05 Aug 1922
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Newspaper
Omaha Morning Bee
Location
Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1922
Page
1
The Bee Publishing Company listing shows positions and contact details for editorial and office staff. It includes addresses at Atlantic Editorial Department and offices in New Orleans with several street listings and contact lines for applicants.
A collage of opinion pieces contrasts smuggling impacts from the Bahamas and British law with a Kansas farmers’ stand against direct primaries. It pairs wartime style prose on illegal liquor flows with critiques of modern political machinery and calls for traditional values.
A reflective essay argues the electorate bears blame for government waste and corruption. It notes Harding has made strides but calls for voter reform, citing educated participation as essential to lower taxes and better officials.
The Omaha Dee shows June 1922 average paid daily circulation at 71 741, up 12 207 from June 1921. The June 1903 Sunday figure is 17 034, with a large year over year gain surpassing other daily or Sunday papers.
A Lincoln backed Hitchcock Bryan Mullen effort denounces Republican governor candidate McMullen as a target of smear. The piece accuses Democrats of using insinuation and unnamed sources to sow distrust while urging a clean, issue driven race amid a united Republican front.
The State Board of Equalization reports a one third levy cut and a property valuation drop of 120,982,041 with taxpayers saving 3,589,398.26. Special sessions trimmed over 2,000,000 in appropriations, narrowing costs and centralizing spending for Nebraskans. A column also debates a Tennessee primary stunt voting for a dead candidate and laments a perceived lack of strong leaders in public life.
The passage cites William J. Langer and other state heads whose grand plans failed due to human incapacity to meet the demands of their created situation.
The note on the Balfour policy sparks cross Atlantic points on debt cancellation and armament. Lloyd George seeks ten million dollars for home defense airplanes while France plans vast spends on a trans Sahara railroad. Russia and Trotsky loom, while Germany seeks reparations relief and Kiel canal fortification. America remains hopeful but urges European leaders to abandon force and pursue justice and equity.
A column asserting religious liberty for Rev. William Sanford, urging tolerance of diverse beliefs and free worship. It muses on Nebraska center geography, notes Seattle’s planned observatory, and wryly comments on crime, strikes, and politics with short vignettes and quips from Second Thought by HW. M. Stansifer.
Public letter defending Omaha bystanders note the library as a city asset and praise its arrangement staff and museum. The writer also commends the Society of Fine Arts and wealth in the community aiding public uplift.
In Bartley Nebraska Elise Hoffstrand dedicates a lyric to Nebraska praising its valleys, banners, and harvests. The verse exalts Nebraskas beauty from violets to crimson auroras and speaks of devotion and return, closing with a pledge to press the poet’s arms to the state’s hills.
A letter from Union Nebraska questions whether words like cafe and ara are still considered foreign in Webster’s International. The editor notes cafe and ara remain non Anglicized in the dictionary while others are listed as English words.
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