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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-03-12
NOTICE

10 QOiQeFS Oh OlrCulaLIDQ ba0k MULES VI
the National Bank of the Danish.
West Indies
Pursuant to Section of Ordinance to
provide for the retirement of the Cir.
culating Notes of the National Bank of
the Danish West Indies passed by the
John on February ID 1885, and approved
by the Governor on February 16. 1885
notice is hereby given TO all holders of
the Circulating Bank Notes of the Ma
tiona Bank of the Danish West Indies
that the Benk is prepared to redeem rel
notes in accordance with the proceduts
prescribed 10 the said Ordinance as
follows:
ID All Circulating Bank Notes presented
during the period April 1, 1885 to April
1 1886 TO the Bank at its principal office
In st, Thomas or either of its branches
In st. Croix. or at any agency or agencle
designated by the Bank will be redeem
by the Bank on demand.
(2) With the approval of the Governor
the Bank may on April l. 1886 depusit
with Government in fund TO be known
as the Note Redemption Fund an mount
10 legal tender coin or currency of the
United States, equal at the legal rate to
fifty percentum of the Notes outstanding
at the end of the business day of April /,
1886.
60 Thereafter. and upon proclama-
ton of the Governor. the Notes of the
Bank shall.be redeemed from the Note
Redemption Fund 10 the order of presen
tation for redemption, and in accordance
with the rules established for the said
fund: provided. however. that the Gov
erDment of the Virgin Islands shall be
under no obligation TO redeem any such
Notes if not presented for redemption
before April l. 1889. or if the Note Re.
demption. Funds shall have been exhaust
ed.
(4) After the issuance of the Cover
nor's proclamation. no action may be
commenced against the Bank for money
due and payable upon any of the
Notes.
The Notes of the National Bank of the
Danish West Indies will cease to be le-
gal tender and will not circulate as money
after September Is, 1886.
st. Thomas, The 20 March 1895
THE NATIONAL AANK OF THE DA
NISn WEST INDIES
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27

eminent would contribute forty per cent
of Capital City expenses, were evaded
until the community is charged with
eighty-flve to ninety per cent. That
explains why the people Of the District
pay, through local taxes, between eighty
five and ninety per cent of the salaries
of Federal judges sitting in q Federal
court occupied largely with Federal
business, contributing, as Federal tax
payers, to the remaining ten to fifteen
per cent of such cost.
The same condition exists in regard to
other semi-national and national under
takings financed through the local appro-
priation bill. While the proposal to
finance them through other appropria-
ton bills is equitable and just, the more
direct and practicable method Of remov-
ing such inequities is through reafarma-
ton and reapplication of the principle
of fixed ratio Those who study the
many ramifications OF the National
Government local community partner
ship in National Capital financing will
be impressed with the wisdom OF the
fixed ratio principle as practical. work.
able plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
The Library Budget.

AS announced on Tuesday, the Board of
Trustees of the Washington Public Lii
brary is asking s697,962 for the next
fiscal years operations. The estimate
submitted to the District Commissioners
represents the lowest conceivable sum
commensurate with the demands of the
people and the services rendered in re-
Spouse to those demands. 1t is not a
large amount when judged in the light
of the facts involved.
The city is growing, not only in popu-
lation, but also-fortunately enough-in
cultural Importance. No longer can it
be said, as it was only few decades
ago, that the Nations Capital is merely
an overgrown country town." The sober
truth is that, for reasons too numerous
and likewise too obvious to mention,
Washington is taking its place among
the great national centers Of learning.
The Father of His Country visioned the
Federal Center as a New Athens, and
his dream is coming true.
But the passion for educational ad
vantages must be fed. 1t already has
been democratized. Moreover, it has
been stimulated by forces of progress
which certainly are less expensive to
maintain than powers of coercion or
punitive discipline ever are. The costliest
library in the world would be cheap in
price compared with the expense of any
penitentiary. Sociologists are agreed
that rising literacy standards are
corrective influence in the warfare on
crime.
Also, it requires no argument to estab-
lish the fact that educational institu-
tons are useful in the struggle with
poverty. Modern conditions OF life de-
mand knowledge, training and expert
ence. The adult patrons of the reading
and reference rooms realize that and
are guided accordingly. In recent years
there has been a steadily increasing
trend toward more serious and more
definitely useful books; and that tend
ency deserves support at the hands of
the taxpayers. The alternative is
swollen relief roll. Such is the issue
in all problems of the type Of the library
budget,
But the case does not need argument.
The people believe in their cultural in
stitutions. They desire to support them
properly. The library is its own plea for
Justice. It's cause is proven by its his
tory. Since 1880, book circulation has
jumped seventy per cent, and registered
borrowers more than seventy-two per
cent. What is wanted now is the money
to continue and to improve the service in
the ratio of that advance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

have an engineering instinct for choos-
ing the most logical places for traversing
moraSses and mountains. These paths
are about the only means of human COM
munication and eventually, if the land
is ever settled, become the roads. In the
same way elephant trails in Africa and
India and bison trails in the United
States became the hard-surfaced roads
of today. The engineers could not i'm
prove on the instinct of the animals.
The small bears also play an impor-
tant role in the domestic economy of the
few inhabitants. The dense, warm pelt
Is used as a bed, and out Of its Summer
skin the natives make reins, snowShoes
and dog traces. The meat is much
appreciated as an article of food. In
the remoter parts of the country the
intestines are used for windows instead
of glass Many of the native medicines
are derived from the bear.
Both among the Kamchatka natives
and the Ainu of Northern Japan the
bear is reverenced as a god-the concept
being that the celestial bear out of good
ness to mankind provides smaller crea-
lures in his own form to furnish them
food and clothing.
DR.. Berman made an intensive study
of the brown and yellow bears of the
area, but never was able to glimpse one
of the fabulous giant black bears. al
though he believes the evidence for their
existence is conclusive It is possible
that there may be only few groups left
living in very remote sections never
visited by the wandering hunters. All
the bears stay as far away from man
as possible and are found in the greatest
abundance where there are no native
villages. a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

the cicadae, or seventeen year locusts,
which sang vigorously in the light Of the
June days.
Many persons were not able to hear
those strains as music; perhaps the same
people will be unwilling to agree in our
judgment concerning these August in
sects.
Those who found the cicadas made
real music will no doubt discover real
song in the efforts of the hot bugs" II
they listen closely enough.
Such a breathleSs night as last Sum-
day was much to the liking Of these
insects. which somewhat resemble q
cicada, with q broader head. 1t must be
the annual cicada.
Even the frog in Jones pool found the
night no more to his liking than these
insects, which sawed away on their must
cal instruments time after time, perhaps
all night long, but most human listeners
did not know because this sweet music
lulled them to repose at last.
The monotony Of 1t does that.
Heard rightly, this is real music, no
doubt Of it-music straight out Of the
hot, palpitating heart OF, Nature.
= \
The song Is cadenced, with from 18
to 30 repeated rhythms, growing stronger
and more rapid toward the center, then
gradually slowing down.
The end Is a rapid cut of, reminding
close listeners of the song of the cicada.
Otherwise, however, 1t has no resem-
blance at all, since the locust song was
a shrill, long held single note, cutting of
suddenly to give the siren effect so wide
ly noted.
The "hot bug" really delivers "hot
music" in the modern swing band sense.
1t has a cadenced quality to it difficult
to resist.
The listener will find much amuse-
ment in counting its swings, each time.
finding out for himself just what the
variance Is, and which the more usual.
In half hour spent in this sport that
Sunday night the present listener dis
covered that the favorite number of
repeats" for the very fine performer in
q nearby locust tree was exactly n.
Twenty-seven was its favorite, includ-
ing the "cut off," which invariably
brought the performance to sudden
stop.
Each one of these creatures gives a
moderately long nelO beginning nOte, d
sort of practice note, before winding up
it's repeated strains.
This beginning must be counted in the
total performance. 1t is difficult at times
to hear it, owing to the fact that some
brother insect in the distance may be
part through his own song.
Usually the songs are OF the question
and answer variety, each insect waiting
for the other one to finish before start
ing.
The effect Of each song is that it is
ground out as if some performer were
whirling around and around one of these
wooden gadgets which suddenly appear
on the sidewalks during parades and
which are mysteriously kept in silence
the rest of the year.
Hence there is a mechanical quality
to the music of these hot bugs" which
did not mar the efforts Of the cicadas,
incomparably greater musicians, as befit
those who perform only once in II years.
1t isn't what you want. however. but
what you get. that counts in Nature.
The songs of the August insects are sim
gularly IN tune with the month.
Hear them, and sleep!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27

the past ten years the expenditure has
not exceeded $109 (per capital, which
is very much below recognized public
health standards. This has probsply
been due to q lack of appreciation OF
certain mass factors that cause disease
and death. Particularly is this true with
reference to disease prevention ana
health promotion. The crude death rate
for the District in the calendar year
1885, which includes death from all
causes, was 1929 per 1000 population, as
compared with ITO for the rest OF the
country.
In other words, DIR. Rutland, as
public health expert charged with main
tanning the public health of the COM
munity, is prescribing for his patient.
Public health, it has repeatedly been
said, is purchasable. That is you can
purchase public health just as you can
purchase new Government buildings,
new street cleaning machinery, new au-
tomobiles and trucks. DR.. Rutland has
submitted the items that must be pur-
chased, in his opinion, to obtain a more
healthful community. He has given the
cost. The ability of the community to
meet that cost is another problem but
it does not happen to be DR.. Ruhland's
problem.
Whether the community can afford to
purchase what DR.. Rutland preScribeS-
that is, afford to purchase it all at once
or where the money is coming from are
matters for the consideration of the
Commissioners, the budget authorities
and Congress. But DR.. Rutland has
done his part as health officer. Not
to do what he is doing would be in the
class of neglect of duty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
Fixed Ratio the Solution.

Yesterdays star revealed Lnat FeOerai
authorities are considering a plan to
transfer the cost OF maintaining the
District Court of the United States
0ormerly the District Supreme Court
and the United States Court of Appeals
from the local appropriation bill to the
Department of Justice appropriation bill.
The authorities, including some of the
justices, are impressed by a condition
which finds the people of the District
being charged for courts largely occupied
with the transaction Of Federal busi-
ness, not municipal business, and pre-
sided over by Federal judges, occupying
the same status as Federal judges else
where.
What brought about such condition?
The Supreme Court and the Court Of
Appeals using the former titles, are
elements of the partnership between the
National Government and the local
community in supporting and developing
the National Capital. Under substantive
law the court expenses were divided
ffty-fifty, along with other National
Capital projects and services, between
the National Government and the local
community. This division recognized
joint responsibility and joint benefits.
Later the fifty-fifty ratio was changed
to sixty-forty, the local community pay
ing sixty per cent.
But when Congress, without repeating
the law, substituted for the fixed ratio
principle the uncertain and changing
lump sum the effect was steadily to
diminish the national responsibility, in
creasing the local community's RESPONSE
bility. The terms Of bargain, written
into law. by which the National Gov
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27

Why does DR.. Rutland, in the face OF
all the uncertainty and confusion con-
fronting local finances and in spite Of
the Commissioners strong plea for the
exercise Of drastic economy by DEPART
ment heads, come out with recon-
mendation for public health expenditures
that would increase by about 100 per
cent the amount allowed in the current
budget?
Let DR.. Rutland answer the question
himself:
Expenditure Of money for public
health In the District has been made
euate for . number sf years. Within
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
The dog days have q queer effect or

The dog days have queer erect on
bird songs.
Heat and the time of year conspire to
take away the outpourings Of many
birds, leaving but a sketchy outline OF
the songs Of springtime.
There is the oriole, fast flying from
the woods, who salutes us each day, from
q distance, with part Of his old song.
The clear, vigorous delivery Is gone,
and in its stead a hah-hearted, faint
mockery Of the old strain greets the ear.
There is no doubt Of 1t being the
oriole, however: he almost reaches, but
not quite, the simple but beautiful meas
ures Of old.
No longer is he little calliope, as If
worked by celestial steam. Now he
rushes just a bit, then tones down de-
cidedly, breaking of his tune before half
delivered.
The wood thrush, most beautiful Of
singers, is in the neighborhood again.
We hear him from some little dis
lance. Only portion Of his measures
is given. The pause natural to this
song, between the triads, Is longer than
ever. The measures are not distinct,
and there are many breaks.
If one were not well acquainted with
this thrushs song, one probably would
not recognize 1t at all at this time OF
year.
The wood pewee, charming little fell
low, has lost the "a" out of his normal
song.
Only q short time ago he sang his
plaintive, whispered pee as 1t
should be sung, on a delightful minor,
as most birds songs are.
Today he has dropped out the "a" 50
that his song runs 'pee-wee," each syi-
liable sharp and distinct. as II the song
ster were displeased with the weather,
and who could blame him. alas?
+ 4 y
There are two generally accepted
theories regarding bird songs.
The old one Is that the songs are love
songs, pure and simple.
The second is that they are territorial
warnings, one bird to another.
IT have staked out this claim" sings
the thrush. Keep out of my territory"
Just what the limits of the claims are
and how each bird enforces his are
matters which the average bird admirer
will be glad to leave to the ornitholo-
giSts.
The bird watcher will be willing to be-
lieve that a compromise is best. He
may think, probably with some approx
nation of the truth, that the birds sing
for both reasons.
Certainly it is Spring, the season of
love, celebrated in song and story. which
starts them of on their truest and best
songs.
Now the broods have grown up, and
flown away, the older birds which linger
have no need to sing as they did some
time ago.
Hence their songs are rather memories
than anything else.
The grand inspiration is over. The
season is too hot for good vocal efforts.
anyway, whether fellow wears feathers
or clothes.
New singers are springing up.
These are the big insects, often called
hot bugs" which make August nights
ring with music.
II one will listen closely. determined
to give these insects a chance. one will
hear some real music of sort.
1t Is q different music from that OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27

A gigantic black bear-probably the
largest of carnivorous animals-lives In
the dense, scarcely explored pine for
ests of Southern Kamchatka.
The creature still Is unknown to
science. So far as known, it never has
been seen by a white man. But there
is considerable evidence for its existence,
presented in a report just made to the
American Society of Mammaloglsts by
DIR. Stem Bergman Of the State Museum
of Natural History at Stockholm. who
spent two years on the Siberian pen1n-
sula across from Alaska as member
of a Swedish exploring expedition.
Photographs have been taken of foot
prints left by such an animal in the
snow. 1t leaves q track more than 10
inches long and more than 10 inches
wide. DR.. Bergman was shown one pelt
Of the giant bear. 1t was deep black
in color. the largest bearskin he ever
had seen, and was covered with snort
hair, in striking contrast to the long hair
of other Kamchatkan bears. There Is
also q gigantic bear skull, the teeth OF
which indicate that 1t belonged to
young individual.
Apparently this giant black bear ex-
ceedS in size the Kodiak Island bear.
which lives across Boring Strait and
which is supposed to be the largest
known fleSh-eating mammal. Moreover,
the Alaskan bear supposedly belongs to
a different species. The Kamchatkan
bear appears to be the most notable
mammal left in the world which never
has been discovered"
The wildness of the country and its
dense vegetation presumably have pro-
tected the bear giant from naturalists
and hunters. The whole land is a
veritable paradise for bears, who hide
away in the dense thickets along the
Kamchatkan rivers and subsist on the
abundant salmon. They are SO numer-
Gus that native does not dare venture
into the brush in Summer without first
shouting to let the bears know he is
coming. They will keep out of mans
way If they are warned, but are likely
to put up fight If surprised.
however, are rather small bears-com-
parable to the animals of Northern
Europe. Some are black, but the ma
jority are yellowish- white or light brown.
The giant animal may be an extreme
variation of this race, or may repre-
sent an entirely different family. He
is naturally the occasion for much ma
tive Legendary. Some of these stories
have been interpreted as indicating that
mammoths existed within the time Of
man in the northern wildernesses of both
hemispheres, but such giant bear might
At the descriptions as well as would
q small .elephantlike creature.
Were it not for the great numbers of
smaller bears, DR.. Bergman points out
in his report, man could scarcely subsist
In the northern wilderness. There are,
for example, no roads through the Desc
late land between the sparsely settled
villages. But all along the rivers and
through the forests there are we'll
marked paths made by the bears, who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Stain Announces Another War.
We're going to have another war;
Exclaims a prophet dismal.
And when we sadly ask What for?'
His silence is abysmal.
Although a breathing spell we gain,
Our fears are not diminished;
An armistice seems to pertain
To business unfinished.
Were going to have another war;"
The threat sounds most outrageous.
War is an ailment all abhor
And frightfully contagious.
Our grief is told by tongue and pen,
Our sorrow, none can doubt it.
Why should we hunt war trouble when
We've got enough without it!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27

Whatever may have been said about
the culinary customs Of Ethiopia, selas-
sic has made it clear that his appetite
harbors no traces of cannibalism. A
Partisan cuisine is evidently quite sat-
isfactory to him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
A Rhyme at Twilight
BY
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Anchorage.

The daylight clanors never cease,
And troubled waters round me roll
Bringing disQuiet to my soul,
Striving to sweep me from my goal.
Yet dusk should bring an anchored
peace.
Though on engulfing waves brood.
whateer befall, come what, come may
FOR this brief anchorage pray.
: That I may know at close Of day
Thespeace Of inner quietude. 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27

Foreign writer's say they do not under
stand American politics. American
statesmen may make the courteous re-
Spouse that they, in turn, have iaiieo
to understand European politics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27

Baltimore manufacturers are selling
bombing planes in the Orient, thereby
indicating confidence that the Chesa-
peake area is in no danger of being
attacked at any stage Of the disorder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
Machine.

Flows your political machine coming
along?"
"It's in the parade" answered Senator
Sorghum, same as steam piano. 1t
makes a tremendous noise, but is fear
fully ragged as to harmony"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27

A clever playwright has designated
war Idiots Delight" He will scarcely
venture to dedicate a copy to Euro
pean agitator with the question. who's
idiotic now?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
"Yonkers."

Prom the Glendale tCalif) News-Press.
Hearing that mixers in Yonkers may
not wear shorts will merely add to the
original confusion OF the British visitor.
who asked. What are Yonkers2"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27

New Deal policies have not helped the
situation for the Democrats. Norris is
likely to have a tough time of 1t, with
Democratic candidate as well as Re-
publican In the field. Terry Carpenter
is the party nominee. Burke could not
stomach Carpenter and declared for
Norris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27

Economy is in such demand that 1t
may be deemed a proper tribute to
revive Ben Franklins Poor Richards
Almanac as a feature of current lit
erature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
Bumps Ahead.

From the Indianapolis News.
With all those political drives In prog
ress and no traf1ic regulations, good
many political traffic accidents are likely
to occur
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27

The suggestion of world conference
to prevent war has been referred to as
a bold idea, but not so bold, to the point
of foodhardiness, as war itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27

In Spain, as elsewhere. the word
"Loyalist" relates to the party that has
successfully taken charge, by force, of
the treasury and the army pay checks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
Sun Spots.

From the Hartford Courant.
Scientists need not look far for sun
spots these days. They can be found
on the back Of any person who has spent
q day at the beach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
Dry.Sounding Place.

From the Arkansas City (Kans) Traveller.
Maybe it's the heat, but we frequently
find ourself wondering whether the
drought is unusually severe this year at
Nowatah Okla. x