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Show 9 1 ' Lnce Fe Js Bed- ' II Time Stories 1 I ' BTlUKKfl.-WOlUC AND GKIUMXV H "Now whut (n. tho world is the B "I matter with Jack this Unlet You H I look ob it you loat your last friend. H & Como onl Hrace up and loll mo all H B About H f ' As usual It was Uncle Tod who, H l itoo'ltig his nophew with a face cloud- H 5 . cd' with gloom waa trying to bring H jj tack tho sunshine. H M "Ah, thero's nothing bo terribly H H wrong Undo Tod" answered Jack. H 'I "But I"vo just had another fuss B S with lloniian Schwartz, llo Is al- H R ways making mo noro tho way ho B talks about our country and thinks 1' I' - Germany Is about right. Ho doosn't ffi noorn to know that Germany was R licked to a frazzle and I'm tired of k tolling him. You boo this morning I being Snlurday I wont to buy somo Hjt & things to cat Tor mother. I don't H llko to go Into Schwnrtr's butcher H shop but they have hiic good meat. H So I watced until I thought Herman H i was gone anil then wont In. Hut H I llko ho always does ho had just gono H i in tho bark of the store and when 1 B l got, up io tho countor ho camo run- B nlng In 'Your country's in n flno A iiicsa,''ho ualdi 'After yo bueut Gor- Hff . many you stait fighting among your- BBff H selves. ,lf,,ypn(.don'itJwatc)i.out Ocr- Ji ninny will bo doing moio busings, 1i than tho United Slates. Ilor ivoik- 1 man arc working long hours each I day and rttli lots of goods stored B ' hwny stid Will very soon be icndy lto do busfnoMi with tho world. If , all thq woOiinon keep striking In BSu ' (his country there won't be anything BI f to BQ"' Wo11, r cours0 Undo Ted, B.l I I couldn't think of nnythong mean 1 ' enough to say and 1 didn't want to J ' fight because yoU'told 1110,1101 to, so Bt x J,mt t0,a n(ln t0 "l,lul lllB own H ' I business nnd wnlkcd out. Now what ' BSI I'm worrying about Is, was what ho B ft Ba,d ,rtle'" j ;'0f course, Jack," began his un- 11 Cle, as he draw up a chair, "Herman H I Bhould not talk that way, no mattor n how much iv what o sas may bo H f truc- Ho nlul Ia ffttlicr &ro llla,(1,1B Mf thoir living in thin country and thoy H uhould forgot Germany and ho loyal 9 3 Amerlcnns. Hut It so happens again HJk i that some ,or what ho says is true. B i I will explain the matter as best I Hi can. For a long time the jrjgf'. m i bor unions 1 iilhis counU.- aVQ l)ecn Hi ! BQlnB on strlkoy ,8 lf tlicy Hi v want moro moj or8horlor working HjhjW h0UrB jtfll. and their employers Hf8 $jf?iiat what they are gottlng is IHfl enough.' ley nult work, Wo nvoj I Hv ,J had strikcs ln tlllB countrv for yca,s I iH & nn dynr8 bul os n rul ",0" Imvo I IBf1- oca co'"1"01011 auletly and after a H HIB ' 'lm0 th0 lroUblea wer0 B0t,le(1 nnd HffiH tlio men went back to woilc as bo- H 'H fr0 1,ut (lurlnT lh0 P,8t ycar' e8' BfH pec'lally Jilnco tlic end of tho war, tho BjHH -Vjirloua' unions hnvo boon striking BuffH .nnd somo or their members who act HhBJ llko ,ho uoItkevlkB of Uussla or tho H "lods, na'alwy vure sometimes called, IHI ,1l0U vuod bom,,a to b,ow un n.ouscs; BJIjHn 'have fought on tho stieets and do KBm ptroyed propperty In general. Thoy HtHB nr 110t nl ltlmt wny 1)Ul "ianyof BjD 'them go so far as to threaten to BlHV destroy ourgovernment, lllght now BXBjB there aro onto 300 strikes going oti KB ln ,ho Unltod States. A great many BH of the men who work In tho steel BJBj millB nro striking and rioting. Troops BBBfl ' fhnd to bo callod out ln Gary, Indla- BB na, a big, steel town, to protect pro- BB porty nnd tho lives of the people BBBT 'Tlio soldiers found many of theso HB nedB tbrc wli woro tryinB to ov' B -'tfthrow the govornment. Tho men H who work on tho plcro in Now York BBBJ i City whero the sips aro unloaded and B -, .olnded aro on strike. That means BB tying up tho food that Is coming and HB gojng. And so It Is thocountry ov- BBMij or; xiio laboring men aro getting ifi'' bigger wages and shorter hours than J before, yet they want moro and moro inonoy and want to work less and t V less, hours.' BBJjj "What appens tt le things theso BrJ men make or ,do Wjftii they , are Bp feV - by&bv striking?" asked Uuth who had just returned from play. "That Is tho worst part of It, Iluth," answered her uncle. "While all of theso men aro away from thoir work causing troublo they aro not producing. They go on eating anJ living but thoy aro not giving any-thin any-thin gto their country In return, flow right hero is whero tho things Hor-mau Hor-mau Schwartz said como ln. Men who know moro about tho condition of things In Uuropo and especially ln Germany than myself, say that within ton yoars Germany will bo on tho samo business basis sho wob bo-foro bo-foro tho war. That means sho is working very hard because tho country coun-try was torn to pieces after tho years of fighting. Sho has groat quiidntl-ties quiidntl-ties of manufactured goods stored away and tho plants whoro things to soil are made, were pplauuod so that they could stait them going Just nr soon as peace came. All of tho Gor-nam Gor-nam Hoi'iiitti, (hu laborers and mechanics me-chanics ate without' being told, work lug at leant ton hours over dny when most of ours aro not working moro than eight hours mid many of thorn less. Our men uro striking for short-o' short-o' Iioiiih mid moro money right ut a Uuie Tvlien tho only thing that will .Savn tlio country Is for everybody to i forget thoir Belflsht interests and owrk hard nnd produco, In largo iiuaiitliius. ' ' "Uut, Undo Ted, what has Germany Ger-many got Io do with us uvea lf sho Is working harder," asked Jack. "'Just this. Tho German money Is ji k.i. m-i. it Is to tho advalita.Ro of) other countries to buy tho material sho has roady for tho market. If I she has goods ready because sho Is working day and night with all her enorgy then so can soli to tho world whlio wo aro not ouly going to sleep but havln ga labor war right In our own country. You sco that Is what Germany Is doing while In this country coun-try tho chlof Inbor leader says 'I will tlo up every Industry in tho Unltod J tSatos by ordering all workmen who bolong to tho unions to rjult unless J you give us what wo want.' JP'Tr. ! icndor to thono,,,,! mcan ,hat "''""oToW people in tho Unlt-I ifiSatos would toll nearly 100,000,-1 100,000,-1 000 peoplo what they would or would not do, Tho great lesson to all 'of this Is that nolthor Congress hi Washlntgon nor tho state ldw making bodies can solvo tho situation. Tho real, truo American m on who think I and' act llko tho great oHosovclt, must meot tho sltuatlo nand get rid of tho bad foreign group of men and womon who at presont scorn to havo control of labor. Wh6n wo saw wo had to go to war with Germany practically prac-tically every man, oniau and child was loyal. Tho men went to fight, tho money was gjven for guns, builds bui-lds and shells and wc beat Germany. Tho samo danger from Gormany Is with us again. Only this tlmo it Is simply of another kind. Wo must 'meet it with the samo spirit or wo nro lost as a country. It Is not mon-'jcyj mon-'jcyj not llvo stills tlmo that will cftuny i ''Well, I guess wo will show Herman Her-man u fo wthings," said Jack. "Wo just must work and produco and I for ono will holp by telling ovory-I'body ovory-I'body I can." |