PAGE TWO THE WORKMAN SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1928 The Passing of The Standard THE WORKMAN STOP! LISTEN. Published on Saturdays by Rases for Advertisemen on applicaWALROND, at the office No. 16 ion. Correspondease on all matte Street East Central Avenue Panama of publie laterest invited.
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scon found COME IN AND INSPECT THE STOCK BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE City a PANAMA HARDWARE 29 Od Mr. CARDOZE Jr. CATHEDRAL PLAZA BRANCH STORE 125 Central Avenue no news The Barbados Weekly HERALD of the list ist Rays. Yesterday the Barbados Slandard passed away after an existence of eighteen year. Fouaded in the vear 1910, by the mercantile body it started life under the most favourable auspices. But a succession of disasters put an end to any prospects of good fortune it bad and it gradually walk to a mere uncorsidered trifle. The first editor was an Englishman, Mr. Thompson, a journalist and a la gentleman.
Unfortunately Mr.
Thompson came to Barbados in very bad health and never improved be was never able to work up to to his Melelan succeeded lim.
At his death Mr.
George Mr. Melelan was a man of a differ.
ent temperament and himself in conflict with bis employers. The climax came when he be wrote a of the Director og attack on one and his services were terminated Thereafter it was all change and decay. Mr. Greeoidge now Magistrate of Port of Spain performed the editorial functions for some time. did also the late Emtage and Beven, Mr. RH.
tor at one time or another. But of the Directhe demands of Journalism are ex cting and the reward slight, and one by one the various writer: found it impossible to continue.
The history of the pist five years has been a gallant struegle to etave off the inevitable but it was bound to come. The public fought sby of that journal, and no paper can exist witbont readers.
The death of the Standard removes from Carbados one of the features which distinguished it from the majoriy of the West Indian Colonies. Uutil recently, no Col.
ony in ese parts had more than two daily morning newspapers, and big and advanced a Colony as Jamaic even now has only one daily British Guiana has three, but they that is a development of the past three years. It will hardly be disputed that West Indian Suhet Lakinion, Barbados in the past was over served with So newspapers The amount of advertising patronage bad to be distrit.
uted over so wide an ares that every paper suffered from the competit100. The reduction to a number more in keeping with the demands of the community ough to result in better and brighter papers.
It is not perhaps generally under.
to how great an extent the influence and prosperity of pewspapers and the prosperity and development of a a community depend on ench other; It impossible to find one without the other indead the progress of a community may be measured by the sta adards of its press and by the of people who read the new regularly tut WWW: An unwieldy number of de wepapers struggling against each other for existence is not what Barbados expect or permit smaller number of journals well supported and free to utter independent opio.
ion even at the risk of treading on individual occasionally, makes for the success of a community. The tendency, it seems to us towards that direction. The death of the Gl be and now of the Standdar does appear to presage new era, and a chance for the remaing journals to develop into more interesting and progressive sheets than Barbados has bad in the past LA MASCOTA Just received a fine selection of lato acccuat Welcoming Back Noted Author Subjects for editorial comment are not just laying around ready to be picked up as it would appear to some laymen. The resourceful, researching editor, nevertheless, is at all times able to manufacture a perfectly good case out of human conduct or Nature revelations and offer elaborate comment thereon furnishing healthy food for thought and good material for the furtherance of civilization. There are, however, times when an editor arrives at a brink where he is compelled to uiscard all efforts to grind out an editorial copy and decides to substitute therefor a brain child of some ambitious tyro or reproduce a seasoned discourse of a mental gaint. There are still other times when, as an unexpected shower of rain on a scorching hot day, a subject comes perching dignifiedly within his classic mental reservation and in turn releases into his pent up energy rich material for use of his intelligent pen. It is the latter experience which we have this week. We are particulary pleased of this, because our subject involves the Negro author and writer, Eric Walrond student of Wisconsin University, who is visiting these parts to gather material for the furtherance of his work. By giving him editorial prominence as part of our welcome to him back in our midst, we feel sure, as the only representative Negro journai in the Republic of Panama, we are contributing to him and his noble cause the very best that can be offered him locally as far as the profession is concerned He certainly deserves every bit of it.
Once a member of our community, Walrond left some years ago for the United States of America and immediately thereafter seized and made good his many opportunities. This has not only gained for him much financial consideration but also high recognition of his merit as a typically original author and writer. Young and resourceful, he had not long set foot on the soil of the great North American republic when he linked his life ambition with that of more powerful, similar study. Following closely upon this came glimmerings of his early success as a short story writer. Not long after, he hit upon his first really important mark when he published Tropic Death. a novel, or folklore, typical of the psychological and linguistic make up of ordinary West Indians at home and in the Republic of Panama where they migrated to take part in the construction of the great Isthmian waterway the Panama Canal.
For the striking originality of this book and its literary soundness an originality the like of which most colored authors would have taken great pains to exempt or produced highly veneered, the book found such ready sale in the United States that it became necessary to print a second edition. Tropic Death had the distintion of being reviewed and praised by some of the leading American metronolitan daily newspapers. The author received the glad hand of noted writers and publishers, and the book eventually earned for him, a year ago, the coveted Guggenheim Scholarship and a cash prize of twenty five hundred dollars.
Eric Derwent Walrond is now traveling on behalf of the Guggenheim Fellowship gathering material for a more elaborate work which will most likely be known as the author romantic history of Panama. As to material for this new work, we are sure that Mr. Walrond will have very little, if any, trouble in finding, for we believe that in no other place on earth can one find a more heterogeneous mixture of races and nationalities and more instrinsic historical values than in the Republic of Panama.
The young author will find among his people here, talent which has been developed since he left here for America; and he will also find among them many with broader visions of life than those which they possessed ten years ago.
It is fortunate that Mr. Walrond arrives here at a time when he will likely have the opportunity of receiving a copy of Isthmian Echoes, an Isthmian West Indian anthology edited and soon to be published by Sydney Young, formerly West Indian editor of the Panama American.
The Workman welcomes Mr. Walrond on this his second visit to the Isthmus since his original departure.
We hope that he will gain all that he seeks now and so be able to fully accomplish that to which he aspires.
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Book Binding. THE WORKMAN Vote for Opening of Liquor Shops on Sunday Dr. Fred Sterling THE NEW YORK DENTST Why throw away your old, but no ST. LUCIA. At a recent meet. 182, BOLIVAR STREET doubt interesting, books when you ing of the St. Lucia Legislative Council, the Hon. Westail COLON, moved that the law relating to Box 271, CRISTOBAL, can haue them neatly bound at liquor licenses be amended so as to low of liquor shops being TELEPHONE 247 COLON opened on Sundays and public holidays. Mr.
Westall stated that the the Church Services, Sunday closing lows bad resulted Hon. G, Peter supported the No. EAST 16 STREET in people drioking liquor that was motion.
not good for their health and a The President of the Council certain amount of illegal rum sell adnounced that the ofcial memOpposite the Wesleyan Churh ing and manufacture which was bers were free to vote as th: depriving the. State of revenue. liked. Ram taken in moderation was Hon. MeVane said beneficial and be did not see why he was speaking for his cotatithe working classes should not be tueney, and supported the motion House Rent Receipt Books allowed to get their drinks the Illicit distillation of rum had resame as the well to do classes, sulted from Sunday closing. He IN SPANIHS ENGLISH The shops could be opened be did not agree with Mr. Westall tween and am and to that there was no drunkenness For Sale at the WORKMAN PRINTERY so as not to compete with in St. Lucia, por did he think in