Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-09-09
MUCH FOOD and
MACHINERY WASTED
REPORTS SUBSTANTIATED THAT
ACRES OF MATERIAL ARE
BUSTING IN BROOKLYN

There he is, there he isl called
out Ruth as she and her brother
were watching every coach of the
long train pulling into the station to
see who would be the first to locate
| Uncle Ted
That's him all right" said Jack.
You win."
Hello kiddies,' called their
uncle. as he jumped from the last
coach. "I,knew you would be here
to meet me. How are you anyway?
1t seems a year since I saw you last
and it's only been week"
Were Just fine, Uncle Ted" an
swered Jack. But we want to
know all about your trip. You will
tell us story soon, won't your"
you bet I will. Right away.
We've got an hour before dinner so
we will take a ride through the
park and I can tell you a story
then"
After they were all settled in the
car with Uncle Ted's baggage packed
snugly away Uncle Ted said: 81
had a great trip but saw some
things that made me feel badly and
/ heard some things that make me
feel more than ever that the republi-
can party must be placed in power at
the election in November. 1 have
told you lot of stories about the
world club plan and I think both of
you understand that subject pretty
well.T / find in travelling around
that the real Americans have made
up their minds on that subject and
will never vote for man who favors
the United tSates becoming a mem
Der of the Wilson league. In fact
the subject seems to be settled. Gov
Cox realizes that fact, and for that
reason he is irving TO change the
subject and make the people listen
to lot Of fairy stories about the
money the republicans are supposed
to be spending for the election No
one is taking him seriously because
people realize that II he had any
thing worth while to talk about, IL
he could make real speeches show
ing why it would be a good thing to
join the world club, he wouldn't
waste time making up stories about
something he hasn't as yet been
able to prove. So, as say, most OF
the American people have made up
their minds on this world club bust
ness. They don't want il and they
won't have It,"
1.-The people are interested in the
way the democrats have wasted
money and thereby increased their
| taxes to the breaking point There
are hundreds of things along this
! line l could tell you about but | am
going to dwell upon some things /
saw with my own eyes. spent the
greater part of one day going around
what is known as the Brooklyn army
base. This base which is reached
by the subway from New York City
covers many acres of ground. 1t
was built during the war to store
foodstuffs and machinery to be ship
ped to Europe for our troops. There
is an immense concrete building and
many smaller buildings, several
large docks where the transports
loaded troops and supplies and line
after line of railroad tracks. There
are huge derricks, used to load the
ships, some of them finished and
some never completed.
''All of that was fine and as IL
should be, but where the democratic
way it is all being treated today. As
you go down long street before en-
tering the gates you see long tracks
with the rails rusting. After you
enter the gates one of the first
things you see is long lines of motor
trucks standing out in the open with
no covering whatever. Many of the
engines are not even covered by the
mi
trucks worth thousands of dollars
standing unprotected from the
weather with every inch of them
rusting away more and more each
day. Along the docks you see
piles and piles of material taken
from ships. / bet I could sell all
of that material just as junk and
make enough money so that would
not have to work again for mighty
long time. In these piles / saw
bath tubs, and life RATS and all man
ner of material containing large
quantities of metal"
why don't they do something
with it?" asked Jack
II don't know Jack. All of this
waste of machinery and metal is bad
enough but what / heard a sailor
who has made many trips across the
ocean with troops and who Is sta
toned at the army base now is far
worse. Apparently these store
houses still contain large quantities
of food stuffs. He told me that he
had seen huge barge loaded down
with rotten onions hauled into the,
bay from the docks and dumped oy-
erboard. He also saw barge loads
of rotten potatoes and canned goods
handled the same way. What
would we think of a grocer here at
home who let the food in his store
rot when people nearby were starv-
ing. Not much, would we. That
would be bad enough. But to think
of the war department controlled by
the democrats letting these food
stuffs rot with thousands OF people
right in Brooklyn and New York
starving? And then to take the
food and dump it into the oeean"
II think it is terrible" said Jack.
1T is worse than terrible Jack 1t
is criminal. And any party that
cannot run the branches of the gov
eminent better than that has no bus
mess being allowed one ounce of
power. Why, most of the freight
that is needed in the city of New
York could be handled right through
that army base with its immense
acreage of tracks and docking facil-