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HcCORMICR MESSENGER. MeCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1938
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Undiscouraged by 22-Year Battle,
Tom Mooney Again Seeks Freedom
Unaided by Court Appeal,
San Quentin’s Celebrity
Turns to Politics
By JOSEPH W. LaBINE
A month ago, California's
Gov. Frank F. Merriam re
ceived a telegram from the
most distinguished prisoner in
his San Quentin penitentiary:
Thomas J. Mooney, who landed
in jail under life sentence for
participation in San Francisco's
1916 Preparedness day bomb
ing.
Said the telegram:
“You have resorted to the
time-worn political subter
fuge of declining to act (on
my plea for pardon) on the
grounds that the case is
pending in the courts. You
are hereby duly notified by
me that all court actions on
my behalf are now conclud
ed and no other actions are
contemplated, and I now
not only insist but demand
that this outrageous pro
crastination be ended."
Few prisoners would be in a
position to “insist" or “de
mand," but Tom Mooney has
been doing it something like
20 years. His latest ultimatum fol
lowed refusal by the United States
Supreme court to reView the case,
but it did not mean that Mooney is
disheartened. Instead his hopes now
rise higher than eVer, first, because
the Supreme court has granted Moo
ney the right to apply for an origi
nal writ of habeas corpus; and sec
ond, because California Democrats
nominated one Cuthbert Olson for
governor. Although Mr. Olson did
not touch the Mooney dynamite keg
during his campaign, he delivered a
fiery two-hour plea for Mooney be
fore the legislature last winter. As
governor, he might grant what no
California chief executive since 1916
has dared grant—a pardon.
Another Dreyfus Case?
Tom Mooney’s case, which his
sympathizers can compare only
with the infamous French Dreyfus
injustice, has given certain labor
elements and radical groups a
cause cel&bre for 20 years. ' His
story opens with the parade which
San Francisco’s solid citizens engi
neered July 22, 1916, in protest
against President Wilson’s “too-
proud-to-fight” attitude. As the pa
rade passed Steuart and Market
streets, a bomb exploded and killed
10 people, injuring 50. Tom Mooney
has since offered alleged photo
graphic proof that he and Mrs. Moo
ney were watching the parade fronj
a roof, a mile distant, when the ex
plosion occurred. But he and War
ren K. Billings, then a 23-year-old
rabid red, were convicted and sen-
SEE? HERE I AM!—Before California 9 » Supreme Court Referee
A* E. Shaic, Tom Mooney points at the famous photograph which
allegedly proves he was more than a mile away when a bomb
exploded during San Francisco 9 s “Preparedness day 99 parade in 1916,
tenced to hang. A year later, Gov.
W. D. Stephens granted President
Wilson’s plea for commutation to
life sentence. Since then Tom Moo
ney has been a well-publicized mar
tyr; Warren K. Billings has rested
comfortably at Folsom state pris
on, vanishing into oblivion.
In Tom Mooney’s favor it may be
stated that two of the four wit
nesses whose testimony convicted
him have since repudiated their
statements. One, an Oregon cattle
man named Frank G. Oxman who
claimed to have seen Billings and
Mooney at the explosion site, ad
mitted later that he was miles
away. John MacDonald, a circus
roustabout who testified he saw
Mooney and Billings plant the
bomb, has likewise backed down.
The judge who sentenced him, the
jury that ctonvicted him and a series
of San Francisco district attorneys
have all declared Mooney was rail
roaded to prison.
So why has he not been freed?
Partly because California had just
reason to dislike the radical labor
element Tom Mooney represented
back in 1916. Also because Califor
nians believe the Tom Mooney of
1938 is a dangerous radical who
somehow enjoys his role of martyr.
And—what is not publicly admitted
Pittsburgh C.I.O.
To Climax
John L. Lewis’ career as a labor
ieader will probably reach its cli
max November 14, when the C. I. O.
chieftain steps to the rostrum at
Pittsburgh to open his organiza
tion’s constitutional convention.
It will probably mark the death
knell of a long-cherished hope that
labor’s warring factions—C. I. O.
and A. F. of L.—can be brought
back into a common fold. For John
Lewis will lead his mammoth octo
pus into a clearly defined, rival or
ganization against that of William
Green, A. F. of L. president.
Lewis’ rise to power has been sen
sational, and has furnished another
instance of the wife whose ‘ perse
verance pulled a politically imd so
cially ungraceful husband to a posi
tion of power and esteem. In 1908,
when Lewis married Myrta Edith
Bell, an Iowa school teacher, his
education had been confined to 15
years in the coal mines.
Became Union Leader.
The Lewis family settled down at
Panama, 111., where the future C.
I. O. chieftain interspersed an ambi
tious course of reading with leader
ship in the local coal union. In
1919, reporters covering a bitter
strike found him immersed in
Homer’s Iliad. Overnight he be
came a powerful orator.
A few years later Mr. Lewis was
sent to the Illinois state capitol at
Springfield as labor lobbyist, by that
time being the best informed man
in the industry on wages and work
ing conditions. Under Samuel Gom-
pers’ wing he became vice presi
dent of the United Mine Workers’
union, soon becoming independent
enough to run against Gompers for
president of the A. F. of L.
The “vertical” type of union or
ganization Lewis began champion
ing called for organization of all
workers in the same industry into
one union, as opposed to the A. F.
of L. idea of organization by craft.
Lewis’ independence started with
the New Deal, and under NRA
his union gained 200,000 member#
Convention
Career of Lewis
Mm I
John Lewis, product of a wife’s
perseverance,
to form the nucleus for C. I. O. In
1935, at the Atlantic City A. F. of
L. convention, he fought with Mr.
Green, poked a vice president in the
jaw and walked out.
Ambitious to organize all indus
tries on the “vertical” plan, he has
succeeded remarkably to date,
much to A. F. of L.’s concern. At
the recent federation convention in
Houston the hope for peace was
raised once more, only to be ground
underfoot as the conservative Green
organization voted a war chest to
fight C. I. O. Now, his last hope for a
victorious peace shattered, Lewis
has called C. I. O. members to
Pittsburgh to perfect a permanent
opposition body. With this he hopes
to expand the organization plan that
has revolutionized labor thought in
the past decade. Already safely en
trenched in such industries as auto
mobiles, steel, glass, coal and rub
ber, he believes that in time C. I. O.
will swallow completely the more
conservative A. F. of L.
—because a pardon for Tom Moo
ney would be tantamount to ad
mitting California’s guilt in miscar
rying justice/
Labor in Doghouse
Though Mooney may have a
grievance, he is not the knight-on-a-
white-horse he pretends to be. As
a labor leader trying to make San
Francisco streetcar men strike, he
jumped into the picture right after
the pro-labor McNamara brothers
admitted bombing the Los Angeles
Times. Not only was he pro-labor,
but Mooney also had left-wing rad
ical tendencies. His friend Billings
took childish delight in playing with
dynamite and was adept at throw
ing varnish remover on auto
mobiles. These men, thought Cali
fornia, were dangerous to have
around. Nor has California changed
its mind.
The drum-beating of 20 years
leaves things substantially the
same. “Free Mooney” has been a
standard policy of the American
Federation of Labor and other re
spectable citizens, but the loudest
drum-beaters have been Commu
nists. This has not helped the cause,
nor has Mooney helped himself by
weeping martyr-like before what
ever news photographer happened
to be within eyeshot. Californians
are apt to resent the guest-like treat
ment he receives at San Quentin.
But if the American people could
vote on the “Free Mooney^’ issue, it
is likely that he would emerge from
prison tomorrow, a free man. An
interesting, but not unexpected phe
nomenon is that Democrats are as a
whole more sympathetic than Re
publicans. California has thrived
without a Democratic governor
since the 1880s, but as this is writ
ten it is quite likely that a prece
dent will be set by Cuthbert Olson.
Interference Resented
Californians have also thrived—
thank you—without the unasked in
terference of outsiders in behalf of
Tom Mooney. In 1931 they looked
down their sun-tanned noses at
New York’s Mayor James J. Walk
er, who came west to plead with
Gov. James Rolph for clemency.
They suggested politely that Mr.
Walker might have remained at
home to look after two odoriferous
investigations then under way in his
own bailiwick.
They felt the same way last year
when Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor
Gov. Elmer A. Benson came to San
Francisco and suggested that “a
united labor movement” could
achieve freedom for Mooney and
Billings.
“A united labor movement could
not only open for them the prison
gates,” he pontificated, “but it could
see to it that, in the future, those
who dedicate their lives to the serv
ice of humanity do not meet the
same fate that was Tom Mooney’s.”
California’s courts have washed
their hands of the mess via A. E.
Shaw, special referee for the state
supreme judiciary, who summed up
the state’s official attitude and its
open resentment regarding the
Prisoner of San Quentin:
“It is established by the prepon
derance of evidence that the peti
tioner (Mooney) was not a victim of
a frame-up nor was he convicted as
the result of any improper act of any
kind on the part of the district attor
ney or any of his assistants, or on
the part of any person representing
the State of California.”
Will Cuthbert Olson think other
wise? Tom Mooney hopes so.
• Western Newspaper Union.
WHAT to EAT and WHY
Are Your Children Eating Clean Food?
Asks C. Houston Goudiss—Points Out
Hazards of Neglected Hand-Washing
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
** I DO feed my Johnny correctly," a young mother said to
J me not long ago. “I give him milk and eggs and vege
tables and fruits. And still he has colds! Would you mind
telling me just how you reconcile that with all this talk about
our newer knowledge of nutrition—and how it helps children
to have better*health?" <s> —- ——
out of every 100 deaths from corn-
diseases enter or leave
through the mouth or
“I don’t know," I answered.
“But I wonder if it would be
convenient for me to meet
Johnny?"
“Certainly," she replied.
“He'll be home from school in
a few moments. He usually
stops at the school playground
for an hour or two, to play
dodge ball with the other
boys."
A moment or two later Johnny
appeared. And a more grimy lit
tle lad I had sel
dom seen, certain
ly not outside of a
neighborhood such
as we sometimes
describe as under
privileged!
Johnny’s hands
were dirty. His
face was dirty. His
knees and legs
were streaked with
mud. There was a
lollypop in his
mouth, though he quickly pulled
it out when his mother made the
introduction.
I could not refuse his hand when
he put it forth in a gentlemanly
gesture, though I noted that some
of its visible soil, and doubtless
some unseen germs, were trans
ferred to my own hand during the
greeting.
No sooner had we unclasped
hands than a tremendous sneeze
all but engulfed Johnny. And in
spite of his almost adult manner
at meeting a stranger, he had not
learned to cover his nose and
mouth during a sneeze. The lolly-
pop was sprayed vwith moisture—
and germs. Two seconds later,
the child put the lollypop back in
his mouth and continued sucking
it!
And yet his mother could not un
derstand why he had colds!
Contaminated Food
I have pointed out many times
that in my opinion, a mother’s
foremost responsibility is to feed
her children a diet that takes into
account all the recent amazing
discoveries of nutritional science.
Only by so doing can she hope to
give them a sturdy body with
straight bones, strong responsive
muscles, a good circulation and
sound healthy nerves.
But the parent who permits her
offspring to eat with unwashed
hands and thus take countless
germs into his body with every
mouthful of food is scarcely giv
ing that food a chance to build
the kind of body and brain every
mother desires for her child. On
the contrary, she is risking the
danger of grave illness. For the
micro-organisms which cause 92
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Health Linked to Cleanliness
All of us have heard the ex
pression: “Cleanliness is next to
Godliness,” though to observe
some of our school children eating
their lunches, one might have rea
son to believe that both mothers
and school boards have forgotten
this old copy-book maxim! But it
bears remembering, every day
and all day. For the writer who
said that soap and civilization go
hand in hand was not far from
the truth. Certainly, soap-and-wa-
ter cleanliness and good health
are inseparably linked, and habits
of personal cleanliness are a vital
factor in safeguarding children
against infections and disease.
We often compare a correct diet
to the bricks with which a well-
constructed building is erected.
But if food represents the bricks
with which the edifice of health is
built, surely cleanliness is the
mortar!
/
Keeping Everlastingly at It
Most babies are kept clean by
their mothers because mothers
know that they cannot keep their
babies well if they do not keep
them clean. If the same careful
policy were followed in later child
hood, it is almost certain that
there would be less illness among
children.
Unfortunately, many mothers
relax their vigilance the moment
their child is ready for school. In
some cases, they believe that the
child has had sufficient training
and can be relied upon; in other
instances, they believe, or hope,
that further training will be sup
plied by the school!
A Mother’s Job
But the mere fact that a child is
old enough to go to school does
not make him less of a child.
Nor does it make his mother less
of a teacher and guardian. On
the contrary, it multiplies her re
sponsibilities !
More than ever the child needs
careful supervision of his health
habits. For now he is in daily
contact with countless other
youngsters, from many types of
homes. More chances to pick up
germs! More chances to dissemi
nate germs should he be permit
ted to go to school with the snif
fles!
Mothers must increase, not de
crease their vigilance. They must
assume responsibility for the ob
servance of all the habits that
safeguard health. These include
the daily bath; the daily change
into clean clothing; the frequent
washing of the hands, and always
Jlsk Me Jlnother
0 A General Quiz
The Questions
1. According to geology, what
period are we living in at the
present time?
2. Who originated the phrase
“flaming youth”?
3. Where does the eastern hem
isphere leave off and the western
begin?
4. How many children did
George Washington have?
5. What was the Appian way?
6. What is the length of a fort
night?
7. What is a perfect number?
8. How much did it cost to con
struct the San Francisco-Oakland
bay bridge?
9. Who wrote the poem about a
child which includes the lines:
“You are the trip I could not take,
You are the pearls I cannot buy”?
The Answers
before eating; the twice-daily
brushing of the teeth; regular
elimination; regular hours for
meals; and the necessary iioury
for outdoor play and for sleep.
What About the School ?
Mothers must remember—and
must emphasize to their children
—that diseases may often bo
traced to unclean hands, and to
germs sprayed in the air by per
sons having coughs and colds.
Teach your children to muffle
every cough and sneeze in a hand
kerchief. And be sure they have a
handkerchief handy for the pur
pose. Teach them to keep their
fingers out of their mouths, like
wise pencils and other objects.
Teach them to wash the hands and
face frequently.
If they are to carry out this last
instruction, it is imperative that
soap and towels be available in
school washrooms, as well as at
home. Investigate conditions at
the school your child attends. If
facilities are not adequate, do
something about it. Either arouse
other mothers to help rectify the
omissions, or failing that—have
your child carry soap and paper
towels from home!
»
By teaching cleanliness to your
children, by making it a' regular
part of their training, you will
help to safeguard their health and
the health of every other child
with whom they come in contact
in their daily lives.
Questions Answered
Mrs. C. M. L.—Yes, there is
some advantage in eating whole
oranges, as opposed to merely
drinking the juice. Both orange
and orange juice are rich in vita
min C. But the pulp possesses
additional laxative values that are
not obtained when only the juice is
consumed.
Miss F. C. V.—Experiments by
three distinguished investigators
reveal that beef liver contains 20
times as much copper as beef
steak.
©—WNU—C. Houston Goudiss—1938—38.
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