Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-17
The Optimistic
Philosopher


court OF plain, bomespun, honest
- people. On Monday Governor Carl
son vetoed the vicious bill passed by the
legislature which sought to abolish the
juvenile court and remove him from Of
flee On the same day the grand jury
filed Il report in the district court com
pletelv vindicating the Kids Judge" OF
t.ll the cslumnious charges made by the
l<h,eciaI interests and their minions- 1t
was !, great day for the little arabs OF
tho streets. whose champion and refuge
the Judge has been for the past twelve
wears Ii the last gasp of the
Beasts of the Jungle TO destroy the
man who exposed their corruption to the
people Of Denver and the nation Per
haps these rccurrent attacks upon Judge
Lindsey and his work will now cease. At
least this i the fevent prayer OF nine
tenths OF Dcnver's citizens. If the judge
has made known the rottenness OF Den.
Yer's politicians and corporations. and
hurt the towns good name. some pro-
claim. he has also done more to ahver-
;ise the humanitarian side of Denver
through his model juvenile court than all
other agencies combined. The o. =. con
graduates the Little Judge" upon HE
latest victory for civic righteousness
:.
At the Colorado Pioneer Printers stag
dinner, Monday evening, Ssiuinuel :.
i.andon said he had been able to get
rich because Of sufficient nerve to
quit the printing business and go into
something else. Way back in the Cos
he was working at the case on the Rocky
Mountain News and quit job paying
him $50 per week tn become route car
rier and solicitor on the same paper AT
T.l aHk t.tp ~
and other side lines. such a. real estate,
he said that at the end OF tn. year his
income exceeded 5000. about double
what he would have made working
steady at the case and freezing ont the
subs lie j. now president Of the Ian
don Abstract company and doesn't worry
about industrial or financial deprcsslons.
Yet said be. "my happirst moments
come when miugling with the old-time
prutsrs-T Frank l.. Bishop. president Of
The Home Savings and Trust COMPANY,
was another plutocratic printer present
vh- got away in time TO make good at
-nmrthing else Truth b.. i never ad-
vanccd further in the printing trade than
the cub stage said Bishop to- his rem
iui-cent talk The boys were setting
too fast a pace for me and was crowded
OFF the curb After selling papers for q
time ] graduated a. a bank messenger
Like the sailor Ia -Pinafon" who pol
i-hcd mp the handles Of the -oor %
brightly that IN time he bcca me master
Of the guecn's navy. Frank j. now head
Of the banking institution.
This truth column j. not conducted
altogether a. boost medium for the
City park roo. However. all matters OF
unusual import find this the proper We
hiele for reaching discriminating class
of readers. Therefore IL j. herewith re-
corded that another beaver has been
added to Commissioner of Property
Thum. interesting collection of chill.
jrcn'- pets How THE happened is the
"A ,ptcr-s,ing part OF the tale. Tuesday
morning the men employed at the Rio
Grandc roundhousc in Burnham were as
ionished to find a mammoth beaver lei.
surely inspected the moeul engines that
were putting away on the turntablc.
Twenty workmen quickly gathered and
formed a slip moose out OF baling wire.
and lassocd the animal by the tail. A
mammoth beaver has some tail. After
the beaver had been placed in = sheet
iron corral, Commissioner Thum was
reached by phone and acquainted with
the situation. Good, says he, Just
what want for the City park ZOO"
Bfih Ntt'il Naf' NaAA'
the prisoner TO the beaver colony in
City park. The animal evidently came
from Archer lake, near Burnham. and Is
thought TO have come down the Platte
river in search of building material.
Albert +. Hill. editor of the Nashville
Labor Advocate. has been elected prcsi-
dent OF the Tennessee state senate. This
j. a deserved honor TO - man of sterling
qualities who has done much to advance
the cause oi union labor in his own and
other southern states. For fourteen
years IN succession Hill has been elected
president OF Nashville Typographical un.
ION and il also chairman of the board Of
education in that city. new public
school having recently been given the
name OF Albert T.. Hill School He is