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Show THE PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT News Review of Current Events the World Over f $enate to Rewrite Revenue Bill Lindberghs Still Hope Despite Double-Crossin- g April Market Crash Cost Six Billion Dollars. , senate will rewrite the dollar tax bill passed by the honee. Chairman Seed Smoot of the senate finance committee nonneed. After a long delay In getting down to buslnem on the budget balancing measure, action at last appears in sight prort-sloMany of the of the tax bill may be eliminated in the upper houses re- In all the notes from the kidnapers committee. paid. THE as the bandwriting of a former pu- pil. It was supported, too, by the growing conviction that the kidnapers as well as the baby's father were double-crossby the mysterious Individual who received the $3(1000 In currency from the hands of Doctor Condon on the night of April 2 In a lonely corner of 8L Rayvision. mond's cemetery in the Bronx. Smoots announcement followed a No word has come from the crimbitter partisan debate In the finance inals, however, since the money waa soak-the-rlc- h ed ni For nearly two hours, Secretary of the Treasury Hills and Senator Harrison. Mississippi Democrat sparred for political advantage over the revenue measurai Harrison sought to have Mills submit a tax program which could be labeled an administration bill. Mills declared that the treasury sticks to Its original recommendations presented to the house ways and means committee, and rejected Mills promised to submit to the committee two new proposals, minor modifications In the treasury's first program. These, he Indicated, would be for lower taxes on home consumption of gas and electricity, and for a tax on wort and malt. He also told Harrison he would point out specific flaws In the bouse tax bill and suggest corrections. This action, he warned, could not be considered as offering a treasury program,' because the treasury la bitterly opposed to the bouse bllL The general manufacturers sales tax as carried In the bill reported by the ways and means committee la acceptable to the treasury,. VIUV reiterated. He suggested that tbi treasury would Ilka to have tie 'committee accept a 1 per cent manufacturers' sale tax, estimated to yield In order that Doctor Condon ean pursue his efforts to recover the baby free of official interference, representatives of Colonel Lindbergh have requested Bronx officials not to question him. They agreed to heed the request. President. For governor. Judge Henry Horner of Chicago won the Democratic nomination, while the Republicans chose former Gov. Lea Small. fo Nebraska's preferential primary, Governor Roosevelt was the winner for the Democratic nomination by a substantial margin. The slate of Republican delegates favors President Hoover, whose name did not appear on the preferential ballot Tbe prospects of both President Hoover and Governor Roosevelt were strengthened by the action of three state conventions. In Missouri the Republican convention Instructed the entire state delegation of 43 to vote for Hoover. The Florida Republican convention pledged nine delegates at large to Hoover. District meetings gave him four more and two oiher district delegates remain to be rhosen. Kentuckys entire Democratic delegation of 2Q was Instructed by the state convention for Governor Roosevelt to vote for him as long as his name la before tbe national con-venllon. rESTICE PIERCE BUTLER of the I United States Supreme court handed down a decision that throws further safeguard around the al sels-ure- s. for retaining the full fighting strength of the United States fleet in the Pacific, while conditions remain unsettled In the Far East, are being considered by administration officials. At present the scouting, as well as the battle force, is operating In Pacific ters, Orders, however, call for the return of the scouting fleet with its big eight inch gun cruisers In May. It Is expected these orders will be canceled. The State department. It Is reported, notified Navy department officials that If practicable it would like to have the scouting force retained In the Pacific following the Hawaiian and west coast maneuvers which were concluded several weeks ago, The understanding Is that the State department officials took the position that maintenance of the fleet at its full strength in Pacific waters wbuld have a beneficial effect on the far eastern situation. . PRESIDENT PAUL TON who was president of Germany in the runoff election by an overwhelming majority. Issued a o n proelama 1 1elecaccepting the banking committee tion and thanking THH senate the German people advised by Richard JFhlt-nepresident of the New York for their renewed Stock exchange, that stock ard bond expressions of convalues had depre- fidence. He pledged dated at least six himself "to conbillion dollars dur- tinue to serve my ing the April col- fatherland and folk lapse in security with all my power." "True to my oath, values. Testifying as the I will continue to principal witness in fulfill my duty of the committee's in- remaining above all vestigation of short parties with Justice dominant, and selling on the stock with a fixed desire to help our faexchange, Mr. Whit therland to freedom and equality ney said that the externally, and to unity and prog-o- s at home," he said. drop In securities The president values bad been as drastic during the again urgently appealed to the Gerpast week as during any other pe- man people to unite. "I implore all German men and riod of the depression. He concurred in an estimate by a commlt--te- e women, whether they voted for or member that stock market and against me, . to cease their wran bond losses from the peak of high gllngs and close their ranks," he said. "Again, as seven years ago, 1 prices in 1929 had dropped appeal to the entire German people It Is necessary to Mr. Whitney's estimates were to made at the conclusion of the sec- unite all powers In order to surond day of the committees attempt mount the present confusion and to pin responsibility for recent distress. Only by standing together . stock market losses upon the actlv--. are we strong enough to master our lHes of Wall street bears engaged fete. Therefore, In unity, let us go forward with God." . in short selling operations. At the conclusion of the day's hearing the investigation was adjourned until ADOLF HITLER has been by the German governMonday, when Mr. Whitney Is expected to place before the commit- ment to disband his 400,000 national tee a complete record of the short socialist shock troops and to end sales during the last week together terrorising activities for which it with a list of the prominent bears holds them responsible. This sudwho have been on the short side of den blow at tbe strong Fascist organisation came In the form of an the market Mr. Whitney vigorously denied emergency decree signed by Presithat short sales had anything to do dent Von Hlndenburg. This decree with the recent drop In securities dissolved immediately all "quasi values, asserting that widespread military organizations" of the national socialist workers party. liquidation and unsettling developments rather than bear raids were responsible for the dropi He as- "PHE panic which swept over portions of Argentine and Chile serted. and produced figures to ' prove his point that during the first as a result of the eruption of nearly a score of volcanoes In the Andes wfeek of the April decline, the remountains quickly subsided as the duction In stock prices was accompanied by a decline In the ahort fire and ashes which had belched Scifrom the craters diminished. Interest or short sales. In response to questions, Mr. entists Immediately began an InvesWhitney said he thought between tigation in an effort to discover fifteen and twenty million persons what had caused the phenomenon. were trading on the stock market Several parties of seismologists made air surveys of the volcanic when the crash came In 1929. den burg, y, . failure of the DESPITE tothe restore the Lindbergh baby after, the $30,000 ransom was paid by Colonel Lindbergh, the belief persists In official circles that the child will be restored to its par-- . cuts. The optimism seemed to spring chiefly from frith In the ability of Dr. John F. Condon of the J aisle" contact to reestablish communication with the gang which is believed to be holding the baby, stolen from his parents' home near Hope-well- , N. J., on March 1. Doctor Condon Is reported to have told the members of some of his classes at New Rochelle college that he had recognised the penmanship American home unlawful against searches and pLANS 350,000,000. Mills was optimistic over the fsd-ereconomy drive, saying a minimum appropriation slash of $700 000,000 is "definitely In sight" after conferences between the PresJ lent and the house economy committee. loneers IQ loneers i regions. Meanwhile, the great area over which the ashes fell extending the entire width of the continent from the Pacific coast of Chile to the At- lantic coast of Argentina and Uruguay and about 400 miles wide-loo- ked as If it had been visited by s heavy snowstorm. At some points the ashes were reported to be lying 14 Inches deep. PRESIDENT HOOVER and Governor Roosevelt won favor of the electorate In primary elections and conventions In five states. In Illinois, although ths delegates to the state convention are uninstructed it la believed that a majority of those chosen favor the The decision affirmed the circuit courts decision that the prohibition agents who raided, on a mere arrest warrant, the New York premises of iTTie "Yeoman BnfntMur Daniel M. Lefkowlx and Panline Paris, used by them as headquarters receiving bootleg liquor orders, and then took possession of all the papers and documents In the room, were not legally Justified in so doing. The Supreme court holds the arrest of Lefkowlx was property made, but says: "There Is nothing In the record to support the claim that at the time of the arrest the offense for which the warrant was Issued or any other crime was being committed In the presence of the officers. The mere soliciting of orders from the room In connection with the other uses alleged In the complaint Is not sufficient to constitute tbe maintenance of a nuisance thereon." 7?' vr for battle over Immediate cash of the soldiers bonus flared in both houses of congress Tuesday as the house ways and means committee began hearings to determine whether the public should be asked to assume an additional two billion four hundred million dnl-lcash burden to enable tbe World war veterans to cash. their adjusted compensation certificates. The advocates of legislation permitting veterans to cash in their bonus certificates at once disclosed that they hope to float the bonus law through congress as "a prosperity measure" rather than as simply a bill to advance veterans upwards of two billions In cash. Spokesmen for the bonus law asserted Its passage would start the United States back toward prosperity by Increasing money In circulation, boosting prices and reducing the value of the dollar. Shortly after the bonus advocates had bad their say the movement for full payment of the bonus was assailed In three quarters. Senator Joseph T. Robinson. (Dent, Ark.), senate Democratic leader. Issued a statement In which he asserted that payment of the adjusted certificates would compensation produce harmful results. Majority Leader Henry T. Rainey (DenL.Hl.) and Representative Hamilton Fish (Rep N. Y.), also attacked the bonus laws. THE ar one, maybe. One or two of the figures may not appeal because of their classicism, for tha model to be chosen must be of Itself Amerg ican, not Greek or Italian. A mother la to be found among the dozen. Several are armed. Tbe pioneer man has been song of In plenty, too often tbe woman pioneer la forgotten; tbe heroics belong to the male, but his mate gave In pride and faith ao that her sons and his might know what la the meaning of a mans life and a womans spirit adventure. "We take up the task eternal And the burden and the lesson, Pioneers: O pioneers P noble-lookin- ThcPioneer 4 Twnily By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE setting aside of one day in the year, the second Sunday In May, for special observance as Mother's Day has been a custom of comparatively recent development In this country but one whose sentiment has appealed strongly to all Americans. Similarly, the offering of tangible evidence of our debt of gratitude to one particular type of mother, who had so much to do with the building of our nation, tbe pioneer mother, has also come about only recently, but with a great abundance as though to make up for the former neglect by the very number of memorials to her. An early American poet In paying tribute to "The Mothers of the West, once flung this chal- lenge to his n: Thsir monument! where does It stand? Their epitephl who reads? No braver dames had Sparta, No nobler matrons Boms, Yet who or lauds or honors them. E'en In their own green home! The Mothers of our Forest-LanThey sleep la unknown graves: And had they borne and nursed a band Of Ingrates, or of slaves, They had not been more neglected! But their graves shall yet be found. And their monuments dot here and there "The Dark and Bloody Ground." d! Had this poet lived untH now he would have found his answer in many places besides the "Dark and Bloody Ground ol Kentucky. He could be taken over the splendid national highway, known as the National Old Trails Road, and in twelve of the cities on that road Beth-esdMd.; Washington, Pa.; Wheeling, W. Va.; Springfield, Ohio; Richmond, Ind.; Vandalla, DL; Lexington, Mo,; Council Grove, Kan.; Lamar, Colo.; Albuquerque, N. M.; Springervllle, Arts and Upland, Calif. he could be shown C'RANCK does not take a fancy to statues upon each of which Is this Inscription the American proposals for dis- "The Madonna of the Mearmament as presented by Hugh morial to the Pioneer Trail. N. 8. D. A. R. Mothers of Covered the S. Gibson, the American repreWagon Days. sentative, Premier Andre Tardleu of Nor would this chain of memorials which link France, representthe Atlantic and the Pacific be the only monuing his government ments, erected to perpetuate the memory of the bitterly assailed the women who followed the star by destiny westplans at the Geneva conference. ward, which he could be shown. For recent Mr. Gibson proyears have seen an Increasing number of individuals and patriotic organizations giving posed that tanks, evidence of a determination to pay a tribute to big guns and gases the pioneer mothers of their communities or be abolished in the their states in some enduring form. Interests of securThe earliest of these was the statue of "The ity, but he made no mention of battlePilgrim Mother, the work of the distinguished American sculptor, Paul W. Bartlett, which was ships, "the most obvious aggressive weapon, said M. erected In Provlncetown, Mass In connection Tardleu. Abolition of certain types with the Pilgrim Tercentenary celebration in of aggressive arms will not neces- 1920i This same mother was also honored In sarily provide security, he said, but the Pilgrim Memorial fountain at Plymouth, might on the contrary, be disad- Mass authorised by the National Society of vantageous to an Invaded country. the Daughters of the American Revolution in The only means to security, he de- 1920 but not actually dedicated until 1923. Just clared, Is common action against an as It was appropriate that the first memorial to a pioneer mother should be erected on the aggressor. This was generally accepted as a Atlantic coast, so It la appropriate that the restatement of the French proposal latest one In 1028, should have been erected on coast In Vancouver, Wash. for placing offensive forces at the the Pacific In between. In both time and location, have disposal of the League of Nations. statues of the pioneer mother herIn any case, the premier remind- been erected or self statuary groups of a pioneer family In ed the conference, this disarmament Worcester, Mass.; In Elmwood, 111. ; in Topeka, meeting Is under the auspices of ths In Kansas City, Mo.; near Ponca City, League of Nations, and he suggest- Kan.; In Wichita, Kan.; on the campus of the Okla.; ed that nonmembers of the League University of Oregon at Eugene; and there are keep this In mind. for similar memorials In Mr. Gibsons proposals were in under way projects and states. cities other Norworked out line with plans by In several cases there has been some dispute man n. Dnvls In conference with President Hoover and Secretary as to tbe appropriateness of the delineation of the pioneer mother by some of the sculptors Stlmaon. commissioned to execute the memorials. Dis HA Vma Xmqwi Saha) It Kansas "Pioneer a, In the light of this writer's words: She bad Sense . . . Always she waa buoyed In her heart by the thought that she waa in tha service of a Higher Power, working In the Lord's vineyard a bleak enough one as It turned out to be, It la interesting to note that tha final selection for the Marland memorial waa not that of a woman bolding a rifle, an axe or a scythe. Instead It waa a woman carrying under her arm a Bible I' As Mr. Casey says, one of the models: that of the Puritan woman ("The Pilgrim Mother Waves Farewell shown above), la not the pioneer woman most Americana will have In their minds' eyes. But even though this woman, because of her garb, may not well represent the pioneer woman of other sections of the country and of other periods, the fact remain! that the Pilgrim woman and the Puritan woman of Massachusetts were the first pioneer mothers and to them a special meed of honor la due. a Spirit agreements have arisen over details of costume and as to whether or not the pioneer mother should be shown holding a rifle, an axe, or a scythe, as a symbol of the era in which she lived. This was especially true when 12 of the leading sculptors of the country submitted models for the statue of the pioneer woman which E. W. Marland, the Oklahoma oil millionaire, proposed to erect on the famous Cherokee Strip In Oklahoma, the last government land opened to homesteaders. The 12 different models were exhibited In a number of the leading cities of the country so that the public would be given a chance, by poptflar vote In each city, to aid Mr. Marland In making his selection. When the exhibit was held In Denver, Colo It brought from Lee Taylor Casey, an editorial writer on the Rocky Mountain News, the following eloquent tribute to the subject of these models: The Pioneer American Woman I Not one woman ; the composite of many women It must be. Not one of our historic heroines, but an Ideal woman, but not Idealized away from her environment, that would never do; and It must not be attempted for the soke of pleasing the purely fastidious. Think of that Pioneer American Woman! Conjure her in the brain ; but first of all consider what confronted her. Go back and learn of her antecedents and what the years must have hammered Into her soul and done to strengthen her body. She bad been prepared In a hard school; not hardened or coarsened, but tempered, to bend and not to break. One thing to be remembered In making the final selection: She had a Spirit Sense. She must have had In her the soul of a martyr. The Pioneer American Woman did not come solely for her gain. Always site was buoyed In her heart by the thought that she was In the service of a Higher Power, working In the Lords vineyard a bleak enough one as It turned out to ba Site had the homesteading Instinct and this need not be overlooked; desire for a home of her own and freedom. She was looking ahead, generations ahead, as what pioneer woman in her Innermost soul does not to sustain her? She must have had that far vision ingrained within her which is not given to the male; she envisaged herself in tbe future of the race that was to spring from her. The Pioneer Woman was not a motherless woman. The Pioneer Woman of the West was the Daughter of the Pioneer Womnn In America, dowered with the latters courage, fortitude and resourcefulness: She was born to endure hardships; she was not afraid of the wide waste spaces and her intuition was to better those that came after as much as herself. She, too, had a perspective, a maternal perspective, If you please. The models produced by the sculptors are varied and should give pleasure among them to a great number. Hardly needful to state, they are works of art beyond question from the salon and artistic points of view because the artists chosen are already famous. One model la delightful to look at in the photograph, but It la not a model of the Pioneer American Woman most Americans will have in their minds eyes. A Puritan? An idealised A fitting tribute to them waa paid at the dedication of the Pilgrim Memorial Fountain In Plymouth, Mass in 1925 by Mrs: Georgs Maynard Minor, honorary president general of ths D. A. B. when she said: On their monument we say: They brought up their famlllea In sturdy virtue and a living faith In God without which nations perish. After daring tha perils of the unknown ocean and tha still more unknown land, after haring with tha men all the hardship and privations and sufferings of a voyage of weeks of a boat, and landing on a in a cockle-shedesolate and savage coast In the dead of winter, Inhabited only by wild men and wild beasts, after experience! that might well overcome the hardiest and moat gallant nature: they settled down to tha making of homes, with a faith in the dally pretence and guidance of God which sustained them In every hour of need. Through hunger and starvation, through sickness and death which exacted tbe toll of half their number, they tolled on and endured, looking only toward the goal of their high culling in Christ Jesua. We hear far more about the Pilgrim Fathers than we do about the Pilgrim Mothers. While In no way wishing to detract from the rightful glory of the Fathers, nevertheless: it is time that the world realised the part Hint these women played in civilization. It Is time that history took note of them. Rarely, if ever, are they mentioned by name, except In the genealogies, or by specialists in Pilgrim history. Their names, with few exceptions, are not household words In enr tongues, like those of Miles Standlsh, or William Bradford and the rest They figure only In the passenger list of the Mayflower and only aa "Mary or "Katherine etc wife of So and So. The family names of but few art given. The name of some art literally unknown, not even tha baptismal name being recorded. These latter figure solely as ths wives of tha Fathers, without further identill fication. We may read the tragic list for ourselves. The wife of John Tilly who waa she? By what name was she called In those terrific years of sorrow and suffering? Tha maldserv-nof the Carvers who was she? What faithfulness and courage must have been ben to. follow her master and mistress Into such an adventure. Yet her name la lost and her identity sunk In oblivion. Wo have Inscribed on our fountain an tha names that are known ; we have cut them into deathless stone, that all coming generations may read and remember. And wa have so Indicated the nameless that they may share In the Immortality of the rest. Unknown aot illers of a future nation, wa salute you I , ($ by Wwtsra XniptHT IiIm.) nt j |