Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1946 — Page 23

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THURSDAY, SEPT, 19,

VIRGIN ISLANDS

LIKE U.S. RULE|

Attitude Ney. Different From Puerto Rico’s.

By STEPHEN TRUMBULL Times Special Writer 8T. THOMAS; Virgin Islands, Sept. 19.—Thirty minutes of air travel in this latitude covers a million miles of differences in viewpoints on American rule. - Thirty minutes to the west lies Puerto Rico, where 2,300,000 people now are talking of divorce from

the American flag, if satisfactory] bel

alimony arrangements can worked out, Here the .same flag flies over some 25000 people scattered over three small islands whose combined areas is only 133 square miles. They wouldn't take divorce on ‘a silver platter, even with all the tea in China as alimony. Bought From Denmark Of course,~the marriage here is of shorter duration, and not quite the shotgun affair that was the taking in of the Puerto Ricans in 1898, The flag has flown here only since 1917, when the U. 8. took over from Denmark to provide us with a more advanced outpost _ against the first U-boat terror campaign, The price was $25 million high from the realtor's viewpoint but low as battleships, aircraft carriers and other war time necessities come. -Uncle' Whiskers .inherited. the same economic preblem with both eovers—far too many people for he land to support. It's been necessary to pump federal funds into these islands since their acquisition, but not to the extent that they have been pumped into Puerto Rico. Public Works On Way The pump-priming here runs only about a million dollars a year— with many millions coming back in rum tax revenue—as against the $35 million a year for Puerto Rico. Currently, there is an appropriation for some $10 million worth of federal public works here. Even some of the bitter critics of federal spending admit this is needed. The first of the funds are

earmarked for sanitary systems, k

hospitals on the three islands—St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. Johns— firefighting equipment, and improvements in the primitive water systems of the: islands. There is no fresh water in these islands. Rain water must be caught and stored, and it makes for some pretty. unsanitary conditions.

It’s Clean Poverty Herbert Hoover, who wasn't nearly as good at turning out a neat phrase as was his successor, did get off one apt one when he described these islands as “America's- poorhouse.” The people are desperately poor here, but it is a different poverty from that of the lums of Puerto Rico. It is a clean and quite self-re-specting poverty here. Some 96 per eent of the population is Negro. Jobs are as scarce as they are in Puerto Rico, and the minimum wage scales are lower. But the poorest of the poor manage to look clean. The streets of Charlotte Amelia, seat of the goverment, are washed down with salt water. The garbage is collected daily. Crimes of violence are rare. A $1.50 theft is page one news in both of the fourpage, tabloid-size daily newspapers, printed in English.

English Spoken Here That “printed in English” 1s another vast difference between these islands and that other scene of American occupation, 30 minutes to the west. Over there, after 48 years of American rule, it's still impossible to get about without some rudimentary knowledge of Spanish, and the last Englishlanguage newspaper went out of business with the end of the war. Here it's all English. There are times, of course, when 8 few rocks are tossed at the American marriage. It's good politics when someone is up for reelection to the local council. Some past governors have come in for fairly sharp attacks. But it's never reached the dishrowing stage and as for divorce talk like that just to the west— never!

@opiright 1946. by The Indtanapeliy Times a The Chicago Daily News,

Canadian Gots Scare Over Joe

Timés Foreign Service EDMONTON, Alta., Sept. 19,— What with spy trials, increased talk of northern defenses, and the almost daily differences of opinions developing at the Paris conference Canadians are acutely conscious ‘of this country’s relations with Joe Stalin and his Soviets, A Canadian correspondent traveling with the recent Exercise North group up the Alaska highway demonstrated the feeling, Coming-around the bend of the road, a large sign suddenly appeared proclaiming in large letters: “Joe's Place.” “My, gosh, is he here already?” gasped the scribe. He went in to have a cup of coffee to make certain it was all right.

BROADCAST OCTOBER SESSIONS OF U. N.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (U. P.). ~The United Nations assembly meetings. beginning in New York Oct. 23 will be shoriwaved to Europe and Latin America over the U. 8. government network, “Voice America,” Assistant Secretary of tate William Benton said today. Mr. Benton said he hoped many

up «and rebroadcast the programs. He added he did not think there is enough interest in this country for

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