Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-19

and suit cred, the lnnuenZa epidemic
has a certain compensation. 1t has
caused ban to be placed upon politi-
cal spellbinders. Incidentally it will
save the candidates a whole lot of
money which would otherwise be ex-
pended for railroad fares, hotel bills,
hall rent and meeting that other spe-
cies of bacilli known in bugology as
touches" In order to reach the eye
and ear of the dear people, candidates
must advertise more extensively and
spread their doctrine of past and fu-
ture conduct thru circular letters,
which helps the printerman, an indus
try just now sorely in need of patron
age to keep going. We imagine that
Governor Gunter Smiled up his
sleeve" when he signed proclamation
this week forbidding meetings of every
character thruout the state. This, it
might be added, is evidence that ''the
law of compensation is ineXorable."
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"ALL DRESSED UP AND NO
Place to Go" is the title of a song
which had considerable vogue on the
vaudeville stage and at the City park
concerts during the summer months.
Nothing is more expressive of us cave
dwellers" during this prevailing in
fluenza epidemic. Those who live in
hotels and never experience the joy
of home, wife and kiddies for COM
pany can now realize what it must be
to those prisoners of war in internment
camps. With the churches, theaters
and movies closed and no union meet
ings being held, there is nothing to do
and no place to go after eating a
lonely Hooverized restaurant dinner,
except to our caves in hotels. Even
lnh nl
friends tell US politely but firmly that
our visits are not wanted, fearing that
we might carry germs about with our
clothing or perhaps sneeze in their
presence. And the worst of it is that
DIR. Sharpley gives no promise of when
this ban on companionship and So
ciability is to be lifted. A Gave
dweller" is worse off during an in
fiuenza epidemic than the American
soldiers in the trenches with 'cooties."
At least the "cooties" are a, company
which makes their presence felt.
SAMUEL ]. LEWIS, COMMIS-
sioner of state printing, is in charge
of the publicity department for the
Democratic State Central Committee
and has temporary offices in the AL
bany hotel. With his newspaper ex-
perience and congeniality, Sam fits
into this job like unto a new tailor
made suit which we once possessed
before the war. Sam knows the pub
licity game from alpha to omega. Edi-
tors from over the state and news
paper reporters always get the glad
hand and a comfortable seat when
they enter Sans office. These are
courtesies that newspaper men appre-
ciate, and often count more than the
price of a half-page advertisement.
Then Sam spreads the cheer-up atmos-
phere wherever he goes, which soon
becomes infusive, and callers go away
with the firm conviction that the en-
tire Democratic ticket is going to win
in the November election.
HERE COMES A LETTER FROM
Dan w. Law, former secretary of the
Pueblo Trades and Labor Assembly
and member of the Machinists Union,
now in Erie, Pa, saying that he would
like to be back in Colorado where in
fiuenza epidemics are never known"
Having recently changed his place of
employment from Baltimore to Erie,
Dan lost out on several issues of The
Denver Labor Bulletin and writes to
have them forwarded OF course,
when he receives his bundle of mail
next week, Dan will learn that this
influenza pest plays no favorites and
has hit the Rocky Mountain region
just the same as it is playing havoc
with those proud people who live on
the Atlantic coast and around the
Great Lakes. Let us quote a para
graph or two from Dams letter: 81
am now working in a large govern
ment war shop here in Erie, Pa. This
place looks more like Colorado than
any have hit yet. Lots of fresh air
and trees and lawns. Philadelphia
and Baltimore were too crowded to-