United labor bulletin., 1914-07-18
THE OPTIMISTIC
PHILOSOPHER

This has been a great. grand and
glorious week for the o. p. We had
lots of pleasant, exhilirating fun with
out accumulating either Mysteries or a
remorseful morning after. There were
so many cheer-up Hello Bills in town
from every section of Uncle Sem's vast
domain that pessimists MD out and per-
haps may never recover from the fright
so much JOY gave them. One man trav.
eled all the way from Porto Rico, $500
miles, to be with the happy gang.
Others carried SO much Joy that they
forgot to locate their hotels after check.
ing in their baggage. particularly the
fellows from Great Falls. Mont. It was
eonservatively estimated that $4,000
Elks and visitors were in the. city Thurs
day when the big parade was pulled off
Denver well sustained the reputation
gained eight years ago when the Elks
held reunion here. There was no over
charging by hotels or restaurants and
the fellow with a short pocket got to
see the entire show and went home
promising himself to visit the mile high
city of lights and chivalrous people
again at the very first opportunity.
Scores of organized labor men were
among the visitors and quite num-
Der complimented The United Labor
Bulletin sanctum with visits. Come
again, lads and lassies.
Soon after the Atlanta special carry
ing herd of Georgia Elks to the re-
union arrived in the Denver corral last
Saturday afternoon, the o. p. called at
the Brown Palace to greet his old
friend, Col. Walter p. Andrews, past
exalted ruler of Atlanta lodge and all
round good fellow. w. p. was just
ready to take plunge in the bath when
the O. p. opened the door in response
to Come in" pitched in welcome
not cooled this genial Georgian's friend
ship for roaming political friend
Among other activities. the Colonel was
boosting Atlanta for the 1916 reunion
and we promised to return home" if
he succeeded in landing it. President
Wilson commissioned Col. Andrews to
visit the crowned heads OF Europe and
interest their governments in the Pan
anna exposition, and he recently returned
from six months tour ON this errand.
in which he was eminently successful.
But hobnobbing with the kings. queens.
dukes and what-nots OF Europe has not
swelled the Uranium of this Southern
Bill in the slightest measure, for he can
didly admits that he would rather sit
down to Dutch lunch with a bunch of
than dine and wine in the
royal palaces. For years the Colonel
has served on the finance committee OF
the Atlanta Federation OF Trades for
the annual Labor Day celebration and
always sees to it that sufficient funds
- nfxy ra.
quirements and leave snug balance.
This year he has decided to break into
politics on his own account and is
candidate for the state legislature, which
is some honor in Georgia, however II
may be held in Colorado OF course he
will be elected. and receive the solid
labor vote. as he deserves. and Will
prove n friend in office as he has IN
the capacity of plain citizen. II was
n rare treat to converse with the Col
onel about Georgia men and women,
politics, labor and business, and had
nothing else occurred to please the %.
p. during the big roundup. the measure
of optimism would have been brimful
Just the same.
Warden John Kenney OF the Denver
County Jail has turned philanthropist
in a way that may not meet approval
Of all those who are to be benefited ny
his new rule. Beginning next week he
viii have in operation training school
for work TO which many of his guests
will be introduced for the first time. A
modern. up-to date pile of rocks is being
established in the jail yard
and the art of crushing them to utility
size will form prominent feature OF
the curriculum. BY thus upsctting the
sleepy routine of his famous resort Tor
lazy personages of high and low degree,
the warden comes in for considerable
censure but declares his determination to
90 through with the program in the hope
of converting his idle guests into useful
citizens. The thing he has thus an
nounced is unprecedented in the County
Jail, where the guests have heretofore
been permitted to lounge and linger at
their own sweet will, without care or
worry as to food and lodging. All over
this land the superior accommodations
and comforts of this hostelry have been
written in mysterious hieroglyphics upon
box ears. barn doors and wayside fences,
SO that tourists might know. All this Is
changed by the new order of Warden
Kenney, who, however, somewhat softens
the blow by stating that primarily the
rock pile il introduced for the benefit
of supporters, who make their wives
do all the work. Then the professional
vag his been deemed worthy OF this new
school of work, who always looks upon
Denver's Jail as a soft berth. And thus
the luxurics of the voluntarily idle poor
are being circumscribed in the same
manner as the Rockefellers, who are
kept prisoners in their pile OF rock at
Tarrytown.
As ready money producer Denver