The Glenwood post., 1923-07-05
Uacle Ted's Bed Time Stories
Current Events for the Children
and Grown-ups, Too
BETTER BUSINESS, BUDGET
AND BATTLESHIPS

eff he really wanted to work there
is plenty of it to do" said Freddie
to Jack, discussing one of the men in
town who was always loafing and |
saying he couldn It get any work.
"You bet there is plenty Of work,
Uncle Ted told me that President
Harding said not long ago that there
was plenty of work for every man in
the United States.'
"That is quite different from the
position we were in when President
Harding went into the White House."
said Uncle Ted, who had joined the
circle of kiddies.
"You children will possibly remem-
Der that at that time there were mil
lions of men out of work and every
one was going around worrying and
wondering what was going to become
of our country. Today the reverse is
true. We should be mighty thankful
for a business administration at Wash
ington that has record of accomp-
fishing three great big things
"What are they?" asked Jack.
fMost important of all, I believe,
was the enactment of Republican
tariff law that prevented foreign
countries sending their goods here at
prices that would ruin our industries.
Even as it is, we are buying more
abroad than we did last year. II the
taxes on imports had not been in
creased, we would now be buying
twice as much abroad and our own
industries would be ruined Next in
Importance was the saving of public
money under the budget system and
the efforts of President Harding and
his assistants to economic in public
expenditures. Third, l would say, the
great Washington arms conference,
resulting in the first definite business
like agreement between nations as to
the reduction of weapons of war, and
cific. On this third point I want to
tell you few interesting facts.
"The countries that signed the
Washington armaments treaty are pre-
pairing to scrap some of their big
ships in accordance with its provisions
and use the metal in them for the
manufacture of articles for peace
time use. Only the approval of
France is needed to make the treaty
effective and to start the scrapp,ng.
Instead of killing people, the great
ships will be melted up and turned
into plows, rails, engines, etc. Just
think what it means to our country
and to the world to have inspired a
treaty that fixes the limit of size and
number of big and expensive battle
ships that the more powerful nations
can have. 1t put an end to competi-
tion in those ships and saved billions
of dollars to the taxpayers all over
the world.
"A As for the prosperous condition
of our country today, 1 want to tell
you some of the things President
Harding said recently when he was
in the state of Delaware. He said:
" The United States has got
back to work and that's a good
sign. 1t is necessary always that
we all dig down and do our best,
that we may hand down a better
heritage. In doing this we have
given an example to the world of
what may be done by digging in,
and let us hope that the world
will gain something from our ex.
ample
And we have given the rest of the
world a good example, kiddies. It is
something of which we may be proud
and for which we can thank those
who have worked long and hard Mt
Washington TO bring about a healthy
condition in this great country of
ours. heard big business man
talk the other day, man who has
Travelled all over the world within the
last year and half. | asked him
about certain of the countries and
how they were getting aTong-coun.
tries that were in the war. as our.