Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-10-09
UNCLE TED's BEDTIME STORIES
The World Club MIR. John w.
Davis and The Meeting at Genevs


something that I believe will interest
you tool" asked Uncle Ted as Jack
and Ruth gathered around after get
ting ready for Sunderland.
Il haven't had much time to think
about baseball today" said Jack.
Il suppose you enjoy being back
in school," said Uncle Ted.
Il don't mind at ALL" answered
Ruth. eve had lots of fun today at
recess playing some new games"
"Well, l can't say I'm crazy about
being back at school but guess I'll
get used to it."
ooh, so that's it," said Uncle Ted.
Anyone might think you were hum
dred years old to hear you talk.
"Be that as it may, I'm going to
tell you this story now, providing
that you promise me you will study
hard this winter and not tease me to
tell you stories when you have study
ing to do.
1--WE promise" said the kiddies.
~ don't have to go back and des-
cribe to you the world club plan of
which we used to talk so much. You
know much more about it than the
average person 1t has come up a
gain and our attention is brought to
it by the meeting in Geneva, Switzer-
land, and by the facts that John W..
Davis, the Democratic nominee for
the Presidency, has come out for it.
It seems hard to believe that Mr..
Davis would take such a strong stand
for the World Club when he knows
how the American people turned Mr..
Wilson down in 1918 and how they
defeated Mr.. Cox in 1920. We all
know the usual arguments against
this club. We know that membership
in it means mixing ourselves up in
every little European argument so
that we could never get out but now
comes the worst of all, growing out
of the meeting in Geneva. Can you
imagine what would happen if Ameri-
ca should get caught in the net that
has been made by this club? Remem-
Der that Europe's interest are NOT
ours and except to small extent
never can be ours.
"What has happened at Geneva Z"
asked Jack.
At Geneva, Jack, an English
delegation offered the use of the
British Navy to the World Club to
be ased anywhere they like, as | un-
derstand it, whenever war seems to
be threatened. Don't you recall when
we used to talk about this five years
ago that the two big objections to
the World Club were that for us to
join it would mean meddling by all
members in each others private af-
fairs and that it would then mean the
right to call upon the armies and ma
vies Of the member to do the other
fellows fighting whenever and where
ever the club said to go.
~ remember" said Jack, chat
those who believed in the club said
that wasn't so, tool"
eyes, Jack, but what do we see
today? we see, as the Washington
Post put it SO well in an editorial |
have here:
"fWe see Japan, one of the coun-
Gil powers of the League, insisting
that the covenant (the rules the club
goes by must be interpreted so as
to sanction international meddling in
the purely domestic affairs of other
nations, such as their immigration
and naturalization and land laws, and
withdraw from it altogether, unless
other acts of the League, if not to
threatening to withhold her assent to
that is done. And we see the great
majority of the members of the Lea
que voting to send the British Navy
and the French army a sin interna-
tional police force against any coun-
try in the world that shows itself an
"aggressor" by declining to obey the
Leagues Dictates
Now you see What we always said
and what those Republican Senators
meant when they fought Americas
joining this organization! We see
today those things actually happened
that were forcasted by the men and
women who fought the World Club.
Zone delegate to the meeting at
Geneva went so far as to say that
even if the United States of Ameri-
ca is not member of the club it
may be called an 'aggressor' if it
won't obey the orders of the club.
That would mean we would lay our
selves oper to attack by the navies
and armies at the disposal of the