Show 4 as fe aloe I 1 ala ka roe J I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 y 0 W t A 1441 V V I 1 14 aw k or 44 V el 13 1 1 11 0 o r t V k it ar 4 0 tv we CO reay alzor caa Z AV r row I 1 la mio 4 they hot and made their isallias till the shawnees Shawn ces broke and fled while tho iho women charged the rifles and the women shaped the lead the women nursed the wounded and the women watched by night the women brought the water through the peril of the elie fight the mothers never faltered altered and the sons that then were small grew as a hunters of 0 kentucky and were strong etrone and bravo and tall prom from the tall men by arthur bulterman Gul terman by ELMO SCOTT WATSON OT RS DAY comes on slay may 8 this year and on that day the t thoughts of thousands ot of americans americana will turn to just such at mothers as those of whom the poet bines the pioneer mothers who never faltered and who nho were as much builders of this country as their hut or the elie sons whom thorn they gaie baie to their country there Is a very good reason why eliy our thoughts will turn this year to the mothers of 0 yesterday while we tile RIO honoring the mothers of today the rei renison Is that it if we choo choose e we may have a part in deciding which of 12 sculptured models will bi be selected a ap the he final model for a huge monumental statue which la Is to stand on th the e oklahoma prairies its as a memorial to the typical pioneer woman of america some time ago N kinest inest W marland Marln nd an Okla oklahoman boman who lias has made millions in oil decided stint america has done insufficient honor to the heroic women of the frontier our war heroes statesmen scientists poets musicians and even such pioneer men as daniel boone davy crockett jim bridger kit carson and buffalo bill have been honored in bronze and stone he said bald but what about the pioneer women we ara aa forced to draw upon our imaginations for pictures of the mothers what sturdy broods they bore they their daughters and their daughters daughters ever pushing westward ever making homes on the lands choir eubands hu bands gained I 1 loyalty 1 model by H A macneal 2 by bryant baker 3 by F lynn jenkins Jen kina A 4 by james fraser fra ser 6 5 by bj jo davidson 8 6 by marto maclo korbel 7 by A stirling calder 8 by john gregory courage fidelity ambition was in their mothers milk love of home hu husband huband band children made the wilderness to smile accordingly according gly lie determined to ere erect ct a heroic statue of the pioneer woman on the cherokee strip in oklahoma the last Arner american lelin frontier and the last great tract of land opened to home homesteading then lie asked the reinhardt galleries in new york to commission the lead leading iti american sculptors to male make models model tor for tile monument twelve responded bryant baker A stirling calder jo davidson james fraser john ki Or gregory egory F P lynn jellins varlo ar to korbel arthur lee 11 A macnell M aen ell y Nf maurice aurice sterne wheeler willin williams ins and mahonra young and submitted v their models which aich were on exhibition at the reinhardt galleries for three weeks during that time tile models were viewed by more than 1000 parsons and each visitor was oven given tin nn opportunity to vote for the typical pioneer woman in this unique contest the figure modeled by bryant baker no 2 in tile group shown above received the largest vote among the ten thousand second choice was given to the model loael submitted by 11 II A macnell macneil no 1 and third place went to that by A stirling calder no 7 after the exhibition in new york closed the 12 models were sent to boston and fitter after being shown there e they will be exhibited in other cities including washington cleveland chicago kansas city portland ore san glin francisco v os All angeles geles oklahoma city and other places in III the middle and far most in III each place the public will have its preference and this popular vote will ald aid sir a chance to express marland in ills his onal final selection election of th the model which will be chosen tor for the heroic figure more than 10 feet in height which will be erected on the knoll near ponca city tho the completed statue will lie one of the in most os t colossal that has been cast in many ears find and in size and niall majesty sty will bo be second only te tile statue of liberty I 1 in ti new york harbor barbor the total cost of tile the undertaking will he bc between 30 nhi but more important than the cost of the size of 0 the file statue Is 19 the fact that nt at liet last an monument Is to be erected to tile the memory of tile pioneer mothers of the notion what other woman ever had a better clain claim I 1 to glory says bryant baker whose interpretation ranked first in the new york ex exhibit lil lilt iler her figure should be to america what the victory of Samo thrace was to greek life and art so no woman or of the oie world ever corn combined bained ue the ideal in a more way with hardy resistance it the pioneer man blazed the trail she stirred the pot and probably bulk tile the fire as well she had to be hortie home muker in the wilderness compa companion tilon sweetheart and mother |