OCR Text |
Show t CURRENT EVENTS! A Simplified Discussion of Topics of Interest for . Children and Busy Adults. Today's Subjects: k 1, Army of Occupation; 2, Coal Strike; 3, Ger- m man Indemnity. L 1RM1 I2f OERMANI 1 President Harding has ordered Secretary Sec-retary of War Weeks to bring home the soldiers wo have kept Od the Rhine River In Hermans since the end of the World War The soldiers are called "Ihe American Ameri-can Army of Occupation ." It has always been the custom of victors In wars to send armies to Camp on the land of the defeated country to see to it that the defeated de-feated country lived up to Its agreements. agree-ments. Tho custom was followed by Great Britain. France Belgium, Italy and the l'nited States when thy defeated Germany in the wprld war. Tho American Army of Occupation camped In a region of Which 'he German Ger-man city of CoblenS was tho center. cen-ter. Coblenz is a very old city. It was standing in the days when th' Romans Ro-mans fought ihe Germanic tribes shortly before and after the birth of Christ. Coblens has a population of about 58,000. That's about 16,000 more people peo-ple ihan Ogden has. There are about 4000 soldiers in th American Army of Occupation. All will be brought home before July 1. Secretarv of War Weeks believes. Why are we bringing our soldiers home-. Probably io save money. 'Mir r-ns i-rnmoii ' p-i i - i h allies al-lies to pay the expenses front money COllei ted from Germany, but the allied al-lied commission In charge of seeing that Germany pays Its debt to the allies does not seem willing. THE COAL si RULE It now seems probable the the greatest great-est coal strike In the history of our country will begin April 1. The l'nited Aline Workers of America, Am-erica, a miners' union, has ordered 600,000 miners in all parts of this country and part of Canada to cense work. These miners are employed botb in hard and soft coal fields. That means thut all coal mining will stop except In fields where mln- M ers do not belong to the union The strike, if long enough contln 11 ued. may result In shutting down hundreds of factories and throw-1-thousands of men out of work, for V. factories must have coal to operate. Tho miners are striking because tM tnoro not satisfied with their pa They nfake an agreement on pa 3 from time to time and that wage SBI stands until the next meeting The-agreement The-agreement with the employers runs March 31 The union miners sy: inn pay Is low while the COS H 111 ing In nilnlnc towns is high OUV V bosses mado Mk profits during the H war and they Can afford to pay us well W n c, ff W In IO20 our pa) was onh 1500 1 1 year We need 2248 a year to live " comfortably In a mining town " . The operators, or men who run the k mines, ss v e can'l afford to pay more and we'll, probably have to pay legs "Our competitors in coal fields where men don't belong to he union are paying lower wagss and selling fl coal cheaper than we can. That's ruining our business." THE GERMAN INDEMNITY The billed Reparatloni Commission sbbb Is meeting ;t Paris it has decided how much Germany must pay thU V year on the Indemnity the allies have Hj demanded. If the amount is excessive, as some be, ihe German cabl- S net mav resign as a protest. BV An Indemnity Is a sum of money paid lo repair damage. Germany's Indemnity Is to pay for the damage Germanj did when xhe attacked Bel-glum, Bel-glum, Franee and other of her neighbors in the World War and de-stroyed de-stroyed their far- lands homes and factories The nenaratlons Comission Is i H bodv of m - representing the allied' H countries. Its task Is to arrange th'i H amount and method of payment of Germany's indemnities. |