The Seaforth News, 1927-08-25, Page 2Virgin Islanders Organize
to, Capture Tourist Trade
They Are Enthusiastic Over the Future of Their Location
as an A11 -Year Resort, but Need Capital
for Development
It is because of considerable niter- matter of faot, they do their best, but
est of late on the part of Aremicans they are:excepted bo correct ills that
inthe Virg:inIslands, and the fact .with can only be corrected by ,Congres-
regard:to the islands lead. to tlie' be- sional enactments. Thanativee have,
lief that the American people are not however, been calmed considerably
at all informed of their latest posses- since the passage of the bil'Lintroduc-
sions, that this letter is written. ed by Senator Willie making them
It ds • a fact that the people of Den-. cltizens'ofthe United States°
mark, Germany, England and France The islands are just now suffering
are better informed concerning the from economic ills. The population,
Virare
gin Islands United State,s,n This. the
epe
dntepeople
mately 26,00e, of which ten has ars ago was affinex
the has dwindled until it is
close contact and association of the now not more than. 22,000. am
Europeans .mentioned with these ds- Time was when the commercial
dandy and .their people in time gone. portaneete at. Thomas far exceeded
However, the area is so small that our that of New York and prosperity was
people on the American Continent, be at its height. People were too busy
ing a people of superlatives, have not making money to pay attention to
•
had time to devote to studying them, anything else. St. Thomas. prosper --
The Virgin Islands of the United ed from every revolution, Whether it
States; comprising St, Thomas, St.
Croix and St. Jahn, an area *0'133
square miles, lie about 1,400 miles
southeast of New York. They were
discovered by Columbus during his transhipment of arms. and other
second voyage, in 1493, and were at materials.- It le said that in those
different times occupied by Dutch, days fugitives would arrive from the
English, Spanish and Danish settlers., country in which revolution had
the United States -finally purchasing broken out with lenge amounts of
was in South America or Haiti, Santo
Domingo, Mexico er anywhere else.
Even during our own Civil War the
harbor of St. Thomas was used for the
them for $25,000,000 and taking posses- money and would settle there, most
cion on March 13, 1917, of .them going into business. ' The 4Vinner ®f Derby
There has been ognsidlea-able Com- massive stores stand to this day as g�
anent on this purchase, some going so evidence of to •earlier trade.. �� Keptat � ore
far as to say that the United States The central location of St -Thomas
got a squeezed lemon. The argument made itmost desirable as_a trans-
against
ran f
against this is that the United. States shipment centre as well as a port0
h islands primarily as an call for ships to receive orders from Briton Pays $300,000 for Call
bought the s D y
Boy to Prevent His. Sale
PEKING'S SUPERSTITIONS
REVIVED BY WAR MISERY
Priests of Lamaism Reaping Rich Harvest by Performing
"Bestowal of Power Ceremony"; Sell
Charms to Recipients
Peking.—The misery of the 'Chinese Then, in spite of the heat of China's
people, due to sixteen years of civil .summer sun, the. dogma or sacred
war, is reviving ancient superstitions butter, is put on the top of the head
which have been neglected • for a gen- of every believer. The derma is about
eratibn or more, but which are once
more being tried inthe forlorn hope
that they will help to mitigate con-
ditions.
One of the most interesting and ob-
scure of these superstitions is that of
"the'` bestowal or power," or wang-
nang—which, translates literally into
"plower -+give oeeemony." This old
rite, which had not been seen in Pe-
king
e-
k ing;fcr more than thirty years, but
hadlingeeed in some: popularity near-
ly 8,000 .miles to the westward on the
borders of Tibet, has been revived in
Peking by the priests 'of Lamaism,
who pare reaping a rich 'harvest infess,
The bestowal of power ceremony is
given to 000 persons at a time and is
supposed to make the recipients im-
mune to old age, Meese and death as
long as their faith does not falter.
The Lama priests make the ceremony
Distinguished Visitors to Canada
Canada is an ideal holiday resort in the opinion 01: 'this distinguished
group of passengers who arrived in the Doneinion a few days ago on the
White Star. Liner Meganbic to enjoy their vacation.' From let to right the
group includes Sir Thomas Esmonde, Dart., Senator is the Irish Free State,
and LadyDsmonde; Lady Craig, her daughter, and Sir Ernest Craig, Bart.,
M.P. for CrSwo,'who owns collieries in Wales. Sir Thomas Esmonee is a
hunter o note ote and despite the fact that he has hunted in'eraotically every
country he thinks •' Canada has the finest shunting and linking in the world
and he has said so in one of his books. On tate trip he will travel right
through Canada and' probably shoot big game in western Canada. Sir
Ernest Craig, on the other hand, will enjoy a quiet holidayin the Muskoka
Lakes district before returning to England.
outpost of defence, their location being 'principals in European, ,Central and
such a strategic one that it was early South American countries, and the
realized what a monaoe they world be harbor was kept full of sailing vessels.
in the hands of an unfriendly nation. The change from sail to steam and
It should he taken into oonsfd'eration the invention of the radio, along with
that the cost of .three good `warships other world -changing conditions, have
would far exceed the price paid for made the Island of less importance
the Islands, and the maintenance of from this standpoint A. careful in
the ship would have to be taken into vestigatiou reveals the fact that while
account, plus the fact that their period the islanders are optimistic over the
of usefulness would be comparatively, future, they have not the earns of
were acquired with the same object, developing the resources, natural and.
viz., the national defense, and their artificial. The chief industries at
usefulness will continue for all time. Present are: St Croix, sugar and in;
On the part of the natives there is dustrial alcohol; St. Thomas, bay'rum,
complaint that the United States honey and cattle.
bought the islands and then forgot However, the thing that should be
them. This, however, is not borne studied by the American capitalists ie
outby the facts, for -considerable at- the development of the islands as an
tention has been given to the islands all -year resort. The climate is ex-
and their people by the national au- ceptionally fine. Every facility for
thornier, Congress has appropriated Pleasure and recreation could easily I
annually for assisting the insular Gov- be provided. There are several
.erumeut approximately $230,000, A hotels, clean and comfortable, but the I
grant of some $150,000.for building possibility of erecting a large hotel to !
reservoirs• was also provided, and the care for tourists and persons ;who
last Congress passed a bill approprt- might come here for recreation should
nting $100,000 for building public high- be seriously studied, as it is held, and
ways in St. Thomas, which amount is logically so, that the islands in a
not yet available, however, due to the :short time would be the tourist cen-
tailuns of passage of the defieieney tre of the West Indies., That is why
appropriations. I the natives are organizing to take ad
By executive order the Islands were vantage of this trade, and are sparing
placed by the late • President Harding no pains in effecting a program design -
under the administrative control of ed to make tourists more comfortable
the Navy Department, and a number la the future than -they have been in
of naval officers were loaned to the the past.
civil Government. The complaint that ADOLPH GEREAU,
to American Sports-
men—Horse Takes
Rank With Non -
Exportable Art
as ornate as possible, and as a rule
the candidates are kept on their knees
to
tile temple'courtyard, .during near=
Much Interest
Taken in. Canada
Hon. Robert Forke.. Says
Britain and Scandinavia
Are Impressed
•
Ottawa — Throughout the British
Isles 'and the Scandinavian countries
there is evide6.ce of keen interst in
Canada ad th opportufties tit Domin
twice the size of a walnut, and is a ion offers to desirable settlers, ac-
thick disc marked with Tibetan. char- cording to Hon. Robert Farke, Minis -
actors. The butter of which it is ter of Immigration and Colonization,
made must be manufactured froin thea tour of -
who has just returned from
milk of yak- cows `or water ,buffalo these countries.
c!bter is 'tilly color- Mr. Forke left Caned,. early in May.
edows. 'lateThe streaksutof artificially red,ficiag'raen and From the time he arrived in London,
brown, and as it melts and rims down Eng., until he sailed for home at tile' .t _
over time foreheads and faces of theend of July, @ds time was taken up
and .ludicrous work of his department ex
worshippers startling with the
effects are produced. The streaks ,ef ce'pt for a few days' visit to hes off
grease • must not be rubbed off until home at Gordon, Berwickshire. Scot-
the ceremony is at an end. land, which he left 45 Nears ago for 10
ALL : RECEIVE RED PILLS. Canada, •
numerous confer
Then comes another long period of The. Minister had n 'various
gayer, to'alto' accompaniment. of cies with representatives of varus
i
gongs, datums and fifes, and then the organizations who are intcreast arIn
ceremony is closed by the bes'tgwal of migration to Canada, livainess O ow•`
the rilbu and sung -du. The former is The most important u Settle-
anda little red pill made by the priests, ever, was with the Overseas
caret of its compdeition, has rent Department, or that . branch of
the s
been carefully guarded for centuries. th British • Government directly
The sung -duns a thick thread of red"sponsible for the administrationof the
Soveral
silk which must' be worn around the Empire Settlement Act
.neck. Each recipient is -blessed as schemes, it Is stated, were negotiated
this is nut over the head, and particulars of two of these have
It may be a coincidence, but every already been published. One set-
person who had taken the bestowal -of- :tlernent agreement'wdtdch provides for
p
ower,tites is thentoldthat if be ex- th cooperation of provincialsan goetc
pacts the :Oast results he must have 'Monts and'vihieh easel -involves
ve
a.nenv rosary, and: that beads properly penditure of $5,000,000 covering a per -
blessed are sold by the priests at the ted of, 10 years; also a scheme pro -
temple don
r''. The throng fs warned viding for the '"settlement of. 500'
that the red •silk cord will be doubled British families in the Province of
in effectiveness if it is used as a New' Brunswick within the nextsix
rosary cord, upon whieh blessed beads y ars'•
must be strung before the hhas The detail's of other schemes ne-
ei gotiatod are net being mads public,
lapsed'
The old rosaries are given to beg- pending -ratification by the provincial
:
gars at the gates --and the beggars governments concerned,
resell them to the priests as soon as Mr. Forke also visited the British
the crowd's- leave. Government training farm at Clayton,
Suffolk, and was impressed, not• only
ing purposes. from which. revenue is ly three ICours on incantations, an-.
.derived, ointdngs and long prayers.
Although. America is regarded, as SPR'INICLIIID WITH .HOLY WATER
extravagant..by most of Europe, there
have been more instances of high
payment for borsetiesh abroad than
in the fU-S: In the •country to the
south, of us only nine horses have
brought $100,000 or. tnore; in Europe,
there have been thirty-one. The high-
est price paid .In South America was
$200,000 for Bettl'ogo.
In the records of money winnings,
ae opposed togeneral earnin's•by in -
Thoroughbreds are assumed to have dividuai 'horses, it is not an Aalariean
taken rank with rare 'objects of art horse that stands highest. A French,
in England, because Sir Henry Malta- horse, Rear, leads the list with earn
by Deeloy paid $300,000 recently for Ings of $335,340. Next is ,Zen, with
Call Boy, winner of the Darby, for the $313,639.
express purpose of preventing his sale However, in total earnings Man o'
to American turfman. There has been War, the horse .of the century, stands
agitation in England, as elsewhere, at the top if his earningaas a sire are
against letting valuable paintings or included. Man o'War has been term -
other artworks go to the U.S., but this ed the first million dollar horse. The
is perhaps the first time that a horse leading winner in England has been
has. been purchased to keep it in its Isinglass, with $291,275 to his credit.
home country. • I The loader in Australia is Eurythmic,
It cost Sir Henry the highest price with $184,455.
that has over been paid fora horse I
First, the head priest, attended by
many 'understudies in yellow robes,
goes up and down the lines of suppli
cants and pours holy water on the
-head of each from the puns -ba or jar
of life. This holy water contains
saffron, and is supposed to be akin to
an elixir of life.
After the jar -of -life rites are fin-
ished the paper image of spine Lama
saint, usually Jinrohace the healer, is
glued to the forehead • of each person
in the kneeling throng.
The Prince Acts
For a Pilins
Mae -up of Grease and Pow-
der . and He Rehearses
His Part Time and
Again. - -
at his watch, "I must be off. I'm lunch-
ing with my brother at the Guildhall."
"That's Wrong"
In conversation with Mr. Wynne, the
film director, the • Prince expressed
great interest in. the production of
British films. He said the Americans
end better facintles, better weather,
and more money, but he was, suns that
within the next year,oe.thi'o this coun-
try veinal ' beat them at their own
Sin)ple Addition.TERRIBLE" game'
to gratify hie impulse: Sir Henry is "THIS IS
Frank' Curzon, "I' gave my wife some money'tito Anumkerofwelldcnowncinemaact-
wh brother y the lateGreased and powdered like a .pro- to purchase a dross and she 1 me have falser part in the fllpr; which
• d Cali
won Boy. As curet day ll
o s
wn
rmrl
who to e Yfosslonal cinema actor and obeying in
a twotir race Cali Boy' two be same home with two"I metrics war"5.051005 produced -with the
ur races easily, and then this "How -did that happen?" n?" detail the instructions of the director, utmost realism, and ,gives an' inter -
"Web, four
"Well, she bought. one, and the the Prince of Wales before he left estIng survey of the work of tine
rubes .uentiy the world's turn classic,' other she had on when she went o
q
the English Darby, with sweepstakes
that run into the hundred thousands
in :prizes.
The 'highest previous price paid for
year took the Newmarket Stakes and
l -Life,
ut," for Canada took pant in Leedom in the British. Legion.
Creation of the film "Remembrance,' gr. 'Wynne, talking to a "Dally Dls-
Vtttltcln Is being produced by the British patch'' representative about the
Legion, and will be on public exhibitou ,•shooting." of the scene, was loud. in
on Armistice Day. his praise of the Prince's readiness to
The scene in which the Prince took' help the camera men and his perfect
Peet was the final piece of photo- w.illinp3xtese to do as he was told.
graphy necessary, and was enacted in „He never demurred," said Mr.
a replica of his study. in York House' Wynne, ''to doing a thing again and
again so as to get tine best result.' On
arriving at Etta studio the Prince was
taken to one of the dressing rooms,
where he placed himself in my hands
"Haven't you ever thought oY go-
ing to, work?" asked the farmer's
a horse was in 1920, when the late I wife. "Yes'm," replied Hobo Harry.
August Belmont received $266,000 for I thought of it once -but I was de -
Tracery, which was bought by Senor learns at do tinie."
Unzure, a breeder from Argentina.
The highest European pries was $200,-
these odloors are not sympathetic to- St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, June 20, 000, paid for Prince Palatine,
ward the natives is not real, fore, as' a 1927. Horses' frequently bring extraordin-
ary prices, but often they afterward passenger raps on the glass the driver w fait n r oquest to to
win purses that more than savor their descends and chaw,s off' a tumblerYnl to fllni ,for 'the benefit of the funds to be made up. Atter he had had
1p,T� Motor �i put year,
the market before the end ofof the Leg on, the Prince readily Con
A lie % Fuel the year, and that the Standard Oil cost -,or else they are used for breed- from the' potrof tank• rented and gave an the assistance he his foes Powdered •te.Prinoe looped
Company of New Jersey has made a .-._ - _.._ _- - into a
There aro taxi -cabs In New York in .wliiclt grad been erected at the Pato
which whisky can be obtained. Itis I Studios itt Wardounstreet, London.
untrue, however, that when a thirsty! V7a en approached some thin ago
tl t 1 "would appear in
-New Oil Source Thought to
Put Germany in Van for
Production
Washington—The prospect for cpm, necessity of importing any, She may
partial production of "oil from coal"even •enter the foreign export field.
as indicated in the news from Ger-
' many, is regarded here as 00 world- •
wide .importance, industrially, corn-
. menially and even politically.
It is taken to indicate that Ger-
'many, deprived of many of her assets
iby war, has put her technical ability,
to work and hes developed something
,that will make costly importations un-
necessary, and also put her in an ad-
ivantgeous position commercially with
other nations.
England, in particular, it be pointed
out, has depended upon her coal, dis-
tributed alt over the world, to support
her commercial eminences. She has
'been experimenting with eyuthetio
gasoline but has reached no such ad-
vanced stage as Germany,' nor has
France, which has also been couduct-
1ng experiments.
Little attention has been "paid here-
tofore to this new development in Ger-
' many. It has been regarded gener-
ally as a laboratory matter only, but
now comes the report that crude oil
and gsoline obtained from coal will be
could to the p'roducees in staging a.
realistic 0eene.
For Armistice Day
deal with the German dye trust.. In
Mother With 24 Children
1928 Germany. le expected to produce 6. G, 9r Children
synthetically 20 per oent. of the na-
tion's consumption of gasoline and
within a few years to obviate the
Her Will.
Daughter (excitedly)—"I'll marry
whom I please! I want you to know
I have a will of my own!" •
Mother (quietly)—"So have I—but
you won't share in it, my dear.
.r
"Is he really dishonest. - 'Why if
he'd been born with a silver spoon in
hie mouth, it would have had some.
body else's initials on it:"
REG'LAR FELLERS -By Gene Byrnes.
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11—kr? CALL -' 5
EAGLE "- Ns CAu EF
THS AiR't
NES -rHE CHAMPEEN
SCRAPPR -0F ALL
71-1,5
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Feeds All on 311.25 a Week
Life's a Hard Struggle, But Mrs. Lucas of Tonbridge, Eng-
land, Is' `Contented --Second Mother in.
Town Has 23 - Children after a montent's.pease turned to alae
glas's and said, 'That s wrong.
That's awful!'
"I greased his face, whicbal prompted
Lim to remark `This is terrible, aspect -
by the keen interest taken by those
undergoing training, but ,also by the
efficient, practical methods adopted by
those int charge of the farm. The
course of training comprises the
handling of horses, the operation of
various agricultural implements, clear-
ing land and dairy work.
At the training farm at Catteriek,
Yorkshire, he saw ex -soldiers being
trained for farming in the different
overseas Dominions.. The course at
Catterick includes the ordinary agri-
cultural operations, the care of live
stock, dairying and hog and poultry
farming. '
From Britain the Minister went to .-
Antwerp, Belgium, where he saw the
methods adopted for handling the ami- ne'
grants' from Continental Europe.
His visit to the Scandinavian Coun-
tries or Norway, • Sweden and Den-
mark, convinced him that there is now
a very, decidedly favorable opinion
the- e authorities of the govern-
ments of thosecountriesin regard to
emigration to Canada,
PLEA FOR TRADE
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WITHINWITHINEMIRE
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After being mads hp the Prince, who ally 'just after a• shave, Let me try to
was wearing a lounge enit with a make it better myself.' Taking the
Britten' Legion tie and badge, went grease paint the Prince vet° success -
into the studio and took Ins stand be- fully made himself up, even to powder.
fore the cameras, holding is poppy, ing his Paco with the yellow powder
This he; placed in his
buttonhole and used for film purposes.
"When lhe had fliritl'.•lecl, the Prince
London—Toe maternity champion- sixteen sous. Rias children include desk, where lie. sat •down to -write a'asked Sir Lionel 1:-laitey, who had ac-
,- un-' letter to Earl Haig, 1 contpanied him, what he thought of
ship of England 1^a9 been mron by a three sets f ears_of age,wMs and twelve are lating.Earl Haig hits, and received the reply'You look
i I Thle letter, cogratu,
Tonbridge mother Mrs. Emily Sano tar dthrteen years' on the success of the Poppy Day cele -i frightfully illi, sir.'
brations, will be strewn on the screen
in the course of the film.
The Prince went through all the
movements of writing and folding the
letter. lie patiently submitted to
half -a -dozen rehearsals in'order that
the producer might be flattened with
the scenes, and showed himself fully
appreciative of the deliberate move-
ment necessary in film acting.
Tbip' actual scene in the film will
occupy about 200 feet., arid, with the
captains, will last about four minutes.
There was a anergy largil v;luen, in Protected.
rho dressLng.loocn; lite Paitit. was it "1f yen walk in year seep what
moved, and .the Time, rather protection are you giving yourself?'
sero (as he observed), was rree'ly "Oh, Lave
a ernali.chaigo pocket
itl my pajamas, fol• carfare, you
•d
T rine remerketl as he looped know."
7.ae;P
Lucas, who has just given girth to Mrs. Lucas never complains. Site
her twenty-fourth child. Tonbridge, says,her children are her greatest pap-
a town of'16,000, is juistly proud, since;•piness 'I wouldn't be without them
it also harbors another toolbar with 1for words. For the benefit of other
twenty-three children. Two mothers large families she gave the reporter
with forty-seven children, there's a re- I her weekly budget. Bread is• the big -
corn. 1 gest item; 'costing' $4.7'5 for the family,
What surely is a record is how Mrs. 1 ]tent is next, with $1.75 per week, The
Lucas feeds her army of a ,ramily.1 family 'eats only 50 'cents' worth of
Father Lucas is a tractor driver andl meat but spends 30 heals "'on jam.
earns $11.25 a week. Mother works Canned milk, sugar, rico, bong, cheese,
froin daylight to dusk for her family, soap and tea range (in the order
making and mending their' clothes,' named) from 50 cents to 15 cents per
cooking, was%ing and, in her spare` week. There are no luxuries, and the
time, manufacturing wool rugs to keep' children • look forward to Sunday,
t I email piece of .plain
the wolf from the door: Father is the ' when there ,s -a s
id shoemaker and barber, homemade cake far each or them.
far y
Mrs Lucas's cht)da+en are the. chit- The Lucas family. now twenty-three
dren of two fathers the flrsii having strong, lives—and thrives—in -a cot- Pow
died in the war, as welt as three of her tage of sax tiny roams,
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Motor Delegate Urges New
Zealanders to Push..
Commerce With
Britain
Auckland, N. Z.—A stirring speech
on :imperial preference in trade was
delivered in Cbrlst Church recently
by Sir Archibald Boyd Carpenter; a
member o fthe British Motor Delega-
tion. Sir Archibald did not -mince
words. He told his hosts that main-
tenance of, litter -Empire trading was
a matter' of necessity, and he appeal-
ed to New Zealanders to help Brltait
in her difficulties.
"If Great 'Britain," he said"from
any cause Is unable to take 87 per
cent. of your products (the percent-
age sent to Britain now), where aro .-
you going to Dena them? Are there
benevolent people who will come
you on their knees and say: 'We like
your butter, please send it to us!' Any-
thing that Weakens one part of alio
Empire weakens another. - at the
"Suppose, far -a moment; th
financial position (in England) be-
came so acute that we -had to rodtice w,
expenditure on the Navy, who's going
to look after your produce' going,
across the sea? Who is going to be,
so benevolent ;'as to provide protea -
tion? The Strength of one is the
strength of all. "
"Mountains of tariffs are being
raised against you. I am not going to
discuss tariffs. The main factis that
they aro there. Wo have to look for
markets, and where bettor can •we
ltookitthan within alto four corners of 1,
e British Empire?" -
Just as New Zealand : went to tate
aid of the •Mother ,Country in the
greatest of struggles,: ems he said..
should she help the ,Mother Country
in the economic struggle of to -(lay.
3
It is officially statedby the Silk
Association of Great Britain that, des-
pite statements to the contrary, there
is no such thing as synthetic silly
The publip, it was feared, might be
misled by a well nun yarn.
Jerry 'I was told when I was
young that I'd Leconte feebble-minded
if I didn't stop smoking•" Jean --"Oh;
why didn't you stop!"
Solicitor, at Grantham County, Court
—"Are you a teetotaller or other-
wise?" Mar.. -"Otherwise " Y 1,