Milford chronicle., 1919-10-03
UNCLE TED'S
BEDTIME STORIES
Current Events for the Children
and Grown-Ups, Too!
CHING Loo is WORRIED ABOUT
THE WORLD GLIB

THE WORLD CLUB
Hello, kiddies." called Uncle Ted as
he came up the front steps. m
mighty glad to find YOU children play
ing quietly for once.
B Ruth was busuy 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 the big porch chair.
"WelL Jack, why look so glum;
doesn't school agree with you aIter
summer OF play?" asked Uncle Ted.
"Ah. / don't mind the school so
It much" replied Jack, "but l was Just
:, feeling sorry for Ching Loo. You
-@know his dad runs the Chinese laun-
,NSdryH c,.,u1oooa o.
Igrghed his Uncle Il thought you
ANA Ching Loo had quite fuss not
long ago because he said the dark
fCcountries would run the world If the
Sclub plan gets going
~. Yes, l know" was Jacks reply
M'but Ching and / have made up. You
hissee. he's all worried about something
mEselse in this world club plan. He says
oSsthat if the United States JOINS TINS
eadclub and his country should have war
1aPwith Japan il would ruin ms DAD
'sNbusiness. because none Of us or the
eauothers who have their laundry done
youthere would be allowed to do business
oDwith him. They would have to close
bl.their laundry. Is that true, Uncle
h,Ted?'
and Eyes. Jack. I'm afraid Ching is right
again" answered his Uncle Ted. NOW
Alhere is why Ching is worried. sup
the world club plan is working
and eChina starts war on Japan OF on
anv other member of the club. The
minnie CHINA does that the club plan
savs she has also started war against
syerv member of the club, including
e he United States, and the Chinese IN
y his country would become what are
xnown as enemy aliens. The part OF
he plan that says this is Article 10,
and if it happened, then the real AM
.ricans. those born in this country or
Who are real citizens called nationals
you'd be forbidden to do any business
If anv kind with the citizens OF emma
This country. By citizens of China
mean Cinnamon who live in this
country but are not citizens OIL lhe
United States"
Glow could they be citizens OF the
United States 2" asked Ruth.
"Only by being born in TINS country.
Under our present laws II they were
,orn in China they can never become
itizens of the United States. IN Iacl'
,one of the yellow race can become
itizens of this country II they were
.orn in their own country English,
rish, Germans, and other people u
he white races can become American
itizens bv signing certain papers and
PROMISING to be always faithful 10 the
m un1OIQ the NJOnSll-
ution and to cut off all connections
h their mother country. Chlng IS
} swrried. YOU see, because his father
Sps born in China and cannot be an
merican citizen"
But Uncle Ted" spoke up Jack,
chat wouldn't hurt much, would it,?
here aren't many people like Ching
ad in our country, are there
ooh, yes there are, Jack. For in
lance. on the basis of the govern
ment's figures of 1910 for the number
of the people in the United States,
which we call population, there should
now be more than 14,000,000 people IN
this country who were born in some
other country, and more than 3d.
100000 either born in another country
or of parents who were born outside
the United States. Since we count
the total number Of people in the
United States today as 100,OOO,OOO, you
will see what a great proportion Oh
foreigners this is. OF course, children
a great many of the people included
in the 14,000,000 who were born IN
another country have become citizens
of the United States in the way | have
just told you, and they would not De
affected by this part of the void club
Dat rrba take aW1V
the number of those who have be-
come citizens of our country, or what
we call 'naturalized', we still have
large number of foreigners who are
not citizens and who would have 10
go out of business in this country II
their mother country declared war on
any member of the club. The coun-
try having the largest number OF their
people in our country is Germany
ireland comes next, then Russia, then
England and then Austria"
.'What kind of a man is it that runs
the fruit store on the corner| asked ?
Ruth.
HE is a Greek" answered Uncle +
Ted. "That brings up another exam
Pile Some day his country, Greece ,
may attack Bulgaria. The minute she
does we would have the same thing
happen that | have explained about +
China and Japan. We couldn't but
any fruit from him or rom any Greek .
fruit store; we couIdn buy CaHuy u
ice cream from Greek candy store,
we couldn't eat any meals in Greek
lunch room, and 1 couldn't get my {
shoes shined in a Greek shoe shine
parlor. There are several thousand
Greeks in this country and the same !
thing would happen all over the Unit =
ed States. What would happen to
these people? They couldn't earn .
liyingi They would either be shipped
out of the country or more likely be p
locked up as the Germans were during n
the war. to be fed and clothed by
money from taxes on our own people. r
Would these things happen IN the r
other countries, members Of the club?' +
asked Jack a
Il don't think so. At least nothing n
like here. You see, Jack, America IS u
different from any other country 4
have shown you that we have MIL
lions of foreigners here. Other coun-
tries only have a very few, so few that
they don't count much
Il hope Ching's dad doesn't lose ms
business" said Jack.
$50 do l, Jack. But the only way to
be sure that none of these awful
things happen is for us to keep out
of this dangerous club and attend to {
-. -,,.., b,,sipaee II has ALWAYS work y