Milford chronicle., 1919-10-31
UNCLE TED'S
BED TIME STORIES
Current Events for the Children
and Ups, Tool
THE TREATY AND THE PEOPLE


rounded by her family of dolls
1--WE got It, I've got it, yelled JAG
at the top OF his lungs. A letter froI
Uncle Ted and I haven't opened it vel
Put down your dolls, Ruth, and wei
all.e
Jack and Ruth had been very sa,
because their Uncle Ted had gone fal
away on a trip through many States
and they knew he would not be back il
time forther usual story But now
Jack had found a big fat letter which
he knew was to help take the place ol
the story they loved so well TO hear
each week
What does he say?' asked Ruth as
she nestled close 10 her brothers side
He says, My dearest Riddles, be-
gan Jack, 81 have thought about you
a great deal and had hoped / could be
with you tonight, but since it is inn
possible / could not go to bed without
writing about a few things that l
thought would interest you very much
First of all, | have talked to a great
many people about the world club plan
and the peace treaty to find out just
what they thought about it. have
talked to the porters on the trains,
the railroad conductors, the Pullman
conductors, callboys in the hotels, the
young men and girls who sell cigars
in the hotels, hotel clerks, drug store
clerks, business men and travelling
men and 1 am happy to say that all
of them, except two, believe just as
you and l, that the world club plan
would be a mighty bad thing. They
all do not have the same reasons but
they all agree on one thing, and that
is, if we should have this world club
and the United States became a mem
Der we would have more and more
wars and we would have to help fight
the battles of every country in the
world.
The thing that has impressed me
the most in talking with all these peo-
pie is, that the most of them who are
against this plan belong to the same
political party that President Wilson
belongs to, the Democratic Party One
man owns a big store where they sell
all kinds of musical things. He voted
for Mr.. Wilson at the last election.
He says that Mr. Wilson had no bus
mess going over the Europe and mix (
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over there and trying to set up a new
government to run the world. And
for that reason he will, l am sure,
never again have anything to do with
belonging to Mr.. Wilson's
party. A travelling man was a little
easier about it and said that President
Wilson while in Europe was the innO-
cent victim of European shrewdness,
which meant that the men represent
ing the other countries had been
quicker and brighter.
lone thing 1 noticed, children, was
that although the most of the people
ieel that the club plan is wrong and
hat President Wilson was not true to
his country when he tried to tie us
I'D with Europe, they feel that the
Senate in Washington should settle
he peace treaty right away and that
hey should have done it long, long
lgo.. / have told these people this,
which will help you to understand !
90. If the big Senators in Washing
on had allowed the treaty to be set !
led long ago and in a big hurry, we
.ould never have found out that Eng
and would have six votes in the club i
md the United States one; we might G
lever have known that our vote would :
,e worth no more than the vote of .
iberia, a country in Africa, made uD :
f dark people, many of whom are can Q
Iibals; we might never have known /
hat our troops could be called out at I
nv time and sent to perform police /,
uty in all parts of the Old World. )
We have already, under the Supreme .
'ouncil in Paris, seen our Marines
anded on the Delmatian coast to fight
D a quarrel that was none of our bus h
ness. We have seen several thousand 4
our troops freezing in the cold and h
~ regions of Siberia. They have
cen landed in what is called Schles- 4
-ig-Holstein to help start tempor- :
ry government in a country with n
-hich we have no business meddling. :,
hey have been fighting with the Poles y
gainst the Lithuanians. If these
lings can happen under the Supreme
ouncil, what would happen under the
,ague? Anything and everything and
e would have been bound hand and
,ot had our Senator's settled the mat
n in a hurry without studying what b.
as best for the United States Of AM n
'ica and worrying about Europe last a.
Istead of first.
I'm one city where I have been the W
inisters had sent letter to their Sen n
.or asking him to vote for the world
ub plan because they are against in
ar. He wrote back that if they knew
hat the club plan provides they W
ould not ask him to do that Well, et
ley really hadn't studied it thorough w
and after they did they found that k,
Ie Senator was right and now be- m
eve most of them are against it. If ii
q nennle of this country would take ST
ore interest in this matter there I'll
ouldn't be the smallest chance for
e league of nations because ] find to
at Just as soon as they learn a lit hC
about it they are glad and not sorry
at the Senators have taken their ca
ne in settling the treaty. W
=" You remember. children, what | us
Id you about the fighting poet of
aly and how he had taken Fiume for VI
aly although President Wilson had tn
id at Paris that it must go to the
go-Slavs? Well, / talked to a clerk i'll
a shoe store about the league and in
said: "Why should we worry so pu
out 'Annunzio talking Fiume? The
,esident takes the stand that be- of
use he gave Fiume to Jugo-Slavia, We
lly must give it back. Why? It was
yer Mr.. Wilson's to give in the first tn
ace." And that is the way with all vii
ese things. They were never ours
r President Wilson'S to give or to
X in with in the beginning and if
had kept our hands off these things
would have been able to make De
ace with Germany long ago. Any
Law in settling the treaty can not be To
lmed on the Senator's They are Be