Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-08-21
UNCLE TED TELLS
ANOTHER STORY
JACK AND RUTH MUCH INTER
ESTED IN TED'S STORY OF
COLORED RACES IN CLUB


supper and was seated by the front
window reading the evening paper
when in rushed Jack, breathless and
with his hair mussed and what
looked very much like red nose.
Now what have you been up to you
little scamp" asked Uncle Ted. 1T
looks to me like my little Jack has
been fighting"
WELL" puffed Jack, you'd fight
too"
NO" answered Uncle Ted, 81
hope my fighting days are over, and
you know l have told you good lit
tie boys don't fight. Now tell me
/ what it was all about
1T was that Chinese laundry
boy" said Jack. IL went down to
the laundry to take dady's collars.
When l gave the bundle to Ching
/ Loo he smiled all over and 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 and 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,
"first of all you should never lose
your temper and fight and second it
so happens that the little Chinese
boy was right"
/ you mean" inquired Jack in a
very surprised voice, that the
1 ,,,b;ta naanla will ha tnld mhaf n do
by people like the Chinese boy II
! our senators agree to the peace
treaty and the world club plan you
/ told us about the other day."
eyes," said Uncle Tea. when
the club plan for the countries was
| first written the members were to be
England, Italy, France, Japan and
| the United States but later on many
other countries were named to be-
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
countries of people belonging to the
black, brown and yellow races.
| Since each country has one vote
| you can see that these dark coun-
! tries to do just what they want. A
very great many of the people in
these countries can neither read nor
write. Many of them do not be-
lieve 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 fthe people who live in
| Liberia do that. Liberia would be
one of the members of this club. 1t
| is located on the coast of Africa
and the 100000 people who live
/ there are all black. Most of them
are unable to read or write. An
other country that would vote Just
like the United States Is Haiti. The
people there are so bad that the
United States has to keep lots of our
Marines there to keep order and
protect Americans from being killed
| or robbed. There are nearly as
many people in Haiti as in Liberia
| and there are more who cannot read
or write. Some of them worship
| idols too. The people in nearly all
these dark countries are not able to
| take care of themselves and yet our
! president wants the United States to
join this club and would let them
have the same rights that we would
have. China is one of these coun-
tries and so is Japan. China has
over four hundred million people
and they are all yellow or of mixed
races. They are more ignorant
than some of the black races, yet
they too would have one vote in the
club. That is why the Chinese
boy was right, Jack"
II haven't time to tell you about
| the rest of the seventeen dark coun-
| tries but l will name them and you
can have daddy look them up on the
map for you some time. There is
little country called Hedjaz, most
of whose people live in the desert
just as their people did 10000 years
ago. Another country is Panama,
very small with fewer people than
live in one of our large cities in the
United States, yet they would have
one vote in the club. Honduras, a
little country down below Mexico
| has we don't know how many people
because they are so ignorant that
they have no way of telling. Mica
ragua, a neighbor to Honduras is
composed of the descendants of ma
tive Indians and negro slaves
brought there by the Spaniards
many years ago. There are not as
many people there as there are in
the city of Boston, yet they too
would have one vote. Guatemala,
a neighbor to Honduras on the
north is Just as bad and worse.
| Nearly all the people are Indians
and most of them cannot read or
write. Ecuador, another one of
the countries, down in South Ameri-
ca has over a million people of mix
| ed dark races. And so 1t is with
J the others: Bolivia, Peru and
/ Brazil. South Africa, one of Eng
lands colonies. apparently not able
to govern itself would be allowed a
vote in the club. Siam, a country
ruled over BY king whose word is
law, would share in the same rights
| and India, another colony Of Eng
land, unfit to govern itself would be
allowed a vote in this club"
But" said Jack. Daddy says
that some of those senators say that
these little dark countries will have
nothing to say in the club"
"Yes." answered Uncle Ted,
"some of them say that but Senator
Reed of Missouri, who has studied
this matter carefully says that IL
these countries have nothing to say
then those who want 1t admit that
the club is no good, that 1t is
failure and that those nations can
not be trusted. But the paper
which tells what the club will do
says that things which have to do
with nnnn. and ,unr in the world