Denver labor bulletin., 1917-06-02

CTATE AUDITOR RLES
~ LECKENBY went to his home in
Steamboat Springs last week to
attend the graduating exercises of his
daughter. That is, he expected to at
tend the graduating exercises, leaving
Denver one day ahead of schedule in
order to overcome this seasons diff
culties in transportation over the
mountain range. He attempted to ne
gotiate the distance in high powered
automobile. After five breakdowns, a
few blockades and similar other acci-
dents, Charlie arrived at the "Sign of
the Hobby Horse walking the latter
part of the stretch on railroad ties at
midnight, just twelve hours after his
daughter had received her diploma.
Auditor Leckenby, who is member of
Denver Typographical Union No. 49,
was undaunted by these minor difficult
ties and joined the family in a reunion
at the home fireside. Then he brought
his family back to Denver with him to
live here during the remainder of his
term. They are now happily domiciled
at 965 South Pennsylvania street.
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lnR. LIVINGSTON FARRAN
IL president of the University of
Colorado, has been granted a
years leave of absence to undertake a
campaign against tuberculosis in
France, under auspices of the national
health board of the Rockefeller foun-
dation. The prexy expects to leave
within few days. His work in France
will be to control the prevailing spread
of tuberculosis among soldiers who
have been in the trenches during the
past two and a half years. The work
Will be carried on under the super
vision of French central committee
and local committees being organized
thruout provincial France. DR.. Far
rand was for many years secretary of
the national association for the study
and prevention of tuberculosis He was
selected for this important mission be-
cause of his experience and knowledge
Of the white plague.
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A FEW weeks ago a Denver daily
"A paper which processes to possess
'heart and a SOUL" discharged
man employed in the ad room, who had
given more than twenty years of his
service to that paper, the best part of
his life. During a rush hour this old
and faithful printer had pulled out
the wrong linotype slug in an ad he
was correcting. The error was not
discovered until the edition had been
run off and the order went forth from
the owners that the man responsible
must be fired. Such errors are not in
frequent on daily papers, where men
work under a strain and exert every
ounce of energy to get to press and
meet the mails. Perhaps this error
committed by a younger man would
have been overlooked. Typographical
errors and mishaps in makeup occur
on some of the leading magazines,
where there is more time and every
care taken to prevent mistakes. 1t is
not recorded, however, that men, who
are only human, are penalized to the
extent of being discharged. In last
weeks issue of Golfers Weekly, under
the caption of AN Office Communique"
there appeared on the editorial page
this paragraph, which is quite in con-
Denver paper which claims to be "the
Abiding Place of Justice: 1--WE had
a mistake in part of last weeks edi-
tion. The article on the air fleet which
is in this weeks paper was announced
on the cover of that portion of last
weeks edition which reached our West
ern readers. The error probably didn't
seem very serious, except to the edi-
tors, the proofreaders, the head of the
composing room, and fourteen men,
bers of the Pressmen's Union. At the
moment of the present writing they
are engaged in a bush-league Arma-
geddon behind the water tank on the
roof. If the results seem sufficiently
interesting in proportion to other
events now extant in the world, we
will report them next week"