The New York herald., 1921-02-09
ROBERT MINOR WEEDS
MARY WORSE, WRITER
Uncertainty 'ShrOuds when
and Where of Union of
Two Radicals.
HONEYMOON IN VILLAGE
Bridegroom, in Liberator
Staff, Arrested in COblenz as
a Propagandist.
HONEYMOON IN VILLAGE

| Robert Minor the artist, and Mary
Heaton worse, the writer, both Of whom
assist Art Young, Boardman Robinson
and Max Eastman to make the latters S
unkept journal, The Ltberdtor, worth
twenty-five cents a copy. were married
two weeks ago. Just where the cere-
mony took place, what sort Of cere-
mony it was and even the precise date
could not be learned last night. The
news became public property yesterday
afternoon, and inasmuch as two issues
of The Liberator have come and gone
since the union of Minor and Mrs. worse
notice is hereby served upon Mr.. East
man that he may no longer virtuousiy
berate his Park row contemporaries for
failing to print interesting news.
Politically. it should be an entirely
hal py marriage. Both Mr.. and Mrs.
Minor have let 1t be known In print ana
by speech that they do not believe the
present system OF government in Amer
ica is col ducive to the utmost develop
ment of the individual and the happiest
condition of the masses. Both are radi-
cal, and Mr.. Minor achieved arrest Ill
Coblenz back in 1919 by army intelli-
gence officers, who accused him OF
disseminating Bolshevik propaganda
fetched by himself from Moscow. There
was TO proof that the artist had COM
mitted q crime more serious than ex-
pressing his own private opinion. and
Gen. Pershing ordered him released.
The Minors are living on the top floor
of "a Charles street, in Greenwich Vii
l. IAA- t1 Itr-fa N
the surname of Mrs. Minors second
husband, the late Joe O'Brien, /. w. w.
propagandist, who died in 1915. When
a reporter for THE NEW YORK HERALD
sought information at that address he
was told by a middle aged woman, who
explained that she was Mrs. Minors
secretary" that "Mr. and Mrs. Minor
had just stepped out and had left word
that they had nothing to say to re-
porters" Mrs. Minors secretary wears
a red flannel shirt.
NO" she said very firmly. II don't
know where they were married or how.
I'm sorry you had to climb all those
stairs because you are all out of breath,
you poor thing"
Mrs Minor, who is still known and
intends to remain known as Mary
Heaton Worse, writes sociological arti-
cles for the more liberal magazines.
She was born in New York, educated
in Europe and after fairly successful
start as writer of fiction turned her
interest to the industrial conditions OF
the working woman. She wrote the
Jimmie Preston Stories that appeared in
Ahtslee's and also the Stories OF a
Little Person. Her first husband was
Albert White Worse, newspaper man and
author.
This is Bob Minors second matri-
monial venture. In 1915 he married
Pearl Bazarie. a pretty Russian girl.
but they couldn't get along very we'll
and We're divorced in 1919. He has
worked at various times on the staffs of
Philadelphia, New York and San Fran
cisco newspapers, drawing vigorous car
toons and writing occasional dispatches
from foreign countries He was treas
urcr and publicity director for the In
ternational Workers Defence League.
an association organized TO succor Tom
Mooney and others involved In the Pre-
paredness Day bomb murders III San
Francisco. He spent several months In
Russia with John Reed and returned
an avowed champion of Sovietism.