Denver labor bulletin., 1918-05-25
Hhe Optinistic
Philosopher

looked so easy the Huns stopped to
celebrate, and raided the great stores
of wine in that vicinity. The entire
Hun army on that front got beastly
drunk, and 10000 home guards in
Paris went out to the advance line
in automobiles. The Hun fighters
were so drunk they could not fight,
and the 10000 Paris home guards
overcame them, thus saving Paris and
opening up the great battle of the
Marine. "This," said the lieutenant,
sis the first and only time in all his
tory where booze proved an aid TO
civilization"
DENVER'S BOBTAIL CARS ON
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets
will retire to state of innocuous dis
suetude tomorrow Sunday, marking
another epoch in the progress of this
city. The Tramway loop at the union
passenger station is to be opened and
new routing of many car lines is to
be made Nos. AZ and So on the red,
the "dinkies" which have really dis
graced Denver in these latter years,
will be taken to the junk pile. Open
ing of the loop in front of the pas
senger station means greater con-
venience and more rapid transit for
those using street cars to and from
the station.
DIR. ALLAN A. TANNER, FOR
mer pastor of the First Congrega-
tional church and the Peoples Taber-
nacle, whose friendship for and in
terest in the labor movement is well
known, is rapidly becoming one of
Denver's most successful farmers. A
year ago he retired from the pulpit
on account of a breakdown in health
Now he is raising wheat, green onions
and alfalfa, being a first aid to Mr.
Herbert Hoover of the national food
administration. The doctor started
out on his farming career six months
ago by reversing the usual process.
He bought residence and garden plot
in Edgewater, and a farm of thirty
acres just across the street in the city
limits. That is, he lives in the coun-
try and farms in the city. The mid
die of Sheridan boulevard marks the
boundary between Dr. Tanners resi-
dence property at 1915 Sheridan boule-
ward and his Denver farm across the
way. Instead of playing golf for one
year, as his physician advised, he now
wields hoe and is raising something
more useful in war times than little
white rubber ball. From a tin-can
dump, he has in six months con-
verified a series of vacant town lots
into fields of growing grain. Along
the dusty road he has planted 100 elm
trees which will eventually make of
the district beauty spot. This year
the doctor will harvest at least 800
bushels of wheat from the former tin
can dump. And in the meantime his
health is coming back.
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IN HIS RED CROSS SPEECH AT
New York last Saturday night, Presi-
dent Wilson told this good one:
81 heard story told the other day
that was ridiculous, but it is worth
repeating, because it contains the
germ of truth. An Indian was en-
listed in the army. He returned to the
reservation on a furlough. He was
asked what he thought of it. He
said: No much good; too much sa-
lutte; not. much shoot Then he was
asked: Are you going back?' Yes
Well, do you know what you are
fighting for?' Yes, me know; fight
to make whole damn world safe for
the Democratic party
He had evidently misunderstood
some innocent sentence of my own.
But after all, altho there is no party
purpose in it, he got it right as far
as the word party to make the whole
world democratic in the sense of COM
munity of interest and of purpose"