Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-12

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Home rule for Omaha ought to come first.
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Paving and grading plans will follow the ac-
customed course for the present season, At
least
Tree planting 10 good practice for Nebras-
kans, but care should be taken to see that the
trees grow.
The legislature has just given Omaha folks
another strong hint to adopt home rule Will it
be acted on?
visiting missionary says the world war
was won by Standard Oil. This will relieve a
4 lot Of suspense.
Another American has been murdered in
Mexico, which fact will very likely cali for an
g other ultimatun.
Boshevism is so popular in Budapest that as
high as $1,000 is offered for an American pass
port to get away on.
Price-6xing will wait on the president again,
Y just as it did at first. His boards are not even
good rubber stamps
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OF his assistants, if he processes to read the
thoughts of his audience.
Emiliano zapata is reported killed again, but
this leaves him far behind Pancho Villa in the
number Of lives he has lost
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Ak-Sar-Ben is promised all the help he needs
in making his new show 60 big, for nothing he
undertakes ever falls down.
Our absent president seems to have remem-
bered that the home folks also are in need of
relief as well as those of Europe.
German delegates will be summoned to Yer
sailles in about three weeks, if you are still in
terested in the Peace conference.
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Director Hines says he is about through
raising wages for the time at least Taxpayers,
who are footing the bill, will hope so.
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Packers tell us meat prices wills continue
high until after hungry Europe is fed up. All
the more reason for insisting that the bolsheviki
go to work.
Do you suppose Newton D. Baker grinned
when he awarded the distinguished service
medal to General Wood? 1T was the secretary
who kept the general out of war.
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Yankee soldiers inclined to mutiny ought to
remember that they must come home some day,
and that wives and mothers will demand Of
them full explanation of their conduct.
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Quebec has rejected bone-dry prohibition by
"A round majority thus providing wet spot
much nearer than Europe. Montreal may find
itself great tourist center after July 1,
A Roman mob promptly dispersed an at
tempted parade Of Spartacans, as the Roman
soldiers disposed of the original Spartacus and
his Thracan followers some centuries ago
II Omaha can make vitrihed brick fit for pav=
ing roads, let US no longer delay the factory.
Millions Of these brick have been used here, and
millions more will be needed in the future.
Somehow the bootleggers bund appears to
get through any barrage the booze hounds are
able to lay down. You know, If there were no
hootleggers there would be no booze hounds.
The new "code" law promises business ad-
ministraton to Nebraska, as pledged by the
republican platform last year. incidentally, the
democrats are also redeeming their platform
pledges-for they made none.
Life in Berlin is just one strike after another,
bank clerks giving the latest demonstration
For we'll organized capital Of a race of super
men, the Berlinese are giving splendid imita-
ton of the damphool bolsheviki.
Court-Mdrtaal Revision
Secretary of War Baker would find his de-
cision to ask for law to revise our military
code received with more enthusiasm had he
makes today. No one doubts that all those al
the head of the army and the War department,
were without any desire to set UP merciless
code or to enforce the regulations that exist in
cold-blooded and heartless manner. Yet wher
the attention Of the secretary was called tc
obviously cruel and unusual sentences and &c
procedures of the most severe and illegal charac
ter, his first attitude towards his critics was tc
deny that any injustice were done, to defend the
code in force and to express surprise that any
complaints should be made at all in view of tn.
fact that he knew of no valid cause for criticism
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