The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-08-21
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In rushed JACK, pTedthiese anu Wv"
his hair mussed and what looked very
much like red nose. NOW what
have you been up to you little scampF' J
asked Uncle Ted. at looks to me ike
my little Jack has been fighting"
'well," pulled Jack, YOU'D fight
tool"
mo. answered Uncle Ted, IL hope /
my fighting days are over, and you
know I have told you that good httie
boys don't fight. Now tell me what
II was ell about"
ct was that Chinese laundry boy
said Jack. 81 went down to the laun-
dry to take Daddy's collars. When
I gave the bundle to Ching Loo ne
smiled all over and then started TO
laugh at me. He said, You white peo-
pie won't have word to say when
President Wilson gets hi sword CLUB
going I said, What do yoN mean!
and he said, The yellow, black and req
people will run the world then ana
guess YOU won't have anything to DO
about It, Then I got mad and just
punched him one"
Jack, said Uncle Ted SLOWLY
"first of all you should never lose your
temper and fight and second 1t 30 nap
nano that the little Chinese boy was
right" 1HAl. =
"you mean" inquired Jack in
very surprised voice, that the white
people will be told what to do by peo-
nile like the Chinese boy If our Sena-
tors agree to the Peace treaty and the
world club plan you told us about the
other day."
eyes" said Uncle Ted. when the
club plan for the countries was nrst
written Xhe members were to be ENG
land France, Italy, Japan and the
United States but later on many other
countries we're named to belong ana
vote and do just as these l have al
ready named. The way the plan Is
now there would be fifteen white couh-
tr,es and seventeen countries OF peo-
nile belonging to the black, brown vel
low and red races. Since each couh-
trv has one vote you can see tha'
.,oso dark countries with two more
votes IN the club than the white couh
tr,es could make the white countries
do iiust what they want. A very grea'
many of the people in these countries
ran neither read nor write. Many o'
them do not believe In God put wor'
chin idols and some of them are so oat
tina, they eat one another"
"Ugh!" said Ruth who Just came III
What people do that"
"some of the people who live IL
: iberia do that. Liberia would DE OH
90 the members of thi club. 1t Is 10
Gated on the coast of Africa and 'h
Q 900 900 people who live there ar
all black. Most Of them are uhao'
n read or write. Another countr!
r that would vote Just like the onite'
states is Haiti. The people are b
nod that the United States has TO keel
lots Of our Marines there to keep OF
Y aor ond nrotect Americans from penn
e killed or robbed. There are near
"a many people in Haiti as IN Lioeri
and there are more who cannot rea
~ write Some of them worship IDOL
too The people in nearly all tines
dark countries are not able to YAK
care of themselves and yet our fres'
dent wants the United States 10 'oi
,b,s club and would let them have IN
same rights that we would have Ch'h
10 one of these countries ana SO
Japan. China has over tour nunare
million people and they are all yeno
d mr. of mixed races. They are mor
,enorant thhan some Of the plac
q races. vet they too would have on
vote in the club. That is why I'd
Chinese boy was right, Jack
S az haven't time to tell you about tn
l. rest of the seventeen dark countri'
It Int I will name them and you ca
have them and you can have Dadd
look them UP on the map for you sou
time. There is little country caile
s. Hediaz. most of whose people h'
Is in the desert Just as their people q
'e 10 900 years ago. Another country
v Panama, very small with fewer peop
:, than live In one of our large cities
the United States, yet they would ma
- the vote in the club, Honduras a IL
lie tie country down below Mexico III
re we don't know just how many Peep
l. because they are SO ignorant that tn
IL have no way of telling. Nicaragu
neighbor to Honduras Is compos
~ of the descendants of native lndia
n and negro slaves brought there by
st Standards many years ago. There u
ho not as many people there as there
~ in the city of Boston, yet they
:, would have one vote. Guatemala
. neighbor of Honduras on the north
ny i,st as had and worse Nearly all
people are Indians and most OF TN
can not read or write. Ecuador
ots other one of the countries, down
South America, has over mill
people of mixed dark races. And 81
Is with the others; Bolivia, Peru
ner Brazil. South Africa. one OF Englai
Ii. A.