Show 5 5 S n We e Need Have No Fear for Our Country Country- All H H I 1 Cant Can't Shake It By EMERSON HOUGH Interview in Denver ride into int for lor automobile Yesterday I went or an all th the e e. e mountains and I stood at the top of the hills looking out across the prairie and it just just occurred y to me what that same trip and view meant to our fathers In a few short minutes I 1 had been swept there lIl in luxury ani and ease and was looking out over the v plains where our fathers crawled slowly for days at such an awful expense of labor and blood You know my father freighted ted across the plains in 1859 before there was any Denver when this was i I just the Cherry creek diggings and now I his son I hotel hoel in the midst of a amodel amodel am staying in a luxurious f. f model city where he found a few rough huts pitched on the prairie Time Tim flies Much Ull h of the material which I used in in The Covered Wagon I had from him incidents ts like the fording of the Platte and they were were drawn from actual incidents of his Cher Cherry creek trip I j I I. I dont don't like to talk about my own work but it was the most satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory thing I have ever done to me personally It discovered to me that there is a strong b backbone of native Americans in this country worshiping worshiping worship worship- ing the deeds of their fathers and with a strong reverence for the pioneer ideals and traditions The answer to the book W was 8 the most surprising thing I have ever seen and I can die happy for having lived to see it George Horace brace Lorimer editor of the Saturday Evening Post objected to the title He said to me Hough Rough that title The Covered I Wagon is old stuff It might have been all right thirty years ago but they have forgotten all about covered wagons now now everyone everyone drives a car Make rake it Pikes Peak or Bust or some slogan lik like that Forgotten I 1 Why the title carried half the tIle story just because it was Wn in a covered wagon that grandfather or Aunt B Bessie ssie or somebody camo came across the plains That pioneering tradition is rooted fast in nearly neary every American family and they are proud of it While it lasts we need have no fear for our country country all all h h 1 1 cant can't shake it I I |