The Washington times., 1922-02-20
Today
Switzerland Knows.
Earth's Greatest Hive.
Respect the Load.
They Lost His Wife.

They Lost His Wife.
by ARTHUR BRlSBANRl
Scopyrisht. issa,
Because Of political troubles
In Italy. the powers may hold
their next conference at Geneva
instead Of Genoa.
Let Americans. especially our
maudlin 81 love everybody"
statesmen. study little Switzer-
land. She attacks no one. med
dies with no one. but keeps her.
self always READY to fight
In case of need-and everybody
let's her alone. What Switzer-
Land does We ought to do. With
danger on every side, she keeps
out Of it, and we. with a wide
ocean on each side. do not see
our plain course.
Everyone knows something
about the inside of a beehive,
where sexless working bees store
honey. take care of the one
queen mother. murder the drones
when their brief services are
ended, settle as they choose
the sex Of each egg, etc.
Few know much about the
complicated human hive. The
biggest is called New York
city. It has ISAIAH creatures
working for living-691. .729 Vof
them females. Unlike the bees,
they work against each other
instead of working together.
They store up little: 80 in 100
live from day to day, and would
starve in a week if they relied
on savings.
Eleven thousand four hundred
and ninety-nine of them are
lawyers and judges. settling the
fights of the courts. Nearly
10000 are doctors. attending to
diseases. of which all. except
old age. will one day be un-
known. and of which nine-tenths
could be prevented now. Four
thousand and eighty-four are
clergymen. employed to rescue
the millions from their sins.
Only seventeen of the clergy
are women, which makes saving
souls practically a masculine
monopoly. ..
Among nurses. there are r.
127 women to 400 men. About
100000 are clerks. handing out
goods--waste Of numbers there.
Il would seem. About 1000 are
chauffeurs. only 2S9 females.
There are more than 10000 po.
licemen to lock YOU up. A
somewhat greater number of
school teachers. that will grad
ually-in 100000 years. per-
haps-make policemen unneces-
sary.
A great. mixed hive is a mod
ern city, and the wonder is how
it keeps going. how everybody
gets his coffee and rolls every
morning. how humbly and reg
ularly those that get little out
of it go about their duties
very much like workers in the
hive.
There is no jewel in the toad's
head, but every toad is worth
more in cash while it lives than
any two-karat diamond. Every
year each toad devours insect
pests that would. if undevoured.
do S19.44 damage to some farm
er. That is 5 per cent a year
on almost $1,000 and for that
YOU can get a fair-sized "jewel." i"
Yet very rare Is the farmers
boy that does not kill a dozen
toads every year. at least. to
show what a "good shot" he is
with stones.
The managers Of a graveyard
lost the body of a mans wife.
1t got mixed up in the busy days
Of the influenza in 1918 when
the grave diggers went on strike.
The body never was found, and
there is no definite spot for
Widower Siegrist to go and
mourn when so inclined.
The jury gave him $4,000 dam
ages. It must have been hard to
fix the amount exactly, men
mourn so differently. Think of
the thousands Of millions Of
graves no longer marked on this
earth. And some day the earth
itself, ora big grave, will disin-