The Washington times., 1923-10-23
The Honey Bee Is an Honest
Worker
He Works Only Four Hours Day. Men Will Work
Fewer Hours Than That When Civilization Begins.

An individual who has studied BEES trying facts
about rather than build faucul yarns gives the
interesting information honey bee makes in day
about twenty trips the hive and that he visits
in all probably twelve thousand different flowers.
pleasure watch earnest bee travelling back and
FORTH buzzng feeling his importance enjoying himself
muang the honey that viii carry him and others in the hive
through the winter
Everybody admits that the good worker and
he works hard ENOUGH.
But the bee does all of his work in about hours
During time he sits about poshes up his
legs his body and reflects with satisfaction upon what
fine thing it is to be Woodworking bee.
He enjoys the sunlight he enjoys all the activities and all
che cooperation Of the hive.
Kindly notice. reader that he is well able get all
honey that he and the other bees and the bees and
the drones need by working FOUR HOURS q day.
Why is he able to do this, gentle reader?
He is able do it he and his fellow bees ALL
WORKING get all of the honey that labor brings back the
hive
They haven't got among the bees any collection of polite
gentlemen in silk hats and large fat automobiles standing
the edge Of the hive running business Office in
Of the hive and taking for themselves much Of every
load Of honey that the bees bring home.
The bees have learned cooperate they have learned to
work together they have solved the problem of helping
another
AND THEY GET FOR THEMSELVES ALL THAT THEY
PRODUCE
they need by working four hours day They are able to
devote twenty hours Of twentfo whatever they
sleeping thinking gossipng, examining the young
bees ct cetera.
When MEN, in proportion their intelligence shall as
far advanced the honey bees you viii have
condition in the human hive that you ought have
You win have the Of workers ALL EDUCATED AND
INTELLIGENT WHICH THEY ARE NOT NOW.
You win have selfshness, and self seeking em
mated. You win have all working for all
Civilized in future will be far above this present
state in contenmen happiness and brotherhood
organized honey bee in his hive is far above the isolated
dividu hee hat can he found in Tcalan
Here and there in Iceland viii find scattered samples
Of the bee that gathers honey But cold Iceland the
flowers few The bees selfish disorganized They
hard all day long for very little and the only thing about
them that suggests the intelligent honey bee Of climate
Is THE STING.
Human beings working our civilization today are like
the isolated honey bee in Iceland The human bees
separated isolated each fighting the others And about
each of THE STING the hatred and the bitterness
petition is the most conspicuous thing.
The day is coming when will be organized well
the bees are organized, but in very different way
They viii not live in hives lose their individuality But
they viii work together few hours of labor for those that
want to work. aided by machinery viii supply plenty
The vile mechanical drudgery that makes life dull will be
replaced by Intellectual activity.
For every working twelve hours q day
or ten hours painfully we shall have working the same
number of hours INTELLECTUALLY AND JoYFTLLY.
We shall have those less addicted material labor engaged
IN the arts and the higher sciences.
The idle class that takes part Of the honey that the workers
produce will have disappeared
The of intelligence day will be far
above the highest intelligence Of today.
And that viii be civilization 8 beginning.
meanwhile please notice that bees with
gence with machinery but their honey gathering apparatus
and their marvellous mathematical capacity for fixing their
cells, AND THEIR INSTINCT OF BROTHERHOOD are
able to do for themselves with four hours per day
great deal more than stupid humanity able to do by work
ing not only the grown and but the children
themselves throughout all the hours of daylight.