Milford chronicle., 1920-09-10
UNCLE TED'S
BEDTIME STORIES
FOOD AND MACHINERY WASTED
BY DEMOCRATS ACRES OF
MATERIAL RUSTlNG In
BR00kLlN.

There he Is, lilefe Ae ~ N"AAcN ot'
Ruth as she and her brother were
watching every coach OF the long tram
milling into the station to see VINO
would be the first to locate Uncle Ted.
That's him all right said Jock.
"You win"
.Hello kiddies," called their Uncle,
as he jumped fdom the last coach. 4
knew you'd be here to meet me. How
are YOU anyway? 1t seems a year
since l saw you last and its only been
week.
Were just fine, Uncle Ted" an
swered Jack. But we want to know
all about your trip. You yill tell us
story soon. won't yOu:'
You bet l will Right away.
We've got an hour before dinner so we
will take a ride through the park and
can tell you a story then.
After they were all settled in the
COR with Uncle Ted's baggage packed
snugly away Uncle Ted said, Il had
Great trip but 1 saw some things that
made me feel badly and heard some
things that make me more than ever
mat the Republican party must De
rIoced in power at the electlOh III
November. 1 have told you a lot OF
stories about the world club plan ana
think both of you understand that
eubiect pretty well 1 find in travelling
aroI,nd that the real Americans have
nada nm their minds ON that SUBJECT
md will never vote a man who faVOrs
tbe United States becoming member
If tbe Wilson league. In fact the
subject seems to be settled. Governor
GOV realizes that fact, and for that
reason he is trying to change the SUD
iect and make the people listen to
iot of fairy stories about the money
the Republicans are supposed to De
snending for the election. No one Is
taking him seriously because people
realize that if he had anything worth
while to talk about, if he could make
raaI speeches showing why it would De
good thing to join the world clup'
ba wouldn't waste time making up
stories about something he hasn as
vet been able to prove. So as l say,
most of the American people nave
made ND their minds ON this world
Climb business. They don't want II ana
they won't have it.
"Tbe people are interested IN the
vvov the Democrats have wasted moh-
ev and thereby increased their taxes
to tbe breaking point. There are hun
dreds of things along this line L coulu
fell YOU about but l am going to dWeH
upon something 1 saw with my own
eves | spent the greater part OF one
dav going around what is known as
Rroollvn Army Base. This base
which is reached by subway from New
York City, covers many acres OF
ground. 1t was built during the war
TO store food stutfs and machinery 10
be shipped to Europe for our troops.
,Tbere is an immense concrete building
and many smaller buildings, several
largo docks where the army trans
Dorts loaded the troops and supplies
and line after line of railroad tracks.
There are huge derricks, used to load
the ships. some of them finished ana
-some. .never. completed.
An Of thaf was line ana as II shoulu
he but where the Democratic waste
and neglect comes in is in the way II
Is nh being treated today. As you go
down along street before entering the
Gates Won see long tracks with the
rails 1usting Two or three coaches
stand on one track, marked IOr uue
Medical Department, and they are rot
ing and rusting. After you enter the
Gates one of the first things you see
is long lines of motor trucks stand
ing out in the open with no covering
whatever Many of the engines are
NOT even covered by the usual hoOd'
There they stand, trucks worth thous-
ands of dollars standing unprotected
from the weather with every men OF
them rusting away more and more
each dav. Along the docks you see
piles and piles of material taken from
ships bet l could sell all of that
material lust as junk and make enou-
oh money so that 1 wouldn't have 10
work again for a mighty l Ong time.
In these piles l saw bath tubs ana
life rafts and all manner OF materlai
containing large quantities OF metal.
"Why don't they do something Wlth
it?' asked Jack.
.T don't know Jack All of this waste
of machinery and metal is bad enou-
oh but l heard from a sailor VINO mas
made many trips ACROSS the ocean
with troops and who is stationed at
the Army Base now is far worse:
Apparently these store houses sum
contain large quantities OF 1Ood sIulis.
He told me that he had seen nuse
barge loaded down with rotten oIlohs
hauled out into the pay from tho NeNN9
go 1-=-....aa overheard 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 starving
Not much. would we? That would be
bad enough. But to think of the war
Department controlled by the Demo
Gratis letting these food stuffs rot WIN
thousands of people right in Brooklyn
and New York starving. And then to
take the food and dump it into uhe
canal
II think it is terrible" said Jack,
1T is worse than terrible Jack.
It is criminal And any party that
can run the branches of the Govern
ment better than that has no business
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 facilities. This is just
one place that 1 know of where things
are going to ruin through Democratic
neglect How many more there are it
is hard to tell"
SHAWNEE