January. 1921 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



45 



IN the Cleve- 

 1 a n d Plain 

 Deale r f o r 

 Aug. 27, 1920, 

 we find the fol- 

 lowing' : ■ 



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TWELVE MILLION 

 ORPHANS. 

 Compilations o f 

 the Red Cross 

 show that twelve 

 million q h i 1 d ren 

 were orphaned by 

 the World W ar. 

 A stretch of human 

 imagination is r e- 

 quired t o under- 

 stand the magni- 

 tude of t h ese fig- 

 ures. A picture of 

 a p proximately ifif- 

 teen cities the size 



of Cleveland, inhabited only by orphans, furnishes 

 .some idea of the multitude of parentless children 

 who are starting out, saddened and handicapped, 

 to struggle thru a generation. 



The orphan always is pitied by the whole neigh- 

 borhood in which it dwells. Relatives, friends or 

 iharitable institutions usually try to comfort the 

 unfortunate and to give it a chance while it battles 

 thru childhood into manhood or womanhood. But 

 even in America, where the care of orphans is ex- 

 ceptionally efficient, they have been deprived of 

 something which cannot be made up by all the 

 kindness offered. How much worse must be the 

 plight of a great many of the parentless little ones 

 in the war-torn nations where even strong men and 

 women have trouble obtaining enough food and 

 clothing to keep them alive I 



What will become of the war orphans ? In the 

 coming years many thousands of them will emigrate 

 to the United States to earn livelihoods and to 

 establish permanent homes. Try as one may, no 

 logical way can be found to remove from the 

 shoulders of this nation a great amount of respon- 

 sibility for the future of these orphans. America 

 has a vital interest in the kind of men and women 

 they grow to be. 



The reactionaries in and out of the United 

 States senate who are unalterably against our 

 affiliation with the League of Nations would have 

 us maintain a policy of "isolation" which clearly 

 would further handicap the European orphans. 

 League opponents would have America disclaim 

 any responsibility for the prevention of another 

 war which would produce another sad army of 

 12,000,000 or more orphans. But what do the 

 millions of just and liberty-loving people in this 

 country have to say ? 



I confess that I have been thinking of 

 this matter before, of the orjDhans made 

 fatherless, and sometimes mothei<less a.s 

 well, as the result of the recent awful 

 world-wide war; but the heading, "Tivelve 

 Million Orphans," startled me. But the 

 Red Cross is probably sufficient avithority 

 for saying that the statement can not very 

 well be an exaggeration or that a mistake 

 has been made. My impression is, off- 

 liand, that this world-wide war resulted 

 indirectly if not directly in the loss of 



OUR HOMES 



A. I. ROOT 



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Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth 

 as it is in heaven. — Matt. 6:10. 



Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, 

 do good to them that hate you, and pray for them 

 which despitefully use you and persecute you. — 

 Matt. 5:44. 



They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, 

 and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall 

 not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they 

 learn war anv more. — Isa. 2:4. 



three or four 

 million lives. 

 This being true, 

 it would not be 

 at all strange if 

 there should be 

 the number of 

 orphans m e n- 

 tioned to be 

 cared for, or 

 perhaps uncar- 

 ed for to a con- 

 siderable extent 

 by the whole 

 wide world. 



Who is re- 

 sponsible for all 

 this? We are all 

 responsible more 

 or less. T came 

 pretty near saying that every man, woman, 

 and child in the whole wide world is re- 

 sponsible to a certain extent for this sav- 

 age and heathen fashion of settling differ- 

 ences by cutting each other to pieces; and 

 even now while I write a large part of 

 human industry is devoted to the matter 

 of shorter and quicker ways of cutting to 

 pieces or blowing to pieces humanity — 

 men who, we are told, were created in 

 God's own image. We have been sending 

 missionaries to foreign lands to teach the 

 heathen modern civilization and to spread 

 the gospel ; but, oh dear me ! what a sad 

 need there is of spreading this same gos- 

 pel here in our own land! Some of you 

 may ask me how this wholesale murder, 

 sad and deplorable as it is, can be avoided. 

 Ay ell, now, friends, I am but a poor in- 

 dividual to undertake such a momentous 

 task as to answer the question; but please 

 listen while I try my hand at it. 



In our great cities they have a police 

 force to restrain crime and criminals. If 

 one policeman can not manage a ease he 

 has means at his command by which he can 

 call for help. If the entire city in a 

 crisis is unable to handle the mob, rebels, 

 or anarchists, or whatever you may call 

 them, it can quickly summon help. Thanks 

 to God that, with our wonderful methods of 

 communication at the present day, the 

 State militia can quickly be called out. If 

 the State is not equal to the task, federal 

 troops may be called; and I have never 

 yet heard of a ease where federal troops 

 were unequal to the task — at least since 

 the time of our own civil war. Well, what 

 we all need to do to manage war between 

 nations is an arrangement quite similar to 

 that between the cities and nations of the 

 world ; but instead of calling out federal 



