The Glenwood post., 1919-10-11
uacle Tets Bed Tine Stories
Current Events For the Children
and 0rown-ups, Too
CHING LOO Is WORRIED ABOUT
THE WORLD CLUB

"Hello Eddies," called Uncle Ted
Is he came up the front steps. "I'rn
mighty glad to find You children play
ing quietly for once"
Ruth was busily engaged with her
family of dolls, and Jack was looking
on. he looked worried and didn It
jump up as usual when his uncle sat
down in big porch chair.
"Well Jack, why look 80 glum;
dossn' It school agree with you after
summer of plays" asked Uncle Ted.
"Ah, I don It mind school so much,"
replied Jack, "but I was just feeling
sorry for Ching Loo. You know his
dad r,."s the Chirese laundry"
"Why feel SO sorry *, Ching 100 '
laughed his uncle. "I 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, 1 know" was Jacks reply,
"but Ching and 1 have made up. You
80 he's all worried about something
else in this world club plan. He says
that if the United States joins this
club and his country should have war
with Japan it would ruin his dad IS
business, because none of us or the
other 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
Tedf"
eyes, Jack, I am afraid Ching is
right again." answered his uncle.
"Now here is why Ching is worried.
Suppose the world club plan is work
ing and China starts war on Japan or
on any other member of the club. The
minute China does that the club plan
says she has also started war against
every member of the club, including
the United States, and the Chinese il
this country would become what arc
known as enemy aliens. The part of
the plan that says this is Article Ie,
and if it happened, then the real
Americans, those born in this country
or who are real citizens called nation
ais would be forbidden to do any
business of any kind with the Citizens
Of China in this country. By citizens
Of China I mean Cinnamon who live 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 if they were
born in China they can never become
citizens Of the United States. In fact
none of the yellow race can become
citizens of this country if they were
born in their own country. English.
Irish, Gerans, and other people of
the white races can become American
citizens by signing certain papers aud
promising to be always faithful to the
United States, to uphold the Constitu-
ton and to cut off all connections with
their mother country. Ching is wor-
ried, you see, because his father was
born in China and cannot be an Amer
lean citizen"
"But, Uncle Ted" spoke up Jack,
that wouldn't hurt much, would itg
There aren't many people Like Ching's
dad in our country, are there2n
"Oh, yes there are, Jack. For m
stance, on the basis of the govern
ment's figures of 1910 for the number
of people in the United States which
we call population there should now
be more than 100000 people in this
country who were born in some other
country and more than $4,000, 900
either born in another country or of
parents who were born outside the
United States. Since we count the to-
tai number of people in the United
States today as 10o,00O,O0O you VII
see what a great proportion of for
eigners this is. OF course, children, a
great many of the people included in
the $4,000 900 who were born in an
other country have become 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 number of those who have become
citizens of our country, or what we
call 'naturalized,' we still have a large
number of foreigners who are not citi-
zens and who would have to go out of
business in this country if their moth
er country declared war on any mem
ber of the club. The country having
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