Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1929, Page 5

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GOOD WILL—the result of years of efficient service and friendly co-operation. Lincoln - 2 Sesdlot .| My lad, this is a ple-counter age. We | dty. MOTHER JONES, 98 YEARS OLD, INTENDS TO REACH AGE OF 115 Labor Leader Says Dry Law Stuffs Rag Down Throat of People. Deplores Lack of Great Men in This_Pie-Counter Age of Money-Making. Mother Mary Jones is Irish and 98 years old. If the prohibition agents leave her alone, and they probably will, she intends to live to be 115. A doctor in Chicago told her she would reach that age, and, considering that she will be 99 May 1, Mother Jones figures she can make it with colors flying. Her colors have been flying for nfany a day. Wherever organized labor floats a standard, Mother Jones is known. Forty years ago, as a leading organizer of the United Mine Workers, she was haranguing coal miners, nursing their women and children, and fighting for many of the advantages that have come in her day, workmen’s compensation, the eight-hour day, better health con- ditions. If she had her health she would be “in the field” today instead of at home at 3700 Fifth street. Mother Jones doesn’t approve of pro- hibition. She sees it as “stuffing a rag down the throats of the people.” She told & couple of internal Revenue agents what she thought, too. For some time her doctor has prescribed whisky for her. When she returned from a visit in the country recently her doctor was away and she got a prescription from another. Internal Revenue agents, shecking,over prescriptions issued, called on Mother Jones to be sure somebody was not using her name. “They were nice about it,” said Moth- er Jones, “and said it was all right. I don't like the stuff, but I have to take it. At my age, you know, I need it. And I told them what I thought about prohibition. Ugh! has been bossed and won't be now. Sees Pie-Counter Age. “What do I think about our time? haven't the great men we used to have —men who loved the people. These fel- lows we have today forget all about lib- erty and justice. Every fellow wants to get more; more money, more public- The greatest country in the world"—she sighed—"if handled right.” ‘When Mother Jones was in her fight- ing prime—and she fought all over the coal fields of West Virginia and Penn- sylvania and in the West—she knew what it was to feel the cold point of a bayonet against her back and listen to the threatening curses of drunken mobs. She spent seven months of a busy life contemplating the inconveniences of living in jails. “I got 59 men out of jail myself; ggt ‘em out and safely home. President Taft pardoned 14 Mexicans for me and I didn’t have a lawyer either. The poor boys—kept in Fort Leavenworth prison! Mr. Taft kept me in his office an hour one afternoon and every time I'd get up to go he'd say, ‘Now, Mother Jones, don't go; you are giving me valuable information.’ “He promised to study the cases of the Mexicans if I would bring him all the evidence. Didn’t I do it? Didn't I take a Spanish interpreter to Leaven- worth, to talk to each of them, and take their stories back to the President? He pardoned them, too. What happy boys they were! “Why, my lad, I saw 21 men, women and children butchered at Ludlow, Colo., by interests of these rich men who sweat miners and give thousands to the church. I didn’t read about it; I saw it. They brought an ammuni- tion train across seven States, and I was there telling 'em to build trenches to protect their women. When the fighting was done, I took the body of one woman out of the trench after it had been there two days and rode 12 miles with it to the morgue. Where were the rich gentlemen? They were | killing my poor boys. Hell is just full | of people like that. “I wonder what Lincoln would say if he could come back and see what'’s going on. What_strange things take place with time. Why, I used to hear Lincoln lecture against slavery in Illi- nois when he was a country lawyer, and the folks were saying, ‘That poor fool must be crazy!’ Prohibition. Empty- mg our schools and homes and filling our jails, I'm opposed to the method of introdicing it. It's a thing ought to be done by education.” Celtic Speech Is Rich. Perhaps Mother Jones is a little em- bittered, despite that the years have been kind to her. Her hair is white, in ringlets, her skin wrinkled and his step faltering. She wanted to go to Chicago to a labor meeting this week, but was'afraid she couldn’t stand the trip. Her eyes are blue and smiling, and to hear her voice is to forget time, place and circumstance and drink in the music of a Celtic tongue infused with the richness of an indomitable spirit. pHer father was chased out of Ireland 94 years ago by an irate British Lion, and she has been chasing her concep- tion of injustices ever since. An inter- est in children she found while in a convent in Canada led herto her chosen work, and year after year she gave all she had to the mine workers. Tt was in the field that she met T. V. Powderly, famous labor Jéader and one- time head of the Knights of Labor, an organization that was the forerunner of the American labor movement. Be- fore she came to the Powderly home to live she was often in Washington, run- STAMPS ARE CRITICIZED. This country never | tQ MOTHER JONES. ning in from the £idld to see the Presi- dent—she has known them all singe McKinley —or to confer with labor leaders, Hits Woman in Politics. “Every time I came,” she recalled, “Mr. Powderly would say, ‘Well, Moth- er Jones, when are you coming home for good?” And I'd tell him, not as long as I could help out. For, you know, we are here in this world to do good, to help the young folks that are com- ing on. Too many of us forget that. I don't see that the woman in politics is doing anything. They have lost sight of so much they ought to be seeing.” Away from the fyont line now, Moth- er Jones spends her time reading. She takes a number of daily newspapers and labor organs. “The boys send them me. Of course, I read a lot. How else would I keep posted. I want to keep up with what these fellows are doing, these leaders. I don't get around much now, but my mind is as alert as it was 30 years ago.” Labor leaders from many cities who call on her from time to time testify quently to hear her greeting, “Sure now, my lad, Mother Jones is glad to see you. And what might be the news Postmaster General Takes Up Is- sue of Mucilage’s Quality. By the Assoclated Pre: " Postmaster General Brown has his hands full of a sticky subject—the suffi- | ciency of mucilage on the back of post- | age stamps. | Scores of complaints have reached the Post Office Department that the stamps do not carry enough glue and after they have been moistened and plaged on let- ters they literally jump off or are lost in transit, with the result that the let- ters are returned to the senders. ‘The Postmaster Genergl is conferring with officials of the Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing to determine if there is need of more or better mucilage. %“s Cheap o FURNITURE . 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Doak opposed any further consolida tion of railroads to effect economies in operating on the ground that it would tend to throw more men out of work, unless the consolidation plan specifically took the workmen into consideration. timore & Ohio Rallroad, speaking at the same meeting, declared that the consolidation provision in the transpor- tation act as it stands today was not urged or put‘forward by the railroads as a_whole. John J. Esch, former member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, sald there was danger of Government con- Daniel Willard, president of the Bal- | § :n‘)ll it voluntary consolidation should all. Representative James S. Parker of New York spoke in favor of consolida- tion, while Bird M. Robinson, president of the American Short Lines Associa- tion, discussed the problem from the standpoint of its effect on short-line rajlroads. - TELLS OF PORTO RICO. Newell Describes Conditions ..on Island as Deplorable. Dr. were pictured as deplorable by Dr. F. H. 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