Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-24

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You should know that
Omaha entertained lit conven-
II tons during the year 1919, at 4
which more than $4,000 delegates
were in attendance.
\ What The Bee Stands For:
l.'Respect for the law and maintenance Of
order.
al { Speedy and certain punishment OF crime
IN through the regular operation OF the
IN courts
M ). Pitiless publicity and condemnation OF
IN ineficiency lawlessness and eorrup
ton in Office.
l. Frank recognition and commentator
of honest and efficient public service.
5. Incubation OF Americanism Is the true
basis Of good citizenship.
Merry Christmas!
Do it today, or neverl
Here's hoping your turkey is all the bird
N ought TO pc!
All ready for the air mail service? Let
her go.
Lloyd George believes, in meeting trouble
head on.
friangles are still trianges and do not
Aatten out on pressure.
Edwin Box may have shocked his tenants
but he never did his readers.
Be calm. 1t is Milwaukee, not the United
States, that suffers because of Berger.
Laciede had the biggest day since its base
4 Ball team won from Centerve back in 1885,
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Packers talk Of higher prices for meat or
\ lower for animals. One guess as to which wins.
The deported reds may not know by this
Atime whittier they. are speeding, but they know
s they are on the way,
4 Maybe if Lloyd George gets Ireland all
\ Strengthened out he can do as much tor THE
Omaha city council.
Trotzky is telling OF an offensive against
Poland in the spring? Why spring' aIrotzky
is offensive at any season.
Attorney General Palmer ought TO scan the
household budget before he emits another
proclamation on the h. c. of |.
The local glld of burglah does not seem
10 care darn who is at the head of the police
force. or whether it has any head.
s% @ts1 #
Princess Pat now has real boy, but it
will take him long time to come up to the
gallant lads who bore his mothers name into
battle.
Local coal dealers tell US the addition Of the
miners wages to the cost Of fuel will be so
small no one will notice it. Why go to the
bother?
II must have interested the Omaha police to
hear . boy confess robberies they had not
heard Of But lots Of things 60 on without
disturbing the police.
Commander dOlier's advice to the legion
aires that they do not take the law into their
own hands is we'll timed These young men are
to aid in unfolding the law at all times.
If the Christmas holiday recess enables the
senators to reach conclusion on the treaty it
will be time we'll spent But the big thing is
that each side will have to give way on some
points if there is to be compromise.
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The Perils Of Peace
What we face today is the inevitable out
come of a policy of opportunsm We have
had government of opportunists, instead Of
statesmen; men who were satisfied with the
\ splaudits of the moment; men who believed tina,
"A life was matter of promises and fine words
men who cared not where they got their polit
ical support, so long as it helped them out
of the difficulty of the moment, furthered Their
personal ambitions or fattered their personal
yanities.
For this we have made our great sacrifice
Our sons lie buried in foreign lands in needless
q thousands because we were not permitted tc
rrncare for the inevitable. we had 70 he KEN