United labor bulletin., 1913-11-08

The ghosts of the past come trooping
up bearing the brick and stone;
Dig they the trenches broad and deep,
and shape foundations strong,
Whose good the future years may keep
when coming builders throng.
The savage strives for his home, his
brood, he fends for his race, his
kim
The workman tolls for the common
good that takes the whole world
Not only for dollars, which mean but
bread and refuge from rain and
snow,
But that peace may prosper. of war in
stead; for the Master willed it so.
A workman spread the heavens wide,
workman placed the SUM-
A master workman was satisfied when
the Maker said, We'll done"
Take We no shame If we but tools,
clumsy and dull and worn,
If over us infinite justice rule to
mould the years unborn.
O o O
Last Sunday was Church Attend
ance Day in Denver and it is estimat-
ed $4,000 of the city's good people
were present at divine worship, many
for the first time in years. The o. p.
occupied pew in the First Baptist
church at the morning service and
was intensely interested in the elo-
quent sermon of DIR. A. II. G. Morse,
who had for his subject, Revelations
in the Rainbow" Other distinguished
personages present were Governor
Ammons, Mrs. Ammons and Miss Am
mons. Mayor Perkins. Commissioner
of Property Otto F. Thum. Commis-
sioner of Finance Claire J. PITCHER,
Supreme Court Justices Tullly Scott
and S. Harrison White. Judges Edwin
W. Hurlbut, John C. Bell and Alfred
King of the Court of Appeals, and l..
C. Harrington, chairman of the Public
Institutions Committee of the Trades
and Labor Assembly. There may have
been others. Then as If to empha-
size the progressive spirit of Denver
a moving picture machine was sta
toned in front of the church to pro-
claim to all the world that statesmen,
politicians. labor editors and agitators.
and other mortals of more common
clay, do really attend chruch IL Den
ver-sometimes.
Why girls leave home and men de-
sert their wives has been told so often
that everybody who can read knows
the answer. However, it remains for
the o. p. to solve the perplexing
problem of why men don't go to
church. Here 1t is: The vanity of
woman. Sunday more men attended
than usual-daily papers give the ex-
cess at $1,000. Speaking from person
al experience. 1t was not an unalloyed
success. While the o. p. was ushered
to a perfectly good seat. his view of
the preacher and augmented choir
was completely eclipsed when three
women, covered with the latest word
in millinery art, occupied the pew in
front The forest of plumes. aigrettes
(which are prohibited by law. roost-
er feathers and velvet gee-gaws COM
PEELED an elevation of the optics so
that only the arched frescoed ceiling
and tip of the longest pipe in the big
organ were visible. Perhaps 1898
other of the male recruits on this
special day suffered like discomfort
and vowed not to attend church again
until the women, who here in Colora-
do demand all the rights and privil-
eyes of men, are compelled to doff
their hats, as they are in the theaters
and moving picture shows.
How much food does an average
normal man consume in a lifetime?
In view of the present high cost of
foodstuffs this Is an interesting sub
ject. A scientist with love for sta
tistics has Investigated the whole
question; and, according to this author
ity, the average old gentleman, dur
ing the process of attaining his three
score years and ten. disposes of some
thing like fifty-four tons of solid food
and fifty-three tons of liquid. He will
have eaten $1,000 eggs, 400 pounds OF
cheese, about four tons of fish and,
could it have been all baked at once,
a loaf of bread equal in size to an or
binary family hotel. But think of the
vegetables devoured! Our scientist
says train three miles long would
be required to bring life's supply to
the average man; though in this same
train 1t might also be possible to carry
his half ton of tobacco, his 10000
pounds Of sugar and his 1,500 pounds of
salt.