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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



lias been neglected, even though it has good 

 movable-couib hives, and if you try to open 

 it without smoke you will have trouble, and 

 ]jerhaps trouble even with smoke. I appeal 

 to beekeepers as to whether I am right or 

 not. i\nd I have been of the opinion that 

 queens do not transmit irritability. At one 

 of our Chautauqua gatherings a speaker of 

 note said that mankind transmits jjhysical 

 qualities but not mental; and he gave some 

 ]3retty slrong facts to support his assertion. 

 Our great inventors and men of great edu- 

 cation are frequently from parents who 

 have shown no great mental powers in 

 either direction. He asked us if this was 

 not true. This hits on the old question as 

 to whether it is environment or inherited 

 tendencies that make a man good or bad. 

 We can do very much, and the whole wide 

 world is doing much, to help environment; 

 but we cannot very well help the other after 

 people are born. 



SHALL THE UNITED STATES INVEST MILLIONS 

 IN ANTICIPATION OF WAR? 



On page 42, January 1, I said I miglit 

 change my mind in regard to the above; 

 but at this date, March 1, I have not 

 changed it, and I have done a great amount 

 of reading in order to keep fully posted. I 

 hope every one of our readers will have a 

 chance to i*ead Henry Ford's articles which 

 he is to have placed in the advertising col- 

 umns of m.any periodicals. 



We clip below from the Neiv York Eve- 

 ning Journal: 



The very men who pile up the .irmament of all 

 nations — and it is true that the same firm will often 

 arm both sides in a conflict — will find an enemy 

 for any country they arm. And they will arm that 

 enemy, too, for the profits on arms are great, and 

 the industry is a monopoly 



We ought to realize that it is the people who not 

 only pay the bills of these munitions makers, but 

 pay the penalty also in the death and misery the 

 use of these arms must brino;. 



The followins from the New York Times of Feb- 

 ruary 9, printed prominently by the Times, but not 

 conspicuously treated by the great majority of city 

 newspapers, give some idea of the facts : 



Washington, February 8. — Testimony that pleas- 

 ed the pacifist element in the House was furnished 

 to the Committees on Military and Naval Affairs to- 

 day by General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., retired, 

 and Rear Admiral Victor Blue, Chief of the Bureau 

 of Navigation. General Miles said he did not fear 

 an invasion of the United States, and that an invad- 

 Admiral Blue declared the navy was now ready to 

 ing army could quickly be driven from the country, 

 meet any enemy it might be called upon to encounter 

 in the Pacific. 



I am having this statement printed in the adver- 

 tising columns of newspapers and magazines through- 

 out the United States. Others will follow. I have 

 no other purpose than to save America from blood- 

 shed and its young men from conscription. I feel 

 that if this militaristic burden is assumed by the 

 country, the United States within ten years will be 



in turmoil, its industries paralyzed, and its men, in- 

 stead of being at work in peaceful industry, will be 

 dying in trenches. And I feel, too, that these men 

 will not be dying to defend their country, as we are 

 now being told, but will perish in the conquest of 

 other men who have a right to live in happiness and 

 peace. 



I am hoping and praying that Henry 

 Ford and Billy Sunday may get in touch, 

 and that God may be enabled to use hoth in 

 hastening " the coming of his kingdom." 



So good an auth(U-ity as Prof. Harvey W. 

 Wiley has the following m Good Ilir-se- 

 keeping for March, in regard to savirg life 

 instead of taking it: 



Do we really want to live? As I mingle with my 

 fellow-men I begin to doubt it. Our conversation is 

 of war, commerce, society, music, clothes, athletics. 

 Congress, preparedness, taxation, occasionally of 

 books, and once in a long while of life. That which 

 is dearest to us we apparently think least about. 

 Where one man is studying how to prolong life, 

 thousands are seeking means to put a speedy end to 

 it. The advisory committee to the Secretary of the 

 Navj' has suggested building a laboratory costing five 

 million dollars, and equipping and manning it, 

 which would probably take about as much more. Its 

 purpose is to study the best methods of killing our 

 fellow-men from other countries, and preventing our 

 own sailors and citizens from being killed. I am not 

 inclined to protest against this action, but merely to 

 ask. What of guarding against disease and prevent- 

 ing the half-million of preventable deaths every 

 year ? Who will provide the five million dollars for 

 that? Ten dollars used for prevention will save a 

 life. 



God hasten the time when the whole wide 

 world shall discover how much better it is to 

 preserve life than to destroy it; and not 

 only physical life, but the kind the dear 

 Savior had in mind when he said, " I am 

 come that they might have life, and that 

 they might have it more abundantly." — 

 John lO'ilO. 



PREPAREDNESS; BRYAN SUGGESTS MILLIONS 

 FOR GOOD ROADS INSTEAD OF MILLIONS FOR 

 MUNITIONS. 



The following, clipped from the Times- 

 Union, is a part of Bryan's address deliver- 

 ed at Tallahassee, Feb'. 29. 



Scoring those preparedness advocates who think 

 the country must spend billions upon billions im- 

 mediately, Mr. Bryan said: "There are two organi- 

 zations in this country which together claim a mo- 

 nopoly on all the patriotism of the nation. They 

 have taken upon themselves the task of getting the 

 country ready for war. The Security League says, 

 spend three hundred millions a year on the navy and 

 one hundred ;ind fifty millions on the army. The 

 Navy League is older, has more ciphers at its dis- 

 posal, and had the advantage of making its bid after 

 the bid of the other had been known. It insists that 

 five hundred million is necessary for the army each 

 year, and that a standing army of one million mien 

 is an absolute necessity. This program would cost 

 about $750,000,000 yearly. 



" If we are so near war, as the jingoes claim, then 

 let us get ready by preparing our roads. Get them 

 in condition so we cau transport our armies from 

 one place to another without delay. It will greatly 

 increase our defensive power by being able to mo- 



