The Washington times., 1922-10-13

Champion Queen Bee.
Dropping 1so Feet. ;
Fable Of the Fagots.
The Tendersst ssnti-
ARTHUR BRISBANE
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i--By ARTHUR BRIsBANE-l
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J. M. Cutter q Son, Of Mont
gomery, Ala, pay one hundred
and fifty dollars for one-half in
terest in Achievement Girl"
y That lady is a queen bee
raised at Armenia. North Dakota,
and her .children have beaten
all records for production. The
queen win be sent by mail, re-
kistered and insured. to Mont
gomery TO spend the winter pro.
ducing young bees-then return
TO Amenis to continue her work
on . fifty-fifty basis for the
double ownership.
The record price for q queen
bee is more Interesting than
any race horse price, and the
bee rs q more extraordinary
animal than any horse. The
worker bees can take the young
Of that queen and make Of any
one a FERTILE queen, spending
her life In motherhood, or Q
sterile sworker. 80 oGusthsr horev
Bees know things that
humans don't know and in
some ways they are wiser.
They sting to death all the
worthless drones as soon as the
queen has made her choice
among them for q husband. We
feed our drones indefinitely.
Be careful not to hit anything
when going sixty miles an
hour. barney Oldfield's racing
car, going at that speed, hit q
tree early yesterday morning,
and you should have seen that
car afterward, as this narrator
saw It. The heavy chassis was
crumpled MP like an accordion,
everything smashed. The mar
vel Is that one man, the driver,
came eout alive. T., :,
Mr.. Park, engineer for the
Pullman Company, says that
when Building cars, knowing
that collisions occasionally are
inevitable, they calculate exactly
the strain undergone. =,
A collision at sixty miles an
hour Is the same as though the
railroad train-or automobile
---had beer dropped from q
height Of 160 feet. Drive care
ully--as you would on the
edEs Of ! 100 foot drop:
A news jotting says; ~Rail-
road 'owners pleased !. 70
learn that conductors and train
men have separated from other
railroad unions" The owners
may well rejoice, rem6 mbefing
the fable Of the dying father
who showed his sons how easy
Il is to break sticks ONE at 1
time. y.
Tho unions are separating
and disagreeing, each going its
own way. The railroads and
other corporations are more and
more closely united. It needs
no seventh son Of a seventh
son nor amy ghost come from
the grave to predict the results
Of that. r. K. .-.'>.
Greeting the American Child
Hygiene Association, President
Harding praises love of children
as "the tenderest sentiment Of
civilization" It Is also the
tendercst sentiment Of barbar-
ism, and all the way down
through animal life to the
lowest Of the mammals-and
even below. For the scorpion
mother walks around in the sun
light carrying her young ones
that cling to her body, grad
pally deyouring It, until there
3 mains only an empty she'll.
Human children don't do
that, but some Of them give q
pretty good scorpion imitation,
aIIoxutuo fba ,r,otha~ kn ,,,..t
herself to death, although they
don't exactly eat her.
Love of children is more
than slender" It Is the one
thing that has made HE pos
sible and gradually changed
human beings from blood
drinking cannibals to semi
civilized creatures. ,
England pays fifty millions,
first installment-of interest
49, LII A.