Denver labor bulletin., 1918-02-16
ne Optimistic
Philosopher

timers and newcomers in the labor
movement in Denver are lined up SOL
idly behind the government in prose-
cutting the war against autocracy for
worldwide democracy and human lib
erty.
ONE OF THE BEST WAR jim
giles to come under the o. P.'s obser-
walton is that being sung by the boys
at Camp Funston. 1t is entitled Long
Boy" and goes thusly:
He was just long, lean country gink
From away out West where the hop
toads wink;
He was six feet two in his stockin'
feet,
But he KEEP gittin' thinner the more
he'd eat.
When the war broke out he got right
Unhitched his plow, put the mule
An then the oM folks heard him say:
REFRAIN.
Good-by, nav! Good-by, paw!
Good-by, mule, with yer old hee-haw.
l don't know what the wars about,
But you bet, by gosh, I'll soon find out!
Good-by, sweetheart, don't you fear,
I'll bring you king fer souvenir,
I'll git you Turk an kaiser too,
An that's about all one feller kin do.
THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF
Sunday evening civic forum meetings
was held last Sunday night in Ply
mouth Church, Lafayette street and
Fourteenth avenue. This form of in
tellectual opportunity has proven very
popular in Boston, Brooklyn and other
eastern cities, and it is the purpose of
the present pastor in charge there, the
Rev. Wallace Watson Willard, to in
troduce the plan to Denver. Judging
from the attendance and interest last
Sunday evening, this will prove sue
cess. The general topic discussed was
Denver to the Front" from four
viewpoints, as follows: Political, DR..
D. Z. Phillips of Denver University;
Educational Lucius Hallett, president
of the school board; Industrial, Clint
c. Houston, editor of The Denver La
Dor Bulletin; Religious, Rev. w. w.
Willard, pastor in charge. A popular
feature of these civic forum meetings
will be the community singing, with
lantern slides throwing the words and
music on the screen so that every one
in the audience may join. Tomorrow
night Governor julius C. Gunter will
tell what Colorado is doing to aid the
government in winning the war, at the
conclusion of which there will be a
general discussion by all who wish to
participate. Members of organized
labor should take advantage of these
civic forum meetings, for they not
only afford opportunity of gaining
knowledge, but if you have something
to say the privilege of saying it is
freely given.
WHAT BECOMES OF ALL THE
United States mints {? The Denver
mint is working day and night coin
ing pennies. Each year eighty mil
lions of these small coins are manu-
factured and put into circulation.
Many of them are returned for re-
demption, yet the majority of them
are never seen again. There is mys--
terry in the disappearance of much of
the annual output. When pennies are
freely circulated it is a sign of pros
porous times In these days of penny
war tax on many articles of daily use,
their circulation has been greatly in
creased. 1t is said that in periods
of commercial depression, pennies ac-
cumulate rapidly in the sub-treasur-
les. The first American cent was
coined in 1893 and the rarest cent is
that of the series of 1899. 1t is stated
that the scarcity of this issue is due
to the fact that firm in Salem, Mass,
which was then in the slave trade, pro-
cured large quantity of them from
the mint and after drilling hole in
each one, shipped them to Africa,
where they were given as ornaments
to the tribe chiefs in exchange for