Omaha daily bee., 1917-04-08

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| ---By Victor Rosewater
DOLLING multi-coored eggs down the ter
| ~ races of the White House grounds on Easter
Monday is, I see, to be barred, although to make
sure this unique local custom shall not de OUT a.
Washington the performance IS to be transletreo
n The blot at the base of the Washington monu-
ment No one who has witnessed an egg.roiling
scene at the national capital would want i com
netey abolished for it is an historic institution
remember what an impression it made the
| first time viewed the interesting spectacle; IL
was while the Clevelands were in the Whie
House and the grounds were literally swarming
with Youngsters having the time OF their lie. All
the highways and byways leading to the tourna-
| ment place gave evidence of the festive occasion
by the children going and coming, carrying iittle
baskets filled with gaudy eggs. On the White
House terraces they were all mixed up-yes the
| children and the eggs, their French nurses and
| their colored mammies and sprinkling OF street
| yaoamuf6ns. They would start the eggs at the
| top of the grassy incline and let them roll one
| after the other, sometimes trying to make them
hit each other, and sometimes too, the cniioren
themselves rolling after the eggs. 1t was one OF
the rules of the game that the eggs should be
really hard boiled but occasionally there were
signs OF a slip. Messy? I should say! And
the White House gardening crew spent the next
day cleaning up.
On the particular Easter MONDAY ! tete, TO-
we went inside and met President and Mrs. Cleve-
land for moment. On another Easter Monday
/ sat with some friends on the porch with the
Harrisons to see the sight. At present egg prices
however, imagine the supply of egg-rollers'
ammunition will be strictly limited.
Picking up the paper early in the week, two
news accounts in adjacent columns struck me by
the familiarity of the names and the seeming IN
congruity of the connection with the. incidents
described One was graphic narration OF an
outbreak Of Johns Hopkins students and protes-
sors following peace propaganda meeting IN
Baltimore, of which the ringleader was my old
classmate, Prof John H. Latane. Latane when
knew him was most inoffensive in behavior and
appearance, the son Of Virginia bishop, the last
man one would except to be reused to the point
of disturbing any kind Of a meeting:
The other item told of the rallying OF peace
advocates ii. Washington to swoop down =. o.. on
in charge Of Elizabeth Freeman. Now, Miss
Freeman was visitor in Omaha during the cam
paign last fall as the advance agent OF the
! Hughes woman's train-a vivacious young woman,
an interesting personality an uncompromisinlg;
| feminist, who gloried in having endured jan
sentence along with Sylvia Pankhurst over in
| London for pursuing militant methods in drive
| for votes for women, and having been imprisoned
| also in New York during the picketing troubles
accompanying the garment.workers strike. 1t
| would seem more in accord with the nature OF
things If Miss Freeman were leading bunch OF
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forth quietly at peace society headquarters. But
such is the perverseness Of human existence and
the contradictions of passing events
Here is the comment of Newspaperdom, one
Of the sprightly periodicals devoted to Journalism
on the recent reorganization OF The Bee:
| "One of the Victors (Messrs. Lawson, Han
| son and Murdoch are the others) is in the lime
light again-this time he of The Omaha Bee:
The news is that Mr.. Rosewater has purchased
1 his brothers interests and secured control OF
The Bee. He is as aggressve--almost pugna-
cious-as was his father, the late Edward Rose
water, who coming to this country from
Bohemia and beginning business life as teleg-
rapher at the time of the civil war, later built
up The Omaha Bee to very considerable pro,
portions as newspaper and as political
organ Those were the days when newspapers
and their owners took politics more seriously
than they do now; the senior Rosewater would
have died happier if he had gratifed his ambi-
ton to go to the United States senate. Maybe
| the present editor of The Bee will be more
fortunate Cor successfully, for he is a power
in the republican party, whose presidential
| nominating convention IN l9lL gave MIN ma
tional prominence"
NV modest Acknowledgements herewith, cou
pied with the hope that both friends and enemle:
lose as little sleep over my political future as do
The death of William Muhall takes away Z
| sturdy character VINO inquired III MANY ways IL
| Omahas march of progress. He was grea
friend and admrer Of my father and valued
helper in many of his political fights Mulhall wa
Irish through and through, rough and tumble
fellow, shrewd and alert, ready talker and con
| vncing in his argument. Above all, he was loya
and trustworthy For years he was employed a
the Hoagand lumber yard and he knew lumber
and when he was employed at the exposition dur
ing its construction days he. quickly caught on
and furnished the information as to wha- wa
doing in the job Of sheet piling the lagoon. M!
father exploded the torpedo through The Be
and Geraldine and his pals tried to put up a de
tense, but the exposure was too much and Ger
aldne, the high and mighty general manager. hal
to 60. Nipping this scandal in the bud unques
exposition, inspire the public confidence in tn
management and keep It on basis Of honest AM
efficient conduct from top to bottom and iron
beginning to end than any other one thing. Fo
this great public service big credit mark shou
90 ~ the memory of William Muhail.