PAGE FOUR THE WORKMAN SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1929.
Canal Zone Schools THE WORKMAN The Royal Bank of Canada Di Department Busy on Atlantic Side Published on Saturday by WALROND, at the office No 72 INCORPORATED 1869 (ELIJAH HUNTER)
CARLOS MENDOZA Street No. 72, Panama, Head Office: Montreal, Canada The room annex to the silver Box 74, Panama Box 1102, Ancon city colored school is going up. This We do not undertake to mtumn rejected correspondence.
INAUGURATES ITS ISTHMIAN BRANCHES IN will mean the seating of approximately 400 children if 50 children are The Liberty of the Press is the Palladium of our rights JUNIUS PANAMA AND COLON placed in each room. Happily, it will Santa Ana Plaza Corner 11th and Bolilvar Streets mean also new positions for as THE WORKMAN SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1929.
many teachers. Now, this is a step MONDAY MARCH 11th.
in advance a forward march, and already, it is appreciated that this PLAY THE GAME FAIRLY goodly number of children will, on CONDENSED STATEMENT AS ON NOVEMBER 30, 1928 completion of the annex, have the facility of going to a decent school About the second week in this year we took occaASSETS where methods and class room ension to treat editorially on the subject, The spirit of vironment are of respectable and Cash on Hand, in Banks and in Central Gold Reserves 180, 321, 670. 02 every day. In it we observed that the spirit of friendmodern standard, shis and goodwill, which always marks the ChristmasGovernment and Municipal Securities and Other Bonds and Stocks. 118, 628, 665. 88 New Your season, does not last long enough; that it de Call Loans 99, 911, 749. 13 It is understood that the erection parts with the season, and leaves the world to return to Commercial Loans 439, 962, 619. 23 of additional school buildings in old condition of jostling and rivalry, with some of Bank Premises 14, 497, 184. 03 other silver townships is contemte wrestlers altogether disregarding the rules of the Liabilities of Customers Under Letters of Credit and other Assets 56, 073, 996. 42 plated by the Schools department.
In and resorting to methods at which they would This is welcome news because, here, Hush at Yuletide; and we expressed it as very desirable 909, 395, 884. 71 es elsewhere, and now as always, it that the spirit that prompts the greeting Happy New it is the duty of the State to proYear should be the spirit of every day.
vide for the education of the people.
We have good reason at this moment to draw atLIABILITIES There is no difference between these tention to this matter, because of the evident exhibition Capital, Reserve and Undivided Profits 62, 361, 085. 71 ciays and the days when Adam Smith inf the contrary spirit in a particular case. This paper has been having some very unpleasant experiences Notes of the Bank in Circulation 43, 829, 868. 94 lived. In his day he said, in so far as it is the duty of the State to within recent months. As is well known, THE WORKDeposits.
733, 202, 003. 25 shoulder respo for the eduMAN has been the largest and longest lived West InBills Payable, Letters of Credit, etc.
70, 002, 926. 81 ention of the common people, it is to dian newspaper here. It is now 17 years old. For many be observed that just as it is the years it enjoyed a wide popularity, both here and 909, 395, 884. 71 duty of the magistrate to interfere abroad. Then conditions over which we had no control confronted us as difficulties to be met and overcomefor the purpose of preventing the leprosy from spreading among the chiefly, general economie depression resulting from the The Royal Bank of Canada is one of the world largest Banking Institutions with large exodus of West Indians from the Isthmus during people, so exactly ought the State to 900 Branches, including offices in Europe, United States and South and Central America interfere for the purpose of stopping the early twenties. Then on account of two removals of and throughout the West Indies.
the progress of the moral distempers our plant, coupled with an effort to re organize the Branches in the British West Indies are distributed as follows: which are inseparable from ignor.
production, the publication of the paper had to be disAntigua continued for a few months.
Dominica Montserrat ance. This duty cannot be neglected Bahamas Immediately after getting settled, publication was Grenada St. Kitts without danger to the public peace, for if the multitude is left uninresumed and has since been continuous. The difficulties Barbados Jamaica (2)
St. Lucia structed, there is serious risk that that culminated in the temporary suspension of the paTrinidad (2)
their animosities may produce the per were regarded by us ordinarily incidental to any unmost dreadful disorders.
dertaking of the kind; and when we renewed publicaThe Education Department, or ration, we did not expect to pick up our trade where we had left off, but made all reasonable allowances for the ther, the Department of Schools in the Canal Zone is one of the departpossibilities of the loss of contact. We were welcomed Hymns and their Story ments of the State, therefore, their back by many old friends; and with the recent addition By Rev. Cousins activities are in order we appreof certain persons to our staff persons well known in GEO. BISHOP ciate them and we say, hurrah!
the community for their serious and intelligent contributions to the local press for many years, and their Familiarity with Hymns does the Schools Department.
MODERN TAILOR genuine interest in the community, brought the comnot mean a knowledge of their his It is further understood that the Lory and origin, and in this connec Government intends to build a Commendation of many competent persons in these lines.
House 40 For a little while we felt that we were coming back in tion, much light was thrown on the missary for silver emplloyees at the 3rd November Street the mind of the community. Then within the last three subject delivered Wednesday junction of Bolivar Highway and or four months we found ourselves confronted with a night last by the Rev. Cousins Guava road, silver city. The newsGuachapali. Panama ity under the auspices of the Christian paper say it will cost 150, 000. 00 new difficulty.
Endeavour Society in Geddes Hall This gain is very welcome nows. The We have suddenly found it difficult to get persons Panama silver city people are jubilant at the to sell the paper. Old vendors have discovered overnight that the neople don want to buy The Workman, The lecturer defined or interpret announcement, and the women in and have either refused outright to handle it, or have enci his subject as something having a particular feel. so they say) that stowed it away from public view after accepting it for gher meaning than that of Poetry with this commissary at hand, they und Musie. such an interpretation will be saved from much of the hard, they although rot being generally understood by ships they now endure as a result of having a stack of the naner there. Some persons who the majority. He made reference to congestion at the Cristobal CommisPHYSICIAN the two ablest hymn writers of an sary.
have been regular readers for vears, huying from cercient times tain vendore can now only obtain their annies through viz. Charles Wesley this office. From Colon to Panama (including the Zone HAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO and Miss Havergal, the latter having The silver city people know that written more hymns than any other about two months ago, a resolution towne) the condition is the same. The Workman is No. K STREET female writer. Many instances of was drawn up, signed by the signidead. The Workman is a white man paner, are among the statements that are in circulation. In short, PANAMA CITY hymnology were drawn as illustra ficant number of three hundred and tions to prove the importance of the sixty five of them, and presented to there is evidently a well organized propaganda against subject.
the naner.
Governor Burgess praying for a Now, we very much regret the need for this comThe usual monthly consecration Commissary at Silver City. They plaint. We are not exnecting the public to huy the nameeting was also observed with Miss know that in addition to this, a Estelle McMillan officiating as roll statement was prepared for the purper merely on sentiment. although the West Indian community might justly feel sentimental about helping Secretary Book Binding!
pose of making a comparison beits oldest newspaner to live, to show that we were seriThe meeting was presided over by tween now and the time when there ous for many years past: but we are expecting the comthe Rev. Wade who thank was a commissary at Silver City munity to be fair to us and to itself. We take it that ed the lecturer for his well prepared (which was closed for lack of panur community is growing daily in racial consciousness, Why throw away your old, but no subject, and expressed the desire of tronage, it was said) and to show and that it is nroclaiming the desire to be true to itself; doubt interesting books, when you being able to extend to him another the difference in population and so and for these reasons we have come to the community invitation on some similar occasion. forth betwen now and then.
as our silent arhiter. We trust it will judge justly. We The meeting was brought to a can have them nearly bound at do not claim to be without faults. We know we have close with the Mizpah.
They know too, that all this was made mistakes (perhaps many more than we ought. the work of the Panama Canal West hut we also know that it has always been our serious THE WORKMAN CHICKENS IS CHICKENS Indian Employees Association, and concern to correct our mistakes as soon as we have disthey are now very properly giving citizen of an novered them or they have been brought to our notice.
Ohio town was credit to this Association for hay.
We know also that when all the circumstances have No, 72 CARLOS MENDOZA STREET bothered by his neighor chickensing made the representations which hoon fully and impartially considered, our service to our Catching one, he attached this card, have resulted in the announcement AND CORNER JAVILLO FILL community has been imquestionable and on the whole which the hen proudly wore home that this commissary be built mond to her mistress: Even some who, unfortunately could THE WORKMAN has defended West Indians here Oh, Mrs. McGuffy, if you knew how not see any necessity for the Assoit shocks narlacely during those trying days of the strike in ciation are now saying after all, 109 whan their verv economic existence was at stake: fice is to say that it is at work. The Golden Rule is good Nice chickens like us to be polted the Association is really doing good with. rhamnioned their cause to the point where it was enough for all. For as ye would that man should do unto work. This is pleasing.
If one comht to have the nffice closed up and its editor denort you, even so do ye unto them. It demands of one nothing to be shooed away by strangers and makes a mistake, and he is convinced nd hat it wolontleasly stuck to the cause of the neople in that it does not require of the other. For instance, if loaded with reproaches by anything that he has, the only nf ench threate as can he corroborated by many one would like one faults to be overlooked and cover Por scratching up gardens and correct thing to do is to remedy that wooders and summorters. And we are sure that ed, one should not endeavor to keep the faults of an messing up. mistake. The appreciation now be. nonacione will notor acain occur to give this or other on a steeple or mountain top. We believe that with If you knew how we suffer when tol ing expressed by those who were. nthou nowepaner such an onnortunity.
the standard of matter that THE WORKMAN is offer the neighbors we roam, formerly inimical or indifferent is do not nretend to know who or what is the ing, it can sell itself easily as heretofore, if not obstruct You surely would pity us and keep certainly an effort to correct a misus at home.
orimin nf this difficulty of which we now complain: sut ed. Let us play the game fair. Continued on sage 5)
on sale. Sometimes when request is made for the paner, by Dr. Fairweather