Denver labor bulletin., 1915-06-26
The Optimistic
Philosopher

printer or a volunteer sOncltOr on
any of the teams campaigning the
- city to raise fund of S250, 600 for
the Children's hospital He holds the
dignified position of foreman at the
Wahlgreen Printing company and re-
ceives over the union scale of wages,
hence is never broke or worried about
a place to sleep or a feed at regular
.b-crs. Therefore he was rudely shocked
a made to feel like a poor mendicant
last Saturday night when the new Irish
office guard at the Post stopped him
at the foot of the stairway as he
was about to ascend to the composing
room. II was about l2 o'clock and
Joe, who breads to 60 home alone
in the dark on Saturday nights, was
calling for his friend, Louis Goodale,
a linotype operator, who lives in the
same block out on Garfield place, to
act as company and ward off highway
men. The new Irish guard employed by
Bon and Tam to keep suspicious char
acters going upstairs from the office
lobby, didn't like Joe's looks and wanted
to know his business. When Joe re-
piled that he was a printer and wanted
to see one of the boys in the composing
room, the guard told him: Those boys
up there have been panhandled enough
this week and I don't think / will per-
init you to play the game tonight. Be-
sides, they won't get paid until Monday,
and most OF them are broke" At this
critical moment Jake Wander Perel, just
off work, came down the steps and prop
erly introduced Joe to the new Irish
guardsman. A truce protocol was at
once established and Joe given permis-
sion TO 60 upstairs for his friend, Louie.
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Congressman Ed Heating of Pueblo
was in Denver this week and made n
social call on the o. p. in The Bulletin
sanctum. This Is the first opportunity
Ed has had to circle around among his
friends and constituents in Colorado
since first elected to congress in 1912.
His district, the Third, is one of the
largest in area in the United States, and
he u trying to pay each county a visit.
Il takes in nearly all Of Colorado south
OF Colorado Springs. runs up on the east
and wraps around Denver. Many Den
verites who reside in suburban towns are
voters in Eds district. so that he comes
here TO meet them. Heating is one of
the leaders OF the Labor group in con
gress and has made splendid record.
and i national representative of whom
nation are justly proud. For several
years he was managing editor Of the
Rocky Mountain News when that paper
was owned by former Senator Thomas
NJ. Patterson, and in this capacity al
ways gave the working people square
deal through the columns of that paper.
Before taking up reportorial and edito-
rial work he was a printer and member
of Denver Typographical Union No. 40.
As n printer, editor and statesman, Ed
Heating has always been on a common
level with the boys and is known among
them as a good fellow.
ENiss Ruth Maria Purcell, a stenog-
r1pher In the offices of the American
Federation Of Labor at Washington, ID. c.
has ben picked by n committee at the
Panama Pacific exposition in San Fran
cisco as the most beautiful woman in
America. And this is sure some CON-
pliment to the American labor move
mcnt Miss Purcell was chosen in n pop
ular voting bee as Washington's rep
re-entativc in the national beauty con-
test. there being representatives sent 10
San Francisco from all the leading cities
in the United States and Canada. Three
weeks ago Miss Purcell and n bevy of
other Eastern beauties was in Denver
for a day on the way to the Pacific
coast, and some Of the discriminating
labor lights here prophesied she would
be crowned queen of American female
beauties when the San Francisco fair
judges passed ON real classics. of all
the contestants, six were selected for
final judgment. The judges used the
sevcrest standard of beauty known and
they found Miss Purcell a3.s per cent
perfect. The next five in standing were
Miss Clara McAbcc. baltimore, 92; Miss
Peggy Dolan. Newark. DIS; Miss Agnes
Cheney. Concord. n. H., 9o.4; Miss Jean
McNicoll, Minneapolis. SOC. and Miss
Opal Crumbliss, Omaha, SOS. Sammy
Gompers and Frank Morrison will un-
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