The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-11-05
DIFFERENCE IN WOMEN.

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Mildred Ruth Roberts, well educa-
ted. well reared, handsome, was iur-
ed into marriage with an alleged no.
torious convict, who is said to have
served four terms in the Montana
penitentiary and seems certain 10
draw a good sized term IN ldaho.
They spent more than a month TO-
gether. Mildred loved her husband
with hat kind of a love best described
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, for, despite
the overwhelming evidence that she
has been shown her in proof OF he
charge that her husband is a profes-
sional criminal, she clings to him and
is doing all she can to help him. II
visited him at the county Jail and
showed her affection for him n de-
clared she will remain true to him and
will always love him.
Esther Diggles married a young
man she had known for years. He was
an honorable and honored soldier. He
had served his country, had been SER
iously wounded, had been a real hero
and was and is a real man. They
were secretly married as were Mild
red Roberts and Lloyd H. Woodress.
They had spent a short honeymoon
together and the bride went to a big
university where she joined a soror-
ity and got into society" 1t evil
IDENTIFY turned her silly head. She
wrote to her husband-wrote loving
letters, but when he asked her to come
and live with him she refused When
he went to see her she evaded him.
She must have known that ne had
given her all that a man could give,
a love that was remarkable in its
strength, but she was led away by a
sorority sister who said Come on
Esther, see him later" and Mileham
never again saw his bride. She evad-
ed him and he came back to Moscow
and shot himself.
The bride was notified and asked
to come and nurse her husband. She
was informed that his recovery prob
ably depended upon her coming to
him, it is said. If she was not told
this, she must have know it. But she
not only refused to come, but denied
that she was married to him and even
denied that she knew him: "If l was
married to a soldier and he was sick
or dying or in trouble | would surely
go to him." she is quoted as saying
to a reporter. Nice words, those, if
true, but she was married to a sol
der and he was "sick and dying (or
believed to be- and she denied that
she knew him.
1t would be hard to select two loves
more unlike than the loves of these
two young girls, almost the same age,
married under quite similar circum-
stances, and their weddings were only
a few days apart. There is the CON
trast between real love and a mighty
imitation. Mildred Roberts
braved the censure of the world to
with her convict husband. That
is the kind of love that ought to
make a man brace up and be a man, if
there is any manhood in him.
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There is a lesson for organized lab
Dr. inN the election returns from Mass
achusetts today. The fight was made
squarely on the issue of organized
control. Governor Coolidge had
AIKEN a firm stand against the police
men of Boston organizing and strik-
ng- His opponent made the fight
Iquarely on the issue shall organ
zed labor control?" He upheld the
'Olicemen's strike and condemned ]
Governor Coolidge for firing the strik-
and replacing them. with ex-sold-, :
Coolidge was reelected by the
vote ever given a governor in
Massachusetts,. Coolidge is a repub- {
ican, but a remocratic president
rose above -partizanship and con
ratulated the republican on his VIC !,
Dry and the triumph OF law and or |
er. Partnership should never be t
ermitted to interfere with duty in a !
ase Of this kind.
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The coal strikers are demanding
the government withdraw its in =
motion against the strike and offer \