Milford chronicle., 1922-06-02
UNCLE TED'S
BEDTIME STORIES
AMERICAN GOODS IN AMERICAN
STORES

1t was one of those warm, early
summer evenings. The sun had been
beating down all the day through, as
if it wanted to make up for lost time
during the long winter months. There
had been no rain for over a week and
the grass, flowers and nice green
things in the garden were very, very
thirsty. Jack was out in front of the
house having the time of his life with
the hose. He had watered everything
about four times more than necessary
and Uncle Ted was calling him from
the rear of the house.
Jack! Oh, Jack!" he called, "Hur-
ry up and bring that hose back here
so l can water the garden"
After much effort and struggle with
the pipe connection, Jack finally man
aged to get the hose around the house.
That's the boy" said Uncle Ted, as
Jack made the connection and turned
on the water. It'll be dark in about
two shakes and then you kiddies will
have to trot along to bed. If you'll call
Ruth back here I'll tell you story
while I finish giving the garden a
drink"
The three chums were soon seated
on the back step, while Uncle Ted
held the hose in one hand and sprayed
the water back and forth over the gar
den.
Jack, I heard you telling Freddie
today what he should do, and you
were very positive and to the point,
too. Now I'm not scolding you but L
want to make point of what happen
ed so that I can better make you un-
derstand the relation of business to
government. What you said to Fred
die may have been true enough but
remember, you must be right your
self. You must set your own house in
order before you have any right to
tell Freddie what to do. It is just as
President Harding said to a great
crowd of American business men
gathered in the National Capital re-
cently-I know you are interested in
world restoration. So is your govern
ment. But I beg to remind you we
must always be right at home before
we can be very helpful abroad. I do
not know of anything that would help
more than to give to the work an
example of a commercial nation with
an abiding conscience.
president Harding is right from
more than one standpoint. If our bus
mess men are not honest in all their
dealings and if they do not set the
right example to the rest of the world,
we cannot be in a position to tell the
rest of the world what and how they
should do. That is one phase of the
question. The other is that we are
big, busy, wealthy country. We have
enough and more to do to keep this
country going right. President Hard
g-Congress-th Cabinet-the State
G overnOrs-Mayors and one or two
private citizens here and there can
not make things move in the right di-
rectiOn unless everybody makes up his
mind to PUSH and HELP THE
OTHER FELLOW, CONSCIENTIOUS
LY AND HONESTLY. If we do that
we are doing more for the rest of the
world than by joining all the World
Clubs and Genoa Parties you can
think of. The world is divided into two
parts these days: The United States
of America and Europe. At least they
are the most of the two parts in my
opinion. Europe has her problems. We
have ours. We should attend to ours
and she should attend to hers. And if
we attend to ours in the right way we
will be of more genuine help to Euro
pc than in any other way. This is
plain enough to me. Trade is the real
bond between countries and if we are
honest in our trade then we really