Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-14 | Page 21 | 'Red' Emma Goldman is Pink Now

I Red Emma Goldman Is Pink Now I V 9 V Former Queen of Agitation in n Canada Is Found to Be Tamed and Mellowed b by Y Changed Times and Ma Matrimony Editors Note This Note This is is the first of a series series of articles on the turbulent turbulent turbulent lent career of Emma Goldman By GENE COHN N NEA EA Service Writ Writer r. r Copyright 1926 NEA Service Inc l 10 MONTREAL Can Nov 13 Time 13 Time has done what all aU the jails ails and police po- po of justice lice and department o I agents could coul not doIt do It has tamed Emma Goldman It has even q quieted her but it has not stilled her She w would ul doubtless be far tar from quiet at such sucha a suggestion But the fact tact remains that the Emma Goldman o of old re repute repute re- re would long since have waived all aU invitations and burst over o the Canadian border whIch border which is not a difficult feat teat She would have appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap eventually In some promInent prominent nent place flanked by lawyers mass meetings habeas corpus proceedings proceed proceed- ings and ings-and and Invited all and sundry to throw her out 9 In In IntHe the fuss that followed a dosen doz dos doze dozen en e Issues could be faced laced and fought all the deportation and free speech arguments dragged out and such sucha a fir fracas cas as the red led Emma o of yesteryear yesteryear yes- yes delighted in reenacted I Instead id ld there came recently a po polite polite po po- polite lite and familiar rap at the particular 1 lar ir back door to America through which pass so many week-enders week in nr search of a skittle of aleThe ale The door opened to reveal a plump ruddy tuddy dynamic woman o of 57 67 whose bristly electrically charged hair was as perhaps a bit more liberally streaked wi with h gray and suggestions other other- otherwise o of white but othel wise changed but slightly in appearance ap appearance since she was vas hustled aboard ship by government go agents and with several dozen other ob ob- sent back to Russia In the early months o of the great war Somehow the graying hair becomes becomes becomes be be- comes symbolic o of ashes the old fires were allowed to burn low There has even been compromise to comfort Hence her recent marrIage marriage mar mar- I have no doubt that Emma Goldman believes as as' sIncerely as ever all her preachments against marriage but she admits the custom protects one from interference and from Peeping Toms And so she marrIed The cold fact Is that Ellma Goldman Goldman Goldman Gold Gold- man has be become ome old fashioned Dont Don't laugh The things that seemed revolutionary when she preached them a score o of years ago are commonplace today She says she still is an anarchist Anarchism Is out o of style There was a definite anarchistic group in America about the time o of the Haymarket Haymarket Hay- Hay market marlet riots nots in Chicago Today the movement Is all but defunct It flourishes slightly In South America Ameri Ameri- ca elsewhere It Is all but dead The anarchists once backed the birth control movement and Emma Goldman stumped the nation talking talking talking talk talk- ing about it it Today birth control papers are sold in Iu the heart of Broadway The frank sex talks that once sent eggs egga flying flying- at her are heard in more daring daring- terms in inthe inthe the corner conversations o of flappers flap flap- pers pens The feminist movement champion so long ago has long since bred the modern woman Her Hei idols Q of literature literature-Ibsen e Ibsen Shaw Tolstoi and and the restate rest rest rest- ate are no longer the pets of ultra- ultra moderns The red Emma o of yesterday esterday becomes be- be becomes becomes be be- comes comes pale p pink nl in the light o Of changing viewpoints I fount 1 her er In ill a quiet comfortable comfortable comfortable comfort comfort- able brick house on the edge o of this quaint old city Energetic still and very restless Planning a tour o of Canada Denouncing the soviet regime In Russia And very eager to come back to to America She wants to see her relatives In Rochester N N. Y for she Is basically basical basical- ly a tender motherly and affectionate affection affection- ate person But one felt she wanted too to find o out t what Is going on wanted to catch up to the times I Iwas I was a pioneer in the nations nation's culture and I would like to see how the seeds have grown she admit admit- ed The European countries areso are areso areso so stagnant the United States represents represents represents rep rep- resents youth There are man many things to find fault with with but but I Iam Iam Iam am most interested in youth It has kept me young Youth is cruel and which thoughtless thoughtless which accounts accounts' for so many many things in America But youth is is also malleable and there is hope for it Three years o of revolution in Russia Russia Rus Rus- Russia sia and sever several l more o of Ineffectual wanderings rings have brought her It would seem to the question of so many many liberals what can one expect o of governments when the people areso are arc areso so slow and ineffectual They need not worry said Emma Emma Emma Em Em- ma Goldman I want to get back but I will not compromise I will promise nothing I If they ask me mc meto meto to be a good girl I shall have to say I cannot promise If they ask whether or r not I shall keep silent on Injustices I see I shall have to say that I cannot do that What amuses me is that so many of the things that seemed terrible not so many years ago are now accepted ac ac- ac- ac Of course that is the penalty penalty penalty pen pen- alty of being a pioneer and prophet What I should be damned for today will wili be accepted ten years hence hence- and so It goes I might have sneaked In many times but b t I wont won't I will not use deceptive methods It must be open and above aboe board Oh 1 Oh I know the average good citizens pictures me carrying carrying- a bomb in each hand Will VIll you please tell them Im I'm as afraid o of bombs as they they that that I never nOver threw one and never will willYes Yes I married What about abou it It It doesn't mean that I have changed my view Since the state pokes pOles Its nose Into private lives It becomes more comfortable to make the gesture gesture gesture ture than not The ceremony can never make malc any difference In two lives ves Anyway Emma Goldman Is knocking knocking- at our oui back door door but but she doesn t really expect to be let in h u