Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-10-02
COUNTRIES WOULD
BE IN DANGER
CHILDREN MUCH INTERESTED
. IN WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
TO THE MEN IN THEU. s.

Hello, kiddies," called Uncle
Ted as he came up the front steps.
I'm mighty glad to find you chill
dren playing quietly for once"
Ruth was buisly engaged with
her family of dolls, and Jack was
looking on He looked worried and
didn't jump up as usual when his
uncle sat down in a big porch chair.
well Jack, why look so glum,
doesn't school agree with you after
summer of play" asked Uncle
Ted. 49,.
"Ah, l don't mind school so
much" replied Jack, but was
just feeling sorry for Ching Loo.
You know his dad runs the Chinese
laundry"
why feel so sorry for Ching
Loo?" laughed his uncle. II
thought you and Ching had quite
fuss not long ago because he said
the dark countries would run the
world If the world club plan gets
going"
Eyes, / know" was Jacks reply,
You see he's all worried, about
oohcthiuS cisS IA lhiS WOilu Ciuo
plan. He says That If the United
States joins this club and his coun-
try should have war with Japan it
would ruin his dads business, be-
cause none of us or the others who
have their laundry done there would
be allowed to do business with
him. They would have to close
their laundry. Is that true Uncle
Ted?"
Eyes, Jack, I'm afraid Ching is
right again" answered his uncle.
Now here is why Ching is worried.
Suppose the world club plan is
working and China starts war on
Japan or any other member of
the club. The minute China does
that the club plan says she has al
so started war against every mem
Der of the club, including the United
States, and the Chinese in this coun-
try would become what are known
as enemy ALIENS. The part of the
plan that says this is Article 16,
and il it happened, then the real
Americans, those born in this coun-
try or who are real citizens called
nationals would be forbidden to
do any business of any kind with
the citizens of China in this coun-
try. BY citizens of China we
mean Cinnamon in this country but
who are not citizens of the United
States"
How could they be citizens of
the United States?' asked Ruth.
"Only by being born in this
country. Under our present laws
IL they were born in China they can
never become citizens of the United
States. In fact none of the yell
low race can become citizens of this
country il they were born in their
own country. English, Irish. Ger
mans, and other people of the white
race can become American citizens
by signing certain papers and prom
ising to be always faithful to the
United States to uphold the consti-
tuition and to cut off all connection
with their mother country. Ching
is worried, you see, because his
father was born in China and can
not be an American citizen"
But Uncle Ted spoke up Jack.
that wouldn't hurt much would IT.?
There aren't many people like
Ching's dad in our country are
there?"
"Oh yes there are, Jack. For
instance on the basis of the gov
ernment's figures of 1910 for the
number of people in the United
States which we call population.
there should now be more than IA
900, 900 people in this country who
were born in some other country
and more than 100000 either
born in another country or of par
ents who were born outside the I'm
tied States. Since we count the
total number of people in the Unit
ed States today as 100. 100000 you
will see what great proportion of
foreigners this is OF course, chill
dren, a great many OF the people in
cluded in the 100000 who were
born in another country, have be-
come citizens of the United States in
the way have Just told you, and
they would not be affected by this
part of the world club plan. But
even when we take away the num-
Der of those who have become citiz-
ems OF our country, or what we
call 'naturalized, we still have a
large number of foreigners who are
not citizens and who would have to
go out of business in this country IL
their mother country declared war
on any member OF the club. The
country having the largest number
of their people i'm our country is
Germany Ireland comes next,
then Russia, then England and then
Austria"
What kind of man is 1t that