United labor bulletin., 1914-05-30
THE OPTIMISTIC
PHlLO OSOPHER

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Post, engaged bunch of husky amateur
athletic newsies to sell the Express ex-
clusively on the principal downtown cor
ners. This movement sorely aggravated
''the paper with heart and SOUL" like
wise torpid liver, SO its trough house
brigade" was called on to assault the
Express street statesmen and drive them
from forbidden territory. The battle was
waged in strict accord with instructions
| issued from the Royal Red Room of the
Champa Street Rose; but the Cherokee
street kids held their ground in fine or
der, while the police patrol carted off the
more or less disfigured rough housers.
Judge Stapleton read them lecture on
territorial rights and let it go. And so
the Little Denver Express newsies are
still doing business, with largely increas-
ing street sales, while the Big Denver
Post has been compelled to acknowledge
| defeat. At least the o. p. is again able
| to purchase all three evening papers in
a bunch for a nickel.
Up in st. Paul, Mimi, the other day
Judge Grier NJ. Orr of the Criminal
Court sentenced 20-year-old boy to 40
years at hard labor in the state peni-
tentiary for robbing a man of Sl.s5, all
of which was spent for food. The boy
told the court that he had endeavored
to get work, had applied to charity So
cieties for aid, but all in vain. He was
charged with first degree highway rob-
berry and the well-fed judge gave the boy
the full penalty OF the law, which is
practically life sentence, and should
he live it out will emerge from prison
a decrepid old man. Here in Denver
is shown brighter picture, where a
criminal judge, who sat on the West
Side Court bench for l6 months, has APP
pealed to Governor Ammons to reduce
the sentences upon several men whom he
considers were too severely punished for
their crimes during the earlier period OF
this judges administration. Governor
Ammons has refused to concede this re-
quest. but it only emphasizes that
Charles c. Butler is one of the most con-
scientious, righteous judges who ever dig
nified the bench in Colorado. A care
ful study of human nature and the
causes OF crime which make men whose
chief offense is being unemployed become
victims of a disorded social system,
caused Judge Butler to be more lenient
in melting out penalties to offenders dur
the latter months OF his jurisdiction in
the West Side, and he wanted the gov
ernor to harmonic the earlier sentences
with those given later and tempered by
more enlightened sense of justice.
Judge Butler believes that severe penal
ties do not correct crime, and that courts
of justice should look deeper into the
causes which make criminals. There is
a.vast dividing line between Judge Orr
of st. Paul and Judge Butler of Denver
Any betterments to society at large will
come through such broad-minded men
who temper justice with mercy as ex-
emplified so humanely by the Denver
judge.
| When the Denver park board insisted
that all park employees wear kahki uni
| forms this summer there was open and
| loud rebellion among the more than 800
men who perform this useful public serv-
ice. Yellow kahki uniforms are not pop
ular in Colorado this year, thanks to the
Chases, Hamrocks, Carsons and Linder-
| felts. So the United Laborers, composed
| largely of park employees, sent com
mittee. headed by President John Sal
mond. before the board to tell them that
| the uniform which had been made n
badge of disgrace by the Colorado Ma
tional Guard was very offensive to the
men who gave honest toll for a stipend
| of $3.50 per day. Salmond told members
OF the board that good jumper overalls,
made in Denver, bearing the union label,
ought to be good enough to please fas-
| tidious visitors to the parks, and was
soon able to convince a ma jority OF the
| park board that this was so. Therefore
the yellow kahki uniform was cast aside
for the regulation Bayly- -Underhill Den
made union product, and an order
for 1926 suits given.
| 60. -
Ellis Graham of the Stage Employees
| Union and n big crew of nifty artists are
busy ut the Broadway theater scenic
studio creating startling decorative in
novations for the Elks' reunion in July.
Ellis and his assistants made great
hit with their Knights Templar conclave
decorations last summer, but promise
something even bigger and better for
| the Elks. Most of the Broadway studio
output will be seen on the Court Of
Honor. from Thirteenth TO Eighteenth
on Champa At the Thirteenth street
end will be scene depicting sunset in
| the Rockies, while at Eighteenth street
will be reared giant elk. nodded true
to nature. The figure will be 4s feet
long and of approximately equal height
from the hoofs TO the tip of the antlers.
| The top of the head will be Ga feet above
| the pavement. 1t will surmount crng,
| stained like the rocks Of the mountains,
which will extend from curb to curb,
with driveway underneath the whole
width of the street, leaving space of
eight feet in the clear for the passage
of automobiles. Staff will be the ma
terial from which the heroic figure will
be fashioned, and bits of glass will be
| fastened to the sides SO that when the
| illumination is turned on the elk will
glisten in the rays Of the powerful clec-
| trio lamps concealed in the pedestal.
This will undoubtedly prove the big
idea" of the decorative effects. II will
be five feet higher than the mounted
knight of the conclave.