Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-14
Four-P Treaty
First of a Series OF "Current
Event Discussions for Chill
dren" That Will Appear
Weekly in The Perth Amboy
Evening News.
"Four-Power Pacific treaty"

You've heard Dad say those tour
i words many times, haven't you!
You've seen him look up from his
newspaper and tell Mother this four
| power Pacific treaty is before the
United States Senate right now for
ratification"
That sounded very hard. didn't
it?
But it isn't really hard at all. It's
just as simple as the school lessons
] you had in last years grade-the
/ ones that seem so easy now.
And II you read this article to the
| end. you'll know just as much about
the Horsepower treaty and ratiica-
ton as Dad or Mother-or your
teacher!
What 1t Is
Now, first of all. what is the four
power treaty?
Suppose you had a sack Of fine
marbles-pig green agates and cloud
ed ones, too-and one of your
| friends had a baseball bat and an
| other had a. radio outfit and your
| sister had a set of water colors.
And suppose you all were jealous
| of each other and each wanted the
| things the others owned.
And besides that. suppose there
were several rough children who
| might pick a fight with you just to
take your things away.
Then you and your two FRIENDS
and your sister might get together
and make promises. You might say:
Were all fond of the things we
own. We promise that not one of
us will take anything away from an
other of us.
Band Together
"And We promise that il these
rough children try to take anything
away from any one of the four CT us
all of us will keep them away. Each
of us promises to protect all the
rest of u.s."
Now, that's just what the four
power Pacific treaty is. For the
problems of great nations aren't
much different from the probe ms
children, meet every day.
The four-power Pacific treaty is
an agreement or promise between
four nations-the United States,
Great Britain, Japan and France.
Our country has much trade or
business in the Pacific Ocean. 1t
owns islands there. too. :
And Great Britain has much land
in the Pacific. France has a coun-
try called Cochin-China.
And all of Japan's land is in the
Pacific Ocean.
Washington Meeting
These countries think just as
much of their land and islands as
YOU and your friends think of your
marbles, bat, radio set or water
colors. and they don't want anyone
to take their land away from them.
So men from these countries met
at Washington last year to sign the
four-power Pacific treaty. The treaty
says: ..
getting into a fight and to make sure
we keep the land we own.
IF any OF us get into a quarrel,
we promise that all of us will hold
a meeting and try to settle the quar-
rel without any war.
"And if any other country picks
on any of us four, we promise Q
hold a meeting and make up our
minds how we can keep that
try from taking our land away.
To last 10 Years
"We'Il keep these promises 10
wears. Then any of us can be freed
from his promise by giving a years
notice."
Now, that's all there is to the
Horsepower treaty. Easy, isn't it?
But what does Dad mean when he
talks about ratification"
Well, to ratify means to approve
or to say Its all right"
The government or the people or
each country that signed the treaty
must ratify the treaty-must say:
.aThe treaty's all right; We'll live up
to it,"
And our Senate, which has the
power to ratify treaties for the
United States. is making up its mind
now whether it will ratify the u
power treaty.
Now. do you understand?