Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-19
FIRST THING UPON ARISING

lHeSe wartime WlHlTy mornings we
slide out of our pajamas and don q
shock absorber Then we are pre-
pared to take up the morning paper
with sang froid that does not upset
our complacent tranquility. Persons
of sensitive and temperamental ma
lures should wear shock absorbers
each hour when not reposing in bed.
1t enhances the chances of living to
the end of the war, experiencing
hourly sensations and being able to
tell the story. Without an absorber
the shock of barrage sensations must
be almost killing to many. Take
Thursday morning, for instance. With
the assistance of our good shock ab-
sorber, we read about DR.. Garfield's
order to close all industries east of
the Mississippi river for five days
without pain. The shock absorber
had kept all displeasure a thousand
mics away. Likewise when that bad
boy of the Senate, Freddy" Reed of
Missouri, makes a verbal assault on
Mr.. Hoover it never touches us. We
feel safe even when investigating
committees of congress put Secretar-
les Baker of the war department and
Daniels of the navy on the gridile,
Fer if Hoover, Baker, Daniels an the
rest of those fellows in Washington
managing the war are good enough
for President Wilson, they are good
CT ough for rs
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A LETTER RECEIVED THIS
week from a friend in Birmingham,
Ala, a city of 100000 sane and sober
inhabitants, announces that the coun-
ty jail there, large modern and
commodious structure erected before
the state drove the saloons out of
business, has been offered free of
charge to the United States govern
ment to be used as a hospital or in
ternment camp for pro-Germans or
spies. In fact, the county has no use
for the Jail, says the writer, because
without saloons to breed crime there
are no prisoners to occupy the place,
and besides, if the government takes
control of the building, Uncle Sam
will have to pay the caretakers. Here
in Denver the county Jail is being
utilized as a bakeshop to supply bread
at cost to citv institutions, the poor
and to hospitals. People who once
upon a time bought booze are now
buying Liberty bonds and war savings
stamps.
THOSE TWO NESTORS OF THE
labor press, Frank Rist of the Gin
cinnati Chronicle and ]. H. F. Mosley
of the Birmingham Labor Advocate,
have been celebrating newspaper an
niversaries. Last week the Chronicle
entered its twenty-seventh year of
service to the organized labor move
ment of the Queen City, with Frank
Rist as owner and editor from the
first issue to the present Editor Rist
lays his claim, and there is no one to
n ! 70 of
tinuous service as a labor editor of
the same paper. The Birmingham
Labor Advocate has just entered its
twenty-ninth year, and for twenty
two years J. H. F. Mosley has been
the owner and editor. When he took
charge of the Advocate building
craftsmen were receiving 10 to 20
cents per day of ten and twelve hours.
Organization was preached in the Ad-
vocate and today this class of labor
receives from 80 to rs cents per hour
with an eight-hour day. Editors
Rist and Mosley are good for many
more years of usefulness as labor
pathfinders, and the o. P. who is
privileged to know them personally,
wishes these years to be full of con-
tinued prosperity.
THERE BEING NO TAX AT
tached to the invitation, the o. P. at
tended the annual banquet of the Den
yer Manufacturers Association, held
in the exhibit rooms of the Chamber of
Commerce building Tuesday evening
1t was strictly a home products func-
tion and the eats, from consomme to
candy and cigars, were grown or man
ufactured in Colorado. And they were
exceptionally good eats, too. Chicken
patties and pinto beans were prime
favorites with the guests. Down east
the provincials are just getting ac-
quainted with pinto beans and finding
them to be better than beef Colo
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