Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-03

men and Daniels is yelling at coz
gress to appropriate $4,000, 000,U00
, to build the largest navy in the
world What's the idea? Are we
going TO have peace or are we going
to fight? If we are going to fight,
who are we going into next2
We have licked the Hun and have
established peace in Europe and now
1 am in favor Of calling our boys
home, and then IL the ragtag and
bobtail of Germany, Austria and
Russia want to fight among them
selves, let 'em fight and be damned.
Economist" has a letter in The
Bee urging people to economics on
meat consumption in order that we
may send more rib roasts and sirloifi
steaks over to Europe. He says we
can and should eat more liver, kid
neys, melts, brains, pigs shouts and
oXtails, ETC., etc, and thus release
the better cuts for export, but he
failed to mention the horns, hOofs
and hair. What's the matter with a
nice hoof roast with curled hair for
punishment? I have a picture in
my mind of an American citizen eat
ing boiled horns in order that we
may send T-bone steaks across the
water to feed that bunch Of bolshev-
Tx hobos. ..
It was a democratic theory that
the government should take over the
railroads in order to improve the
transportation situation. so McAdoo
steps out and grabs all the rail-
roads in sight, and the transporta-
ton system was never in such a de-
plorable condition as 1t is today. Ao-
cording to McAdoo's own statement,
it is headed for the rocks, so he
dumps the whole job on congress
and gracefully resigns. am won
dering if there are going to be any
more designations: there should be.
felt fine when Bryan quit.
Burleson is the man who is enc
titled to the keys to the bakery.
What does it matter II there are
tons and tons of letters to our boys
overseas piled up In New York. Let
ters that contain thousands and thou
sands Of dollars that represent the
hard earnings of loving mothers who
wished to send little comfort to
their dear ones in the trenches.
Those that died on the battlefield
couldn't read the letters anyway, and
those who lived to come back could
get the news when they got home. so
why bother about a small matter
like that when we were busy taking
over the telegraph, telephone and
cable systems as a war measure az
ter the war was over. Some people
never will resign.
And now we read that the doors
of the Fort Leavenworth peniten-
tiary have been thrown omen and
113 conscientious DIRECTORS" have
been given a clean bill of health and
an honorable discharge Hurrah
for the American eagle, she is some
bird. Then in addition to that, we
are told that each man got a new
suit of citizens clothes and $400
back pay" Back pay for what2
am wondering what our boys who
went "over the top" and barred their
breasts to the Hun bayonets will
think Of Mr.. Bakers magnanimous
act in turning this bunch of pro-
Ierman slackers loose on decent
society while they were fighting and
lying that they might have a decent
country to live in. is there a premi-
I'm on disloyalty in this country?
Will the intrened Germans get back
1ay?" Charity covers a multitude OF
iins and the Lord knows that she
las got to spread herself in some
asses, but there is such a thing as
becoming sentimentally crazy.
81. JOHN CURTIS JENKINS.