Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-09-18
UNCLE TED IS
se STILL FAVORITE
TELLS MOST INTERESTING sTO-
RIES TO JACK AND RUTH
WHO LISTEN EAGERLY

TELLS MOST INTERESTING STO-
RIES TO JACK AND RUTH
WHO LISTEN EAGERLY
Children" said Uncle Ted, NOW
that you have both started another
school year / want to tell you about
something that ma, be brought up
in some of your classes. Do you
know what the United States will
receive for its share in winning the
war with Germany"
81 don't know for sure spoke up
Jack but yesterday one of the
boys said other countries that sent
soldiers to fight Germany would get
lots of land and money from Ger
many
well, you see il is this way"
continued Uncle Ted, after the war
was over each one of the coun-
tries that had been fighting Ger
many sent some of their big men to
Paris where for several months
they met, talked and decided what
each country should get. 1t was
decided that little Belgium should
be completely restored by Germany
and also that Germanv should pay
back all the money that Belgium
had to borrow from other countries
during the war. Great Britain
and France, according to the trea-
ty made by these men at Paris and
later signed by the German repre-
sentatives, will receive more land.
England, Japan, China and others
will have a lot more than they had
before the war, either in land or
money. Now while the United
States did not enter the war just be-
couse we wanted more land We all
thought that when the final arrange
ment had been made we might get
something to repay part of our loss
es and the money We spent. We
went to the rescue of France and
England at time in the war
when At LOOKED very much like
Germany NIGH win. Our whole
idea was to help to the limit and
bring The wa to an end as quickly
as possible "
"Eoesn't the United States get
anything " ;sksd Ruth, 'aftec all
our soldiers Sie?"
"I'm coming to that in a minute"
was Uncle Ted's reply. When tie
men from the several countries weDt
to Paris, President Wilson, as you
know, sent himself to represent the
United States. He had one idea
and that was to get all the other
men to help him form the world
club or league of nations. From
that time until today when he is
again away from his work in Wash
ington trying to get the people to
believe in this club, he has spent
nearlv every hour of his time on
this matter, and saying he believed
it more important than our own
government. This meant that in
Paris he had little time to help the
United States get something to make
up in part for the money the peo-
Pile had to raise BY taxes and bonds,
and until he talked with the big
senators the other day at the White
House I'VE didn't know what the
United States was TO get. Al that
meeting III II reply 10 a question. the
President sGic that the Intel States
may get an island called 'Yap' and
admitted that he had never heard of
/. before"
Where Is this island" asked
Jack
1T is located in the Pacific ocean
scgth of japan and about 500 miles
east of the southern part Of the
Philippine islands. II is such Il
small island that it looks like a pin
point on the map. 1t belonged to
Germany before the war and about
the only thing the United States can
do with it is to locate a wireless
station there. But here is the inn
oortant part of this matter that
want to explain to you. Many peo-
pie in this countr,- believe that we
should have made Germany give en-
ough either in money or land to pay
| for the sinking of the Lusitania
drowned. If the gift of the island
of zap is supposed TO pay us for the
loss of American lives on board the
Lusitania it is nothing but an in
| suit"
What kind OF people are there
on this island?' asked Jack
THAT is the bad part of it,
1 Jack" answered Uncle Ted. 1.-The
| island is verv old and the people
| lead a life something like the life
I of the Bolsheviks in Russia are
| living. The children belong to ev-
erybody instead of belonging to
their own father and mother like
you and Ruth. Instead of money
| like ours their money is made OF
stone and sometimes one piece OF
| 1t will weigh man. hundreds OF
| pounds. Married and unmarried
men belong to clubs where the
women are not allowed to go and
where the person who runs the club
| is woman known as the queen of
of the club. The food, drink and
clothes of these people all grow on
! trees. The men wear strings OF
pink shells around their necks,
which are loaned from one to an
other, and flowers in little holes in
| their ears Cuffs made of shells
are also worn. The women who
| live on this island wear a dress OF
leaves or fiber, and instead of a
veil such as is worn by the women
in Turkey, they must wear a tiny
cord of fiber about their necks all
the time.
Uncle Ted" said Jack. II don't
think il is right to treat our coun-
| try this way. If We were not 10
get any land or money from the
war then to give US this island
| looks to me is Just like making fun
of us.
THAT is just the point Jack" was
Uncle Ted's reply. 1T would