Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-26
Jack London Still Alive
To Ills Forgotten Widow"
His Fame Must Be Undyns Declares (hamn Who Keeps His Home
and His Desk lust as He Left Them

knew to be his last upon her face and said THANK
God you are not afraid of anything"
This is the manner in which Jack Londons
widow is carrying on. She has in her own words,
Years, but no age" She is as she always was,
living life joyously with nearly unassailable
philosophy of life.
CHE is building today the great house which she
- and Jack dreamed about 20 years ago-she sells
his works to motion picture companies that she
NAV carry out his dreams-she is rewriting her
two volume life of Jack London, condensing into
one volume that the younger generations OF today
may know the great novelist-and she keeps his
name before the European and American public
Just as though he were writing today. His works
are still in demand
Quite Young. she decided that what she calls her
pseudo talents were not the end and aim of her,
but gifts to be used in the art OF living She pro-
ceeded on that line And perhaps Jacks sensitive
knowledge of that particular tendency was one
strong pull toward her. 1t was the thing he looked
for in women, and seldom found. 1t took brains,
that was the thing. He found that she had a fine
philosophy of marriage, developed from observa-
ton of the lamentable and unnecessary failure she
saw all about
In one letter to Jack written during their engage
ment years, she said, Zone thing must be.
Never in our marriage, never must our love life
become commonplace" Jacks answer, which she
still cherishes was 81 have read your letter. Never,
until myself become commonplace shall our love
life become commonplace. And | think that will
never be-" This comradeship of mental processes
dominated the picture of their married life and
it's memory dominates the life of Chairman today.
Chairman London has no illusions of herself.
She believes that her happiness found its roots in
rainbows and now maintains that she has found
her rainbows' ends! The "full art of living makes
her life each day, an adventure worth recognizing,
and keeps her much the same girl she was at
twenty, when she formulated the wise concept of
putting pseudo talents" to work.
"THREE things do BEST or rather did best"
! she laughs, "if any! They are playing accom-
panments, riding horses and dancing They all call
for the same quality, sympathy following and
team work Figure it out. With the dancer SYM
pathetic following of the partner and team work
with him. With the horse the same thing; and the
same with a singer, My adjustments are made that
way when made 1--WE all have our lapses), in every
step of my life take line of least resistance that
way It helps me to preserve happiness get close
to people and things"
want-in the smaller things that help the larger
affairs that MUST be right. When do get what
I want it remains what wanted and continue to
want. Jack marveled at it and said, You lucky
woman At the same time think he had meas
ure of the same characteristic. We were endlessly
alike in many ways, understood without much
explanation of each other"
The great love CHAIRMAN had for Jack years ago
she still has for him today. She started saving his
original hand-written manuscripts before they
were married. 'It seemed such pity seeing them
90 in the wastebasket," she says They are now,
those twelve years Of them, in the steel safety of
the renowned Huntington library. 'Tn his own
state, as it should be-" she says. Of course, she
has access to them at any time she needs for
reference, or sentiment. THE SEA WOLF original
she still has; literally cnder from going through
the San Francisco disaster of 1906.