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Denver labor bulletin., 1917-06-30
STRAWBERRIES
RIPE FOR CANNING
CHEAPEST OF THE SEASON
NEXT WEEK.
Tendency Is to Lower Prices All
Along the Line; Potatoes Have
Taken Tumble aud May Lose
Their Aristocratic Position.

Indications are for very reasonable
prices, if not downright low prices for
Strawberries Saturday. Prices will
probably be 10c to 15c per box and
from $2.25 to $500 per crate. Next
week will be the big strawberry week
of the season and those who wish to
put up Strawberries should put them
up before the fourth if they can or as
soon after as possible. The fruit will
after and dealers believe it will be as
cheap per crate.
Loganberries are selling at 2 for
25c and zoe per box, and S2.25 and
$3.75 per crate. Blackberries are SELL
ing at 20c per large box and small
boxes 2 for 25c. Now is the best time
to put up gooseberries, they are extra
good and selling at s1.S5 per crate, or
3 boxes for 25c. Pineapples are S1.75
to 50 per dozen, there are no large
sizes on the market. Next week there
on the market but they will all be
very small sizes and if anything lit
tie higher than the Cubans.
Apricots from California are very
nice, selling at $3.50 per crate; large
basket, 65c; small basket, 25c; Califor-
mia plums are 25c to 35c for pony baN-
kets, and 65c to 75c for the largo
baskets.
Ripe tomatoes, per lb., 15e; peaches,
per lb., 25c; oranges, doz., 20c 70 60c;
grape fruit, 10c to 20c each; lemons,
40c per h.; pie cherries, 15c to zoe
per box; bananas, per doz., 30c, 35c
and 40c
The flour market has made no
change since last week, the Legal Ten
der, Longmont Special and other pri-
vate brands selling at S5.95 and the
Hungarian Patent and Pride of the
Rockies at S6.05 per sack. Sugar has
advanced in the Eastern markets and
dealers expect a raise in price here
before Saturday morning, however the
large downtown stores say they will
not advance over their present price
of SS.25 for beet and S8.65 for cane
before Monday morning. You can buy
10 and IL lbs, of sugar for 81.
The butter market is the same as
last week, the private brands selling
at 3Sc per h., 2 lbs, 75c. The other
Denver brands selling at 43c per lb.,
2 lbs, S5c; tub butter, per lb., 35c;
eggs, per doz., 35c and 40c.
There has been decided decline in
a number of staple vegetables. New
potatoes are now 8 lbs. for 25c instead
of a, and S4.90 per cwt., instead of
$3.50. Bermuda onions have declined
to lbs, 25c; crystal wax to lbs,
25c; new cabbage is now selling at 5
lbs, 25c; leaf lettuce, for &c; rad
ishes, 3 punches, SC; green onions, 3
punches, 10c; egg plant, each 20c and
25c; cucumbers, each 15c and zoe;
caulifiower, per lb., zoe; bunch beets,
carrots and turnips, large punches, &c;
green wax beans, lbs, 35c; small
green peas, lbs, 25c and the tele-
= n
each 10c.
Meats remain at about the same
prices as for the past two or three
weeks.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-06-30
Splendid Patriotism of Colorado Citizens

Splendid indeed has been the of Coorados patriotism
during past weeks This
$1ooooooo worth of Liberty Loan bonds When the figures
purchased
of SI8ooo,ooo almost double original
alone subscribed for S3oooooo Then the
the Red
RADIO has given $5ooooo the National
Coloados registration under conscription
shows higher of the population majority
Her of has a
the czenry of this Colorado doing
a high privilege do
Never there assembled unselfsh,
ready service
their time and their Certainly
proud privilege to be enrolled among citizenship
call of a nations needs.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-06-30
M L LII ON DO L L A r
T H o u G H is
By SCOTT NEARING.

People who count their incomes in
hundreds of dollars find it difficult to
think in terms Of that part of the re-
port of the United States commissioner
of internal revenue for the year 1916
which deals with the taxes levied on
the incomes of corporations and of in
dividuals.
The corporations of the country
paid $56,653,594 as the regular cor
poration income tax of / per cent on
net earnings. This means that the
190,911 corporations on which the tax
was levied, after paying all of their
business expenses, including the fixed
charges of the business, had about
five and one-half billions left for the
year 1916.
The commissioner notes that "tak-
ing the 1915 figures as a basis this
represents an increase during the fis-
cal year of approximately 43 per cent
in the aggregate net income of the
corporations making taxable returns"
These war years have been great ones
for dividends greatest that Amer
lean business has ever known.
Some individuals were equally for
tunate in their 1916 incomes. The
returns for individual incomes show
that there were 374,652 persons (al-
most exactly one in each 800 of the
total population) with taxable incomes
of more than three thousand dollars.
The great bulk of these people-about
two hundred and fifty thousand had
incomes of less than ten thousand dol
lars a year. There were 84.432 per-
sons, however, with incomes between
ten thousand and one hundred thou
sand dollars; 3,704 persons received
incomes between one hundred thou
sand and a million dollars, and 120
persons enjoyed incomes of one mil
lion dollars and over for the year
1916.
There has been some talk in the
past about the inalienable rights of
American citizens. We have been con-
graduating ourselves upon the fact
that equal opportunity is one of the
blessings that Nature has bestowed
upon the citizens of this fair United
States. 1t requires an astonishing
degree of optimism, however, not to
mention wealth Of patriotic senti-
ment, to read the figures of corpora
ton and individual incomes on the one
hand and to note on the other the es-
innate made by the United States
health bureau last summer that some
thing like five or six million Ameri-
can families out of total Of twenty
millions, were living in poverty. APP
parently those persons who have what
Shelly described as "passion for
reforming the world" still have field
for activity in the United States.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-06-30
HERALDED CONSPIRACY IN LEADVILLE
IS NOT SUCH A CALAMIT0US AFFAIR
Miners Failed Register Because of
They Would Have Fight Countrymen; Threatened
Strike of Miners Creates Concern in
Mile High Mining Camp

City Miners Union No. 33 have held
several meetings at which the COM
missions report was discussed A
conference with n committee of mine
operators was asked by letter as n re-
suit of one of these meetings. The
last special meeting of the union was
held Saturday night last in Knights
of Columbus hall. About 100 MEM
bers were present. Officials of the
organization said last night that sixty
seven new applications for member
ship were received.
Notify Mine Operators.
"The committee on wage scale sub
mitted the following letter. which was
approved by the meeting and ordered
sent to all mine operators of the
Lcadville district:
Our letter Of the 1ath inst. re-
questing conference of you was not
given the courtesy of reply. which
we expected and which would have
been n beneficial measure TO all inter
estcd in the mining industry of this
locality. Therefore we demand the
following increase Of wages to be
paid, retrospective to June 10, 1917.
to-wit: One dollar increase per man
per day for all employed in and around
the mines.
Your answer must be posted at
the mine or in our Office not later than
June 2S, 1917.
The issue rests with you'll
Respectfully submitted,
d" Cloud City Miners Union No. 33 of
the international Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers,
ELI F0iLETT, Secretary
"A motion to appoint committee TO
confer with mine operators was car
ried. and by another motion which car
ried this committee was instructed to
report back to the union for final ac-
ton. 1t was moved that n special
meeting be held on Thursday evening,
June 2S, at 7:30 o'clock.
Peaceful Settlement Hoped.
This matter of the demand for an
increase for all employed in the mines
is very important one and the inter-
est which the people of Leadville take
in the affair is great indeed. OF course
everyone is anxious that there shall
be n peaceful and satisfactory out
come, but it is hard to tell Mt this time
just what events will bring forth.
Here's hoping there will be no trouble
and that everyone concerned will be
satisfied with the result. ! might go
on with my opinion of the industrial
commission, but what's the use.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-06-30
Peaceful Settlement Hoped.
A CLINCUER.

Pat O'Flaherty, very palpably not n
prohibitionist, was arrested in Ari-
zona recently charged with selling
liquor in violation of the prohibition
law. But Pat had an impregnaBle de-
fensc. His counsel, in addressing the
jury, said:
"Your honor, gentlemen of the jury.
look at the defendant"
A dramatic pause, then:
"Now, gentlemen of the jury. do you
honestly think that If the defendant
had n quart Of whisky he would sell
it?"
The verdict, reached in one minute,
was mot guilty."-Everybody's.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-06-30

One moral of the automobile THEW
cry case is that some purchasers arc
altogether too Indifferent about tho
past careers Of their secondhand cars.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-06-30

If anyone doubted that present food
prices were the result of anything 9TH
er than pure graft on the part of
greedmongers, the statement Of Her
bert C. Hoover should set them right.
He says there is plenty of food in the
country for all, and to spare.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-06-30

If you want to keep the non-taxable
government bonds out of the hands of
plutocratic financiers buy one yourself
and have your union follow suit.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-06
To Choose Own Trade.

SO far as possible an injured man IL
allowed to choose which trade he viii
earn. but sometimes 1t has proved nee
sssary to persuade him TO undertake
another. The vocation" directors ar,
men of long experience who can often
udge more wisely than the patient
aimself. For instance. some man may
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-06
THRIFT IN OLD HOSIERY.
Suggestion That Women's Stockings
Re- Used for Neckties.

Phllndclphia Record II was year
ago that "a woman--from kentucky' We
bcllcye-polntod out the enormous waste
In wonen's stockings, They ar" very
long. and there IL only a small part oi
them that gets much wear; hut tina,
part being worn. all that cxpanse oi
hosiery which IL not Intended 10 be seen
and which IL intact. must be discarded.
Her lament over the waste Of millions
In stockings OF irreproachable legs, but
dcplorahlc feet, has set earnest people
10 thinking. ana the last step of ocon'
oiny has been taken.
The problem was naturally solved by
woman possibly by n million women.
II would certainly never have occurred
TO man. And yet Il concerns the men.
II concerns them very closely. II has
occurred to woman that when the feet
OF the stockings, more or less mutilated
by friction with the shoe, are deity
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-06
roo FED TO lHE ARMY.
Fed Biii for the Animals at Hamburg
Was Too High.

! Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "All tn
ferocious beasts. numbering thousands
formerly in the vast supply 700 of thu
Haecnbach Brothers. at Hamburg, have
been butchered and fed to the kaiser!
soldiers" said G. w. Meredith, n 10
Angeles manufacture. at a Seattle
hotel. Mr.. Meredith was at Hambur
and Travelled extensively In Germany
just before America entered the war.
The tiger diet may account for cor
tain deeds on certain occasions" he
said, but certain it is the deni1cns OF
the inlmeusec 200 were used as army
food. 1t was impossible to supply then
with meat and other rations. The zoos
daily feed bill was enormous. The col
lection included lions. tigers. iaGuars
ieopards. the rhinoceros. and hippopot
anus -specirnens Of almost every Jun.
gle beast ana reptile"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-06

amputated. tho remaining portion Is
about the length of a mans necktie.
Hero is n chance % plug the leak "
the family rcsouS"s. This long tube
wrought of Sea island cotton. ana col
orod with scores of hues that were not
invented when the rainbow was made
can be utilized ~ the husbands neck
I lie when the wife finds hole. Darninf
is too troublesome aud has gone out oi
fashion. and IL wouldn't do at all. be
cause with the present style or gowns
Il would show. Millions OF dollars
worth of stocking legs can be used as
mems neckties. Nothing could bo more
sontlm, ntnl than for an engaged sifl
10 give all her disabled stockings q
hor fiance. or "A more overwhelming
proof OF his passion for her than his
Willingness To wear them.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-06
n, 'C<s,.rosl,s. Marriott.


war without crippies. That
what this war is 10 be- 80 far a,
'~America's aimies are concerned. NJ
snsn can justly lac called a cripple whit
w sisir and cpoa competition with hli
siSD~vr is abb Go carn a. living ~ goot
as ar better than t'e Gid before he was
wounded: and Uncle sam promises ex
sctIy this ability u n very high per
scntage of the mon who IN former
Ayara would have Socg considered hope
.less nrorilS- That he does no, promise
dyno.nntiy or vainiy rs proved ICY tho
.csales sircSdy attained IN France and
EnEiand. IN tho wark. OF; ;"reeducating'
sho. permasepfsy injured. Tho war in
smrance BILL nov pending In Congress
s,rovid,ss' the money aha the fiachinery
S9- this woRderfBi work -, ~''''"
2y The terms OF this bill the United
t;,a,rs not rneroiy instlIcs that crippled
,,.i hljnded soldiers shall not. starve;
st Also iiisarcs. sitsraly, that nine out
,,f ten OF them shall be restored To
;isir normal ability and earning
rapacity. The. wr may have its killed,
hnt Jincie Sum says II shall havt
no erippioS In the usual meaning Of
TIE word.
az has long been known that soldier
ing is really beneficial to the great
majority Of those VINO engage in IL.
The outdoor life, resuinr exercise.
wholesome and abundant food. and
:. aiming in the care OF the body con
Ter lifelong benefits. Statistics show
Thai even this great war will benefit
at least IL cut Of every 1S soldiers who
ieacb the front moi only physically but
also economically. for their physical
.,iperiority VIII undoubtedly win for
them an economic superiority over
those who see no service in the field.
T7as other two GU, OF fifteen seem to
.rensin 10 gay ase ,price. Dan they do
.iat pay IL as s4ey.hayc done in former
wars. The goyosGment, by It's system
Of insnrance-slSt ,sensiops nor charity.
but insurance. the premiums for which
arr paid by seryice-agrees To provide
far the families Of nearly half Of them
the half that pay the last great debt3
and IL further promises the other half
thai they shall be so reeducated that
they will be able to take an equal part
aud many Of them a better part in the
life Of the world than they would have
.ssne IL they had not gone to war at all.
EAssQps From Europe.
Instannas drawn from the experience
N the European powers are many An
aforetine Iab0er insa steel mill. who
has lost both legs. becomes repairer
NJ motor engines; a carpenter with one
.srm becomes a turner at double pay; q
blinded blacksnfth becomes. by the aid
lraet
and heating: blinded manager OF q
'grsaf GROCERY store secohnes so much
snsrr adept That he returns ITO MS old
.iols AMI lswifnyA ! wins wans Increased
salary. And there s,-afes thousands
snorc.
And this is in France and England.
where money FOR .reeducation Is none
toS ssepsifiH ara 0sbere the, great ma
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-06

wish TO learn trade that is bcyont
| Il and fails he may become hopeless
and refuse all education. And. o.
curse. the general condition OF the Ia
Dor market must be taken into account
for on this depends the patient,
chance for a job.
Tho choice of work however is vile
already men who have lost one ~
both arms or legs are doing excellent
work In photography, movie projecting
electric wiring, linotype operating, Gle
Nator running, baking. tailoring, draft
ing, and many other trades. They pla
GOLF use sledgcs. scrub, write and
hoe.
Blind men have also great range
OF work thrown open to them. lr
England all of them are taught to
typcwrito and each. ON leaving tho
school. is given typewriter, so that
he can also attend TO his correspond
ence. To typewrlte really seems to
, come by nature nowadays. For n trade
they may choose either massage, ma
chinery adjusting, net making, piano
tuning, brush making, pottery, or an.
one of many more.
il takes six to eight to ten months
to teach disabled man trade. The
actual time depending on his genera
intelligence and on the extent Of nj
disability.
II is. of course. of little avail tc
teach disabled man trade and ther
to turn him ont TO seek an employer
Employers are all from Missouri" an(
hesitate TO employ disabled men. Hence
Uncle Sam like his allies. viii have tc
find jobs for his pupils and be able
70 guarantee that they can do tEcl
@o.k Some Of these pupils, by The
wa. wiz he willing 10 work anywhere
some will work only near their home
and some will be ouiragoously per
rickety both as u location ana em
ployerg Unclc sam win try TO sa;isf'
them all Moreover. he il planning tc
establish a. none of the allies has ye'
done a follow-up system. by which, If
a man gets discouraged and quits, Tn
Gle sam viii know of it and will dc
his best to start him upward and on.
ward again.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-06
PULLING THE TEETH OF WAR

I 'ority of men are content 10 remain NJ
their lives In the state to which the
| vore born. In America. where none
| is plentiful and where every man !
| striving to better his condition. the re
l suits viii certainly be greater by In
Wounded mon. who in their. younge
lays were able 10 give only perhar
two hours daily 10 night school viii
under Uncle Sans new system I've abl
| to give eight hours "a day TIL they hav'
earned their old trade again or hay
earned aaotficr to which they are bet
ter adapted. Many n round peg vii
DO able TO transfer out of the square
hole in which he would otherwise have
spent his life.
While tbe ipiured mon aro iearnIns
tbcy win pet THAR nav ms soId,ers-
Ftbe nay tbey wero qrttinc when the,
were iniur,d-.nn their families viii
cot tho aIowapce that ,bcv had hee,
recelvinr notb heforc md ,fter thi
neriod they Will OF cburse get tho in
uIrancc To which they are entitled by
the terms of the insurance ACT.
Concerning tho cnuacity of the in
iur,.d men Ia learn 1, satisfactory trade
there Is no doubt. II has been abun
iantly nroyed abroad that not one In
n hundred,is DISQUALIFIED from learning
a profitable vocation.
Profit lsy Earlier Mistakes.
In reeducating the soldiers as in
everything else connected with the war
the United States will profit hy the
earlier mistakes of it's associates IN the
war.
Some of these mistakes were seri
Gus but unavoidable. One OF them
arose from lack of preparation and
another from lack of explanation. Jean
Poilu never heard of reeducation unit!
he had recovered about as well as he
ever would from the loss of his eyes.
.Iean had been an acrobat in circus
and to him the future seemed very
dark. lie could not go back to his old
trade. and he knew no other and did
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-06
Meat Cutters on Strike.

New York, Nov. about live th0u
sand cutters and other men employee
in butcher shops in Manhattan anC
Bronx districts struck yesterday fu
higher wages and a shorter w0rlir
day. Within a few hours the demand
Of about one-iifth Of them bad beer
granted.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-06
Next Years Car.

New York Sun: Knicker-"Dirn't
know you could afford car"
Bockcr-"I may be able 10 next year
and this IL next years ear"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-06

Read the want ads.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-09-06

surrender 70 the power which has or
ganized an the resources Of civiliza
tion 20 the end Of imposing its brutal
iron rule on the world.
"Peace win not be secured 10 the
world through the subjection Of the
Tree and democratic nations
ave shall De as loyal d the slruE.
bic for freedom and democracy al
home as 10 the struggle for freedom
and democracy in International rela.
tions.
"ro the men aud women OF tho
American labor movement. and to an
sincere friends OF democracy and In.
ternationalism. we can FOR loyal sup.
port TO America and her allies in This
great struggle Let as make our be.
loved republic strong and victorious
for the sake OF humanity and thus in.
sure for our children and their chill.
dren the priceless heritage OF liberty
and democracy Let US. at the same
time, stand shoulder 10 shoulder n be
fight against the foes of democracy
within our own borders. resolved new
ar to rest until the goal OF democracy
industrial, political and international
has been attained"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-09-06

our republic which has made rs own
the cause ana interests Of All free peo
pies. It Is therefore not a capitalists
war but freemens war.
4Faily impressed by these facts, re.
alizng that a noble internationalism
rs Implicit in our American conception
81 national existence, il shall be our
purpose 10 bring 10 the support OF the
government ail The moral and material
power of TIM WORKING class of the ma
iion Il shall be our task 70 interpret
Americas democratic spirit and pur.
pose n this conflict % our fellow work
ers especially those Of foreign birth
to combat every form Of propaganda,
NO matter by whom IT may be carried
on. which tends 10 weaken the loyalty
and devotion ef the grasses and their
to strive and sacrifice for
the nation and .ts high purposes.
we shall strip the mask from those
who, ~ The name Of democracy anti
anG peace, are engaged in
the nefarious propaganda Of treachery
% an that these noble words repre-
sent we Indignantly rcpudiate the
claim that this propaganda which. be
/ remembered brings JOY and comfort
10 German autocraey. has The support
1f the labor members Of America
Even at the liehest OF the so-cailed
Peoples Council who prostitute the
abor movement to serve the brutal
power responsible FOR the infamous
ape of Belgium the power that would
.ubiect Russia to a worse despotism
han that Of the Romanoffs.
Democracy win not be served by
be pay Of autocraey. by letting the
declaration Of Independence be sup j
'lanted by the kaiser's fiat.
"Miltarlsm win not be checked by (
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-09-06
AMERICAN LABOR FIRM ~ FIGHT
FOR DEMOCRACY

Al the opening Of the conference Of
the American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy in Minneapolis wednes.
day. Samuel Gompers, president Of the
AMERICAN Federation Of Labor. am
uounccd the declaration Of principles
upon which the alliance is based The
declaration Is notable for its emphatic
assertion Of loyalty to America and un.
qualified support Of the government ia
the war. Dcnounc!ng dlsloyalty and
denying the allegation that Il is a
~rich mans war" the statement Of
Mr. Gompers says;
1--WE assert az this time our unquali-
ncd loyalty to the republic OF the
United States OF America and our de-
termination to do an that lies in our
power to win the war ia which II ISL
mgaged
Loyalty to the ideals Of freedom
democracy and internationalism re.
quiros loyalty TO America
4Dlsloyalty to America IN this crisis
IS disloyalty 70 the cause OF freedom.
democracy and intcrnatlonaHsm.
No national selfishness impeiied
this republic to enter the war The
impelllng motive was the consuming
IDEALS born with the establishment Of
ilfis republic TO preserve freedom not
only for itself but for an nations, great
ana small and the body o. information.
A law which s making free democrat
ie nations ot the world respect and OBJ
serve and only the brutal aristocracies
seek to dishonor and destroy IN such
a conflict real standard.bearers Of
democracy and trln internatlonalisis
can have no hesitation III supporting