Show M P V lit litS Q n S 4 t 1 rW t tt t t tr t r Ya k jf A I I I I F 4 i r I FF t i I A Ar AI AFF I II I II I ti s f ati k if V v-n v 1 t 15 d Y 4 k kon trio on Phola I 1 I By ELMO SCOTT WATSON l SU DAI SU May l 8 the 7 heart of ot America will be quickened at the thought W Wan of or one worst Mother ord Mother For that Is Mother s a day dav nn on annual event e which Is la 1 W ob observed not by Presidential proclamation enactment or church dictum but because sentiment decrees that the El second cond Sunday In May lay of or each year shall be bc the day upon which wo we honor he women who gave us birth Mothers Mother's day this year eur ices his a sped I I cance because of ot at len least t tso to protects which are under way to honor one of ot the most heroic types ot of motherhood the world orld his ewer C e er knO the the n-the the pioneer mother of Am Amer r let And Anti In both cases the honoring will be done In memorials of ot e tag ing bronze One of ot them thero Is la the announced pur purpose purpose purpose pose of l 1 L W Marland Mariand an Oklahoma oil millionaire of erecting a n heroic statue of fit The Pioneer Woman on n the famous Cherokee Strip In Olla Okla Oklahoma homa the last government land opened to homesteaders e of the leading sculptors of ot America have han submitted models from from which he Is to select one OTie for the completed work An Ane e e of these models Is being sent cent to various cities throughout the Mid lid Middie Middie die West cst est and Far West est and the public Is to be gh ghen en a n chance by popular vote Tote In each city citi to aid Mr l Marland In his hIe selection by which It h hoped the model best bet Interpreting the pioneer woman will be chosen the Pioneer Mother Is to be Im In bronze In another west western western western ern city when the lie monument by that nome name shown shorn In the Illustration above e abo cIs I is 18 unveiled un um ell cd In Penn Valle Volle Valle park In Kansas City this spring llila moan monument monument I mends ment la Is the work of ot rl A Pros Proc Proctor Proctor tor Theodore heodore noted for his statue of ot Col Cot Theo Theo- heo- heo dore Hoose Roosevelt eft as ns a tough Rough Rider which stands In Portland Ore as sell ell sellas as for 8 several other line pieces ot of work orf In other cities clUes It will be to Kansas City by Howard ard Van who oho as a baby was currIed carried In the arms of ot his pioneer mother from Kentucky over o a westward trail to the Indian lands of l an Kansas Is In just JUit such a manner as us that depicted In Proctor s 8 statuary group It Is appropriate that this should stand In Kansas City It II the face tace of ot the pioneer mother turned to the great trans Missouri l est est I lor or the lie site of ot Kansas as City Is historIc ground In this vicinity were vere I the cistern termini of t two tso 0 great high highways the nays tile Saut Santa I e c trail rail and tile the Ore Ore- Ore I OrI fon on trail over trail over which the tile stream or of emi ratton poured pound Into the last Amerl Amer i I can wilderness The Santa I e trail Vas v-as primarily an on artery of or commerce but the Oregon on trail was sae a a ers er's to the gold fields of Cal and to the rich valleys of Ore Oregon Oregon Oregon I gon and ind n W Washington ton The epic of the lie Ore Oregon theOre on trail has lias been written many r times 8 and In many nt so tact th the picture of the women omen of the CO Cowered erell Wagon Wagon- agon ern era Is 11 as ns clear In Incur Incur cur ur minds ns as a that of or tho the men of those tho e days I Hut It should not he bo forgotten n Hi th It the mothers of that jat wore reo not the first t be cast In heroic role roles Inthe Inthe In the life mighty drama of the westward push of or the dominant white race We Ills tory Ie fe full of or the pioneer fathers hut but for a few outstanding incidents and personages It has said little about the plon pioneer cr mothers To 10 trace their history It Is necessary to go back OO sears ears to the tho first t settlements on the stern and rock rod bound hound coast of New Nev and to remember that every every suffering from cold and hunget e every ery ery dan danger r from hostile red men which the Pilgrim I ethers endured was vas also endured by the grim grim Mothers The first American was the gloomy woods the shore hore of the Atlantic seaboard and held the lie list settlers close dose to the waters water's edge first frontier produced the Amer AmerIcan Amerlean Ican one of the hardiest types mankind has hns ever er known And It produced too the American tron fron who was wan n a hit fit It mate for such n a mm min She bhe he did her share In rank rankIng makIng Ing a n home and v h hen n It was necessary she soul 1 1 bindle hindle the tho rifle mid and the ol as asto to defend th tint tt It home W Who ho ho has hall not the oft ort repeated talk talf of ot or the Dustan-the Massachusetts heroine of King KIDS philip Philips s war In r ew who proved with her good goodright goodright right arm the heroic quality of the pioneer mother defending her chit chU dren When hen the frontier was wa pushed back to the summit of ot the Appalachian the pioneer mother stood tood beside her man roan and looked down Into the fertile Ohio valley valler and saw with him the vision of ot their future home She also faced the unknown t terrors or of the lie Dark Darl and moody Bloody Ground ot of Kentucky and helped him hold hole It against the frenzied attempts of the Indians to eject the white man from his best loved hunting ground In that dirk pe period lod iod of ot 20 years from years the outbreak of the Revolution to the tithe time of ot Mad Iad Anthony Wayne s a vie tory over the Ule confederated tribes tribE's ot of the Northwest when Northwest Northwest when hen the fate of or the white settlement In the Mississippi viii 01 valley ley hung In the balance It was Wag the pioneer woman quite as much as ns the pioneer man who decided tho the Issue But nut not all of ot the coura courage e of or the pioneer mother was shown when hen It 11 carne to a hand to-hand to encounter SQ So long as ae KentuckIans repeat the stories at their mothers knees knee so long longwill sill III they tell of the women of ot Bryant S a Station These were sere ere the women omen who hen the station was surrounded by Indians Indian volunteered to go to a n spring nearby and bring the water which the defenders of ot the fort would need so 80 badly ly when then hen the battle began The In Indians were sere ere lying low preparing for tor tora fora fora a surprise attack It If the men went tent ent for tor water the attack would be precipitated It If the women omen went fent as usual the say say- ages eav-ages av- av ages MIGHT refrain from re their presence by attacking the Wf wa water ter bearers Again they might alight not It as ft b a tearful fearful chance e those women omen took But nut they the took It It t walked steadily do clown n to the tho spring conscious nil all the time of ot snake-like snake egos e os glittering at them from the bushes close at nt hand tilled filled their buckets and walked stead fly lIy back to the safety of ot the stalls ails And they didn t spill a drop or of water 1 I That was waa the type tTe of ot courage these pioneer mothers possessed But ho hostile Indians were vere not the only terror which the plon pioneer r mother faced und and conquered She Site faced and con conquered conquered conquered the tile terrors of or loneliness In isolated cabin cabin- of ot starvation of ot bit bitter bitter bitter ter winters and sultry summers hose stagnation brought sickness and anI death h to her bEr and her family with no doctors within hundreds of ot miles Too often was It true that t I My lly mother ho ho was wall w merry and ind brave braT And so she he came cam to her h r labor abor With a tall t ll Preen reen nr Or for tor II a doctor grave And a k stream tre m for tor a comforting neighbor The The Th Ballad of ot William Sycamore Syo mor BeneL Denet When tile the American frontier crossed the Mississippi and the tho last westward push began In the forefront of ot that long line of ot historic fi figures res which make up the splendid I of ot the West was us tho the n figure ure which dominates I Ithe the lie group by hy the Proctor Proctor the figure fiure or at orthe atlie the lie pioneer mother mether her baby baLy In her arms and her face fuce tunnel turne 1 toward vard the thew w Q at t Forgetful of ot the terrors tenors bhe the had io 10 w 1 In the forests of ot the Fast cast she sho shob sheb b av a J l the terrors of ot the tho great grent plains and mountains of ot the West Welt Flooded rh risers ers prairie fires sno snow sno tilled noun moun mountain I lain passes Indian attacks hunger and st and sickness s could not hold her herback herback herback back Her taco face was turned to the t and when she Blie had followed the her she ahe had hadIt I star star of ot empire to goal It helped build a n nation notion |