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Show I Uncle Ted's Bftd - Time Stories K ttlUNti LOO IS WORRIED 1 JlllOUT Till: WORLD CLUR i "Hello kiddles," called Uuclo Ted Hj as ho en mo up tlio front steps. I'm Hf mighty glad to find you children play- H Ing quietly for onco." H Ruth was busily ongaged with hor K family of dolls and Jack was lo jIsiiik S1 on. Ho looked worried and didn't B Jump up ns usual when Undo sat H '"''? 'Hfe -lown In n big porch chair, H' lJfcjvhy look so glumj H "WpH, " ..TV4.TKS MAY T HH Mloean't school agreo WUn"-wiOr H' s summer of play?" asked Undo Tod. H( "Ah, I don't mind school so much," H' replied Jack, "but I was just feeling IH ', sorry tor Chlng Loo. You know his IHI lad runs the Chluoso laundry.." Hb "Why feel so sorry for Chlng H! Ioo?" laughed his uncle. "I thought Hf 7ou and Chlng hnd qutto a fuss not Hf long ago becauao he said the dor l countries would tun the world It tli H -world club clan gots going." H "Yes I know," wan Jack's reply, f "but Chlng and I havo made up. You H i-co he's all worried about something HHBj lso In this world club plan. He saya that It the. United States joins this HH club and his country should havo war H- -with Japan It would ruin hla dad's Hi luiBlnoBs because none of us or the H: others who havo tholr laundry dono JBHii t))ero yould ho allowed to do bUBt- Hj Jbcbb with, him. They would havo to HH close tholr laundiy. Is that iruo Un- HBH' joTcd?,r BftHijI "Yos Jack, I'm afraid Chlng Loo is HBj right again," answered his undo. HHHl ytoyr hero Is why Chlng is worried. HRj Suppoeo the world club plan la work- BHhh HHh -" sn r BH5?HBL f ... ' 1.1,1 .iHmbmmMSMM Ing and China starts war on Jni'tn , or on any other member of tho club. Tho minute China does that tin club plan says sho has also started war against every mombor f tho club Including In-cluding tho United States, and tho Chinese In this country would becomo what ar known as enemy aliens. T)n part of tho plan that Bays this Is Article 16, and If It happened, then tho real Americans .thoso born In this country or who aro real citizens called nationals, would bo forbidden to do any business of any kind with the citizens of China In this country. Dy citizens of China I mean Chlneso who live in this country but who aro not citizens of tho United Statoi. "How could thoy bo citizens of tho United States?" asked Ituth. "Only by being born In this coun-tiy. coun-tiy. Under our present laws If thoy woie botn In China they can novor be come citizens of the UnltadLsi-r' ' In fact nonoofJJme'oT'ir'i.-'oiaies'. I las-eH"' i6 yeuow race cm bo LKEiVrtTII-cohB of this country If they I wcro born In their own country. En-! gllsh, Irlsh.aermans and other pooplo of the. white races can becomo American Ameri-can citizens by signing certain i-ro.s .and promising to bo always faithful (to tho Unltod States, to uphold tho I Constitution and to cut off ill run nccvtlouB with tholr mother counvry Chlng la worried you see, because his father was born In China and cuno' b.o an Ameilcau citizen." "But Undo Ted," spoko up Jack, "that wouldn't hurt much would it? Thero aron't many people llko Citings dad In our country are thero " "Oh yes thero aro Jack. For In-stanco In-stanco on thp basis of tho government's govern-ment's figures Tor 1910 for tho number num-ber of pooplo In tho Unltod States which wo call population tlicro should now bo moro than 14,000,000 peoplo In this country who woro born In Bomo other country and moro t'.iin 35,000,000 either born In a&o hor country or of paronts who woro born outstdo of tho United States. SInco wo count the total number of peoplo In tfio Unltod States today as 100,-000,000 100,-000,000 you will see what a great . . I proportion of foreigners this Is. Of course, children a great many of tho peoplo Included In tho 14,000,000 who were born in another country, havo becomo citizens "Of the United States in way I have Just- told : ou, and they would not bo affected by this part of the world club plan. But oven whon we take away tho number of thoso who havo becomo citizens of our country or what wo call naturalized, natural-ized, wo still have a largo number of foreigners who are not cltlzons, nnd who would have to go out of business in this country If their mother country coun-try dedai ed war on any momber of tho club, Tho country having the largest number of their people In our country Is Germany. Ireland comes next, then IUiBsIn, then England Eng-land and then Austria," "What kind of a man Is It that runs the fruit store n,Jhe,'lrn"rJl asked Huth. "Ho is a Greek," answered Uncle Ted. "That brings up another ex-nmplo. ex-nmplo. Some day his country, Greoco may attack Bulgaria. The mlnuto sho does wo would havo tho same thing happen that I havo explained about China nnd Jap'an. Wo couldn't buy any fruit front him or from any Greok fruit store; we couldn't buy candy or lco cream from a Gieek candy stoio; wo couldn't eat any of our Ineals In a Greek lunch rvtni and I couldn't get my shoes shlncd In a Groek shoo shlno parlor. Thoro are Several tuousanu ureeKB in una countty and tho samo thing would happen all over tho United States. What would happon to thoso peoplo? Thoy couldn't earn a living They would cither bo shipped out of tho country or more likely bo locked up as tho Germans were during tho war to bo fed and clothed by money from taxes on our peoplo.' "Would thoso things happon In tho other countries, mouthers of the club?" asked Jack, "I don't think so, At least nothing noth-ing llko hero. You see, Jack, Amei-ica Amei-ica 13 different from any other country. coun-try. I have shotvn yju that we havo n um. 'iiiiiiii mill rn1 ii' i V"-' millions of foreigners here. Other countries only havo a very few, so few they don't count much." "I hope Ching's dad doesn't lose his buslnoss," said Jack. "So do I Jack. But tho only way to bo suro that none of those awful things happen is for us to keep out of this dangorous club and attend to our own business. It has always' workdd In tho past and the really big and great men can see no reason to change our plans now." |