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Other officers present were the senior
vice president, Miss Marie V. Sellers
the treasurer. Miss Emma F. Hayward;
the patriotic instructor, Mrs. Olive G.
Johnson secretary, Mrs. Ella wilson
Southland; musician, Mrs Hilda M. NC
Clure. Mrs. Louisa w. James acted as
chaplain, Mrs. Mcclure as conductor,
and Percy Parker as color bearer. The
Flag was guarded, Guard the Flag"
was sung and the pledge to the Flag"
was given. Mrs. johnson reported that
Mrs. Carolyne Hockmeyer who has
been sick at Homeopathic Hospital, has
passed away, and flowers were ordered
sent to her funeral. Mrs. Burke re-
ported that the sister of Mrs. Alice King
Mulligan, who has been sick in Sibley
Hospital, has been brought home and
those present sent flowers to her. Mrs.
Clara Kalstrom was reported improving
and hoped in the near future to be able
to attend the meetings. Mrs. Emma j.
Hempler was also much improved. Miss
Hayward reported that she placed a
wreath for Mrs. Cassea Hopper Ors-
borne. the national president of the
l.. of G. A. r., on the Lincoln Memorial
on L!ncoln's birthday anniversary and
was instructed by the national presi-
OcIit W 1iuC al dutUUlOUuC Will u1lS.
May Bancroft Lightfoot, president of
Lincoln Circle; Mrs. Ehlers and the
presidents of the other two circles, as
the national representatives of the
Ladies of the G. A. r. in the inaugural
parade. The name of Mrs. Fred M.
Graf was proposed for membership, and
Mrs. Ehlers appointed the following
ladies to make arrangements for the
birthday anniversary on the 9th OF
April: Mrs. Southland, Mrs. Burke, Miss
Sellers, Mrs. johnson, Mrs. Mcclure.
Miss Hayward and Mr.. Parker. Mrs.
Mary Beach McClinock of California.
the daughter of Mrs. Mary Beach of
Kansas, the first woman mayor in the
country, gave an interesting talk, and
Mrs. Burke said she would mend our
treasured Flag"
The American Gold Star Mothers met
at the Hamilton Hotel Tuesday, pm.
Mrs. George Gordon Seibold presided.
Communications we're read from absent
members and from mothers in far parts
of the country inquiring as to eligibility.
Two new members were enrolled, Mrs.
Martha E. Dean and Mrs. Alice M.
Stambaugh. An invitation was received
and accepted from the Kenneth Nash
Post of the American Legion and its
auxiliary requesting the presence of the
mothers at joint installation April 3
at 8 pm. at the Hamilton Hotel Mrs.
Nash, for whose son the post was named,
is an active member of the American
Gold Star Mothers. The G. A. r. COM
mittee in charge of the observance of
Memorial day requested that the Mothers
be represented by five delegates, who
will attend series of meetings taking
place between now and Memorial day,
and delegates for the first two meet
ings were chosen. At the next meeting
of the Mothers delegates to the final
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we shall listen in on Tuesday eve
nings to the voters service talks, be-
tween Z and 1880. between now and
June IS, hoping that among other in
telligent discussions of public questions,
there may be some satisfactory dag
nosis of the constitutional maladies OF
our body polite for which remedies may
be suggested and eventually cure
effected" Miss Selma Borchardt. chair
man of the nominating committee, urges
that members send IN their lists of
names for candidates for next years
officers.
Woman's Club Of Bethesda.-The
next committee day meeting will be held
Tuesday at the clubhouse, beginning at
IL am. The guest speaker is Miss Mil
bred Terrett, who will be introduced, at
2:15 pm. by Mrs. Robert Sears, chair
man of public welfare. Miss Terrett,
who is executive secretary of the Juve-
nile Protective Association in the Dis
trict of Columbia, will discuss phases
of her work
Other features for committee day are
a review by Mrs Edwin Etz Of the much
talked about book Joseph and His
Brethren" The book review will be
given at / o'clock directly following
luncheon, and at 80 o'clock Mrs. B.
Ashby Ieavell of the department of
legislation will talk on Women Who
Vote"
Mrs. Nina Church Brane. motion pic
ture chairman, also holding that posi-
ton in the Montgomery County FEEDER
alton, announces meeting OF all club
motion picture chairmen in the county
at the Earle Theater Building, Room
628, on Thursday, March %, at 1890
OF
of Columbia Federation chairman of
motion pictures, will speak on current
releases of book films This is an open
meeting. which any clubwoman or
others interested are cordially invited
to attend.
Petworth Woman's Ciub.-The edu-
cational section met March 10 at the
home of Mrs. Norcross, 819 Taylor
street, with II members and l guest
present. Mrs. Schwartz read "Lincoln's
Second Inaugural Address" for Mrs.
Hammerlund, who was i'll.
/ The section was fortunate in having
as a guest speaker Miss Harriet Gar
rells, supervisor of art In the public
schools. Miss Garrells talked on the
methods now used In the schools in
teaching children art. comparing the
OLD procedure Oh CopSuiS uesisH Will
the newer methods of teaching appre-
citation and use of color. She told of
the effort being made to bring about
a realization of what difference right
color can make and the pleasures and
beauty proper use of color can be made
to bring into homes and lives through
application of this knowledge.
Mrs. Norton, chairman of the special
committee of the music section. reported
that the card party held by the section
March Is at the home of Mrs. Sower-
butts was most successful. A great num-
Der of the club members and their
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session will be selected. Those named
for the first and second meetings were
Mrs. George Gordon Seibold, Mrs. John
C. Kelton. Mrs. John B. Warfleld, Mrs.
Eugene Bruce, Mrs. H. l.. Hurley and
Mrs. Della Barber
Attention was called to the fact that
President Hoover had accepted the call
to make the Memorial day address. and
this announcement elected applause
from those present.
Reports from various committees were
read and filed. The Mothers voted to
cooperate with the Red Cross in giving
an Easter party at st. Elizabeth's on
Tuesday, April 2, at 8 pm. Mrs Della
Mrs. H. L. Hurley, Mrs. Olive Carpenter,
Mrs. Margaret E. LovelesS and Mrs.
Elizabeth White.
Mrs. A. c. De Arkland of New Or
leans was guest of honor during the
evening.
A letter of appreciation was read from
Miss Ince of the Red Cross for the fur
nishings provided by the Mothers for
the assembly room at the Naval Hos
pital.
At 9 pm. the business session was
closed so that the Mothers might listen
to program of music arranged and
given in their honor by the Singing
Mothers of the Parent Teacher Associa-
ton. under the leadership of Mrs. Eppa
l.. Norris. A delightful hour was thus
spent, and the choruses resounding
through the corridors brought many of
the Hamilton's guests to the blue room
to enjoy the entertainment. Mrs. Wag-
ner acted as accompanied, and the fol-
lowing named ladies composed the
oh Ia
Manning, Mrs. Lerch, Mrs. Coe, Mrs.
Wigginton. Mrs. Simmons, Mrs. VIII
liams, Mrs. Martfeld, Mrs. Muse, Mrs.
Carr, Mrs. Ashburn. Mrs. Kent, Mrs.
Marks, Mrs Ludwig, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs.
Hanake, Mrs. Treynor and Mrs. Fuller.
1t was beautiful tribute paid the Gold
Star Mothers" by the Singing Mothers"
and will not soon be forgotten.
The next meeting will be April Is.
V0teless District of Columbia League
of Women Voters.-"The League Of
Nations and It's Economic Value" will
be the subject of discussion at the last
evening meeting Thursday, o'clock
when the study group will meet at the
A. A. u. w. clubhouse where the meet
ings are held under the auspices Of the
committee on international co-opera-
ton to prevent war. Mrs. H. F. Cameron
is chairman. All members of the league
are invited. Mrs. Lyman B. Sworm-
stedt. chairman of the committee Civ
ing card party recently, reports its
success The doll display in charge of
the membership committee of which
Mrs. Louis Gutenberg is chairman, has
been exhibited in various places. The
exhibit depicts the voteless condition of
Washington, Quoting from the bull
letin, THE Voteless League is interested
in national and international politics
but should be more interested in
District politics Although We are
dumb we are not deaf nor dead and
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U. S. Grant Circle, No. l, Ladies of
the Grand Army Of the Republic, met
Tuesday evening with its president
Mrs. Myrtle James Ehlers In the chair.
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boundary of your great state. and out
into the all but unknown and tracklesS
region to your west, then infested, as
he well knew, with innumerable bands
of unleashed hostile Indians, and also
Swarming, as he likewise knew, with
gangs of highwaymen, far more treach-
erous and far more dangerous, too,
than the Indian at his very worst, who
would play your friend, eat your food,
sleep in your bed and stab you in the
back.
Facts Guido Fiction
Yet, he moved on with unfaltering
confidence that enabled him to over
come and conquer difficulties of such
magnitude that no fiction writer of any
era has or will ever imagine, or has
given or will ever give the world to
read. In one of his verile poems Of
the Yukon, Service dramatically pic
tured the Shooting of Dangerous Dan
Magrew," a hair-raising fiction, but
had he pictured, as it truly was, in that
dramatic peculiar to him, the
rise, sway and hanging by the Vigilan-
ties of Plummer, the sheriff of the great
northwest in "a, and at the same time
a many times murderer and highway
man, who carried out a reign Of terror
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CHUTE JUMPER TO
TRY FOR RECORD
FRANK PADDOCK, WHO ONCE
HELD RECORD, MAY TAKE PART
IN FIELD DEDICATION
Many Features Being Arranged for Of
fetal Opening of Electric City Air
port This Spring; May Stage Battle
in Air and Shoot Down Plane.

A%eronautical events planned for
the dedication of a municipal airport
at Great Falls this spring may in
clude an attempt by Frank J.. Had
dock to break the present parachute
jumping record, according to officials
of the Great Falls chapter of the
National Aeronautic association. The
event would be one of the outstand-
ing features of the three-day pro-
gram planned by the N. A. A. for the
occasion.
Mr.. Haddock, who is a resident of
that city and a member Of the N. A. A..
there, established the unofficial para
chute jumping record in 1921 at Kansas
City when he dropped from 1890 feet.
He does not believe that any official
recognition of this jump "a obtained
as his observers were not qualified by
the national office of the N. A. A.
The present record is approximately
$4,000 feet, MI. Haddock believes.
Through the national office of the N.
A. A. he hopes to obtain the use of
an especially equipped plane during the
dedication here which car take him to
10000 feet or more for his attempt at
the new record.
1t has been the custom, according to
0. /. DeSchon, president of the N. A. A
chapter, for the United States army
and navy to send a number of planes
to participate in the dedication OF
municipal airports and it is expected
that several can be brought for maneu-
vers during the three-day program.
Mr.. HaddOck believes that through
various offices in Washington a plane
especially equipped for high altitude
flying can be included in this group.
The Great Falls jumper would use
specially designed clothes for such a
jump and would carry a small supply
Of oxygen after leaving the plane. In
making his leap of 22,300 feet in 1921 he
had no oxygen after dropping from the
plane and suffered some ill-effects. He
also found the cold severe, as it was
2 degrees below zero when he jumped
while the ground temperature was 81
above zero.
Mr.. Haddock made a jump in the
Armistice day program at the Vance
airport. At that time a monkey, Grand
dad, which he had trained to make
parachute jumps, was killed.
AS another feature Of the dedication,
the N. A. A. is planning the actual
shooting down of a plane by army
craft. For this purpose a cheap plane
now in use by a student flier living
north OF Great Falls would be obtained.
1t would be taken into the air and de-
serted by the pilot, who would float to
the ground by parachute while the
army craft bombed his plane.
The three-day program which the
N. A. A. is planning will include the
state model plane contest, participants
of which are busy now in the produc-
ton Of small flying craft.
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more. The pony express riders and
overland coaches have long since be-
come shadows Of the past, dreams that
were!
Our Mountains Remain
But time has not taken from us our
glorious mountains, their SUBMITS ever
covered with shining and perpetual
snow, glistening always in the sunlight
OF day and the moonlight of night to
be seen and wondered at by the auto
tourist a hundred miles away, the same
as by the argonaut of the covered wag-
on in the days gone by.
And neither has time taken from us
our sun-kissed deserts, with their sand
dunes and cactus plants, loved equally
by the westerner with his mountains,
and S with the wonderful mountain
streams with their crystal clear and
sparkling waters dashing through their
canyons and in their channels across
the valleys, and moving swiftly down
to the sea.
These beauties of nature still remain
and will ever remain ours to the end
of time, and always as pleasant re-
minders of things that were.
IT'S true, we have the paintings of
Charley Russell, the cowboy artist with
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mighty Yukon and it's tributaries, and
in the Polar region between Port Bar
rOw and Demarkation Point, on the
slopes Of the great coast range of the
north, that ever holds the cold gray
Arctic within its bounds, searching for
gold, always gold from the beginning,
and now in the frozen sands out there
in the Land of the Midnight Sun.
This man of vision, this man of &C
ton, this pioneer, explored this land of
ours from its eastern to its western
coast, and threw wide the gate that
we might enter and make it ours.
This he did, but not without effort,
not without hazard, not without dam
ger, and not without disaster. He well
coined the effort, he invited the hazard,
he faced the danger and he overcame
the disaster. He placed his feet upon
the shores of the Atlantic with his face
to the west, and with unfaltering cor
fidence in the ultimate success of his
herculean task moved firmly forward
step by step until he stood the unde-
feated victor upon the golden sands
of the Pacific.
Courage and Stamina
Literally, it could well be said of him
today that he, the pioneer, stands
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unparalleled in the annals Of the west,
and, too, under cover of his official
cloak, we would have had a story of
truth dramatically unequalled by any
work of fiction ever written.
Trade His Own Law
Plummer, an instance only of human
perfidy, against which the pioneer had
constantly to do battle self-preserva-
ton impelled him to make his own
law. This he did in the morning and
enforced it in the afternoon. 1t was
effective. Before him the timid, the
weak and the criminal passed out of
the picture, and he, the pioneer, as we
know him and understand him, only
remained. A dynamic character, a
gambler with fate, capable and always
playing a star part in an unostenta-
tious in the drama of life.
He brought by direct action, the only
way possible in his day, law and order
out Of chaos, and now out here in the
west fights Is ~strenuously as he fought
for his life in the days of his youth
to the end that the constituted author
tiles must be obeyed.
Thus the pioneer has stalked across
the pages Of Our history. His trail is
finely and permanently marked with
work well done, and his niche in our
Hall of Fame is forever made. No
statute need be erected there to per-
petuate his glory or his fame.
Saw the Transition
When it became my destiny to gain
a first glimpse of this great country it
was just passing out of the era of the
pioneer. The Northern Pacific rail-
way was all but completed to the North
Pacific coast. Yet the bull team with
the covered wagon and the freighter
with the trailer drawn by his six, seven,
eight or nine span Of horses were in
evidence along every trail and in every
town and mining camp out here; but
now the remnants of this life only re-
main. The broken OK yoke or broken
OK shoe may still be found lying along
an old trail, or held as a souvenir in
some museum as proof of the past:
and, too, the coyote may still be seen
sneaking along the horizon, or the
beautiful antelope running In the dis
lance.
Yet, on the plains, in the valleys and
foothills and in the mountains thrifty,
intelligent and contented people live,
and are busy all the day mining, farm
ing and stockmen caring for their
sheep and cattle at home and on the
open ranges, in the storm and in the
sunshine.
The change from the old order of
things has been swift and great. The
Bullwacker and mule skinner are no
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KGIR, the Voice of Montana-at
Butte. This announcement, given
daily from Butte's radio broadcast
ing station. has carried to virtually
every corner of North America. Tel
egrams, letters, post cards and long
distance telephone calls testify to the
truth of this statement.
The radio station is limited in power
by comparison with the majority OF
b~roadcasting stations through the
try, but it has shown an uncanny abll-
ity to seek out and record its programs
or distant receiving sets.
The east coast and the west coast,
the far south and the distant north
have heard that announcement:
"KGIR, the Voice OF Montana-at
Butte!" From Portland, Maine, the
station has received a letter written by
a Butte resident who heard the initial
a month Ago.. California res
idents by the dozens have written and
wired the station to express their APP
probation of the programs broadcast at
Butte. More than a dozen letters have
come bearing pOstmarkS OF cities / n
Texas. Radio listeners in the cold re-
gion near Hudson Bay in Canada have
written to tell of the cheer the Butte
station brings to them. !.
clear as a BELL" Loud and clear"
and LAS good as local stations" the let
tiers and kilograms from distant listen
ers say in describing reception from
KGIR. All are enthusiastic concerning
the programs given by the new sta
ton.
KGIR, incorporated recently under
the Montana laws, has proven an amaz-
ingly successful venture during the
month it has operated. The station has
provided itself with al attractive STU
dio and modern b~roadcasting appara-
tus. 1t is ION the air" every morning
and afternoon except Sunday and four
nights a week.
The station is under the manage
ment of E. B.. Craney, president OF
KGIR, Inc, and Leo McMullen, Secre-
tary-treasurer of the company.
Two new operators for the station
have been employed. They are Tom E.
Atherstone of Seattle and Wesley Bell
of Spokane, both men Of wide radio ex-
perience.
The station now operates on 1850
kilocycles, 1904 meters, with $50 watts
power. Although the station penetrates
great distances ON the present wave
length and power, it is p%etitioning the
federal radio commission for a differ
ent wave and permission to use up to
5000 watts power in order to better its
service
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out a peer, and the writings of Zane
Grey and others p~icturing the west
that was. Still, these are but pictures,
and pictures at their best are but phan-
toms Of the reality. They create a
longing for the things that have been.
The purple sage, the painted desert, the
stampeded buffalo herd moving with as
sure and destructive force as any cy-
clone that ever swept the earth, the
scout SillhOuetted in his Watchful mien,
the Indian in his native home and in
his hunting and fighting dress, the
cowboy in action with the roundup and
in the frontier town, the mining camp
astir, the gambling places open wide
and crowded with people always alert
and of every known nationality, with
their several respective ideas of honesty
and manner OF living, as we'll as of dis
honesty and manner of dying; and
many things more that made the west
the Old West.
Before Its Passing
In its stead has come the New West.
Doubtless better in every way than the
old. but eve if so we deplore the loss.
More than all things else, the change
in the means Of transportation and
communication destroyed the old and
created the new. The difference be-
tween the pony express, overland mail
and covered wagon, and the railway
tram, automobile, airplane, telegraph,
telephone, wireless and radio explain
the difference between what we we're,
and what we are, not only in the west,
but here and elsewhere in the world.
The vast area of territory acquired
by us as a people we still have, and the
far flung outer boundary lines of our
nation still maintain, but the ways and
means Of spanning them have been so
revolutionized by the initiative genius
OF mar in the last 40 years hat not
only our country but the earth itself
appears to have become smaller. In
these days, unless the result of a ma
tional election is extremely close, we
in the west hear over the radio who
has been elected president before we
even go to the polls to vote. Under
these circumstances we wonder
times why we out here should bother
to vote the national ticket at all.
In any event, these great changes
have resulted in bringing us together
and making us know u chief aims
and ends in life are the same; and they
have brought us to the realization that
no matter how far apart in miles we
live we are all travelling, with the aid
OF like ideals, to an ultimate common
home, and for such reason such
changes serve as an irresistible influence
to forever keep our country one insep-
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upon the mountain heights of the west
with his face to the east looking out
upon the mightiest nation of the great
est people of all time, all, all of which
he created by his unfaltering stamina,
perseverance and courage.
Out there on those heights, in that
attitude, at the End of the Trail, may
he throughout the future ever stand an
inspiration to all mankind, a symbol Of
creative and constructive genius to the
generation yet to be.
Need I attempt to picture this pioneer
as some of you present knew him and
still know him? A rugged, intrepid, far
seeing and intelligent character, with
his wife and children, and with all his
earthly goods in that now famous COW
cred wagon drawn by oxen, passing
through and across the western