Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-22

as fill a Job as electrician, while "Red"
owns one of the best weekly papers in
the state and drives an automobile.
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DAY LoWDERBACK, delegate to
the International Bakery Work
ers convention at Boston, sends
Business Manager Hines a postcard
bearing a picture of the Old North
Church. Ray doesn't say if he attend
ed services in this historic religious
edifice, but we trust that he did. Any
way it was a neat compliment to our
business manager, this remembrance
from the effete East with picture of
a church.
COMMENTING favorably upon the
L. speech delivered by T. w. Nc
Cullough, managing editor of the
Omaha Bee, at Colorado Springs when
the twenty-fifth anniversary jubilee of
the Union Printers Home was cele-
brated last month, Frank M. Coffey,
editor of the Nebraska Federationist,
says: "Those who heard Mac say his
address was a most impressive one in
which he lauded the sacrifices of his
brother members in making the Home
possible. and the energetic work of
those who planned the enterprise and
the continued efforts of the members
to maintain the Home at it's high dc.
printers union card for more than
forty years. He has an enviable rep
utation as a public speaker-a clear
voice, and perfect pronunciation. and
enumeration, an interesting and et-
fective poise backed by the best OF
gestures. But there is one short
speech of just a few words that We
have often wished and hoped that
Mac would make-but he never has
come across. We have sit for hours
with our feet cooked up on his desk
and watched him fill and refill his pipe
with real tobacco, but never once has
he said, fill up on me- Mac has the
necessary tobacco, the voice, the neoes-
sary gestures to be understood, but
he just simply hasn't and won't make
the short speech necessary to bring
down the vociferous applause which
awaits the utterance of the words"
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privileged residents of Denver
will witness a total eclipse of the
sun on the afternoon of June g.
1918. An absolute eclipse, such as this
comes to this region only once in $50
years, hence it is worth waiting to see.
So important is this event to the scien-
tific world that preparations are now
being made to gain a full record of
the extraordinary phenomena. Pro-
fessors Edwin B. Frost and E. E. Bar
nard of the Chicago university are at
the Denver university observatory ar
| ranging for photographing this mo-
mentous event in astrophysics. Altho
the actual total eclipse of the sun will
last for less than a minute and half,
the scientists have been working more
J than five years preparing to observe
it. All great events except the war
move toward Denver, even if one of
this character requires $50 years to
reach us.
THE human interest side of the great
I war was brought direct into the
homes of Colorado people this
week From every county the first
call of the selective draft reached, and
nearly 1000 brave sons have gone to
Camp Funston, Kansas. for military
/ training, and within a short time will
go to the fighting front. Denver gave
the boys a great send-off, thousands
going to the union station to bid them
farewell and safe return. Good
women served lunch, bands played and
thousands cheered, while the soldier
boys cheered in return. Mothers, sis
ters and sweethearts were there with
brave hearts and not few tears,
which gave a touch of pathos to the
scene Colorado is doing its full duty
in providing man power for the es-
] Establishment of worldwide democracy.