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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH Howe About: WKo is tke Politicians Germany A Near Masterpiece HowlBrokelnto Tt ft J ineivioviesi I tUt C Opyright Greatest Indian . DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS oTRANGE as it may seem to rnenas in isnaom, "Doug" 4 jump Into the movies with one of thoj bardies over a By ED HOWE HAVE been reading another old book telling of the days when kings were supreme. With a few courtiers I distributed In various parts of the country, the old king not only owned the land, but the farmers cultivating it: If an autocrat, while out hunting, saw a pretty farm girl, he took her home with him. Once the autocrats engaged In war for thirty successive years, and few of the country people escaped becoming cannon fodder and fertilizer. While very Indignant because of the manner In which country people (my class) were once treated, a friend called, and I expressed surprise that In any age the people, always In the majority, submitted to such Indignity. The caller, a lawyer, replied that the politicians of today role the people more absolutely than did the kings of olden time. Our modern taxes, he said, are on a scale of extravagance the old autocrats never dreamed of. The submission of the people now, the lawyer said, Is more surprising than the submission of old, since we moderns have had the benefit of centuries of teaching of the relief to be obtained by revolution. Conscription of men for military service In foreign wars Is still In effect. Lately there has been brave talk among students and labor union men that they will not submit again as tamely as they did to the draft edict of King Woodrow Wilson, but, said my caller, the politicians have agents and accomplices distributed In almost every family, and the people of today are more helpless than were the people of old. Like the Russians (said my caller, as he departed to spread poison elsewhere), we were given farms, but lately these have been taken from us by the politicians. Germany seems determined to abandon Its new republican form of govthe old ernment, and monarchy. Everything creditable In German history and there Is a great deal dates from the dnys of Us different kings, emperors and kaisers; must be discreditable everything charged to the reign of its Presidents since the last monarch was chased Into Holland. Here Is another Idea I offer the sane for what It Is worth : In the serious thinking we are now doing because of the numerous monkey wrenches thrown Into our machinery, the words "republic" and "democracy" should be examined with more care. The Englishman known as Lord I have long regarded as a more Intelligent man than Gladstone, Shakespeare, or half a dozen others near the top In the English hall of fame. Many years ago he predicted the failure of democracy In the United States, because of the politicians. Our present condition Is so much like the catastrophe he predicted that an Intelligent American cannot read It without shame. I do not say monarchy Is the remedy, but I do' say democracy Is not the final word In government. I have lately read a "story" by a woman entitled: "South Moon Under." It Is a little dirty In spots; otherwise I should proclaim It a masterpiece equal to the best country tales of the Scandinavians or Russians. The book Is Issued by Scribner; why this dignified publisher did not coax the woman to cut out the filth which weakens It, I cannot understand. Without It, "South Moon Under" would have had a life of hundreds of years. The story concerns the poor est of the Florida natives, and Pearl Buck's stories of Chinese farmers do not come anywhere near equaling it. I read It with delight at a sitting, hut always regretting the author occasionally uses words In her book she certainly never uses in her conversation. Here Is the best example of American realism In years almost ruined. I am a quiet man, and not much disposed to "run around," hut confess to being disturbed by the fate of that quiet man whose- home and family were recently wiped out by a falling airplane. Altogether the deaths numbered IS (not many are wounded in airplane accidents). The machine was ; that Is, It had three separate engines. It has been claimed by the advocates of progress that If two of the three engines In such a machine should fail, the pilot could safely land with one. Three such machines fell with almost equal loss of life within as many days. One of them was carrying a basketball team hurrying to another game. Shall we keep up the speed and slaughter, or should we slow down to the safety now being recommended by God Almighty In everything else? More nonsense Is written about what Is called the mind than about anything else. Silerius said In his memoirs he was a hard fighter for his rights with women, and that he regarded such activity as proper duty. "1 have known men who were too patient hinds with wives," he wrote, "and thus retarded their advance as citizens. The asso ciation of men and women is warfare, and a husband should be a good soldier both in commanding and in obeying." ffl. 1931. Bell Ssniitcate. 1 Hern. by WNU Service. hair-raisin- g ten-foo- J Oop3 wan. stranger still, he actually (J tered the picture game as a stage ana not as an athlete. And r! His athletic proclivities came to tht I surface somewhat later and only causing the picture producers "fa&i$'tftk drSXWlffScott h: Chippewa Mm -' at A Cen- tury of Progress In Chicago at which an honor medal will be presented to the Indian of today whose achievement In the field of the fine arts, religion, YM Iffc.lft medicine, law, science, politics, education, social service, agri U culture or service to me reuerai or state government has been most outstanding. The award of this medal has been sponsored by the Indian Council Fire, a national organization devoted to the advancement of the Indian race and to the interests of the Indian. For the past few months the Council Fire has been receiving nominations for the award, which will be made by a committee composed of Lew Sarett, author of "Many, Many Moons," "The Rox of God," "Slow Smoke," and other books of poetry on Indian subjects; Ernest Thompson Seton, of the Woodcraft author and founder-presiden- t League of America; John Collier, commissioner of Indian affairs, Washington; Dr. W. Carson Ryan, director of Indian education, Washington; Dr. W. D. Weeks, president of T.acone Indian college In Oklahoma ; Sirs, narold L. Ickes, wife of the secretary of the Interior, and an authority on Indian subjects; Mrs. George H. Ileafford, chairman of the Indian Cemetery Restoration service; Mrs. William J. Rogers, chairman of the Indian Welfare committee, third district, Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs; and Mrs. R. C. Eaton, Cherokee Indian historian of Okla- WliHi sleepless nights. They had plenty t"1Iot visions of thousands of feet of filtti'J,1!T going to waste because he ,'moveffv!lb.en ti too rapidly for the "movies" and elN h pected to see nothing but streaks Jf blurs on the screen. bu flM However, an earlier career whlchU. ' ran the sramut of law. stocks await11 bonds, hardware and other adventuresE Including a job as valet to several! CHA hundred cows on a cattle boat bouni,i for Europe kept being interrupted He app every so often by stage appearances. Some were good and some not m iv voice oie in, good. All, however, were diligent, an this diligence brought experienSl Just w and eventually "Broadwav Stardnm'Stftt help : through association with William a Brady, George M. Cohan and Cohai' ith." His mi and Harris. About this time D. W. Griffith was meed n standing the theatrical world on its t Rankin head with his picture, "The Birth oil udy hia a Nation." Previously the theater lien I s; looked down on the movies as rather. me ne! f ntion pesky poor relations. ' ... , rrt. jura tame a rusn 01 legitimate sn't he f Cherokee ffM ''a IW of American Inyear has a special significance because on that day, Friday, September 22, a ceremony will be held 1 Wtef By ELMO SCOTT WATSON pvnEdiancelebration Day this " - W-- & 1 7ranci3 LaTlescHe Omaha rr" XtLi KJIZ ' fj .. ' 1 - . jMarie Martinez i SaTvIldefonsc .ftjeblo 1 J William L The pi le does replie Kershav Menominee 'J "KV j lwd' C Douglas Fairbanks. actors to the screen but "Doug" cided that he who leaps, like he who' laughs, must leap last to leap best. de-- 6 homa. The award of such an achievement medal Is to be made an annual affair, according to Scott II. Peters, a Chippewa Indian who Is president of the Indian Council Fire, who says: "Few people know that the Indian has made any progress In view of the conditions with which he ha haa to cope, but there are Indians In every walk of life who are making good. Their achievements have been real ones because they have had to overcome such handicaps as the restrictions of the Indian Bureau system, race prejudice and the demoralizing effect of a comnlete transition from one civilization to another." However, the records of the list of more than 50 Indian men and women, who have been nominated for the medal which Is- to be awarded on of Indian September 22, Is a good achievement today. Among them are the following : Spencer Asah, James Auchiah, Monroe Steve Mopope and Gilbert Mopope, Kiowa, a group of hoys who make historical pictures of their tribe and whose paintings, published in book form, command a high price. David Buffalo Bear, Sioux, grandson of Chief Red Cloud, delegate from his tribe to Washing ton, lecturer and one of the leaders in the movement for the establishment of a National Indian day. Luther Standing Rear, Sioux, lecturer and author of many magazine articles and four books on Indian subjects. J. A. Relgard (Chibiahoos), Chippewa, composer and singer, who sang at President Roosevelt's inaugural ball. Gertrude Bonnin, Sioux, former teacher and field worker in the Indian service ; now president of the National Council of American Indians, and one of the outstanding leaders In working for the betterment of the race. Ruth Muskrat Bronson, Cherokee, graduate of Mt. Holyoke college, winner of the $1,000 prize for the Mt. Holyoke senior who had accomplished most with their training during the first year out of school; teacher; assistant guidance and placement officer in charge of government loans and scholarships and general advisor to Indian students in Haskell Indian cross-sectio- n Hunt-Inghors- school. Fred Cardin, composer and musician, his "God's Drum," which was played and sung In Town hall In New York In 1930, was the only one of 16 American compositions asked to be repeated In New York the following winter. Henry Roe Cloud, Winnebago, organizer of the American Indian Institute at Wichita, Kan., former field representative In the Indian service and, beginning In September. 1033, superintendent of the Haskell Indian school. Elizabeth Bender Roe Cloud (Mrs. Henry Roe Cloud), Chippewa, lecturer and a leader In Indian educational work. Czarina Colbert Conlan, Choctaw-Chickasafirst woman to be elected to a school board In Oklahoma, organizer of the first woman's club In Indian territory in 1897. curator of the museum of the Oklahoma State Historical society. Mrs. Susan Corn, Menominee, president of the Keshena (Wis.) league of Women Voters and loader in social and charitable work among the Cree-Quapa- Menominees. Esther Deer, Mohawk, Interpreter of classical dances and a star on Broadway. Louis Deer (Os Mohawk, singer aftel IStrfckeB i sotA tna frmt ! So he did. In the summer of 1914 he went tor work for D. W. Griffith at $2,000 aj Te Ata week for ten week's nnrl h mnrte it picture called "The Lamb" which was J u'gerat an immediate success. Triangle, ofrf1"lllu ter and one of the best in New York. which Griffith was the head, came for-- fn eaS' ward with a three-yea- r contract and ftu nal William B. Newell (Rolling Thunder), Mohawk and Kiowa, World war veteran; graduate of from then on Fairbanks was "in" the I I'eclded " S tousled movies for keeps. Syracuse university, missionary among the He also had a habit of going to a f 'es n founder of the Society for the Propagation of Indian Welfare, given point by the shortest route and l!lt0 SP in his earlier pictures he would some-- i'le vat Joe Noonan, (Wanno-GanoCherokee, artist, esl' times leap over a fence or hedge and l Asvice Illustrator and author, president of the once negotiated the other side of a I turned sociated Arts club of Los Angeles. Jovialit house by going over it. Roy Oshkosh, Menominee, member of the MeI "You Here the technical and producers nominee tribal advisory board. vent to grave misgivings teturne gave experts W. David Owl, Cherokee, former director of as to the camera's ability to record the ini religious education and physical education at such rapid movement. In this Everything Haskell; now missionary to the Six Nations in heretofore had been done verv slowlv that ; t New York. ou ne In pictures and all gestures were de-Dr. Arthur C. Parker, Seneca, director of the liberate like the old melodramatic ' The Rochester (N. Y.) Museum of Arts and Sciposes. However, in spite of all the $. Jell at ences; New York state archeologist for 18 years; howls of protest, Griffith waved them totten leading American authority on the New York aside and waited to see what would I "We Indians; former president of the Congress of show up on the film.. the p: American Indians and an officer in many other The result brought forth an ava- - j Bmst t organizations devoted to their interests. lanche from the press about the aero-'- . ; Where George C. Peake (Little Moose), Chippewa, batlc ability of "Doug" Fairbanks and questh World war veteran, dramatic reader of Indian before long all his stories were being Won't verse and stories. written with new and more difficult i I Pain I Bewild e Rock (Imnija) Sioux, Sioux warrior, leaps. one of the few survivors of the original Indian The astonished public viewed a long f bout? i police force, organized In 1879 by Dr. V. T. series of pictures including "Double McGillycuddy, agent for the Ogallalas, which diTrouble," "Manhattan Madness," "The i rected those people In the "white man's road." Good Bad Man," "The Half Breed," "In j Ann Ross, Cherokee, the only Indian girl who Again Out Again," "Wild and Wooly," "Man From Painted Post" and among has made an outstanding success In motion pictures, now working on her first feature picture. others, a screen version of his old stage play, "He Comes Up Smiling." William Shelton, Snoqualmie, lecturer, author""By this time," Doug said, "A long 5, on Indian totem poles, organizer of the first ity nourished desire to do other things f Northwest Indian fair. beside leap and smile started the urge it Houston B. Tee Hee, Cherokee, lawTyer and to What- my own pictures. 1904 to from he has held the everproduce 1931, financier; success I may have gained in this following positions: Mayor of Tahiequah, Okla.; Oklahoma state legislator, United States probate direction is most apparent in such production as 'The Mark of Zorro,' 'The attorney, registrar of the United States treasThree Musketeers,' 'The Black Pirate,' j' of Oklahoma and ury, assistant attorney-genera- l f member of the Supreme court commission of 'Robin Hood,' 'The Thief of Bagdad,' 'Don Iron 'The and 'The Q,' Gaucho,' Oklahoma. 1 Silver Tbncjue Sen-eca- s, who has appeared in both Europe and America. Mourning Dove, Okanogan, author of two books "Cogawea" and "Coyote and Others" (Okanogan folk lore). Dr. Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), Sioux, former government physician and Indian service inspector; national councilman of the Boy foundation Scouts; director of the Brooks-Bryc- e for promoting peace and friendship between the English-speakinraces; lecturer and author of 11 books on Indian life. Dr. George R. Frazior, Sioux, physician In the Indian service for 19 years, the only American Indian practicing medicine. Ethel Frazier, Sioux, graduate nurse and head of the welfare department of the Evanston (III.) g full-bloo- d hospital Ralph Fredenburg, Menominee, tribal advocate and chairman of the Menominee delegations to Washington and leader In the educational and business advancement of his tribe. Charles J. Frechette, Menominee, tribal delegate and president of the advisory board of the Menominees. John Frost (Plenty Crows), Crow, interpreter, educational and religious leader among the Crows. Frank S. Gauthier, Menominee, tribal interpreter, delegate to Washington and chairman of the tribal advisory board for the Menominees. Rev. Philip Gordon, Chippewa, one of the only two Catholic priests who are Indians; builder of the unique Indian church on the Chippewa reservation near Hayward, Wis., and of the chapel of St Therese at Centuria, Wis. Dr. Joseph II. Jacobs, Mohawk, graduate of McGill university medical school and a practicing physician on the Caughnawaga reservation. William J. Kershaw, Menominee, lawyer, orafor the state of tor; assistant attorney-genera- l Wisconsin with special jurisdiction over Indian claims. Mrs. Theresa La Motte, Menominee, wife of a of the Menominee and a leader In perpetuating the arts and crafts of the women of her tribe. Mrs. Eugene B. Lawson, Delaware, first vice president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs; former president of the Oklahoma Federation of Women's Clubs; a composer of note and an authority on Indian music. Angus F. Lookaround, Menominee, athlete, quarterback on the Navy team in 1917, organizer of the Keshena (Wis.) Indian school hand, at present a member of the Minneapolis symphony orchestra. Maria Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo, one of the finest Indian pottery makers of today who is doing much to develop and preserve this ancient handicraft. George C. Miller, Seneca, expert diamond cut- sub-chi- 1 ), 1 H old-tim- S Mary Thompson (Te Ata) Chickasaw-Choctaactress and singer, who has scored successes in England and America. James F. Thorpe. Sac and Foxe, one of the greatest football players and athletes In history; twice winner of the all around American championship; winner of all the events In the Pentathlon and the Decathlon in the Olympic games in Sweden. Silver Tongue. Hoopa, known as the "American Caruso"; he is one of the outstanding Indian singers of the country. Mrs. Elizabeth Tourtlllot, Menominee, teacher in the Keshena (Wis.) Indian school for 26 years and noted for her service to Indian girls. Robert Whirling Thunder, Winnebago, lecturer, teacher and Boy Scout leader. Eagle Wing, Klamath, lecturer and producer of moving pictures showing authentic Indian life. Lone Wolf, Blackfoot, a former cowboy In Montana who has become one of the foremost Indian painters of today. ( by Western Newspaper Union.) "What is the secret of screen cess? sue- - Well now, I refuse to play the part of preacher or one of those 'fol- ', ; - men, but my own jj observation is that the way to screen ' success is the same as in any other line of endeavor. "It takes enthusiasm, Intelligence f and courage. Enthusiasm to give your I best to anything you attempt; Intel- - f ligence to direct the enthusiasm and ; courage to carry through In the face f of all obstacles." WNU Service From Stage to Screen Following a noted Broadway stage career during which she appeared In many play hits, Marjorie Gateson made her screen debut in 1931 In "BeIn loved Bachelor." Then followed rapid succession Important roles to "Husband's Holiday," "False Madonna," Street of Women," "Society Girl" and "Oiay America." j it wt body I to M i |
