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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



July 15 



bless the babies, and our kind old Uncle 

 Samuel for his thoughtful care. 



It has just been my i)leasure to make a 

 small contribution to the fresh-air campaign 

 to give the children from the cities a little 

 outing. AVell, while we are doing such tre- 

 mendous things to save human life, how in 

 the world can we consistently take measures 

 to murder our people by the wholesale, and 

 still mean to keep doing it? Somebody has 

 said (perhaps it was Dr. Kellogg, in Good 

 Ilecdtli) that more stout capable young men 

 lost their lives by typhoid fever in the re- 

 cent Spanish-American war than were kill- 

 ed by the enemy. Those who were not kill- 

 ed outright were injured lor life more or less 

 by those terrible fevers, and much of it was 

 caused by sending our soldiers where they 

 could not have or did not have wholesome 

 water to drink and wholesome food for their 

 sustenance. Right here I can say, praise 

 the I^ord again for what the Health Com- 

 missions of our land have done to punish 

 the wretches and villains who would poison 

 our people for the sake of making a few 

 more pennies on the food products they put 

 up. May God speed tlie day when those 

 who deliberately tamper with our daily food 

 (either for babies or grown-up people) shall 

 be punished so severely that they will re- 

 member the lessons as long as they live. 



On page 1017, Aug. 15, 1908, I quoted an 

 article from the Christian Endeavor World, 

 headed "Let us Quit being Hypocrites." 

 Let me make one extract from that: 



Instead of building more war-ships, isn't it time 

 to call a halt? With tens of thousands of our citi- 

 zens begging for an opportunity to earn a living, 

 isn't it time to call a halt on this wicked waste of 

 money and energy? If we are going more and more 

 into the war-ship business, let us be honest and pull 

 down our churches. If we are to glorify war, let us 

 Quit glorifying the Prince of peace. Let us quit be- 

 ing hypocrites. 



In reply to the above I wrote the follow- 

 ing: 



Let us Quit being hypocrites, as the San Francisco 

 Star has it, and come out in the open, and demand 

 that this war-ship business be stopped in exactly 

 the same way that we, as a people, not only de- 

 manded but succeeded in (teUiny, the motto back on 

 our coins, '■ In (iodwe Trust." And »/ we trust in 

 God we certainly do not need to invest 180 millions 

 of dollars in one fleet of warships. 



Yes, friends, for God's sake let us "quit 

 being hypocrites." 



And now I want to tell you that the above 

 is only a preface to something else for which 

 we can praise God. It seems we have a so- 

 ciety in the city of New York, with head- 

 quarters at 507 Fifth Ave., called the New 

 York I'eace Society, and this is a world-wide 

 federation. A leaflet is now in my hands 

 from that society, whose heading reads as 

 follows: 



Rksolved, by the Senate and House of Represent- 

 atives of the United States of America in Congress 

 assembled, that a commission of five members be 

 appointed by the President of the United States to 

 consider the expediency of utilizing existing inter- 

 national agencies for the purpose of limiting the 

 armaments of the nations of the world by Interna- 

 tional agreement, and of constituting the combined 

 navies of the world an international force for the 

 preservation of universal ix ace, and to consider 

 any report upon any other means to diminish the 



expenditures of government for military purposes 

 and lessen the probabilities of war. 



Now, the thing that took hold of me 

 mightily in the above resolution is in the 

 last two lines. You will notice this com- 

 mission is not only to preserve universal 

 peace, but it urges a movement to discuss 

 and re])ort " u])on any other means to di- 

 minish the ex])enditures of government for 

 military purjioses." As I understand it, 

 the powers of the world are invited to meet 

 together and see if we can not mutually 

 agree to stop building war-ships that cost 

 ten millions of dollars each. We are toid in 

 that circular that Emanuel Kant declared, 

 in 1795, "We can never have universal 

 peace until the world is politically organiz- 

 ed;" and, furthermore, that even this can 

 not be done "until the majority of nations 

 have a representative form of government." 

 And all of these things seem to be coming 

 to pass. 



Let me quote again: 



Russia has its Duma: China has announced that 

 shortly it will promulgate a constitution, while Tur- 

 key and Persia have each just gone through the 

 throes of revolution and emerged with a vigorous 

 parliament. If Kant's philosphy is sound, therefore, 

 the world is at last ready for world organization 

 and universal peace. 



I should like to give place to this whole 

 paper, but it is too long. If you will send a 

 stamp to the National Peace Society, whose 

 address I have given above, I am sure you 

 will get it. 



There is one other thing I want to quote; 

 and while I quote it I should like to swing 

 my caji and give a vigorous hurrah for 

 Roosevelt. 



Even Mr. Roosevelt in his remarkable Nobel peace 

 address the other day at Christiania goes so far as 

 to urge a " league of peace " to abolish war, para- 

 doxically, by force if necessary. 



The idea expressed above, of abolishing 

 war by force, sounds almost like a joke; but 

 I hope it will not require a $10,000,000 man- 

 of-war to compel obedience to the mandate, 

 "You must stop fighting." Let me quote 

 further: 



It seems the destiny of the United States to lead 

 in the peace movement. The United States Is the 

 world in miniature. It is a demonstration that all 

 the races of the world can live in peace under one 

 government, and Its chief value to civilization is a 

 demonstration of what this form of government Is. 



There is a big point in the above. For 

 many years back, whenever I have felt dis- 

 posed or strongly inclined to speak in a dis- 

 respectful way of the foreigners who have 

 come to live among us, my conscience has 

 almost always warned me to be careful. 

 This nation is made up of i)eople from all 

 countries, just as we are told the "kingdom 

 of heaven" is comjjosed of all nations; 

 therefore we should all be very careful lest 

 we tread on somebody's toes or hurt some- 

 body's feelings. It occurs to me that we 

 "old Yankees," as we sometimes call our- 

 selves, need to be especially careful in this 

 respect. I, above all men, ought to be care- 

 ful, for the dearest friend I have on earth 

 came from " Merrie England" when she 

 was only eight years old. May God be 

 praised that she did come and consent to 



