Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-01

was given the privilege on more than
one occasion of speaking on the labor
question in his church. Labor has
need of such intellectual and thought
full friends as DR.. Holt, and the fact
that his interest in our problems con-
tinues with the years is most graft
flying.
IN A LETTER EXPRESSING HIS
thanks for receiving additional copies
of The Bulletin containing an article
by Attorney General Leslie E. Hub
bard on how the Colorado statewide
prohibition law has been of great ben
eft to this city and state, Will j.
French, labor member of the Indus
trial Accident Commission of the State
of California, says: Il have friends in
New Zealand who are always anxious
to get the kind of information that
you have published in The Labor Bul.
letin. There isn't labor paper that
] know of that so ably presents what
seems to me to be the correct attitude
on this (the liquor) question"
:. :. :.
SOME MORE "KICKS" WE'RE
taken out of beer this week when
President Wilson approved a recon-
mendation of Food Administrator
Hoover that the alcoholic contents of
beer be reduced to 8 per cent. Amer
lean beer has hitherto contained from
to per cent alcohol This order,
effective at once under the food con-
troll law, will save 80 per cent of the
grain used in the brewing of beer. The
saving thus made, according to figures
compiled by Hoover, means that
2,4O0.OOO additional loaves of bread
per day can be made from grain that
formerly went to make booze. The
20 per cent of grain the brewers are
vet permitted to use would make
100000 loaves of bread per day, or
enough to feed an army of 100000
soldiers at the front Perhaps it will
be found necessary, likewise eXpedient,
a little later on to eliminate this i'm
mense wastage of food. Surely booze
is not helping to win the war.
HARRY A. MINTYRE, DEPUTY
U. S. marshal, called the o. p. up on
the phone Wednesday, and this is what
he said: "At the breakfast table this
morning Mrs. Mcintyre suggested that
this had been pretty good year, our
ranch in Pueblo county had declared
a dividend of a goodly proportion,
and that we ought to have some lone
ly but deserving bachelor for dinner
on Thanksgiving. / told her / knew
several bachelors but non that could
rightly be classed as deserving
How about the editor of The Denver
Labor Bulletin?' came back the in
tellectual half of the Mcintyre family.
So if you consider yourself as coming
up to these plans and specifications,
you are invited to a Thanksgiving
dinner" and Harry hung up. There
was no mistake in the wisdom of Mrs.
! ,Tr fo, both lonely and
deserving. The way we ate turkey
and trimmings testified audaciously
to this fact.
NJ. H. ROPKEY, SALESMAN FOR
the Mergenthaler Linotype company
and member of Denver Typographi-
cal Union, visited The Bulletin office
this week after spending few days
in Casper, Wyo. He says Casper is
real boom town, with high prices for
everything, and most everybody get
ting rich from investments in oil or
the business that flows from this in
dustry Skilled and unskilled work
ers are commanding wages far above
the prevailing scales elsewhere. Zone
cannot visit in Casper long" said Rop-
kew. without becoming impressed
with the fact that the workers are
taking advantage of the unusual OPP
portunities to make money. / too
dinner with a printer who is paying
S110 monthly rent for five-room cot
tage, yet by serving meals to tran
sients he is making a good margin of
profit over the rentaK and getting
house rent free. Another printer
bought home for $500 on the Install
ment plan, agreeing to pay $25 per
month Before he had the house paid
for he sold it for $4,000. A pearl
diver in one of the leading restaur-
ants holds $4,000 worth of dividend
paying stock in a good oil producer.
Her purchase was made from tips
received A contractor, now well to
do, formerly day wage carpenter,
owns 100 shares of Midwest Refining
stock that he secured at rock botto -
prices, and is now rated among the
rich oil magnates of the city. Many
other similar instances might be CIV
en-. A number of former Denver
wage-earners are making gool in Cas-
per and will come back with big bank
accounts"