The producers news., 1927-03-18
IN WHICH GO ON A STRIKE
DEAR NOM:

DEAR MON:
| have not saw Mr.. Edgerton for
three days and l am just as glad
because it has give me time to think
things over and get your letter. You
are right / suppose if we cannot get
what we want in this world we have
got to make out with what we have.
/ know that you would not of chose
TO live in the gas-house district of
Camden New Je4 sey if you could OF
had your own way nor would | may
be of had so many brothers and Sis
ter5.
Well Mr.. Edgerton did not call up
have noticed that gentlemen likes
10 have you pretty and cheerful and
If you take things too serious and
worry them with questions they do
not call up so often. But all the
same | had to get over my shock OF
hearing him say that the work he
does for the Spokesman up there in
the big white house is only a sort of
q play and that | have got to get
used to the idea Of not telling the
truth about the Spokesman. And
Edgerton's wife is doing and if she is
going to tell on him and me and |
am sore because she should think
that because l am a manicure girl
/ cannot be fit to know her husband
and help him with his politics.
L. S. Well he has called again and
we have went to dinner and a movie
and it was a lovely sweet story call
ed Hearts Athrob" and Mr.. Edger-
ton says to me, "There now you see
Miss Riggs are we not better and
purer and sweeter for having saw
such a lovely story about great souls
and pitiful sufferings?" And of
course | cannot deny that we are for
| have got tears in my eyes and he
says, "Just such a beautiful picture
as that | wish to make for the Am
erican people to look upon and | have
got to make it out of that poor little
Man that lives up there in the big
white house and you have got to help
me-" he says, "and we will be the
greatest pair of showmen in the
whole of creation"
/ says, "Mr. Edgerton l am going
to try my best but it seems to me
that all the inspiration goes out of
me when | have been told that it is
Bot the truth. | don't understand
how it can of happened and l want
you to tell me more about this game
of politics how it come about that a
Man like what you say the Spokes-
man is can OF got in such a high
office"
ID Of
strange accidents Miss Riggs like
what you would see in a melodrama.
TO begin with this little Man was a
sort of political Office-boy for the
rich men in his state that put him
into office because He would always
do what they said. 1t is a state with
a NOt of Catholics in it and so if you
are going to get elected to anything
you have got to learn to walk like
you had broken bottles under YOU
feet and He was the best bottle-walk
er of them all so He come to be Gov
ernor but then He had a crisis t.
deal with there was a strike in thu
city of the policemen"
Policemen ?" l says. "But
thought that policemen was to pu
down strikesp
$50 it is supposed to be but thi!
time the policemen went or a strikt
themselves"
WELL" I says, "but tlas must O.
been the Redsw
$50 the papers said but the police
men said it was because CAey couldn'
live on their wages. You know tha
policemen is mostly Irish Catholic
that don't usually go Bolshivild bu
always vote the Democratic ticke
and it happened that the mayor o
the city was a Democrat ana he fixe
it up with them to give them a rails
in wages and the strike was to
called off. But the bankers and tn
business men don't like no wage
raises because it sets a bad exampl
and so they went to the Governor an
they says, Governor you was electe
on a program of strict economy an
law and order and here this Iris
Catholic Democratic Son-of-a-sea-cOo
is going to get all the votes ava
from you SO they say for the Coy
ernOr to break up the settlement an
He does it because the Governor
bigger than the mayor you see. H
Mayor has a meeting in a hotel-rool
and the mayor pastes Him one in tn
eye and knocks Him down."
But | though you said the Go,
ernor was bigger!" / says.
81 mean bigger legally He has gC
more power"
"Well then but why didn't he pl
the mayor in Jail ?"
"Well Miss Riggs ] will tell yo
the Spokesman, that was the Go,
ernor He has always been a deepl
religious man you have perhaps n,
ticed in His speeches He tells ii
people that the solution of the
problems must be found in spiritual
ty."
"Yes have saw that" / says, oar
| think it is very beautiful of Hi
to say"