The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-12
BY DOROTHY DALE.


MILWAUKEE, July 12.-Certainly
II IT'S the people of one mind that
make a strong state the officials OF
the city OF Milwaukee ought to make
strong city governing body. Every
elective office Is filled by a Socialist
THE difference between the re-
former and the Socialist is that the
reformer Is coming, while the Socialist
has arrived" said City Clerk Carl ID.
Thompson. BY that he didn't mean
the fact that he and his friends are
in ONCE. but that they are confident
that by some route they have reached
the solution Of the trouble with So
ciety that makes every thinking per-
son stop now and then to wonder
what it's all for and II it's quite
worth while. They define socialism
AZ the common ownership OF public
utilities and natural resources
through the fundamentally OF DEM
ocratic state.
Mayor SeideIs route lay in Ger
many. 1t was a time of no suppers,
and night school every night in the
week. II was time when young,
eager minds asked and asked and
got only the command to be silent
or leave. command that only ag-
gravated student mind to pour more
deeply II more secretly over the
questions that burned inside.
Young Seidel was quiet. Most Of
the time when he wasn't working he
was leaning with his near-sighted
eyes close to some book. No one
knew what he thought
Then came the voice OF students
raised against the oppression of the
mighty Bismarck. A friend OF Seidel's.
q rasher lad, was threatened. Seidel
helped spirit him away to safety In
wardrobe and found out what he
thought himself.
Begins Work When 10.
The Socialist mayor was born In
this country. however, In Schuylkfll
county Pennsylvania. His parents
were Prussian. They moved TO Mil
waukee when he was years old,
He went to work In a broom factory
when he was 10.
Later he was employed in spice
and cones factory.
snere I found what people get to
eat" he said. I've seen peas not at
70 eat for peas ground up to make
coffee"
After leaving the coffee factory he
learned the wood carving trade; that
was the beginning OF the pattern
making business he now owns. At q
10 wks secretary OF the wood carvers'
uiiiO...
II was after an illness that he de-
termfned TO 60 to Germany to study.
He hadn't enough money to be merely
q student. SO he worked to pay his
way except for the suppers he went
without to give more time for his
books
After he returned to this country
he kept on studying social conditions.
Sometimes they came very near
home.
aOur first child was a boy" he said.
I'VE thought the world of him. But
he died. We learned too late 1t was
from overlooking. Who was to
blame?
And perhaps It's the memory Of
that that gets into his voice when he
speaks OF things like the lack OF
proper conveniences at the isolation
hospitals where little children have
20 10 to be sick away from home.
THE last administration turned over
$4,000 from the hospital fund.-" he
said, while there are not screens on
many OF the windows. I call that the
kind OF saving that would keep par
snt from buying ice for feverstrick-
en- child
Mayor Seidel ia a man who impress
% neither by stature nor feature. It's
the manner the earnestness Of the
near-sighted eyes and the gentleness
pf manner and willingness to listen
that impress. ~