Show MISS WHITNEY HAD A HOBBY Removing Tin Cans From the Tails of Underdogs Underdogs- SO SHE FACES PRISON TERM By hg NEt EA iI Service SAN FRANCISCO June Juno 3 A A Amania mania for removing the tin cans of ot adversity from tho the Imaginary tails of ot bedraggled underdogs ot of humanity human It Is sending Charlotte An An- Anita Anita ita Whitney to St. St Quentin peni peni- penitentiary penitentiary penitentiary for tor from one ono to fourteen el rs years If she he hadn't begun the fight tight that led lcd to tho abolishing abolishing- of ot the race rac racetrack racetrack track at Emery Emeryville long Identified of ot Ala- Ala Alameda with aith the corrupt politics meda county count California California- I If Ie she hadn't become affiliated with a a. move to befriend oppressed political groups In San Ran Francisco Francisco- Francl co- co coIe I If Ie she alto hadn't Insisted on making a I speech on Justice to the Ne Ne- Negro NeIf e- e gro gro i If Ie she sho hadn't furnished ball for tori I. 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W Ws W.'s whom she believed belle cd were being persecuted persecuted- If If she hadn't done all these things she sho might not now be on the threshold of at the penitentiary ready read to Join the select company of ot some flome 60 women felons BOnN TOR rort There Is nothing about Miss Whitney to suggest the felon She is a kindly charming woman nearing CO SO She is a graduate graduato of aristocratic Wellesley college Her rather father was one of ot the leading law law- lawer jers er l of San Francisco In his time Had his talented daughter daught r fol fot- followed fot- fot lowed her hel natural bent she would have become a a. society leader and an l nothing more It was her hel kindliness ness ness her her passion pa slon for relieving human suffering and helping helping- the underdog that brought her hel Into settlement welfare work and finally final final- finall ly l I political reform In California There are dozens of at crooked side Ido streets and blind alleys to this crazy case ease It has 1 ecu ceo kicked around In the courts since 1920 It began In a n. California police court and it has las been before the supreme court of or the United States twice One On of at the curious sidelights of It Is la that Miss Whitney herself Is Isa Isa i ia a niece of at a n. former chief Justice of of this same samo supreme court i iThe The high crime of which Miss Mis Whitney stands stand technically con eon convicted Is violation of California California's Call Cornia syndicalism law law a wartime mea mea- measure measure sure passed d to pen up radicals but hut buta huta a a. measure Just jUt declared constitutional constitutional by b the supreme court Over 50 s of ot the I. I W W. V. V W W. have have been sent to the he pen under this law But Dut Mis Whitney hUney was not an I I. I W W W. She was a member of ot the Com Corn Communist Communist Labor party of at California by by accident Slating war she ahe joined the Socialist party as a pro pro- protest protest test although the Socialist person person- personnel nel net was as unattractive c to her When this party pirty was outlawed by bv the nationalist organization ors In Chica Chira Chicago go 10 she became affiliated with th th Oakland Cal CaI local of ot the Communist Labor a party part p She h was S not r a radical not a II red r d. d She may have been a Q ery very poor pale pink Hating HaUng Injustice loving free fre she wanted re- re r forms hut but she advocated ad procurIng procuring Ing ng these th se reforms through the use of ot the ballot and the ballot only She took this stand at tha state tate convention of ot the tho Communist s 2 i- i Fi r 1 Labor party part but was voted down Thus it Is on record that Miss Whitney was cas opposed to the dl dU action platform ot of the part although she Is the only member of at the whole organization who will to 1 L honored with a prison sentence When hen her case cas came to trial tho the only count the tho Jury jur could find her guilty of at was membership In Inthe Inthe inthe the communist labor party lart She he was found not guilty of at printing an circulating documents docu docu- ments advocating ad criminal syndi She was sas IS found not guilt guilty of ot ad advocating ad- ad advocating advocating c s and acts of violence She vas tas found not guilty guilt of Jus Justifying criminal I syndicalism She was found not guilty of ot committing acts of or criminal sn ayn- tans WAlt MAU RECORD It On the tho one lone count of be bc- being ing a member of at the communist labor I bor party she was found guilty guilt and ond for that she must go bO to San Qu en tin There was 33 no charge of o radi radi- radicalism radicalism against Miss il Whitney y dur dur- during durIng during ing the war Hating war scar she was usa wa yet et loyal and th there re Is III no record that she also was surveillance sur l as asa asa asa a dangerous radical or even evois a harmless radical I during war war- times Tho The armistice hud hat been signed n a year when Miss Whitney was finally arrested r te lne The excuse s for Miss Whitneys Whitney's arrest came after her speech on Justice to the Negro In No No- vember mh 1 1920 Miss Whitney sa says 3 that the tho word had gone out from political headquarters to get gel her hOr h r. r Before BeCore that Justice to the Negro speech the head of at Oak Oak- Oakland's Oaklands Oaklands Oakland's lands land's Loyalty Squad a survivor vor of at the old 01 Emeryville race track political tra k alliance had ad told fold the organization sponsoring the tho speech that they should cancel It It- This the organization organisation had refused to do when whon the speech was over aristocratic wealthy wealth I k e Above U is tIme thc idyllic of ot mis Charlotte Whit Whit- Whitney hey ney at h Sea imn v ca Calif where here hp await tIme the order that tint will send cn l to prison Irl on Is a view slew of at MIss MUs Milt hit hitney ney nc nt at her desk straight laced l Miss Whitney had lad her hel ride In the Black Maria Marla and had her photograph and n d finger fingerprints fingerprints prints catalogued ed In the rogues rogue's gallery aller The charge put against her hel cr was attendance at a a. communist communist fist labor abor party convention some two w o weeks before Friends of or Miss Whitney have tried to get set her to ask the gover governor over over- nor for tor a a. pardon but bItt she has steadfastly refused She holds herself herselt no less guilty than some 50 SO others still under sentence for tor violations of ot the tho same fame law lawI lawI I do not want a pardon for having had ideas she Bho says Ill Il go to prison |