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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
WOMFN IN TWO KINDS OF REVOLUTION
In Revolt Against Established Authority Young Women
the Fiery Beck Edelson Type Take Their Share
a. Aeitators i'm the Labor Strife.

ewes of the poet or the soft, passion
ate brown eyes OF the south OF Eu-
rope. Becky's eyes were built to
flash, not to weep Add to the eyes
strong, regular features and a skin
which is healthy brown and red and
you have the type, short, stocky,
built for service"
Listen to the explanation OF her life
the life that is like that Of thousands
of young wonderland remember that
this is a young woman of twenty
or twenty-five only, roughly speak
ing, young woman the product OF
neighborhood house-the Ferrer
School-but a neighborhood house
which scws seeds Of revolt instead OF
those whose blossoms earn the CON-
mendation OF society.
Upbraids Teacher.
Becky did not hear anarchistic talk
as a child. but she began to PRACTISE 1t
in her own life from the days when
she wouldn't 60 to bed just because II
was time to and when she ran away
from home just because she was told
not to. When she was twelve she
had her first clash with authority.
1t was a case OF the child who was
too smart in school. Becky got a dit
ferent answer from that the teacher
had in a problem which dealt with
quarts and gallons.
II knew mine was right" her YER
sion Of it runs, so told that teach
er she had forgotten to change the
quarts to gallons. She had, too. She
was much annoyed at my hcresy. She
was one of those old-fashioned school
m'arms who thought her word was
law, you know. | was kept out OF
school for three days, but then they
found out l wasn't going to apologies
and they let me come back.
my next encounter with estab-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

the lar, which was quite out OF har-
mony with the pure color OF the pot
terry. Then along came other souvenir
hunters who thought it would be
even better to have two flags, the
American and the Mexican. crossed.
To do this meant that the potter must
broaden his vase, and thus the de-
struction OF the perfect form was ac-
complished.
please do not imagine that the
Futurist furniture which we are MAX
ing now is product Of the Mexican
art. The Mexican is decadent art.
Our furniture has been influenced by
the crude Slavic art OF Bohemia and
South Germany. Mexico's part in my
career is that while there / learned to
love bright colors, and when ] re-
turned to this country, after FIVE years
there, ! was ready to learn the les
sons OF Europe as | could not have
done had I not had preliminary train
ing in Mexico.
Decadence Welded to Innocence.
THE South OF Germany and the
little known country north and east OF
Vienna is where one must go to-day
TO find real color in innocent abandon.
The people there use it even on their
fences. and the little kiosks, which are
ike Swiss chalcts, are covered with
conventional flowers and birds in all
sorts and colors.
Miss Weber and her partner,
Thomas Furlong, are having a lovely
time making a blue, green and white
garden set for a wealthy Long Island
landholder. The fence is to be OF
alternate green and white pickets,
with the thickness OF the boards
painted black. The summer house anl
gateways are to have broad bands OF
blue.
Il don't know why people thin;
their garden benches must be green
elways," said Miss Weber, in explain
ing this creation. Every color is
beautiful in the bright sunlight with a
background Of green. A bit Of color
in the landscape makes the most per-
feet garden a brighter and pleasanter
place"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
WHY WE OPPOSE VOTES FOR MEN

Because mans place IS the armory.
Because no really manly wants to settle any
question. except by fighting about it
Because If do adopt pcaccabe methods women
will no longer look up to them.
Because men will lose their charm ii they step out
OF their natural sphere and busy themselves with other
matters than uniforms drums and fcats OF arms.
Because men are too emotional to vote Their con-
duct at baseball games, football games and political
yentons shows this while their innate tendency to ap-
peal to force renders them peculiarly un6t for the task
OF government
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
THE DANGERS OF CAUTION

lust four years ago President Taft, in cracking UP
representative government to another convention OF sui
fragts said that he wished to be understood as eHcud
ing "Houentots. or any wholly unintelligent class
In commenting on the incident The New ork
Times" said That the President is not for against
either group may be a mark OF the judicial tcmpcra
mcn, but il will not give him peace popularity in the
one camp or in the other
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

ever, so impressed with the ur,,,.
ness OF the authorities that bee,r.
more and more in sympathy with a.
revolutionary party here.
Could Not Stand DISCIPLINE.
Il went one year TO High scboo,
and another to the Nurses Train;,.
School, but I couldn't stand the ;,o.
discipline OF either. Since then I h,,.
worked at various things, in otse.,
and as secretary Of the Cloak MAXI,
Union"
Becky is bitter with the bi.tern,..
OF the Industrial Worker OF the Wo,l
for all things capitalistic. Their. |. I,
whole generation Of bitterness: b,
tween her and Emma Goldman.
There can be no understanding I,
this class war" she said.
II think settlements and those o.h.,
near-charities are a menace to n.
working class, because they obscu,.
the issue. They make the poor thin,
they are getting something. when. a.
a matter Of fact, all that the rich nav.
to give is the wealth that the poc,
have earned and are by right entitl.
to, any way.
These rich women who come dow,
to the factories when there is a stris,
and dole out coffee. dressed in thOo
sands of dollars worth OF furs ar.
ridiculous. They cannot understand
The rich never can understand. tn.
sooner every one understands this i
a war. and not nj OF the sulks. Ii,
better it will be for all.
Suffrage Won't Help.
Woman suffrage won't help the a.
boring classes any, either. AS soon as
the women get the vote they will start
making laws, while the troubl. viii
this country to-day is that we hiy.
too many laws already. I don't see
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

TT IS little more than month
since the newspapers began print.
ing the sayings and EXPLOITS OF
of one Becky Edelson. Besides oeins
an agitator, who and what is this per-
son who, bursting out OF ooscurity'
has caused more editorial comment
for and against than any woman
since Emma Goldman Where does
she come from' What conditions
have thrown her into the fight as their
spawn, What has this young girl en-
dured to make her ready to OUTAGE
street rowdics. to criticise the gov
eminent and laugh in the tace OF rec
ognized authority
As she tells her story there Is iit-
tie in the background OF her lie on
the East Side to differ from the up
bringing OF the ordinary child IN that
section of the city. She, in her ex-
preston Of the restlessness that per-
yades all womankind, gives one con-
crete idea of what we must recognize
as the spirit of large class OF young
women and men-first generation
Americans-in whom is combined the
traditional oppression of their fathers
in Europe and the breath OF freedom
of the new world. They have taken
the word freedom in its almost catho-
lie sense. Should Becky give way,
there are many ready to take her
place to fight the fight OF labor
against capital unto the death.
Works on Anarchist Magazine.
Becky-her full name is Rebccca-
is an anarchist. She was nurtured IN
the faith of Emma Goldman and Alex
andcr Bcrkman, and now works on
their publication, Mother Earth.
The blood of Russian revolutionlsts
is in her veins, heated by the expert
ences of life on the East Side and
by the fire in her own heart.
Doubtless the melting pot will give
us more burning "Beckies" before all
the fires which have been smolderlns
in the hearts of the oppressed OF Eu-
rope for generations shall have burned
themselves out or before there is
nothing in American life to make
food for these flames. AS portent
of tn. East Side woman OF the future
then, Becky becomes a candidate tor
analytical attention.
In what she has actually said in her
speeches in Printing House Square or
elsewhere there is nothing more
alarmingly radical than the utterances
OF eminent women in public meeting
in regard to the Colorado and Mexi-
can wars. Yet hers have been the
opinions which have been greeted by
the majority of men and women with
alarm, anger and contempt. And that
is because she generates, without say
ing it, bitter hatred OF all institu-
tons and situations which the major
ity of us view with complacency, if
not clarifying satisfaction.
Becky Is Short and Stocky.
She is strong-faced girl, with a
good forehead and deep, keen brown
eyes, not at all the melting brown
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

ture of deep purple, lighted by
touches OF red!
Mexicans Love Brilliant Colors.
"The Mexicans are not afraid OF
color, you see. They dare all these
wonderful effects which Americans
lave not the courage to adopt. We
cling TO dismal old gray-greens and
blues, and, of course, we get despond-
ent and think the world is full OF
trouble. The Mexican puts on her
red skirt and her green shawl and
laughs at trouble"
When Miss Weber made her first
visit to Mexico she found the country
rich with art treasures completely
overlooked by the eager collectors
who ransack everything from New
England farmhouse to an Italian
peasants hovel. She brought back TO
the United States precious antiques,
and called the attention of the connois-
seurs and travellers to the rich art
objects and furniture TO be had for
almost nothing in the pawnshops.
Their Art Is Not Crude.
"All the art Of Mexico is not the
crude art of the poems, however. The
old towns are full of exquisite bits Of
Talavera pottery. such as are treas
ured to-day in the British Museum.
This is the art of the Spanish in
vaders. When Cortez and his fol-
lowers settled Mexico they brought
over with them Talavera tiles.
They soon discovered that there
was a kind of clay in the north Of
Mexico which was very similar to the
Talavers clay, so they began the
manufacturing OF tiles on a large
scale. The domes of the old churches
to-day are covered with these won
cerful tiles in soft yellows, greens,
old blues and vermilion. The jars in
the apothecary shops and the house
hold pottery are made of this same
wonderful thing.
Then, too, the Spanish conquer
ors brought over boatlcads OF the
most beautiful art treasures that
Europe knew at that time. They
were aristocrats. you know. Thew
brought rich tapestries for their
churches and beautiful furniture for
their palaces. Much OF this is now TO
be picked up in the pawnshops, since
the old families have died out or have
had their taste perverted by a certain
American standard which can only
understand the price OF things, not
their artistic value.
The revolution, OF course, has
meant the undoing of many OF the old
family fortunes, too, and priceless
tapestries which have hung on palace
walls for centuries are now TO pe
picked up by the tactful collector for
4 song.
American Tourists Destroy Standards
1T is quite true that the modern
art of Mexico is being destroyed by
the American tourist. The beautiful
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
ALWAYS JAM YESTERDAY.

In commenting upon the younger women OF his day a
Lord Chief Justice OF England who died in 1910 said
former education Of gentieDoen oas re-
hJious, sober
their habit and dress When they young they
learned 10 read and 10 they up they learned
Knit, 10 make their garments they learned
:Chdt belonged TO houseUfery But the icorld is
altered; geRewOmen learn to be bold tak loud and
than 10 their share think II dtspard1ement
them TO knOw 0ha belongs to good houSswUery to prac
tiSe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
MISS VIII EE WEBER

cid vases and jars which the poems
have made for centuries according TO
the standards set by their Spanish
masters in the old days are now be-
ing altered to suit the souvenir
hunter.
Perhaps some American thought
it would be nice to have a Mexican
flag set on the side OF the jar, so he
could remember where he bought it, I
suppose. The peon, eager to please
the dispenser Of gold, drew flag in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
MISS REBECCA EDELSON.

what women want to make laws 'o''
I'd rather break them"
And that is Becky's PHILOSOPHY
philosophy to which she becomes
more and more attached and wiiie"
she goes out to Colorado 10 pTea''
to the striking miners -untaugn'' w
reasoning foreigners. What is ne'
kind, a promise or menace?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
ONLY PANAcEAs NEED APPLY.

"As to whether the ballot would confer ma
teral benefit upon the 20 per cent OF women in indus
trial and professional life have only to recall the fact
that millions o. male voters arc out OF work--lhe
Womans Protest anti-suffragel, April 1914
As to whether doctors confer any benefit upon
the human race have only consider that about
100000 people die annually in this country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
THE ORDEAL BY FIRE.

The Wellesley policeman is said to have been won
over TO suffrage by the behavior OF the girls during the
fire Many men were converted by study OF the facts
in connection with the Triangle fire. where l55 girls
only rs men were burned.
And some day perhaps people will just listen to
reason without any fre all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
Women Silk Culturists,

The Ladies' silk Culture Society -
California has announced that during wv
coming season 100000 silkworms VIII -
raised at its station in Napa county. Ih'
society is planning TO send 20 ltaS =
France for a modern machine for eA''S''
ing the raw silk from the cocoon'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
THE DOG DIDN'T KNOW.

Dispatches from Albania say that in the taking Of
the town OF Kolonia women and children were mas
sacred
Evidently some one had not heard about and
children having part IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
INDEFENSIBLE DEFINITION NO. Z

Democracy Is this-to hold
That all who wander down the pike
In cart or car. on foot or bike
Or male or female, young or old,
Are much allkc-arc much ,alike.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
THE ATTACK ON THE WELL KNOWN HOME

SIR Arthur Newsholme, the English satistcan says:
Infant mortality :, the most sensitive index we pos
sess OF social welfare
The infant death rate in New Zealand Ia suffrage
country Is less than half the rate OF the United States
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

The Wisconsin eugenic law. which pro-
vides for the issuance of marriage licenses
only upon the certificate Of d clean bill Of
health, has been declared unconstitutional
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

Miss Bessie Beatty. a San Francisco
newspaper reporter, has fallen heir 70
$1,000. TO be used in behalf OF poor chill
dren as Miss Beatty sees nj.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
A SARToRIAL NOTE FROM ALABAMA

Il do not believe that there is red-bloodcd in
the world who in his heart believes in suffrage
says Mr. Hefn. 81 think that any man who iavors it
ought to be made TO wear a dress"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
THE INDIRECT MENACE.

We doubt il mid males will be much treasured by
Mrs Glmans assertion that fcminsts will never pro-
pose. Her reason is sinister she says they can
manage without.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
By ALICE DUER MILLER

the married womans property bill on the ground that
have souls and therefore have right to
hold property
Colorado papers please
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
STATESMEN WE HAVE EXPERIENCED.

We have not heard anything carefully balanced
as Mayor Mchcrs speech to the sufragsts since Will
lam Howard Taft retired from public life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
Arrested When a Child.

One policeman tried TO push me
downstairs. / resisted him just be-
cause he was so officious. He ar
rested me. | was then. remember, a
little girl with short skirts and hair
down my back | was put in the same
cell in the 57th street court with
thirty street women, who were sodden
with drugs. The place was full OF
vermin. We had no beds to sleep on,
only wooden benches. was kept
there three days until our friends
could get us out on bail. | was the
only woman arrested at that time, but
there were a large number Of men.
when the case eventually came to
trial | was accused Of assault upon
that 2so-pound policeman. The case
was dismissed at once. was, how
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

lshed authority was when I was four
teen. The Russian revolution had
just broken out then and there was a
protest meeting held at the Manhat-
tan Lyceum. The police came with
clubs to break it up. They were bru-
tai in their behavior to the people, not
giving them al opportunity to leave
the hall, even when they were trying
to do so.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

RE EXICO is the last place one
NE would look for art in these
troubled days. and especially
Futurist art, yet it is from Mexico
,hat Miss Wilhelmine Weber got her
inspiration for the glowing painted
furniture which has taken New York
CAPTIVE as the latest fad in interior
decoration. As for that, even into
exterior decoration has modernism
extended, for Miss Weber and her
oo-worker, Thomas Furlong, are now
decorating a garden in a country es-
tate with Slavic-blue fences striped
benches.
Miss Weber has been in New York
but one year. and already has her
distinctive niche among artists, yet
she signs at the plight OF the country
from which she absorbed the lessons
which made it possible for her to
max e her art individual with SUM-
orenched beauty.
Into the technique Of formal art
education Miss Weber brought the
spirit of Mexico, with its sunshine and
dazzling colors, which she absorbed
in the years she "vagsbondaged'
there. So that when she speaks OF
Mexico it is with understanding OF
the crude yet vibrant spirit of the
Spanish Indian race.
Mexico Riots with Happiness.
She becomes very enthusiastic
when she speaks OF Mexico. 1T IS
the most wonderfully beautiful place.
Miss Weber says. Il always think OF
it as a land rioting with happiness.
not as one devastated by bandits and
black with smoking ruins. This, too,
ir spite of the fact that l lived
through three revolutions, nine miles
from the City of Mexico, and that we
were finally driven from our home by
the noise of battle just over the hill.
I'VE expected at any moment that
the fight would spread into our town.
and we feared we could not trust to
the kind feeling of our neighbors 10
overcome the anti-American preju-
dices Of their countrymen. At all
events. town clamOring with battle
is no place to WOO the muse and we
felt it timely to depart.
Mexico is radiant with wonderful
lemon white sunshine that glorifes
everything and brings out the beauty
OF all the dazzling colors the people
love. Americans who are not well
informed think Mexico is made up OF
terra Gotta and mud color. Nothing
is more false The people revel in
brilliant colors. They use red and
purple dyes even on their floors. After
the floor has been scrubbed to a daz-
cling cleanliness they take a pail full
Of dye and splash it on, swishing 1t
around with a broom.
IF a woman gets tired OF her white
muslin dress she dips it in the dyeins
pail. Imagine the color effect OF a
woman in an orange skirt in room
With lemon yellow floor, with furni'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

Women act as steamship captains in
Norway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
is 1T ESSENTIAL?

In 1880 the Tennessee Legislature refused to
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-26
Berlin Claims Many Anglo-Indian
Soldiers Killed And Captured

tAssocated Federa Wreiess1
BERLIN Germany Dec 60 Official Fuller details oE
the battling between Germans and British at St. Hubert show
that the Anglo Indian troops lost 10 officers and that 808 men
were taken prisoners Fourteen and II mine
throwes have been captured by the Germans and 5000 Of tie
opposing killed Our losses were comparatively
small 4k
Elsewhere the engagements have been Of minor and
inconcusive character and the situation Is unchanged
We have ceased attacks the Russians at the river
Bzura
The Russian attack Lotzen has been repused We
captured Thousand Of the enemy
Southeast Of TomazOw Poland our offensive IS pro
crossing. =
Noted British General IS Dead
IAssocated Press servs cs by Federal Wireess1
LONDON, England, Dec. 26.-Gen Sir Thomas Kelly
Kenny former adjutant general died here today.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-26
MEXICANS YIELD
TO gen. SCOTT;
TROOPS BACK Up
Maytorena's '.Sharpshoot
viii Go Where Bullets Can't
Stray Across the Border

IAssociated Press by Fed. Wireless. ]
NACO Ariz., Dec. 26.-As result
OF the strong representations made by
Gen Scott, chief Of staff, against fur.
ther fighting of the Mexicans 50 close
to the border that their stray bullets
were killing and Wounding people on
the American side, the zone of war
is being shifted further to the south.
Gen. Maytorena is retiring beyond
range Of the guns of the garrison In
Mexican Naeo and Is abandoning his
trenches and removing his machine
guns. The whole beslegins force will
be moved II kiIometers southwark.
International complications seem de-
finitely averted. ....-. ..-
ASSOCIATED Press by Fed. Wireless. ]
FL PASo, Tex, Dec. .26. - Julian
Medina, blacksmith, has been ap-
pointed governor Of the state Of ia
liseo. The appointment comes from
Gen. Francisco Villa.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-26
CHAUFFEUR SERIOUSLY
INJURIES SELF WHEN He
ATTEMPTS TO END LIFE

Ernest Comes, chauffeur, attempt
ed to commit suicide at an automobile
stand in fMaunakea street, between
King and Queen streets shortly after
2 o'clock this afternoon by stabbing
himself in the abdomen with q butcher
knife. Comes was removed to the
Queens hospital, where It Is reported
he is In serious condition.
Comes is said to have had some
trouble with woman with whom he
had been driving In his automobile
this morning. 1t is believed that this
trouble was the motive for his at
tempted suicide.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-26
RUSSIAN EXPERT SAYS
: AUSTRIAN PLAN BEATEN

tAssociated Press by Fed. Wireless
PETRoGRAD, Russia, Dec. 90
The military expert Of the Novoe
vremya says that the Austrian cam
paign in Galicia collapsed when the
sortie Of the Przemysl garrison failed
and the soldiers from the stronghold
failed to effect a junction with the
advancing field army.
German attacks in Poland are weak
ening and no longer synchronize with
the Austrian movements.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-26
Vigorous Progress Made, Says the
Bulletin Issued Today IN Paris
IAssociated Press serYfce by Federal Wreless.I

Service by Federal WirelessJ
PARIS France Dec 26-The official bulletin today men
tons particularly German attack yesterday or lou
wards along the Allies front near Pehes The attack was
completely checked.
Perceptible progress is claimed by the French toward
Cerney Alsace The weather is foggy Flanders and
movement is slow. 80