OCTOBEK, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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hearts achins for lliem as tliey pray, will darn and 

 delve, will knit and cook, that the country may be 

 saved. Yet, all the same, that bloated brewer, 

 avaricious and rapacious, will go on manufacturing 

 his disease-producing, deadly poisons out of the 

 precious grain that would make eleven million 

 loaves of bread a day. What matters it that millions 

 of people are perishing for that food, and that we 

 and our allies shall need every grain that can be 

 grown, these conscienceless marauders continue to 

 ravage the granaries of the land. 



Grind down the women. Lash them to their toil. 

 Tliey are only women. They are the worthless 

 mothers of the soldiers. They are the insignificant 

 toilers of the households. Lay on the stripes and 

 goad them to their tasks in the name of patriotism. 

 And let these Teuton brewers commandeer the grain 

 and make the poison that shall break down the 

 finance, the efficiency, and the food supply of the 

 nation. 



Common sense and a lofty spirit would demand 

 that this abject course shall terminate. Let the 

 women have consideration, and let the enemies of 

 our nation and our race be taught that they can- 

 not have their beastly, piratical, higlivray-robber 

 privilege accorded to them any longer. In the 

 name of all that is hopeful and good, exit the scarlet 

 woman and the brewer; enter the Mother. 



Here is another clipping, from the Sun- 

 day School Times. It illustrates the 

 stranglehold that the brewers seem to have 

 over in England on the honest industries 

 of the nation. 



SUGAB ONLY FOR THE BREWERS ! 



No one save Mr. Arthur Mee, of the London 

 Daily Chronicle, ■ author of " Defeat," could have 

 followed that warning speech by the editor of The 

 Spectator. Said Mr. Mee: 



" All over England you hear this cry for prohibi- 

 tion. It comes from the heart of a nation fighting 

 for its life, with the wolf almost knocking at the 

 door. We have lived thru three red years of match- 

 less courage and sacrifice, to see our Government, 

 still as of old, worshipping our beer gods, crowning 

 our beer barons, rolling 26,000,000 barrels of beer 

 thru the streets of England while our people sit 

 by their fires and wonder where their food is com- 

 ing from." 



Mr. Mee excoriated Lord Devenport, the the'n 

 Food Controller, who has put the British nation on 

 its honor not to eat so much. 



" We must eat a little less," he declared, " that 

 other people may drink more." 



It was a tragic moment when Mr. Mee told the 

 story of a contractor who, feeding 40,000 working 

 people every day, ordered sugar for them ; and, send- 

 ing to the dock for a delivery order for the sugar, 

 received instead a letter from the "Port of London 

 Authority which said: 



Delivery of sugar stopped by Food Controller un- 

 less for brewers 1 



There were incredulous cries of "No! no!" from 

 his hearers when the newspaper man held up the let- 

 ter written on the official note paper of the Port of 

 London Authority, and then hot cries of " Shame 1" 

 followed. 



Not many days have passed since this mass meet- 

 ing issued its challenge, but they have seen the re- 

 tirement of Lord Devenport, and one important 

 change is following fast upon the heels of another. 



AVILL ABSORl? ALL MKX. 



"We find the following- in the American 

 Issue, which they clip from the Chicago 

 Tribune : 



" Peoria's manufacturei-s will snap up every 

 available man Monday morning," said a conspicuous 

 Peoria, 111., business man. " Between 1500 and 

 2000 men will be put out of employment in the 

 distilleries, but there is a place for every one of 

 them in the tractor factories, the implement works, 

 and in other Peoria industries. We can use every 

 ounce of coal, and are glad to get it, that the dis- 

 tilleries have been requiring. Industrially, Peoria 

 will never know the distilleries have been closed." 



AFAY GOD HIO PRAISED THAT WE HAVK GOT SO 

 FAR. 



ITow (hie.s tilis suit you, which we clip 

 from the Jacksonville Times-Umonf 



No more foreign liquors can be imported into this 

 country, and no more domestic liquors made — so 

 there you are. 



NOT ONLY FOOD BUT " FUEL "ALSO. 



See the following from The National Ad- 

 vocate : 



BEER AND THE PRICE OP COAL. 



Writing in The Outlook on " Prohibition and the 

 Price of Coal," Lewis E. Theiss, of Muncy, Pa., 

 quoted the Rev. H. N. Cameron, of Latrobe, Pa., 

 as having said recently, in a letter to Mr. Herbert 

 Hoover : 



" I have lived all my life in western Pennsylvania. 

 I worked for seven years at the rolls, and have 

 seen the effect of beer on output; and I know it is 

 true, as J. D. A. Morrow, of the Pittsburg Coal 

 Producers' Association, declared before the Inter- 

 State Commerce Commission yesterday, that the pro- 

 duction of coal in the Pittsburg district alone would 

 be increased 5,000,000 tons if strong drink were 

 eliminated. And beer, may I repeat, the so-called 

 light drink, causes more inefficiency in men and pre- 

 empts more space in freight trains than whisky." 



And then Mr. nieiss went on to remark: 



" In fact, all testimony on the subject — from 

 factory, mine, and shop — tells the same story. Taie 

 away drink, and the efficiency of the workingman in- 

 creases amazingly. The simplest, the surest, the 

 only certain way of increasing coal production at 

 this time is by prohibiting drink. Unless w-e do 

 that our citizens will suffer from cold, our fac- 

 tories w-ill be hampered for lack of fuel, our produc- 

 tion of war material will be hindered, the war will 

 be lengthened, and thousands of lives will be lost 

 needlessly. If we want cheaper coal during the 

 war, we must take, as a war measure, the one and 

 only step that will surely increase coal production." 



TOBACCO AND CIGARETTES ; SOMETHING ABOUT 

 CIGARETTES IN CHINA, 



Last Sunday a missionary from China 

 gave us a talk in our church. He said the 

 American Tobacco Comjiany was just now 

 sending- cigarettes to be given away in China 

 by the carload. He said a wagonload would 

 be carried into a town and the agent would 

 distribute them among men, w'omen, and 

 children, without regard to age or anything 

 else. Then they put up posters all over the 

 Chinese town recommending cigareltes. 

 Our friends are probably well aware of 

 what China has recently done to get rid of 

 oijium. Let us not only do everything- in 

 our power to help China to treat the cigar- 



