Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1919 — CHA-CHAS ARE POOR MIXERS [ARTICLE]

CHA-CHAS ARE POOR MIXERS

Marines Say Tribe In Virgin Islands Plainly indicate They Want to Be Left * ♦ Washington. —United States marines who have hobnobbed with Filipino headhunters, and have long been friendly with the Chamorros of Guam, met their Waterloo when they tried to establish the entente cordlale with the Cha-Chas of the Virgin islands. According to the marines the ChaChas are “poor mixers." They live on the west side of the harbor of Char-lotte-Amalie, decline to mingle or intermarry with the negroes, and resent any outside Interference with their affairs. They are the hardest drinkers and best workers on the island, their industry bringing them a good living as fishermen and weavers of straw hats. The tribe is said to have come originally from the Dutch and French Leeward Islands. So far the marines have taken only long distance observations of the ChaChas. For while the tribe is not hostile, its members plainly indicate that they want to be left alone.