The evening world., 1914-03-09

III tno WORDS OF tnelr FOunOer, tnOuKU
they neither follow nor respect His
principles, Come unto Me all ye who
are heavy laden and I will give ye
rest!'"
80 we called their blunt" she nm
ished dramatically. ieaping suddenly
from the Bible to slang.
oisPIEAsEo WITH LoNooN's
CHARACTERIZATION.
Miss k0lston seemed not inclined to
be proud Of her Characterization a.
the Red Virgin" In London's book
this figures name u Anna R0yl-
ston." very close to the real woman's
name, and IL depicted a. Q member
OF the Frisco Reds In what II called
tho First Revolt" supposed to hap
pen in 1918 In the "war between the
workers and the plutocracy." The
book tells OF her pursuing . member
the "Mercenaries." who had been
marked a. one Of tho twelve who an
nually were killed by the Reds. This
man had escaped. London's story
runs. and Anna Roylston carried out
he Reds sentence OF death upon him
oy winning him az q loYer and then.
after the Nashville Massacre. when
mand. literally murdered eight hum
dred weavers." she turned him over.
a prisoner. to the Frisco Reds and he
was put to death. For that she
earned the name. the RED Virgin"
"She had ever n will of her own"
London describes the RED Virgin"
land disdained discipline. Further
| more. she was n genius and lOvable.
| She was In q class by herself and not
amenabie TO the ordinary standards
OF the revolutionists. She was fas-
cinating woman-yet she. steadfastly
refused to marry. She dearly loved
children. but she held thNt child OF
her own would claim her from the
Cause. and that II was the Cause to
which her life was devoted"
IT always meant to scold Jack for
that" Jane Roltson said: Jack and
always were good friends. but I
don't think ne meant TO depict me In
'The Iron Heel although the name
of the Red Virgin Ii somethig like
"You see, I don't think I'm a fas-
chatting woman. and I don't believe
Jack thought 30 eight or nine years
ago, when he wrote that book. And
certainly I never handed anybody
over to be murdered. His Idea IN the
story Is that 1t will he couple OF
hundred years before the people will
win-that tho rich will get richer and
the poor will get poorer as the dec
s1s. mass. and with revolts from time
10 time the day will finally come
when the ideal life Is reached.
Contrasting the RED Virgin" with
i Miss Ralston-she has never married;
she 10 in a class OF her own; she has
i the cause, and, instead OF children OF
her own, she calls the unkempt, the
unemployed, the foreigners. the
workers, my boys" She talked ear
nestiy OF her ideas and scOffed at
those who stand in the way. To her
the members Of the clergy who OPP
posed the army Of unemployed" are
sabsurd creatures" She has q curl
ous manner OF bodily unrest In talk
in1: her mouth twists up at one cor
ner in a sardonic grin at times: her
lean hands, with starting veins. move
rapidly and gesticulate and her
nnRers Irvine and untwine; her round
nhouiders are thrust forward and
back again swiftly and she alter
nately moves about the room and
fidgets In her chair as though eager
to leap into furious ARRAY A..
mouth Of blazing cannon!" she ex-
claimed. hut We do not respect the
law that the cannon guards. We are
carrying on no siege OF Port Arthur
hurting men into the guns a. the Japs
did. We have not enough men yet
and We don't want to sacrifice them
anyway. We thought probably Tan
nenba um would be arrested in these
church raids. but we didn't bargain
for the wholesale persecution. Tan
penbaum may be martyr, and the
others too. but not heroes. We don't
make heroes OF our men. Yes. EttoI
and Giovannetti were called heroes
but they are unusua! men,"
Miss Rolston declared the T. w. W
and Socialists are two bodies striv-
ing for tho same goal. the former
along economic lines and the iattel
along political lines. She said
anarchy IN different state O
mind"-and that Anarchists are H.
logical anyway. But she admittet