Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-20

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You should know that /
Omaha insurance companies last
year had an income of more than
$25,OOO,OOO.
What The Bee Stands For:
!. Respect for the law and maintenance of
order.
& Speedy and certain punishment of crime
through the regular operation of the V
courts.
s. Ptiless publicity and condemnation of
ineiciency lawessness and corrup-
ton in office H
/ q. Frank recognition and commentator
OF honest and efficient public service
s. Incubation of Americansm as the true
III UdSiS VI Soou ClllZenSnlp.
"Old Doc" Garfield now has his chance
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D'Annunzio has left Fiume, but the Italians
have not.
Give the devil his due; Hindenburg says all
the other explaners are lying.
That Wyoming train robber is energetic
enough to succeed in regular business
Where was Tammany when the prince of
Wales was given the freedom of the cty7
Another tube of radium has been lost in
bath tub. The moral to this is self-starting.
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The w. c. T. u. says it is not engaged in
crusade against tobacco, but somebody is.
"Moonshine sugar" is the latest and per-
haps the most significant. Watch the flight.
Louisville refused to hear Fritz Kreisler
fiddle another sign that the war is not over.
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No drastic regulations for the use of coal
are yet to be made but you will lose nothing
by being careful.
Chicago is combating the high cost of
street car fares. What Omaha needs is more
opportunity to ride.
An industrial truce for year is proposed
again. What would do more good would be
for everybody to go to work.
A Jersey butcher was fined $3333 an ounce
for short weight on beefsteak. Almost
amounted to his profit on the sale.
The house gets its little vacation while the
senate sticks on the job. Occasionally the
greater body has the advantage of the lesser.
Wyoming coal miners say they are terror
lied by the foreigners amongst them. 1t doesn't
require great deal to brighten men sometimes.
The worst of the Washington /. w. w. bad
men surrendered without firing shot. His
spachst incnatons got the upper hand just in
time.
City funds are almost exhausted, but this is
normal for the season Sometime the year will
end with surplus, and then there will be
celebration
You may have noticed how the govern
ments efforts to reduce the cost of living Sue
ceeded. The promise was made in 1912, and
still holds good-never having been used
Again we are warned that if we do not feed
the Armenians they will starve. At any rate
the American commission can no longer pay
salaries, so its members are coming home.
Wall Street is still busy cleaning house"
and war brides are now getting back to where
ordinary stocks look like something. The
process may eliminate in lot of "mlllionaires"
trying to get their old jobs back again.
"Pussgfoot' johnson Scores
The London medical students who on
Thursday dragged "Pussyfoot' Johnson, the
temperance strategist, from a prohibition meet
;,c aud hore him through the streets on