Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-10
Bill and Hank
IWieldCaustic
'TongueWhile
Plying Brush

You've got to hand it to these
TWO vocalist-painters, Bill and
Hank.
They've got the proper idea about
work
They combine art with Their, man.
ual labor. They mix metaphors
and split inhnitives with theirpaints;
they WELD the caustic tongue while
they ply the dabby brush. And
they're never late to meals.
Promptly at eight-thirty, or there
aDouts, they. aare on the scaffold,
paint pots handy, brushes poised,
and then
i see where the republicans all
got elected, Bill"
Sure they did. l knew the1
n would 1t was all frameup letting
n the demycrats in in the first place"
Frameup! How dye make that
h out?v
Tie republicans put 'em in and
now. the republicans taken 'em out,
4 that's all; what | mean"
\ why Bill, | never heard that.
n How'd they put 'em in?"
n Business of laying the brushes on
the paint pots and taking out the
old black plug of chewing.
Its this way, Hank. Didn't the
republicans have that last national
election won? Sure they did. 1t
was a cinch fer Hughes and then
when he was sure to- be elected the
4 word was passed around that war
was pipe. So they wired out to
California, Lay often him'-mean-
ing Hughes-Lay often him. 1t
n looks like war and we don't want
n the blame for it That's how they
4 got in; the republicans put EN- in.
q Now they're taking 'em out"
Il Dab-d ab-dab-splash!
But what are they taking 'em out
Y for, Bill?"
\ "Can't depend upon 'em, that's
what. They're too fresh. Look
what they've done. Why the hull
1 administration is getting to be an
l advertising agency. fer McAdoo.
I 1t you take trip anywhere on the
/ train you see McAdoo's name OH the
1 timetable, you see it twice on the
| ticket and the conductor mentions
it to you besides. It's on the signs
in the vestibule-Dont spit on the
l hoor--McAdoo It's on the menus
lin the diner. Too much publicity,
I that's what's killing the demycrat
iparty; too much publicity"
i guess there's something in that
Bill. Maybe they Is figuring on run
lining McAdoo for president"
Sure they are; sure they are.
That's just what they're figuring on
ing and they're going to get left.
e people is getting too much of
Ibis name sticks out at 'em
lywhere they look. By lection
|: they'll be sick and tired of
Great man and all that, but
much publicity. You know what
digger said?"
10; what'd the niger say?"
said he wasn't going to war.
koaid they couldn't make HIM 60 to
lwar. That was just after they set
| the clocks ahead. But the other
| Niger says, Lookye here, l guess
Eff the president kin take a hour
Iaway from the Lord and give the
/ railroads to, his son-in-law, he kin
make you go to warr He went,
Itoo."
Business OF deep thought regis
tered by Hank.
/ II got nephew in the army,
II Bill" he finally confded.
l THAT so, Hank? How does he
/ like it,"
Slime. Says its great. You
| oughta see the big muscle in his
fright arm. Amt got much muscle
| in his left, but you oughta see his
fright SOME RIGHTw
! Bill was mystifed and showed it.
whats the matter with his left,
] Hank. Withered or something,
amt it normal?"
4 "Oh, it's normal. all right. But
4 Just normal, that's all"
1 maybe he carried his gun all the
I time in his right, eh?"
i mo they use both arms to carry
+ their guns, part time with one arm,
\ part time with the other"
well, it sounds funny to me,
Hank; more muscle in right arm
/ than in the left"
Sounded funny to me, too; so /
1 ast him why twas"
what did he say?"
Said he got it saluting second
lieutcnants!"
Silence. Dab-dab-da-a-a
"Whupl Hold on Hank. It's
eaak a