The Glenwood post., 1923-05-03
uaele Tets Bed Time Stories
Current Events for the Children
and 0rown-ups, Too
"BEST IN THE WORLD"


"Well, what did you see in Wash
ington!' asked Ruth, as she and Jack
found Uncle Ted in the sitting room
after he had put away his travelling
bag and washed up after his long ride
on the train.
81 saw and heard lot of things,
and many of them quite interesting,
I think replied Uncle Ted. "You
know, l used to think of Washington
as spot on the map, and the only
definite idea l had of it was from the
picture of the Capitol we had in our
history when 1 was child. But after
several trips to Washington 1 begin
to think of the city instead of just
the spot on the map.
"While I was there this time, I
learned that a committee of congress
has just voted to report favorably on
a plan to add large tract of land to
the botanical gardens. The govern
ment already owns most of the land,
but will have to buy some more. The
tract is about two blocks wide and
seven blocks long, and, when it has
been turned into a botanical garden
the United States can have one of the
shrubs anywhere in the world. The
botanical garden at present covers
only about two blocks and things are
so crowded that there is not much
pleasure in visiting it. I would like
to walk up through the U. s. botanical
garden some day and say, BEST in the
world
"While was in Washington on this
trip, the annual congress Of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution VIZ
in session, and I attended the recepAoh
given by the officers. I thin that
organization, together with tie sons
of the American Revoluti-A' Is dong
wonderful work in building up patrr
otic feeling in re United states.
President Hardin delivered short
address at one of the sessions, and /
want to ore you one thing he said.
altbono. perhaps it was not the most
;mpo-tnt part of his speech. After
te,sng of the difficulties that beset
sne government after the revolution,
he said And yet here in America,
with so unpromising a beginning, we
have come to the point when think it
is no unseemly boas. to say that the
United States is one of the govern
mental models of the world-the high
est type of democracy on EARTH.
You see, l have the same idea
President Harding has Best in the
world
But there are a lot of people in
the United States who do not think
this S the best government or that we
have anythin. here that is worth
praisiag or retaining. There are lot
,of people here who think the govern
ment of Russia is better than ours.
They are against our government,
our system of ownership of property,
against our railroad system, which IS
the best in the world, and against our
schools, our churches, our newspapers,
AID practically everything else. And,
strange to say, many of those people
who seem to be against everything
American are not all foreigners, by any
means. lot of them were born here
in America, but they are traitors in
their hearts. Why, while I was in
Washington on this trip, 1 was in a
group of people who were talking about
the war, and one of the women boast
ed that she did not do a thing to help
The war--not even knit socks or sweat
ers. Ana she was born in this country,
too.
"Just the week before I was in
Washington this time, some policemen
had arrested lot of radicals who had
been conducting agitation against the
United States. I don't know whether
they had committed any actual crime
or not-probably they had been careful
not to do anything they could be pun
ished for. But while I was there, the
cases of those men came up in court,
and what do you suppose they did
claimed protection under the Constitu-
ton of the United States That is