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Show xmu-n USA BEVERLY HILLS Well all I know is just what I read iu the papers, pa-pers, or what I see here and there. a coupie oi weeks ago I was telling you that there was a very fine Cherokee Indian In-dian woman. Mrs Roberta Lawson, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Okla-homa, and that she was running for the presidency presiden-cy of the General Federation of W'omens Clubs, but there had been some opposition on account of her being of Indian blood. I couldent hardly see how a thing like that could be possible in as smart an organization or-ganization as that is, and it wasent, no sir. There was a very excellent lady running against her, Dr Josephine Jo-sephine L Pierce, of Lima, Ohio, and a3 Mrs Lawson had been first vice president and the other lady second, why it naturally should lean toward seniority. How I got mixed up in the thing was this way. Mrs Lawson comes from my home. She was born up the river about six miles from me. In fact on the adjoining ranch. She is a very talented, high class type of woman, and has done some splendid work in the Federation, so you have the example ex-ample of an American Indian woman being President of the Federation of Womens Club of America, and an American, which is odd. I tell you us Cherokee3 are just getting started. In fact I think Roberta Campbell, (that was her family name) I think she Is part Deleware Indian too. There was an awful lot of Delewares lived up around there, Delewares and Shawnees, a couple of mighty fine Intelligent tribes of Injuns. 1 hope this lady who wa3 defeated this year will get to be elected the next time. You know, speaking about Indians, gues3 who has been working on our picture! Our old friend Jim Thorpe, the greatest athlete that this Country Coun-try ever produced. I know some of you will say this colored boy Owens of Ohio State. He has just been out here running and he is a marvel, but his Is about four events, Thorpes was about 40. They have never found anything to this day that Thorpe couldent do. unless It was hitting curve ball pitching. At that he stayed with the N.Y. Giants for years. The greatest football player according to all the best authorities of those days and these. The Olympic ganie3 was held In Sweden once, and Jim Thorpe won everything on menu, with th exception of "Skeeing" and "Ma-Jong." "Ma-Jong." Then some alleged bright newspaper man, (who I imagine ill wishes have sent to an early grave) well he discovered that Jim had played a little professional baseball down South during the summer. Jim told me he got his board, and laundry, laun-dry, and a ride to the ball grounds in a horse-pulled buss out of it. Well they heard about It, and they took Jim's medals away from him. He had brought back everything from Sweden but the crown. They had claimed Jim was a professional. Now get this. Lets get In a well-placed well-placed word for the Country of Sweden. They dident do thi3. In fact the man who come second and that these were given too, (after they took em from Jim) he said, "No. I dident win them, by all rights they are his and I wont take em." There Is fine sportsmanship, and nobody has got em, they are held in Sweden to this day, but they are Jim Thorpes as much as anything rightfully belongs be-longs to anybody. You have all seen these modern football players (the good ono.3 too) that cant kick a goal after touchdown touch-down from the twenty yard line. Well Jim was telling me the other day that he goes out now, (or last fall) and gives exhibition and kicks coals from 15 vards nast tho ccnler of the field. Thats with a drop kick, something some-thing the modern player dont know anymore about than a bow and , arrow. Says he ! has drop kicked a goal ovfr 70 yards. Thais fur-ther fur-ther than the modern player punts. Jim says 0 I kicked, (punted) from ten yunla be hind his own goal line and it roiled I out on the three yard line. That fig-i fig-i urcs out I think about 1''7 yards. Jim is a sai and fox Indian. When I bo played football he wan more fox 1 than sax. He has had his tips and downs, things bavent broke any too (rood in Iht last few years, but you wont hr-ar from him. His gameness comes in mighty handy now. There ought to be gome kind of life tlnio award of Govern-men Govern-men money, for people In ail line:-;, be they discovery, science, medicine, heroism outside of battle, great athletic ath-letic achievements and dof-r.s of other things that are worthy of !..' t-iTie recogri ; ' ion. ! |