The Washington times., 1919-10-24

How Bees Divide Sugar.
Two Parasites. Kill Both.
Industry Is War.
Let Him Plot.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
(Copyrixnt, 1sia)

Three thousand pounds Of sugar
are ordered sent to Massachusetts,
to feed starving bees. One single
county will need at least thirty or
forty thousand pounds Its bees
must have had a hard Summer
because OF the rain. II is COM
fort to know that when the bees
get the sugar they divide 1t up
fairly. Each gets his share.
Early in the season they killed
off all the drones, non-workers-
Only one bee gets more than the
others, and 1t is not a bee that
puts the little bees to work and
lives on the profits, nor Is 1t a bee
that watches others while they
work and takes the product away
from them, giving them just enough
to live the next day.
The extra amount Is given by
the bees to the mother bee, called
by human beings the queen bee.
Only one bee in the hive has chill
dren. She sees her husband only
once in her whole life, on which
occasion he dies. Then she raises
little bees while all the others
work. This seems Just, although
o rather dull, arrangement.
ESPECIALLY dull for the father
bee.) Things are managed differ
emily in the human hive-too much
sugar for few, not enough for
many.
They we're going to invite
Ccuzens, Mayor of Detroit, to Can
ada to make a polite bow before
the Prince of Wales.
Suddenly faithful Canadian sub
jccts told Mayor Couzens that he
need not come. The. change was
made because the mayor had Of
fcially received Eamonn de Valera,
president Of the Irish republic.
That rs an interesting little
piece of news. II would interest
some Of the American old-timers,
Patrick Henry, Franklin, jefferson,
ard other gentlemen now nearly
OFT Of date. A mayor in a repub-
lic that established its independ-
etee by fighting against England
ventures TO receive politely a man
who represents the effort of Ire
land to establish a republic in the
same way. And as a punishment
this mayor is told that he can't
shake hands with the Prince of
Wales, some day to be successor
to our old friend George Third.
There are some near the top in
England that would tell the Ca
madam gentlemen they acted
foolishiy- The time hasn't YET
come for telling mayors Of Ameri-
Scsn cities whom they may receive
without offending Great Britain.
Ar. Bedford, chairman of the
board of the Standard Oil Com
pany, spoke eloquently at Atlantic
City about "a common foe. an
enemy within us, a parasite born
OF the war" He meant Bolshev.
ism, alias discomfort, and thought
y important to kill that parasite.
IL Is important, but another para
site was born of the war, NAMED
~Prohteering." And the urofiteer-
ing parasite is the father and
mother Of the parasite of discon.
tent.
Cut down prices, check proiteer-
ing, that people may live decently
on what they can earn decently.
You viii find the so-called Bolshe-
YAK parasite looking anaemic and
little later you viii find it dead.
Labor, capital and the stormy
re rel intellectuals" that shiv.r
sni moan between the two were
called 70 Washington to settle all
the troubles The result was well
and briefly described by young Mr..
Lawrence as follows: Labor ask
ed for everything, and got moth
ing
Labor probably got what it ex-
pected.
Now the great conference is
of - Capital, which deals with
everything and everybody col
lectively, said politely to labor
We won't deal with YOU collec-
lively, We prefer to consider work
ingnen as individual, separate
atoms attached to our organiza-
ton. Labor said: Goodbye.
Now the stormy petrels, so-called
public group" that hover between
the capitahstic paradise and the
other place, are asked if they can't
do something and are going to see
about il.
The President, in his letter to
the Industrial Conference, asks
Are We 70 confess that there is
no method to be found for carry
ing on industry except in the spirit
and with the very method of war?'
A method may be found and ia
earnestly TO be desired. But il has
not been found yet. workingmen
have fought labor-saving machin-
cry that improved their condition
and their wages, employers have
fought labor unions that would
stabilize industry and make the
employer secure. On one side
stones and clubs have been used
on the other shrewd LAWYERS