Show AN EDITORIAL there has been an excessive amount of tongue wagging ing in tooele thoele since a lady left here to make her home in another part of the state those who have nothing better to do than engage in this idle chatter accuse her of being forced to leave town and other things even worse recently this lady wrote a letter to the CHRON ICLE and later on came from her home in myton utah to personally call upon the editor and beseech ed him to do something to help her stop the rumors in this town the woman s name and we use it with her per mission is evelyn green whose husband was killed 4 years ago at the smelter up until that time she explains it was his fondest dream to be on a farm where he could raise up his boys to know ability mrs green of course was left alone to raise her family as best she could and the thought con stonily in her mind was to move to a farm someplace and earn the living there she has been there two months and everything is going fine except for her relatives here in town who are receiving all sorts of untrue reports concerning her morals A year ago she took it upon herself to care for three motherless children and since that time she has been subject to constant ridicule misunderstanding and scorn she states that she does not care for herself but that her mother in tooele thoele receives all these reports and they hurt her if ever a person needed love and understanding for the past 4 years that person has been me she writes I 1 thought that by helping others I 1 d be blessed but find that instead I 1 m cursed how can people be he so cruel I 1 ive ve tried never to judge others lest I 1 pass judgment on myself ill leave the judging up to someone who is far more capable than I 1 those whom I 1 considered my friends have been the first to pass judgment on me very few know why I 1 have done the things I 1 have but I 1 was willing to take the blame rather than hurt someone else now I 1 wonder if it pays mrs green ends her letter by saying I 1 in very proud of my children I 1 m likewise proud of the oth er little children I 1 m trying to help and I 1 do want the respect of the people with whom I 1 associate this lady is coming to tooele thoele soon and arid reports to this reporter that she will be glad to discuss her personal life openly with anyone who is interested in it I 1 only ask she says that when they start to build a scandal they have a good foundation from experience most of us know that those who are so willing to criticize others are merely trying to divert attention from their own sins 30 |