Show I BORN TO SERVICE WOMAN AIDS S INDIANS Becomes Second Woman in I Congress of United States MUSKOGEE Okla Olda Nov 19 Miss Miss Alice Robertson only woman elected to congress at the last election and ond the second one ever chosen won the respect of her fellow citizens which made possible possible possible pos pos- sible h her r election a lifetime of unselfish service In behalf of the Indians of this state Miss 1 Robertson some sa say was born borno to o serve Her fath father r before her was a missionary to the Cherokee nation and her grandfather Samuel A A. A Worcester served parr of a year four-year sentence inthe inthe in m the he Georgia state sate penitentiary because he refused to abandon his work of ot educating educating educating edu edu- cating the Indian HISTORICAL OPINION His Ills appeal to the United States supreme supreme su- su preme ireme court resulted in an historical opinion by Chief Justice John Marshall of far reaching Importance s Worcester in the days of President Andrew Jackson was accused of Inciting the he Indians and tried and condemned by bya a Georgia court The truth was that Georgia was afraid to have the Indians educated lest they object to the looting of ot their reservations by bv the white man Marshall held that the Indians were protected b by treaty rights and that Georgia law had no power in their reservations reservations reser reser- Hence Georgia could not try Worcester for acts done on the Indians Indians' territory LET HIM ENFORCE IT ITI Tho The opinion was revolutionary PresIdent President Pres Pres- Ident dent Jackson Jaclson himself said Marshall made tre opinion let him enforce it IL Meanwhile Worcester was in iii jail His plight became the talk talle of Northern magazines naga lIe He became it a i martyr DanIel Danel Daniel Dan- Dan Iel el Webster used Worcester in his famous fanous fa- fa discussions of state rights and Jackson switched his position Vh When n Worcester finally was released he ic went back to lo his preaching And tho the nations nation s second congresswoman born of such parents herself has spent a half balf century in the same service |