United labor bulletin., 1914-12-19

his reward. but his good works continue
TO live and Craig colony stands as one
OF the most noble monuments erected
to the memory Of any man in COLORADO.
This revival OF the gold industry also
viii make work good at the Denver
mint, where all OF Colorado's gold Is
nodded into bars and some portion of
il made into coin OF exchange. The
Christmas rush at the mint is about
over. some sl5.ooo.0oo in gold coins ha,.
ing been produced recently. Reading
about this in the papens. the o. =. last
week paid his first visit to the mint,
notwithstanding his having besn a rest
dent of Colorado for something owe.
seven years On the particular day On
our visit the force was busy turning
out double eagles $50 gold coinsl. In
the stamping room n man would take
a truck load up to the weighing machine
and then cart them TO the milling ma.
chine. Each truck load represented
$4,000. but while they all passed tanta.
liringly close, were Just beyond reach.
Before being stamped the pretty discs
are 30 shiny and smooth that it oc-
CURED to the o. p. that they would be
fine for poker chips; just the right size
One machine was turning out dimes and
they are fed in through a hopper like
corn at grist mill Superintendent An.
near explained that this hopper when
recently introduced did away with the
services of one man on each machine.
First time II ever occurred to us that
Uncle Sam practiced sucn small econo-
mics in his money factories. At pres-
ten there are only three mints opcrat-
ing in the United States: Denver, San
Francisco and Philadelphia. The one in
Denver contains more gold in bars and
coin than the other two combined;
somewhere around 5000, 100000. Need
less to say, a perfectly safe and reliable
force of guardsmen is on duty day anu
night.
There's something in the mile-high
atmosphere of Denver conducive to di-
vorcc suits. Records in the District
Court show that for every two weddings
there is one divorce. That happy marital
germ of which the poets sing seems TO
work in reverse order where women
have many exclusive clubs and mingie
freely with male politicians on equal
terms. When hubby comes home from
work and learns thht WHEY is at crup
debating sex hygiene or out campaign
ihk ioE tnc pouttch cAnuiuute Oh tnc
party opposed to the one he espouses. a
pccvishncss naturally creeps into his
system then the family circle is
Jared. Twenty-one years of woman
suffrage in Colorado has neither puri.
fled politics nor made the family fire.
side more cheerful. Quite the reverse,
when one reads Of the rotten politics
disclosed in the federal industrial rcla.
tions commission and scans the divorce
court records. During the year Just
closing n new high record Of divorce
cases has been made. Judge Ira @ Roth.
gerber of the County Court, where about
three -fourths of ali Denver divorce nc.
tions are begun, declares himself com.
pletely discouraged and disgustcd. And
II isn't the fault Of the mon. either.
because figures compiled by J. Sher~
man Brown, clerk of the District Court,
show that Of l,o65 actions begun so fan
this year only $50 were initiated by
husbands. When the complete score fos
1914 Is chalked up It will show approx
imately 1000 divorces granted in Den.
yer. It would seem to bc up to the
women to indicate wherein equal suf-
fraRc has added to the sum total Of
human happiness, either in Colorado o,
elsewhere.