Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-09-05
BED TIME STORY
Current Events Told In Story Form
For Children and Grown Ups-The
Mystery. of The Dark Countries
Votes That Count

Uncle Ted had just finished his sup
per and was seated by the front WIZ
dow reading the evening paper when
in rushed Jack, breathless and with
his hair mussed and what looked very
much like a red nose. "Now what
have you been up to you little
scamp? asked Uncle Ted. ait
looks to me like little Jack has
been fighting"
"Well," puffed Jack, you'd fight
toop
"No," answered Uncle Ted, 81 hope
my fighting days are over, and you
know / have told you that good little
boys don't fight. Now tell me what
it was all about"
1T was that Chinese. laundry boy"
said Jack. 81 went down to the
laundry to take Daddy's collars.
When gave The bundle to Ching Loo
he smiled all over ard then started
to laugh at me. He said, You white
people won't have a word to say when
President Wilson gets his world club
going" l said What do you mean?'
and he said, The yellow, black and
red people will run the world then l
guess you won't have anything to do
about it. Then got mad and just
punched him one"
"Jack," said Uncle Ted slowly,
"irst of all you should never lose your
temper and fight and second it SO hap
pens that the little Chinese boy was
right"
"You mean," inquired Jack in a
very surprised voice, 'that the white
people will be told what to do by peo-
pie like the Chinese boy if our Sem
ators agree to the Peace treaty and
the world club plan you told us about
the other day?"
"Yes," said Uncle Ted. "when
the club plan for the countries was
first written the members were to be
England, France, Italy, Japan and
the United States but later on many
other countries were named to te-
long and vote and do just as these /
have already named. The way the
plan is now there would be fifteen
white countries and seventeen coun-
tries of people belonging to the black
brown, yellow and red races. Since
each country has one vote you can
see that these dark countries with
two more votes in the club than the
white countries could make the white
countries do just what they want. A
very great many of the people ir
these countries can neither read moi
write. Many of them do not believe
in God but worship idols and some
Of them are so bad that they eat one
another.
"Ugh!" said Ruth who just came
in, What people do that?',
"Some of the people who live il
Liberia do that. Liberia would b.
, one of the members of this club. l
: is located on the coast of Africa an,
! the 100000 people who live ther
are all black. Most of them are un
able to read or write. Another coun
try that would vote just like the Unit
ed States is Haiti. The people ar
so bad that the Uuited States has t
| keep lots of our Marines there t
a keep order and protect American
, from being killed or robbed. Their
: are nearly as many people in Hail
n as in Liberia and there are more VIII
{ cannot read or write. Some. of ther
, worship idols too.
}. The people in nearly all these dar
; countries are not able to take care {
IS themselves and yet our Presidei
p wants the United States to join tn
s club and would let them have tt
e same rights that we would hav
n China is one of these countries ar
k so is Japan. China has over fo,
'e hundred million people and they al
r all yellow or of mixed races. The
it are more ignorant than some of Il
ID black races, yet they too, would ha,
,r one vote to the club. That is WI
'f the Chinese boy was right, Jack.
ii II haven't time to tell you abo
TX the rest Of the seventeen dark cou
TO tries but l will name theia and y,
r. can have Daddy look them up in q
at map for you some time. There is
iy little country called Hedjaz, most
ne whose people live in the desert ju
I'd as their people did 10000 years ae
nd Another country is Panama, We
small with fewer people than live
one of our large cities in the Unit
States, yet they would have one We
in the club, Honduras, little count
is down below Mexico has, we do
a know just how many people becar
ia they are so ignorant that they ha
lis no way of telling. Nicaragua,