsuccessful.
On the contrary, biological mutations
resulting in the most pronounced bene-
fits to the race have been vastly quick
ened by conscious planning.
The statement that all evolution pro-
ceeds along natural lines is sheer tau
tology. The beginning of wisdom as to
evolution is the understanding that
along many lines human intelligence can
modify environments and conditions,
with startlingly beneficial results.
An essential, however, is that the sub
ject matter must be potentially amenable
to the projected controls and impulses.
The ways along which social evolu-
ton proceeds are obviously natural in
their very slowness.
Because that which Is subject to the
planning and which we seek to move is
precisely that mass-psychology SO per-
fectly exhibited by the editorial in
question.
Than this there is probably nothing
more immutable. Against this constant
drag all social and intellectual progress
is achieved. It is unquestionably the
natural way. No wonder it is slow.
P. r. WHITMAN.
Evening star., 1936-03-03
Strike a la Mode.

The prevailing elevator strike in New
York is symptom of modern times and
modern conditions. 1t simply could not
have happened in the days before men
began to build skyscrapers. The very
idea of it would have been mirth-pro-
voking to the grandfathers of the pres
ent generation of cliff dwellers. Nobody,
1t safely may be supposed, anticipated
such a crisis when Joseph Pulitzer
erected the old World Building in Park
Row in 1889-the earliest of the towers
which now rise over Manhattan in an
aspiring swarm.
But neither could any one so little as
forty years ago have foretold subway
strikes or taxi strikes. They, too, are
characteristic of an age when machines
have special significance. New fashions
In trouble, it seems, run parallel with or
perhaps directly develop from new ad-
4yantages OF every sort. The automobile,
for example, is conceded to be an asset
TO civilization. Yet consider the toll OF
death it exacts; many have thought
motor transportation a curse rather
than blessing.
For the philosopher the whole sub
feet has immense attraction. Involved
In it, presumably, is an elemental prin-
efple of mathematics. Gains and losses,
good and evil are intimately related in
their effects. Thus, lovepf peace accrues
from experience with gar; hopes for
Evening star., 1936-03-03
A Plea for an Exchange of
Thoughts With Americans

To the Editor of The Star:
I would be grateful If could have
the courtesy of your columns to extend
to your readers an invitation to exchange
views and opinions with some one on
the other side of the Atlantic.
I am keenly interested in most things
American, and, could I find some one
sufficiently interested, should imagine
that an exchange of viewpoints could
not fail to be mutually stimulating and
educative.
I have camped in the solitude of Glen
Orchy, and bathed off the fairy isles of
Loeb Lomond-have shouted with 130, 900
other voices at Glasgow foot ball game.
and milled and jostled with the hoi-
polloi of its Argyle street.
But have never seen the corner drug
store on main street, or sat, shirt
sleeved, in the bleachers at ball game
have never walked campus or expert
enced the tight-throated tenseness OF
graduation day.
What does young America hope, fear,
aspire to? Should any of them care to
write, would be glad to hear from him
Cor herr. DAVID C.SDO1G.
IL The Hedges,
Camelon,
Falkirk, Scotland.
Evening star., 1936-03-03

universal prosperity spring from observa-
ton of the degradation which is caused
by poverty; appreciation of freedom
arises from understanding of the social
fruits of tyranny. Possibly, not one
individual in a thousand ever paused
to consider the utility of an elevator
until he was obliged to drag himself up
ten or sixty flights of stairs.
But understanding is wanted. HUI
manity needs comprehension of the laws
of causation. Only by ceaseless pursuit
of an answer for the eternal question of
"Why?" can mankind ever attain eman-
cipation from ignorance of its place in
nature, its purpose and its fate. So
viewed, even the inconvenience of an
elevator strike is worth while.
Evening star., 1936-03-03
''More Important Things. >

Speaking against the "little red rider"
at the hearing yesterday Representative
Martin of Colorado said that when this
controversy reached the House floor not
long ago most of the members broke
for the door because we have more i'm
portant things to do than play town
council for Washington"
But as long as the Constitution i'm
poses on Congress the exclusive response
bility for legislation over the District,
its members would perform more
creditable job if they refrained from
breaking for the door when town coun-
Gil" obligations interfere with more i'm
portant things"
If members of Congress had been will
ling to devote the relatively short time
necessary for even ordinary study OF the
various local measures that come on the
floor, the members of Congress and the
people of the District might have been
spared the present ordeal Of living down
the little red rider"
Members Oh SOIlSTeSS WeIc tCsPoAAoioAo
for the imposition of this curious whimsy,
which has been dignified as a law OF
the United States, making every janitor
in the school system solemnly swear
twice a month that he has not taught
or advocated communism, making every
teacher think twice before mentioning
to pupils the rather important fact that
there is such place in the world as
Russia, subjecting every teacher in the
system to underhanded digs OF mali
cious enemies and in general subjecting
the school system and the Board OF Edu-
cation to unwarranted attack through
cowardly innuendo.
Having put this law on the statute
books it behooves members of Congress
not only to wipe it off but to devote more
of their time to active participation in
the affairs of a Government in which
local citizens and taxpayers are wholly
unrepresented.
Evening star., 1936-03-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

novelists, Dickens-even the movies are
beginning to wake up to this-found
them excessively SO.
Liveliness, we are beginning to see, Is
no new thing. Cleopatra, If we can be-
lieve history, was lively enough. She
would have loved staying at q modern
hotel.
Unsophisticated people, especially,
ought to give themselves good doses Of
hotel life frequently.
1t costs little, and does great deal
Of good, II one is in need Of it.
Just bite to eat, perhaps, or, lack
ing the cash, siesta in one Of those big
chairs along the promenade will do the
trick.
The hotel people don't seem to care.
The more people, the livelier, Of course.
And iveliness-
But why keep on with that?
Just sit down in this super -overstuffed
chair, and take 1t easy for a while.
Listen to the rumble Of the traffic out
side. Contrast this with the quietude
reigning here.
Over there Is q very mysterious look
ing chap who is having date" with
an equally mysterious looking girl.
Il y II
They, Of course, are sophisticated.
They, 1t is true, are lively.
And our unsophisticated person in the
big chair just thinks maybe they are up
what-they- shouldn't!
Surely such an old-fashioned person
ought to be subjected, by force of law,
If necessary, to sit around hotels until
hn cate ryor fhic iIao
These indoor chairs Of the hotels
greatly resemble the outdoor benches in
the parks.
They are so thoroughly democratic
that any one can drop down on them
and stay for a very long time without
any one else thinking thing about 1t.
And If any one comes along who
shouldn't come along, If an excuse is
necessary. all one has to say is, "Oh, I
just sat down for second"
Hotel lobbies are interesting to
habitues and to those who seldom attend.
The former talk politics, and the latter
seldom talk at all, usually being alone.
1t is the person alone, after all, who
sees and hears the most, and always
with undiluted force, for the habitual is
a great deadener of the senses.
He who frequents lobbies with regu-
larity in time comes to forget about them.
The boy endlessly calling for Mr..
Sullivan who is never present
The strange padded sound of feet on
thick carpets
The distant click of the elevators
The fat lady delegates with purple
badges of convention courage
The important political gentlemen
talking to two other important political
gentlemen-
These are never overlooked by the
man with fresh eyes, as they so easily
are by the addicts, and also by Messrs.
Casey, Grady and Sullivan, who are
forever called, but who are never there.
Evening star., 1936-03-03
Proposal to Create Work
For UNEMPLOYED Millions

To the Editor Of The Star:
We all know that the immediate prob
lem before us is how to create employ
ment for the many millions who need
and want to work. Citizens are trying
to build technical schools to teach the
boys some trade, but where is the work?
propose to present my own plan Of
creating work or multiplying it in all
except in what are classified as heavy
industries"
Let public spirited citizens-men and
women-in every community form buy
ing clubs, pooling together or investing
some of their money, to purchase mate
rials for the making of mems and
women's suits, overcoats, ETC., for the
making of dresses and millinery and
other articles which can be produced by
individual tailors, dressmakers, milliners,
ETC., by carefully computing in advance
about how much Of each material Is
needed. Then, having this quantity pur-
chasing power, let them buy woolens,
silk, ETC., direct from the mills, for the
same wholesale prices that big manu-
facturers pay. Then give opportunity
to individual tailors, dressmakers and
milliners to come and buy what they
need at wholesale prices. Let these same
clubs launch propaganda to patronize
local industries or artisans. Let them go
to individual tailors, dressmakers and
milliners, who, thus enabled to buy ma
terials at wholesale prices, will be able
and willing to produce apparel made
to individual form and taste for the
same low prices as are usually paid for
those brought over and distributed by
jobbers. BY this new method, not only
decentralization is achieved, which will
reduce unemployment en- masse, but "a
new order of ethics shall RISE" even as
predicted by the trainers of the Con-
stitution and inscribed on the great Seal
of the United States. Not only the
craftsmen will have more incentive to
work and advertise the excellence of
their production instead Of bargains"
in the newspapers, but self-esteem will
be redeveloped in both artisans and their
customers. Instead of the present tend
ency to be smart" and cheat the other
fellow, customers will show more con-
sideration for those who make things to
please their taste. have known this
to be true, for on more than one occa-
sion a customer has paid me IS more
than the agreed price on his clothes
because he was pleased with the result.
Such things are inconceivable in the
methods now in vogue. Are there any
to cooperate? C. PHILIPS.
Evening star., 1936-03-03
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

wrong the failures were not remembered.
Year after year the traditions built up
in this way gathered weight.
The almanacs were at their best, DR..
Humphreys said, during the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. Then came
an age of rationalism when faith was
shattered in the planets and the saints
as determiners of weather and the
fathers of modern physics and chemistry
began to devote their attention to the
weather. They invented the thermometer
and barometer. They studied the mo-
tions of air currents. They made crude
physical predictions.
The almanac came back stronger than
ever about the beginning of the nine
teenth century, especially in the United
States, and has held its own almost
up to the present. 1t reappeared in the
form of the patent medicine almanac.
The proprietors of the nostrum were, OF
course, omnipotent. They had mixtures
which would cure all human diseases
Men who could do this would not be
stumped by any such simple job as pre-
dieting weather year ahead.
Curiously enough, DR.. Humphreys
pointed out, it was the reputable medical
profession which, at the same time, was
making the outstanding contributions
toward scientific weather forecasting.
Their work is difficult to find today.
Most of it appeared in obscure medical
and pharmacological journals, or re-
manned in manuscript in medical school
theses.
1t was not until 1884 that the first
weather forecasting service was estab-
lished in France. Some ships loaded
with troops and provisions for the
Crimean War ran into q violent tempest
and were sunk. The director of the
astronomical observatory at Paris an
nounced that he easily could have pre-
dicted this particular storm had he been
supplied with telegraphic reports Of OBJ
serVations. It has moved, he showed,
exactly on schedule. Five years before
the Smithsonian Institution in Washing
ton had set up a system of telegraphic
weather reports, but did not use them
in predicting weather. 1t was not until
1870 that the United States Government
took up the job Of weather forecasting.
At first, said DR.. Humphreys, the
forecasts were rather crude. They
were far better than mere guesses,
but very little was known about the va
garies of weather, and If an approaching
storm went off schedule the forecaster
was baffled. About this time started
the national sport Of blaming the
weather man." and 1t has continued ever
since.
Evening star., 1936-03-03
Ousting of Gen. Hagood
An Ill.Advised Action
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial, "The Hagood Case"
interests me very much. It should en-
courage Representative Blanton and
others in their stand for free speech and
fair play.
ANY loyal American must or should
respect the Army, but investigating COM
mittees, courts, grand juries. ETC., be-
come farcical when witnesses, whether
military or civilian, have words put In
their mouths. It would seem this is only
another proof of the grief suffered by
the administration over the corpse of
the New Deal. 1t would seem i'll advised
to oust an eficient Army official such as
Gen. Hagood in these unsettled hours
of turmoil. I wonder if Gen. Hagood
was expected to spread administrative
propaganda on the witness stand as the
brain trusters do when sent out to edu-
cate the people on topics of the day.
PERRY F. SKINNER.