The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-18

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Moneys life.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. is.-This
Is the story Of Rena Mooney.
IL tells the fight Tom MONEYS
wife is making 10 save him from
execution on the san Francisco
bomb charge.
Butt strikes TO the very core
OF the American family circle. and
carries to all happy homes the
spilntering message OF n devastated
home
IL gets hold on the heart some
how or other. in away no other
chapter In the records OF American
labor does, and seems likely TO be-
come the classic love story OF trades
unionism's annals In this country.
When Tom Mooney and his
wife were arrested after tho
preparedness day parade cxpIo-
SION. Rena Mooney was one Of
San Franciscos leading teach
egs Of music.
Her classes were overflowing. In
one class she had IS pupils. One
OF her best pupils. n boy Just enter
ing his teens. had given eShioioons
At the San Francisco worlds fair as
. musical prodigy.
A Woman Of Culture
Rena Mooney was a woman OF cus
t,,re and refinemcnt--the kind you
usually find on n sof; couch OF com
fort. and not battling the sharp
corners OF life.
She was handsome and dainty.
she was a student On her library
shelves were found the poets. inc
philosophers and the economist
Keats. Hegei. Iiebknccht
But she was not n highbrow. she
had married Tom MONEYS work.
ms well as his play. and she helped
him organize the San Francesca
carmen. She made a card index
list of their telephone numbers. and
did things like that
And. all the while. she taught
her pupils, played for Tom. read
with Tom and planned with him
for a happier home together In the
HAMMER world they were working
FOR. and used to talk to each other
about
Rena Mooney was arrested with
her husband. She was kept In jan
2. months. She was acquitted ana
freedom the same evidence on
which he is now sentenced to be
executed December 10.
Immediately she gave up all her
Zine and strength to the task OF
saving him.
Slaves and Smiles
She Is just finishing mailing
9yOo0, 900 copies Of the pamphlet.
~ahaIl Mooney Hanx," She has
mailed practically all Of these
With her own hands. She has
made herself o slave TO n job
which ordinarily would have
BEEN n years work for ROOM
full Of men,
why shouldn't ! smiieg' she
asks. "see the wonderful friends
have made. / would have been
helpless without them. / am going
10 win. Tom In innocent. In a few
months he will be free. We shall
take up our lives where we left
them-richer and better for our ex.
perience and stronger In our knowi-
edge how to serve"
Anyone who looked at Rena
Mooney. neat. trim. quiet. would
feel she must have sensitive tastes
and love beautiful things. for her
life was the life OF an artist on
ber workdesk Ii a telephone book
With a cover Of decorated cloth
cleveriy pasted on IL because she
could not stand the sight Of the
ugly, pencil-marked pastboard back.
But IL Is pitiful thing. BE-
cause Rcna Mooney lives in pow.
erty and almost squalor. and
surely no teIephone-book daint-
ily covered can blind her to il.
Her little fiat is on San Fran
cisco side street. Bray St. in the
midst Of the homes Of the poor.
Prom the street the building does
not seem an inviting place to live.
Inside It Is worse.
There is almost no furniture The
rooms arc filled with boxes of
pamphlets. stacks of pamphlets.
rnail sacks fun Of pamphlets ready
10 20 OUT eAIfeH5 ptgkiReB u pam
Jhlets. wrapping material. twinc.
tables on which TO work.
In that flat. Rena Mooney and
Torn Moneys mother live and work
together There is a place 10 eat
ara place 70 sleep, but 1t Is ap.
parent that the two women don't
spend as much time and pains on
eating and sleeping as most people
%.
Usually Moneys wife gives IS
hours Of the "a TO the work of mail
Ing pamphlets. to save him. Friends
come in to work with her in the
evenings They leave about mid
night. Then Rena Mooney spends a
couple Of hours at her bookkeeping
During her 20 months In Jail she
began her system OF filing all her
vClurninous mail. She uged old
boxes. designed for transplanunR
flowers. as her filing cabinets. She
eth uses them. Not cent has gone
into office equipment.
Gets Thousands Of Letters
In these boxes are thousands OF