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Editorial 



Peaceful Invasions 



If the ambitious and overbearing nations of the world would 

 only take to nature-study instead of to guns and consider carefully 

 the ways of weeds and butterflies they could learn how to make 

 bloodless invasions that would succeed beyond any ever made b}^ 

 the means of war. The histor^^ of the cabbage butterfly reveals 

 tactics that might well, if followed, make true the dreams of world 

 empire. However, there is one stumbling block at the outset — and 

 that is these peaceful and successful invaders are ideal pacifists in 

 that they are world citizens and owe fealty to no mere individual 

 nation. Any place on the twirling ball we call the earth where 

 they can find a climate with which they can cope and their chosen 

 nourishment in abtindance, has their fullest allegiance. 



"The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee. 

 A cloAxr, any tim.e, to him is aristocracy." 



Thus sang Emily Dickinson with perfect understanding of bee 

 standards, and this merging of one's "own country" into a world 

 wide range has its selfish as well as its socialistic advantages. 



It was in i860 that a little white butterfly arrived at Quebec 

 from Europe as a stowaway on some transatlantic freighter which 

 probabl}^ refused to carry passengers at any price; and it was in 

 1868 that another fragile white butterfly stole her passage and 

 made her entry in the ]3ort of New York. She did not stop for 

 inspection at Ellis Island but on leisurely wing made her way to 



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