https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/9871bab1ee1a7300f9f7dc5b1471c653.pdf f7780af419c870f7fdca92c2894f08c1 PDF Text Text f 5 b 2- :.bo:,c Cj A Norse American Centenni al American Press Comment s 1925 2. SCRAP BOOK �A.!).l, Om'..A .. N'EWS __J�E 9, 1023. e �lli.{l, celebration in Minnesota to ancestors of other lands. None of us­ s.e-America except that swiftly fading remnant of the d some of the service� rend°ered modern civilization redman-are pure Americans. urdy race. It is a notable historic fact that no Here in our land the races and the people"S iv liz�(jon has ever originated in the tonid zone. 1 of the world have met and fused to form a Nat re done so much for the inhabitants of that region\ new race, here blood and thought have flow­ that they have never had to exert themselves much to keep I ed together and given to the world rrnw soul and body together. They have loved ease and as a blood and thought-the best of all the old intellect and traditions. consequence made little ]_Jrogress. On the other hand, the Our Pilgrim Fathers, the colonists that Nordic race amid the rigorous conditions imposed by nature, b1 ,mght America into being, were not at had to put forth more than ordinary effort to maintain itself. first Americans. It is necessary and it is Hence, these people developed a resourcefulness and industrv 1·ight that now we restrict this flow of im­ that made them highly self-reliant and independent. It wa·s migration, that we permit to enter only those this race that conque:::ed nor!hern Fra1�ce and gave it the w1; can absorb, that we keep the scales well balanced in the favor of those who are al­ name of Normandy. It was a ruler of Normandy who con­ ready here. Not all that come are worthy quered England, a conquest which resulted in a fusion of two just as all who may be born here are not races that made England mistress of a large part of the world. worthy. The Norsemen loved the sea ano. were the boldest navigators 'l' of their d�y. This spirit has existecl in l!:ngland since the dav5 men serves to remmd us that it is neither of William the Conquerer and has carried the British fl;g race nor birthplac� that makes the true American. Rather it is loyalty and devotion to the most remote corners of 'be earth. In our own country to our country, respect for its institutions the immigrants from Norway, ·Sweden and Denmark have al­ and ideals .and a sincere determination that ways been recognized as among the best of the numer�us they shall be kept unsullied and unbroken. If all of our "native born Americans" wero nationalities that sought homes in the United States. Their industry and. thrift have made them very desirable citize� . as eager that the freedom and equality that gave America existence should not perish and the country has profited by having them here. as are our worthy children by adoption who crossed the seas because they devoutly be­ �U-�'!rnonn. or.. rr·oE! rx _JlJNE 10, rni5. • lieved in the principles we had here es1.ab· RE REAL Al\HmICANS lished, then, indeed, need we have little to Pref� •�� alvin Coolidge journeyed half way icl>ss t e continent that, standing be­ fore the� he might praise those hardy Amer­ icans who came to our shores from the .eountries of Scandinavia. He extolled their citizenship, he glorified their loyalty to the country of their adoption, he told them that here they would always find a hearty wel­ eome . Seated in the grandstand with him were four governors of four great northwestern states, themselves Scandinavians. The occasion was a celebration of the hundredth anniversary of organized migra­ tion of the Norsemen to America. It was extremely fitting that the President should have recalled that the antecedents of these people to whom he spoke were the first Euro­ peans to set foot upon our continent. Years before Columbus touched our shores Lief, the Lucky, a daring sailor of the north, had . landed here and here others of his country­ men had established their colo11ies and built their homes. It was not necessary that President Cool­ idge commend these good folk or laud th�ir endeavors. But it is well, perhaps that at this time when we hear so much of "native born Americans" that we are asked to pause and reflect that all of us owe our existence I fN\J•. 'lHJCUMff!A O ( -:1:�r·ii�r: • - JU.�.� �.!".:.:....!!TH£ NORSE CENTENNIAL . T --- -¥- On Oct bcr 9 +825� tht'.·.t't:ip ·•C:�tauraLiomn arrivc<l in America This was tbc first organize<l group to rill · 1rr 0 53 Non�cgians. mig t • fr lT Norway to lhc Unite<l States. IL marke<l the first a great wave o[ Norwegian immigration whicJ, , as ow � ullow L lt 1s in honoir ,uf the 011c hundredth aunivcrsary of the event hat Presi<lent Coolidge wenl tu :'llinneapoli_s, tu !)c p r esent al the • · 1tcnn ·;.!. No �mall purllun ol the <lcvcloprnent. Nur · •- '\1 ....·i" ·C'1l if . ,up hm IJ111g u. ,1e . urthwc� 1 crn state� is <lul' lo the effort� ,f Norwegians ur doscendanls of I 1 orse111e11 .. /\nd ,1:o better c la� c_,l ,ibop le ever soug·ht a n�w _bonv !n America. J hey ha<l w1thm hc111 the spirit of /\incncan1sm hetore they _came tu tl_1e new land• ,ml adapting the111sc l_ves lo the_ ne"".-. environment. m�olv �� no adical alteration of v1e,vs or habits. 1 hey may take a iust1f1able ,ride in exhibitiug whta has been achieve<l hy them in thr (evelnpment of a secl_ion ut ll1e Unite<l State:- where. the .mass of hem is settled. A pagean� portraying a com1 osile, piclLm: of �he part plny o<l 1 y Norsemen 111 the sett lement of the Northvvcst will be presented. --"he event · also provides the opp•)rtunity fo'. a great reunion of hose Americans who have an ancestry datmg back lo _No,;way. ,'bat th<.:y tal·e pride in tbeir origin doe� n•Jt necessarily make hem any the_ less American in spirit or the less· devoted to our nstitutions. lt has been to the iro{it 0£ Ar1:erica that so many forwegia ns $Ought home:; here a, well as I ro fit tu the former! J 1.1migrants them. lves, �/ (lP,G!t:' r;!-JA ore. EXPREBB oou:: 1-::!��NEAPOLIS. · [n :\ f i n cl the Dakotas, \\ he re agrarian unrest and nonyere rampant only a short time ago, all i s now part isan l e.: tranquillity. • prospe rity c This cl educ ·on •e clra,Y from M . Cooli cl 's speech a t Minne­ apol is. Any srn uldering rt-mains the flames o di scontent must surely have been smothered ont y the profu se 1 • aise which the presdent poured out upo·n the ha y :Norsemen. ' e latter constiute a large part of t.he popul atio of those state nd M r. Coolidge ' sm eared the soothing salve on tl m ,vith a lav· hand. Fine pople, i ndeed, are the orsemen, a1 hence the president did not neecl to stretch the t ruth ·hen h id t ribute to them. It was a happy occasion, the cel ebra 1 of the centenni�l of the a rrival of t he fi rst colony of Norwegian imm igrants i n Ameri ca, anc\ it afforc\ed i\.Ir. Coolidge an allur i ng opportunity to revie\v a n im portant historical event, a t the same time mixing some o f the h i gh-grade polit ical m edicine with the skill o f a master artist. As far as the pres ident was conce rned at the moment, the burning q nest io1i s \\ hich have made :M in ne sota and :the Dakotas hotbeds o f seething di :- content and radisali s m fo r several years no longer existed. The net result of the speech shoul d . be to leave the followers of l\[agnns J ohnson ancl his fellow ram pagers in a mood to say, "Ve!, Ay tank Coolidge be one great man," an<l thus will the path of the G. 0. P. be smoothed a bit for 1928. Yes, l\I r. Cool idge is} _rx.rgat_ hi storian. 1 c � If:." I I could pot of diverse elements we pered tem ted tes the draw never '1�he Mettmg nce metal that is the only subst a n his addess at MinneapQL cter." ara for national ch un�_ 8, Presi@.e�M � JU�\.. Had the mis giving.s been exp'res��l a new aiul hight tr �al tified· when the hour of -ideal of ' �l ica's infl ,ence I came, it_ would h ave meant drn­ \ But the worl ' : \ aster to us and to the world. If one ere seek�ng proof of cha­ a into ling crumb d of instea ­ basic brotherhood J.1nong all 1 , os of discordant elements, Ame� u�s of men, if one were to cht m nal atio n � ­ ica proved its truly lenge the riddle of Babel in su, sive­ conclu ed nstrat ty. It demo l­ port of aspirations for a unH ly that there is a spiritual qua capable of assuring peace to tr. ity shared by all ac� s an� con- I � nations, in such an inquiry I su1 ditions of men which 1s their un- \ pose no better testimony coul nature." be taken than the experienc " Powerf ul enough to hold \ of this country, this people to a high ideal in_ "Out of the confusion of tor time of supr eme trial, why may 1 gues, the conflict of tra ditiom we not hope that the same influ- i the va riations1 of h.is.,torical set ence will at length reach men ting, the vast differenef?_S in"tal and women w herever they are en.ts and tastes, there h:1:$ beer found on earth ? If fraternity evolved a. Siliritual union a coom, and co-operation are possible on plished by a range of capacity the scale of this continent and genius which marks this among people so widely diverse, nation for a pre-eminent destiny. why not on the scale of a world ? The American people have com­ It is not a new thou ght, but it is manded the respect of the a profoundly engaging one. I world," firmly believe it is more than a " It is not so many years since chimera. I feel it ts possible of visitors, from other qu arters of realization." the world were wont to contemplate our concourse of races, or­ igins and interests, and shake They their heads ominously. feared that from such a melting I"or.- � �ALD.A�iV • ,,. • ,.. ' I A.LD " N TURA IJ N WEG J A. ·s. ;NE h dr year:; ag0, that i.,, June 8, 825, .Norway landed Ut11an natU,f IS peCU I i a r. Lhe first passenger list of immiMin nesotans ga e President Coolidge a grants on American soil. Ou that The other e tnt.n . Only a f9w short years before they day the little ,doop Roatauratione11 tremendous re� vice president he address- with a load of iron and a pa rty of showed him scan 52 immigrant,;, entei·ed New YL• rk • , ed them at th • .....state fair. h arbor. These people found lc1nd Coolidge as n ot presi d ent th en. • I n the for their colony in Norther., New Of course, i nteri m h e has �:te'l:'ffl�"f:rom the overshadowed vice presi- York and to their influen<'•' " PO" I dency into the full glare o f the publicity which attends the friends back horn(', may be tracer! presidency. This advancement explains the di fference be- the begi n ning or that current 01 jmmigration by rear,on of which tween the two greetings. Yet it was the same Mr. Cool- there are today in America as manr idge in 1 925 as it was in 1 923. people of Norwegian bit-th and W·e see manifestations o f the same trait all around us descent as there are in the mother every day. Some chap whom the n abobs never h ave re- country. Aside • from· the Anglo­ immigran t::; no· foreign pco-· cogn i zed as amounting to anything · strikes it rich from Sp aiex on have more ea:sily and .lnJ.))pily • in h eritance melted into Ameri n citizenship some mo d est investmen ts or h e receives a b 1g .cQI Qr he is suddenly called to some place of large responsibility than have the Norwegians. ·nunigraThe centennial and right, then the attitude of his fellows toward him tio.n was celebrated yesterday at changes pronto. where President CoolThis same fellow who hasn't' amoun ted to anythi ng, be- :Minneapo!is, idge mad thtr'"fmb�ess, and comes the center o f everyone s a ttention t h e moment h e where m any of the notabl�wewi ns a fortune or ach ieves a position o f large responsibil ity. gian Americans were gathered. rt Th e very fellows who thought they were doing the popular ,r;ras to the Middle Northwest that thing when they ignored hi m, are the first ones usually to the greater part of these people came. And therc Llley have i ndec<l I ask h i m into their so-called exclusive circles. All o f us given a most excellent account of love to bask i n the light o f the othe r fellow's glory a fter all. themsel ves. And so it's not always sa fe to look down on our bootblack When we praise urn "Nordic'' or our head waiters. They might strike it rich some da y peoples, as the foreign people be &t fitt.ed b y blood and tradition t o keep then they will be eligible to our compan ionship. alive the American ideals in Ameress the very men who J· eered Mr. Cooli dge in 1 923 ica, we first think of the three Do when h is eech i nterfered with the hors e races were the Scandinavian nations _ Norway, • Sweden and Denmark�first cout,in.s first to cheer him the other day. seek ing to get information as to the to one another and second cousins co st of manu fact u re of certain No i: - t.o the English and the Serma11R. wegian goods. 'r110 idea, of course, is 'J,'hera is .& J.IDtiC.al reas'on Jor favor• ? V ALL IN "-"'------that now that the United States have . , f r. Coolid�e w, t l\I innea- a sliding tariff scale, adjusted accord- mg su�h people al:i these _for tn:e ivered h is ora- ing to the cost of manufacture in for- progemtors of future America, pnP!>liS lai;t w��k attd tori cal masterpi e . It wa s a master- eign countries, the foreignel·s must marily because, being related, ,, e ly i form and in content tell us about how they do business or piece no lerstand one another and &O rom the political pqint of else have to submit to an ever - un< but also/:; . . well . te m view. I one hot e vening the presi - Increasi ng t ari ff on their products ,0 1k m a . . dent kicked poor old Columbus out of when sold to this country. Hence the The late Herbe1·t Qwck, one of. the window, enshrined Lief Erickson, arri val of the custo ms agents in Nor- the most sane, ch eerful and helpful the Nordic Catholic, in his place and way, h en.of!-'ffi ·stcnce upon k n ov.: - of American writers, tellingly iidisplayed to the world the figure of a ing 90w t h e fo� i·ei• ers conel u ct the11· the . problem of AmeriIuminates . new national h ero . Snorre Thor- b iness, and hence, . also, a certam . . fl nnson, the first native-born white eling of irritation n the m inds of camzat10n m h1s excellent story of A t:n erica n. And as a by-;,roduct of men, and. in of- pioneer Iowa life, entitled "Van deorwcgian busine t h i11 st u pendous effort, he presuma1>1 y f i l circles a ia I. mark's Folly. " The orphan boy, J allnked to himself the Scandina vian 'W.he.lt.ha....-ffl'I s attem l?t t 0 carry ou t cob Vandemark having traded hit:i � .. Vote fl·om tl1 is time henceforth, fo1·- ".\... . . . of congre�s will undo all the . . ' . e_ver, and clinched t�e ha._P_P Y rela- tmr-1 in cement- mheri�ance m :Madison , Wis., fo1 Coolidge r. M by done work . tioms lietween the United ::;unes uuu ing o ur friendshi p wit h No rway, it is a section of raw Iowa land he had Norway. , too soo n to say. Certai nly similar never seen, after months on the -I.!:!��aa Preiildent Coolidge s con• . methods when used againSt Swiss frail with cow team and covered t rlbution to the cause of peac� a n c manu facturers u pset them . rath � r wagon, comes to his land to find e a1 rweg�ans No the Perhaps badly. e e t B u whil h good will among m e n. hat he has been tricked h,to buy­ was so com porting himself, anothe r broader-min ded than we _ thmk and t se1·va nt of the American people, the will decide that th� crowning of L 18 f ing a marsh, locally known as c u !':to ms agent attached t o th e A mer- Er ik son and t he d isco v er� of Snorre "H<'ll Slew." After he had co m­ lean legation at Osl o, in N o rway , wa:, more than gives us the nght to pry prehended the u tter wreck of his ir business secrets. trying h is best to upi'let the apple ca i>t. int.Q golde!l dreams, the broken hearted Acting in pursuance of an act or; youth threw himself face do,vn in the cong1·ess, this gentleman has been, \Y'RAIT OF H U MAN- NATLJR'E Me/f r. 7rr r��s PORIDLA �the prairie grass and cried like child. After a while some one ap­ roached arid 1ai<l a hand upon his head. It was Magnus Thorkelson, , a young man who had taken a claim on dry land next to the marsh. Magnus in his broken Eng­ lish cheered the boy, praising the dry corner of his wet claim and the pasture on the low ground, proptis­ ing that they work and live togeth­ er, helping each other to build a dugout and to break sod for the first crop. This they did. Herbert Quick closes the chapter thus : "A lot is said nowadays about , the Americanization of the foreiger ; but the only thing that will do t n !�;n�;� :S � ;:r;:;:;! �:;:;� let him help me, and be active in helping him. . . • "When Magnus Thorkelson came I back on foot across the prair� e I from :IY.fon.terey Center, to lay his I ham! on the head of that weeping I boy alone on the prairie and to of­ fer to live wlth him and to help him, his English was good enough fo1· me, and to me he was as fully naturalized as if all the judges· in the world had made him lift his hand while he . swore to support the Co11stitution of the United St� •• and'cr-i,.tpe state of Iowa." a I ---;residen,t CooUd�":° had good cause to pay W,g�-:CITo ,fue�N.'o,tw��ian aM't�n:;;�-t in the American make 11,V recently in 1his address before thd Norwegian Centenwtal celebraUolil. ��� ·'The grea:t ,mieltii ng pot, of Amenica 1woulcl have small work to do in mo'u.fd ing good Americap,s were the :ria w m,ateria,l a1lways ,t.o come from ::t'h e Scand, inavian countries. Lov.e of freedom, and J.oyalty to ··h orues and country are quaUties born tin the northern races. The record of tMis group of Europeans has been a remarkably clear one. i I 1 1 I,n a few year,s atter oontact with "the new world, the eJCaimple of Nor­ wegiarus ,has proven an adap,t:a bili!ty 'to conforim to American custom.s and ia love f·o r her chedsh,ed •national 'idea<l s oftentimes outshining those of her native born. PORTLAND f PF... 'i' ir..:LEGR,AN _____.uli,t:;_j,l, l.fil IS AMERICA MOG � U ioolid;,je, w�en he n WAS esldent. •. ad f�s e · t l',;' .m,fAmericans f at their i ent¥ial celebration the.1 other day, warrantecl: iri-•,da@laringJ that there had been established in the American nation spil'itua.l unity which marks this nation for pre-eminent de'stiny ? Your reply will be governed al­ most entirely by the basis of your opinion. If you include in tJ1at ba&is 1 the hlstory of Americaiuzation during the past 100 rears, you can scarcely faii to agree with th,;,­ _w:e s'dent in his optimistic view. 1f, however, you liJnt your con­ viction to the first 15 yea.rs of the present century and to the 10 years, since the European conflagration, you may reach the conclusion that President Coolidge has adopted a roseate view, and that the question of spiritual unity is at least de­ batable. f ---0 fr' I This i:-eaidy ass�mdlation with Amer­ icam life and customs. of the Soandi­ navfan stock may be partly exp,lained when we compare and note 1tihe s1tmi­ liarity of Americ,an :life an,d govern­ ment with ,the.se coun,trf.es. I Althougih ·ca1,Ied by another n,a,me than Am'erlca ·t hat · of the g;overnment of Norway p.rov,ides indt�idwal freedom ,and ' justice to a large extent and her ,su bjects already ·'know the ways of .s elf gove,rn,ing be­ ':fore coming 1to our shores. Their record during times of our ·natidnal wars and stress o f hard ~years has found ,the Norwegf.an ele-, ·men-t lead'ing in >rndustry, �atriiotiistm, .-and tloyalty to quote the w,ord•s ,of :t he. ·preside1nt "You hav, e La'id up yo,ur 'treasure i'n what America represen1tsl -anld there will y;our 1hear.t I be ,a,lso, ·You ,have givoo your ipledge to the land of the Free. The pledge of the Norweghvn people b:as never gonJ un'.'r�m,ed ." . I �· to a high. :deal !n time of supreme trial, why may we not hove that t ile i:;amc high influence will at length rei,,ch men and -.v omcn wherever they are founcl on Am erica, the Fu sin g Pot ils ,earth '?'' co!ltlnued the President. fu� ng 11ational unit y from �A::.�l C.\.'S succ ess in Vrl1ile tho President's address was aimed wholly at ents poin ts the pot of dive rse Tacial elem mel ti1 t:1e sol,d ,3;>::i,rn.! ina,·i:in immigrant s fo1· their contribu . -o.,1erati on amo ng peop les on way fOr j1•aternity and co 1iou to .Amcril'an life, nevertheless the same is true of 1 t Coo lidg e declared in an �a world-wide scale, Pres iden practic:11ly all immigrants of other nation:; who have n cent enni al. n.ddl'ess at the •'qrse-Am erica ecu1� an1'Jn� us. . n,'' he said, •. are pos"If fraterni ty and co-op,.e ratio Recalliurr th:i.t just one hundred years a;::;o a group inen t amo ng peop le so cont this of sca1e the on sible of fifty-two perr,ons set out. from Norway on the forty the scale of the worl d'? widely diverse, why not on fh·<> ton sloop I:e�taurat ionen as the first organized I am conv ince d that ion. feel it. is possible of realizat pn,!·ty of immigrants frorr: lhat country, the President ewh at help to guide man­ our national story mig ht :,:,:im saicl that "l\,l innesota would not Le Minne:,,ota, the he cont inue d. kind toward such a g-oa1, estern states would not be i ce t hat in the midst group of imperia northw The Pre�ident told his fl.Udien " what th�:: are, but !Ol' the contribution that ha;; been nd poss ibili ty of ques tion of "loyalties that a1·e all beyo onal ma(:e to the� by the Scandinavia n' countries." among the man y nati it was "diffi cult to choo se for over­ rica soug ht out Ame ALLENTOWN PA LEADB� nent ·s in dan ger of •being and raci al groups that have ths mon , lt wee S fe"' a F · Rrn thin A · Y.1. JlJNID 1�1 thrown" home and their coun try." sts r ioni thei ruct :iest The , yea rs. ur them , and yet mor e , A D A LS At..W AYS B U & V "We are than lcl:ul for all · of e no idea that the y hav es selv them . l y re-ma!"l,s o[ Sec•·e •ary of their com mon citiz en­ are visi ons T e ti l than kful that the e_x perim enl can m::- lrn the ir nightm results," of S tate F ank B. J(ello p;g, in ad­ its the y d o ib e­ in fied but e, justi onc ently at nific e true ship has been so :r:tlag :\ r2srican •Cf:JJ:; \ com Norsetl sow ing the ressing d now er­ are y broth proof of a basic liev o that tl!e he said. • · lf one ,,.,,ere seeking tennial cele rant:; at St. I'aul, sene l late r rproduce the wil ch whi d enge see chall to c-t if one were f ruit s the y t.o call iattcn Lion an•Jw Io the fu hood amo ng all race s of men, ha1 ves t of Com mun istic • of aspirations for a that the country i1l under coust aut ort t:alrn for l supp wil in l it g Babe lon of e How riddl the desi re. : als ibeut upon radic. by such ent coll'cern in ardm ns, not oes \,omb natio the d to n Llrnt -c ron to ripe unity capable of assur ing peace nt rfor,m con cern themselves taken \he dc�tn�clion of the prese be y could The y . timon m tes · r the bette no an inqui ry I supp ose belief tha t of Gove rnme nL " itll the present in the as the y It is signif ican t that Se,rretary ure than the expe rienc e of this coun sry. fut the t tha dn ir thc f :e confl ict of 1�ello gg, who lived. so1:1e years es, tl tongu of ite of ca.r sion e confu tak the l of wil "Out w oul d lW.Y P it the dutie s ning assm vast e the befor g, broad J settin ical tradi tion�, th �.- -v ariat iop.s of histor holds , has re;cidl· 1 sPlt'. d th e im· has been evol\·ed of the p ost he now Go od dti z.en s und erstan I differ enc;es •'in, talt\nts . anrl tastes there n regar ding lusio -conc same ce in this the ilan ed vig l rna ete of ce por tau range of capac ity s m ost thi a spiritual m'lion accom panie d by a af the -danger to the 1Jnile d States s mie ene ma lt.e!·. The pro spe rous n fot· a pre-e minen t from .foreign propa gandi sts, as hiti and geniu s which mark s this natio [01 tunate ancl gren.UY :,,bi, :ad they com�ai-ia.ed the prede cesso r in office , Ch arles E. l u n d arn num erous, ancl destin y. · The Amer ican people have ing to rep eat 1 iot consta utly , hopof hor ror thu y co. To 11im tl«.i appar ent ces­ Hugh ,, r pte dia tlle n her :respec t of the · world. ies enem of l1ostilitie;3 liy the n in Bul gar ia. from oth :sr sation hav e rec ent ly wri tte lt ii not so many years since visitors > of thP, Gove rnme nt is only appar ent. template our He knows that all the time the quaa·t ers of the world were wont to ·.con sh:::ke and enem ies of America 11Jot and sts intere alien and s origin races, of conco urse ,cre1.1c e troub le here, and h e to plan a such from their heads omnio usly. They feared that 'also that a s the y �r.rs go by s know never draw meltin g pot of diverse elemen ts we c,rn·ct they grow more suutle in their substanc: . metlw·d of attack ancl con,;e q,H.'r.t ly only the is that metal 'the tested, tempered m ore dange 1·ons. Even among ourselv es were of national character. The avern g;� L'l'l.Il wto rc :tt1:'\ 11is uch fore­ ro s conca:·n serious with Iisteneq who many . tiaily newsp '., j.l Er, g oes to tho ball They were not quite sure whethe r we had boding s. :;ame in the a,ft�r-:.i oou and gets out won­ the .fl ivv er for a 8ur�clr1 y ride, is not created a nation �it� the so� of a nation. They r a togethe cons-ci r.ms that grour,::i here an ,.l brought merely dered if perhaps we h· there, spend ing n o til,iC• in such large number of people in a large place. pleasa nt and wl.•_;:esome 11 �i·ca­ "Had thef!e mil:igivings been justified when the hour tions, Jevote the:'l,1; �- l v c ., to rlan!f anu. w-h kll they hope wlll fruit in the • of trial came, it would have meant disaster to u5 l chaos :i. into ing overthr ow of the rep-ulilk. to the world. But instead of crumb They write, ilrint and disser::i inate na­ truly its proved_ America of · discordan t clE:ments , calcul ateu. to inflam e ure literat It clemonstrated conclusi� ely that there tiQ..n al unity. men's passio ns ; they rois()n the It demonstrated conclu_sively that is a mHional unity. minds of . the young and t1i� / 6et money from abroad w i th which to ther0 is a 5ph'itual quality shared by all 1·aces and con­ ca.rry out all their plans of revclu­ ditions of men which is their universal heritage and \ ·: ion and destruc tion . Powerful enough to hold ·this people \ common namre. Nobo<ly foin!·W Fiat the Govern GONB ALTO ON A. l'A 'l'nt N T<} 1�. !�1\h Y }l] l.L•c:,:!il:!?�!'.: 5.P ±'- 1-.. ---=----:-,-___W iirn�. -- i - �B:i'lTHLFlHEM P � TIMJa­ ESDA� ,ff NE 9, 19Z5. ��....-=� _TI! CARI TPf' CHA'MBSB'G pA 'VA LT T,JV SP'Llt SATURD A '!, .1 1 1 .ll1 ' : l�25. OOLIDGE AND KELLOGG great 'Jiorse meeting held in Minnes this :;eek iPresident Cooli<lge and ISiecretary of !State Kello,gg we'l'e sent to 'the center of the ene· my's ,country for! the purpose of rem• edying conditiolli!, po1it1cal existing in thiat locality for a long while. These western people are rather hard to reeondle, and ju,st a·b out the time you have ,g one to a bushel of troub le to a:llay the:j r complaints and to offeir the olive branch and do the dove ,cooing and smoke the prove�bial ,pip,e of ·J)eace they break forth at a new point on somie o'ther matter and you art:l further trom thi:, odor of myrrh, rrankincense and the sweet s-0ent. of the mytliad of flowers than you were when you began. , These western people are in some ways admirable. They have a free nonchalance and indepen-dence which &trikes you with a feeling of respect for them. They go direct to the .p oinc they are ex_p€cting to reach, ancl if you a.re not ,a good fencer they ,get there. Coolidge avowedly was ·sent to this somewhat forle'ign illleeting for th e :purpose of pou•ring oil on the trou•b le cl wateirs and making these men :b elieve it.hat they are honest to goodness IA.Inerfoans at the very heart of 'the �overnment's interests and that then· help and as,sdstance were needrid to keep the ,country in harmony with the o ri,ginal princip'les established at its founding. Often, indeed, th€se western -p eople have seemed to part with -the princ:i:p'les of our ancient liberty and to have instituted and prom,u lga­ ted new doctrines for the purpose of making America g1'ow. • The one most troublesome matter is that the old fogyiiSm of the East. at­ tracts their anta,gonism and they really make good on the propositions they set. forth, however seemingly un�A:m­ erican they sometimes are. The 1Wie s t l has no fear that this country is in !dan,ge:rl from any sou:rice, and their I reliance �s la'rgely •ba,sed upon the fact that in case of a;ssaU'lt from any O'Ut­ si de in,fl u,e nce they are prepared in body, mind and sou,l to take a deter­ mined stand for the continuance of the Am-eri· can nation. Coolidge said som·e very truthful things in his address to the, Norsemen lie gave them pr<aise wherev-er it wa,, possib-1e to do so and he was reaching for their favor :j n eve,ry sentence he uttered. They listened r,ather mutely and it was a P'UZZle to know whethe t they just bore the iPresident or' if the President bored them. The cant ot Coolid-g;e was not likely reaUy t o envelope the buoyant western sph·it. I� western peoP'le are anything they are seLf-confi,dent, eager and ready t0 go to wO"rk at the task they think shou1d . be done, and they like that open free and uncorufined .method of spe-ech that • It\ is wholly unnecessary to l'f'ad a poU�cal motive in the President's One hu dred thousand Norsemen and other citizens visit to Minneapolis on the occasion of Northwes\ern States listened attentively yesterday to ot' the N_Qrwegian Centennial this Natural l y there ..is always an address by President Coolidge, who extolled the vir- we e k . tues, courage and industry of the Norsemen who fi rst m ore or less politic� in everything a emigrated to this country 1 0 0 years ago anll"fhe part of President does, in every move he ' make:i, but this occasion seem,� more their descendants in the development of the great free from t.he political motive 1.han Northwest. The occasion was the eente!\n'al celebra- many others. l ion o f that first i ,migration, held at the State Fair .Iu h is own words , the Pro:;id ent ! F Grounds, between St. Paul and Minneapolis. took the opportunity afforded for I Telling of the making of America by "the unsung calling t hP. attention of the nal lon "to I millions of plain people," Mr. eooltdge spoke of he the ,F,bsovbin,gly intcrm;ting subject 01 fear felt by many in the earlier days of the Republic t h o tioci a l b:;,ckg1 'olll1d1s of our counthat "from such a melting pot of diverse elements we l ry . " H e gave it as hi s opinion that ·could never draw the tested, tempered metal that is the a stud y c{ great historical events like t h is fi rst settlement of the Norwegians only substance for national character," and remarked : w i l l do a gr,'a l. dP:tl to aid in the "But instead of crumbling into a chaos of discordant forum lion of a t rne and 11eJ,p.ft1l :i;iaIt elments America proved its truly national unity. nal unity, " an inspiration to high demonstrated conclusively that there is a spiritual qualan intelligent patriotism." The hi:;ity shared by all races and conditions of men which is tory f a nation is not read entirely tlleir unive rsal heritage and common nat-qre. Power- in its ars nor its politics, but also f u l enough to hold this people to a high ideal in time in the I es of its plain people, their of supreme trial, why may we not hope that the same adven lures, customs and achieve• influnce ,vi.II at length reach men and women wherever ments. The President even believes, 'lhey are found on earth? If fraternity and co-operation he stated, that in this Ameri<can are possible on the scale of this continent among peopl€ s tory of the struggle to win a \ co�.tinent " th � re w ill be �ound a so widely diverse, why not on the scale of a world ? ph1l osop1hy o( 11uman relati_on � th at "It is not a new thought, but it is a profo undly en_ the world w1 1 1 grea tl y prize. ' 1 n gaging one. I firmly believe it is more than a chimera. other word:s, :he 'believes that the I am convinced that our national story might somewhat world can learn how to be one world help to guide mankind toward s_u ch a goal. Therefore and live in unity from the way AmerI urge the deeply thoughtful study and teaching of our ica has been deve!oped from many different peoples. history. " It is a fact .t hat the story of ,the Turning then to the Norsemen and their influence in America, Mr. Coolidge told the story -of thei r fi rst arri- Norwegian Centennial i� interesting, and that but for this public participaval as settlers in this country 1 0 0 years ago, and espe tion by the President the attention of of growth and development cially of their share in the many people would not have been the great Northwest. direcled to it. We admit that ,we did· Mr. Coolidge pointed out that it remaln€d today for not know the story of the trip, of the the common citizen to maintain and uphold those prin- Res taurntionen before we read it i n ciples of religious liberty and educational and economic the President's addreeis. It is but 01:p ortunity, of constitutional rights and the integrity of little less memorable that t hat of the the law which they came to America to find or establish. :¥ ayflower. I The Scandanavian stock in Amer"These do not "emanate from the Government ; their ica has given the nation one of its ' al<iding place is with the people : I chief elements of strength. The Nor"When I realize what you have done , ''. he added, "I wegiaus, who 'have been coming now know that in your hands our country is secure. You for a hundred years, have turned to the have given you r pledge to the land of the free. The laud, and have taken ,up tbat most pledge of the Norwegian people has never gone un- b asic of all occupati-ons, agricul ture. redeemed ." ,. They have gone largely to the Northwest instead ot' crowding the Eastern cities, and w:h ile winning the tioil have proved to ,be patriotic American citizens. The entire nation can look upon this Centennial celebration with L ,_ --=�L,.,,.,-_ �nH.c. Pa.nH� r.,ARL1SL� T'�\ SEN'1' H ..:..DNbSD:\ \, J O N E 10, 1925. '1 Jllili!se firs ; Norw,g w ,, "l! O ca,me t-o u \merTua as a 1 ,ril'ty of imn1ig rants en lo ! 1 1 s op Rc,, tani·ationen, sel ected a g·ood date for tlrnlr deJ)arture-July 4. The journe y t ook fourteep weeks , and t he veEsel , w h ich was only or 4 5 tons displacemen t, was tile smalle st t hat had: crosse d . -the Atlant ic up to t hat I Ime. Never theless it canied 52 pecple ,b ed<les a heavy cargo ot' iron. __________________________..A u10.d1:• l o !'t he sloO!) -:i•· on PX'Ii ition ,._�----------------------.....11 at i he Minnes ota S t a te fair ground s, d u ring 1e Centen n ial. True National Unity Proved. j' �has noth ing conc e al e d or hidd e n. In EASTON pA EXPRESS 110,000,000 who now occupy thPfact i t is impossibl e to b ewilder the J;J --11. lJl.25. country, AM ERICA Wes t w'ith soph i s try. Th ey\ � tand America, however, must belong fo'uT-square, and t o mov-e the m yo u In. hls address at the ��' f orever to Americans. Its contribu­ !lll'lllS't have an assaul t that is not onily r)entennia.l on Monday, Pres lnent t!on to the world's welfare has been va ri e d, IJ>ut that strikes the w es t e rn co-ottdge refene<.l to the enormous made because @f !ts Americanlsm­ 'l!itade l on all four's. Cool idge can impulse given to immi gra ti on from its liberty, its practical sense, its ab­ s carcely be ,said to have this mome n- Europe by immigran w who h ad al - 11ence of greed, and its generosity. tum,. The (W-est is used to ,great things. ready reached these shores and who The most successful political system 'I;'lie a;!most imm eas•urab-le -plains ar� were anxious to induce their rela - fn ,the world is tho fruit of Amert­ common outlooks to them. Th ey e x- tives and friends to com('). "l'hcy eanlsm. ...:..11 et'forts to adulterate that pect to s ee fa;r and to s e e dearly, and engaged tn an inverted crusade," he system wlth foreign or internatlonal they do accomplish th ei r a n ticipations. re marked; ".a. cona1..a�• without lnva - modUl.cattons will be resisted by· true CooUdge may r eadly be e ndurea. •b ut lston and without force." T he moveAmericans. The elements In the it is as t ru:e as• fate that he Will n ever ment from northern Europe ,to country that do not understand be :idolize d l:>y th e 1grleat West. America had a powerful :reflex action Americanism or the American sys) • Kel1log,g with great ad, roitness w a s upon Europe, by furnishing an ex - item may press for changes, but un­ combined whh • Coo l idge. His term as ample for democratic ' evolution. fortunately the spirit of American­ Senator of· Minnesota t erminate d by Eu ropean governments were lib eral- ism Is s t rong enough to hold the 'd,efeat for a confirmation of h is acts z i ed, and the increase o f population 8tructure against all assaults fro � during h is ter.m. He grew away from in the northern part of the United :wl.thl.n... or. without. / the (Wiest when h e w ent to Washingto l s ta � tes . "hastened the downfall of . _ GREENSBURG PA REVTEW rathel.4 th an W1th 1t. He has be en fa _ 'fllURSDAY, JUNE 41 1925. slavery and helped rid our lnstitu·ivored with v,eir y high appointments, rt:ions of that great and threatening . rta 'sfactory Democracy but he has has not shown any great anomaly." e Broads, it is reporte{l, have strength with th e we stern p eople The Norwegian immigrants came since hiis t erm in th e United States l!iell) to become Americans. They joined 1 mrti� rresiuent Cooli f)i;e Senate. He ha s r!tther b ecome a ...tarted their friends to come and be 00 use a private car in his travels. - so th i s mon t h w hen the President sttanger than a_.friend to the w e-c;tern come Americans. Such movements . goes to St. Paul, M i nn., where on 1 re nlimb u , and ,cool too is '.};l eop Ie. He as that which built up the Northwest June 8 he is scheduled to deliver i n g to reach th e w e stern fancy . w ith Norwegians were the greatest T his tri•p so we11 pl anned by th e single force In the expansion of the an address at the Norse-Am5[j&Qfl 1 Centennial, he "II' Ill ndi 1::1 It priRe p.uiblican n ational committee has United States. eud e d without an apprecinhle differ.. The change 1n the character of vate car in the approved presidentift . ence· i� th� s entimient weSt of th e immigration in the last thirty years custom. It was pointed out by the rail­ Mississippi with r elation to the IJI' e s- was just cause for alarm on the part road efficials that it is very dlffi· ent a,dminis�;a,tton and i t s officers p! Americans. The new immigrants _ If we w eTe to point to a smgl e man .did not become Americans. They cult to mak e the necessary 'arrange-who typifies· the �rnstern i;;pirit . ,ve herded in colonies and became both ments for safe ty aud facility in operation when the President at­ ,vould look at onc e to Willam 'E, Bo• a. nuisance and a danger to society. :r b,,enior ,st • Jr !'il&m Idaho. He Old World crimes were rampant tempts to ride in regu\ar aceommo­ keeps '"entirely a:loof from the wil es among them. They did not eome to dntion s. , Effort s o f. publ ic officials to go of th e Ea.st. He stands wh er� he stay, but as soon as they had acstood tw enty-fiv e years, azo when he cumulated some money they re- back to moire democratic custom; than, those follcrn-ed by their predt·· prose cute d H aywood for his part i n turned, leaving the , eountry poorer. oes sors in office are usually pretty the ,conspi racy which ende d in the Thoee who remained helped to fill hard to accomplish. It has not be0':1 death of t he Governor of Idaho. He t prisons he and asylums maintained the rule with American public offi­ lypi.fies more than any one else what by American taxpayers. cials that they have desirecl to 1m;• tne W e st wou1l d do if in 1 h e saddl e. In England all but 1 per cent of rou nd them :sel,es with exclusiveness, By the way, h e is a gr e at lover of the population is native-born. ID but conditions have. :forced certain equestrian sport and th e tack of a the United states f4 per cent of the th i ngs to be<:ome t he custom, A horse is h is recreation. He is not population ls foreign-born. The re- ]?riv.ate car pt'Operly equipped hae a B-uffu l o BUI, and yet in ano th� r strlction o1 immigTatton did not been used by se,eral of our most lin e h e is a .genius of equal promicomtran hour too soon. • tra ,eled presidents as a moving nence, and as J ong as he J i v es �9 n . restricted Immigration the office and they ha ve transacted 111 U der man like Coo·hdge or Kellogg W win the ard ent f ervor of th e fr: e sh population of the United states is a large portion of publ ie business becoming wholly American, by birth while on the morn. It is a very west e rh soul. We do not mean to say by what and by education. The dangerous narrow man who would think that we have written above that we h �v e divisions of public sentiment that the Presi de::it of the Uni ted States any pati en,c e w ith any w<istern sp1r- were evident just before the United should traYcl with other passengers , . it that avows d11S-loyal ty, b u, : w e States entered the war will not in tbe ordinary accommodations. do not b eli e-v e that the predonunant oecur again if the United �tates whether 'it be Pullman oi: day we st e rn s·pi,ri t is disloyal. 0 th e will continue its policy of rest:cicted ooache!f, It certahi!y would put other ha nd, w e h ave th e high est immigration. Hyphenism has prac - ,an extra heavy st,:ain on tbe offl• . _ _ faith in ,its ardor, and :his sect10n ,tically disappeared ; and It is good cials of the rail.oad comvau ies for safe transportation. of th e coun t ry is bouna to be l n riddance. There is still room in the United many ways a controlli;i g fo rce _ m States for acceptable immigrants. If governmenta l a ffairs. I t will be so, h oweve r, in th e Eo� e method could be found for ad:Stricte s t accord with the o·penne m1ttlng them w)llle excluding unde slrable nationalities and races, the ,r n<l candor of western practic • doors should be opened again. The country needs more people. It can easlly support 1100,000,000; and if t.hey were all Americans, all of them would be more prosperous than the :1 �;i rn h i t i nn a n d t h e d e v o tinn to to show the valu e , o f expe rime ntat c h ur C'h :1 11<1 fa1 1 1 i l y w h ich h a 1·e ion w�th J n a rk ecl t h e m as a peuJJ l e r,,,. gen ­ gove rnm enf. S ome of thei r nove l ties like HRJgi is Of Th.e Pas-t" c•ra l i u ns i n t he i l' o w n eu u u t ry and the stat e gua ran tee of ban k depo sits h ave PrOOide t Coolidge iu his addres!: l11 t•y �.1 w t h ese chanLcter ist ics and at the N �e Centennial celebration >1 l L L' i l rnles fluwel' a n d bloom a maz- faile d and so h ave adde d som ethi ng to at St. Pat1, l\Iinnesota, ul'ged more ingly as t heir pio n eering won for hum an know ledg e. Oth ers o f th e1· r 1· cteas · • �m t h e m a n e111 1>J· 1·e 011 t <J f t l1 e ' u·., study into the "regions of t lle past" ,,· iJderness. h ave trium phed and have been in American history ' adop ted b Y • declaring that Their s ,Hts n o t a flowery bed o ( . •'somewhe1·e in t he picturesque ea se in a n e ,y co u n try teem i ng o ther s tates. B ut it was and is a m istake struggle t o subjugate a continent l uxuria n t l y with the good things u f t .o regar d t hi' s p ioneering i n gove rnm en t as there will ·be found a philosophy of l i fe. R a t h e r they faced a hard and an e v idence of disloya l ty to the count ; . l , fro m ·w h ich t h ey wrung human relations that the world w i l l crnel Ja ne y t h eir fa rms and l\·her·eon they built greatly prize.'' - ese peop le h ave n ever faltered Th . t 1 · n +t..e . 1 t l 1eu· owns and cities l itera l l y by y , ·r , . How few 1:ieople rea lize the full ideals o f liberty . -we.1 t a n d blood. value of history and the immense 'l' he v a D d t h e i i· d e s ce n d a nts h a e v L ike the othe r North Eur opea use that a practical application of been the n grou ps, bacldionc or t l1 a t gTeat . • lessons of the past h ave t o mod ern l i stric t w e ca l l the N o 1·tl1 " C."·.t, • \• � · an,l the Norwegta n h as give n indu stry , ente r.....::.. life and success. ,, ! t i l e other n a t i onu l i t i e::; h a ,· e had Sunday nfternoon two Greensburg ' h eir part a n d h a ve stood s h o u l d e r prise , st abtltty f& Ame rica . They are a p1" �e ssion al men w ere dining a t o s h o u l d e 1· \\'i l h t h e 8wed ei.i and wh olly desirable grou p tha t h ave found n o th e American Legion Home. A t a n I h e :;,,.; o nv egi a n s i n the tryi n g d a,'s di fficulty in assim ilatin g them selves . In a dj oining table another man glanc- that are past, t h e Norsemen have had t h e burden and h eat of t h e con- apprec iation i t was n o t too m uch for the e<l at a picture of G eneral U. S. flict a n d t he y a r e entitled lo cele• t han.11:in.� o the ,wall, '',Who Preside nt to help them celeb rate bra te. �, the C�U· s hat muu : , ;<1 t he in qu i siti ye 'l'u be s u 1· e t h ey oc casi ona l l y h a ve ten J) ial o f their mig rati on O the Uni' ted one t;; a fellow diner. ''I' l' e seen l)("e n led aw" " f o r a. l i t t l e w h ile, t h im a bout the s t ree t s he re often ." cl u r i n g perio d s o f mater i al acl- S at es . v A pru.lllising G reens burg boy jus t e 1 · s i t y by t h e p l e ad ings o l' cl e m a­ 8. gog-s a n d g-ovenun ental t h eorists. returnecl fit'h1 college said to llAIUUSDURG PA 'TET. EGR .lPII b u t 1. 11 l h e e n d l. l 1 ey have ret urn e d · . , . . frien � " h1le talk1Ug over college :fill)�ESDAY, JUNE 10, 19261 1 fa i t e h t 1 or t h e i r fath<' rs a n d t o to expenences during the past win ter. Joy al s n p J H > l't of t h e gn ,·e r n n 1 e nt t o OLIDGE OUT WEST"I find tha t I a m getti ng the mo;;t "·h iC'h t il <'Y 0\\'e s o m uch. · :,, u'l'.\ has g i v e n Prc,; i out of nv historJ·.'' He is a yo un g .\ yeu r ngu Lil e S o rt h w est fo 1• tl c, Il t t..:u ol i tlge sucl1 a w e l ­ m a n filled \Yi t h a mbition an cl i) e x:.un p l e, wa s hendded as • · e n = • l1l usl h a v e !Jcen o .:: j ust beginning lo fi n d himse l f. � f o r t h e Cuolid:;e campaigners. him. to gm i licalion pl'cl.l l ia t· u t ho a U T se lessons of history are gi l'i n ;:: a nd with some reason . L • ; rn c, q,l n g fro m t h e 1nore o r J ess The lhe perspediYe of wlla t is ahead change has c o m e about. bu l:s l 1 evistie a�mosph e re of rec e n t dese�ndants of t h e N'orse111 e11 have a nd what he may expect. , c,u·s, the great st,,l e, largely popu­ . Henry JJ'ord, who made more o r h e a r.cl t h e voice o f reason a n d h a ve latL•d by the cl esce n d e n ls o f tine h earken e d l o it and n o w they w e l Ie:ss of a spect . �e i m m igntn ls, cl emonstra.tell to . ude . of himself ' wheu c o m e the p 1•esicl . e n t n ot o n ly ueli e was on the w i tness stantl in b is a use the P resil1 c n t that i t was rapidly c h e is P r e s icl ent, b u t a l s o f or l ibel suit against the Chicago Tri- the reason that t h ey have come to 1 ecuvc:1·ing its political e q u ilibrium l.lllne by /;bowi ng his ignora nce oJ t h e point o f und erstand i ng the l ogic ,1 11Ll return i n g tu the ideals w h ich lt�l \·e largel y c o n trolled the l evelAmerican history, neYerthele�s wa , o f h i s posit ion and o f seeing that profiting from lessons taugbt in h i:,;, h is conclusions as to the p o litical he;:tle•l a nd ronserva.tive elements u [ t h e North w est. tory although he did not know i t 1 f u t u r e o [ t h e co untry and t h e G o ,·ernor C l l l'istianso n , a name \Tith a ruarYelous brain, Mr. Ford I m ethods to be used are as t r u e as w l , i c h i tsel f i n dicates the character no doubt profited by the nn 1,I easunt l the nus�rums o f t h e Broo kharts and . the La l< o llettes are false. . . · to 1 c1 t h e p res1• u r the popu l a t rnn, . publlc1ty which he got in t.l.t at trial -- -����• • o r thousands · WARlUS'BTTTlfl PA PATRIM u ent i n t h e prese nce • II e h as becume q m te a "lmg'' ou Y JUNE A _1_ F.DNE<l! • .Jm D� W...:" 10 ' 19�' o r p e o p l e that they have confidence American h ii;torical loi:c, more di- _ T he s turdy Norse- in h i m : that they believe in Ca l v i n. redly i n the l iue o f his o\\' n e u - · -�+,.,,l.,______-. l 'ool idge. 'l'h is plain stat e m e n t of dcaYors and will lean behi n d men who h ave [;1 1th in Lhe President !Jrought the much that will lie of ,alue. sett te d •m M'1nn.esota u·en1 e 1 1 d ou s r,s�emlJlage to its fel'L, _ I , 8tudy into the "regions of a ll ll for severa l mrn utes the thro��'---.,-ii�----- and neighbor states va:ot'' is an eu ticlng ,,...a •,, for l'rc. and cheered s verson 0 uf 80,00 11ent Coolidge to frame it. ed th e cross-cou n try t rip i n the , . 1 , e cred . .i n spite o f the wind a n d a n l 1 i h was b lp w i ng into 1.he i r HARR TSDTTR<l P A TBT roGR A'N heat o f a Preside nt of the United States. r . i w c . , !'ac e s. 'l'IHJ surelrnrged. elements UESDAY ,J Tf{fil .Jt� .la2.fi. These with the o ther Scandmav1ans h ave l i n cl nu effce t u po n the exuberan t E HARDY NORSEMEN generous contribu- m u l t i t u d e . 'l'hey 11·c-1·e dete r m i neG l 'O O LT DG E d oes made and are making_ a - - - 1-t l!;, DENT 10 sllu w t h e JJrcsi cl e11 L thac M i u n e LJ ,, e ll t o h o n o r . t h e . :Nurse- tion to tl;)e well bein g of this n ation. sul-t a l l <..! L h c• n e ighbo1· stales ,1·e n• . n w.l with l. A n'l • :;.ui. The Norwegian s and the Swedes are so J ,aek <J C h i m Lu t h e l i mit, and in t h i s prPs�e . The 'Norw e gians, t h e fi rst l ess on to r other sec t i o n s t c , f \\'h O m C[L111e in n u mbers t o t h is 11 umer ous in these borde r states th at they r:,_ c i s cl o f t h e c o u nt ry w l1 1 c h hav e bee n • c o u n t ry one h un dred years ago, ded o ther- t re n d i n g n u w and then in the d irecse n e w e l l a t t h e hands of their virtually dominate i t p oli tical ly a n tlo n ur l oose p u l i tica. l theories. lrnrdY · ·The • f e l l o w :, mcl' i cans. wise. Some of the govern ment inn ovations His trip i n to t h e great !Jelt o f ::--;urseme n" they ha\'e !JP.en cal l e-<:l a n d t h ey are indeed j ust that. Th e they h ave made distur bed p arts o f the , ta les set t l e d IJ; t h e hardy ::--.: o n;e1 1 1 e n o f Norw::i y and Sweden who conser vative East, but the slighte st devi a- 1 1 1 e n w i l l do 111 ul' l1 Lu l>ring abo u t J. J i ve l i n ,1 pprl' c i a l i u n o ( l h e su li dar- , J i a Y e h a d. s u e h n. 1·i ta l part in the \\'i n n i ng of t i l e great North w est a 1·e t i on from the orthodox disturbs some E ast.� t u rdy o f physique a n d spirit. They erners so that does not matter much. l > 1·ought with them to America the What these stalj:s h ave done has been r1· ugal Jw li i t,s, t h e h o n est�·. the CJt.llENSBlTllC: T' \. REVTilllf' '.fUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1925, �.A merican people when • '.'TFW �n A. , 11:X&'.: LJJfC.tJ,TE ...tNC UlTER PA NEW ER A & DMI - -f)NDa� Y� � li �T fi' R, 1926, l ize the im portanc e of ----,. ll;;Dllifil3DA.Y..J.IJNE....10.. . l.ll� developthe fur standing togetll er C lidg.\J in. tha Northwest. he Viking Explorers. ment of a nation that shall prove a pilot and beacon fot• a l l the world. It ma s a Jot of differenc e whether something fascinating in the Retu rning to Washing ton , the one is President or Vice Presi dent : . extreme out the stories of exploration conscious the have will ent Presid It also makes a lot of difference !Jy the old Vikings. It is generally acness of a un ited nation baclc of h i m . wheth er wheat and other farm products cepted that some of them touched th.c 1 en 1 w always a cl epeudab le people are se 11·mg •a t a fair or a low price. shores o f the American continent as they learn the way in which to go Huge crowds are turning out in the early as the eleventh century , but so under such leadership as is now d i 1 reeling t h e affairs of the republic great "Twin C'itie• s " of the northwe st to lilttle can be established definitely tliat from the White House. It was with i welcome tumultuously the chief executi ve there will doubtless always b e plenty of , fine d iscrimination that the P resi - I o f th e nation. In 1921, when h� went room for argument as tu just what they d ent dwelt u pon the No rsemen and i li to the s•a.me territory as honor gue,st did or did not accomplish. The old lee­ th e i r beginnings in t n e U nite Ll of the Minnesota State F'air, the people landic epics tell just e.:cough to stir the States - their influence upon our were more intereste d in the horse rac� imagination and arouse a desire to know modern history and the wester n and the stock show than in what thi more. civilization which it is difficult to altogether un:mprn3.sive !ookin� individ In his ntennial match, h e said, amo ng any other ual with the nasal twang of New Eng celebration, President C901idge referre, l ike n u mber of people. It was ,.t land had to say. this obscure chapter i n the history of the scholarly address, but i t was more • Consequently there must be fer Mr. "New World" with greater positiveness very the envisaged it than that; Coolidge more than the ordinary me-asure than is usual. After referring to the voyspil'it of the American people, anJ . . . . 0 sat!sfact10n m the enthusiast c re epages of Leif, the son of Eric, which are i 110 finer tribute to lhe ·w orthy raciai 1 � � _ tion that e has recei ecl. . Even a vice- well authenticated, he went on to say­ � : clements that have come lo us from _ _ other cou ntries was ever paid than pres i d e nt �s not msens1ble to sn ubs, and "Indeed, there seems little d,o ubt that Mr Coo dge doubt less felt none too seve,ral cen turies before Columbus saw t n h h is . in teresting add ress. l i t is worth while quoting the conclu;;ion happy over his previou·s experience. the light of day there was born • upon in th ese words, oeca.usc lhey fit as Even though due allovrnnce is made for American soil, of Norse parents, a boy "·ell other large r acial groups in the fact that he is, now pre3ident in his who afterward s, became so great a math­ own right. he would uot be human if ematician and astronomer that his studt h is country : he did n o t ta k e some pleasu re i n the com- ies may have contributed much to the .\ 11 en ormous p o wer has come to you, h u t you arc charged w ith plete revers•al of the p ublic·s attitude fund of knowledge which helped Colum­ equally enormous reHponsib i l i t ies. 'l'hosc respon sibil i ties y o u towards him. bus formulate his vision of the world as have ue v er failed to meet, t lrn. t It isn't necessary to go back to 19�1. we know it." power you have_ nev:er fa,l lcd _ t o sa 11 cti fy. Therem l i es t h e s ole however, to find the time when the North· Was he referring to the "Vinland"' of t i t l e to all t h e glory that you west • was cons1· de•·ed • " enemy ·• country .01 F the old sae:as 1,avc achi eved in the past a n cl a1id the legenda1·y colony , ~ th e rein w i ll l i e the so l e title � ° Coolidge. The stolid Scandinav ian farmof Thorfil Karlsefne, his wife Gudrid and all the glory that you w i l l ' oj Minn�sota Wisconsin a nd Jhe a c h i e v e i n t h e f u tu re. Beli"'.v ing· em their s,on Snorre who was supposed to th a t there resides i n a n en l i gh t encd people an all - compellmg faako�ith whom h e is joining i n the h ave been born on this continent ? Are force fo r righteousness, I h :w e celebra o f the No-rse c ent en nial, were there additional records to back up this every faHh that through the v�gorous p erform ance of your dutie s ran ked as i;>oli t"icaII Y un f,rien diY up to the old tale of heroic deeds-interesting in your you will add n ew luster to time of last fall's election. Just a year the extreme but fragm entary and subject e. g i loJi. 1}._ 1�te�- i �; y �vffi1 c �� that it ago, virtually campai gn to doubts as to accuracy in common with all t he represents of h ope in the world proe:nosticators were pred cting dire all the other o!,d •sagas ?. � i is now and w i l l be what you m ak e it. Its insti tu t i ons of re - result s for the Republicans in these Pre5ident Coolidge, in the role of hisl i gious libe rty, of educational an_d economi c oppor tu n i ty, of const1- S tates. LaFollette ; they said , would be torian, h a s rais-ed some d ecidedly in tert u t,ional rights, of the i n tegrity sure to carry the whole s ection under esting questi o:wi. His references to this of t h e law, are the mo st p recious 110 ssession s of the h u man race. his: banner of di scontent. O n the day e arly visitation ot our shores should at 'rhese do not emanate from the , G o v ernm e n t . T heir ab i ding plac;e after th e election Mr. Coo I'd i ge s o wn least receive ir+terest in the legends, l s wi t h the people. '!'hey come campaign managers were surprised b y an d bring forth anew expres•sions of f rom th e consecration of the father, the love of the ''.1oth e r the size of their victory. They had been opinion from those who have made '3. ' andl th e d evoti on of the children . misled into undenlstimatin2" their candi= ''hcy are the product of that detailed an,d care fu1 .stu d Y O f th , em. h onest. earn est an d t n· e l ess _ef- date's strength. The Nors·e men had been fo r t that g·oc s · i n to t h e rean n go f t h e fam i l y, altar a n d t h e ma!, - watching the trend o f events under i n g o f the homes o f o u r c o u n tr y. Mr C oolid"' e 's hand and they thought ' . 0 • 'rhcy can have no stronger s u p no rtc rs, no more loy a l de f en der:, , I well •Of him. They had begun to real'ize than �ha t gr!lat bo_cl y of _ ou�- c , L i - , that soap-box panaceas didn't work out zensh1p w l1 1ch :you 1 cp1 esen t. �\' hen I look upon y ou and real - a s p ro mised and they also saw that the . izc what you are and what y ou . h "'""' do1·c, t know_ that i_n yo u r quiet out effei tive measures taken at u e ec y t nds coun our ha r is � u , •. ' '? -vva �hington w'ere 1Jringlng resul ts. I v h a v e laid up your treasu re 1 11 I ,�·hat A m e r i ca represent,;, a n cl There is no question but that today I here will your heart be :,,,Jso. . . . Coohdge s tan d s. we 11 wi'th th e Y o u h a\"e given your pl edge lo President t h e Janel of the f_ree. The pJedl}" c whole country. HA is just as strong if of the :Norwegian people has n e ,·er ye t gone u n redee med. not stronger than he was, on e1ect10n day. No matter where he goes,-whether it be to the Northwest or the "snlid" South-he is assured of a warm welcome, not only as chief executive of th e nation, but also as, a man of good plain common sense, who is genu'ine in hi-s aversion to pomp and extravagence and is taking a str�ng and effective stand for greater simplicity, efficiency, and economy. 0 I �Had these misgivings been justified when the hour of trial came, it would have meant disaster to ourselves and to the world. But instead of crumbling into a chaos of ·discontent elements, America proved its truly national unity. Out of the confusion· of tongues, the conflict of traditions, the variations of historical setE people from many. TH occasion of President Coolidge's visit to M in - ting, the vast differences in talents and tastes nesota, today, is for the purpose -of taking· pa rt . in there has been evolve� a spiritual union accom­ the Norwegian Centennial, celebrating the hundredth .panied by a range of capacity and genius wh ich anniversary o �ming of a little group o f 54 marks this nation for a pre-em inent destiny, N orwegians to the shores of America 100 years ago, '.fhe American people have commanded the re­ -the coming of a little group which has g rown until spect of the world. today there are as many people, of Norwegian stock, -y'.l'.h.e f!resident pays fine ._tribute to th� _nart nlaYed in the United States, as may be found i n the parent Y � o_twegian stock in this building of the nation. . 1 . . To country. . the adaptibility of these people the Nation o,ves much for its success in the enormous pro­ I( his address, made this afternoon, the Presi'dent not only dwells at length upon the part taken cess� of assimilation and spiritual unificatio� by the Norwegian stock, in the development of Amer- that: has made our nation what it is a11d our peo­ ica, but he pictures the ma11ne1· in which the ' peo- pie what they a re . pies of all countries have been combined to make &ger for both political and economic i ndeAmerica what it is is. pendence, they realized the necessity for popular He demonstrates that America's success in �ould- , ed1:1cation, and so have always been among the ing a nation from polygot peoples is proof that "there ,. most devoted supporters of public schools. is a spiritual quality shared by all ·races and condi- Thoi.isands of them volunteered in the service of tions of men, which is their universa·l heritage and -t�e country during the Civil and Sp:anish Wars, common nature." ' ahd tens of thousands in the World War. He points out, moreover, that if . this has been . . ; The institutions and the_ manners of democ­ proven, as to America, there is no good reason why it _ra�f'. came naturally to them� ,Their glory is all should n ot prove true, eventually, as to all the world . . .a bout you, their living and -their ·mighty dead, "If," he asks, "fraternity and co-operation are pos- They have given great sold_fers, statesmen, sci­ sible on the scale of this continent, among people so_ • �"h�ists, educators, and men of business to the widely diverse, why not on the scale of a world ? It • uJ>building of their adopted country. They have is not a new thought, but it is a profoundly engag-� : �e�� rapidly amalgamated int� th� body of citi­ ing one. I firmly believe that it is more than a zetiship, contributing to it many of "its_ , • best ahd chimera. I feel it is possible of realization. I am . .indst characteristic elements. convinced that our national story might somewhat · The President does not confine his laudation of t "If one were seeking proof of the basic brotherhood�vElt� • "He pays homage to that great m ass of com­ among all races of men, if one were to challenge theriip'n ��ople of all racial origins that make up Ameri­ riddle of Babel in support of aspirations for a unity ca,....;..!'the unsung millions of plain people whose capable of assuring peace to the nations, suppose names are strangers to public place ;md !ace." no better testimony could be taken than the experiericE · i • • 'Their lives have been replete _y, ith quiet, un­ p;·��ntious, modest but none the les� heroic virof this country." . Stressing repeatedly the hope to mankind in wha' tu�a. From them has been compostid the sum of he calls "that magnificent and wondrous adventur� · that · magnficent and wondrous adventure, the the making of our own America,,'' the President r� ·m aking of our own America. calls that d'oubts beset its origins, and draws fro • . -Af1d it is to these, the President says; that Amer• them inspiration for the future. \ 1 ica.o�es all it is and all it will be. · , It is not so many years since visitors from ,- .'.: · its institutions of religious , liberty, of educa­ other quarters of the world were wont to con- , . ti o'rtal and economic opportunity, of constitutional template our concourse of races, origins,. and in·ights, of the integrity of the law, are the most terests and to shake their head o�inously: They p cious possessions of the human race. These feared that from such · a melting pot of diverse do not emanate from the Government. Their elements we could never draw th-e t�sted, temperabiding place is with the people. They come from the consecration of the fathed metal that is the only i-ubstance fo1: notional el', the love of mother, and the devotion of the character. Even among ourselv�s were many who listenchild ren. They are the product of that honest ,. earnest and tireless effort that goes into the rear-' ed with serious concern to such forbodings. They were not quite sure whether we had created ing of the family altar and the making of the a nation with the soul of a nation. They wonderhome of our country; ed if perhaps we had merely brought together a They can have no stronger supporters; no large number of people in a large place. more loyal defenders than that great body o:f our heIP to guide mankind toward such a goal. America's foreign components to the �orthmen, how- r· �citizenship which y ou (the Norwegian) repre- eyidence in Th-e pre�ence of the Preei___,__ N !!WCA STL E. PA .. N-l!WS • •nor . Clu••1s t·· 1anso11 s·t ar·ted , • sent. WMn • I look upon you and realize what · d en t• Go ,er S.A TURD.Ay1 JUNE 18 l�2§ _ , ._ _ ,_ y ou are and what wou have done, I "know that in to introcluce him in these )Yords : "The _ GOOD CITIZENS. ' people of Min11esota believe in Calvin f ' you r hands our country is secure. Coolidge.'' '£here he had to stop right i Minnes ,y they are celebratYou have laid· up your treasure in what Amer'.". 1ihort, because the enormou s crow u j ing with i � t pomp and ica rep resent� and there your heart will be a:lso. s imply broke loos(l into tu_m ult u ous en- ough ness h hundr t thor_ ed h anni­ r Y ou have given your p�edge to t.qe Land of'· the· thu�n asm . . . versary of the first o rganizecf That is not astonishmg, for there 1s . . • Free. The pledge of the Norwegian peopI e · h as • doubt whatever that the P reside nt • m Jgrat to n of Norwegians to the no never yet gon e unredeemed. llas won the co� fl dence of the people U nited States. In a sense it is a l The President reveals himself in a new vein in to a d eg l'ee rare in American history. nati�fation because the . certain parts of his speech-that of a scholar. His H'e has done this by a ttending strictly N egia n s are represe nted i n'. sketch of the progress· of Norwegian colonization of · t o business ; b y ignoring parti;5anship ; ever e of the union and be - l the Middle West a11d West is finely drawn and delves by never weighiug personal adYan tage causey the whole nation recogbehind the mere facts - of h istory into their signifi- against public interest and welfare.d ni z es that the country . gained He has a long and seyere con lest ahea cance. He sees the bro·ad implications behind the of hilli to put o ver his policies-a con- much when it received that first major. facts oi progress and among bis conclusions l est with a determined minority in , band of ' N orwegian immigrants is a statement that he believes America to have been Congres1>. If the voters of the North- I to i t s shores. a "beacon lamp to the feet and a hope to the h ea rts west appro ve his cottrse they can show it by refusing nominations to congress- I Conservative .industrious and of 1 liberals t� rough6ut _E ur�pe " from 1815 to 1848. • p eop le , m en who o ppose h i m . 'l'hat test will .h ones t. th e Scan'd mav!an _ , l n the bght , of his tribute to the foreign born,- come in Novemller of next J'ear. ..,, m clud mg the Norwegians, have and to their descendants,' in appreciation of the part-- - INDEPND1'L. - ,._ and wealth to • • • • . • lf0Nl!lSSEN PA , • · brought p ·rogress · hey ·m which they have borne in _helpmg to make America J what 1t t have every sec Jon FR!D�Yi JTJNE l.�, 1��6. is, surely there· w ould seem to be abundant :reason r f settled. ng The th e o upbuildi er • NT Coolidge ref why those who never_ let chance pass, to denounce redPRES in �Nors� eetrtmr;;ial ad- Northwestern states has been due the "foreigner," shoulq oelve a little into the country 's dress , t t e wonderful national in l arge extent to the efforts of history, and in the light of that history, as well as in unity. w}tieh has he m achieved this hardy and thrifty race . the light of what th� President points out, be a little hi �his country, thr?ugh that The Nordic races h a v e I?roce�s 0f _amalga on called b rough t t o Ameri ca no p roblem 1nore careful i n • de:lining s • • • "hundred per cent Ameri- our me1 t1ng pot��h . We b · - · cans." They h ave taken races which in the old O f asSmu 1 a hon . .,.ADVILLE PA REPUB'll world could never get along in sought the expanses of land and - 'l'UESDAI, JUNE J.!ld�L harmony, and we have:• made sea rather than crowding into P SIDENT COOLIDGE IN THE one united peop,l e out of th em. overpopulated cities, so they j NORTHWEST. [ , If we a II owe d the f·au Its an d created no h ousing and l abor r ident Coolidge's invasion o f l\lini u- problems . of a 11 our const·t weaknesses . nesota appears to have been rather reent peop Ies tO ueve lop uncheckmarkable: It was not, says t lie p11 i· 1aWho w1· 11 deny that the Scaned, our nation might gai n madelphia Inquirer, a political excursion dinavian immigrants have more its favorable from s s succe• terial in any sense. The Presiuent went to pasition, hut i t would never be a t han co mpensate d their adopted St. Paul and Minneapolis to deliver an leader. But if we can country for its h ospitality and world · ' being occa�iou the b.istorical address, adopt the strong por· n ts O f a 11 protection ? . the centennial anniversary of th e disthese conStituent pe0;ples, we coYery of th e State by the Norsemen. That the Norwegians h ave. not _..,, shall have a race whose power . They haYe settled in the 'Noi:niwest • • confounded loyalty to p ohhcal WI 11 set i'ts stamp O n a l l future iu large numbers an d h aYe become orgamza WI'th · · t_ions · 1 oya Ity t o world development. valuable citizens. Because of the non: country den; 1 0nstrated J President Coolidge used by the S gathering, the of political character one phrase• in his Norse centen- stupendous reception given PresHenrick Shipstead, the radical Senan ial speech worthy' of special ictent Coolidge at their cententor, presided. Neverthele13s, there are emphasis, when he SJ:'Ok e ?f the nial in spite of their notorious those who read into the reception "u?-s ung millions," th� plai? and aloofness given the President a political siguilifrom the p resident's qmet people who daily display . . . cance justifying the -opinion that he I modost and unpretenti ous Vil;'- party 1 11 t he la s t p residential will seek renomination i n 1928. , election. tues. Well, 1928 il:l a long .cti stauce off, and 1 • 1 . The heroic is found not mere- Everything in the makeup of In the interval many things may hapl y in the exploits of our sol- the Scandinav ian makes him a pen. we haYe 110 idea that Mr. cool• • d ie:r;s and in the ideal s 0 � our good Americ an citizen . l dge is bothering about his o wn fu• ..J statesmen. It is found ·m the ture ; he is content to attend to the daily toil o the• peor: le who ha f ve work of the day. And after all, that built up this country in spite of is the be�t way to retain the respect great difficulties and sacrifices, <Jf the public and his admitted politiprominent among whom were i;:al strength. Minnesota, like Wiscon, the Norsemen, in whos e honor sin, has . been hostile ground because ·President Coolidge,, has ju:st of th e inroads made by La Folletteism, . spoken. but there was m ight;11 little hostility in J .J 1 1 N �There inevi t a b l y w i l l be some cyn�C�Slll ◊Yer the l . fact that the costly :>.irshipt which ordmanly do so well i n exhibiti o n fl.ight11 arc not, for w b a rever rea• so n , availabl€ on occa,sio n for + b e se.rious b�sin ess of l i fe sav i n g- j u st al' there wa.;s when d ogs, mstead o{ l ai;stance-1:nnihilatin g a i rplanes, had t o be relied upon • In his address at the Norse Cen - t O ,,. e·t medicine tu diph i h e l' i a-stricken Nome. B u t 1 ge remarke d t °? l'<l • tenn ial Pres1den th t 1- h esc t h i n g/! o n l y r<>mind us that al tl1011gh t h e 1' d ea that "there seems little douht l b� l f � e i a l n avio:;. ti o n iE old t h e isden<:e of av i ation is r . ,., severaI centuries before Co um s lo . there was born !:om paratively vou n i; . We still h ave to s h 9w som e saw the 1·1ght of day upo Amer ican soil, of Norse par- vat. it.m e<: for th ; a boy• who afterw•ard hecame, M e a n w h i l e we Juww t h a t th t- Shenandoah, a� enL, • , 1d as• · 0 1e, h as ma 'd e a contIgrea t a rnathemat1 c1an ai · .A rn ericar e o nsir u c ted dn1g1 ::ono mer that his s.tudi es may ha:� HNJ. t.al fl i g h J ,rn d " u umber of 1J ther t ripa sat isfac­ cbntributed much to the fund d Columbus i orilv· ' a1i d t hat tl, e Los A u gele.s. ot German construcknowledge wh• ch helpe • 1 o • the w orld tio n , h a ;; l i kewise m a d tl' a n u m ber o f success fu l fl'1.,,_ o-hts , _ . s101 to formulate �1� �, v1 N ObOdfy ;:,·eems to i n c• l ud i n -�· < l il (' 'ii.l'I'OS! t,he A tlau t lc : � h at the American as we know 1t · was dent re- con tineu l, from N e w v ork to Sa 11 l<' r�nc1sco, now to who� the Presi � rre d but he is not a lw ays so cr yp• ,. v an n e d b 0tweeu d a wn and dusk by airpl ane, and -� , _ tic. HlS latest message is much more t h a t 1 1 ,1 ; 1 e>d St.ams A r m y .A i r Serv ice plan.es ma�e a " ; he ,_ j o rn<.?y a t·o u n <l th "' ,worlct· in ;-1 ,,u ,�, h om·s li' flv eas ily understa nda ble . •H e --s:a,·s ., m "'v tune Su?" , u •ega ·ds Whittier's poem . mg, . ounrcl ," a-·" good hot we:!lther rcad Jb · .• •· . i ,, , to .and 11c h!!artily Yeco mme na:, (;ntJ persons s·uffe ring from. the 110.:t ! . . to · · t·wn d oes no+ need muc h i mag-ma e rehe�d the value of this. Ther I e� 4i�or� delight in �he summ 'd .,,, I c - :7l. L one is perhl.itted to read "Snow- f bound" in the shade than when one has to have to pitch hay �nder the ! hot sun. One feels, one might say, I that ha.has "arr:• ved " OUR DIR IG I IILJi:l"I. ur great d irigibles, the Sheuandoa!J autl T b e Los Angeles have in the m ain such r-ecoTds or 5 ood performa nde that the tem pora ry h all I n th eir :;e rvl,,& just at the time ot timeg wh eit ih4':;- W e r t £:.Xp<:cc'ted to do thei r pre ttiest will lHL Ye tu be• vi1:w e<l =,ome,Yhat with the p:i.tience sho'll'n for, c h i l,l i·e H t ll ;:n • re brillia nce personified until cal led ui,on to de l lle,r Stu n t1!1 before visitors. Some allowa net. has to be m a ct e for capriciousness. It just happen&d t h 2 l .t h e Loo; Augelos develo ped �ngi ne trou bles at pre.ci15ely t h e m v· ment when >1hc w � s head d for Mi n n esota to s h o w o ff in tnc Norse-A mt:lrica n cen ten ni,d ce kbratiuu . O r r-o u rse th € S h c11 a114oah \Vas ri ot �x pected to get busy 1r nn booked to cut up for the un til around July ¼ edi fi cation '>f t h e:, g overn ors · c on re r en c e a t P or t l a ua• Me . So she could Rot set n n l i m m edial ely to Ji l l t h e engagement. of the Lo� A n geles in M rn n esota . b u t i i was announced yest erd ay -t h a t s h e p robably w o u l d be able to coYer both that assignmen t a n d th e one I at Portland. As for the suggestion that one o r' t h e di rig ibl es go to th<> Nort h Pol e region to search 'for A m u o dsen , I in view of the fact that Seci,etary W i l b u r some I m onths before was for such · a tri p for exploration I purp oses, i t n o w develops that i h e re i� dt• u b t or t h e I feasibilit y of an undertakrng· or l h al diuacler. 1 f Thirt;v or 4 0 liYes mi gh t be lost i n ! he ef ort to save / t w o or thn,e . A l t h ough t h a l tn a y not be t h e Ja n g u age o f h e r oism , which never co un ts t h e co ;;l to it self when distress calls, t h e pra ctical view h as its c laims. Sti l l it is regrettable 1 hat Secret a ry \Vil bur did no t use more s ympa t h et.i c la n g n age in a n n o u ncin g th e i m p r a cticab i l i t y _o f th <> suggested resc u e rip l . Li g . it tokenin a ' wUd. di good e h e lea o the c as " d. n t y be:3t effect . I JUJV tTJie President at St.. Paul. • A t St. Pau1 today President Coolidge i s addressing t h e great gathering of o u r citi­ zens of Norwegian birth or descent who are celebrating-- the -trundredth anniversary of their ancestors' arrival in this country. At­ tempts to read into this interesting oc­ casion a partisan political significance have , not met with m uch success. Som e correspondents see in the President's visit a blow to Senator La Follette's prestige in the N orth wes t and intimat e that was his pur­ pose in taking the long trip from Wash­ ington in torrid weather. Mr. Coolidge car­ ried Minnesota by a substantial p l u rality last November, while the country at large, including the West, turned down the La Follette heresies with an emphasis not to be mistaken. Mr. Coolidge has nothing to fear from the measure of political influence which M r . L a Fol lette undoubtedly retams in h is own state of Wisconsin. While they appreciate the President's courtei;y in j ourneying to St. Pau l to ad­ dress them, o u r citizens of Norwegian blood a r not 4-ik-ely t o -change the ir partisan affiliations s ud denly on that account, and there has been no .i.ttempt to have them do so. Those who are Republicans, Democrats and Socialists wi!1 not alter their po- • litical opinions because of Mr. CooJ\dge's address, which is wholly n on-partisan , as befits the occasion. We have never had a man in the White House who was more insistent that his p osition was that of Presi­ dent of all the people and not of any clique or sect_ or party. Incidenta lly Mr. Coolidg e has done a gracefu 1 thing i n paying this deserved tribute to our people whose an­ cestors came to A merica from Norway to fin d religiou s freedo: n. They have proved good citizen s and hare p layed an import ant part in the b u ilding up of our great Northwest, the center of our nation's agricult ural pro.,perity. �ing the Presid ent's visit have been dated St. Paul. Th is city is the capital of Minne­ sota and the home of the President's host, Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, No one who ha s not lived in either of th e Twin Cities can realize the intense jealousy between them that still crops out on· occasion. While the cities' boundaries adjoin at cer,tain points, there is some neutral territ.Dry, such as that occupied by the town of Hamline and by the State Fair Grounds. Minneapolis posses ses the state university, St. Paul the state capitol. Some years ago, when the interurban electric cars were first labeled •'St. Paul-Minneltl)olis, " a. protest from the latter city caused the sign on half the cars to be changed to "Minne­ apolis-St. Paul." These cars connect the business centers of the two cities, which are ten miles apart. The suggestion has frequently been m:ide The Norse Centennial. The ·n wind that generally blows good to $0J1lebody was exemplified yesterday aftern n in the Los Angeles' flyin g visit to Pittsburgh. If the huge dirigible had not exper ienced engine trouble and been forced to aban don its trip to St. Paul, to participate with President Coolidge in the Norse ce lebration there, we should not have had the privilege of seeing it so soon. The Los Angeles has been playing in hard l uck lately, of the sort to which the dirigible is natu rally h eir. At its hangar at Lakehurst the intense heat caused such an expansion in the helium gas that it was necessary to release 2 ,000 cubic feet. The departure of the airshi p was then delayed until a lower temperature caused a reduction of gas pres­ sure in the bag so that new gas could be introduced. While the engine disablement mentioned was evidently not so serious as to interfere with the Los Angeles' speed, its commander is to be commended for "playing safe" and returni ng to Lakeh·urst without attempting th e lon g flight to f:he Northwest, durin g which he would have encountered the winds from the G reat Lakes. The limitation s of these aircraft must be recognized. There have been too many disasters to dirigibles to p ermit the taking of chances when no emergency demands the fulfillment of a nubli.shed proi£:am. Just a Flying Visit. t n October 9, 1 8 2 5 th e ship Restaura­ tionen arrived in America bringing 5 3 Norwegians. This was the first organ­ ized group to emigrate from Norway to the United States. It marked the first low wash of a great wave of Norwegian immigration which followed. It is in honor o f th e one-h undredth anniversary of the event that President Coolidge olis this week to be will go to Minn present at the t orse-American Centen­ nial. · No small ortion of the develop­ ment and u pbu ding of the Northwest­ ern states is d e to tge efforts of Nor­ wegians or de e�ts of Norsemen. And no better •class of people ever sough t a new ho me in America. They had within them the spirit of Ameri­ canism before they came to the new lan d and adapting themselves to the new environment involved n-0 radical alteration of views or habits. They may take a justifiable pride in exhibiting w hat has been achieved by t hem in the development of a section of the U nited States where the mass of them is settled. A pageant portraying a composite 11ic­ tu re of th e part played by Norsemen in th e settlement of the Northwest will be p resented. The event also provides the opportu nity for a great reunion of those Americans who have an ancestry dating back to Norway. That they take pri de in their origin does not necessarily make them any the less American in spirit or the less devoted to our institutions. One feature of the pageant which will be stressed is tile all Norse Fifteenth Wi s. cousin Regimen t in t he Civil War which took part in 2 9 engagements. It h as been to the profit of America that so many Norwegians sou ght homes here as weU as profit to the former immigrant them e ves. Kellogg Warns the N� Both President Coolidge and Secrotary of State Kellogg gave due Prai se to the Norse . for their UPbuilding of . the Northwest and their contribu ti � to America. History, rather than . . pohhcs, was the Prest dent's text. His political references were not direc t, the less meaningful • T Sbut they were none he eeret:ary Urged the aGSembled Norsemen not to tam ..foun per With the dation Principles" . I uon, on w.hich is builded a repof the Const·tu resentative democracy No sect.ion or .A.menca . . needs such a remind more than the nea r Northwest. It contin er ues to nou rish . more Constitution "tinkers" per s�uare m i le than any other region. There the witch doc tor forever . e and �e =cm ' ng l)Opu lL9t mo urn maketh m�,., agi eth his l)Ollti ' cal flrst bo rn. Our radicalism may ' ureo. from alien sources' bu t it •is h ere be r.urt here. Secretary Kello and must be dealt With gg h as c len ed . . its ·st rongholds• n·is . hal g 1t 111 , the war begun again speech lS a warni n� that st it in th mpa';' o 1 924 is one that must know no t�c':.' 1� t \,. __,..___ - l Those Jealous Tw ins.\ --- that th e two cities shoul d consolidate, but it has always come from outsiders. The . first hitch would come over the name for the new metropolis. Perhaps it will be just as weU not to attempt a ma.n-iag e be­ twee n them, since their wholeso me rivalry undoubtedly has been a factor in the promo­ tion of their enterpri se and con,cquently o f their prospe rity. 1 old story about the 'Mintieapolis ����roii7:Sr,;;;,;;:_:::_:._:�..alked out because th e preacher took h i s text from St. Paul is inevitably recalled by the recur­ rence of. th e classic rivalry between the Twin Cities as a result of the President's visit. It seems that the caption on the first copies of Mr. Coolidge's speech to be delivered at the state fai r grounds in Minne­ sota described the scene as Minneapol is. Objection being made, this was corrected to read simply "State Fair Grounds, Minne­ sota." nut most of the dispatches describ- l l · Ol)Melting Pot. sI • la u11, The Norweg· n' centenn:a1 celebr!!.tltm at· Minn<>apolls pr ' .id d the President an oppor. incidentally upon u. fact tunity to re which perhaps is not commonly enough ap' preciated and which is, the An1eric:i.ntzation of dllf :ring Jnrop<!•in:s. "'Out or the co�fuslon Of tongue11," as he put it, ••u,c 0on:rrirt ,>! tra­ ditions, the variations of hilltorical setting, f thl' va�t dlfterence In talents and taste:; there I has been evolved a spiritual union ,LOCom­ panied by a range of capacity aJl d geniua which marks this nation fOl' a. pre-eminent destiny." America has made a success or the tower of Babel. It ill a fact not to be despised in conr.e.ction with our history and institutions that various peop!es and races which have held themselves apart in Jilurope and have !or a thousand years fought wars with each other have come to this country and have de­ veloped into harmonious Americans. . A Scandlnaxian historian who not long ago traveled ln this country, going to nearly every state, saicJ that the typlc.-a.l A111erican came from nearly every race in Europe. It was, he said, almost impossible to distinguish be­ tween an American with slx or seven genera' tion.!. behind him ancl one whose grandparents were immigrants. His theory was that the immigrant as a rule did not become a typical American, and neither did the childre,1 of im­ migrants, for there was still much in the homes of their childhood to remind them of Europe. But the !,rr andchildren a.s a rule grew up to be t:);pical Americans. The principlt> or inoivldualism combinP<l with local sclf-governroen and. for natiopal purposes, federated Into• a union, wt govern. mcnt limited to natl ma! pur es, has pro• eoples that hold vided the method:, by whi t�lves apa� ope live and work to­ I �etberas,tmencins i the United States. �.8C R A N TO N . PA . R E PU B L I C.\. U�, v¥_E_ 'D __ NE;SD.t\¥, .PTNJJJ - -�--_ President Coolidge in the Northwest­ Coolidge u s e d one The splendid welcome accorded to President Coolidge p h rase i n bis T-0.l�� , at St. Paul, this week, was an impressive feature of the :,peech worthy of special e m phasis, Norse centennial celebration held to commemorate the when e .spoke of the "unsung n1il­ settle�n the Northwest by the hardy Norwegian lio ns," th e plain and quiet people pioneers who, a hundred years ago, ventured on their w ho daily disp1ay modest and u n voyage of fourteen weeks in quest of home and pre tentious virtues. happiness. Th e heroes ,found not merely in The great wheat growing area, comprised of Minne­ i h e expl oits of our soldiers and i n the ideals of our statesmen. I t is sota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota and Iowa, fo u n in th e dai l.v toil of the people attests the industry and perseverance of the early w h o l1'l,e bui l t u p this country i n settlers of the Northwest and their descendants. In spite o f great difficulties and sacrithe development of these flourishing States the Nor­ fiGel'l, prominent among whom were wegian-Americans have contributed to the productive­ the .No rsemen, in whose honor Prcs­ ness of a great region and added materially to the i <'! ent Coolidge has just spoken. nation's wealth. Coincidentally the political activities of the States ! RIDGWAY PA RECORD mentioned have expanded. There the agricultural prob1926. 17, UNE J SDAY, WEDNE lems, which were so· acute a few years ago, but of which 1 T E UN SU NG MIL LIONS little is heard lately, were evolved, and there, too, sprang up the radical propositions of which Senator t La Follett� _ was spokesman. Presi nt Coolidge use d o ? e 'I nial ten I President Coolidge faced the discomforts of the . ase 'in his Norse ,cen phr • 1 extremely sultry weather to carry a message of good ·speech worthy of speer l em­ the will, as the Nation's Chief Executive, to a section of ph asis , when he �poke o � and I the country that treated him with scant courtesy less plam the , ions mill cr "un sun than four years ago when, as Vice-President, he was quiet people who dail J: displ �y advertised to address a large gathering there. It was mod est and unprete ntious virat a time when the farmers of the Northwest were tues. _ The heroic i.3 found n o �erethreatened with heavy losses from diminished grain prices. They were not willing to listen to Coolidge's ly in the exploits of our sol 1 s 1 and in the ideals of our states­ comn1on sense on that occasion. What they wanted was an expression of radical ideas demanding prompt gov­ \ men. It is found in the daily toil ernment assistance. of the· people who have built 1:P Since that time the sunshine of prosperity has smiled this country in spite of great d_if­ on the fruitful acres of the Northwest, and filled the :ficulties and s,acrifices, prom in­ granaries of the farmers to overflowing at profitable ent among whom were the prices. In the midst of such favorable conditions the Norsemen, in whos e honor Pres­ n. spoke of common sense who had been treated coolly messenger ust j has ge Coolid ident four years previously, and who now came as the H R A N TON. PA . R E PU uc ,u, Nation's President, was acclaimed with unbounded . �TU !pSDAY, J \.I__NE 9• 192 5• l enthusiasm. p The President at St. au And President Coolidge justified the great welcome I v i iting the Norse-American Centennial Expo :;.i - he received. After paying tribute to the Scandinavian t.ion at St. Paul, Minneso , e. �rd , Presid ent Cool--1 settlement of the Northwest, he said: "America with idge was given a cordia,l welcome i:1 kee_ping with the! its institutions of religion, liberty, of education and of lo ya l sentiments of the residents of that i mportant sec-• economic opportunity, of Constitutional rights, integrity of the law, are the most precious possessions tion of the United States. Stressing the success of this country in fus i ng of the human race ." These, he declared, "do not emanat& from the govern­ national unity from its different ; acial elements , the President said that he felt that our national story will ment. Their abiding place is with the people. They 1 help to guide mankind toward fraternity and coopera- come from the copsecration of the father, the love of the motMr and the -devotion of the children. They are tion on a world-wide scale. A striking paragraph in the President's speech was the product of that •honest, earnest and tireless effort that out of the confusion of tongues, the conflict of ·that goes into the rearing of the family altar and the traditions, th e variations of historical setting, the vast· making of the homes of our country/' The President expressed the thought that on the differences in talents and tastes, there has been evolved1 a spiritual union accompanied by a range of capacity! score of loyalty it was "difficult to choose among the and genius which marks this nation for a preeminent! many national and racial groups that have sought out America for their home and country." He asserted rl p,gtiny. that "if fraternity and cooperation are possible on the scale of this continent, among people so widely diverse, why not on the scale of the world ? " Speaking for "a basic brotherhood among all races of men," the Executive envisaged a spiritual union accom­ panied by a range of capacity and genius "which marks this nation for a pre-eminent destiny." Those who expected the President to diseuss politics �ere disappointed. His tone was for conciliation, not ! controversy or conflict. 1'he addtess was a fine example of the philosophy of American citizenship, and an incen­ tive for a broad tolerance among the different elements ----�-----------------alt o h nited States. PA GAZET't·B Y, J NE 18; 1�2� . SUNG MILLIOKS . rn, I �mo, - IM R A NTON, PA .. R E PU B LICA■ 'i'!!VRBDAY; JlJNEl E, - J1�e�"'��1;�,_Cente�:��' The centenary of Norse migra tion to the United States ls reminiscen t at once of romance and of pract1ca ltty of a most grateful kind. Kleng Peerson and Knut Olson Elde are not as well known In history as ,Villiam Bradtord and John Carver, and the Mayflower is familiar to many who never hear·d of the "Restauratio nPn." Yet that voyage of a hundred years ago amply deserved the tribute which It received ln the American press at i the time, that "an enterprise like this argues a good deal of· boldness i n the master of the vessel, as . well as an adventurous spirit in the passengers." And it was the precursor of a movement, for the l ike of which we should have to go back to l'larllest colonial days. !� .��m•• ��.,,.,,, of the sort occurred. Even wh�n the great Norwegian national governmen t began' in 1 8 85, for separation from Sweden, and continued for twenty years, to be finally successful in 1905; there was no attempt to embroil our governm ent, nor 'even to arouse popu­ lar sympathy In the matter. Doubt,. less the Norwegian s in America te!t a deep ipterest in ths case and strong­ ly desil'ed tJ:ie success of Norway ; but' certainly they regarded it as a mat­ ter for Norway and l;;weden to settle between themselve s, without invotvin; America. to create troubles for the party ,,. hich electecC : r. Coolidge to the presidency. If his reception i n that region had been cold i t wou1d not have been surprismg. In fact, in 192 1 , when M r. Coolidge visited St. Paul to make a speech the c rowd, by anxiety to witness a motor race, forced h i m to cut his address short. But on M onday last it was different. N o presi­ dent on a tour .about the country ever received an ovation that could equal that given l\l r. Cool­ idge by the descendants of the Vikings. Over . 50,000 from Canada and adjoining states j oined the throngs that welcomed the Presiden t and as­ sisted in making him feel that he was backed by hosts pf warm ad mirers and l oyalty in' a neigh­ b orhood where i t would have been least expected. All honor to the sturdy N orsemen ! These till­ ers of the soil have . demonsfi'm that they can­ not be ·swerved in allegiance to the land of their adoption by the sophistry of the apostles of dis­ order of the La Follette type. Their wekome to President Coolidge shows that they may �e de­ pended upon to stand by the old flag i n times of emergency. M Tills i s just one of the qualities to be admired in our Norse ' ,J fow citl­ zens, and i t i s by no means the least of them. And it is worth while tQ note a certain highly significant cir• Turning from the romantic to the cumstance connected with lt. That ls, practical side of the case, there has that the Norse PHgdms , 1e hither been much said, truly and deservedl3·, J ust after the promulgation or the of the sterling worth of the Norse Monroe Doctrine, and under the in- i m migrants; but . upon one of their fluence of its powerful initial i m pulse, r i •, F.:lil l!IC RA characteristics it would be difficult a n d we re indeed the first imm igrants' MOND • t.J , m__:'!;. .1.026, !ITUO nn TRG PA RllJCOW• to say too much or to speak too ap- to come hither under it. 'I' hat me a ns )Y:J<JI,.�llIN.E.. lQ.._ lS25L. N ORW E G I A N C E N T E N N I A L, I The Record scored another notable preciatively. .T hat is, the fine quality lhat they came w ith the fact strongly President Coolldge braved the tor • . at on M on d a It was the only of their Americanization, and the com• impressed upon their minds, and p er• y_d heat to attend the Norse centen • l,"', s pleteness with which they have re­ haps c ame h i th e1· largely because of n ial celebration i n - St. Pa i:tt;--M-mn . lt newspaper sold m the _ Stroudsbur g speec_h frained frnm bringing into their new the fact, that the l;nited States was was a gracious thing for Mr. Coolidge which c arried the president's Fair State is home any of the political issues, pas­ not going· 1.-. meddle i n European a!- to go out to the middle west In at the Minneapol tn � W-at! e been hav.ing G round s on tlie cl:aY ha ike we v eather l w e o E e o i sions or propaganda of the Old fairs, and W/lcS 11, go ng t l t ur p the past week or more. The occas10n, d elivere d. . . . American Country. meddle 11� affairs. however, is well worthy the presenr.,, Readers of '!;'he Record real ize that of the n�tiorfs chief executive• • Theic hey get the news while it is news This gratifying fact is the more hav,� . people no • . considered, numbers noteworthy when we recall the his­ The w 1 1• e serpe1.. ontribut ed more to the upbuildm � 111 thi s newspa the tory of the Scandinavian countries with Record The supplies vice . The Norsemen the �f America than for the last hurtdred years and a first colonization of Norsemen was in news of the entire world at the same 182 5, w hen a compan)' of f o rt y- tw ,, moment that it is supplied to the little more. When Kleng Peerson Jed en and women arrived I n the U_n f t P,d 'n ewspapers of New York and Philahis Norwegian Pilgrims to America, � States afte1' a fourteen-week trip o n \delphia • Thus T h e Recoi-d pubN'orwa.y had only a few years before the h igh seas. It is the dei;cenda n , ,s h apl " h es news e v�nts which have been forcibly wrested from Its Danish _ • of these people and other thousands IS publicati on of connection, whlch had prevailed for w hich followed and settled in our p ened -later than the five hundred years, and annexed to uorthwest who are celebralmljl' l:1 the late editions of the metropolitan Minnesota and who have as their n'ewspapers which come to Monroe Sweden; and a l ittle before that Finguest today the president of the county. land had been forcibly taken from Un.ited States. ' Norwegian or Swedi sh The fa ct t hat the news in The R e­ Sweden by Russia. ln those cir1.;umii:1flµenc¢s are felt in half � doz•m cord is fresher than published in the stances we.re all the provocative ele­ northwestern s t a t e s. W1scorl.sln, . is becommg more Minne'sot aqd the Dakotas is where city newspapers ments of agitation and propaga nda in sum­ t):i.e hal'Cfy Korsemen predomina t�. and more impressed u pon the this counir�, for righting the wrortgs N.a tui·al born farmers, they have mer visitors who come into Monroe w'hicl1 had been commit ted in the Old turned the northern planes into great county. Many of them want the World. wheat fields, the yield frorn which latest and the,y buy The Record in goes a Jong way in supplying the preference to the papers from the 'l'here was occasion for feuds of American people with food. It is inNorwegians against Swedes, and of citie s. terestlng to note that of the last nin:a ' Finns against Russians, and of all governors of Minnesola six have been aorts 6f intd11:ues to n.r c#vok"' inU,rv e !'I Scandinavians. Members of that stock too have represented Minnesota o�· other northwe,stern states in th•1 Sr-RANTON < FA SCRAN United States senate, and lt is not SUND.A r J •J ,.h 14, 1925 . un likely but for his �ntimely death S ORWEGIAN N THE OF SM ENTHUSIA Governor John A. Johnson, of Minn� • sota, would have been the Democratic GRATIFY I N G. presiQential nomina tion in 1912. Th•3 1 E enthusiastic recept-ion accorded Presi­ Norsemen or Scandinavians have proven themsel\'es good and wortl, y dent Coolidge last week when h e i nvaded citizens no matter where they have the Northwest to attend the· centennial settled. ! T cele ration of the arrival on American shores of -{he first N orse settlers was one of the most gratifying ind� of l oyalty furn ished i n many a day. In visitiing M innesota the President invaded the real m s of Bob La Follette and other leaders oi unrc.;t, ,, ho have in the past done their best �t ht U nitecl State s wher e the mass ot ST CHE!-'.\TER PA NEW 1 \Jem i s ;; ettled . ,, • l9 .,5, 'T lTl T 'i1 1 1 l)?.!i !ill A pagea nt portr aying a comp osi• te G O O D CIT I Z E N S . The Norsemen in America. e d bv Norsel pla" t pa t 18 tl 1 e O r In M i nneso ta they are celcbrati ng PH' u r c J • • '. In 1 8 2 1 th e No r w egian Cltn1..., Peer'• e ment of the JS01 th· wilh greaL pomp and thoroughness the.11' e ll r· n tl1 e• settl son landed i n Amer i ca, and i n 1 S � 5 • vent e e h . t�1e ship _ Restaur3;tion " n initia ted � .Jmndredth anniversary o f the fi rst o r-·we st will be presente d -. . � provides tte op1)o rtum ty f or a • o se 1m11n�n1t1on in earne�t- The g aui z c d migra t io n 0 f N or. wegians to a l o s who centen"1.1·y, celebrated i n the Korthwest . the '( 1 mtccl Stales. In a sen it is a 1,,r e. ...- t.. reunion of those American "·eel� deserves the nati o nal at­ t o N 0:· 'tt his ac datin g � k_ rwtiona l C(Jlcbralio n beca u se t he Nor- t a \· e a n anceStry ntio n whic h 11Jr. C o olid,:e·s prese 11ce r i the w_il� givA it. \:'lurn Fredr_ika f:ren1 r wcg ian,1 are represented in e v e ry " ay. Th at the y take pr 1 tl e m . 01 i?,in does not nec e ssaril y make vJ,1t e d t h e Umt ed Stat � s in 1_s � o she s t a t e of the UIu· on an d b ec, au ..,,, e the " i s pirit , found nearly -1 0 , 0 0 0 1'o r we1?;1an s a l -_ _ . _ ,,,, hol e nalwn recogmze s that the co un t h. e, m an.y t h less Amer can in re,dy sett led in '\Visco. n:;l n al o ne. They mStiiU• w e1·c thE" adYa nc e guard of a n army our to devoted less e h t u.y e i i ch when it rece v d that t r F,a nr>rl mu !irnt lJaud of Norwegian immigran ts t i o nfl . One feature of the pageant ''"1:ic h , wi th Leif Ericsson's pioneeri n s; w hich will b e stress e d is the all ,, spJnt, swept rapidly ?":•r the J\Iinto its shores . Reginie n t 1 ne sota and Dakota prune s. America C o nser vative, indu str io u s and hon , .l'-:. o rse Fi, f.teen t 11 Wi s � O n sin , . 1 n ow ha!i, a milli o n and a q u arter in e o t, t h e Scandinavian p eople , inc l u tl - in tbt' Civil '\V ar which took pal t Ill 1 habitants of No rse blood ; and their ing th e Norw egian s , have brought pro - ;,> () engagements. I t has b een to the , contri!rntion to our_ natio nnl cha racter . . , ll 1. 0 fit 0 f America that so many Nor- 1 tr::- d 1t 1 on s an d achievem ent i s out o f g1·es.," and wealth to eve1.y sectwn rn propo rtio n to th eir numbers. as w ell ,a llThey Jct. hi e l T they have settled . an d their fe llow-Sca ndinavians w c1 h u pb u i 1 ·egianR so t.: ght homes here n t a immig he former r 1i · 11 ;, ·e 11 '> p-ofi t to t ing Of the northwe stern states has I 1 � largely made the Korthwe:i;t w hat it 1s. Th e y may l oo k ar o und them 1 been due in large e xtent to th e ,ff e O!· ts themsel \·es . reflect that this _ 1 i n ::\Irnneap oli s and o f this ha rdy and thrifty race. Wr �'T' CT-tF.S'l'F.R PA NEW 1 city o f 4 0 0 , 0 0 0 p eople was marked by \\' .hL> J �l. \Y, J U� .., 10, 1926, Th e No r d ic races have brought t o 1 a single cabin 11eve nty-ft,·e yea rs ago. A m erl ca n o · probl e ms of assi milation . Mr. oolidge's Tribute -to-The No rse:ri1en. ,T h �y ha.v e turnAd the cold no rthNn 1P la 111� mto one o f t he moist fertile farXew York World. T!J ey . have sought ti10 e x. pa, llSlJ,S o f .- 1ming regions of> t he ;;lobe . In po litics M r- Coo lidge's address land and sea rather than cro wc.l i ng w e gian Centennial eleb at th e Nor ,they have assuii1ecl control of their ratio n Ji Ids C in t o over p o pulated cities, so th e y little for · tho se p o liti cal strate gfsts , section and left t h"fr im print on mt - ' create d no housing and labor problem s who read b et w e en the lines of every 1 t1011al a ffah-i:. Of th e laF!t n ine Go,·<>r , . • Presidential statem e nt and fi n d t here- ,no �f )Imi: esota six have been ScanW h o w i ll d e n th at th e Scand. ma - in a m e ssage to the politicians. It i s 1 dmav1ans. But !o r the u ntimely death Y .. . . v ian 1mn1 1grants hav e more than com- true that Mr. Co o lidge po inte d out , of their great liberal J e ader, J o hn A. p ensa to d th eir adopt ed country f or its that unlike ra ce s1 live at peac � � ,John�o n-like I<nut Nelson, of S w edone an ot her in Ameri ca, drew th e re- ,ish blo o d--t hey mii;ht have given the hos1>ita litv and protect ion ·>• from the lesson t hat a ce rtain "spirit - country a Pr,-sident. Comin g fr o m . Th'd L u·10 N 01.weg ians hav e nut con - u al quali ty " is c o mm o n to all m e n, . na + ionl'I i ntereeted in experimen t. , the, . founded loyalty ·to political organi z a- and ask e d hopefu lly the q u estion, "lf have t:i ke n nat urally to co- o peration tions with loy_a lty to co untry i s d am - fraterni ty and c o -operati o n are p os - a n d eq u al suffrage-a t ti l1'ies to the onstrate d by the stu pen clou s rec c it" o s ible o n th e scale of this continent , ·'J n - Partisan League and the ideas i n among, people s o widely diverse , ·why espoused by Hendrik Shipstea.d and . g;· v 01� p r�. siden , iclg e at the i r I con t Cool not on t he scal e o f a world ? " Not ·M agnus J ohri11on. Their cultural in­ tenn w l m spite o f their noto rio u s even t he mos.t a rden t isolationist, terests, suppressed d u rilii. tl")eil· years a loofness from the P re sid ent ' s p a r t y h o�·ever, will reu.d ' in th ese senten ce s of st r uggle wi � h r� w nature , ha:·e ad,ocacy o f a w o rld sta.te o r threat ste1 d 1ly grow n m y1gor . The ;-.;_ o rse rn in the last preside ntial el ecti on · of a super - go vern,menL 11a•·'ic u lar do not fo rget t hey co1 Te . . . Evc : Yth'.ug m the make -up of tl1e l\1r. C o olidge, at the N o rse Ce nte n - fro•n th e land o ! Ibsen, HpJberg � Scandmavian malrn::i hi m a goo d Amer- nial, was conten t simply t o pay ..E.i9rnso n a n d Grieg. tribu te to a race ·w hi c h has don e m u ch ica.n citizen. WILKE� p -p RR to cons? lida� e a Wes tern fro ntier. TUESD.a UNTONTOWN' PA GENmll . nugration o f a hardy, 9•• 1926. This f rugal • -• � • FR I A y JUN!'] 6, WZh The Magic Of America people who live in a n o rthern land o f · lakes and iron to ano ther northern 1 In his address at the No rwegian e OrSe ell CTI. Ula land of lakes and i ron ' i m pressed th e ye '1e day celebration President as an epic sto ry, and t he centennial On October 9, 1826 lhe ship Restau• m o tive p o ·w er behind tha t migratio n }>.resident C oolldge- poke in h igh interested him n o less t han its social compliment o f the representatives of rationen arrived in America bringing e ffects up o n o u r n ational life. '\V hy, that sturd y race who have had so 63 Norwegians. This was the filrst asked l\lr. Coolidge , sho uld t he No rs e - much t o do in developi ng our We st. emigrate from organized group to men seek · Am e rica in such numbers Norway to the Uni.led State s. It that t o -day t here are as many pe o - They were am o ng the pi o ne ers in th e ple o f K o rwegian sto c k in t h e United line of immigran ts They helped to m arke d the first low wash of a great I States as there are i n Norway ? Th E: transform the Great American Desert wave of Norw egian immigration which a nswer, l\fr . C o olidge tho u ght, is that into one of the m o st produ ctive folluwed . It is in honor of the one the N o rseman loves liberty, anrl re gi ons on earth. The y and thei r "Here at last the indiv�dua l wa s l_o rc.l de;c cndants re pr1:sen t a high degree hundredt h anuivei·sary of the event of h imself, n? aster o f his o:wn destmy, that Pre sident Coolidge will go to and industry and " keeper of l11a o wn s o vereignty-here of i n telliaence 1J inneapolis this week to be presenia America owes them a great deal. he was fre e ." at lhe. Norse-American Centennial. No Pr o bably somet hing o f t hat s o rt e x - Tho ugh Minneso ta and adj o ining plains the Nors e migrati o n, Not i r, S tates have plunged into the radical ­ �mall portion or the development and as complete degree as Mr. C oo lidge ism of La Folle t ism, it must not be Northwestern of the upbuilc.ling pictures has the Norse man won his forgo tten that the part of the coun try t tat es is due to the efforts of Norfr ee� o m-his fr ee d o m e co n o 1:1 i cally, s o affected has had serious problems . p o lit1 c a!ly and so c ially-in this land Norsemen of w descendants or • · egians . c o ntend wit. h. The N, o rwegian and to f . his on of But pti o ad ne o o ed e r a m /, ncl no bette1 class of people ever who farmers t new land in an o ld w o rld has over - o her Scandi navian 1:3ought a new home in America. They whelmingly bes to wed on him . Tha t1 m.a ke up s o large a part of t he popu­ freed o m,, fJ:.Q.m..t)'le dead . hall within them the spirit of Ame ri..,,,,,- Jation o f the region have been strug­ ,:aui sn, before th e y came to the nev,, gling to est ablish the industry of farmi n g upon a basis o f p�rmanent lnnd ancl a dapti ng themselves to the stability and, finding the way is diffi­ n c ,, Pnvironment involve d no radical cult, it is not strange that th e y re­ ,\It eration of views or ha)Jits. The) solved to try semi -s ocialis ti c exp eri­ m a :,, take a ji.,stifiable prid e in exhib• ments. Bu t judging fro m the results i t iug what has been achieve d by them of last year's electio n, and from. the ii: �he dev elopment of a section of difference between t he receptio n ac­ co rded Mr. C oolidge when he visited TIT1T"' •n r r,, l'L, _,_ � ■ TT"R"RAI,� V • ■ Th N C t • } �as that section Vice President and the reception accorded him yesterday, very much closer at hish a na to-engross all nis Indeed nobody really knows w hether attention. a wa n ts a renomination or w he the r Coolidge Mr. n in case i t is offered to him. �� h: ::::id::::::::: �:on°:m::� I he w ill take one t gratlon in gen eral-what it has do n e , Qui te possibly Mr. Coolidge himself doesn' for this cou n try. It is one gf the ' know. The whole subject is unt imely. Reasonable speculation upon the probable man·e!s of the age that so great a host of people of so many divergen t pract ical Q)OliUcal significance of the Presi­ racial traits, man y of them affected den t's western trip is ano ther matter. Regard­ by •i n born prejudice i n culcated by l less of the thoqgh t a nd intent of Mr. Coolidge decades of oppressio n abroad, should himself,' his .ioutne:v is bound to h a ve a mater­ have been so easily fused into Amerl­ ial effect upon public sent iment in t he region �anlsm. :B'or thls achievement we owe where he has traveled, and a direct influence much to the stabilizin g i n fluence of on the congressional elec t ions of next year. such Immigrants as those of Scandi­ Indeed there are indications that it has h ad a navian origin, calm, conservative an d most decided effect, and that the s wing back hard-wo rkin g. I n the rece n t strivi ng to perfect our immigra tion regula- , from Radicalism and LaFoUettism to sound Republicanism, al ready under way throughou t tion s much stress was laid upon the desirabi lity of giving the preferen ce th.e agricult ural w est, has }Jeen mat erially to newcomers of this class- rather hastened and s trengthened by his excursion than to those who are with more into the "en�my country." difficulty Imbued with the American · . 'l;'h at the President as a man of experience spirit. and penetration an t icipate d this before he left Why may we not hoJ;Je that th0 , Washington is quite likely ; but i t does no t fol­ same influence wilt at len gth reach low tha t his tr ip t o Minnesota was in any sense · men a n d women wherever foun d ·on in tention ally polit ica l. Certa inly there was earth ?" asked the Presiden t. "If nothing in the address which he delivered that fraternity an d cooperation are pos­ suggests anything of the sort . The speech was sible on the scale of this co n tinent quite devoid of poli tics or political flavor, unless among people so widely d iverse, why ' not on the scale of a worl d?" a ch a mpionship of pat riotic ideals and sound We fear that the President's hopes Ame rican ins t i t u tions is t o be so ��ms trued. ..,, ' 1 run too far into optimism . What has been accomp lished i n America is almost magical . Here the immigrants came under the influe n ce of J the government, free and untram• meled; they came in contact with enormous opportunities to fire them with ambition; their childre n were taken i n hand in free schools ; there were high stan dards of Uving and a minim um of poverty. In the old world such con dition s do 'not exist. There is no great admixt ure of races under the same government. Oppor- , tun ities for the lowly people are Jess abund ant. Internation a l an imosit ies · an d jealou sies preva il. Frequent wars l1ave estranged the nation s. There is no such spiritu al unity as WE> I have in America, no such common refi n i n g tendency. When we think of idealism in the old world we think of something that can be achiev ed only after long years of transformation alon g lines not yet clearl y marked Amer ica fa almost alone I n this re� spect . Euro:\) e rema ins divide d i n I sentim e!!Las well a s in bC>U\!ld ari..e.s. L WTLJCJllSB Af!R"P; PE!\TNA NllW8 S.ATURDAY JUNE 13, 1925. _ __ f� wr- $d� ­ > }fdkz�; ( �fl. t. �) � r .12 - l 'fZS: -r WE ST. \"\'+. TH E PRESIDENT'S TRI P for a polit ician � r \ Nat urally i t is difficult sub .ie�ts to r:e�trair. l tica fo r a writer upon poli mg pohbcs at talk and king thin from self him t wh en som t Bu es. plac all in and _ all time s to rnt erpret �e r a t e _und ed bre members of the Mm nes ota to a t­ P resid ent Coolidge's t rip t oary . as. tl:e first enn t cen n a egi rw No he tend t nat ion. l?, 192 8, omi ren for n paig mov e· in a cam her �1d1�ulo?,S , t ra es selv the y are mak ing them ea� m�ica�ion There is not the sligh t est 1 robJe ct m vi �w . suc� ny a ha t n d side t hat the Pre ass um mg f9r und �ro t lles There is no t the sma ly abou t ous seri t ugh that the President has tho . The re are a �at � ion t na omi ren of t jec the sub aft and po)1�1 �s. many p roblems both of •stat�cr �-L._ '""""' == 07:ELEBATE Tl;iE � co M �l�N-c -,a-F� TH E NORS EMEN. CTOBER 9TH, 1 9 25, MARKS the 1 0 0th annivetsary of the lan d ing of the first co ntinge n t of Norse im­ migrants to thi::i country. The event will be gen erally ob served throughout the country, • an d espe cially at the }Iinnesota state fair. ' Congress passed. last week, a resolution providin� for the iss,1e of a special post­ age ,,bmp in recogn ition of the event. It was on Jp]y 4th, 1 8 �5, that the Norwegim� �loop, Re;staurationen sailed out ·1 f tlw , port of Stav­ a 1gei' ·w ith 52 emigrants on board. bound for America. The .shlp har! a periious. voyage, v·as bactered by wind anJ \Yav:::, and lan de l in the port of "-J e,,, York on Oc"ol;."r 9th , J 8 2 G . This' " as thE fir,it bodv of Norse inmigt:.iats brought to these sh )res and · it is both 1 i,g-ht and fitting that the event b•1 obsel'ved in a manrer becoming its imgortance. , 'T0ciar 'LLer0 are m this country two millio n de­ �,cen'dants of the Nonemen, an d very many of onT westcr:n nnd n o rthwestern stat0,; bear ample evidence of the thrift, industry, and progrr,ssive. spirit of these hardy people. They were, by kaining and instinct, fitted for pioneers, for homebuildi!rs, and the 1<tabi litv of Wisco nsin , Iowa, Minnesota, Nprth and South D;­ kota is very much owing to the cnurage, fortitude, and endurace of those descendants of the ol d Viking·s who , in an almost forgotten age , dared the un charted seas in their frail craft, and even mit·,gled their red blood with that of Western Europe, ef pecially that of the British Isles. Norse descendants have made their O 0 �mark as gover nors oI our most pri:igtessiv e states, have dtamp ed legisl ative assem blies with their geniu s as law-m akers , and in the nation al cong reSll this geniu s wears a hue as bright as that which !nark s the lineage of any other race. Iowa owes much to the sons and daug hters of the Scand i navian peninsula : We have them here, these sons and daughters, i>y the countless thousands ; they have trans form ed Northern Iowa into a verita ble parad ise where_ their palat ial h omes, wel l d rain ed and well kept farm s · bea1· evide nce t9 the good manage­ ment and thrift to which such impro vemen ts are largely owin g-. In civi� affair&. the Norse eleme nt is forward, ·safe,' and depen dable ; the Iowa legislatun• could be called the Norwegian Stortbing, and w ithout vi olatin g the requ iremen ts of a<'<' tac,·. Norwa:1,: is, in many respec t,,, the b �s: g-o ,·ern crd counti-y in Europe ; he.rt the idea .o f sta te reg-u lation and con trol is follow ed for t� ,in� purp.o .<•• f e}·. tendin g the largest measu re o f advan tages to the com­ mon peoplE1 . The Norwe gian system of public school s i � udmitt ed by !'ducat ors to be th best in the world. The Norse cha racter has an int, rn �spP.c t fo-t· Jaw and order, and as hom <> Jbuilde r the Norse and the Teuton are as dose ar- blood brothers. Kee > in touch with the progrc ;s or develo pment o f the observ a n c e of the centen ary observ 11tion of the landing of the Restauration en-the " Mayflo wer of the Norse men"-and be glad that iu the veins .of our Iowa citizen s there is flowin g a strong curren t of the blond of t�al'dv Vikin "'" YORK PA GAZ & DATLT THURSDAY, JU�E 111 . 1�2 �, WO Rtflv OF T H E TRI BUTE. The sturdi Norsemen who .have settled ln Minnesota. and ,neighbor atates well deserved the croas-coun­ try trip tn the heat of .a President of the ·united States, sa1-s The Harris­ burg; Patriot. These with the other Scandinavians have made and are making a generous contribution io -the well being of this· nation. The Norwegians and the Sw edes are so numerous 1 these border ata.tes that theY. virtually dominate • poUtlcally and otherwise. some of _ the government Innovations theY. bave made disturbed parts �f .the conservative East, but the slightest deviation from the orthodox disturbs 80me Easterners so that does not . ma.tter much. What these states have done has been to show the value of experi­ mentation with government. Some of their novelties like the state guar­ antee of bank de-posits have failed and 50 have added something to hu­ ma.11 knowledge. Others of their Ideas have triumphed_ and have been adopted by other states. But it was and ls a. mistake to regard this :pio­ neering in government as an evi­ dence of dislOY,alty to the countrY,, These people have never faltered in their ideals of liberty. Like the other North European groups, the Norwegian has given in­ dustry, enterprise, etal5ffit� to Amer­ ica. T.hey are ., whollY, desirable group tha.t have found no dirflculty in a.eslm!latlng themselves. In ap1>reciatlon it was not ;too much for the President to hell) them celebrate the centennial of their mig:ratlon ... �mize, if not totally obl i t era te, the Th a t· Mr. C oo lidge did not refer to local dis' covery of !\.merira by C olumlnr n. He , politica l conditions is entirely to his credit. The theory upon ,\ 111rh it worli;<, is · will pro b a bly acco mplish m ore for his party by , his reticence th a n Mr. Kell ogg will by h i s v ague that Leif Erie•,on , :, . Tor�e•1rnn Those Norsemen warnings aga inst revol ution. reached th e sho reR of A m eri <-a fiveare a h ard-headed race ,rh ose objecti on to the ,1 hundred years hefore Columhu�, meth ods of st a nd-pa ttei·s like Mr. Kellogg does which fact has never been t h orough­ s1rnb stantiate cl, � thongh n ot a rise fro m any l o ve o f tro uble-m aking, but Jy "Nordic'' Superiority. from a deep-se a ted • s o ci al and economic sense. a peculiar raJCial intensity, la- Presi.dent C oo�e stated it a u­ They are pioneers by n ature, a nd if the country belle enerically "Nordi'b superior. thorit ativ el� t the M i nne9ota releother clay . We do not i s to obta in the full benefit of their genius it will ity,'' mani fei;ts i tself in w ays that bration t M r. Cooli-dge had any ' m ingle not a little o f their pro gressiveness with are beyond coIIllprehe n.sion, as, for think in stance, its uruwillin,gness to accept Nordic rop,aga�n mind when he 1 the intelligent c o nservatfr-;m of the other races th at form our effective pu olic opini o n. the generally conceded fact of Cc- m ade the s tatement . It was ex­ lumbus's i mportance In the hii.tory pres-sad w ith a desire to ple•ase. He would have undoub te-dly, if h e has of America. n ot alrea.cly done so, praise d and d, m Rich ! on The City Counc il o to Columbus be.fore an Vil'gin ia, recently hedge d up•on a given credit u sed of It alian ­ p rropositi on ma· de by a n. Italian audier ce , compo icans. er m ·A oChrist gro up to e1,ect a statue to Thii• atte mpt to dismi ss Colu1:1 ht�s ph e r Columbus if the city wo-u ld set rd1c '. 8 O ne p,ro-ud becau se he was n ot a asi de a desirable sit e . i lure, for ustor . fa to ed doc-m testi1 his basing N'ordi1c , a,vpar,enitly � I writ too large to _b e �rase to sa\ 1s Y m on y u pon p�ej udiice inst ea-d of preJ u dice. il!ctual knowledge, voice the sentl- 1 au irrati onal when d raise opposition the m ent of ho c�eclar-ed, with the positiveness of those who knorw little or no-thing of a. subjec·t, his protest against buildin.g m o'llttmenta t-o a "fuf­ riner." To the Nordk minid, thefe � � ----y-,- (lHE are two cla,s,sificatJiO'Us o,f the hu- . N ORS E CELEBh'._ N man race: the Nord.le and the "furPre s� C o I'd 1 ge pa id a fine �'-" ,<i� rved 1•!11er," the Nordic, o,f course, being r trib ute a t S t• ia u 1 yeSt erda y to the raen and wome n •of N orse desc ent tte Greek an d the "furriner'' the wh o have c1o ne so 1111uc h t o d ·1 b imre, f a•n, Ill 1>arl,a1, he althou gh , to be . u p the Nort hwest. . He WE�S q uite rign t woul d. h ave h is doubts a bout being • 1� s aymg th a t they came here m a inly to se ;k fIee d om , and �h a t they called a Greek. have done, m uch to devel p o ur free mstitut i ons. 'I'h e historical knowledge of this It wa3 not to be ex­ � Richmond Nordic pro,b a.tbly con- • pee e d _th a t he Would compliment them on ceives that the first famlUes settl ed ' ten i encies that hav e o ften play ed h a v oc with the ar h e le a ds_ s o cap ably. in Vil'g inia about the Ume th at p Y Yet a very interest­ I Adam and Eve were res,iden:ts ,o,f the ��g �l u m e m i ght be writte n on the part which , e . or�eme n h a ve pl ay Garden of Eden, i f n,ot before. Uned in building up what 1d ed by � ther elem e nts in tcrtunately for his pride it ha,p pened • !�e 1 our popul ati on p 1 ca that when the first families of Vir- p . � i 1 h e res � es. Th e m em ory o f the Non ­ al tisa n Leag�e 1s n ot yet de a d. gln ia ·were yet to b e born, a "fur. -�f Mr. Coolidge ch ose t o forget the heretical ri n':'r," wITii a courage that was 1 considered foolhardy and a belief in Mu i k oii the �o rthwest, his S ecreta ry of S tate r; e o�g did n o t. Mr. K e ll ogg kno ws th� his convic,t ions that rose to a pasN t hwest , h once h a d stonate deter'min.a tion to test them, �l a habitat i o n and a n e _ am e t e�e It was wi th a bitt er mem s e t sail upon a journey, t h e o,u tcome o ry o f tha t v m s j1 d pas t tha t h� said in Mr. Coolidg o� w hich, at the time of depar•ture, I � .� e's waH fr'aught with dis·aster but f����nce a ft e r . d �clan ng h is belief tha t the . enta l prm c ples of o ur g o vern men i which proved to marl, the tr1:1 1rs1tion / t were � o t 11:,1a ger : "Bu t the c onsta nt pro paga . periocl of world's history . Christonda 1 g t pher Columbus was haruly a Nordic,1 d a�1.:;· t .e g_o vern ment is n o t im aginary. l ·o u 1 f . U '.' u e aw a re of the a mou nt of dest ruc­ Yf nor was the reignin family which/ t f e sul·sidized his journP:,. Strange as s���� tf \ �bin ary pro pag�nd � which is being Y IS rr ute_d by fo!·e1g n i nflu enc e." it m ay seem , the no n -. 'ordJC c; havJ Mr ell o�g did n ot _m thos e wor contributed grea t deed-_; to th a nyt ds ch a rge h: c i c l ly ga mst the North world , despite the m yopic na rrow as west . B u t � fi � m o���lf� e _ght termg pro pagan d a for ch ange nesa of their detractors. s in o ur ms . t·t I u t1011s co mes from th ere, d Irect ' ly or The R!chmo11 d incident i s typlea indirec tly he ay h a ve th o ugh t the w arning of the Nordire i:tpirit . In t ll i', nrn n tr especi allv' timel� . it flowers into full bloom in the persli stent del<>rm ination to m i ni- _N° 1,� r l {f· ;8 �b;• a ran ge o f c�pacity gen rus � xpression were most w h ! c h marks this nation and for a pre- "'hought and its e . emi n ent destiny." l 'forceful when he said : "If one were Am erica has made a s uccess'' of the " brotherhood basic of a proof eeking tower of Babel. It is a fact n o t d espised in connection with o m· to!h ibe $ - ,..,among all races of men in support tory and institutions that vari,o•u s ]'.Jeo- of aspirations for unity capable of p ies and races whic h have h eld selves a part in Europe a n d have tfhoerm-a assuring peace among the nations, t h ousand ye a rs fou gh t wars could _b e each I suppose no betttlr testimony /, oth er •h ave come to this couwlth · n try and taken than the experie nce of this �ave develope d i n to harmoni ous Amer• 1ca n s. I !country." I A Sca ndinavian historian w h o illot ' The argument is entirely logical and Ca long ago 'di travell 0d in t h is co•u n try e P res1 cnt i<,1larts A mpmgn on th"1s sub. I n g to n earl y every state, said th a't gothe I lt presents a thought typ!.cal Amnlcan came from nearlv ject that may well bear closer cona i n E rop e. w_ s, he sai :i , tideration than it has had. As he - t h e n orth west !�::,,t Pi e " dent Coolidge has gone to • fmc p o-.,08 .1 b11l c to ·dI�1s t1 nogu1s h beto to the Scand i navian Americans, and t ween �n Am e r!ca n wit h si x or seven !further said : "Powerful enough to g �� eraat i on s bel1 1 nd h l :11 and one whos e hold this _people to a high irl eal in w.hile_ I r imari)y • i t is u .nde rstood t o be a sort of gian pare. n ts w e re immigr ants. H i s _ , p i l g n m l.l,g e of than ksgiving and apprec i ation to t th eory was t h at t h e I mm igra nt as a time of supreme tnql_, why may we ' r u l e did not_ ·b ccom� a typica l Am erithese adopted patriots for the endorsement they ;not hope th;:tt the same influence will • can, and neit h er d i d the children _ of, . _ . . . . . , men and women gav e lum , t h e po hb c1a11s see m i t the gro u nd Immigran ts, for there was st i l l m u c h il.t - length ieach in home� the their of ch lldren to re- ;wherever they are founcl on earth ?" w o rk for a n e w cam paign for the pre&i<lency i ll mind t h em o f Europe. But ,t he grand- ,. a m a n wel l t ra bed in chi l d ren " no t mere lY a sugge � t·10n, b ut ] 9 ') S 'l'J 1c p res1·a ent JS as a rule grew uv to be t y pi- ,..s th 1s -. : _ �lso a prophecy, of what 1s yet t_o pol i t i cs and IS a campaignu o f q u al ity, but sti l l i°a_l Americans. 'Y' h en we seek th,:i reason s why dlf- come in the world and the way 1t we do n.. t believe this trip to nort h w estern bard- ,fenng peo p le who have Quarrel led i11 . is to come ? e rs o f the land IS concerned with the possibility E u rope _ for generations are thus merge d rnto a _ p eaceful and ind11str l o f his o w n candidacv, as m uch as it is with the -0us Americ a n l 1 fe, we shnll fi n rl the m I en d eavor to a rouse t•11ese peop l es to the n eed of oot In a n y pecu liarity of th e eoun tn; e l i rn i nuting- La Fol lette a n d the rest o f the o r Its climatc1 b u t i n the p ecullar i t�­ of Amen can i nstJtu t ions which hav,;i rndicals . bee_n dcveLo•p ed from the p�t.n c!ple s •)f 1 t i s true that these so:-is of the Norsem en a n d �1v 1 c a n d religiou s liberty laid down oy t h e founders. their neighbo r. ga ,·e Coolido-e "' a wonderfu l vote . 'J'h e P:lncip le of i n • alJsm com1 n th e N " ' ovember e lection and <lid m u c h to s mash ?med with l ocal sel f-dlvidu govern m ent a n d , t h e hopes of LaFol lette and his m isca l l e d Pro- 01'. national P urpos es, federa ted into a th a g, o•v ernmen t limited to r n 1? nn, alw ipurpos a � ressives, when the.v l)r'ev e11 i ed t l 1 e borde 1· _s'. ate s 1at1o es, h as provide d t h "> net· h ods by w h ich people s that holct from deserting the Repu h lican banner, but t heii h-emse lves . p art a. Euro p e l ive and tI1ere was muc h m t h e m agic of the Coolidge ,ork together as InAmerica n s i n the j name and t here was faith in w h u t this m a:::i w o u l d r n i te d :sta tt � d o , i f h e were elected . That w il l be m isr,ing to a gl'eat extent when the co11gressi onal e l ections are held in the fall o f 1 92 6 , unles,: the Presiden t h imse l f makes it emphatica l l _vi cle a r that he needs straight forward party meu to back him up in , le: 1· , 1 C011gress and that it would be bad for progre.s­ siye legislatio!l u nless his hands are upheld. So: instead o f this personal campaign, w e see the executive exhol'ting the farmers, the sturdy Scandinavians, who voted for him, explaining to vote for him again, we shall see him explaining the dangers of radicalism, the folly o f FafFollette and the need of maintaining a; strong party ma­ j ority in the Co:1gress. He will fight LaFollette in his own bailiwick. He will expose the insidious' arguments of t h e Socialists who support the "W isconsin senator and we a re certain he will con­ vince t hat entire section that LaFollette i;hould be exterminated as a self seeking and destruc­ tive }_Joliticiaa a n d that the welfare of the p eople demands that Cool idge be given complete supvort. r- (\ Our 'M elting Pot. A '\J.c�n t--hc pr!ngtie1d Union.) Th�egian centennial �•bra­ dPnt-/111 opportunity to remark incl­ den tal l y upon a fact whioh . p erhaps Is , no t commonly enough appreciated and which Is th e Americanizatlo.n of dif­ I fering E uropeans. "Out of th e con­ fusio n of tongues." as he put It, "th e conflict of t radlti,o•n �. t h e variations o r .setting, th e vas t <lifference I hI ni.s torlcal tale n ts an d tastes t h ere has been evolved a .sp.irltual u n ion accompanied t1o(at 'jJ>1ieapoUa provided the P-re-sl• ==---- 110PEF1Jt. lorcAL A1''"D as a hopeful and inspiring lt tho glft that President Coolidge ex­ pre s� in his address in Minnesota on the subject of fraternity among the nations of the world. It was a strike­ ing picture that he painted of the suc­ �ess that has been attained here i_n ;America in fusing national unity from its melting pot of diverse radical ele­ ments and its possible relation to what might be and may be realized among the nations of the world in fraternity and co-operation among J)eoples on a world wide scale. It :was no fanciful picture that he pre­ ,iented or the amalgamating process that has been wrought here among )lew-comers to our land and he evi­ dently regarded it as no fanciful pic­ ture that he painted of similar possi­ bilities among the many and diverse ;nations of the world. Even without being· as optimistic as he declared himself to be concern­ ing the latter possibility it is not dif­ ficult to see the close analogy be­ amalgamation America's �ween !achievements and what might be done pn a much larger, but not dissimilar, ,. ,, � 10 throughout tb.e world. His �-rertafn ly his reco gnit ion of thei Jele . bra tion was righ t and pro t· i : per . � Wha t the h und red Perc ente !,av e to sa y al!>o ut it, is, r.s may ! how eve r, ano ther thin g. Per hap s it allo wed to pas s bec aus e of naay be / c the fact < tha t the gr.o up of compar ativ el y re- I , ns cen t alie con cern ed are to be , cla,s sifle d as dic, but, eve n . at � ---i that, there wilJNQr dou btle ss be a sha k- ' • O U R N O R S ECl'I E N ' ing o f _brea ds ove r the dist Nresi den t Coo lidg e's visi t to Min - acco rded to them . Mor eove inct ion r, if the neso ta to take par t in fhe cele bra - , Nor sem en are to be app rov ed as tion of the cen tenn ial of con stitu ents of the pop ulat ion ther e the imp orta nt imm igra tion ot Nor first is l ike,Iy to be a call sem to the United Stat es- not cons en t·ecog nitio n of the som e d� y for ider Slav and the ing, of cou rse, the excursio Ital iian and the Iris h imm igra I n of tion to the Luc ky-is vari ousl y rega Leif Am erica, and then we sha ll see the rded at Wa shrn gton and Jn hig h poli tica l / self -app oint ed gua rdia ns ot Am er­ stra tegi c qua rters. Of cour se to icanJ.sm rise up on thei r · hind legs those who keep the political defi les an,1 how l. or clin g to the heig hts: ther The celebration of the Sca e is ' ndin a­ som ethi ng of a polit ical cast abo ut vian mov eme nt to the Uni ted the jour ney, Gen eral ly it is Stat es brin gs into sha rp take to mea n that the Presiden t and n tion the great cha nge demons tra­ in part isan s froll) that part of his tude of the coun try tow the attl ­ ard foreign the coun try, have invaded Sena tor La imm igra tion. Suc h a mov eme nt as Foll ette 's dom ani and are that whi ch is now cele brat ed as la the foun dati on for a stre yi ng hav ing been of trem endo us bene fit nuou s I cam paig n nex t Year , first I to the buil ding up of Am eric an citl­ for the reeJ ecti on of Sen ator Len zen ship , :'ould not be pos sibl e und root of er I the strm Wis cons in, who is suPp osed to gen t quo ta rest rict ion hav been tagg ed for slaug hter by e whi ch is n ow the law ot the land his / crlleague, and, nex.t, for the elec rela ting to imm igra;t ion. It tion of enou gh Rep rese ntat ives - wha t Paradoxical to ext is som e­ ol the citi ­ to > keep the popu lar hous e of Con gress 1 enr y resulting :Crom the coming of within the grip of the Rep ubli this gro up of Eur ope ans , whi le, a·t ' cansnom inal ly, at le.:-.st, for some the sam e time , decl arln of the ·� th we so - caJle d Rep ublica:18 are with • will cou nten anc e noth 2f ing ike i t dif_ flcul t y reco gniz ed a s such in �am . -real ity. The New York '.rim es depl -v ores this tend ency to put a poii tica l interp.retat i-0n upo n ever y acti vity of the chie f exe cuti ve, who is, by com ­ mon cons ent, the lead er of part y, even thou gh, as in · the his I case of Mr. Cool idge , h·e ma y be indiff eren tly follo wed . -Yet ther e is noth ing depl orab le abo ut such an acti vity, and It seem s alto geth er Uke an • reas onab le. 1f Mr. Coo li dge l y can l t a crim p, so to say, in the pro ­ gres sive mov eme nt, whic h THOSE TERRIBLE IMMY- GRANTS. is ?p­ pose d at every p,;-in t to his con­ <!: rvn t iv view � r,f t h i n gs ,poli Eour y,ears ago when the boll weevil and fitica l, theni is .uot o.oly !ull justHlc· ' 1 afi�al depression delivered a twin blow to the jon lower section of South Carolina, The News suggested. that some attention b.e given to the tor . him to attem pt it but it· might easil y be show n to be his duty, fl-om / persuasion ·of thrifty Scandinavian immigrants fh� stand point of his respo nsibility to settle our depopulated and untilled farms. for what he takes to be sensib le 'Negro tenants were- leaving the stat�1 in droves, and useful gove-r nmen t. l poor white families were moving to the cotton Still, even at that, the Presid ent's I mills and agriculture in the lower section faced visit to Minne sota i..� not to ·te re­ 1 a situation from which it has not yet recovered. g-arded as wholly, partis an. Doubt ­ There are still thousands of deserted farms, 'ess he is stncer ely moved to evi­ acres upon acres of soil that could be made to ience apprec iation of the valuab le produce wealth and happiness. :ontrib u tion the Scand inavia ns who 1ave so largE'ly develo ped the One of the· South Carolina representatives in �orthw est, have made to the citi­ Congress, following the intimation of a land :enshi p of the Utiited States , and ' , ' ' • I .. r fettlement comm1ss1on, had a conference with one of the S candinavian labor ministers in Washington concerning the possibility of at­ tracting men and women to the idle South Carolina farms. If the truth were known, the minister asked what wages would be paid ,such immigrants. When told that most farm hands were crop-sharers and that those who did work for wagel:i r,eceived only a dollar or two a day, he shook his head. But the representative, be­ ing an optimist, gave out a newspaper story of the confer-ence and reported the Scandinavian intei-ested in the proposal-which he wasn't. Tihat incident, however, aroused an ignorant element of the state which stupidly classifies all furriners as trash. South Carolina should not be made a dumping ground for filthy European whites-the infe.ence being that the mere ex- ! tension of an invitation would witness a spon­ taneous influx that would overflow the state. The "South Carolina for South Carolinians" went gunning for the representative who made the proposal and damned him during the remainder of his public career. Needlsss to say, that was the end of the Scandinavian invasion of the Palmetto state. At the Minnesota State Fair Grnunds Mon• day President Coolic:ge paid . high tribute to the Scandhiavians who have cleared away the wilder�,esses of the Northwest and converted them into one, of the greatei:;t commonwealths of this country. It was the ·one !}undredth an­ niversar� of the settling of that sec:ion b.1- th.e _ pioneering Norsemen and the President made a special trjp to laucl their work and hig� citizenship. They have fused into the Ameri­ canization process perhaps more readily than any other race, but that is natural because �hey are the original Nordics and the true American strain is Nordic. The Scandinavians have built the Northwest­ ern part of the United States. It is one of the most prosperous and progressive of our sections. If the Scandinavians had not gone- into the primeval forests of Minnesota and Wisconsin, cut the trees established lumber mills, planted g·rain, built fine homes, created dairies and evolv,ed cities, Americans would not have done it. There were not enough of them. Civiliza'tion requires people, lots of them. I In Minnesota alone there are over 200,000 Scandinavians. In South Carolina there were just 218 in 1920, maybe 250 or 300 now. Still we do not want them' to populate our vacant spaces, granting that they would come here if invited. �-- THE NO 'E CONTRIBUTION. � ( From Th New York Herald,) esident Coolidge's Minneapolis speech was . more than a surface tribute to the quality of the Norse contribution to American develoµment and ship. rt was not only ven:,. Jl#tctlve in its ci • orl�presentaU011, but d:!S'CloS'ed a fine sin­ C8,l'ity in its appreciation of an influence which has done much to shape American life, especially 1 :q.,.the Nor thwestern states. ll'he Norse nations have always been foremqst . in pioneering exploration. They werer the b d­ est Qf the navigators of the late Roman E pire el'i. They settled Iceland and crossed e At• !antic to Greenland and Vinland. Th.ey ere ap­ parently the first Europeans to rea the New World. They impressed their char ter and ad­ venturous spirit on southern Eu e and llve in it history as a race of con and super­ me • �A berdee--i, '"" - ., N --· SAT UR ' ,' \Y , 1 f,p1, A T I M I HE 'l'HE 'l'HOU G I I';' ' llJJT I WJSH HE wour,DN"l' "· hen t h e president comes we'st to :\ 1 l n 1wrq1c,Jis• :--� t. Paul for the Nor,,•eg•ian c·elebr�ion. he will simply go ctaw n to the t-: t a�,e a berth in .i.. pull ­ rnan and get aboard when the tra.b starts. ""htn he gets hu ngry 110 will ,;;o ahet1cl into the dining car an d with the a.id or q1c 8tewarcl pick out a. fruga � •. ' 11)(.,'. I J . �uoJidge t lu-i(t hns rJenled use of ; Pl'! le car but it doesn't go as far a the 1 • <l ducken in the kebox. �rh 1,reside ,\"ill travel just like an o,·diri-:-' ray ci: i· n .-,1., nd he may even join 'in 1.he sniol\ g 1'00111 confiden ces and argu­ ments, I h 1 which there iH no gTP:t ter . 1°01·un1 i n l<:' lan<l. • I 1 11 v�ry wPll as s:howin� .1 :,;pitit of t-' 111<,111y vrhich we adnlire :u1d CJl' clcmoc,- ·y which we can but heet1, hut r,';,.tlly ve·11ate to think of l\Jr. Cool­ idge beil high-hatted by n1e of t ho JJ01·ters ' on:;:- the line. l:ealJ i t would not be t he h� hes� dignitary ill ttlldlotil""" -....; , l 1 1 l�c, i n l he l uxury r ,�. c: 0ut IH�rr near the soil would think n!J less ' c l' .him ' and ";c halo terri'-Jly ti) lli i n k of Jiis annoyanc·c by lho ni:;h t · Un;e ._ ,1\orus i n th'o sleeper to which h e may b e a.ssig·nec l.) And what if hu <'OUlcln'l get a. lower and had to use the little stepladder at bedtime"! A pdYat:e cai· isn ' t the la.st wo1·d in l uxury that it once was. They have hecorne so cornmon that he most a,· . \lPnt foe of class dis tine o ca n't olJ · � the p1·e�ident rJdi1 i one whe11 I it becomes a mat ler o( hot h eo1nfurl a nd safety. I steamer, making time with the current of the Ohio and laboriously ascending the Mississippi. They made long and costly portages ; they were halted at the head of navigation ; they traveled overland on foot, in covered wagons, drawn by hc·rse and sluggish oxen, sometimes in two­ wheeled carts which bumped over freshly made trails, creaking and screeching to the heavens ·"rom their unlµbricated axles as they crawled - ; hrough wilderness and over prairie. Today they come by rail and anto, and, yes, by liner over the Atlantic. The first event on their program is a demonstration of ultramod­ ern fa __ ; 11 i.es for transportation. They watch the huge Martin bombers and the JNS-1 obser­ vation planes of the 109th Aero Squadron, the De Havilands flying in rnrmation and the speci­ mens o.r fastest aerial craft on earth, the pur- · suit planes which go 200 miles in an hour, cov­ ering in minutes distances which took the Nor­ wegian pioneers days. The Norwegian children flew kites in the prairie breezes--but now this convocation awaits the com1ng of an enormous dirigible that in one day traverses half a conti­ nent, flo:1ting smoothly and swiftly over the same hills and. valleys through which the early Norsemen so torturously struggled. This is our day of quick accomplishment, of fast and sure transportation and comfortable sons and daughters who congregate here today may know that the rigors and hardships of the pioneers ushered it in. * * * * One Hundred years ! A moment in the ob­ scure beginnings of peoples, often only a little _!'f: WRilM, l i. l'-'.15 while in the slow process of forging empires THE �RSE-CENTENNIAL from lands and populations, on this continent constitutes an era, an age of unparalleled devel­ The celebration at the Twin Cities this week opment and accomplishment. It is no coinci­ of the Norse Centennial was a celebration in dence that this ceatury o: building in America which the entire northwest was vitally inter­ is recorded as the century of Norse immigra­ ested. As every community in the northwest tion. The Centennial celebration, obi:;erving to­ owes much to the Norsemen, whose hardihood day the 0110-hundredth anniversary of the first and courage overcame the wilderness of early coming of the Norwegians may as well be dedi­ days and helped build the great agricultural ra+ed to a review of the swift attainments of and industrial empire we enjoy today. In com­ their adopted nation, in ,vh1 -::h they lrnve played menting, editorially, on the celebration the St. " 0• ·er1 t 2. mFt. Paul Pioneer Press says : The hfr,tory of the Norwegi::v n in America The Norsemen come again today. Centuries 1:- 1 ounds in symbols which, each m themselves ago, we are told, they crossed the Atlantic in and in one way or another, typify their accom­ rowboats. The first contingent in modern pl'shments for America and for themselves. times sailed it in a bark not much bigger. Tliey One might t::i.ke the sloop, "Restaurationen ;" came to Minnesota from the seaboard in tow­ or its handful of p�ssengers from Norway ; or boats via the Erie canal, on slow going lake ' he firf"t colonies in New York, Illinois; and vessels, on all manner of craft, from barge to w , ;._m: one ..cf the thousands who carved __. ho.mes i'l Minnesota's wilderness ; or the P ub- _____________ L----------------�------'" duing of the prairies of Dakota. Or one might take Knute Nelson, the immigra.nt boy who became senator, or· Hans Gerhard Stub, the son of an immigrant, or others of thousands of men and women who typify the service to this country of their people. Fifty-three passengers on a. sloop half the size of the Mayos' yacht, coming to a land of w:bich they knew only by hearsay, sailing the Atlantic in quest of opportunity and freedom. What co,1ld be a better exemplification of cour­ ai;re and independence and devotion to the best ..things in life than that ? �-rt re- · ,::,. a!-: . II, rn , ;t � , lY,AR!,,,H 1 7, Li:, �O RS.E-AJIERIC.L"\ CES'l'ESSL\ 1, Tho Norse-r •• ntcnnit• l , <:ommemorat ing t h e a rrival of the , ·or::;e peoples in this <:ountr_v i s to be Jtelcl in the Twin Cities at tl1c lllinne­ ,::;uta State Fai l' u uue 6, 7. S ancl 9. The event will mark an cvoeh in ad1ieverncnl of .l\'orse-Amc1 i•·au::; llrnt w i l l tlo much t o point out 1 1 i e debt this n a tions owe:; the sons o i Norway. Thousan<ls w i l l allend Jrout a II var ts or the world, the cum­ i;1 it tee:; in tlw nic r11 !J)· a nticipati n , htl f a lll i l l io11 l>('Ul)le w i l l be in ,lt­ t1 uctancc a u d a llf'Ycr-t o-)J('-forgotte n j J,ro;;ra m iJ bt•i n ;; vrepar('d. l'ag<Jant:o / l o 11<-vict l1 i:, torica l n a rr a ti\ c,; ol lilt.' .\'ors(•mcn c i ncc t heir a r riv;i J i n A 111c 1 . i<.:u ; their uchievcm('n ls in agricultun·, c 1•111 merrt•, iud usl1T, l i te ra t u re, sci­ ence, art aud music wi ll take place. !'resident ancl :'11 rs. l 'oolicl g·e h ave si;11iilccl t h e i r inlcution to attcncl a ncl five �- uveruors of north wester n states w i ! ! a lso b e there. am ong them Governor Carl G underson of Soutb Dakota . One great 1iagcant planned w i l l lie• J.i(;t the 11istory or Norse-American,; l!p to the -11rcs(•Ut time with :;ceues rrom both A mcri c,t and .:--;orwa, show­ ing ro rth the departure from Norwa) · the hom e l a n d , aud the a rrival a nll de­ 1 vel opment or the Norwegian people in .\ 11H•rici1. Th(' costu me!', 8ay :.idrnnc,-• not iccb, ,, i l l be magui!keut aUtJ ill briHiuucy of tcclmi11uc, iu muguilullc 1n1 tl t-[Jk 11rJ01· I lle ,1 hole urrnv 11ilJ n1·a J ;i 11 y l 1 J i-il;:; or i i ;, k i wJ t li ; L Lt,t� uccu licreloro-rc pro,l uccq_ The cen� t r• 1 1 u i:1 ] is i1• houor of t h e 11rri\ a l iu ,\ ,. · 11· Y urk in mi., or the :douv "Hes l :1 1 1ru liu1wu:' t l i,, .l[:1,1 0 u 1\ Cr or ti.Jc J\ urwcgia 11 ::., . '1' l 1 1•.v a r� :1 J l!'vpk lh;.i I t ilis ual tulJ i� 11roud o r. Th,•y astii n1il alc. .\flcr 1 h t')' ha1 c an ii crl in .\mprit--1 th0y ar" 11ot .\'onregiuus o r I\°onvcgian-Amcri­ cans. They a rC' American,; and us a ,, hole they arc 11cople 11·ho cou ld well I e:1 eh 111 ,1 uy or 0 1 1 r nal iv(' Amcricani; "'lHJ L cil itrn:;hi!J aud i,.1t riotii;m sl:u1• 1 rn r. It fn!J o,1 , J.1.J,:lJ I ha! l l!dr ,:cn1 l U!l!•d \\ il l be ;Jll "' rul 1n l.tr rrrncm­ l>cri:t.l in llrn; country. For a lt1!011;;·h I lie a l tcud,1 11cc II i l l ruu i ll 1 o ll1c huu­ t l rclls or lhou:,an ds. yet m i l l i ou:; 11 J1 u 1 , l ,�� uot ' '. t,tcnd in ])(Jl"SOU will attcud i.1 I . \p i nt. l heir lrwuds-uud they Ila·, c �ll� o! liltaU-dHJ '1lal1� lutcrn:;tcd. ru r '.I J. ,(' I� , ! qz, Milb.,..,1i � �, q THU Norse-American Centennial ��'th-v rs. n., R�ora·. iav��y<; �AY 1i l�; A not a b le occasion wi ll he t he Norse American Centennal , Torse-.A. merican Cen tenn i a l eel-... ebrat10n amt c.q�i t i on t o be I The Norse American Centen­ held at t h e state fa i r grou nds nial c_elebration and exposi ­ betwe cn the cit ies o f S t . Pa u l tion t o be held a t t h e Minne­ a n d :i\f i n nea1)olis . .J un e 7. 8. a n d / sota State Fair Grounds in the , Twi n Cities June 6 to 9 com9. Ul'.25. The C entcn n i a 1 cornmcmor- memorates the arrival of the a tes i n pnrti,e u l ar , t h e first e m - f i rst shipload of Norse immi­ i grat ion fr1 'm u 1 ,1 u :, Ln t h L grants in the United States i n l n i tcd States i n t he yea r 182.j 1825. While a Spaniard, Chris­ when the "H cstora tion .. a smal l topher Columbus, i s k nown i n sa i l i n g sloop a r r i Yecl from . ·or- history a s t h e discoverer o f wa:v a t . ·e·\1· York h a rbor \\ i l l America, it is a n establish€d 47 Xorwcg i a n i m m i g rn n t .· a l l o f ! fact that the Scandinavian ad­ " hom sel t lccl i n t lw stnte of venturer Leif Erickson and others v i sited t h e northeast�ew Yor k . Tlw e,·c, n t w i l l l ie o f p a r t i cu- ern coast of the country and l a r i nterest to a l I A meri e a n s of probably esabl ished a small Nor se b i rt h or a ncest r�-. because settle,men t 500 years before or its sent i menl as ,,c! J as t h e Columbus visited our shores. soc i u l a n d educational fcat mes. Si nce the early settlement settled It w i l l he a mee t i n g place fo r Scandivanian s have friends and relati ves J i ,· i n g i n here, i n fact one of the early d i fferent sect ions of t he co un - settlements was the Swedish try. Con gress has aut hori zed settlement at New Sweden on 40, 000 eommornl h'c medal s to / the Delaware river. This little be st ru c k off. President Coo l - c olony was first taken by the i lge i • tP 'l t t P n d a n d del i \'er a Hollianders and then by the spec-e h on ?\Ionclay, .J u n e 8 t h : E ngl ish. There is no record si x thonsn n cl school c h i l dren however that any considerable \\ i l l form a l i Y i n g fl a g, first t he number of Norwegians came fl a g of 1 ·orn·a�· an cl t h i s ,vi l l be to the colon ies or to the coun­ t ransfornwcl i n t h e twi n k l i n g of try before 1825. The Vikings, a n l'Y('. h,v mea ns of revers i ble were -f earless adve ntu rers who cans ,, orn h�· t he c h i ld ren i n to delighted i n going where man Old Glor:,·. t h us t�·pi f� i n g the had not before ventured and rnpicl t ra nsfo rm a t i on o f t h e who settled and staid if the Frigid "'.'\orse <'m m i gr:rnt i n to an .\mer- l prospect suited h im. iean c·i tizcn . Then' ,, i l l also he Greenland and faraway Ice- , i nter<'st i n g e x h i bits of 111a n �· land i n the AJ:'.ctic zone, fair J k i nds H ild t he ent in' Ct' n len n i al Normandy i n France and the is dc.s i g1wd to l w :1 n,,· ie,, ol coasts of En gland and Scot­ om• h u n d red yea rs o f c i t i zen - land suited him and here h e s h i p ,i s cxcm p l i f iccl b, A meri - settled, i ntermarried with the natives and added strong chare a ns of • ·orse h i r th :rnd ! �c�e.�istics to their ph_y�ique, � 1 1 Pierpont! �- n, Signa: TH1fRiOA 1!, J.U; ·.I:. l!. l �2� r- ,., There were thous:�� a���::s�=�sE:;;::;� journeyed to the Twin Cities the latte1· part of the week to take in the great Norse-American Cen­ tennial which opened Saturday, June 6th. Perhaps ninety per cent or more of these people were of Scandinavian extraction, It was a great thing for these people, and more should have taken ad­ vantage -of the opportunity to attend. While it was called the Na;sfut\roericon �ntennial, it was in reality a purely American celebration, commemorating e arrival in America of the . Norwegian ship "Restorationen." Those who attended were carried back to olden days in the "old country," this and were sent home with a greater respect for their former home and for home. their for ·chosen have they great country which They will be better citizens in the future, if that is possible, and the old home ties that were in a way restored, will long linger in their memory. t I t usecl, -to be that i1t took the Dutch to beat the Irish. It may be somewhat siign i fican1t that the very d•a y t hat Min1IJ.eapolis papers record.­ ed the closing cele1bration commem� oratin•g the hund1r ed,th anniversary oJ �n1111111••iwai.ult in America, they also stated' that " pl-a ns for celebrat­ ion i n 1 9 3 8 of the t hree h u n<d<r ed,tb 1nnivers:ary- or -ithe comi ng ,of the _ __ ______;;________________....:..,_ __ :3w ed-is,h settJers to America were _ _ _ ___________ launched tod'a y " ·N.E.XT, BUT NO'r LJ:MST _J �haoTts and c ustoms wliicn are Janel. Besi de� PrP--; ;iclent C'oolit g-;-.;o�ts tand in_g today . Evidently l the Cn ited States will be re,p res enterl m igralio1\ to Amen 8 , tmLl'kl'1{ by t he t 1 V 1 ! ela_n d 1 n .Aimeric a did no t L y Hon. Fran l, B. Kellogg, Secretary sa iling ot the little 4 5 -ton sl.>0 11, t su i t1 h i m, probabl y bec ause i t ' , o f s ta,te, an d by the Los An�eles, iI " Re•lau iatione,n , " from Sta v a n,g�r 1\ . Will be r harbor. Norw�y, on .J uly 4, t 8 2 t, , \ ' _ . Navy d irigi1 ble; Norway W�S too hard to carry on trade ,�iant w 1_t }:i the homel and i n the r u de ir ep n,sented iu official C'apa citY by • w ith its c argo of 5 2 pasengers, men, f sa i l i ng vessels of that d ay at ' lfon. H . H. Bryn, No1·weg1an m i n ist er /women, a nd C'l:tiltlren. "Stav,.mger- / l eas t he left the e.on q ues t of Ito the U n ited States and person'.l l l aget" made formal propos•al ,o the 1 th�t wi ldern ess .for the Pil- hepresentative a,f King Haakon, and 1oth<>r "lags" in 1 9 1 8 to join with ,n gn m_s and Puri tans• .The cele- I by Ef,o n. Lar·s Oeted al, member of the \ in a rraniging to1 r snch a celebr,atio11 . brat 10 n will be a sor t of four ! Ca b inet , and C. J . Hahhro . mem be r ' 0 1' t he first generation born to d_ay Wor ld's Fair. Four na- \ of the S lur-thing ; the Dc1ni nion oE "•slooJ)ers" on Amercan soil, on rl y h ons will be officially rep re- Canada will send Hon . T homas H . .t welve are still living, namely : M. s . sented , the U nited S tates J o hns·o n , fol\mer mintster o r labor /Anna Danielson Parker., Ken(lall, N. C an <l;da, Norway and I c eland'. \ and rutto m ey general of the provinc e I,y ., where teh sloopers settled ; M iss Pres i dent_ Coolidge will ,s p eak .of J\foni toba. -and Premic·r J . Br-�cke t1 , i G�orgina11a _ La l'B•ou Ro·cllester, N. Y •• J une 8. The governors of M i n - \ 0,r M anito1b� , while Icela n d wi ll b e 1 i\1:!ss Georgiana Larson, Rochester, n esot a., North Dako t a, S outh . \rt1Presented by U ngfru H o tmfrid N. Y . , Mfas 111,ger .M . Johnson, Dakota, W i sconsi n , M ontana \vA rnad·o tti<r and Ungfru Iu g,a. Larns- Detroit, Mich . ; Rev. John L. A� w a·ter, and M ississi ppi wi ll be p resen t J dottir, Besi des a numbe•r of !No r- •. M i-s•s J ane S. Atwater a,n-d Mrs. M·a,b c l 1 Natio nal c onven - , twegran int ernation a l ,a n Ll na ti on al l 'D1 uesd,•l l. Cllaic a go, all ,t hree •c h ,1a?d speak . t ro ns of about 30 "By gd l ags " ior-gani z-a tions will have represent a- • drnn of M rs. l\Iargaret A l le11 Larson Atwater, known a,; the ",sloop baby," will en l i yen the open ing day. �ives. �her e will be exhib its of the I Brig. Gen. A. W. Byornst.ad , ii. r3t 1becamse sb.e w as born a t seGL on t he fm est Norwegian j ewelry , ta- �'s orse-A me•· ican to attain a general ' s \ f'W'ay f�o,m Nor �ay ln 1 8 3 5 ; D a n i e l p estry, furnit ure, musical i n - �-ank in the United States Army, no w • Ro_s-da �l , :\: arse1 lle� , 111. ; J �CO'b Ros­ , � , strum ents , etc., all showing r,tn. tioned at Ft. Om a ha , .N,, e b . , h ,is dait, �orway. Ta. , , E,. F. Stanglan d , the � ontributio n of Nors e juccepted th e invita ti on to atte,n d an •l f R ochester, X . Y. ; lWrll. Emi ly Fr u ­ Amenc ans t o Amer ican p ro- l 1wm be present . He was ,born a11Ll ! land and Nlre. Ca ro line Bower, Sheri­ gr:ess and developmen t. There \ "il'irn-4-. ;11 .!St. .£a,u .M-il).n., wl•·ilc both clan, Ill. , u nd :Uiss Sa die Selle, Chi- I w!IJ ?e the fines t of music , ,-,...fo •ta.t he1· and mother were 1Jorn in • ca go. All li Llt two or t h ree o r these are expec•aJ to atttend the Centennial ! rel igious servic es, p agean ts . !Nor,way. . A " livin g I S i x ,st a te,s wil l he represeruted by eelehratiou , and track meets. T h e Board of Directors o.f th e I flag" of 420 child ren will b a Go ve r,n o,r•s of Norse ancest:·y, n,amely, JTheodore Christianson, M'irmesota ; ; .�oir�e--A rnerlcan Centennial is com• featur e of J une 8 t h'' "Ame nca � . Blain, Wisconsi n ; A. G. Sorlie, ;,r,osecl of : Prof. Gisle Bothne, U nivcrDay," I ?· J - !No rth Dakota ; Oarl Gunderson, j/ si y of Miinnesota, chairma n ; Hon. N. j;South Dakota ; John E. Errkson , VT, ,vI,o en , Fergus :!;·a lls, i\Iinn., lsi 1-o mta'Ila, a.ud H. S. 'WhitefielLl , l "."ice chair1:11:111 ; A. G. Floan, St . P a ul. nialc-.ce"'iebrat\on If.-M'i,ssj,s sip,pi. G o vernors of two or ' 2d vice Phainnan ; P1'DL J. A. Holvilt, The ;0�;•· today at M is a milestone in / three other ,s t a tes m a y a_lso attend . J1- ::Vloo:·head, secretary, and Trygve 1 our national h-.. l,§111t11, p1,, 5y1.1,._ •.• Quid that there ,( G o v, Al S'IllH h, Ne\V York, ha•s ap- f Oas, i\11m1 eapolis, trnasure r. 'fliese were more Americans of that staunch • _ _ Hs, M. a n po mted three delegates f rom the I and S. H. H olstad, M11111e a p0 Viking breed. No race has made a E-m.pire S,tate, agdng Di rector, co ttstltute the ''Di� ,I n a mely, Maj . Gen. ti better record of adjustment to Amer!Charles W. Be1 who are mai�ily res t p o·ns-ible £01 �Hx" Ty. comancH ng he , can Ideals than the Scandinavian. our j Nati on,a l Gu,arcl.. Crup,t. S. J" . Arl'l!e soll , \, ,laying_ the1 plans for· the bg eeLebraimmigration laws of the future should and Rev. C, 0. Pe·c!e• !"s1011, w Mle Gov. ' Lion and 011 whose sho·ulclers have ( not merely permit, they should Invite l men and women from those nations / Len, S• mall, Ill ino'.s, h a s appointed ; rested the ard nous d nties ancl responknown to amalgamate sucessfully with 1Hon. N. A. Grevsted , C hicago, form - ,;ubil ities ronne('.1 ecl win h carl!'ying our already mixed population. T he 1 cr United Stataed minister to Para- them out to n sucecss[ul conclusiion. 1 United States is not likely to have too /q u-ay and Urngu,a y, as his personal Th<lse m e n have performed a mo�t many superior immigrants who are ·represcnt ative. notable �ervi<;c to their race and h,w, willing to come to our shores from r, T h e United St ate gov ernm ent -�3 - r,t:·notl ,their connt-r ymen's cl ee nesi those lands where self-government has tatbtli shed two precedeuts In conner- 1gratitucle a.ncl apprectation , become an Ingrained habit of th0ught. tion w ith the Norse-American CenGre:-L t •('recl:it is al80 due to Dr. tenn:ia.l. F,o,r the tir,st time in i,t s his- Km11t Gjerset, curat or of the Luthe1 • , . D ' .,,tory Oongres,s au.thmize·<l a colll'mora- Co l lege museu m , Decorah, la.. a iHl THURSDil.Y, J U !E 4, 1 92!', · tive med,al and for the ,f i rst ,t,irn,e 'i n /·Mis• s Herboir'g Reque, Minneariolis 1,i.' 'l' H R NORSR-A)rn'RTOAN t ! history the PoistoHitce departme nt b a s l cha irmau ancl v'ice c hairman, respec· C'V•X':l'E!XNIA(,r; • .1 1 Iss•ued ,two-co lor •stamps foti• a com- 1 ti vely, or Uw lilxh b its commiLt"e, fo1 The Norse-Amene:in memora tive cele·bra.ti-on. u\ilo special I tl1eir excelle'nt work in gatllerin,g an (•e•l eliratio-n 1.o com memo rate • • stamp 1·ssue h as ever crcntec1 such a array •o f exhi llit s worthy of the ocir,tir among s tamp collectors as did I casion ancl wh ch has never before , l O O th ::i11u;jJ,';e :eroy of the bcginnin of Norse im:migraton to A meric a w i l . , the Norse-American Centmmial is·s tw . ; 1:>e,•11 even approac:hc,l in Norse-Amer , 1 he h<e l d at the l\Iinnesota State Fa· 1 0rders for the Centennial med a ls a rc 'ican hi;1t,,1·y. Literally thousands 01 Grounds, S.L. Paul linneapolis, Sa r now being recei¥ed. T hey sell for exhibits frave been gathered from all / urrl,ay J u ne 6 , to 1 .a s-cla y . Jun e U t ll, / $ 2 5 each nrl each m ei.la l will be f poi 11 ts O'f thr comvas�. from near ancl L j inrl us ive. .J u ne C ,s " By,gd el a g " cl a y , I l sen t to t he a bu er rlirect by reg-i,s tered l• far, t'O visualize t h e contri b u tion·s O ' : ( _ f June 7 ·i·s "Church ;,ncl T nterna li onal " , 1ma il-no ne wi ll b e sold " over th8 · [, A mericans of Norse ancestry to t h e I when ( v cla, " , dav, , J une 8 is "Amerir.a coun te . " lM a il onle•r-s, aecompai11ed • progre,ss a 11d hl-s1tory of their atio, pte l , � , ,Presid-e nt Coolidge will attend a n tl by dr a ft or checl,, ito INto rse-Arnerica n conntry. JVfa.ny of these exhiib-i!Js have 1 deliver a,n arldress, ) a n <l J n nA H C entenniai. 1 1 vVa,sh'ing,ton Ave. s., never ,b efore been offered to publi, "NoTw•a:v and \Vowm1 's" day. Every M n nea-p·o li-s, Mi nn . Only one m ed a l f view many are priceles·s he'irlooms _i day will be a big cl ay. w ill ,b e sold to any one person, al- man) cannot be duplicated anywhere ,, '<,,'ou1· 11 ·"• t io1io-� w1· 1 1 be officia l th ough one pers· o n ma,y buy for oth- j else on ear<th, many are inte- nsely in. · represent.ecl-the l'nitecl s,t ate , Do- /er members o f the faJmily by givin•g 1 teresting either becanse of in,t rinsic hn inion ot C a nau a , Norway ancl kn- name and address o,f each of such j /valne or for their historical a ccosia _______...,._______________ .r-,t hers i n the fam ily. 'l'lle medals I )-N orn;, There will be 21 different cl e_will be ma·ilcd sep,a rately to each . partm"nt.s of exl1HJits, besides whi cl, 1----------To Stava n,g erlageit, one of the 30- ,ithere will be s•p ecial otfficbl exhii:Ji.t, f)(ld Norse "1ag·s' 'or clans, goes the pry the s, tate of Minnesota anu th, / a r credH 'for 'initiating the 1movement to \ D 11.c_rue; l1rnt a Lll.e ceru Le-na,rr of Norse imc:; • 11 n I �S1•rnrr,it S. D., !naepen :I - ,it Tl:IU'R3D-AY. MAY H. 1:91� -According to presen t i n.dieat ions ::t goodly part of the population of Summ it will go to Minne apolis in June to the Norse-.AJµerir.3µ nrntso,nms:L Th� ts n jf- .§h@ld be for there is no other tow n in the 1wrth west which is more represe ntative ly Norwe gian than Summi t. The occasion {� a notable one and i ts o bservLm ce i-, well worth while and not only those of N orweg ian birth but t hose of every extraction shou ld be interes ted. T ,H.my -tive years from now there will be few in this section w ho will not have some Norwe gian blood and they w ill have every reason to be prou.:i of it for '110 other nation ality has added more to the upbuil ding of the northw est than the Scandin avian people. -I -- . . ublic OPinio E 9. 19.25 Th.is. has been Non;e week for the north west. They are ,��ting t h e nrrival o f h e firsl grouv o f scandinaefhn immigrants one h u ndrs:d year,; ago _ The big thought in this is the fact they are "celebrating", n o t commemo1;ating; expressin,g constructlv:) ,19atisfactiou over the migration, not regt·eL It amou nts to racial appro v,, J of America, to a festive rejoicing over the opportunity found h ere and , the manner in w;hich the opportunity as welcomed and i mproved- or course, there is in tms a L�l 1 pride over the contributions of these inunigrants and their descendants to t h e development they 110,v fi nd a l l a b o u t t h e m . That is a wholly justifi­ able pride, but it it directed just as muoh toward the achievement of all the racial factors a.& t o t h e partici� pation of the particu lar o ne, because :t cel ebrates the whole as well as one part . Norse men have played a lat·go vart in t h e building o f the nortl1 west and they a r e p r o u d o f i t . But they arc ju st as proud o f what their co-wodrnrs have done. 'l' h e centennial hears a distincti rn cast, but it d is­ cl oses a national pride running si de by si d e with racial 11ricle. That would be just as true were it the cen tennial celebra tion of any o l hel' ma­ jor ra <'ial elemcnt in our A m e rican civiliz::t l io n . �11ot --ilTo i;rer -ceni:- a--mencan s 1 s n o c To -poAe no fWITe r -re.stTm011y cQ11Jfl- be Put th e m into a pot, but o n a boat ta k!'n t h r.n the experie11ce of t h is n f h n e hi country. ���f ¥h 1! � a i� �/�?li'.;si ;g ;� ti�� il unity fro m its melti n g pot o f d i vers e "Oi.1t of th!' ronfn sio·n of tongues , raci al el eme n ts" ln the U ni ted States ·®1!' conflict of tradil iom1, the variaJs slu s h, and the fact that it comes 1)on,; of h i><tori ( ':J. l setting, the vast t 1 s e e s n o t mak e i t 4ifferences in tal!'nts and t n stes, there ���:1th� � 1��� �� �! n:1� • as , b e en evolved a Rpirinnl u nion acThe melting po t advocat e s woulcJ mpanie<l by a ra nge of capacity and l)ave us become a m o ngrel nation, without pride a n ce stry o r hope of p osn i u s wh ich marks .th i $ nation for a In hi!! . ss a/ the Norwe ian terity, like oaf mule. The re strictive im� ·e-emine11t cleRt iny. 'l'he Ame r ican ce1'rte-nnla • _ t Cotmoge 3ffi' migra tion law was one s tep in th e ople have commanded the respect of am st lti ie worl<l." . IIOl'iltkG ubelfM&n to rerillnd his hear-I ���!� T��t ifop�e� �� �;Jiot r�f��; i $ tr ue " the American peop1e have I fr om goi n g into the pot. The nex t st e p ers ot any mandate coming to them I will be to throw away the pot. If im- . co ' ma'nderl the respect of the world," but t out of his triumphant election last m i grallts can n ot bec ome America n s nofi'. the flrnion element. Lt h a s not come ', 1 o e e n n . tongu!'s." '!.'he "o ij; of 'th e con fusion of fall. In that it was different from I t�!.c�� � ;n ;� �f'.�; � a�;� <lei<{iny of tl1is natio n has been shaped by some of his other speeches. He creed s , ambi t iou s aspirations, tho ughts and deeds are n o t t o be co mpa red t o tbiif An gl o -S:1 xon in fl uen<'e. There l R n o truced, instead, a, sott of. surve:r ot. ·o res and vege table m1tltor. They cal') - . deny inl!' it. It is written in the WI'!, n o t be chang•ed in melt i ng o ts. They rthe co11stftntio11s and the court decis1 1s. � the progr!ss or those sturdy people a 1•e mold ed and fashion e d p by some - It has been acted on the hnt tlefield� in e higher, d e ep e r, bro.ader and more c• h 111, l . ,] ' who have become such a, distinct and thing c ies, ,, h e h omes an<,1 sc wc,,s. Al w,,i.:l" 1 i- , • ncl e h ev Anglo-Saxon has pla yed tp· e1: t • 1 esome element In our national that sh o?Si z& 'ffl'l'a'r.' n , I ������-a wno • Ro ugh - hdivinity atb will. ew the!lj l ' le n,l i n ir rol e. life, For, the Norsemen have made I ----._, -- _ c- t,.Ant<:•vtt..T,l':. Tl"!;X'N.,W A good in America. F- cttno2'... . ,;;... . �........... __ I For the most part, those people J l.lNi -li. J.ijij. THE 1\: LTING POT. - ----, hrt1'e settled on the iand ii,/our great a t i s , u t e se United S.t --,..-.... s h.::t vt>I northwest. They have built homes b ite1·s of fidi � called ,ml thut J_UNE !19;· 1i2�. [ ' • 'ooli(fgt te1·m i d by Pr esiilr1 1 and popu lated the spaci ou s open I ,. s speech w·he P wai,1 in- his. �fiu places. They have largely shunned THE NORSE ' ONTRfBU TION - addressing w at the,,J2f..r_>J1le in thnt st!lte 'crc1wded eastern , industrial centers choose to ten a the � �• J.,.,: . r, Oen-' Minnea polis speech was tRlllt ial. Neverthel e ss, notwithstan atid the latter's radical.Ism as well, th e meltil,g pot bu sine. s begnn ,t o giv, nwr r ' 1 �• ibut to the q uality of the 'l'rue, they are occaslonalfy caught off s11rh yile odors that Congrt'ss, reflectinµ � _ develop ment and citithe sen t iment of the 100 per, cent Amer- Nor�e co tnbut10n to Amer i can J,y momentary economic vagaries, but & . Mil icans, pas11ed a restrictfre immigration· zenship - s nohmly very effect�ts histori�� �Pwa they have developed a lofty patriotlaw wh ich stopped some of ,the junk that ism for all that. One hardly expects wa; going· into the pot. Not ice thn t in cal presenta tion, but clisclose cl a fine sincer 'ty in ts giving t h is qelebrn t ion n n:une, "Norse•· to hear of a Norwegian, Swede or • come,-;; first . . It i s "Norse-Americm1," not• appreci ation of an influenc e which has done much to Dane wielding a torch or a bomb. "AmPri<'>m-Nor!'le." '£here has been toq shape Americ an life, especial ly in the Northw estern mueh silly twaddle about ,tJ1is melt i nv po( Perhaps the best lesson to be abbusi'nts1'. This eonutry will become th-,, 8tates. sorbed from the people whose cenwitches' cauldron ifl th e melt iug pot busi1 The Norse nations have always been foremost in tury of progress in America the pres!­ ness eontinuPs. ''he sooiwr we i;top i1' . t he br t te r. W ha.t does '.1 lmlli l r.ed PH c\'11,t pioi1ee ring explora tion. ) c'!tnt fe1icitously signifies fs that of They were the boldest of t h e I .. Americnn wnnt to get rn t o a rnel t mg 11ot . for ? I£ he fuses w i t h somebody who im1 ' t � navigators of the late Roman E mpire era. i a sturdy eelf-rellance and a willing'• T ; m.ss to Work. There is a background I one hund red per ce·n t, lhe fused proc1uct •' � be l ower in Ame r ica nism. Thal_ is i s ett l ed Iceland and crossed the Atlantic to G ree rt and , or hardship in th!:llr character. They · • will n o e of the n a t:ural law s • . Tb e be S t th mg :· and Vinlan d: They were appar ent! t h e firs t' E uro . r:re typical pioneers of the best kind. · fo r him r. nd Ins co u ntry 1� to stay out of ; . . po t R, whe t h er they melt or. not . 'l' he best · p eans to reach t h e New World. Y,_ 1 They conquer the wilderness artd hey impresse d ,.t hing ,t o d o with the foreigners who a re � . · . '. make i t blossom and bear fruit. And not one hund red per cent Am ericans is , the i r character and adventurou s s jrit on southern '· not to p u t thmn into a pot. b11t (ill a bda t , E thEir weapon in such a conflict Is not I • it • s h ist ' ory as a raii:;e of conque� honncl fo r the land from which they <'ame. . urope an d ri ve m the s;y,ord but the plow, , 'l' nl fro1 u t ''f nation! y n u i. sin� his t k of l) ;: • and supermen.-New York Herald . ......_ """".� . ___._ . i t:-; mel t i ug pot of diverse raernl elements � __ . , __ h1 the Dn ifed S tates is sl ush, 1111<! the fact f'lf•YA TTANO(J OA:, TENN., Nirr\f'B tiwt it come1, from �he Presideut (loes not Hl.2.5.__ - -­ make i t fl!lllY the wiser or saner. • JJJNI!L • e Me • ing Pot, 1'he mel tin!l' pot ndrnra tes wo�1ld have 1· ville eaf-C h ronicl e .) us become a mongrel iJl.l tS.ou, wi thqut p1·ide th ese United Stat!\s of n nceRtry or hope <'If posterity, J i ke a Tha Cid. a by writers or fiction mule. The restrictivfl imm igrn-t ion law have and that is the term appli ed by Pres­ was one step in the program tu stop the 1 ident Co olidge in his Mi n neap o lis sp eech A m ericanism. That i s on e of the nat- mel t ing pot huRines�. That stopper] so ! ural laws. The be s t thl ng fo r him a n d mnch r efuse from goi·nµ; into the pot. The I his coun t ry is to stay out ot p ots, next step will b e ,to throw a wa y the pot. \ w h e th e r th e y melt o r no t. The b e st; If imm igra nts cannot become Americ!lnH , wh en he was addres sing what the pea without the pot treatment they_ must &e pie in that state cho o se to term the sent hack w_bence tlwy came. Human 1 N o rse-American c e ntennial. Nevarthen mb i,t ious aspirations, thoughts cre�ds, pot ng i elt J�. businesii oegan.. fo give o suc h vile and deeds a re not to be co1t1p:1 r ed to ores o do rs that congress , reflecting th e sen­ · atter. They cam�ot h,e and veget a bl e m time n t of the 100 p e r cent Americans, chnngecl i n mel t ing pots. They nre. moulo­ P!! sse d a r es trictive immigrati on law. ecl .. :rna· fashioned by sometl_1in1 s h ig he�·, which stopped some of th e jun!, that . • was going into the po t. Notice t h at In dN'flt>•r, h)•_oaller a.u,1 moi·e ,n1bl 1 1ne. giving th i s cel ebration a name, "No rse" "The're's a divinity that shnnes our ends comes firs t. It is "Norse-American," Ro1i'gh-hew them how we will." no t "American - N orse." Thel'e has been We have no patience wi.th nny theory to o much silly t waddle a bout thi s m e l�­ i n g p o t bu sine s s. '.L'his' country will of fusing "diverse rncin1 Plements. In th(' course of h_is remarks, the Pres­ bec ome the witch€s' cauldro n if t h e m e lting p o t busine ss continues. The ident sa i d : soone r we stop it the better. W hat does ''H O'l1e werP to rl111JlPnge the riddle a 100 per c e nt American want to get of Bnhel i n s11ppo1-t of ns:vira tions for i n to a m el ting pot for? If he fuses with somebody wh o isn't 100 per ce n t, a u n ity c11pa1ble of aRs11 d n� pea<'e to the fused product w i ll be l o wer i n :t he nat ion�, !n Ruch a1, inquiry, ! _supth i_ng: _t5> d o with . th!3 fo re igners who are OJIU,T'!l'ANCOC:JI'., TF?-:N'., NEWO m.ti� �. m�. ��Orsemen l ��! l� 1-i�til�� -· , ��- �·· -- -- 1, J 1· �Elli.Vi _J u _ � ,., - - , r , - .., ,_ · iJ . TH-E UN -AMEKIC1iN--i= 1 n n:t..5 i Some of the I wspap ers have charged that when 111 Cl Paul, the President it said that he went American mission the;-e might have been ' 1 '1• , I 1 some ground for the accusation ; for the fact is, the . . . . 1 j)'°0 ) ,, state of Mmnesota has 111 its �,,a good many 1 l1.l o n n '1 I � that a r e muc 1 111 Iiee of Ameri, anizatio11. The President is charged with some as being a candidate for a seat in the White House for another �V'll..J.J?, T:elN�.• J'NT, fli Tl\fll'IJffll ru�_l!J l��·term ; be that as it may, what he is doing in his second term is meeting with above the average and UnJA merican Northwest. ordinary approval. He was accompanied on his west­ newspapers have charged that t · to l\'linneapo l,!s and St. Paul th� ern trip by Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, who 1 ere 1t sa1c �"-�Cll) nuss1on. was born an American, born in New York, but his, :' . lhat he went there on an ·American mission there parents moved to Minnesota when he was but nine h1ight have been some ground for the accusation ; years old. for the fact is, the state of Minnesota h as in its Mr. Kellogg has held a number 01 offices, served population a good many that are mnch in need of a term in the national senate, has represented his1 American ization . The Pre:;ident is charged by, some with being a country s American ambassador to Great Britan and candidate for a seat in the White House for another is now head of the Pre sident's cabinet. He, too, made tenn ; be that as it m ay, what he is doing in his a speech from the same stand from which the Presi- second term is meeting with above the average and approva l . He was accompanied on h is dent had spoken. Call what he said " politics " or what ordinary western trip by Secretar y of State J!'rank B. Kellogg, not ; he warned those who heard him aga�nst "propa- who was born a;n American . born in New York. gandists who advocate the overthrow of the govern- \ bu t h is par ents moved to M innesota when he was ment and the substitution of class tyranny ; a con- 1 \ but nine years old. \ • Mr • Kellogg has ' held a number of offices, siderabl body of our citizens who in the name of l ' served a term in the natlona1 sena te, h as repre liberty and reforms are impatient of constitutional re - sented his coun t ry as American ambassador to · \ strictions and by insidious approaches and attacks Great Britain and is now the head of the P resi­ thE, would destroy the guarantees of ·personal liberty." dent's cabinet. He, too, m ade a speech from . . . . from whicq the Presiden t had spoken. stand same Call that poltttcs or what not ; · but 1f it be Call what lie said "politics" or what not ; he warnei.1 those who heard him against "propaga ndists who the country is in need - ... 1:'-:,...c: -Rxc.h::inaP advocate the overthro w of the go•v ernment and the _ _ substitut ion of class tyranny ; a consider able body JIIIIQZ Y'IL1Jll, TENN., J'NT, Ill '1'I\1Wtl"ft9 of our citizens who iu the name of liberty and re­ JJJN,W tQ1 !V�ij. \ forms are impatien t of constitut ional restrictio ns and b y insidiou s approac hes aucl � t�a.cks" would deup stroy' the guarante es of personal liberty. Call that politics or what not ; but if it be t 1 t the .c ountry is in need of more of th I politic, :u.ml.RVII.J.Ie. T1<1 N"s',, J'Ni, rJ: TitIJJTJffll �• U �.ill J.' l:Ji.li.i. ,_ 1 ti, _ I I So Ditferent. a onque n g hero, seek.ing the plaudits ent esldent Coolidge out Into the o! Near-Northwes r as one seeking the recognition that Snee !lad Be'ffit� him, not as Prsldent but as Vice President. But it was as President of the United States that he recently visited the state ot "Mtnm!irota to pay 1ribu to t " � -pioneers and their descendants who did so much toward the winning of that portion of the western country. In his speech he refuted the statements not long ago l:to rite that the successful fusing of our nattonal I 1 elements In our melting pot was impossible. The centennial celebration of Norse-American immigra­ tion in itselt corroborated what th e President said alon,: that line. At the same place where in 1 9 2 1 people turned away from him as he spoke to witness a horse race and a stock show, they hung upon every word he uttered and aoplauded him to the echo. Then, they were in an u gly, radical mood, unwilling to listen to anything other than promises of immediate Fed­ eral relief. They would then have none of his talk O I �concern!IH� wheat prices in the northwest. And it was this same Northwest that Invited Mr. Cooli dg P. to address them, to s p eak to them · on any topic 110 l m i ght choose. Times have wondertully changed out that wa.Y in the p ast three years. The '.l,'i'e ople are more pros perous than they have been In five ye� and they heard him gladly. No longer is the Northwest enem y country. Times have changed and for the better. Wlsconl)ln was the only "enemy" state that he passed throu g h In reachin g Minnesota, and La­ Folletteism seems to have burned itself out even there in its original habitat. All the remaind.;-:- of t he Northwest has been won to the .eoolid ge sta11d ard in the past three years ttnd without any sacrifice of principle or p rinciples on the part of Mr. C oolid ge. Conserv�-· tives have been given Federal appointments. Radi­ cals of extreme type have been i gnored and read out pf tlie party and it seems as if the signs of the times ,P oint to the (}. O. P. bandwag on for political refu ge for the malcontents and soreheads who· may still feel resentment 11,n d seek that wh ich they k now not of. Good times make all the difference in w:orld. And the people faith in idge. lll'fOXVILLE, TENN.. NlllWI -Co61idg; \jt_• Fi-eedom� Coolidge 's thought is unhampered by the pressure of p olitical diplo� gives free rein t? his fancy- he shows a :fondness for adventure in the His address at the Norwegian Centennial in Minnesota was non-political and his mind , seemed to be having a thcror,t � : IJ1ifil!m:. :illffl� n interesting add ress. mf This particular celebration commemorated the arrival of Norwegian immigrants � 1825, after the successful American revolution and t;he firm establishment . of the United States as an independent nation. Having discoursed on the motives that had prompted earlier immigration to these shores from Europe, largely stimulated from the oth01· side, the President came to the immi­ gration encomaged i±om this side -of the Atlantic after the establishment of our governrealms of i<lcalisn:i. m�. " l,'rom tho t ime when their fast-developing institutions o.l' p opular government, re­ ligious freedom and int ellectual liberality had come to take definite and attractive forms, " says lVfr. Coolidge, " the people of the Colonies took a new interest in inducing their Euro­ pean rclai'ives to follow them thither. They engaged in an inve-rted crusade, a conquest without invasion a nd without force. The new country offered not only material oppor­ tu nities, bnt possibilities of spiritual and inte llectual emancipation which they ardently wished their friends on the other side to share. Citizenship in the new world meant some­ thing that it had not meant in the old. It w:,,s seen th at the new world •offered something new. There was an increasing realization. that many bm·densome traditions an d institutions had somehow been shed. Here, at last THE I NDIVIDUAL WAS LORD OF HIMSELF, l\IASTER OF HIS 0-\VN DESTINY, KEEPER m� HIS OWN SOVEREIGNTY. HERE HE WAS :B'REE. ' ' President C'oolit1gc can devote himi,eJ.l' t o n o greater crusade than to lead the fight to restore t his count ry to , the blissful con dition he so eloq uently describes as existing in 1825. A thoughtful survey of' his country today, of th e hal'mony, pat-riotism and idealism of alf the people in 1917 and 1918 and the insidious atta cks on freedom during the past few years of awful reaction, must convince him that he can not say truthfully today that in the United States in 1925 th e " individual is lord .of himself, master of his own destiny, keeper of hi� own sovel'eignty. Here he is free. ' ' For pl'obably at n o tim e i n the history ,o f this country has higotry and intoleranc been more · d gorously offensive, or religious freedom and intelketua1 liberty l ess right n ow. , �KSU%VIT,LE, TENN.. SElNTIN'mJ _ JV@ J.�, J.V.2i, r PLEASED r R epu llc f�sa::-..Aft stlcal -majorit warren for"J.!tarnev G enera of fourteQig,.,.ll'!Ft one of the earlies ot erw1 se might have voted h a.nd saddest lessons a pollticlar and that Republican dis learns ls that ·a statistica l major­ been ave might h ity ls one thing, while a majority So the deliverab le on importan t roll calls a very different thing. That fact has beei'i experienc ed by the Retho ug1; the Rep ubll can senatorial publicans In the l:lenate, of late caucus, i n this inst anc e did the rather frequently-and disastrou s­ proper thin g in exp ellln g La Fol ­ ly. Let seven Republica ns of the lett e and his Thi rd Par ty foll owe rs less regular varlet-y vote with the they did the unw ise thin g from the Democrats and the Farmer-Labor standpoin t of the party inte rest, an Senator o n any Issue and the Re­ exe rcis e of pur ely pol ltic al vir tue publicans will fall to win," Mr. wh ich the par ty org anization rar e­ Sullivan says. ly ind ulges In. It is eas y to name seven Re­ Mr. Sull iva.n points out that publican Sena.tors who may be while the Rep ubli cans have expected to depa.rt from tho twe nty -six Senator to re-e lect , party and vote with the Demo­ man y of them i n dou btfu l terr/tor'Y, �ats whenever the spirit so I and as liab le to go Democratic as moves them. It is easy to lde·n ­ Rep ubl ican, fhe Dem ocrats hav e ti-fy the potentia l subtrac tion of only sev en Sen ator s to re-e lect seven which deprives the . Re­ and all of the se are eith er' safe to publican s of their majority . be re-e lect ed or to be suc cee ded by Four of the .seven have al­ othe r Dem ocra ts. The seven Dem o­ ready been subtracted by the crats are : Republi cans themsel ves, sub­ Ala-bama-Osc ar W. Und er­ tracted formally and officiall y. woo d. Four Republican Senators have Arkansas-T. H. Car away. actually been expelled by the Florida-D unc an U. !<'!etcher. Republic an organiza tion from Georg!a-Waltor F, Geo participation l'.n the Republi ­ rge . Lou isia na-Edwin S. can caucus, and from all that Bro us­ sard . apperta ins thereto, • from their North Car ollna-'Lee committ ee chairma nships, from S. Ove r­ man. their share of the patronage. Sout h Carolin a-El lison D. They were expelled for ha.ving Smi th. associated themselves with La All of the s e a:c,e in the Sol id Sou Follette' s third party move­ th and 1t nee ds but a ment last year. gla nce to l!,S­ sur e thei r re- elec tion or a Dem o­ That action of the Republ i­ cra tic suc ces sion . can organization has hurt the On the oth er hand the re are at Republl can ori;anlzatlon ' aI ­ leas t ten states whe rein the Deu;) - r rea-dy ,and will hurt It more. It ocrats havii fair figh ting cha nce s f is difficul t to see how the Re­ with the Rep ubl ican s, as Mr. Sul - / publica ns could have done I livan poi nts out in detail and , the ; otherwise. Som e of thes e ln­ fot·tunes of pol itic s in wh ich mig ht S'l.l rgent Republican rea dily con ver t the Senators presen t nom ina l were close to being comi'h!ttee Rep ubli can majority in the Sen.a.ta. chairm en, La Follett e, for ex­ I nto an act ual and workjp e--+4mo ­ ratl c major!� ample, had come by long ser­ vice ahd the..._senior ity rule to second on the financ e commi t­ s. ., :-:i�lnffl!J tee, which has charge of the tariff. A mere shift of the INO O U N wheel might have made him s oration on ths chairm an. Then we should 0 e melting pot in ophave had La. Follett e, who op­ vered at St. Paul on th, poses the whole Republican of the Norwegian ,,centariff theory, i n an official po­ tennial is rated 8'i U l1 � sition enabli ng him to dom­ ,ilevated and efoquent utterances. inate tariff m'aklng . That � y;bJ !!b t st ��I during t�� ,' would have bee.11 most em -... hottest weathei· on record to atte1f� barrasslng to t.h·e Repub licans. the annlversar� when the fi �ty l I We may admit that the Re­ Norwegians who came in the orig­ publicans h a.cl sound reason for inal migration settled in New York, expelli ng . those four Senators, ,ask Cha.rles Michelson, an obser• but we must admit also, as vant Washing1t on pollt!cal writer. even more certain the fact that I "Washington is busHy asserting t he expuls ion damages the Re­ that there was. a political reason publican organization seriou sfor the Prei,ldent to go to Minne - ·I ly. Some disast rous outcom e of sota and that the Norse Cententheir excursion off the reserva­ I nial came in handy," Mr. Michelson , tio n were In a mood to seek says in answer to his own ques­ their way back. I ha.ve reason I tion. It wa.s deemed necessary for to think that but for that· ex­ ·I the President to give the Insurgent pulsio n some of the lnsurgen.t I Northwest a lesson as to how it Repu•bllcans Who voted against pays to stand in with the Pr sl­ � Coolidge's appoi ntee, Charl e dent. And so he had accompany1hg as greatly elated o e ta recep tion on t e s part icipa tion in an centenary cele bra­ tion : '.N sm@m 11111 WU 1K !lo' • - a spir its on h is retu rn jour ney to the White Hou se. The repo rts of his / l!gh tsom e and pJa,yfu! moo d wiir e so rem arka ble as to indi cate the plea sure and evid ent relle t from I men tal stress afforded him by his rece ptio n in the enemy's territory, It gives color if. not conf irmation to the suggestions of Da vid Law­ renc e and othe rs tha,,t the expedl- J t!on to the � ·est was polit ical in , inte rest If not in insp irat ion. Mr. I/ Coo lidge and his advisers are a-l­ ady acti vely laying the wire s an d rrylng on the congressiona l cam ­ lgn for 1 926 wit h thei r eyes on 28 as the u ltimate goal . The-y al!ze that the . retu rn of a Con ress In 1926 with a maj or_l ty ac­ ua.Jl ;r · in oppo sitio n to the Adm in­ stra tlon wou ld be an alm ost ln­ supperable bar to the re-n omi � tlon and re- elect ion of Mr. Coo l­ idge In 1 928. Hence Mr. Cool idge suff ers no grass to grow unde r his feet whe n flatters poli tica l are at stak e was mov ed to take this un­ usua ll y exte nded_ trip for him to the West, It is Intim ated and In­ ferred, with the hop e of help ing to­ wards the elect ion of Rep ublican Sena tors �nd representativ es in 1 9 2 6 and mak ing frien ds and sup­ I port ers for hims elf In 1928 . Whi ch i s som ethin g o,f a joke In view of Mr. Cool ldge 's very recent plea to the peop le and the polit ician s ' to forget polit ics and give the coun try a rest from worr y abou t gove rn­ mental affairs for the vacat ion. And so Mr. Coolidge like othe r Pres ident s and cand idate s for Pres ident, have been befor e him, is vastl y pleased and reliev ed by the ovati on given him by his Norw egian hosts and count s his gains from the trip In terms of votes , no doubt . And it Is admi tted that Mr. \ Cool­ idge and his party wl!I need to gain votes a,n d make well- nigh Im• possi ble conqu ests in enemy terr!tory If they hope to carr.y the / 1 Congr ess in 1926. I Mark Sulliv an, the veteran Re­ publl can politi cal writer, says If the Repu blican organization is al­ ready at work lookin g to fhe senatorial electi ons next year, It !.J becau se "it Is v·l tal that they shoul d, at the least, keep all the seats they now have. And It ls al­ most hopel ess for them to expect to do even that well," he adds. Mr. SU!ll:v an points out that i n additi on to the fact that twent y­ six of the thirty -three Senators who come u p for re-ele ction next year are Repub lican, the twenty­ Pix in questi on Include "practically very one of the official Repu lean · • .ders and wa.r horses. the Sena. t e it now sta s the · Rebublleans have fifty-fl the . __,:_________ _______ _ ·Democrats torty a'nd ther ls one I _ _____________ ..:,________ _______________ Farme r-Lab or, Shi'Pst ea , of Min­ nesota, Mr. Sull!van sa:v.: "Thos� fig I .. . - I ""\rt -- �---- - -. �'him his secretary of sfafe;-Frank, Waxing both eloquen�d .;-;:;u;_usi - , Kellogg, who the Minnesotans; stic in lus rejection of the assun1ptlon l.fffl\fltlJIS. '!EN'�.. }lREBS had rejected in favor of . Shlpstead hat the Unitecl States by th e a dm i s---�� --.,UJIDU 10 1!l%. -- , - - for their senator, a-nd, on the eve _, Ion of 'many races "·ould be d ivided 1 � F REE D O M GE /, of taking QQL the trip the President. i gainst it sel f on t h e basis o f blood , • ','n+'t Coolidge's thought is unhampered had also bestowecl upon Porter J. ,ui 1v��, he pr e ;ident asserted : McCum ber, another former Northre 'f political diplomacy and h e gives free O ut o f. the co nfusion of: tongues, I wester n senato r of the regular Y,. he shows a fondness for adventure in th � confl ict o f traditio ns, the vari -· fa·· rein his to ' sect, a life job as an International the realms of idealism. , Boundary Commlsloner to keep the , atlons of historical setllng, the vast • difference in talents and tastes, lines between Ca,nada and the U. • 1 Ce1 ebrat1' on H'lS a dd reSS a t th e NOrWeg1an C ent ennla there has been evolved a spiritual s. in their place. union accompanied by a range o f in Minnesota was non-politicm½a ft1s to 1 "The Minnesota pilgrimage Is 1 capacity and g·enius which marks • terestResu 1t : A n m be having a thoroughly goo d time. • r eally the opening gun of the Con - ( thi- nation for a pre-eminent desgressiona! campaiJ:;n of 1926," said I , ti ny. ing ad dress. Mr . Michelson,' w h 0 is note d· for I And out of such an assertion of the This particular celebration comn1emorated the arrival the shrewdness a nd relil'Jb lllty of I worth of immigration in its service to the successf u 1 hi s po • lit! c.a 1 forecasts. And, he con- the ,1,,,· ted ,,a.tion it was only natural of Norwegian immigrant s in 1825, after of the establishment firm revolution , the and American acshoul'd tinues: . tha t the chief executive "Republican National Chairman knowledge: United States a,s an indepcndt>nt nation. ' Butler Is to follow the President w" are thankful for all of them, Having discoursed on the motives that had prompted into the Insurgent country and go and yet more thank!ul th at t11e eariier immigration to these shores from Europe, largely further even into the Dakotas, to experiment of their common c i t izenshi p has been so manifestly arrange . for the ch R.stl sement of !. stimulated from the oth�r side , the president came to the justified in its results. ' th e .re be 1s. In th'1s connection the , encouraged from this side of the Atlan t·1c immigration But it the nation ls under such rumor grows stronger that senator , Butler will not after all run In heavy obligations to the sons M othe r aft e r the establishment of our governmen t. Massa,chusetts next year. 'l'he com- races for its marvelous progress an d "From the time when their fast-developing institu­ ing Congressional campaign ' is development, must it not seem that tions of popular government, religious free dom and intel­ vl tal ; the continuance of Republi- tho�e in charge of the nati0n's affairs to take definite and attractive can control of both Houses Is are adopting a strange method of lectual liberality had come , . ,, says Mr. Coolldge, " the people of the Co l on1es 'threatened . To one of Mr. Butler's s h o w ing t heir , gratit u de? I f l mmi - , forms, nigh sense of duty it would be un- .;rants have made our coun'try what iti took a new interest in inducing their Euro.pean relatives bearable if distradlon from the is,, why is it that we have cut the to follow them thither. They engaged in an inverted cru­ comma'nd of the general campaign number admisSlble down to the mini- sade, a conquest without invasion and without force . The l to his personal amMt ons should · mum and are debating the question of result in disaster. Incidentally offered not only material opportunities, but th,em entirely? Are we ne·w country excluding David r. Walsh, who means to come In possibilities of spiritual and intellectual erp.ancipat1on much too do will we that afraid back to the Senate next year, is I e tending the b l es s ings o f treed om which they ardently wished, their friends on the other x one of the most popular p oliticians in Massachusetts and lost out last I and of f_µrni shing refuge to th e op- l side to share . Citizenship in the New World meant some ­ pressed who have shown that t,hey November only because of the thing that it had not meant in the Old. It was seen that know how to muke use of freedom's Coolidge tidal wave. It would be the New World offered something new. There was an ominous if the President's cam bl e ssings? If President Coolidge be righ t in as- increasing ·realization that many burdensome traditions I paig� manager In the President's own State were defeated. Better it serting that immigrati on · has given to and institutions had somehow been shed. Here, at last, might be for him to take a Cab!� J our country its g_rea.t ness, how can the MASTER HIMSELF, OF _ LORD WAS INDIVIDUAL THE n et place, which would not inter- 1 party of which h e is the l1ead be ri �ht , fere with his National Chairman- [ in seeking to shut off imm,gratton OF HIS OWN DESTINY , KEE PER OF HIS OWN SOV- 4 manship, and let somebody else enti �� lY ? o r if t he party be right, EREI GNTY. HERE HE WAS FREE. " try matching strength with Walsh how can the president susta in his re P President Coolidge can devote himself to no greater I in 1926." utatlon as th0 capable alld l:\OlteS t crusade than to lead the fight to restore this country to It will be an !'tern of s ·, •foterI judge qf the needs of the country? It est to note whe her M •r m Rumor •· • • · 1 ous the blissful condition h e so eloquently describes as existwould be nothing Jess than riu1cu m r of Senator is v erified In the � people ing in ]_825. of to assert t1,at the same class _ B..1!_t le -----=-------whose admissi on yesterday ma.de tl). e � AITT!Yrr.T.�. 'i'l�'!-l'N' .. 'rF.?ftnllSQJ.)11 ,I_U N� 9, :L2.:JL �l!Illl. Tent!., COJ\-1!.!'L J.!'2':G nation will unmake it If tlley a.re ad____, imthe on right s i Who J.U.H.ID mitted today. < ��, The Coming of the Vikings. Conor nt I , on Immigratioll migration issue, the pre�ide gres".:. O b�L\'... .P".!!!� .Jl.e. ue 1 in Brooklyn there was a ccre> ation of a park to th<., m81110ry c,! IMJt:1>1.M1m. TENN..-N1. ,1·. 1::1-ecnuT ia • cl A it res oh dge journ eJ ed halt- _ ·--. .._.. L L the ucky , first adventurer fr:>m olci world ___{U__J:-i.E ' 11, l�li;, � way acros s this co_nti n ent to parti ci-' · A J countries to land on our w,,steri:l c 11:tinen:.. F' tt ' . T "b p at e at St . Paul, l\1i n n., in th e centc n- ' l l rI Ute , Er;,�r,1-on Park is hereafter to b,• a P-o"f,1Jt ual ni u..,1 c lebratio n commemo ra tin g the ,If..' s frl ent � o dge j ourneyed out tc � � reminder that the black raven flag of the Vikb e .,. ln11111g of Norwe�ian im ota t i . wee k to particip ate ir. . mi !?,'_ . p �'\ . . . ratlo in;ss w a e the first banner to d1:.tl\<mg� our new t o the United States, � � �;f,: f� · c e ,.� r ?-. on of the com.ino- o f thr a r worhl winds and skies. ie 1'"U 1 •.lctf��.�, o the part ,,t;. that first N o rwegia n . f?rmers to tl�is coun -' Yesterday in Minnesota, eight hundred and the son s o f many ]and •hav e p r e y layed i n c . :JJ1 state h 11.s a l ar.ge Scaudin a · D;ore years after the landing of Leif Ericsson, mak i n g our countl'. y the "' . gr�a. tes t e:;c- / ian po�'1fi'e thfc' President spoke at a celebr�tion of the !'G•�· ce nt 1l ple ;r free governm ent in th e his- � r �i g:n bo �n IDO$t of them ai·e §i:an� �: i ::;econd comin,g of the Vikings a century ago . ry O the world. H e said the pre- 1 na v1 an , German , Canadi an and Brit � . It ·was in 1825, that the sloop Restauratione.n jic t wn of the Pessimis ts th at the s h . A la ro-e part o f the 7,1, . • pe , 1 in New York harbor with fift y-three set· laiid�c· I cen..,· . "' vl1ol esa le a d. 111 1 ss,on , . of feoreig n•born 1at1ve born are not rriore than' tiiree ti,ws from the Scandanavian peninsular. ieoples to ouv shores wottld mak e us renera tions remov ed f I• o m 'N orw J•'ive generations of Norse-Americans ay, • • chil, • countr y great in numbe rs, but w1· t11- . ,rid ' 0 ..,wed•�·11. (Iron have listened to the story of the ship's >ut any soul, had been dlspro ven by .�;J,,e Scand inavia n rat:es gallant and gay erasing. A fine flavor of old· have e t ct of. th0 grow th of the 1 uade a r�at count ry of 'the Nort h ;:, l :: �:! !: time, Viking recklessness and adventure goe s � t t as much in unity as in west. 1,lmn esota is kn<'W ll as tlle i nto the tale of the voyage. Here a s careless , t reng th. Jrea d and butt er state . Its s,:a r nvers were pioneers destined to perform grain and ._____________._______fai r y p rodu cts sta nd · o ut ·n --the--�- •�_________________________________, : ont ong th best in the coun try. � � t as appr opria te that the pres iden t ] ould have gone out there and said vhat he did abou t the lesso n this t:oun ­ ry has taug ht the worl d throu o-h the Jil i ty of vario us peop les to lhre to­ ther in peac e and tlirotw • . fl erect h ere ati o n . I " QN j I fflhtr'1�tfffi l , ' .... �a part sturdy and thrifty and construcnve oe­ yond many others in the developing of their adopted land. in industry, government, arts and crafts, these daring and confident adventurers have Jone a part in nation building no less worth while than in their substanJial habit of making true lJr,mes for themselves. A l l tbe more may we enjoy the carefree rec· ord of their doings in a tiny ship, as i vE-r-fi; led with voyagers as the serious-minded \1 aycll'wer must have been, yet coming with ,qual �uccess into its desired haven. To t,egin with, as the old tales have it, the testau•·ationen in the very earliest days of her 'oyage, "cast anchor at an English . seacoast v illage. where certain of its passengers ex• ·hangPr1 a supply of the ship's rum with the nl:abitants of the place-for a consideration. JJ vcstigation of the transaction by local off!. • i a ls caused the Restaurationen to put to si,a .u haGtt:' Following this, as the rare old narrative goes on to tell, there came the famous in­ olclent of the cask, No story of the sloop hut dwells lovingly on the cask Incident. Ju�t off the Madeira Islands a cask cov , 8rerl with barnacles was rescued from the sea by no less a person than Lars Larsen, c·onrmander of the expedition. The cask was found to contain a wonderful old wine, which . according to accounts, was "most highly esteemed'' by all on board• Friendly ports played gallant host to the brave little sailing vessel. A baby girl, rarely beautiful," was born to the wife of Lars Larsen. After fourteen weeks the slup cast i:u ,C'hor in the port of New York, where (hE' captain and the mate were promptly E.t-rested for having more passeng­ ers tha n the law allowed. Including the '-rarely beautiful" sloop baby, tlie Restaura­ ticnt'n had twenty passengers too many! But the benHicent fate which had guided the small boat across the seas st!ll had its destiny in charge. For_ unknown reasons the offendr-rs were released and were al­ lowed to ,-d! their cargo and vessel" which.. brot1ght b the little colony the munificent s11111 of $Hit; The immigrants took land in Kendall and Orleans Counties, on the i,hores oi Lake Ontario, about thirty-five miles from the then new town of Roches­ ter. 1\ s 1;0 the somewhat bacchanalian flavor of the sloe p legend, no other national group in the lJr: ited States today can so well afford suJn a skeleton in its closet Not that the incident of the cask of wine is regardell as scandalous by the Norwegian­ American. He is, on the contrary, amused, whinrnical ly tolerant. of it. He points out ,,.. t.hat " thing� were different in those days." In this connection it is recalled that no other than a son of Norwegian pioneer stock. Andrew Volstead of Minnesota, as­ sistocl in e�tablishing the difference be­ t ween thus,! days and these. N! m.:-tT ..l'..F.l. Tt:,"!'tf'� •�!'�,n?'1:'J' H: , -� ..J:/ii;i, � .==c:a.---=\�� uld It Happen Anywhere Elsa ? / ic question wHh wh'<·h I / spondent o f the Hat:irnore , cone an article on the recent reception of President Coolidge at Minneapolis, Minnesota. This query is based on the contrast drawn by the c , n espondent between the rP,].nrt re,:·2]11 tion of Mr. Coolld_�e and his reception at the same place when he was a candidate for Vice- i 1 rresident in 1920. At that time Mr. Coolidge l1 was on a speaking campaign for the Republican ticket, and his itinerary wa,s;_ lead1ng him into the West. He addressed au audience 1 at the state fair grounds in Minneapolis. He was extolling the virtues of RepubliCd.n doc­ trine and administration, and after he had spoken for about twenty minutes a loud voice in the audience demanded, "Where in the hell have you been for the last three years?' According to Mr. Kent, this thrust started the audience booing Mr. Coolidge and the crowd drifted away and left him to finish be­ fore a mere handful of people. It 'broke up the meeting and broke down Mr. Coolidge's 8peaking trip in the West. He returned to the Ea st and made no further efforts to proselyte the agricultural West to the Republican cause. 'fiiis episode is contrasted by Mr. K::nt with the enthusiastic reception given Mr. Coolidge from the same forum on last Mon­ ,:!ay, when he spoke in acknow!edgn,e[l t ('f the Norwegian strain in our Amer"ican stock. 'l •e�"t'! e�i'!iJBi was Mr On th Kellog who had been so signally defeated for ·senator by the Republicans of Minnesota, and who is now the ranking official i n the Presil dent's cabinet. 1 While these circumstances ine, itably invite I sardonic comment, they do not necessarily j argue an instability of temperament on the . part of the people of Minnesota. Mr. Cool­ i idge, in his late appearance, was not on a po1 Vtit-a! n1it-sion. He did not appear a� a camli­ / date, but as the head of the Republic, the duly elPcted President of all the people, regardless of party and political bias. It rather seems that if the people of Minnesota have the same political ideas that they had five years ago, it is all the more creditable to them that they were able to appreciate the distinction, and do all in their power to make the visit of the President of the United States an honor to their state and a pleasure to the distinguished • guest. Possibly such a thing could not happen in England. Germany, Italy or France. But that it could happen hEU·e is a credit to our peo ple. For one thing it demonstrates that W( are growing out of the blind personal parti sanship that marks political allegiance in th, old world and that formerly served so ofte• to confuse issues and principles in our ow1 political life. Th(;l theory that a political OJi ponent is a personal enemy is not a health) principle for practice among a free people. 11 obscures a clear view of political issues, and saps the political judgment of otherwise rea­ sonable men. It closes the minds of thinking people to appeals to reason. As the foundation of free government is the j popular will, it necessarily follows that its 1 safety must rest ultimately on the intelligence and judgment of the people themselves. So tTie ability crrt:m,people tu rise above personal ,._____________________ b ias and prejudice in the ex erci se of that __________________________ judgment is a most hop�'fu1 sign, even if this power distinguishes u s ft-om all other nations, ani makes it pos;s!ble for things to occur here ccur elEJewlHlr that co �- EJtOWNWOOn, 'n:;x·. . nUI,LETIN ---.J.ll.NE... lQ. 192:i. T 1 �� :��ETl.:�� :,� �����. by : 8 tary Cellogg at the :\Iin nesota Stat e Fair lrou, :\fond y n ight when h e spoke to several hous Americnns ni t heir Cen tenn i a l Celt>ota tion. -Lf+n!-.t?!°e'l'1"'eft'l.,..__"'Hl�•--\llll!ll!l!Y his horn e r;lPOJJle, among who'm1 h e h ad l lve<l for sixty years and w hom he, had served in t h f> Unitc'Ll Stat�s Senate for sh. years ; and he spoke with es1wcia.1 reference t0 the development of sorial istic and similar anti­ govPr nTo.e nt movements in :\!in neso1 a a nd other nort hwestern states. "There ran not rest u pon anyone a higher or m ore imcred d uty t h a n hon<>st l y and effi ciently to serve his country and to preserve its ideals and in­ Btit.u t ions," the Secretary declared. " '-Ve are blessed wi1 h what I believe to be the best f'or1111 of govern­ mPnt that the wit of man h.Js clevised: Let us preserve these blessings ; and whil e I am not one of thosJ who ht>li eve that institutions w hich exist can not be im proved, do not let u s t amper w i t h the foundation prin ciples upon which. t h rough the Constit ution, l'Ppresent ative de'n1oci-acy is huil t.'' Then turn ing to · the al ien 1nopagandists who have bet>n circulating: their poisonous d octrines amon g tl1e foreign-born ci tizenship of America, :vr r. Kel logg· declared : "If t hese people are not sati sfied Wit h our government a nd our lm;titu tions, let them go w here they can find a government which does sat isfy them. This is, no pl ace for them. I say to you and to all Ameri can citizens, 1-o ving li berty and justice, 'Hold fast to the teachin,1:s of your fathers.' 'flwr,e principles of our Constitution are the great fou u chtion stones on which our fabric of g·o vernmeut is lrn ilded." The· "fabric of gove1·nment" is by no means i>er­ fec- t , to be sure ; for as Secretary Kellogg p�int�d out, the supe1;strt1 cture is not a l ways as it should !Je merel y .j)ecause the foundation is sound. The government that is establ iHhetl upon the Constitu­ tional foundation is merely an ex1>ression of Olir . i n­ t erpret ation of the Constitutional principl es; and as our understanding cha np;es the gove rn ment change!!. Through all the h istory of t h e nation, however, with its attendant developmen t or tlie government, t her·e h a vP. heen no ch;mges vita l l y affecting the welfare of the peopl � except when the people themselves, by Con ­ etil nti'Onal mPans, h ave voicrd th ei1· approva l . There is no Hklihoorl that the princip les l aJcl dow n in the flrsi I en Amendm ents to the Constitn tion will ever h� changed ; or that the designalion of legislative, execu tive and judieiaJ functions of governmep.t w i l l e ve1· I m alt ered. AL t h e same time, one is led to be­ l ieve t hat there i s to be increa,s ed dil igence to pre­ vent attacks from any source u pon the;;e fu ndamental principlPR which d irect om· government ; for the Su­ preme Court, i n an opi n ion Montlay, held that a state has a right to punish any pns'On who sePks to arouse tlw pPople to warfare against the fundamentals of �uvPrn m en i , just a;, t h e nation 1ws a right to punisl1 treason in t imes ot' military con flict. ,O ur public men need to fol low the example of See:l'Ct a ry Kell ogg in goi�1g to t he peop l e with a n earnef:lt plea for su pport of thi government and its inst itutions. Far to'O many of them, to sati sfy per- sonal ambitio nsor to aveng;e themsel ves for persona l defeats i n poiitics, hav e gone to the cit izenship with 1:irt o r denunc iations of g-overwmenral institut ions, 1>.;nd wlth '.lPma1?;ogic appeals for popu lar support for ihanges in the fnndam ental princip les u nderlyin g lhe governm ent. They are a nti -govern ment propa­ gand ist$ Just as surely aR are the foreign agit ators who finil. their way to our s-h ores with their anar­ chi stic literatu re. To say that our governm ent is corr11 pt is to indict the comimon sense and th e pat­ rl;itism of a l l the A merican people ; and our public men should lend all their powers of per;rnas ion -co the effort t o defeat such uttera nrPs, it matters n oj what tlrnir origin may b.e. mm 19::,;.;, i E N N rAL, 1 8211. c 1: l • p Res­ n ar lved .,-11 Americd. bri1Jging'\ 53 N wegian s. 'l'his was t he first otga ized group to emigrate from Norwa y to the United States. It mar • u SL !Mv eat wave of Norwegwash ian immigration which followed. It was in honor of the one-hun • dredth anniversary o f t h e even t 1 hat President CoolUge went to ' 'M inni!a.pQ!j§ ,..i,...,'4� present at the , . No Norse - Am er1can.�tennial. smal1 pt,'loti-•-'�"'"i;ru..,..Ll4\l�,io,Qg>lllent rnd uplmilcl ing of the Northwest- v ern states is du4! to -:.a,: '" oi 1 Norwegians or descendants Norsemen. A n d no better class of people ever sought a new hor.1e i o America. They had with i n them tlle spirit of Americanism before they came to the new land a n d a.c;iriting themselves 1 o t h e new env iromnent i nYolvel no racia l a lteration of views or habits. They may take a justifiable pride in exhibiting- whal has been ac;hieved by them in the d evelopment of a section of the Un ited States where the masg o f them i s set.tied. • A pageant portray ing a compos ­ i te picture of the part. 1,Iaycd by Norsemen in the settlement of the I The was present. Northwest event also provided the opportun ­ i ty for a great reun ion o f those Americn ns who h ave an ancestry dati ng back to Norway. That they tak e pride in their origin does not necessari l y make them auy the I less American i n spirit or the less j d evoteJ to QUI' institutions. It has been to the profit of America that so many Norwegians sough t llomef h e!'& as well as profit to the forme: immignmts themselves. �'OAt.ru\iJ �'!'. 'l'nmo mmAU'D J UNE 10, 1�2G. ,. Ti ;SIDJJJNT,S PATH TO PEACE. B TE TRAN a. world co,µ-j; 8.D.d better e o:f Nation5 waa the pre$cription for than t possib e w ld peace outlined by President Oool­ idge in his address Monday at the Norse-Ameriean --..... centennial celebration in Minnesota. "If one were seeking proof o:f a. basio brother­ hooq. among all races of men, i:f one were to chal­ lenge the riddle o:f Babel in support of aspirations :for a unity capable o:f a$8Wing pea.ca to the na­ tions," he said, "in such an inquiry I suppose no better· testimony could be taken than the experi­ ence of this country." And then he added : 1 OU:t of the oontusion of tongue&, the oon­ flict of traditions, the va,r�t!ons of historioa.1 setting, the vast differences in Werits (!.lld tastei; there has been evolved a. spiritual union accompanied by a range of capacity aµd genius which marks this nation tor a pre­ e i;ninent destiny. The American people have commande d the respect of the world. The American Is strong and re­ sourceful because he comes of hardy stock that crossed -the s ea to se e k liberty and opp ortunity amid strange and harsh surroundings. It is well that th e men and women of today should do honor to those adventurous S'J)irlts who planted civilization along the frontiers, who by th_eir labor, their endurance, their honesty and sober judgmen·t brought order an,l prosperity and progress to wid e regions. Apprecia-' tion. of their achievements and of the hardships they suffered s hould cause the present generation to value more highly the basic prin­ ciple_s of. American gover:p.ment that gave to simple, God-fearing folk the power to build the gre at­ est nation on e arth. Be cause of what has been achieved, because of the fine Americanism of the foreign-born elements that" are now widely rep­ res�nted among th e republic's 1 1 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 people, the policy of se­ lective immigration must be wisely applied throughout the coming years. But the nation will continue to we lcome foreigners of the cour­ age; "th e_ selt reliance. the indsustry and the high mor:ility o.f those im-, migrants who. to so great an extent built these wes;tern common­ wealths.-Chicago Daily · News. EASTLAND, TEX., TELEGRAM JYN� �. l�2g. " T� -reside� ~i� � to . thi Norse ce te y in l\_1innesot� nex l montYi,t wi l not travel in ; plebia ay� ach on a regular train There are t se i.11 Washington wh( think the chie executive should al lease compromise between his rock• bound thrift principles and a !'>tyle becoming the richest nation in tho world. He and his party of friends. and reporters will therefore have a club car, a couple of Pullmans, a diner and a baggage car, as second section of the Washington-Chicago express. 0 That is true. ntL&.e, TEX .. JOtmN AL Out of the confusion of tongues has come one J D.NB 10, 192G, language. Out of the conflict of traditions ha.s A VISION OF WORLD PEACE. emerged but one. Out of the variations of his­ 1 oc sion . which prompted the addre�s which furieal settings only one predominates. olidgc <lclivered bdore the N orsc-Amer­ Peace demands such unity. World peace de­ 1 inncsota State - Fair G rouftd§ eallEU fe+ the icans mands a single standard for the world. -a -a-ppi'alsem�nt of the contributions of that stur<ly A common language, ponunon idea.a, common and mdustrious element of our citizenry to the sympathy and understanding are necessary. upbuilding of this Nation. The President met the And, likewise, so is it a prerequisite that labor requirement with words that were more tinged with and wages shall be on a par, that coins will be r omanticism than any which he has spoken up to this hour of his incumbency a,s our chief executive. ' coins of t.l-1e world. the occasion insp ired as well a tribute to the Tb.at is a big undertaking-it not 8Jl impos­ B ut loyalty of the Norse-Americans an<l o f other amal­ sible one. But with.out :!t world peace is a long gamating peoples to this country and i ts institu­ way off. tions, a comment on the nati onal unity which had The fusion of tongues and standards that has been fused from so many races, and this vi sion : Jr fra tern i ty antl co -o perati on a rc possible ,:,n the made America has done so under one standard. sca le of th i s conti ne n t a mong people so w1<.lel y d 1 vc n,e, 1 DAU'd'\!J �{r.:r.. '1''>'.'M2!A \TIIDAT1'D JUND J�i J.:lZ�. The Strength of the Nation. President Coc,lidge's journey from Washington to Minne•,ota' s twin citi es to addre ss the thous­ ands of Americans of Norwegian birth or descent In atienctance at �ce;c.te.n, celebration of the arrival in this country of th e first immigrants from Norway is a well­ deserved recognition of an impo rt­ ant and worthy element of American citizenship . It is more. It ts I a recognition of the nation's in­ calculable debt, to self-reliant and' ' liberty-loving men and wom e n from all foreign countries Wh<> h ave thrown in th eir lot with na.­ tive -b orn Americans, accep t ed _ I American !d eals and instii"1tions as , their onwn and joined h eartily in the comm on tasks th at claim th e attention of a g,·eat and united people. . wily n ot on the scale of a. worl d '/ Vvhv not indeed ? The Prc�idmt followed this qucsti�n witi1 the a<lmission that the thought is not a new o ne. Yet the occasion warranted i ts re1tcra­ lion, and it may well be reiterated at every favoring opportunity. The v ision which came to the President was the vision 0£ \Voodrow W ilson, of many far­ seeing men who came befoi'e him and of thousands 1 ' who have survived him. The h istory of the fraternity and co-operation of many nationalities i n the United States has already had i ts i nfluence u pon the thought and the hopes o f the world a t large, l f presented more fully and impressively, as the President has suggested, it would become a more potent in:fl uence. But America's contribution to world fraterniza­ t ion must be something more tl1an a mere citation of its own i nspiring example. The President's auditors at M i nneapolis knew that, as the Presiden t woul_d have them know it. B ut the great question which he asked, directed as it was to all i n this country, should serve to swell the n umber which approves every con­ sidered step toward �o-operation for the promotion of world peace. ��..Ay tank ay�e for Yon L!nd" he said. The- point of the story lies in the fact that it was an election with which John Lind, later a presidential ambassador to - / Clpolidge on Freedom Mexico, had nothing to do. The homesteader had be­ unhampered is thought Coolldge's pres.. �hen \ come accustomed to voting for him for various offices, gi"(�S he and y the p:r\l.SSU e of politic:al diplom�cy including governor, and pro:posed to continue. free rein to ti� fancy h e shows a , fondness -Or The citizenry of the northwest, while of course thor­ adventure in the realms of idealism. oughly American, shows the influence of the Scandi­ His address today at the Norwegian Centen navian in a marked degree. Without him the north­ Celebration in Minnesota was JtM-'t)t>'ffi ca and west could never have been buUt up. He Is a sturdy ti m d ,.seemed to be having a. thoroly good f\.m erican. 'Result: Axt interesting address. • It is a pity that we forget in discussing fmmlgra• J the_ This pa rticular celebration co�memorated ,ion that we are a land of lmmlgrants. Our ideals are _immigrants m 1 8 2 5 . :arrival o� Norwegian the ideals of im migrants. Our forbears were immi­ He discoursed o n the motives that had prompt­ ·'l'.rants. Tho only original strains of 1 0 0 per cent Amer. .ed earlier immigratio n to these shores from Eu- can blood we have in the country is to be found. in the rope. . rndian and the Spaniard and the Mexican o! the south,• "From the time when their fast-developing in- west who lived in this section before it became a part stitutions of popular government, religious free• .of America. . dom and intellectual liberality h,ad come to take When we talk of a 100 per cent American we are definite and attractive forms," says Coolidge, "the talking of a racial mixture of �wede, Norwegian, Ger­ p eople of the coloniea took a n ew interest in in- man, English, Scotch, French, Irish, Italian, Dutch and duc!ng their European relatives to fol low them a dozen other strains. thither. They engaged in an inverted crusade, a conquest without invasion and without force. The ' FORT :won:ru. TEX. . PRESS p ortun­ p o JUNE I}, J.9ll5. _ new country offered not only material ities but possibilities o f spiritual and intellectual ��pat io:n which they ardently wished , tJ;eir EL PASO, TEX., PO ST. _JJJJ;i� -�• - m�. - ---- -QQ.olfdge on Freedom ., , WHEN Pre i ent Coolidge's. thought is un• ha .· ere by the pressure of political' friends on the othe�!d e to share. Citienship in t a d he gives . free rein to his :liploma 1 the New World meant something that it had not . iws a fqndness fancy, e sh for adventure meant in, the Old. It was seen that the New tn the real of idealism. world offei:ed something new. There was an inc.reasing realization that many burdensom e tra­ ' His addres at the··�·lli,..Jt�Utennia) ditions and institution s had somehow been shed. Celebration in Minnesota was non-pohfacal, Jlere, at last the individual was lord of himself, and his mind seemed to be ha vfog· a thoro� master or his own destiny, keeper of h is own ly good time. Result : An interesting ad­ , dress. �overeignty. Here he was free." Pres. Coolidge can devote himself to no greater This particular celel:>ration commemorated crusade than to lead the fight to restore this the arrival of Norwegian immigrants in eloquently so he condition c ountry to the blissful 1825, after the successful American revo• describes as existing in 1 8 2 5 . l lution and the firm establi�hm�nt of the A t\1oughtful survey o f his country today, o f ! United States as an independent nation. the harmony, patriotism and idealism of a l l of ille I Having <liscoursed on the motives that people in 1 9 1 7 and 1 9 1 8 and the insidious a ttack \ had prompted earlier immigration to these 1 011 freedom during the past few years of awrul , shores from Europe, largely stimulated from reaction must convince him that he cannot say I 1 the other side, the President came to the truthfuliy today that 111 the United Sta tes in 1 !:l 2 5 immigration encouraged from this side of the " individual i s lord o f himself, m aster o f his the- Atlantic after the establishment of . our own destiny, keeJ;Jer o� hfs own sovereignty . Here 1 1 gov-E\rnment he is free . " "From the time when their fast-develop­ F o r probably at no time i n t h e history of this ' ing institutions of popular government, re­ country has bi�otry and intolerance been m �re , ligious freedom and intellectual liberality vigorously of.fensive, or religious freedom and m­ / had come to take definite and attractive. now. right than secure tellectual liberty less forms," says Mr. Coolidge, "the people of - -i the Colonies took a new interest in induc­ ml, itA.!l:10 TEX. TTI'a'.i:m ing their European relatives to follow them _.LU1'1E 9.. rn::i;,. - • - - - lmmigrat1on. • Mnoo)idge has a great deal to say in his Minne- \ ota sp/ec}1 in praise of the sturdy ,�orwegian immi- I Tan wh helJed make the country wh�""tt t&aa.Y, ,ut it will be noted that there was an expressive si- ' ence on the present attitude of our immigration laws. \ .A,l that the president had to sar about the sons of 1 Chor and Odin who did so much to develop the ·eat t 1orthwest is true. The Scandinavian ls a. good citizen, i .hrifty, hardworking, intelligent and orderly. "Accus­ tomed to the colder climates lt was logical for him to head tow�rds Minnesota and the Dakotas. 1 Not so many years ago few men in that section of , the country essayed politics unless their name s ended I in "on" or "en" or had a similar Sc�ndinavian lilt. • The stury is celebrated fn Mirinesot.a political l).nnals in which a Swedish homesteader was asked his pref- ! erence in a co ming election. rs I • thither. They engaged in an inverted cru� sade, a conquest without invasion and with­ { out. force. The new country offered not only material opportunities. hut possibilities of spiritual and intellectual emancipation ' which they ardently wished their friends on _ I the other sid¢ to share. Citizenship in the ' new world meant something that it had not in the old. It was seen that the new world offered something new. There was an in­ creasing realization that many burdensome traditio'ns and institutions had somehow been shed. Here, at last the individual was lord of himself, master of h is own destiny, , keener of his own soverei2"nty. Here he was free." �"P1�siaenf Gooliage can devote Iifm self to no �TP.ater c�usa de tha n to lead the fight t? 1 estore this country to the blis _ sful con­ �ht10:1 he so eloquently describes as exist­ mg m 1825. A thou ghtful survey of h is coun try to� '.:lay, of the harmony, patriotism an<!_ idea l­ ism of all of the peop le in 1917 and 1918' :=i,nd the insi diou s attacks on freedom durJ mg the past few years of awful reac tiorJ. m ust convince him that he can not sa; �r uthf ully today that in the Unit State:< m 1925 the "ind ividu al 1s lord ofedhims master of his own destiny, keeper of elf° hi� owfl sovereignty. Here he is free." For p robably at no time in the history of this country has bigotry and intolerance 1 been more vigorously offensi ve, or relig.: ious fr�edom and intel1ectua1 liberty Jess Sfl1 cure, than rirrht ....,.now. _;__ ri::..:..��·�-t0t':1:�.. �r�>r••·1� :.. �, n, 1J:.; . C• GEAT-TID/l :MR,,,' NO -A AN CENTENNIAL. Mr. ic_ e made th e most o f h i s address M o nday at th e M inn e­ sota St • Fa / gro Jnds o n th e o ecasio n o f the No rse-Amer ican Ce n­ t e nniaM' elebr� Co nsidered from a pdl'ffl'cai s tandpoin,t, the se"r­ ting could scarcely have b e en more inauspici o us. He faced a p o lit­ ically hos til ea .audience , or at l e ast an audience drawn from a co nstitu­ ency th-�f : ' "uririg the past three 01; four years · h as sh o �m anything but a fdendly s pirit t o ward the go vernme ntal th e ories M r . C oo l idge expounds . The president' s h ost, Secre tary o f State Kell o gg, was defe ate d for t h e se nate three ye ars ago by Henrik Sh ipste ad, farirlabor candida te . . ,· But th e se p o litical inco ngruities apparently made -as little di.ffe1·­ ence as did the unfavorabl e w e ath(> 1· conditions under which the presi de nt and his audienc e suffered during the outdoor exercises. Politics was laid asid e . Mr. Coo lidge spo ke to American citizens, and though:his re mark_s fitted in with the occ;asion, they c ould with profit have been addressed to -any conco urse of Americans . . Ano th e r s peaker migh t" have been content to coii fine himself t o a l audato ry di scussio n of th e part played by Scandfnavia n stock in developfag this land o f !)1::' T!'lX. Nl1'1: '1 !:l t"-.t !. �� ours. Mr . Coo li dge paid the expecte d tribute-paid it convincingly as JUNiil fl., 1\1:.lji. 7 well a s grace fully. But he did n o t stop there. America, he said in COOLIDGE IN THE subst-ance , i s n o t less indebted to the Norse strain than to other racial wfN_IQ:,r.tG .Qf THE MIDDLE WEST. herjtages i n th e develo pme nt Of those quali tie s nece ssary to p ro duce • An\),ng �rrent political om e ns, few are mor e significant than n _ <e.i vi)izatio.n such as . o urs. Ameri_<::a/s experience has d e mo_n strate d . to ·d party r e gularity_ in th e republican Middle West In· t hat a h o mogeneous citize nship ti;.e sw · can. be evo lv. e d from the fusion of districi • wher th e name of Coolidge less than a ye ar ago was ana­ many races. �i d e n t no w number s many avo wed s upporte r s am o ng tti e ma the pr From this c o nclusio n Mr. Cooli dge led back t o the hypo th es is that his e rstwhil e t ird party foes. The change i s said to be particu- if dive rse racial e lements can liv e together -amicably under one larly apparent m Iowa, bailiwick of Senat o r Brookhart, '.v ho, dnr ini: n ational go ve rnm e nt, the s ame spirit wl;!ich mad e that co ndi ti o n pos­ \1.he ge neral e lection cam paign, r e n o u'nc e d the party candw ates an{ sible may be made to d ominate international relatio ns . was by th e party i• e no unc e d. "It ( Ame rica's experience) demo nstrated conclusive ly that there Administratio n leaders in Washington are informed t hat th• is a spiritual quality shared by all ·races and conditi o ns o f men which corn belt i s rapidly turning away from third partyism. Dant e .Pi e rce is th e ir universal heritage and c ommon nature ," the presid e nt said. Fol La id a t s mo th f o one and ad e st e e H6m wa o I publish e r of the r � _ ''If fraternity and co -operation are possi)le o n the scale o f this con­ lfiltte-Whe�ler men during the campaiin, i s said to b e usmg h is pape tinent .among people so widely diverse, whx_ n o t on the scale of a to support Mr. Coolidge o n all major is sues . He like wise has con wo rld ? " :ejve d a warm anc1 unco nc e al e d admiratio n fo r the agricu ltural idea I t i s a spl e ndid ·conception and, one which, when h e b e came presi­ ,..i f Secre tary H oo ve r, for which the farm blo c ha;;; her e to fore h'.3,d n d ent, the co untry l ittle s'u specte d Mr. Coolidge capable of ente rtaining. use at all. This change of h e art might be o f rathe r r e mote b e nefit to th· administration w e re it no t for the fact that Se nat9r Cummins o , Iowa comes up for re-election n e xt year. As f o rmer chairman o f the s e nat e int e rstate comm e rce committee and joint autho r . of t he IDsch­ Cummins transpo rtati o n act, S e nator Cummins made h i mself h1� hly unpopular with th e Hawkeye farm constitue ncy . � ut republlca"n observers no w say that o pp osition to Senator Cummms_ h as almo�t wholly evaporate d, and that h e is cert-a in to retain h1s s� at. No th e n � ht, but e xplanati o n i s o ff e r e d for Iowa' s unexp e cted swing to no d o ubt i t is o ne of those in e xplicable re actions that relieve th e t e dium of political fore casting. It is eve n intimated that S e nator Broo khart may b e welcomed back to the party fo l cl . The _co n �est , ,a gainst Br ookhart, instituted by th e Io wa r e pu � l ican orga�izat10n t e r e d p o ssible t nsid o c not is it but d, e pp o dr officially been not �� has t he senate will vo te in favo r o f seating Daniel B . Steck, Br oo khai_t s de mocratic oppone nt. It is remcm)Je r e d, f o r i nstance , t hat Cummms eve r was, havwas once as mu Ch Of · a· railro ad baite r as Broo khart . . . smce ing b e en e lected to th e senate primaril y o n that issue � nd so, k­ oo of Br nd get o t ns • t d e s no t seem practicab l e for the republica t o make time of e influenc g mellowin e th for e hop may they �l ar� h i m a useful party man. . . . ns in At l e ast o n e other incide nt is indicativ e o f change d condit10 e- 1 e Min.n th at ke o t he i nsurge nt strongh old . Mr. Coolidge ye ste rday sp _ e occasion w s \ Th gues d e t i � ho11ore.9, � L an as M P. so ta State Fair u forwe gfan settleme nt in the • Umted States. Scandi�---sfl the cen t e ..H'l.Tiar b ac kb one of th e • navian w h e at farmers o f t110 North'ivest suppli e d th e o th of Minneso ta's repr e sentab time . ne o At t men e mov r f '.il'm e r-labo .. -labo rite s. Fo ur yeaJS � ti'. es • th u i t ed statlil s senate v,re re farmer o lis I neap M in fair th e at e k o sp �� a,,:o Mii� Co;lid; e, then vic e pr e si dent. _ he is now presid e nt can • and wa.s h oo t e d and j e ered . The fact that · 1 e so t a • s• c hanged atMmn for nflible o resp r e h t e �! scarc e ly be h e l d altog titud e towar d him . • - �iM&.t.'\fflGTON t'RX. TD.!'Strn'!J Jl:N.Til 9, l;,J;?;i. population of th o-greatest n afio� i n tl 1 0 worTa, JUncricans themselves and prou d of it. rrhe E n gfo,,h languu,ge , A m erican ne Hund�ed. 1 cust?ms-t!wy don ' t seem _t o be so c1. :fi' ; cult f9r the first gen _ . .eration of 1mm1gra;nt s, and the second gen eration ra-r·cly learn . ·1 • . 1 ess yester d ay at th e N orse- A mencan cen t ennia t o spea r tlie •n a tive tongue of t h m• r pnreut::;. .,. t . President Coo 1clg • V!�'d-Wr .b'rtefi1"' one I S omo 11 qw or o t1 ier, thoug h , no o theT n a t i o n in the w orld . . . •. hu ndr d y :,rs of re 1dence m _Hus c� untry of people from the nas ever _b ee.n so succes::;fol. AmPrica '::; melting po t func t : on s ; � � � _ Scandinavian countries and paid a high and Ju stly due comph- the pots of o th e r nations <lo not. No one 1 ias been abl e to expLaj n wl1y. • ment to the character of their American citizenship. During · s e s at th wo it ld u be j n st as n a tural for a Ge rman an d It � m _. the last hund.r ed years they have contributed no small share . a n Engb-;) m a n a 1 1 a Fl'onch ma n to go Lo A rgen tiria and � :� be- to the development of this country to its p resent high state. It come 1\.r§·e nti:µe ci'ii zen::; w it h i n a few yeaJ ·::; as for them to c o me . is a record of which they have a right to be proud. to the um ted States and' become• l)roud, patI•j o t ·lC .,,':\. . • • . . . . A lilClr-Cttns. , Aside from their contribution to material progress na:s been B u t 1· t (tOcsn J t work out that way the high character of their citizenship and their steadfastness I n01JIITOr:_ ;�B to the American government and American ideals of liberty an<l Pt3 26_ HEN the president joi;trneysto St. Pam the right of each individual to work out his own destiny. ' · · day to attend the N�.A,wetlcaQ • W, · 'f icant, also, that 111 · 1 ar compaymg t h 1s part1cu It was sig111 . ce t he will ride in a special pliment the president took occasion to say the same sort of f 91onths- ago when he made a trip train. • refused a special car or train, to Ch'. cago things of American citizens who have descended f�om other and and insisted on going in an ordinary Pullman divers races and nationalities. What he said could be said as along with other passengers. As an example of economy, the trip in the Pullman was im­ truly before any other group of American citizens, for all have pressive. But the fact that Mr. Coolidge has shared in making the Untied States into a real nation and not decided to have a special train this time when simply, as he indicated, a large area of the world in which a be leaves Washington by 'nb means signifies that he has lost his interest' fo'eclm6my. There large number of people dwell. - are any number of reasons' why ·the presldent There was, it may be h oped, something of prophesy in the of the United States should not travel about president's a<;l.dress. Surely if such a multitude as now inhabit the country in a coach open'to the public. TM democracy of the thing appeals' to Amerfcans', this country, representing as t�ey do such a diversity of racial · but, if for no other reason, the personal safety and national origins, can achieve so wonderfully in f raternity of the chief executive demands that he travel and co-operation for the gener,;tl good it is• possible for s ome­ in a private car or private train. The railroad tnen who convinced the president that he thing of the same sort to take place throughout the whole should use the special train in making the trip w orld. Despite some of the opinions to the contrary the p osto St. Paul were not tallting for selfish pur­ poses. They realized the ditficulties and djill• , sibilites are there and it is certain that America does point the gers attendant upon the president's traveling in. way for the rest of the world . a public train, and they were serving the inter­ Perhaps it ,vould be too much to expect the f alfilment of ests of the country when they jnduced him not to risk those things again. It is safe to as­ this prophesy within a fev,: years, but great things have been t'mme, however, that those who influenced the accomplished in one hundred years. And after all one hundred president to take the special train this tirP.e, years, in the march of time and the progress oi the human race did not try to sell him more tickets than thefo were passengers in his party, as it was al­ is not very long. There will, of course be temporary set backs leged some one tried to do when l\e went ti and recessions, but vve can have faith that on the long march Chicago. He will get all the tra{nsportatio / that he pays for. the hum anity of the world may come to follow the very splen­ did example of what can be done ,and what has been done i n this vast domain o f America. �nmmvrtLF.: TEX. RE�.ALD _ JU.i'�l<l 13, Ul25. 0 ONITTHAS B:F� EN .A HL E T,0-E XP LA IN W HY ---, • . ·. •' P� nt:i 1;i.g t� the snc ce::; E-J of the . . ' t• . un · �. ed S mg ii het ,K og mo us � t o s _ 111 ass im i lat: �, p pop ula tion ' J es. den t Ca lvi n Co ol speaf onoo· 'ef ott' tl10 ido·e No 1.::;e. A men· ca u t 01mrn • l ce lebr . on ,' s .. 11 . s ...,... ......b.,., ��� a a k wh y . 't 1 is sI,w· ti o uLuH � e .d1ll 1J.1 . . • ';sp1rnt " 1' o11 t'vlc ·tIie "' w_ ko le WCJ It ou o-h t to x\13 b n t ap :t . • l t }� pa . ren tly 1i t fon ·t. No n a � wn m ,th e w orl <lh as a )O ul· • n o n�a ny vary mg clem en t s as t ho o:n1t� ab� -� n o (! o f so Sta t es. fr om eve ry sec tio n of grn nts tho o·l nb ' e c �m � an nu � ll y to Int omUn Sta tes an d arc <lropp ited . e<l into I\.lll e nca s meHLn g pot. • 'With fe vy- ex. cop t10 n s, the y a re a ssu • m· 1-a t cci mt • o f re a l Ai11e 1.:1 can s w the c l ass i t J 1 in a fc•w • yo a 1.s an d go to co mp ose the Years I Rl °. . \' -··- ·- ?e .� L i9 �llDQTON TEX. POST JUNE 2_31_;tQ_:),_�. Discouraging Hyphenism w ..... :;J 1;f'!O!',\ T �::r . ,..,'."."' Ti" Sfj J L.i', :r;; 1 .1. , 19 ·,s� COOLIDGE ON FREEDOM t A\diati tive feature of the address of Pr l• and intellectual emancipation which they t P sident Coolidge's thought is d nt ool ge at the �orse-Amertcan cele aardently wished their friends on the re of P?p�essu the ered by a i aul recently was the absence o! n:r l . . n � st. tion other side to share. Citizenship in the rem free gives and he acy d pl c • a 1 1It1 • ·ema k t t might have tended to encour for World meant something that it had New ess f ondn a shows , he fan to his _ _ :ge byphenism. The president gave u:µstinted not meant in the Old. It was seen that . idealism of realms re the m dventu a s hi pitched he but people, praise to the Norse the New World offered something new. His add.res� at _the l'_forwegian2 ententhought along the line of their colltribution to There was an increasing realization t�at wa� America. It was their service as citizens of imal Celebration, �,rnesdt'ff many burdensome traditions and instiAmerica that he took recognition of, and held political and his mind seemed to be havtutions had somehow been shed. He UP as an example to all peoples who come to 'ing a thoroly good time. Resul� : An last, THE INDIVIDUAL WAS LOR at . this country to n1a1rn their home In the Nor- interesting address. OF HIMSELF, MASTER Of HIS OWN wegian presi;, where the president's address has ' • This particu1ar celeb ·ati:on cc. nmemDESTINY, KEEPER OF HIS OWN been warmly applauded, that same idea is Jrept oi-ated the arrival of Norwegian immi� HERE HE WAS SOVEREIGNTY. st.cessful the after 1825, in grants in view in • the comment. 1 FREE !'.' Characteristic of the reception of the ad• ,American revolution and the firm estabPresident Coolidge can devote himdress in Norway, is the expression from the l lishment of the United States as an inself to no greater crusade than to lead Norwegian Mercantile Shipping Gaz ette, which dependent nation. the fight to restore this country to the Having discoursed on the motives that says : "President Coolidge's words in high recblissful condition he so eloquently deognition of our compatriots who emi�rated h ad prompted earlier immigration to scribes as existing in 1825. from the home country must go directly to the these shores from Europe, Largely stimA thoughtful survey of his country heart and attach Norwegians still clos er to the ulated from the other side, the president today, of the harmony, patriotism and Nation of which they are now a part. " The in- came to the jmmigration encouraged idealism of all of the people in 1917 and fluence of the president's address in strengthen- from this side of the Atlantic after the 1918, and the insidious attacks on freeing the ties of friendship that have long existed establishment of our government. dom during the ;past few years of awful between the United States and the North coun"From the time when their fast-dereaction, must convince him that he can tries is not ignored, but it is the relation ofl veloping institutions of popular governnot say truthfully today that in the the emigrants to their new country that is em- ment, religious freedom and intellectual United States in 1925 the "individual is phasized. liberality had come to take definite and lord of himself, master of his own desIf America is to be a nation; it must have attractive forms," says Coolidge, "the tiny, keeper of his own sovereignty. the u ndivided allegiance of its citizens, th058 people of the Colonies took a new interwho comes here from other lands, as well a� est in inducing their Euro;pean relatives Here. he is free !' 1 those who are born her.e. Much of the sentl; to follow them thither. They engaged For probably at no time in the history ment for dual allegiance, which has causect in an inverted crusade, a conquest withof this country has bigotry and intoler� ance been more vigorously offensive, or troY.ble in the United States, has been engen' out invasion and without force. The new dered in Europe. It has been diffi�ult for Euro- country offered not only · material opreligious freedom and intellectual libpea�s to un�erstand th"t when the1r people se�, portunities, but possibilities of spiritual erty less secure than right 110w. tle m Amenca, �hey are, or should be,_ Ame�i- found ve • - -iPC ·.Lb.e'Norse o cc of them have become mulfi ·million• cans and not simply the representatives , m t1on particula rly the R ou -� ower ) a�• res, their child_ren are all well propC;Ople across the sea. ; 1� Rhode Isla'nd • America of some other v1 d ed for and given a good start in . More than 8 00 years afterward, in This charge applies more lightly to Norway life. other , the to any of , 1 825 a small sloop reached New York and Sweden than , perhaps, In some sections the Norse people ' countries which have sent us immigrants. While from Norway, bearing the first com form the greater part of the population, and the credit men of the big our Norse settlers have often grouped them-> pa�y of Norwegian imm fF s to the concerns are a unit in testifying that selves together In colonies and retained for a :Umted States. It was el'.lmp d o f a arty of among them are few bankrupts, few time their langua�e, and their social and reli- p umber farmers and their ·- mi iies, unsuccessful merchants or ma.nufacs th e _ing 5 2 in a ]J, and _ gious customs, they have soon taken on Ameri- ;ot,uda tion st01:e of : ¥hat has turers, and a greater percentage, of can ways, and entered into American life. What c;uccessful farmers than of any other is especially to their credit, they have never out to be one ot the best elements In racial grou p. looked to the old countries for political guidThe old viking won his living from our population. ance. They have voted as Americans, not as the sea, and all other craft were his Scat tered ov(tr th�;.)l'orthwest there Norsemen. are many colon� the desc @da prey. Landing on some unprotected nts The attitude of the Norwegian press In this of th"e "hard coast• the vikings ravaged and burniy Nors emen ." and instance is helpful to .\merica's program of as- th0se of their fello w ed and sailed a,.vay, though in their coun trym en similation and unification of its immigrant peo• � fo�lo wect, sear chin g for a more who day and age this was the custom of fertile (Iles.. soil_ and wider freedom than all nations ; the vikings were distin• was avai lable at hom e. guished for their daring and their t.4ft ll!DO Tn:x: TIM'!!!S SeveraT states of the Midd le � physical bravery. _JU NE 14 lf)25 . ,, hav� their "little Not•ways," and �hoss Their descendants farm their scanV I K I N G C E N TE N N I A L. sect10 ns are among the most prosperty soil during the short sum�er ; fish I-/ ous to be found anywhere in the in all waters and sail their cargoes - cor • g tl• ancient records in world. of sa lt fish to countries where tl1ey Indus triou s, frugal, sober, e year • 00\, ne five . centuries ' be­ . 'God-fearin trade for the products their own g, the Norwegians huve esfore the 03 · ge of Christopher Col­ tab l ishe? them selve s country will not give them; cut Umin the life of umbus, L ·r . �ricson, an adventurous our nation as citizens beyond ber and perform other duties of the vik ing. s s 11 into the West to dis­ reProach and among the most solid of long winter when even the sea gives cover wh t l beyond Icelani7. all our people, no product. '.l'he story says he landed on a They are essen tially an educated It is not strange that to the Norse strange coast, where the wild gn, pefl race. There is no illiteracy amon immigrants our Northwest, with tts were so thick that he named tr.e g the�, they main tain their school wide-spreading prairies, its vast tlmplace Vinland. And a co!ony w1w es­ s at a high stand ard, and their colleg er:; ber resources and its Jakes teeming tabl ished that remained for many rank among the best in the worl with fish should have seemed almost years, while in various plaees on the d. There are few paupers amo ng a paradise. New England coast theta s�ill may he the j Norwegian-Americans, and while few j. �tte 1 1 They were used Wwfesting from Nature the scanty store she provided, !,!ART. TE� . . H7:RALD and their lives of hardship and toil - ��..ld.�. Wl, l�:3§. ---- fitted them for the breaking of the !': )lfho Disc���r�� t.merica ? ' virgin prairies and the conquest of the Northwest. .tr:J.. ecent ve\�t � have _re­ 'l'hey have not only succeeded fn X:/· v � • troubles 111 e)?l� q u e s t10n . 1 making a living and laying by a store .. . i . �- men c 3i1;1 cen teJ;l.:-N i . ln . ,, . . • 1 • 1 ge for their families ; they have, hy their 11.ia•l' s • . · h :·. µP re s example of industry and frugality, n :• • · o a iN o rse b o y· b o rn i made it possible for others to suc­ S08 y,e a1: s befo�e Co lu_m- \ 'i}ineri ceed, and they have given tho world b'us . saile d: .S,6?1e l: i st o n an s th n1!<­ a proof that the same qualities thev . e xthat a . Sca;.n. <lmav 1an co lo n y . ta possess wm spell success in mo�t isted in wl1at is now M i n ne so '; undertakings. r rHad ·it not been for the labors of as e a rly as !350. Thi s is supp o r - . tbese Norwegian settlers, the,.e ed by a st on e. f o und the: e bea might have been a different story to Norse c\1 a 1· act e rs which hav e jnO' ' as_ tell of our great Northwest, and be� n clecip h e r�,d . i n , N o rway s�t"Yim" Hill and his associates might tef erring to an; ear1y N o1; se not have conquered the wilderness i n A 111,e rica. n t tle:rne with such ease. an-. ,\ . A t Rich m o,n d , Va ., I t aE a Skol to the Norsemen! May their ect · American s want.� d ,t o _er �r:. tribe increase. ; t]l btJ\im ent co mn'le !1lO rat_mg ei;ic.; a,. u'iuB{1 s's d i s i9:v �ry o f, . Am and• MaR BlU tL Til:X . l\fES SEN Otm The 'Ku Klux 'Klai1 obJe ctecl \vJUNE 2, 1�2i. Ho ;the c ity cleni- ed pe rmissi o n . · tra1;x :,€\I. er, t,.h i s ar ou s ed th e c o n �� • ...,..._..,_,1Y1'¥ �:1W• •.sin " t.:.. cc.,, .c:c;:ru..,-�� -7 -;;,• -----l..,..,.,,_-....,r er� t tl t 4' . - f!· hi6n. t o si1ch an ext le o . Tbe +:{�rse� Am..:i;, l· �� � n the N ?rthwest are holdmg a au th o rities w er e p1·e va_1 cl n _ c entenn � �onvenITo1fl m M11 � neapohs next eek. They are to r_e s ci n <l their forme r act10n:::i-n� � . na te a 1o�a t 1on for the S\;1- ' celebrati e de el<;>pmi::nt of that section of the coun- desig i· tue. 1 try by t 1rlorefatl'iers. In c tr v�rsy o� th e immigration laws certain exp.erts · •• ANTONIO TEX. NEWS •• 1 JUNE 91 1025, � h ave been red1cuiect b ecause they made sp ecial privileges IA • E � . AGO the sl oop Rest aur a tio n e n a rrived i n N ew \ for the peoples of Northern Euro p e . York 'bea r g the first compa n y �N o nxegifln immigr a nts · Though the civilizations of Europe have been in �he southern p art, the Nordic has ma de the b e st pionee r . <rh e to the U ted S . tes. Tha t event is bei n g commemorated in Mi n - ' Ghetto of New . York is filled vvith th e p eople'S of Latin nesota, . d Pr iden t Coolidge deemed th e occ a sion worth o n e •-�liJ.GMJ is rare journ eys from W ashi ngcountries. They seem to reach tb iH ,s.hore and settle in the' �.-� to n , to a ddress th e celebran ts. YesA TRIBU E TO 1,1 o r'L city . Th e magnetic force of th e· multitude draws more GOQD AMERICANS terday h e p a i d a h igh tribute to the : and a slum results. N orse el emen t in our popu la tio n , tci I • oThe Norseman seeks fertile lands and gets his l'ivin., . • N • p articu l arl y II from produce, rath er than barter. He tills the soil instead , � h e p a r� •it h� s P 1 ayed '. n. b Ul'ld mg our grea t a tion, • . in keep1 �� alive the spmt of free gover n men t _ to w h i : h this p eo- 1 of bargainin g in the market place. p l e tr a d1t1on all y had been devoted. T h e Presiden t did ho n or to . • in a country so new as thi· ",,, b o 1 n d b ra wn 1s • • • pre f era bl e to • • the a dven turous d a ri n g which brought the vikings to th e Amen- 1 trading genius. c(ln sh ores five cen turies before Columbus, an d wh ich l atel y sen t , o n e of th eir desce n da n ts i n an airplan e in sea rch for th e N orth I Pol e. It w as the sa me h a rdi h ood w h ich drove this p arty of farmers a n d th eir f ami l ies-n umbering 52 souls-to sea in a frail craft, seeki n g h omes a nd rel igious freedom in th e N ew Worl d, i n which respect it paral lel s th e Mayflower's voyage. Americ a th en w a s stil l a n a sylum for the p oor a n d o ppressed ; it sti ll pos­ ,essed v ast u n developed sp aces becko n ing th e pioneer. Those immigr ants a n d their countrymen who followed them fit wel l i n to the Am eric an sch eme. Th ough they built i n the )f orthwest wh at �he Preside n t characterizes as , a ne'T N orw ay, it is eco n omicall y, oci ally an d politic ally Americ a . N � race h a s bee n m ore loy ail y �voted to th eir cou n try. Mr. Co�l i dge's e ncomiums a re well •served. Th e Northm an is a , good Ameri� an- an d who wou l d nt gre a ter praise ? t l �,. � OGD . . - i :��! l�:inavmn states of :Minnes ota -�� Wisconsin, Presi­ dent Coolidge is recei.,-· an va­ tion as the gnest of he Nor e­ American centennia Political opponents type of Senator Ship ead are joining in e xtending a hea come ' [ , to the president who is being, made to feel that he 1s popular wiJll the people. I There is evidence that President ! Coolidge is growing in the esteem of the masses and is making a fa­ vorable impression by his fearless . attitude in dealing with national problems. How carefully the president is guarded has been disclosed by the story of his trip from Washington to St. Paul. Tlle route of the pres­ idential train was not made publlc and at night the train workers at terminals were instructed to avoid disturbing the sleep of the nation's leader. .. �� TTige's t1'TT;> :Pre sid ent C ool break this excesto ved ser t :,.-es No orry the Nors emen . (I. • h eat we are s s1V . in t he seas on, ar rive earli er \ did not go lOO years a . If The Viking spirit is said to have been doironant i n connection with the Nor­ wegian centennial celebration �hich President Coolidge participated, in St. Paul . The Viking Epic is one of the I glories of America in the dim past. --- --- NORSE-AMERICANS AND POLICIES COOLIDGE'S p . . mage t o S t • Pau l t o hel . • · Presid ent Co o l1 d. ge, s p1 1grun • va1 O f the first N o rweg1an ce ebrate the cenitenma l o f t he arn d b h' t � settler; m the Un_i ted States. ��s- manifestly d� em a� �:e r a big wit h p oli tical poss1b1hties, b o th n at10n nati on al. h e 0 e hun The o ccasio n, in additi on to mark.mg _t a so d �m ­ dredth an niv ersary of t he lan ding o f n ew Pilgnm s, o r egians the N _ by en tak are sh the ss e of succ onstrated the f m any ot O in helping to make the United ft ates t h e m el tmg p nati o ns. . d e araThis was ,th e m o tif which Presiden t C o ol'1 d g e ma s fu l !. n m o unt in sh o wing tha t th e plan which had be�n succes -ionJ:' _m har? m her et g o t dwell to ies t causin g many nationali ati on a1ities A m erica sh ould also wo rk as between the sam e n in their ho m e lands. e d , h owA m ericans ar e na turally more directly conce rn half w r ourne j s ' t n, e sid e Pr the f o ics t li o ever, in the h ome p � fr � . across t he Am erican c o ntinen t to help N o rse-Am erican m th 15 rbears o f fo ur S t ates comme m orate the arrival o-f their land o f the free. O f h'is Even bef o re th e Pr esident left Wash ington s om e t ed o p m te t a he o ag years friends were r ecalling t hat three h ousan d s make a politic al speech in that sa�e S t. Paul, and t 1 1 of his auditors on t he fair gr o un cls ma nifested pr o n ou nc� uneasi n ess because his remarks were pr eventing them fro m en• j oying the horse race, whereas he was mo re interested in the presidential race . On the present o ccasion the tabl e s wer e turned. Y ou Tead in the F :ree Press ho w the Presid e n t n o t o nly had the respectful attention of an eno rmo us t hr o ng o f Scan dinavians and o th e rs, but he was such an at tractio n tha,t no less than thirty persons fain t ed in the crush. This is a n ew illust ra­ ti o n o f th e o ld adage that n o thing succeeds like success. It s eems that ,the p o litical aspects o f the pilgrimm age, thus conspicuously begun, even befo re it start ed, were c o n­ tinu ed at frequent i ntervals on the way o ut and h om e again to the nati o nal capital. The first fea t ure t o be no t ed is that Minn eso ta is th e · presen t ho.me State o f S e cre tary o f St ate Kell o gg, although he was born in P o tsda m , in n o rthern New York. His sel ection fo r t he importan t p o st lately filled by G o vern o r Charles E. Hughes and his acc o mpanying President and Mrs. Co o lidg e to St . Paul were n ot with o ut significance. Another n o teworthy fe atur e of t he pilgri mmage is that Presiden t Co olidge was acc o mpanied from Washington by Senator Lenro o t o f Wisconsin. The feelings o f Lenr o o,t may b e i magin ed as t he presidential train n eared Chicago where in 1 920 occurred the inciden t which pr event ed him -fro m berng the occupant of the White H o use instead o f Co o lidge. After the little gro up of leaders i ncluding George Har­ vey had prepar ed the presidential slate and started o ut o n the great adventure o f breaking all precede n t by n o minating a United States sena t or in the person o f Warren G. Harding as ithe Republican candidate for the presidency o f the U nit ed States, t hey conceived the idea- o f taking the wind co mpletely out o f LaFo llette' s sails by n ominating another U nited States senat o r fro m his S ta t e in the pers o n o f Lenr oot for vice­ president. H o w t h e convent ion s mashed the Le n ro o t sla t e a nd forced the n om inati on o f Coo lidge as Harding' s run n ing mate is n o w hist o ry. This bit o f national politics was revived by t he -fac t that wh en th e presidential train r eached Chicag o , a gr o up of R e ­ publican regulars fr om t he Badger State, and all rooters for Le nro o t, b o arded the t rain and gave a big d emo nstra tio n as the party passed thr o ugh Wisc o nsin . TI1e inside o f this situation is that Senato r Lenroo t, who is an enthusiastic sup­ p o rter o f President Co o lidge in o ppositi-on to Senator LaF o l­ let te o f his own State, has no>t yet anno unced his candidacy f o r ren omi nation, but is expec te d to do s o so o n no w. Presid ent Coolidge was to ld i n Wisc onsin that h e is gro wing i n st r ength and popularity in the Badger State every day. The c o nfirma to ry fact was cited t hat whereas LaF o l­ lette carried his o wn, State by 300,000 in 1 922, his can­ didacy f o r the presidency bro ught him a margin o f only 1 20,000 las t year, or a loss o f 60 per c e nt . The remarkable fact is als o to be not ed tha t supporters o f Presiden t Coolidge in emphasizing his sweeping of every State in the N o rthwest in 1 9 24 against LaF o llet te predict he will carry the Badger State as -well in 1 928. Republican lead ers in that reg�o n are t hus seen t o be itaking in to their o wn hands it:he questio n whet her Co olidge will succeed hi m self in 1 928. G o vern o r Christians o n, wh o intr o duced the Presid ent, declared Mi nneso ta and the en,t ire No rthwest believe in Cal­ vin C o o lidge ." Apparently the g over nor c o uld have g o ne farther and declared that the. people o f Minnes o ta and t he N o rthwest als o beli eve in the r egular Republican party. This was the situati o n refle cted in the r ecept i o n given Presiden t Coolidge o n every hand in that re gi o n. Dante Pierce, the mo st gif t ed and hardes t figh t er in t h e LaFo llette-Whe eler third party planks last year, is supporting President Co o lidge o n all i mp o rtant issues, and carrying w o tds of praise i n his I o wa H om es t ead for Secretary H o over and his agricultural the o ri es, which hith erto have been ana­ thema to the fo rm er form bl o c. �In this connection 1•t 1s announced that the farm bloc is apparently renewing its allegiance in foll to the Republi­ can party as well as to President Coolidge . There may be more than a passing relation between the fact that the cort­ firmation of United States Senator Brookhart of Iowa now seems assured, while the farm bloc which has been gunning for Senator Cummings of that State ever since his name wa5 attached to the Esch-Cummings transportation act of 1 9 2 0, has withdrawn its serious opposition ,to his re-election next year. Only last year many former Republican regulars threw their support to Daniel Steck, a Democrat, in opposition to Senator Brookhart. The visit of President Coolidge to the State which defeated Senator Magnus Jo hnson, the so-called Farmer­ Laborer, in favor of Schall, Republican, is expected to have far-reaching influence in helping to strengthen the regular Republican organization in Minnesota. That aid is needed is indicated by the faot that Senator Shipstead, one of the foes of the Coolidge administration, who opened a dental office in Minneapolis in 1 9 2 0, was nominated for the Senate in 1 9 2 2 on the Farmer-Labor ticket and defeated Secretary Kellogg for re-election by a margin of no less than 82, 5 3 9 , • receiving 3 2 5 , 3 72 votes against 2 4 1 , 8 3 3 for Kellogg. However, great the part which the Norsemen of today contribute to the two great p olitical parties, the more im­ portant par,t they play in the upbuilding of America as a whole is in full keeping with the fact that 5 00 years before Columbus discovered America Norse were familia:r with feeland and Greenland, and Lief, the son of Eric, had found America' s mainland, known then as Vineland. The historic event with which the present centennial deals, however, was the landing of ithe Norwegian May­ flower, the little sloop Restaurationem. This craft in 1 8 2 5 brought to America' s shores the first or_ganized party of Nor­ wegian immigrants to the United States. President Coolidge shows that these home-seekers were taken in charge by the Society of Friends or Quakers in New York and sent to Ken­ dall, Orleans County, N. Y. , where they established the first Norwegian settlement in our country. Later on the Norwegians settled in large numbers in the northwest and did much to .shape American !ife in that re­ gion . Their pioneering ins•t inct and their hard ihood enabled them to take part in our frontier life as an effective . force for good. They were mostly farmers, and largely individualists. They made good citizens and in our wars showed them­ selves to be sturdy patriots. It was as easy as it was natural for President Coolidge to show that the same influences and methods as have made it possible for the Norsemen and many other nationalities i n America to fraternize and live in peace with each other should also make it possible for the nations thus represented to fraternize and enjoy abiding peace. The Coolidge pe formula is the hope of humanity. J . L. SOUT � K �iential C'am paign o f 1 9 3 8 . From so small a matter is a great fire Jd n :1 le cl ! l'o l l tiC' a l ora c:lPP >1 J"C' iaever w i l l i ng tlut l ies on tn acc <> 11t an explanation . the surfaC'e. '!'hey search ou't hirlclc,n ::auises and isecret intenti;. It is easy to say that the Presic.ent any national orga nizaITon. Not the least of h is worth to the State is h i s belief in .p arties as moans ·to a n end and his readiness to break away from them whe n they prove recreaht to the trust he places I i n · them. Preside.n t Coolidge takes advian- .I tage of the occa s i o n of this celc- / bration . to urge all citizens to renew the ir acqu;,. i ntance with the ; fasc inating history o-f their coun- 1 try, now that so n'Jany an1: ' versar- , 1 ics :f i ts oeginnings arc to be celc,brated. His Italian fe l l ow- [ cou ntrymen may not subscribe t1 1 the authoritative way in which he a Ltributes to Leif, son of Erik, I a Norseman, the honor of dis- \ covery of A merica 500 years be­ fore Columbus sighted these I ?h o res . But Italians and N orweg- 1 i a ns both now being loyal Am cri- , cans this dispute may be fough t out i n good fomper. Th€) country as a whole will bn gratifit>d to see the Northwest aga i n enjoying reasonable prosper­ ity, with its feet once m '.l re 011 so lid_ ground, and wil l hope for I co ntrnua nce of a devei opmcnt t , which its c itizens of foreign de­ scent have co ntributed their ful l share.-Baltimore Sun. ..........--- I V O I C E O.F l 1� I-IE P RE:ss ! t--"---.l..1U.:11 UTE TO N O R W T�G I A N8 To ti ' u;,bui J d i n?' o.f this c0tm­ _ . 1 h. Y the candrnav1 a n pl' c plP, i n­ . dudrng the Norwegians, have add­ ed a dhaptcr of which ! he y may , e l l h e prou ? . Patient, con:servT­ i � _ ' Lvc, 111dustnou's, wherever they / hav_c sctlled they have broug-lH Lhc1r household goods antl made themselves real factors i n their � ew homes. The s,plcndid growth in wealtrh a nd population of\ the Northwestern States owes mi.u.·h to this ha �·dy ra ce , which 'ma_y 9oast that 1t has returned manv:. :old the h o:,;pitality with w,h i�h 1t was welco,med here in early days. I t is i n cclc,b ra•tio n of the hundredth anniversa ry of the first ?riganized m i-gration of Norweg­ ians t o this count ry that t he ccl <' ­ bra,t � on, before which President Coo l 1drge yesterday delivered an address, is being 'held. The Nor �egian brough t with . h nn no prooiem of assimilati o n He d \d not � ro'-':d i nto cities a l� . ready overcrowd ed. He ·sought· tht' Jan? and the sea, occu,pati ovs· ''to which he was a-ccustomcd and i n which he conk! • b e m ost he1ptful. 'IIe is no pol itical problem. 'I'ha t : h i :; recent aloofness f r o m t h e Prcsidcmt's pa-r ty w i t h which h e has been allird f o r so many years r.-,:'!y be viewed more as a vag-­ ary tha n evidence of ,p ermanent disaffection sec-ms to lie demon­ stra ted by the differenc6 be­ t wee n the reception given the Presidcn't on this visit compared 1 w_ i th the cool ness that greeted hi m on his last journey to thi� territory. PoHtioally it was t�cn th � enem y's country. N cw all s ig'ns p o mt to resu mption of the a ncient albgiance. Hu t t,he Sca nd inavian has lon n• shown an i ndopendence i n . s tat� and municipal politics which justi­ fies the conclusion tJhat he can­ not be counted the bondman of I ! ,,. '1 ..r giving official conten ance and pres­ In ence to a n im porta nt· celebr ation. his of­ addi tion to doing t h at d uty of have an fice h e migh t be t houg ht to e'thi ng o f i nn ocen t rlcsir e to see som r u les. Ile the coun try over w h i c h he ng publ ic has Jong hecn a 'h o me-keepi be­ servan t. It is �aid that o nly once as vVcs t fore h a s h e ever been as far o b­ l\[i n n ea po lis. And i t woul d seem there , vious that h is hl"ief a ppea rance ing­ with hisi hu1T ied re'Lur n to '\Vash eri• ton, could not. !encl fe;,elf to myst the ous p lottin gs of any Jdnd. But se,·en politi cians who are ,vi ser than not men that can renc!e r a reaso n will d have it so. They i nsist that vast a n isulnl d esigns a r n conce aled behind w • app�a rs to he a mere!�• routin e I Pr ' cl c ntia l trip. 'If .M r. Coolicl gc w ere to i e ncl h i s o u n10y and go in search of t e Oregon Trail h is critics would be sure Lo se" anothe r trail much more ominous -the trail of the ser­ per� pol itics ove1· it all. I COOLIDGE STEPS '1'00 FAR --o-- THE TRA IL OF POLITICS --o-- One statement of President Cool. idge i n his address a.t the Norwegian Centennial Celebration in Minnesota shoul!i be i nterpreted more as the goal o f a n ational crusade than as a descTiption of an existini; condition. That part of t he president's address / referred t o 1s : ( Roano ke 'rimes . ) The Presi dent' s trip to :\Tinn eisota illustr ates once more the incura ble ­ tende ncy o f Amer icans to read a p o l i t i c a l motiv e i n t o every a c't oC a puh­ ­ lic man. 'l'o most people the thing a p o_ .,.r,-o pears e nti 1-ely sin,p ie. Thc"'"�,... fi1 st . : I a cen t enar y ceJ.eb rat\o n of the :'Fro1:1 th � t1m ? when their fast­ e Umt- , imml grati on of �ors emen to t h developrn g mstitution s o f popular I addin g n i ted rPsul h whi(; �: State ed to governmen t, religious freedom a n d a. sturd y, valu ab!(' race eleme nt intellectual liberality h a d come t o our p o p u lation . ,vhat could be more t a k e d efin ite and attractive forms natur al than for the Presi dent to take emo­ comm part i n such a notew ort'hy the people of the C o l o ni es took a n e; ration ? Yet the observ ers and 'the in­ i nterest in inducing their European his g readin lready terpre ters a re a relatives to follow them thither. They heart. They see h:m embar ked upon a engaged i n a n i n ve1·ted crusade, a poli'ric al journey . Deeply signific ant i s t h e f a c t tbat Senato r Lenroo t, sworu conquest wit h o u t i nvasion and with­ enemy of La Follette and sentenc ed. out force. The new country offered by the latter to p o litical dea1h, is ac­ 'J'his not only material oppo1·tu nities, but President. "ompa nying the m akes It certain t o some p enetrati ng PoEs bilit i eis of spil·Hual a nd j n tellect­ ninds that !\Tr. roolidgc has a lready ual ema ncipation which th('y a rd ently Jegun p l a nning the Congr('s sional Wll'hec1 their friends o n th e o t h er elections of next year and l'h e Presi- s i d e t o share. Cit ize,rnhl p in the :New I �ing that it had -�v u l ' l<l mea nt someth . It was ' seen Old th€\ n nnl rn Pnn t i offe 1·ed som e­ that t he N e w \V orlr1 an incr easi ng thin.<>; new . The re was bur den som e y man l\1,Lt rea liza ti on had som e­ ions itut trad ition s and inst n t Jast , the how been shed . Her e, self , mas ter inrli viclu al was lorn o f him of his own of his own dest iny, lrne pt•r free ." i,ovf\ reig nty. Her e h e was a prac ­ is t iden pres the lly Or<l inar aps perh ove. spit tica l poli ticia n, i n alsm , but inincl prov his of e aus bec hist ory of the 6plr ed by the nob le the exem plar y Nor se peo ples and n pop ulat ion i deal s of the Sca ndin avia has allo wed he es Stat d nite i n the U his usua l from te him self to d evia e. cou rse in this inst anc trut h of Man y mus t ques tion the the Uni ted the stat eme nt that in ual is lord Stat es i n 1 9 2 5 the "ind ivid dest iny. of himself, mas ter of his own nty. Her e k eepe r of his own sove r�ig he is fre e." y year s o1 At no time sinc e the earl n havE the form ation of the unio mor e it been nce lera into and try bigo ght thou of dom free evid ence and secu re thar spee ch an<l relig ion less in this year of 1 9 2 5 . The Pre:c; id e�t. wi8ely rrf a i ned from me n tio n o f the politic al and econom ic disturb ances with wh ich the Northw es t has bee tor �or th e past s�vera l ;r ear'-. Whet.h er h is speech will h�ve th� soo�;un g e ff':ect eviden tly intr,nd ed no on e can say at this t but 1it_ certamly can do no h a rm to remind a people o.f thei�- 'me ()'}� 1.j' ous h istory. If t h ere be amo1J.Q" ,. t h em malco n te .i its·· tl1 eu· • vie,,,s "'. h ou ld b � �h ey s e oftenc:I. If the ide·a ls o f their forefat h ers are HleepirJO" 11ou 1 c1 be kmdled t o flame anew, a nd i f the fire s still . . b nrn"' they should be fanned • sufficien • tly • to leap across the'ir pra1n e,- 'a nd ma k e themselve s felt lll section where radic alism is a 11 t oo ·-rampant . ,.___ ---n• ----- h I <J President C'oo1 idge, in h is adrf ress at t h e xprse-Am rica n Cen­ ten nial at th e M innesota St atr T◄'a i r G1•om1 ds gpve to Lief Ericsson credit for the discovery of Amrriea and refe red to a Norse boy as born on American s,o il fi0O ) ears before C:ohfln� set sail for the New World. The President failed to identrry the youn gster, but i t i s thought tha t hP h a d reference to Snorre, mentioned in one of th e Icelandic saga'-', Thrrr a rr 1 wo o.f ihese sa:�·as in wh ich t h ese early explorations o f the Norseme n are described : "'l'he Saga of E ri c the Red " and " The Vinland History of the Flat Island Book. " 'l'hese tell of the discovery of Yinland, its colon ization, the birth of a son, Snorre , to Thor.fin Karlsefne a n d Gun.rid, the ahandonmr n t of t h e colony and the maintenance of a trading post f o r some time' thereafter. Vinland i s said by some to h ave heen locatrd not far distant from Jamestown, the scene of the first perman ent srttlement in America in ] 607, about 601 y1•ars after Thorfin 's expedition. 'l'he records cont ained i n t h e sagafi arA v ague and i n complete, but they bristle with aJ1 appea l to the imagination which h as few equals. 'rl1e Norsemen may or may not have been t h e clis­ coverers of America, but that t hry ventured a far in their ships there is no donbt, for tales of their aclve n tnres were rurrrnt long: before Queen Isabella 11awnetl her je·w els i n ordn· that Columbus might set sail . And t h at t h ey have pla3 ed no unimport ant part in th e development of t h is country is et1ually t rue. As President Coolidge said : " Th ese Norsemen whose brginnings in the United States we here celebrate have exercised 1 a great influence upon onr modern history and '� estern civili:i;11 ion which it is di fficult 1 o match among a ny other like number of people. ' ' • 7 THE NORSEMEN. r I .I June 5, President Coolidge appointed William D. Mitchell, of Minnesota, Solicitor General of the United States, to succeed Jamee M. Beck, resigned. On June 8, President Coolidge came in person to the Norse centennial celebration at Minneap­ olis, and ublicly extolled the Norse contribu­ tion to Minnesota citizenship. On June 16, President Coolidge appointed :Robert Edwin Olds, of Minnesota, Assistant Secretary of State to succeed John V. A. Mac­ Murray, lately appointed Minister to China. On January 10, President Coolidge named Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota, Secretary of State to succeed Charles Evans Hughes. On December 11, 1023, President Coolidge named Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota, Am· .baesador to Great Britain to succeed George Harvey, resigned. On November 23, 1922, President Harding named Pierce Butler, of 1\Iinnesota, an Asso­ ciate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, to fill the 'Vacancy created by the resig• nation of Justice Willlam R. Day. Not a. bad crop of distiJJictions to be harvested by the State which s�bstituted for the two Re­ publican Senators that represented it as late as 1 022, the only solid Farmer-Labor delegation in tlrn United States Senate. The lesson of this exhibit i!I that there is :nothing like insurgency, properly managed, for securing political recognition. States that are invariably safely Democratic or invariably safely Republican never excite the solicitude of the party leaders. It is the State that is nei­ ther safely one or the other that is the most court�d. And it is the State which has re­ volted against a particular political party that ie, the most assiduously wooed by that party for a return of the old affection. What better illustration could one want than the case of Minnesota. Hardly had the Far­ mer-Laborite, Henrik Shipstead, routed Sen­ ator Kellogg, candidate of the administration when the administration honored a. St. Paul lawyer with an appointment to the Supreme Court. Magnus Johnson, another Farmer-La­ borito, humiliated the Washington administra­ tion a second time within eight montlis by de­ feating its candidate for the Senate (vacancy created by the death of Knute NelsonI and the I. �ad�inistrntion responded by appointing -i an­ "Tmnon, financ -pz, mt ern'.tional relations ()�her St. Paul lawyer to the Court of St. James and the tariff sink intb inslgniflcance before . Smee then Minnesota has remained ' next' t0 the possibility of a campaign fought on the ing under the same han ;'.; icap filat arr the other ' I Cabinet officers are under, the 'handicap o:I'. be­ • '�'j • • ·• sconsm , the administration's · • pnnm pa1 issue of "Who Discovered America? " or ing compelled through loyalty to their chief to . tho� in the flesh. It is true that at the las'C "Leif Eri csson vs. Christopher Columbus," subordinate any personal ambitions for the election Magnus Jol1-Q;§on was defeated with Leif leading the fundamentalists, the b '.l'homas D. Schall w�o, for want of a mo7e 1 0 0 per c enters and the Nordics, and Chris­ h igher place until h e definitely Eind finally takes topher goini in o battle with the moderns, h imself out of the situation. And that is pre­ (11·thodox Republi&an, received th e a dmi n1s • tra- the scientists an the foreigners. cisely what Mr. Coolidge has no intention of ti. on,s support, but Minnesota is by no means Read what l\'.l Coolidge said at t.he Nor­ <ioing, if all reports are correct. l'edeemed. It is still, with Wisconsin and the wegian Cel\ enn al in Minneapolis yester­ The general belief seems to be that l\lr. Cool­ Dakotas, the turfulent center of Republ ica n in­ day : "But � ev before William of Nor­ tdge likes his p resent job so well that he is not �urgency. That.; is one of the reasons i t is be­ mandy had quered at Hastings, Leif tJ1e at all averse to the Idea of holding it fol' four l ng so despera,t,ely CO'Urted.• Great . have" been son of Eric, near 5 0 0 years before Colum­ �ears more, after his presen t term the :ewards ofl its insurg�y�Msupreme is uP. In court bus appears to have found the New World. magist �acy, an ,ambassadorehip; the • portfo som lio arters belief is strong that Mr. Cool­ Indeed, there seems little doubt that sAv­ _ of :ore1gn affair s, the solicit or generalship,' the eral centuries before Columbus saw the � idge' trip to Minnesota to deliver an address assistant sec:etarys hip of 1.State, :-, tender : light of clay there was born - on American and _ at y e Norse-American Centennial was inspired s�l �_ citous visitt by the� P lJlsident t of the soil, of Norse parents, a boy who afterward lJmte d States-all bestowed'-' since became so great a m athematician and by/some thing stronger and perhaps more selfish r • I H enn"k J S upstead sounde.d! the tocsin of\ nevolt• Lu astro nomer that his studies m ay have con­ th n the desire 1.P look the Swedes and radicals 1 cry . i M rnneso " ta. It" has only to keep on kicking the tributed mu ch to the fund of knowledge and �orites, with which rumor says the Old Guard around and it will soon run the govwhich helped Columbus formulate his vis­ �rnm.,nt. ___ ion of the world as we know it." That is Northwest is infested, in the face and tell them a defi nite commitment on the oart of the of the splendid part they have played in the up­ President-even more definite than that of building and development of too Nation. !n the Utilities Committee-and he will have short, in well-posted polltical circles the belie! to stand or fall on the issue he has created. Mr. Coolidge, of course, has to support is growing that Mr. Coolidge intends to seek him a mass of tradition which almost reelection three years hence. In that event Mr. merges into historical fact. There is little Hoover automatically will be eliminated from question that Leif Ericsson did discovar serious consideration as a possibility. Mr. Cool­ Vinland, now known as New England, and idge may h'ave opposition for the nomination, to there is little doubt that other Norsemen, be sure , but it is entirely sate to say that none among them Thorfinn Karlsefni and his 1 6 0 of it is going to come from the circle of his foiiowers, found and lived for a time upon Cabinet advisers Coolidge Joins the Nordics. those vine•clad shores, but , t is also certain, A fter Poin ting out the remarkable results RESIDENT COOL1DGE has joined in th � words of the modern h l stori'an Gold- which• Hoover h as a cc o mpl"sh 1 ed m • th e Departhands with the fundamentalists. Cal berg, that "it didn't mean anything." That ent of Comm rce, Mr. Clapper remarks: � ihe Silent has gone over to the banner of was in the year l , 0 0 0And the years imme-·. '.:1H over has retamed the hold on business men Leif, son of Eric the Red. Always cau­ diately following, but it remained for ' h ?c h 3 had five years ago when more slri llfu-1 ,w � � tious, the President has remained aloof Columbu s, nearly 5 0 0 years later, to make political maneuvering probably would have from that branch of fundamentalism which what some historians term an "effective made him a Presidential nominee. And be like­ recognizes W. J. Bryan as its spokesmen : discovery" of America. There the matter wise is j ust as isolated from the professional not for him the heated combat now raging stands, and only the coming m onths can that last re­ between the modernists md those who determine whether o r not the President politicians as he was then." In of deal It should good a lies significance. mark pollAmerican into injecting in wise was would preserve u_nquestion ed history as it is set forth ,in the Book of Genesis. So far tics, and especially in this super-heated not be overlooked by those disposed to g as he has made known his views, the world season, this vital and overwhelming issue . thought to Hoover's so-called chances for cap­ is ignorant as to whether he believes the While he may h ave been political ly foolish turing the Republican nomination n t time. monkey story or sticks to the biblical ver­ in taking so emphatic· a position with t he Hoover would make a fine Presu}ent, but­ sion of the creation. Eschewing religion, Nordics, he was on sou,nd ground when he rhe last word is all-Importan t·science and politics, possibly as breeders spoke to the Norwegians of the valuable of conflict, he has championed the cause of service they h ave done and are doing in Americ� which .the geographical and historical fundamen­ helpi.__ng to build greater this talists who are insisting that Christopher either ·icsson o r Columba.s, or 'Q,0th, disColumbus as a discoverer was a fraud and covered. an interloper, a mere novice at the busi­ ness, a Doctor Cook who basked in the light of a false and perj ured glory. l!l brief, Mr. Coolidge seems to have ranged himself alongside members of Ri chmond'g Counc il Committee o n Public Utilities who would deny the Genoese a place among the c ity's monuments. Perhaps the President did not intend to take so definite and emphatic stand among Hoover. the historical fundamentalists: perhaps he Probably it was Just the mid-summ er dearth only m eant to say a word pleasing to the of news, �n connection with the extremely hot ears of those celebratiilg the centennial of weather in which the uational capital for some Norway's organized stream of emigration to days past has been sweltering, that caused Ray­ the United States. Certainly be did not m ond Clapper, United New staft correspo ndent realize the weighty import of his address i n which he held up Leif Ericsson as the to speculate to the length of a half-colum n 01'. real discoverer of America and failed to thereabou ts regarding the availabilit y of Her­ say even a pleasant word for Senor Co­ bert Hoover for the Presiden cy in 1 9 2 8 . Not lumbus, the foreigner. Apparently his that the Secretary of Commerce wouldn't make proverbial caution suffered a lapse in its an Unusually efficient and satisfactory Presi­ effectiveness, and he has added fresh fu-31 dent-h e would, undoubtedly. But as a member to the flames of controver-,y which may be of Mr. Coolidge 's Cabinet Mr. Hoover is laboran issue in the next poJitic�l ·-, ampaign . TI P �came ·t o A meri'c•an pr-1•u----anil for sev :™ e c e n t uries t he rea f te i} • .ere were so t w as s n igr a m t m i the iig m lls a o Scan<linavia e en s have We tbn. a n o at o tract tten t ing pot, ays dina vians ME JOA has be,n a gr t melt ennial n o ex p lana t ion wh ' th e Scan cent n erica -Am r o N hus in Mr Coo · age did tb e as did not come to >Am erica kind of people address, and if all the$ var1 Fren ch le who an, the Germ t can h, Engl ish, Irish, Sc,tc can get alon in America, why e becaus es that the and Suanish argu was He '? s _it a h.e s)t g, Posf-ihly alon world get a has ord conc rld o w he t from -had they i<:h wl1 repurts e li i and unity dream of world experience of _->few ·worl d were ,n ot enco1 u aging '2 -llt solid foundation of fact in the : : _ .. AmGrica. con_ pol1t1cal until ted wai tlie:v hat t e wh1 But the melting pot of America has been a and :1s tions beca me set1 led and Unrn avoi( e<l , melting pot. It has one big dash of color that the act i ve p a r 1 i c ipati,m ju two importa n t �ere a11y cne foolish enough to imagine solved ? It wars. t)roblem created by that dash has been ry, and was a cause of one war in this count But when they d i d come they labored another, of cause the to-be while it is not 1ilfeIT n o d e l usion ai-i to their purpose under issue. ed unsolv still it is a vexed and so far been, a to adopt this countrv as their h ome. The melting pot of America has also religious 'l'hey came to become perma nent settlers Christian melting pot. We have had no ne that -not to secure a competency and t h e n imagi e anyon Does . problem on our hands an our melting pot is powerlul enough to absorb a return t o the o l d Ji 0me, a s many e arlier by it, tted permi we if land, the of on invasi immigra n ts did. on ? horde of color professing a fltrange religi ssful, succe Nor ditl the No rsemen flock into the been has pot ng The American melti se its despite the diversity of racial tTaits, becau re­ cit i es. '.l'h ey e8tablished their h omes in one the farming regions of the north ern tier essential elements have been white and of fusion ligion. To argue from that that a world of sta tes west of the Great Lakes. They icable inerad and vast the fa possible ts to disrege:rd t. were quickly assimilated as c itizens and differences of color, religion and basic though o therhood took active part in the affairs of their br world of ideal the of dream We can work new country. 'J'hey did not clash with with its concomitant of world amity, an�.., open tor it, but we 1hould do Bo with our eye1! their ne igh bors and were w elc-ome<l. 11.nd a full appreciation of the difficulties. They p roved themselves to he a sturdy, Iaw-ahid iug-, thrifty people a n d t oday fitI a re recognized by all who know of t J1ese traits as among the best of the best PRESID ENT Amer icans. R IDENT OOLIDG� liked the welcome he President Cool idge was most h appy received at 1Hnneap,J lis. He is said to have i n some of his wel l-chosen comp l i ments been qiuch imp ssed l'J'i..,h "�stern" ways. Western ways eed! lVhy, when he reaches o f the Norse-Ameri ca11s, but he ctid not \ Minneapolis, he h�sn't even started west. If he over-stP te thE1ir vfrtues. He did n ot ! wants a real welcome, let him come to the Pacific spea k in a patronizing way, but as a n Coast. Also if he wants a real climate. There will bt. a president some day who will e x ecutive w h o welcomed t h e opportun­ know the wholr.: country nnd who will have wis­ ity t o partici pate in the really i m portant : �om enou�h to establish his summer hea4quarters cen ten n i a l a u d to person a1ly pay t ribute m the Pactfl: �orth�est where he can do real work to a very large number o f people over _ swd,ermg in intolerable heat. without w}1 om h e> h a ,; t h e honor to preside as • I! r �• Bellingham, Wa�i.. Pre15ide nt. J l.i.1£ I ;, h.,....> .l. NORSE-AMERICANS. r A P idge traveled to y to participate Ill commemorat-���� ing the date •t: l u the l'" rst organized ' orsemen qame to the company of United States a immi 0• .1tuts, he focused ur<ly race and gave attention upon th1 many m i llion American::; their first in­ sight into the importahce of the Korse­ .A mericans as a part of onr n ational ] ife. , 'Wh e n the first ti-c1e of immi gration W Minn in th 7"()LJDCEAND THE WEST �� J 's tri p to the M iddle ·west ·esidcn t </:)po · Jiad no political purpose but it had a decidedly 11olitica l result. 'l'he journey was made to keep a ,;peaking ei1gagement a n d the speech was not to , have been-nor was it-a discussion of politics. , The president· was merely to be a speaking guest I at the centennial of the anival of �- first Tor- 1 ,yegiau immigrants. E very circumafauce suno d­ ing- the trip shows i t bad no poli ical intent. J Once the president arrived i 1 Minnesota thil gs st bogau to happen. Everywher he went - �t.h rongi; i;ought T1lm Ch 1·istiauso11 introd uced h i m a1:1 on tonnial i;peake rs. Ile o pened h is in troduction with t l t is statemen t : The people or Minnesota believe Ju Calvin Coolidge . " With t hat utterance the e nor­ mous c ro w d burst i ulo t u m u ! Luous applause which l'onlin ued for many m i n u tes. The pros i den L's adrl rcss vrovokecl similar e u Lh ui:iiasm. ::lo i t h appened that the greatest reception e ,·er given President C ool idge was given in the co un try oI the rudicals w ho but a fe w ui o n Lit s lrn(o re cxcrle cl their !J owers fo r h i :; de f e a t. The poli tical service to t h e coun try or lhc president's journey res ts iu i ls d i:; c:l os n re o f the wonders t ho Cool idge a d rn i uisLra l i ou has work er! in tile M i d rllc West. l<'or sever,l / years Lhc ract ic a l " '"mcu t !tas made t he rest o l' I.he coun try l ee ! I liat t he w h ea l country was no longer a part o f I h f! u n ion . Th ere is reass u rance n o w that t h e Mi ddl e West i s witll the countr,v, n o t a gain8t it. I 1:�- ., '� , J.f', .\.1, EPHRAT.\, 1 cqjtIDGE IN NORTHWEST ��- l ll:O�hets in Washi ngton � see 1n l!aa� of Pl'esid E.mt Cool­ t idge to in • t-a, ostensibl y to at­ tentl the c ebr ion of the coming of the t o tha t sect io n a shrewd lllove, to J ay t h , foundatio n race for a third -rerm' in 1 9 2 8 . Republican Insurgen cy comes chiefl y from t'he terri tory that Mr. �ge now invad es. To see and be seen i& manikstly Lh P. way to wJn friends not only for a ra,::e for . a t�frd t erm , but also to wlr, vo t er­ / en � ti •1ent for th e Cool id ge. progra,m m t he n ext Con gress . When-e ver I and wheruver stand for the pres id en tial program, then wi!J the Con­ 1 gress also stand fo.r it. Whotaer or no t Mr. Coolidg _ e is g•o mg to win friend s to hi.s poli tical Program rem ains to b e seen . Th e p resid en tial person ali ty is q ui te cold to en thuse the West ·a nd Nortk west. AU right in New Eng­ land, perha,ps, but sligh t ly austere for that coun t ry of "tb e wide open spaces, whe·re men are m en, " a·nd wom eu a re often co wpu n chers. J l ..:, � ( . w. EVERETT. ('TT � EI' \L! J J.: 1£, u, JJ-...J �An Unusual Ce[ebration i ng observed in Minneapolisiversary of the arrival of a ,-is u n ique. Probably of all re and elsewhere, there has h e anni versarie been none exac vessel this original group of Ju a smal anti c from their homes in Norway. Cen­ people crossed th turles later, they followed the wake of hard y Norsemen of a rude and adventurous early day. The size of •the i r craft made their purposes made_ their venture an equally hazardous one but i t infin i tely more profitable. The Norsemen who origina;ly came to America left legendi: and a few rude and questioned rel ics. Whether those settle­ m ents of the early years of t h e eleventh cen,t ury were wiped out b y pestilence, whether the way t o the New World was found too Jong and hence isolation of settlers here was too complete to be borne, will never be known . At any rate the settlements disappeared and the voyages were remembered onl y in legend. The Norse outpost toward the Ne w World become Iceland and it was six hundred years before a new settlement of North America 'b egan. But the newcomers from Norway in 1 8 2 5 c ame definitely seeking homes. They were not sea rovers. Bringing with them· etrength and thrift and industry they won homes on what was then the frontier, and more and more their c ountrymen followed The Norwegian and other Scandin avian in their footsteps. peoples of the north of Europe have contributed to all the north­ ern states of this country and their contribution has been es­ pecially valuable in the region we term the m id-west. The Norse contribution to the world has been u nusual. More than any sol id, substantial ach ievement i n i tself, it has been as :a free and i nvigorat i ng wind th a,t ha-s blow n around the world a nd stirred men to deeds of daring, to i ndependence of thought and ac t ion. Coming from a sparse north land with long winters and brief summers, tempestuous springs when the mou n tains pour their floods i I1to t h e valleys, and wHh the sea all around,-where nature, not, too kind, always is i n aggres­ si ve mood,-it i s . li ttle wonder that such a wind is bold and free and makes i ts way i n to all lands . Not bu t that the Norwegian people have so lid ach ievement enough to po i nt to but that th i s spirit i s greater yet. It has been mighty i n a score of people. Europe's two leading powers.­ Norway and France,--,know i ts influence and so d oes this country,-n ot because of any conquest o f arms i n the long gone past but because of this peaceful event that is now being cele­ brated. All o f us here i n America are Europeans, one o r a dozen gener,ations removed. But we are tryi ng t o profit by mistakes that Eu rope has made, a n d from better na t ural cond itions. We l1ave our so-called Anglo-Saxon institu tions, mod i fied and el ab­ orated to suit our ide as and our condition s and it i s h istor icall y 'true that, a s these institutions are o f north Europe the people of north Europe seem most readi ly to adapt themselves to them. And the Norwegian people who have come among us have very, thoroughly demonstrated this. • They have lent support and strength to our polititical i nstitut ions. So all of us, no matter what our ancestry may be, are in1'lrested i n· this celebration that now is u nder way. As Ameri­ ca n citizens, we are i n terested i n all i nfluences and anyth ing pertaining to them, that tend to make this government stable and true to the people and this la nd a place of i ncreasing content and happiness. �r I �RETT t • T' TI:RA'LD -" . unseemly -Haste EVI:n.E�� ...,,. �,,,.., .,-Jll}lUNF �--s;� ------CELEBRATION · in Minneapolis • wei, k yo:ur mai l fro--!n St. Paul , Mhm eap' Paul commemorating the arrival of the first shipand ' � r Mmne s? ta _pomt s wm bea r strang e load of orwegiai;t immigrants to America, the made-in-Germany O ' _ Los A�eles, developed engine trouble and had to Ump l oo k�ng _s u 1�s, '.°1' special 1:-;sue ] 11 2 and 5 c ent d e• ·r �e _ port, Lakehurst, N. J. Right away, scarcely be - nomm atir I s a vrng been prepared by the b(YOVC rnfore the b a1rsh1 p had been tied to her mooring mast, Secretary m ent t � onn�em ora t e the cente nnial anniv ersan O _ Wil bur spoke of the "utter folly" of staking the national defense of the ai;n_val �n the U nited States of the first larg� upon the reliahility of the gasoline engine. His haste in the premise is unseemly. No one, at least no one with any under- gro up of 1 mn11grants fro1n Norway. By reas?n of the faet that the issue of the standing and common sense, has ever considered staking the nation's defense exclusively on the gasoline engine. But there N1orse • r - Ame "rlCl:ll1 Cellt,�llllt'Ia1 , IIlp • S COlnpa1•are many men who probably know as much a:bout the national f they atn e!Y �malll... . W'lll be p . (;g0. Oi sa: nly in defense and about the ability of the gasoline engine when tn 11 orse-.Au1el'ica <.; i fae::s a s L ave a Ta l'ge � p op u ­ p ro per hands, as Secretary Wilbur does, who will agree that here '-: i s one development that should not be neglected, It migh t be Jahon . • On . the theory that " e ve r I' . folly to stake all on the gasoline engine, 1t probably would be e . " '' t1 l C . folly to stake our national defense on any one thing, be it p o stoffice departmei . ' . ' f.estmg 1t 18 Hl<llll ' . rr a ,n. l lm0(� �SS y or • e sI:' ships, o r infantry' o r cavalr • or artillery• machine guns t o issu 1 • ,c •ial t C 8 amp · lil 10_n 1 o r forr an. alnwst ?f stean� engine_; , bu t proper co-ordi nation of them all, including the . . � . emo 1 at1 011 of an hrnto nc e vent. gasol!ne engme and the things it drives , airplanes particularly ma l COimn wh ich are undoubtedly the obj ect of the secretary's ire, makes for The N.ol'S e-Am eri qrn celebra tion will t'=J.lr C . �e a well rounded national defense. A nd that is what we want, place at Hie lvlnmes o t a . .OU' � cl8 , J une state fai 1. g! . . . and that is what we ask of the men who occup y the high places 6-.9 a nd th �le , ls ' . • evei,y 111. dlCclhon ' . that 1t will -b e iu our government. rt .:.rl....1.,1 ""',.,, .L,. ,; --,-- .P� �me of the bigges t things of the kind ever v\Titne ssed 1 Secretary Wilbur lost no time rushing into print with his " u tter folly" interview. He has a right to his opinion, of course, 111 the country. / but when that opinion points directl y to an arm of the service ,r FhV:EV""'" � :.. "'ilEWS with which oth er nations are today feverishly eJ1gaged i n ex­ ,J y� W , b�.:i perimentation with a view to perfection , then it is disturbing ,T It might not be well to fill the air wth whole squadrons of THE NOR SE CELEBRATION t· a i rplanes. It may possibly be true that with present me-thods· airp lanes are relatively ineffective against botp. Wilbur, and his Th/ i orroe- 1�11nial f<�1· ·w hich gre:.1t large battleships, but it is a good thing to be alive to the p os­ at preparatrprn, ad been :1rnd e IS no,v m progre�s sibilities of the airplane. It is also • well to know what other . P�ul St. at u:1cl� irgro f a nations are doing and a good thing, incidentally, not to become . tho Minn es o a Sta� prejudiced just because some other man, Brigadier General of ors 1/:::cestry, d1stmgm shed m pn�)h c en M ratio n, Mitchell particularl y, thought of it first and had the courage ancl privat e life, are gather-e�l for the celeb to speak right out and let the country know his opinion that s the l head States a,nd the presi dent of the Umt ec our neglect of the airplane is criminal folly, . n i list. 100th anniv ersary of the • the uotcs t evcm he T ' ( ­ -�_l_h AY 10, L25 landing jn New York of the first ship� oad of Scan 2 . party the m 5 ere w e EBRATION Ther s. gTaJ1t dimw ian inuni by wed Thes <' in succeeding year!$ since were foUo .·1can c e nten nia l to be hel d o oth er s until-the numbe-r--has passed the t wo and. �h � Norse �7 ! . �es o t a State Fair gi·ounds June 6-9 , wil a qua rter mi llion n_i ark. . t. t a pageant ! R rn {b. depicted a ttcl" .,J,,_1t· , ll X govmnors of Non.;e ancestry a cre dita y be o will N rse histor h l r s 110 \\ ·i g fur the shmly descendants o f a grea· P au l a ncl t he i n dustry and 1W01'th of the Nors emen try exrace. as facto rs in the natim:fal l if e of this coun St. Pa n l has been ma k iug enthusiastic prepara- t olled . tion s for the rvcnt whieh ,Yill m ark the o ne hunP rrsiclcnt Cool i dge in his address pra ised Scan­ dreth anniven,<1 ry of the a � va l at th ese shore:s . dinavian immi grants for their contribution to of the fi n,t ,)>1J iploo d of i:-:.c a!fcl. imwian 1.mmtgranh.7 A merican life . He sai d v e r y truly that_ ' '. Min�esota woul il not P redidiou s ;-;eri o n;-;Jy made phic e the a ttend- I . penal northwcs te m ant e at from 250,000 to 500,000 i ncl udi:ng 60,000 i be M in nesota , t he group of n n for the c ou­ Nome Cani,1,dians. • state s ·w ould not be what they ar e, but • by the them t o made been 'Tl'ibutes to the i1Hlrn,hy, interngern·e and :c;t,er- tributiou that has _ . countrws . , . ling worth of the N01·semen w il l be paid by Presi- Sc a ndinavian . The in dustry of the Sca;1_dmav an m Mnm esota , dent Coolidge and other cfoitinguished men . ns mecca , added to the Norse hidol'y ,vi ll be depict ed i n pa ge a nt ::; and whi ch for many years w'as. h at mmonw e l t_h_ and co wealth of , � 1 musi c a l 1· e c- ita]s and there wi l l be a notable i;xp osi- development and o f cihzcn rd e standa hgh to t? v r�at�_ g bute c ntri r � o 1 ti on of Norse je welry , w ove n ta p estry , furnitu e, it ;i ustly 1s p D u d.. music al i11 shum ents 1 in fa d c ompris ing 22 d ep art - ship of which ments. Norn eme 1 aJlJ.l • hei , df;.s.cendants in their history a nd tradmons have much to r e view with pl'ide __________________________--J and houor and the contributio n to the :fine Ameri<·an citizenry is something the whol e nation must recogni ze . The centennia l is ho und to be a wonderful BVERE'�"I', W ,L,.:J.. mt\\'15 ¥ic>RsE c)[ s �Hoq11iam ., r , r H, 'I • , ,� v, 1 " OJUmU'.!IA. gtotiia r, A erica As A Guide. P Coolidge' fesident ndin'av'i ans at Am.,lc centennial at he expressed the thoug , national story might he in guiding mankind to a JJ8'1.J,,eJ;,...t1m derstanding, whereby a spirlit of fra­ ternity and cooperat'ion would domi­ nate the world instead of raci'al likes and dislikes. America has long been termed the ' 1Jmelting po�"' for here we hruve among us people of all nationalities, a n d with but few exceptions these people have been assimilated under our form of governmen t, leaving their old-world governments and con­ forming to one different from \ that they wer-e accustomed to. The ma­ jority of those coming to America have made good ciUzens. Here ra­ c ial distin.ctions have been broken . down ; the fusing of bloods I s . still continuing, and the differ ences of I the old world are forgotten in the common weal of all. Americans have sought to cooper ate with the newcomers, they hav, met them more tha'n half-way, thej have taken an interest in them, ani as a resul t the majority of the for eign�born are real Americans i� thought and deed. This is a great continent. Wiithouj the immigrant we would not hav� grown and developed as we have, For years Amer'ica was the asylum of those who sought liberty ·and free dom and an opportunity to escape conditions intolerable. It has been an experiment, this "melting pot" of ours, but as the Pr·esiden t has poli nted out, if we can ]J.ere amicably adjust racial differences it should' b e poss'i ble for the world to come to a; better understandingJ. Once nations can forget gre•ed and lust of power and gnow each other better, wars and differ.rnces will cease. America's "melting pot." once looked upon with doubt and dire forebod- . ings, may y-e t prove an experiment j which shall lead the natlions of the world into paths of peace, coopera­ tion, and a mutual fellowship and thereby end str'ife and doubt for all time. President Coolidge h·as touch­ ed upon a point which should prove useful in the solution of world pro:£i, • l em� - wASH.. r-:coRDF.TI Jl,[l ';) • ' - OLIDGE FINDS .A�NOTHER WELdOME -� STI<JRDAY Pre sideqt eoo 1idge i1iv�\{� ed 011e of t he so-termed " , - ti ally o po - �d " seclol's of Am:� r\ ca. The J)cople w ere glad 1 m� ey , 1:e! glad to h0ar him ; they were i n terested in ·w hat . o e rt!; h e h n c to a 3 . T _ i,1• l'eception · w as d �c_ided �y coJ"dial, with much ::;incere applause. S 1ch all outlmrs�A.I nnng from the stl'onghold of • • ':�1:in . LaFolle tteism, iH a he, J t points to a br0aking don1 o l' the bit ter wall which has arisen b'e twecn RepuhJ-icani sm 1.md La ifoll ctteism . During the last elect� _ - about th e control which th el'<'l was l ittle douht LaFollette wiel� � n hi s own di strict. It prnctically was unb eatable. EYerywhere, in 1rnblic office and p1·ivate pl'actice, LaPollctte workers sptead h is .m:_op;:i ga nda , s11ppol'ted his cl � imii and ;1rged h is cause. It is small , 1 onde1· that h e won that diStl'�·•t 's baclnng. But, i t is evident that LaFollcttc is l osing some o.£ his control. Morn and mm·e the public is breaking from his standai-ds. The once migh ty wall sl owly but surely is crumbling a w ay and there is no one w ith snHieicnt powei· and. prestige to huild i t up a gain. The l'ei:-t of the country is pl eased that such a situation has come about becauso it m eans the withd1·avrnl of a " thorn " which had caused a .:ilight :Cestering in the side o E i he American people. Pl'esident Coolidge 's visi t to th ILnorther -J.1-Widle sector will h ave a direct infl uence upon the beliefs of res1 .QJ: that district. His pl'esence, free from political influence, ha::; been exceptionally good. 'l'he Yotern now are able to view him, his ideas and· what he repre­ sentH, in an unbiased manner. 'rhey have found that the man chosen to serve as the nation 's executive is of superfine quality, energetic, feadess aud resolved to aid his people . . ' ,.- 'fh� N or�egii�� anofflrne Nortt:hwe§tt ousands of Americans of Norse origin, living in the ,t.:e f W h,ave been deeply interested in the _great celebratioy at MinneapQlis, where gathered many thousands 'of Norw • ·an citizens to celebrate the one-hundredth anni­ versary o �first exodus of their people to the United States. The celebration was so important that President Coolidge journeyed all the way from Washington to Minne­ apolis to speak before the largest gathering of Norse people ever known in this country. * A million Norwegians, or more, came to this country dur­ ing the century, the end of -yrhlch the celebration marks. Most of these sturdy men and women settled in the .re&i2!! near the Great Lakes, in the corn belt and in the wheat belt. Minnes�ta, the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Illinois claimed most of the sons of Norway, but thousands have come still further west and settled in the Puget Sound country. The great for­ ests of the northwest appealed to many of the younger men, and for more than a quarter of a century the Scandinavian population of Washington has been a considerable factor in the development of the country. It has never been the miture of the Norseman to hang back and wait for somebody else to do the hard tasks or take the risks, assuming that the future offered rewards com­ mensurate with the effort rfquired. Pioneering has always been in the blood of the No:hvegian, and in much of the task of opening up the country, '.rom one side of it to the other, he has found congenial life work and not a mean reward. Not alone has the Norwegiar ooen a fearless man of the sea ; he has been a courageous fnntiersman in America. �n, �The northern peoples, a Profe s sor Larson of the Uni .,. versity of Illinois has aptly reminded us , have gone into many countries , never with empty hands. In particular is this true of those who came to tlus continent, for they gave not only their unremitting toil to community state and na­ tion, but they also gave their sanity, their pen,istence, their wisdom and their strength of character. Nor have they been backward in assuming the duties of citizenship, of aiding in directing the affairs of the nation. Today, the nations of the world look anxiou s ly toward t� North Pole, brought close to us by the daring of Amundsen, a true Norseman. Two generations of Norwegians are busy in the develop­ ment of the northwest. Naturally the older generation cling fondly to the mempries of the fatherland, and there are they who made up the great throng at the Minneapolis cele­ bration. But the younger generation has fused with the other peoples who have become American in the full sense of the word, and to them the dream is of the future, not of the past. Those who can boast of Norse heritage should take com­ fort in the thought at this time and in the future that their forebears never shrank from hard work nor from danger ; that their loyalty to fatherland and to America has never been doubted, and that having once set their faces to the westward they never tun.ed bac.k� s � Presid r � N p H o e sm fll..T ed by the pres (V Y ' u hampercy nd he gives free rein lo ip for ad­ 1itilial 1�ws a fon dn e s s to hi s a�1cY_mtie 1� �1ms of i deal i sm . venture m the a; th No rwegian CentenHi s add re�s s no n -po­ _ Ji nn esota wabe h avin g nial cel ebrati_on 1� to d e l itical an d hi s mt�nd s �!ult : An inter­ e. a thoroly good im . s3 � dr ad estin g lebrl}tfon commem i­ m Thi s particu.1ar. ce im ian eg orw of orate d the arrival successful Amer­ grants in 18�5 , afted th · firm establish­ tt ican . re:7olution ml:fed S tes as ..an in de­ ment of the U .pendent n ation. Free4,om --'- Co oii<Ig eenton Cooli dge's t�oug \ star, the imperiled country gained freedom by adhering to the eternal truths contained in her national covenant. N orsemen Ce brate Annivemary of Adop­ tion o(J;onstitution of The>ir Countrr. .-.....i.-�wuNDRED AND ELEVEN years ago toda, Eidsvold, a little town n�t far from Chris• tiania, the independence of Norway was pro4� d a resolute gathering of her patriotic sons. A co ·titlion was adopted, and the pronouncement of hum n ri ts was modeled in many particulars after the immor al document that but a short time previously had been adopted by the United States as its funda­ mental law. For ea-1y a century sovereigu!y was in constant danger, bµt the principles enunciated in the instrument that founded the government never were forgotten and ultimately effected its preservation. .Like . a storm­ I tossed craft that charts a course to safety by the pole i 1 * * * ORWAY, secure i n her freedom, celebrates the anniversary or the adoption, May 17, 1814, of her organic charter-Grundlov. In places distant from the homeland persr,Wl,....of Norwegian nativity rec.:all this memorable �v�t in � annals of the nation. There fs scarcely a country on eJl,rth but w,hat has been bene­ fited by .Norse immigration. To America, m1Uions of Norwegi s have come to make homes and more than 30,000 n o;[ are re� :In this state. Norse h� the celebration of Norway's na­ tional holiday is shared by all people that rule them; selves. Her triumph in self-government has helped th � whole world. N SEATTLE. W A:11L TIM'ES J�E 8, 12. ;_ NTENNIAL SF,ATT � """P .. '!'p�r,, M),Y -,1 , .OR WAY • * * OR�AY in the early period ,pf her recorded existence was an indepen dent �lngdom. I<,rom 972 to 1381, she dominated all of Scandinavia and a great part of the rest of Northern Europe. Norseme n were the most daring mariners of the time and they ruled the sea in their part of the world. Their power de­ clined when their nation formed a union with Den­ mark in 1381 and it was the action of a Dannish m on­ arch in transferring them to Sweden' that aroused them to declare their freedom in 1814. While Norway was unable to estabiish a separate sovereignty and remained under the scepter of the King of Sweden , nevertheless her constitu tion, providing for self-governmen t, was accorded royal approval and put into fair operati on. But gradually Norse rights were ei �her ignored or violate d by alien sovereigns, and friction that at times threatened war develop ed be­ tween Norway and Sweden. In 190.S the Norwegian• Storthing adopted a resolu­ tion declaring the union dissolved, but the legislative act was not ratified by Sweden. After negotiations the two countries agreed to leave the issue to a Norse plebiscite, and this resulted in 3 0 8,211 votes for and only 184 agains� dissolution. Norway at once elected a Prince of Denmark, and since . his · elevation to t�e throne he has ruled over a sepa�ate, indepen dent kmgdo m. The monarch's powers are restrain ed and the people's rights are protected by the Eidsvold con­ stitution. niversary of the Arrival of First Nor­ we fan Imm igrants Is Celebrated. assembled today H , d cendants of Vildngs are • ·ounds near the on th Minn • State Twin Cities to celebrate . �e )l.und;redth anni· versaty of the rea'i begrrin1'ii[� ·orse immigration to the Uniteq States. �ce of President Coolidge and of, representatives of Norway, Canada and Iceland gives the celebration an exceptional interest. In va· j rious parts of the country, Ame:rican citizen � of Norse I descent are hold i ng lessp nlteutic,.,:., f'P.remomes. The �ical fact which the centennial commemo­ rates is the arrival of the sloop Restauratlonen i n New York Harbor with fifty-three Norwegian immigrants on board. The little vessel had left Stavang?r, Nor­ way, July 4, 1825, and did not arrive on our shores un­ til October 9. That single event marked the beginning of a great stream of immigration from Norway. No other coun­ try e:s:cept Ireland h �s sent so large a proportion of its I T �populati on. Norway's sons- and daughters who -have l T hey nave notat1en1J)lcu to esta7:Jrrmrn_ei·e mrcrr found homes here and who have become part of our upon the Americ an peo1Jle national life number not less thau 2, 5 0 0 , 0 00. When it I·lngdom or to impress On the contrary, th� Y fs considered that late census figures place Norway's �Id World ideas in government. genuinely �merican lll ancl ghly thorou becomo have population at 2,649, 7 75 it will be seen that Ame rica has have contr1b uted enorprofited enormously by the immigration w hich has its thought and in habit • They and culture. 'l'hey mo d est beginnings with the arrival of the Restaura- mous1Y to the country 's deve pmmlt. as an. th at ever came y wo as s respect all n i are tionen. to these shores. ,:, * •� In cherish ing the eeds and the traditions of their HE Norse-Americans, who today are celebrating Viking fathers, the orse-Americans arc no� div_1ded a notable event, have contributed much to our in their devotion to merica. an�l}.elf"' lllstftut10ns. culture and to our industrial and commercial progress. They have guar de d thl• Ji C• ta� tor their children, I _ to Those who prefer not to see any suffix or prefix to hut they have yielded. nothin g in _loyalty and love the title of American need have no m isgivings conoern­ the land where they have built the·,.. homes. !ng the citizens of Norse extracti on. While they are There is a special reason why the �eople _ of Norse proud of their Viking ancestry, they are doubly proud ancestry sh O uld be proud of their e\merican citizenshLP, of their American citizensh ip. Of all the people who It is not disput ed that Leif Ericss on an d his hardy have contributed their quota to the making of a great countrymen landed on Ameri can soil in the year l?O0 , nation, none are more lawabidi ng than the imm igrants A D It established a ' claim upon the land which Alth from the northwest peninsu la of Europe. a�ted�ted the voyage of the great Colum bus. g Vi:�:� * no permanent coloni es result ed from early reason ental LTHOUGH the first Norwegian settlers were voyages, they supply a strong sentim . love and cherisl: A me r· ca stirred by the romantic accounts of Kleng Peer- , why Norse men should ; • w ell ca� might A�en every today In the celebration son, a Norse Daniel Boone who had traveled extensively : es an event m which all m�Y morat comme It .. n jo i n the primeval West, it i s also likely that there was � ic It is a day of retrospect when we can profita sentimental attraction to this new land because oI which ha,vo made this contn the landing here of Leif Ericsson, five hundred years ::1; ;;call the events / great. before Columbus began his voyage of discovery. The Norse people for many centuries have WTestecl a VT � • ' .,., e,..o,, • livelihood from a land much less productive than th is. Seattle� ..! oJh,.. 2.>._ ., In area it is smaller than .M innesota and I owa com­ bined. The very effort r equired to make a living from the mountainous country and from the neighboring seas has made them a hardy, resourceful people. 'they have as a pleasing tribute paid the ·wegians by P[�si, . produced their full share of scientists, artists, states­ j de )l ge on the hundredth anmv rsai·y of th , fi rst men, musicians, writers and explorers. When they s e torg d move toward colonizing in Am • 1 e Norwetled iii other lands they readily adapted themselves to gians have be,m a powerful element in the developmen t of conditions and customs. !n France they became J<� rench­ the great northwest and it is too seldom their contribution men, as the history of Normandy proves, and in Eng­ land they became Englishmen . Also in America they is recognized. have become Americans. They have not sought or acl 0 Not the least important part played by the Norwegia ns vocated the transplantation here of another kingdom. in American life is their revolt against the onerous condi­ The American system of government gave them the tions that made the farms they had hewed out of the wild­ freedom they desired. Their patriotism never has been derness by the h ardest kind of labor over long years but subject to doubt. The descendants of the Vikings are celebrating theil, little more than shackles to bind them to constant servitude rediscovery of. America not as Norwegians, but as cit­ to their financial overlords with little more thari a bare living . izens Qf the republic who are proud of their noble l1e1·i• as reward for their toil. T A , �� � '-£A f""J - "" • :-TI .. TD,E." "" l �"� TABLE D AY atiou of Arrival of First -1 n tenni·a1 Cefobr • t·ic Event r • lmm ig_rants a Patr10 I �, t ival the en ntal ol'. the arr H1JJ celebration of . c t�- s commemorates giant of the first Norse 1mm nce i"u Am erican his • orta imp at • 0 gi f o t an even one I1, w ith its fiftyrati tau Res p tory. The little s 1oo riately referred to rop a three passengers, has bee� marked the beg in• It ·t:P as the Mayflower of the �?;. • • - rM ·n of imm igration e. sw all. Y srea: ntn1; of die � . • since the first ar· 1 t::� f rom Norway. D uring t�e . cen a y has sent us a N rival s lande d at New 'York, 10 1 t· n than any other • ·1arger proportion of her popn � y s o and daughters orwa N d Irelan country e xcept . s ::oo '00 0 ' or only h an w, t less in .America nurn ber not Norway today. of . a little less than the popu l�t ��: orous, ha1· dy peo ple I vig tha note of hy lt is wort . have ass imi lated , la msu Pen vian from•, the Scandina land. pt•�d ado r . . . . ,. ~ -- ,, I the' way s and customs. of thei T 'Tfrr " JPrai©e 7or No1rwe- -..-�- That :revolt culmina ted in the elec­ tion to the United States senate of two of their sons who stood for and with the people, and no matter what may be said about the accent of Magnus Johnson, his short term in office caused the standpatters to take hurried steps to im­ prove the condition of the farmers for fear of their perma­ nent conversion to progressive political principles. The Norwegians are deserving of all the good things that are just now being said about them. Let us hope the tribute s will be remem bered when again they take it into their heads to call the nation back to the ideals of a free people. �T T $pe ·a1 ·T�ai� for?'Cooli'&ie1 /2re. • 'nt • ool� dge, goi g to Hnneso tn � _ _ t deliv er an n.ddress, t vc d m a special tra�n. Thi as done " in c•;implianc • • wi • the reque st of a road companies fo1· the pu�·posc\of operating conve nience and every pre­ cautio n for safety. ' ' It was done, too, in compl iance with the wishes of the thinking· public . It is easier for the railroads to take proper ·care of ihe President when they have him in a specia l train, enjoying the right of way over everything else. There he is subject to fewer contacts and danger s than he would be if travel ing along with a promiscuous crowd in an ordina ry Pullm an t rain, The railroa ds arc better �atisfi cd becaus e they co n kcrp uu C?O on him and fon d off J)eoplc who h ave 11 0 1msine ss a roun d him, and the }'ltb1i c is better satisfie d because it 1m:iws he is safer. It co�t s more, of rournc, as fol' as llH' rc t ra veling c.•. ,lenses are eonccrn c,1. \"l't i t i s cconn m)·. H is lurg-c • 1·r o11orny aga i nst ,s mall pronon 1y. 'L'hc no tion can a f'.fonl ----- - -- doors should be openea ai;(am. The country needs more people. It ca_f easilv support 400,000,000 ; and 1 thcv"' were all Americans, all of them woii ld be more prosperous than the l l 0,000,000 who now occupy the countr . : lmerica, however, must belo'!lg f?r­ evcr to Am Hirans. Its contr1but1on 'to the world's welfar� h3:s beeri because of its Amencams:n,-1ts 1 • ert y its practical sense1 its absenc� of g;·eecl, and i�s. genoros1ty. Tbe most e;uccessi'Ul poliucal s,vstem !n . t1ie world is the fruit of Amencamsm. \All efforts to !1,dulterate that 8Y_�· tern will be resisted �y true Ame1_1cans. The elements m the �oun_t1y that do 1,ot understand Amencamsm or the American system m ay prC:ss ;for chano-es, 1rnt for�unately the sp n_ • it of A1�1 oricanism is str?n� enoug-h to hold the strncture ag-arnst all as­ saults from within or ·wi�ho:ut. Let the outside world, 1f 1t yearns ;for peace and happiness, emulate 9:nd jmitate America instead. Qf a�k.mg.America to adopt f_o re1gn p_oht1ca 1 schemes. Let Amencii assts� the world by usimr tho power _anu m flunce of Ar11e1:i�a in__A�t;_:�� a'� ,. ';:�; � \ sp e cia l trni ns and C'OD lfor s anl �a fcguanls for its chie f J, 111n g1 stra � e f r mor e cast� I ly t han it can a f ford t o � 0,. daug er his hie or wear him •o ut 1 mJr R r-llJ.Yl.ll,.l'<':� . a( css at the No ·eg1au ce11.ten al • ·ei;idcnt Coolidge . re­ ferred to th enormous impulse g1yen to i111migratill!Jl from Europe by .nu­ migrants wh�, had already r . 1ed theoe shores ancl,�ho were 1B to _ends to induce their relat-1 . come "They engaged m an inverted crusade " he remarked; "a conquest without invasion and without force." The mo.-ement from northern Europe to America had a powerful �·ef�ex a,c­ tion upon Europ�, by furrushing . an example for democrat10 evojut1on. J�uropean governments were hb"r_a,1ized and the i11crea;;e of popu!a�1on in the northern part of the Umted t.-itates ''h 4:.tened th� dow1�fall . of slavery ai1(l 1\elped nd our rnst1tu· tions of that great and threatemng anomaJy ." . The, '.Norwegian immigrants came here to become .Americans. They as­ isiste r� their friends to come and be­ come mcricans . '1ch movementa as that ich hui up the northwest with N • ·"' s were the greatest f;ingle ion'" m the expansion. of the Un ited Htntcs. . . 'The chancre in character of 11mm­ gration in t'fie lar-t 30 years ,�as ,1us_t cause for alarm ou lli� part of �Ul<'l· ican�. Tho 1ww . i111111 1grants did 114?t become Americaus. Tney herd,e d m colonie s and became both a nmsance and a danger to society. Old Vvorld crimes were ra mpant among them. They did not come to stay, but as soon as the.v had aecmnulat�d some money they returned, leavmg . the counfry poorer. Those who remamed helped to fill the pri�ons and asylums mamtaiued by Amencan. taxpayers . [n England 11 11 l\ut, I, percent of the populaLinn is nat!Ye oorn . 1n 1he United :C:tafrs 4 p,,rcent of the po�.u1a1 ion is forei.£: n - born: The rest11c­ tio11 of immigration did not come an hour too soon. . Under reBtricted !�migration th. e opulation of the U n1_ted State� 1s becomino- wholly American, by birt1 and by ;::,lu�nt.i?n . T�1e dangerous 1vi� ion� of pubhc scnhment. that were ,:.,d dent. i11st bdon' ,th� Umtcd Stat�s ,;,rn ered ( he war w 1 11, not occu_r aga;m if t ho lin i1 t>d States_ w ill. contmue its pol1· cy of ,·estricieq 1mm1gra t10n. H:v : ph..,· msm has pract1�ally d1sappear_ed , anrl it is a good nddar.ice. There is still room . m �he United , States for acceptable 1mm1grants. If 13011,e method eoul.d be foun_d for ad­ tnitting them while excludmg und e­ sirable nationalities a1:d ra.ces • .!!1e l ,I .· I mit Ju1v �-� COOLIDGE ON FREEDOM '\VHEN President q olidg 's thought is � unh �mpered by the ' � pressure of political diplom _ acy and gwes free rem he to hi s fancy he shows a fondness f r adven ture realm the in s of idealism. His address at the Norwegia Cente celebration in Min­ nesota was non-political and hi m • d nnial seemed to be having a tboroly good time. Result : A int resting address. _ .. ,,s particular celebration emorated the arrival of Norwegian immigrants in 1825, ter sueCBs�ul Americau revolution and the firm establishm ent the of the l . • States as an independent nation. l- _ '; _ Having discoursed on the motives that had prompted ea"'rlier • immigration to these shores from Europe, largely stimu lated from the other side, the President came to the immig ration en­ couraged from this side of the Atlantic after the establishment of our government. rr'\ "From the time when their fast-developing institutions of popular government, religious freedom an<l intelle take definite an<l attractive forms," says ctual liberality had come to Coolid ge, "the people of the Colonies took a new interest in induci their European relatives to follow them thither. They engaged in ng an inverte d crusade, a conquest without invasion and• without force The new country offered not only material opportunities, but possib.ilities of spiritual and intellectual emancipation which they ardently d their friend s on the other side to share. Citizenship in the Newwishe World meant something that it had not meant in the Old. It was seen the New Warid offered some­ thing new. There was an increasing that realization that many burdensome traditi ons and. institutions had somehow been shed. Here, ai>- lei.gt IN DIVID UAL WAS ,.,= LORD OF HIMSE LF, MASTE OF HIS OWN . DESTIN Y, KEEPER OF HIS OWN SOVEREIGNTY. R HERE HE WAS I FREE ." President Coolidge can devote himself ro no greate e than t,o lead the fight t,o resrore this country to ther crusad condition he so eloquently describes as existing i n 1825. blissful A thoughtful survey of his counb'y today, of the harmony; patriotism and idealism of all of the people in 1917 and 1918 and the insidio us attacks on freedom during the past few years of awful reaction, must convince him that he can not say truth­ fully today that in the United States in 1925 the "indivi is lord of himself, master of his own destiny, keeper of hisdual own sovereignty. Here he is free." For probably at no time in the history of country has bigotry and intolerance been more vigorously this o�'ensive, or re­ ligious freedom and intellectual liberty less s€9{ire than right now. �By BERTHAJ R. RTIN. HE great Northwhst is en fete to greet President • nd M rs. Coolidge and their party who have gone west on a special train to join In the �orse celebr:,tion .in Minnesota, where the dE\,ceJdants or these hardy folk are remember\.al the valiant deeds of their ancestors, the pioneers of the frontier, who have b u ilded m ightily i n that favored land. While in St. Paul President and Mrs. Cool­ idge will be the guests of Secretary of State and M rs. Ke1logg at their home there. It has been a busy week for the chief exec­ utive :rnd ihe first lady of the land but au in­ teresting one. While Mrs. Coolidge was at ·M ercersburg, where she went to attend the graduating ceremonies of the class of 1 9 2 5 a t the famous academy there, the President was at Annapolis giving the coveted sheep­ skins to more than 4 0 0 future admirals, for whom the goal of their ambitions, graduati o n day-had a t last dawned. Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Wilbur and a host o f o th e r C,ap,ital ' notables a l s o went t o Annapolis for the picturesque ceremonies. Mrs. Coolidge m ust have entertained mingled feelings o f pride and grief when she attended the ceremony unveiling the strik­ in g portrait of her son, Calvin, who would have been a member of the class of 1 9 2 5 had he lived. The touching inscription of the portrait was beautifully thought out and she must have found comfort in the tender devo­ tion of the_ class to her and their s urprise gift of a handsome platinum and diamond wrist watch for the m other of the beloved cltss­ mate, who young as h e was, had left the im­ J)ress of a fine character on his schoolmates. Mrs. Coolidge motored both ways to Mercers­ b u r g and wh ile there was the house guest of the President of the Academy and Mrs. Will­ iam Mann Irvine, who have freq·u ently visited th Coolidges at th� White House. h'. �. ( ot!. ; u 1'L\ K ERS ,;;,rur .- Jn 3 a �f� r ��::; at U'. e �orwe fi a n c " te n n i .:d . _ J e,,te1 d a ). J 1 es 1 d e n t Coo1 I d ge uefc ne,. t t>' t h e enormou s impu lse given to i m tn ig- ,trt 1 ion from , •� u rnpH Ji:-- i m m i gran ts who Ti a d 11 l rcrn ct,· reach ed t b ese shore s and wbo ,n,re anxio ur, t� induc e th efr relati ves and frie n d .; t o come ' "T'h ey en.:;;·a ged i n au inver ted nnsa de, · • b e rema rked : " a con q u est with o u t i n vasio n a n cl with o u t fo rce . " 'T'h e move m e n t from north ern Eu rope to Amer ica had a po11·e rfu I reflex ac- tion u p on 1Ti t1 rope, i b .v fu rnishing ai\ exa m )51e for demoeratic evol u tion. European govern­ men ts were liberalized , and the i n crease uf population in the n·orthern part of the Un ited Sta t es " liastened t h e d o w n fall of slavery .i n d h elped rid our i n s t i t u tions o r that grea t and th reate n i n g a n omaly." The Norwegian i m m igra n t s came here t o be­ c o m e A mericans. 'I'h ey assisted tlleir friends Lo come and become Am erica n s . Such m ove­ ments as t h at 11·hich b u i lt up t h e nort h 11 e,;t with N"oi·weglans were th e greatest Hingle forre i ll 1 h r ex pansion of the U n ited States. The c h a n ge in the character of i m m igration in the last tb irty years was ju st cause for a l arm o n the part of Americans. 'rh e new i m ­ m igra nts d i d not beco m e A m erican:,. 'T'hey h erded in co lon ies and became both a nu isance a n d a cl anger lo society. Old ...,-orld cri m es ll"ere rampant a m o n g them. They d i d 110 !. come to stay, but as soon aa they h ad accu m u ­ l a ted s o m e m o n e y t h ey returned . leavi ng the coun t ry po orer. 'T'hose who re m a ined h elped t o fi l l t h e prisons aud asyl u m s m a i u ta i ned by A m erican t axpayers. I n England an hut 1 per cen t of tlr n popu­ lation i s n a tive-born . In tho U n i ted S tates 1 per cenl of t h e popu lation is fo1·eign-born. 1'h e res triction o f i m m i gration did not come .i n hour too 80011 . U n d er restricted i m migral i o n the popu ta­ li o n of the United States is beco mi ng wholly A m erica n , by hirth and by education. The dangerous d ivisions of public Mnti men t t h a t we re evid e u t. j ust before t h e Un ited States en­ tered the war will not. occur again if I he Un ited States wil l continue its policy of re­ stricted immigra tion. . Hyphenlsm haa prac-' lica lly d isappeared ; and it is goo cl riddance. There i s still room in the United States for acceptable i m m igrants. Tr some method co u l d b e fou n d f o r adm itting t h e m wh i l e excluding u n d esirable national i t ies and races , the d oors s h o u l d be opened agai n . 'l'he coun try needs m o re people. It can easi ly support 4 0 0 , 0 0 0,0 0 0 ; and if they were all Americans, all of them w o u l d be more prosperous than the 1 1 0 ,0 0 0 , 0 0 0 who now occupy the country. Am erica , however, mu st belong forever to A m ericans. Its contribution to the world's welfare b a s been made because of i ts A meri­ c a n i sm-Us l iberty, its practical sense, its absence of greed , and i.ts gen e1·osity. The most f Uccessful politica l system in the world is th e fruit of A mer ica nism. A l l e fforts to a d u l terate that system with foreign or i n ternational m odi­ fications will be resiste-d b y true A mericans. The e l e m ents i n the cou ntry that do not un­ d erstan d A mericanism or the A m erican sys­ tem m ay press for changes, but fortunately the spirit of America n ism is strong enough to h ol d tho str ucture against all assau lts fro m w i t h i n or with out. Let the outside world , if if yearns for peace and happiness , e m u late ancj i m i tate A m erica. instead of ask ing A merica to adopt foreign po­ l it ical sch emes. Let America assist the world by using the p o we.r and influence of A m erica in America's w:iy, free fro m in trigue or greed o f conq est. \ In his address at the Norwegian The Norse Movement. centennial ce'ltllbratlon at Mlnneap­ olJs yesterdal resident Coolidge revealed himself In new phase, hitherto undisclos to the people, a; a student and expounde1• of his• tory. Hls remarks on public occa­ sions _ have usually dealt with SO· clal , and economic themes, In the handling of which he has displayed 1 that sound "common sense" that is his chief characteristic. In this speecb, however, he tells a story, and tells it vividly ·and with dra­ matic force, _ in a manner to interest ·the people of the country in a phase of American development that has not been sufficiently studied or ap- ; preclated. The celebration in Minnesota Is in commemoration of the centennial of the arrival in this country of, the first "colony" of modern Norsemen- I not the first in h istory, but the pioneers of the present cycle. These people came over In a little sloop, the Restaurationen, which sailed from Norway July 4, 1825, "with a desperately heavy catg-o of Iron and a parL;t or 52 people." Her vo�'age· lasted 14 weeks, as against the t weeks of the Mayflower. 1 The President traces parallels be.' tween the two dolonlzlng e1;1.terprises and points out the sturdy spirit animating the Norsemen " ho came , over here a cen.tury ago and thtts started a movement of n>igratlon \ which has had a very important in • tl.uence upon th-e North American civilization. From the Restaurat!onen a century ago with her 52 pa,ssen­ gers down to date there have com <> here from Scandanavia a great mul l t!tude of men and women who have Iden tified themselves with Amet"ican customs and Jaws and in;,t!tUtions, who have been rich producers of wealth, sturdy citizens, a. lways ' ready to serve the country in any capacity, a source of strength to I the land. Applying the theme of the N� rse j movement to the national situation; the President said: Although this movement of peo­ ple originated' in Norway, in Its es- 1 sence and Its meaning It is pecu- 1 liarly American. It has nothing I It has , about It of class or caste. no tinge of aristocracy. I,t was not produced through the leadership of some great figure. It is represented almost entirely by that stal,yart strain who ma!{e the final decisions in this world, which we d'eslgnate the common people. It has about it a strength of the home and the fire­ side. · the family ties of the father 'the mother, the children _and the 1 and kindred. It has all been carr �ed on very c lose to the soil ; it has all been extremely human. When I consider the marvelous results it has ac ­ complished I cannot but believe that it was inspired by a Higher Power. B:ere is something vital, firm and abiding, which I can only desc1,!-,p.e , .as a gre1tt reality. ,,/ 1 • ' I 1 I I �tlon laws, and almost their sole rea1 son of being, is to p1·event the -impor­ tation or un desirables; to stop the dilution of the quality of our Am er­ ican citizenship. President Cool!dge's speech re­ m ! nds u s fotc:ibly tl, at the complaints a gainst our immigration laws and the public o pinion whi ch brnught more restricl!Ye measu res were 110t caused 60 much 1:,y the fact that immigrants contin u e d t o come to our shores in large nu mbers as b)' th" foct that the - lm.mi:gra.tion and lllew THE TRAIL OF POLITICS. character of Immigration In the last Coolidge sp0ke with force few d ecades had radlcall,· changed . he' .J'residen t 's trip t-o Minr. esota i l lustrn tes ome . I th courage at the Norwegian Thel Irish immigration - "·hatever more the incurable tendency of American s to read a poli t­ ;an ical motive i nto every act of a pubhc man. To mast people centeu !al in St. Paul when he drew / �onti-ary view may be lnspiren by in - , the thing appears entirely simple. There is to be a centena­ the · lln sharply on the q uestion o! dividual ptejudices, v.as a good kind ry celebrati on of the :first immigra tion of Nor�ep to the inunigra: Ion. He rightly said that I of immigration. The Irlsh-born In themselves1 who , �his country, and the sons and da trgh- 1 United States, which resulted in adding a sturdy and val­ uable race element to our popul ation. What could be more ha.d come to our shores, wez e 1 espon, tei·s of Irish immigrants, h ave taken , n atural than for the Presiden t to take part in such a note­ Bible for the great flood of immigra­ a prominent. place in our national worthy commem oration ? Yet the observer s and the inter· tio n that fl owed in u pon us until it life and a benefi cial place. The Nor­ p reters are already reading his heart. They see him em­ was ohecked by restrictive measures. wegians and the Swedes cnltlvatE!d b arked upon a politica l journey . He is invadin g the La­ They sent word to the folks back millions of acres of our fo1'merly u n ­ Follette country. Deeply significa nt is the fact that Senn­ h ome. He said with equal truth that develop e d Western fields, and theJ tor Lenroot , sworn enemy of La Follette and sentenc erl "ome of, the earlier Immigrants to th e became good American citizens. At �y the latter to politica l death, is accomp anying the Pre,;i­ rJ nit··d State!. had become a great least one of them, himsel f foreign factor i n th e upbu !lding of this coun dent. 'I'his makes it certain to ;;orne penetrat fog mfor1 s­ t.l'y; he even we e far n.s to say­ born, for many years added distinc­ that Mr. Coolidge h as already bcgnn plann ing the Congres­ that the coming of Norwegians to d e • tion to the senate of th e United sional elections of next year and the Presiden tal campaign velop t h e Northwest h a d b e e n the States. Ou r 0ltlzens of ScandlnaYla11 c,·igin are loyal, I ndustrious and of 1 928. From so small a matter is a great fire kindled ! e, reatost simllar force i n the expan­ Political o racles are n ever willing to accept a n explo n ­ Pion o f the United States in its great, r utriotlc. The same things are to be said of ation tha t lies on t h e surface. They search o u t hidden naturally rich, expanses of "\"{estern • the nat!Yes of one or two oth er coun­ causes and secre t intents. It is eae;y to say that the Presi­ empire. tries, afte1· th ey ha d migrated to our d ent is merely giving official counten ance and presenc e to :Rut the president gave no e_ncour­ a n importa nt celebrat ion. In addition to doing t h at dn1 y ,i gem en t to ·those who would sweep shores and assu med th eir rarts in of his office h e might be though t to have an in nocent desii'e a.way the present bars against whole­ o u r citizensh ip. But in later tim es to se e someth ing of the country over which he rules. He Bale and indlscr!m!nate immigration ! cs.me h o rdes of natiYes of oth er lands, a.n d i n large1· ratios, who coul d not h as long been a h ome-kee ping public servant . It is sa id to the United States. We learned a or would not a dapt t hemselYcs to the t h at only once before lr ns he ever been as far West as Min­ bitter lesson during the World. war; neapol is. And i t would seem obviou s that his brief appear ­ we came to realize very disagreeably 1 American man ner of thought and ance there, with his hurried return to Washin gton, could t ll e fact that hundreds of th ousands tradition and to the American sch eme not lend itself t o mysteri ous plotting s of any kind. But of our residents, some of them citi­ , of living. That is 1.lr n f;iOrt of im­ migration which it wa,; necessary to _ the p oliticia ns who are wiser than seven men that can ren· zens. of foreign birth, had not been • check. der a reason will not have it so. They.in sist that vast and asslmllatecl. They were, 111 fact, dls­ The barrier was too long delayed. subtle designs are concedl ed behind wll a t a ppears to b lo,·al. That condition still prevails, Most of th e p1•esent sources o! sedi­ a merely routine Preside ntial trip. If Mr. Coolidg e were€J In a measure we know not o:C just tion in Am erica ; most of the d is­ to extend his journey and go in search of the Oregon 'J'ni i l n hat proportions; but the growth of loyal influen ces which would tear h is critics would b e sure t o see another trail much more om­ H ha s been checked. Ours ls still d own if they could the national struc­ inou s-the trail of t11e serpent of politics over it all .-N. Y. the l an d of the free, but we no longer ture which the fathers of the re publlc Times: welcome all comers regardless o f their built, are to be fou n d among those nrevious condition, their present state classes of th e foreign-burn who n ever nnd their dubious prom ise of adap­ should have been (ldm ltted to ou r na­ \ab!llty as citizen$ of the American tional �o wshJp. We cau only wait republic. Our present Immigration laws are ! d l' e ou t·' /ract---;;;;;fl foe Ll1at sto ck to t far 'from perfect ; but they form n. tl e meanthno, t.11a in e, lanc vigi due be inc rea sed • not <>heck which was sadly needed. So 1� , sha l.Jcrs th eir num our 1'"1.r a s these laws tend toward a scar­ mhisi ou thr ou � by recldess ad c ity and a monopoly of labo1· in the sea -po rts . United States, they are bad. They should not be used for the purp os·e of strength ening the power of unJons --and this Is· entirely apart from the m erits of trades unionism ns such. The main function of wise 1mmi gra0 f 7 I- - / . .5 • �fH.JNTn,u·i nNT w. VA .. DTSPA't'� TUESD ' T 1'."' t rn25, Tutl{orsemen - - r - �he . N�JJ� -�{enn ia!i_ 1s being held in St. Paul this Week and has been dignified by the pr esence of the president of the ,Un ited States o n the program, is a reminder of the important role this' hardy Scandinavia n race has played in conquering the n orthwest. One hundred years ago, the first I shipload of Norwegian i mmigrants , landed in New York harbor. They came by sailboat and had spent fourteen weeks 011 the water. An organization of New York people greeted them, having ali-eady ·made preparations for their settlement on a boundary of wi ld and uncleared . land on the shores of Lake Ontario. Each i mmigrant contracted wh1 ered the continent--:- -They came seel,-=-• i ng greater opportunity for themselves and their families. They I .l'.ound opportunity and made the J most of it. They established hom es, I began to cultivate the soil and build an empire. Today the flour bin of the United States, one of the great­ est granaries in the world, is in their hands. 'fhe whole country is thankful for their a1-hievements and their contributi on to nati onal wealth. 'l'he whole country is proud to regard them as genuine American stock. I i t had not been for their conquest, the prairie dog and � coyote, probably, would be running / . some of the best agricultural do- , m ain in America today. It was fit • that the president of the Uniter! States should be the central figure in their centenn ial cele�a�. for forty acres of land at $ 5 an JIORGANT(Y\'l ..:r � POST acre. They were unable to pay the �-- W,EJDN'ESDAY, JU ,, 3 101 1926, full amoun�, but were permitted to S ecr e tary Wi llilur's --difficulties -- - over getscatter then· payment over ten an- ting a big ai rship ou t to Mlnnesota tn time nual installments. That was the for the Norse- 4wer1\:!AA CAA-teru2ial are ex­ only group of Norsemen to settle in asperating to all concerned but they ought the east. Others foi'iowed, but they to help educate _t he_ public up to an under­ were taken to the North west terri·- t , n n that rig bles canno t be ordered di i a di g _ � / t ory and by 1 8 5 0 the state of W is mto serv ice like taxicabs. Mo1:eover about consi n had upward of 5 0 , 0 0 0 Nor- the only craft the government owns t hat wegian settlers. They s p read on ' Is always ready for 111s • tan t service is an . . • 1 mto Mrnnesota and the Dakotas. I army mule. _ _.,__... Today the Norsemen comprise the , t_ 7 chief stra.in of the popula,ti on. Four PA R 1' iE R SBU R G. W V A .. N E� governors-Blaine of W isconsin , L THURSDAY, J UNE ll, _ 1� Christianson of Minnesota, Sorlie of l T IAKER S OF AMER ICA North Dakqta and Gun<Ierson of --. South Dakota-are descendants of s ad);ress at the Norweg ian centenn ia; In this hard i mmigran t stock , They are one of the best strains esterday President Cooli�� in America today which has drawn enormous im�ulse_ gi�en to immigration from on nearly every stock on the fact of Europe by 1mm 1grants who had already the earth for its population. The reached .these shores and who were anxious to Norsemen proved industrious, am- / induce their relati ves and friends to come. it u s anc� thrifty. 'l'he� too_k " They • engaged i n an inverted crusade," he : �� as1 Y to agriculture, though m the!l' remarked . "a conquest without invasion and • •' fatherland they were engaged prin• wit h out force. The movemen t from nort hern . . " • cI. pa11 y m r·1sh mg an d seaf anng pur• r ful refl ex a cEurope t o Amer ica h ad a powe • • Suits . Tll eY Conver tecl th e grass . upon E�rope, by_ furmshmg an examp le t10n covered pra iries of the northwest c evolut10n. European govern­ into waving fields of grain and for democrati ized, and the increa se o f liberal were ments s us cities and and populou p rospero rn part of the Unite d, ·northe the in ion populat t t villages. The clima e of heir na l of slavery and , " downfal the d hastene tive country was not unl ike that of States and the land they settled and develope d helped rid our institutio ns of that great i n the new wor_l<l . . If the conquer- threatening anomaly." The Norwegian immigrants came here to , ing of the northwest had been left their assisted Americans. They to o ther stocks of early American become immigration, development and pro - friends to come and become Americans. Such gress in that part of the United movements as t l}.at which built up the north ­ States would probab\r· have been de- west with N orwegians were the greatest single · layed m any decades. Others, not force in the expansion of the United States . adapte� to such a regorous climate , l The change in the character of immigra- ' would have hesitated to venturp , • • � tlon m the last thirty years was J ust cause for fo th �• al�rm n 1�e part of Americans • . The new im., � ;h� fact that the '�orthwest is m1gran _s 1d n?t become A mencans. . Th ey , one of the richest and m ost proan� became both, a nms:1nce gressive _ regions in Lhe counLry to- herded 1n colonies society. Old World crimes to danger a and day can be attributed to the Norse . They did not immigran ts, iwbued with the same were rampan t among them venturesom e spirit of their illus- come to stay, but as soon as they had accumu­ t r!ous countrymen who accompanied lated some money they returned, leaving th� Leif Eri ckson , upon his voyage to country ·poorer, Those who remained helped to American shores nearly five· bun-fill the prisons and asylums maintained by dred years before Colum bus discov- American taxpayers. refmT"e'tt ... �rc ent - 01 tne P I n Englan d all but 1 pe e Un ite d States 4 lature has attempted to i n tedere wit li t he ae­ th n 1 lation is n ativ e-bor_un . the teaching of scientific truths and n is foreign b or n . The • taails of . percent of th e _ pop lati ? n did p n u its own interpretations. a e set com has not restriction of im migratio It is not in this way that the American hour t oo soon . . Its foun ders w ere broadly tion the popula- r epubl ic has grown U n der re stricted imm igrabecoming wholly tolerant m en . They laid down fund amental e s is . tion of the U n ite d S tat by educa tion . The principles of toleran ce in the Constit ution e re de velol? ed u n d er th e lead­ w cipl s e prin Ame ric an by birth and e Thes_ ic s�n timent that mas e ffers?n mto a body of po­ dan gerou� di visions of publ U nite d �tat.es en - e_r�hip of T�oes which gmde d the cou rs e of the the e for e b ust j d ctrm we re eviden t tical � aga� n if the h t ere d th e war will n ot_ occu � pol lcy of re- new n ation. its � tmu n co l I wil s e tat U nit ed S Tolerance is i n the b_ackgr�und of a c en­ prac en ism h�s stricted imm igration . Hr:)l�L1s g od riddan ce. I tury :=tnd a hal� of �merican _ history. It was ? tica lly disappeare d ; an d 1t Umt to this great historical experience that Presi­ e d St at e s for the n i room still aled .-The Kan sas The re is d me tho.d coul d�n t C ooli dge so finely appe r. acceptable immigrants. If some Sta ity m wh ile e xcludin g C b e fou nd for admittin g the d races, the doors nce. The " na­ n a s e i alit n 'OIKT PLF \SA 'T iY V:\ T' -P:GISTEB u n de sirable n atio •,r n,d m utual dependeca as a guiding nee ds try n cou .The meri should be open ed again. tio nal sto ry" of A tion al r elations i s ..M__()v��lgM Wft�� p11 �2 , ort 4 00 , 000 ,ciple in inte r na more pe ople . It can easily supp of atti tude of Pre s ident Coolirdge entertains a vi- prin e rica n s, all ly marred by the ng light s 00 0 ; and if they were all Am ,to prac­ 0 1 His 1 man. of the efusi brotherhood n the of 1:,ion r tha s in rou the United Stat es the m would be more prospe cou ntr y. o nal natil " un �e.u­ its NON&-� the at s of s addre py the tic e the teachin g s 000 , 000 who n ow occu operatenni�ration-"m,idwayb e­ coer to . v e ancl for ity g n tern belo t "fra mus stor y" of Am eric a, how ev er, Cities"-w•a s occa­ Its con tribution to the wor ld's tween the Twin and afforded him Uon." Am eric a n s. haracter c , in ri­ e si,onal its Am we lfare has b een mad e b ecaus e ofl s en se , its an opportuni,t y ,to expand a theme W,oodrow Wil son saw i.he same sign ca n ism-its liberty, its practica nwo o con ng i impiug ut t the "national s tory" but his im,1giwitJho in mos e Th absenc e of greed, an d its generosi ty.world is the I sues. The mirac le of Amer ica stirre d n iwas S·O studi ously co- ordin �.t ed naUo succe ssfu l political system i n the to adul terate the Cooli dge tmag inatio n. "If frate r­ with his rea s oning faculty that J1is frui t of American ism. All efforts ational mod ­ niity and •co-operati on are po ssible on ,pract ical mind refused to believ e that that system with fore ign or intern American s. t,he s,cale .o f this conti nent among pe.o• the re·st of th e worlid could be indru.cification s will be r esiste d by true do not u n­ ple s•o widely d iv, ers e," .h e dem111nded, ed to fraternize and co-op erate unless 1 Th e ele ments in the coun try that erica n sys­ "why not on the scale of the worl d?" the Unite d States fraternize d and co­ de rstan d American ism or th e Am fortu nately opera ted w,ith it. "Frate rnity ancl coHe ,an.i-were,d hi:s own que's tion out o[ "I : d moo ted· exal s hi of t em may press for chan ges, but operation" ,are America's contr ibutio n the s pirit en ough to th e spiri t of American ism is stro ng ults from ,firmly belie ve it i,s mor e than a m�re to state s mansMp, if Pre s ident Coolle. I idge' s dream is n,o t a "chim era." hold the structure agai n st all assa chim era. I feel that it is pos s i-bstor y ' WilsiO n prop•o sed to impose the onal uaU r ou· that d ince with in or with out. am conv n s for p e ac e toyear it R.i11d if d, ma.n worl help ide t outs Let the Amerioan ,pol,icy on the world . give it mi: glht s,o.m:e wha America ·somet hing to frater nize about and co- 1 the goal. " a nd happiness, emulate and imitat e ign po­ ward fore story t e m adop i, to bedt a rica e If Am . g n idea aski g of operate in, and a .means to get tog eth­ pil,in ad s e t ln ins the e worl d will h el1p , the world i s welc ome toev,en er f.or that purpose. litical schemes. Let Am erica assist th erica Wils on be}ongs among the "worl1d' s story. ,Prnsi dent Cool idge will But by usin g the power a n d influ e nce of Amgr ee d it. tell e or u did intrig he from free fact, In eat dreamers." He ne-ver left the way, r g it. rica's tell i n Ame ­ phy nt ifica . sign Post t s n to mo hing is t que s tion whe.ther an idea was a the inciclen of con que st.-The Was t of re- "chimera" to his f eelings. cMlogicaUy. Under his crusimla ginaserve, the Pre,s iden t con ceal1s , Nl'.Wtt s way ,A �KE RSB U RG. W. VA. �ent e diff are e her t , 5. tion . But _ SllNDA.Y ,J\l�ll.l 141 192 There no.tion. imagi SHALL AMER ICA ABANDON•� of employiing the "th e world's gre at .,,."'.I ar e men of visi on, TOLERAN CE ? gin atio n dre am ers ," wh o hol d th e ima ent the em suppl to , ipline ,d is c Rea? in the light of recen t developments in underni ng racultY, never losing con• reaso _the Umted Stat�s , the President ' s address at reality and proj ecti ng it the _ N��m.eJ.aean Centennial y e ste rday was tact with s an engine•e r runs his 1 an imp d plea agai n st the sprea d of intoler- deliberately a _. J I the achie v emen t of their a n ce ��;, �as be�n menacing the u nity of line , f,or In .o ther 1'nen the i mag,in a­ IT ms. , drea �merlCftt hfe. This, we take it , was the mean- tion funct ions as an lrratiom1l re­ mg . of l�1s �Il!-phasis on the way in which the e stim ulus. Th e action to smne outsid,to n at�on al spirit had come from a d iversity of the m whi le it clrerum: may be real ulu s i s wit,h­ racial ele ments. stim the h en w lasts, but , and s tarlc des This_ spirit has d ev e loped witho u t compulfa on i s i v . awn, th e no neaream dr s10n , without pers ecution . It has dev eloped clr th e realitY r ea.p.p e ars, was b ef ore. I ?ecaus e American i de als appeale d to the b e st it han t n atio aliz er re olid e th,:n�ts m h u man nature of whatever race. Wh en Pr,esident co � _ There has bee n a te nd ency of late to get o1lculatin gly of worlcl a· airs, te away from . this free developme nt. Earn est I s eve rly res trai ns his imagin ation anclr pe rson s, b e1 ievi· ng strongly i n th e ir own ideas , acc epts c-on c1iti,o ns as the y a ppe �m re hav_e b een trymg by law to ru n everybod y in s uperfici al1Y- Wh en he gi ves it , the asion occ he their mol d . :r�e cou n try has recently gone under the s J.)ell .of t ad vance•d th;·ough a political campaign in which a gro up b1,oth e1)ho,od of man is not"[r aternit'Y t tha tion erva tr1 e� to _create a religious issue. Just n ow at- by anY obs Nor thwe s,t tention IS centere d on a state _ whert:: _ !he_ leg�s� a nd co-o per ation " in t11e 1on problem mm ....:.:.:.e ,cultivated by a co wer =:==.. ___________ f • )·i, 1 I I �" .JOTTR , 1 3, 1926, 1:,_A . � --._ T H E N O R S E F E S"r l V A L- • (Superior Telegra m.) atiuu of the coming of eal'!y Norwegian im­ The this country is a not.able event. The mere m igrant fact th t 1e continen t was discovered by Norwegian adventurers before il was d iscovered by Columbus may not have an important bearing on the course of history, but it should be more generally recognized that there was more of a Norse element in the first settlers of New Engl and and the middle Atlantic. colon ies than many ·ealize. ,eo1'g;-e---Washington pointed out on the occasion of an interview with Norwegian visitoi·s that his ancestry traced back to Norse settlers in England. The Norse element is a pNND�·Mffl"'l'i't'f"'t'he make-up of the Eng­ liRh n 1f.ion >1 nd evrn more so in the make-up of the Scotch nation . It is also an important element in Ire­ land, ancl for that matter, going back, perhaps, to ear) lier times, all races of northern and of western Europe have their Norse element. When the Scan.d inavian immigrants cam.€i to th� cou ntry, they 'came speaking a language which was not t hat of this country, but they came ,nevertheless, not as strangers, but as kinsmen of the English speaking popnlation. The amalgamation going on here is merely a. continuation of that which went on i n England, Scot­ land and Ireland for many centuries ancl just as the Nome el emen� played an important part in contributing 1 to the sturdiness of character and energy of those old world races and in making them great and successful, it iB playing a similar part here and contributing a most important and valna ble factor in building up the great A m (_, ___ -0.44...o.f...J:ll..aJnture. �'l.. Beloit. '=· t:t.,. • ,� ,.. '6 ;• , "' -, i , 1 4,,,:: _ _;_ _ !Rllli\._,._,. ..!.. /!HE NORSE -AMERICAN CENTENNIAL President Calvin Coolidge, United States Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin and othei"'Jft:'lffiffflfflr-"cffltetif'·:tre joining in the ob­ servation of the Norse-American Centennial celebration being held June 6 and 9 in St. Paul 'and Minneapolis. It has been called "the epoch­ al fete of the century." People of Norwegian birth or parentage have played an important part in the development of c�rtain sections of the United States. Wiscon­ sin, Iowa, the Dakotas and Minnesota have been largel� set�led by people of this nationality. There 1s said to be more Norwegians in Chicago ..than in...an_y_other city in the world not even excepting tlie cities of Norway. Settlers arriving from the old country brought the Viking spirit with them. They were of a people who had never yet bowed their heads �o _an oppressor and they did not propose to �egm 1t he�e. _Th�y were practically a unit agamst the mstitution of slavery. Having I breathed the air of freedom in their mountain homes they found it only natural to adopt the cause of the abolitionist rather than the slave holder. When the Civil War broke out 36 years after the first party of them arrived here they w_ere unswerving in their support of Abra4,�p ¾!Y�J�PJliPi%J?1rlP'?JY�ppfbeu succeed1· d13S a ql Jaqmn1 oiur l llJ SJ aaJl a ql uaq.M, ·dus tm& pa 1 rn aJ13 saJod asaq:i l'IUJMOJ}l anq,11, ·snoJod SJ P OO.M. ·aJUpua l]13qs laq1 l'Bql e.r1sap aM asnuJaq •suoJpod uapooM eql lSBay iu •sasnoty Jil<J ;i:o SJo paixa O.n"I "'TXT.'Pit Q. • • ':P1.-'1 "1 n..9° :rAT �Ct 'l-.1 . t ?I l , ? n Q-na ·PTillQ a ql JO Pa, Ol d 1aq saau, ·a 1llS qsn}lum: I ·1Illm lUa.IaJJJP l l ql'lnoql 'qsn}lucrr Sa Al:la aql Japm a.Aoqu S' II� Beloit, Wis., Independent FlU_DA,Y.. lUNR l2..__12_25 A TRIUMPHAL PILGRIMAGE President Coolidge's trip to the N0rse QP� tennial celebratiw at St. rr.ul and MmneapolS . tlJis 1zwt nMtrll'as bd in 1t 1 all the as1?ec�s of a triumphal journey. He acc2pted the mv1tabon of the Norsemen to speak at their gathering as something in the nature of a challenge and came well prepared to permanently erase . the memory of a humiliation which he had received . at their hands a few short years before. The Scandinavian people are intensely loyal towards any party or person who they believe to be in the right. They came to this country with a dislike for slavery in their hearts and ..straightway . .became members of the Republi­ can-party when the ylearned that the G. 0. P. was backing freedom's cause. Thousands of them enlisted in the Union army at the out­ break of the Civil war-some of them laid down their lives on Southern battlefields before they · had hardly learned to speak the language of their adopted country. Calvin Coolidge stirred their pride the other day when he likened the voyage of the Restaur­ ationen in 1825 to the voyage of the Mayflow­ er in 1620. He moved the vast throng to tears when he closed by saying : "When I look upon you and realize what you are and what you have done, I know that in your hands our country is secure. You have laid up your treasure in what America repre­ sents and there will your heart be also. You have given your pledge to the land of the free. The pledge of-the Norwegian people has never yet gone unredeemed." And now. we venture to say that all Ameri­ cans of Norwegian descent have a new place in their hearts for the reserved silent man who rh_a s seemingly gone about his tasks little caring fo,r the opinion of the populace. UELOJT WTS NEW!" .MONDAY, JUNE 81 1925, NORSE CENTENNIAL Fro J'l}ong ac'ions of the courageous band ot Pilgrims who 111 the "Mayflower'• made theit' adv�n. ture in religious liberty to a wild and unl�uow11 shon� . 400 years ago came Calvin Coolidg$ today to the great northwest to pay fitting tribute to a much elm­ "'Hat:. achievem ent, op, the 100th anniversary of the first Norse .:,_migr11tlon tg ewar'tw In Lhe little sloop "Res­ tauratio nen." In many respects the two adventur es were similar. It was in part to achieve full religious liberty that the . little ·party- of 52 emlgrants sal!ed for the new world from ·Stavanger, Norway, just a century ago. It was a daring venture that they made in the smallest vessel which up to that time was known to have crossed the Atlantic. The "Resti'l,Urationen•• was a ;:;loop of only 45 tons, comparing with the "May- �flower's 1 8 0 tons burden, and was heavily loaded with iron and despe1·ately crowded on 'ite long voyage of -FOUR YEJ. S MAKES A DIFFERENCE 14 weelts-flve weeks longer than the voyage of the Four ye{s �go, Calvin Coolidge, vice president, Pilgrims. fulfilling an invitation to speak at t_he Minnesota But these first precursors of the great tlde of l'Jtate fair was rudely interrupted and "ttnmercifuily Scandinavian migration to the United States were the -il'r1 oe4 by the Minneapolis c1owds that wanted to get posterit y of Lie! the son of Eric, who voy�ed tnto on with the hone races. Yester(jay Calvin Coolidge, president, graciously the unknown to make those 11ettlements in Greenlancl and what he called Vinland, 600 years before Colum- accepted an invitii,tion to speak before an audience :i!n the same commuity, and his address was listened bus claimed, the New World for Spain, And they to with respectful ..ttention and nearty applause. were of the same daring strain as another .son of Tll e Calvin Coolidge who was applauded at Min­ Li ef who, after pen etrating hundreds of miles 1nto neapolis yestell'day was the same man who was booed th e antarctic wilds to stand at the south pole, now is there four yeare ago. His message, of yesterday may lost in the venture of seeking new lands at the north have been more worth listening to, yet four years doeii pot ml!-fk a tremenqous span in the development pole. of a middle-aged man's intellect. The �rty of newcomers on the "Restauratlonen" The MlnneiitpOlle crowd four year11 ago booed the were the forerunners of that great tide of immigra- vice pre111ident because it regarded him as � no11e11t'i on from northern Europe that was to increase tlty. Yester4,ay 1t regarded his visit as an honor and through the middle of the last century, continuing did everything to make his stay pleasant because the hand ot chance had made him the chi ef execut ive in­ till well toward its close, during which time were stead of the substitute executive of the nation. contributed the sturdiest elements that have been In ew of what had gone before, the 'l'wiu Cities added to the .A.merlcan stock by process of alien 11hould have received thi preildent yesterday with a good deal of contrition and humi lity. All the affccta­ ama!gamat'l on and assi111i!atlo11. In this north-European immigration, as the Pres!• tion ot poUte respect and deference acctJrded Call"in Coolidge, president, does not gu'itc atone for the dent noted in his speech this afternoon, but one na.�latant boorishness of the former reception of Cal­ more contributed grants imm than tlonality has Nor Yi n Co olidge, vice president.. 1 way did, It . he were still vice president, as the president is As 80 per cent of the Norwegian population t n the :r·:lly aware, he probably would not have been i n­ cl r. mother country is agricultural, 50 the · great major- - vlte d to make the M in ne<iPOlis address yester a I! he still were vice president he would not ha\·e !ty of the Norse immigrants were farmers searching been importuned by ':r n • universities, either, to go to land. their cam'p i to receh·e hon orary d egrees this June. T iley were home-.,,ee l�ers, empire-builders arriving In the latter case li e has turned all 20 down. 'J.' he opvurtuneiy when the great northwest needed j ust president is not a paragon of scholarship nor l s he a such tolk of hardy physique and patient determtna- potential donor of large endowments to any of these institutions. It must be plain enoug!1 to him that tion tu do the agricultµral Pioneering In the states or 1they do not seek to honor him for what he personally 1 Minne�ota, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Dakotas. 1lt but for what he has been elected, to be. Duscendants of the northern European i!llmigrants antl Ireland for many centu�tes an(l r.HJPPEWA F'ALl s WTQ f'J A.17 sull furnl:,h the la rge proportion - of the folk who jw,t as the Norse element played an _MONDAY, J�E 8, 19;;5, important part in co:1tributing to the ha, e matl e and are continuing to make Wisconsin sturdiness of character and energy of The Norse • estival ag ncultu ia lly great. those old world racu, ancl i n makirg / The cele • bon of the coming of them great and 8UCt 2ssful, it is play­ Nor did the president neglect significance of the early N • .>fan immigrants to this ing a similar part here and contribut­ country is a notable event. The mere Norse migration to America as a politfcal as well as ing a most important and valuabl fact that the continent was discov- 1 factor in buildi ng up the great An1cr­ a social and econorriic factor. These immigrants were ered by Norwegian adventurers before ican race of the future. it was discovered by Columbus may "children of freedom," he eald, They swelled that not have an important bearing on the p reponderance of population wbich 1\nall::!., pver.llore course of history but it should be more the south and abolished forever the Institution ot generally recognized that there was more of a Norse clement in the first slavery. And in the Civil war to end slavery, the �tlcrn of New England and the Mid­ Norse strain furnished some of the best soldiers to dle Atlantic colonies than many re- , alize. such famous military organizations as the Wisconsin Oe'orge Washington pointed out on the occasion of an interview with Nor­ Iron Brigade. ·.veg-ian visitors that his ancestry customs the to adaptable In time of peace, readlly traced back to, Nome settle.rs in Eng­ and institutions of their adopted country, the Norse land. The No�is u prom­ i nent one in the make up of the Eng­ immigrants and their descendants have been exem­ lish nation and even more so in the p lan• citizens and have contributed some of the most make up of the Scotch nation. It is also an important element in Ireland, commendable characteristics to our national life, and for that matter, going back, per­ It is fitting that the president of the nation should haps, to earlier times, all races of r.orthe;rn ancl of western Europe have stand today among them in a state whoee dest1ny thei r Nome element. When the Scandinavian emigrants they have so largely shaped and review with pride came to this country, they came their achievements in America since that hardy i;peaking a language which was not I group of their forbears set sail for the new adventure that of this cov.ntry, hut they came, nevertheless not as 8trangers but as a �tury ago, kinsmen of the EngliRh speaking pop­ ulation. The amalgamation going on here is merely a continuation of that which went on in England, �cotlan(! ,,. 0 �C".h 1;,pr·."a Fans, \t· l'HURSDl... " "in;; M.-\. YH W JIAT \V B l d ,L HOPE .;• ,, . , C'.n , .!. 't\ , .. , "I' t:!l ,.,g. � . ., Ti,tESDA'1, _111N_E 16. 19:::;, u· 00D CITIZENS. J'OND DU LAC (WlS.) r,011141,. W.JJ;:PN�ij!JAYi J1J � 191 mo, -­ will make they have been Announcement that the Shenandoah President Coolidgo -,l'n d a clrnnc( ation at celebr ial � No� and the pomp to great ght i fl air an <: t M in ll laoo l is lo vo ic e t h e b as .c c brating sister ed disabl the · of place the annith taking 1 St. Paul, oroughness t�ndred i d e a l ism of kffrhl'ica a n d he ne i zed it. great navy ship, the Los Angeles, and that the That basic idea l ism is t h e possi bilersary of the first ��1for the dirigible will follow the route laid down ity ot the 11oli tical bro,t l!erhood O l g ti on o f Norwegians to the es m a n You fi nd it in the phrase tha , U nited S.tates . I n a sense i t w as a ey when first planned-the route which includ journ • who ands thous the to . news good 1:i'fl men were created frc0 and equal. is Lac Fond du nationa l celebra tion 'becaus e /the bag. Nobody but foolish qdbblen, evJt were keenly interested in the big gas repres ented in c o n t ended t hat th ey me a u t e q ual i u Nor weg_ia ns are and "I told rs rumo us vario re-,t at' set will it be• Also a b i l i ty. It meant equal in t !rn rig li , \ every state of the union and the disap­ since nt curre been s you sos" that have t o the opportun ity of sc l f-d cvE' l Ol) cause the whole nation recognize night when word came that ay Sund of 1 ment when point much gained y ment. that the countr . retm, �o her engine trouble fo1·ced the aircraft to Belief in t h a t right was at the bot- it received that first band of Nor ­ 1 the incident g takin are e peopl Some port. rn ea8te fom of ?ur :pec laratio:1 of In depenct- w egl an immi-grants to Ha shores . j l and the trave air of y iabilit unrel the as evidence of ence ; of ou_r ccnst1tu twna l system of rious and , indust Conser vative • pting regular routes. The , attem of y sibi!it repr esentatrn1* of our elaborate pubunfea e, Scand ianvia n peopl the per­ l ie sch ool system ; o f our <' ncon ra ge- hones t, the Los Angeles' previous accomplishm ents and the Norwe gians, have y making alread craft of type other of U1811 t of i m m ig rat ion ; o f our c h i l tl includi ng nce forma o er group l a b or laws, and of our mo re rece n t brought progress;� ,�Mi,p'llll!!!lll!!11tir t scheduled trips refute that theory. Anoth the laws restricting imrni grat ion to the every section in which they have skeptics assert that it was never intended of that l i m it w h i c h un der cha nged ccncli- settl ed. The upbul lding of the Los Angeles should make the trip or at least t ions can be assimilated here. Fond du Northw estern states has been due there was no real plan to route it by way of Said t h e President : "Out of the in large extent to the effort s of this of the e dispos they way th� is s" politic Lac. "All confusion of tongues, tlle con flict of the politics come in and what and thrifty race. how hardy Just sion. discus t radit ions, the variations of h istorises The Nordic races have brough t goo<l it would do the "politicians" to make promi cal setting, the vast d i ffercmces i n t to see, but difficul is asslml­ out, of s d problem carrie no be not America to could en that a talents and tastes, t here h s be to some everything that comes out of Wash ington evolved a spiritual nllion . " ·A nr l latlon. They have sought the ex­ hav ­ they Ch eered him wildly, because he panses of land and sea rather than , i.s "politics" and therefore to be mistrmted n!=! amtou ncecl t!rn evo lution of what they I crowdin g Into overpopulated cltle e , · ing- ulterior motive . 1 a l l hoped and longed for. It is to hoped, therefoi-e, that the scwud utt�_y,ll so they created no housin g and 1 not Maybe the President is tc,o opti m is- labor problem s. l be a success. It will ! for a western flight wil tic in believing that thi s "spiritual Ose anxious to th that the Scandl­ o t deny will Who 1011 t• ac f is union" has actual l y been accomplishonly give a lot of sat have more tha n l vindicate the reputation M aybe that " re,; pect o fl the n avian immigrants eci. see the dirigible, but wil tity unknown. iden s"worl <i" which he t rn ly de�lar ed compensat ed their adopted country ian litic of some " po America has commanded is clue more for its hospitality and protection ? to Lite power which our natura l reEverything in the makeup o f the sou rces have enablo.Jcl us to evoke Sc an dinavian makes hi m a good t h a n to tl1e q u a l i ty of ·our spiritual American citizen. ach ievement. And then again maybe F'0nnunor" Wi!\,. 'rim"� not. One thing is su re-it is that . �1,rn.s..U.A.Y..._ illNE to_ 192!1. p iritual union for which we long, � T'S GOOD FOR HIM 101· wluch we seek, w hether we come nt and Mrs. Coolid ge hon­ reside ,,, d stock original l y Norse or Polish, ;;-ed the Norse celebration at St. Ital ian or German, Saxon or African ; with t.geir pr'"'ftDf'l 'Tis well , whet her we celebrat e the adventur­ fl>aul a good plan get the president an d ' ousness of the Viking Ericson or the away once in a while from Wash­ t hong·htfulness of the Explorer Col­ ington, especially out into the great u mbus. west. It will make a better presi­ We want on eness. 'Ne want de­ den t of him . m or racy to mean pol i t ical kinship as well a� •poli tical assertion. ·we J'OND DU I .A r IWT!'; I ro111u want to be a nation great in fee ling �,.........,M =Oc.., Nl:!AX, .TJJNN b 1925. as in m aterial acco m p l ishment. N o w , A WORLD MODEL l J 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . c,f n s , spread over every The, hi.story of America was held up as guide to a vailable acre almost of what was \vorld peace by Presid ent Coolidge today ln his a.d­ once a space inconceivably vast, we res � a! the No egian Centennial celebrat!-0n. The : are ready for intensive as well as l'at<ermty and c ration w • for extensive development ; we are welds peop Ies of . . ...,_____ . on.ct ns_m I r one natioa with CODWlOD.. 1 acly tq uni te for spirit as for power �any diverse nd comfort ; the President b u t m�erests and common ideals, will some day be ap­ peaks i n fitting words, i n w h i c h w e plied on a world scale, the President predicted. ll be l ieve. The speaker paid high tribute to the Norsemen It was the recogn ition o[ the h a r­ �vin_g their history interpretatively and prais� m ony of their President's an nounce mg the part they had played in "that magnificent m u1 t with their own deepest as well and wondrous adventure, the making of our own as n c-blest i nstin cts that made the America", but, as always, he had a wider message crowd cheer him to th e echo and and a more significant meaning underlying his u rn away more resolved, surely, words. lHm before, that their inner 1 0 ig�1g should be reflected in thecr out Fraternity as the basis of world peace is not a 7 new thought, but it becomes more impressive and fe. convincing when taken in conjunction with the pic­ ture of the unity that is the product of the Amer­ ica� melting pot. When the peoples of the many nations represented in America understand and fra�ernitize with one another as. do their represen____..... ---------------------- tat1ves here, a United States of the world with no ________________ m?r� thought of nor occasion for wa.r than exists w1thm our borders, may well result. '!'hat is the thought the President gave the na­ tion at large in his St. Paul address. It is a thought worth of bei!].g ond et ed. I I -to- r WIL L TRY AGA IN ���n woed 1'W'r1.)" Trlbnrr !._HURSDAY. JUNE 18. 192.5._ AMERICANS ALL ! - X SATU.RDA ,J � - 20, 192S P1·esiden t Coolidg e's address at l ' ' l.t e recent centennial celebration of Minneapolis last week made Norw e_ I:, an�l of the;,,.,w,atio H tl.J.c fi rst i m p oP'stt;JJt FftWewmt of Ne./.'.. gians � oz... of their pres1proud ns America all · · the wegians m Ill·ted ,St ates was a d e nt. pleasant and helpful event in the l i fe of the republ ic. 7."i:''1tl!�99ft, of course, A!t J'ANESVlLL llt (WTS.) r: came, to America much more than 100 DAY... JU.N m ii. l9Zi>, - • B,.,., J.., ..,_J._.. ---�,....;S:,,A�T years a.go, but not in cmsiderable n u m ­ Jii:. Coolidg·e and Janesville t Oal\:1n _C oolidge may pass through bers until then. Lief Erickson and Eric Pr o'n 1'uesday· m 6rnihg next. The plans the Red are reported to have been the first Jane i ,t a positive an­ wh ite men to visit the North A merican arc not �� ··defi nite' as to mak9 cannot be made be(ore Mon­ 01ie a1id 1i;n-t: nounccn continent. day. H!:i"WilJ, not speak here though his train .U u t priority of settlement is no�. :m ay be d;.ela;ed sol)J.e ten minutes at this change , a matter of great i mportance. It '; o( railroad divi!rions. . He ha$ rnade a ruling tl).at h� will n:ot sp�al, a-t any point between Washing ­ e noug;h to know that the several N otdi ,tnd $t, Paul ,except to deliver the address at ton races which huve furnished A merica wit:Ji Norsb centennia l-' at the · Minnesota state fair the most of its immigrants began their con ­ groun_a;s y:\il'.· 1.-01 13 HU!""lo. have him come out tri b utions long before the oldest man anu say o.' few words but' we do hope he will take• now li ving was born . The Fren ch late a good \/iok ,at the- :0ttntry around here as he in the 10th cen t ury ; the Engl ioh, I rish, passes tfrrol.)gb, seeing the richest agricultural Welch, Scotch and Hollanders early in section of. t119 United States and realize tll.at the the 1 7th ; the Germans and Swedes onl y people o{. tl;ris part of Wiscunsin have . "faith in a few decades later. They col l ectively Calvin C;;olidge" and voted for him. He will be in a see:1,�011 that gaye him a majority o f 7, 0 0 0 , made America what it is today-dis ­ banner • county of the i,.tate in majorities for the tinctly Ameri can . Very few old Ameri­ and )Hs _ policies. "\Ve l1ave mui;h to show a can families of the prese nt t i me are of him presidcni:·,.'. df\-the n ation-much that ·would be un mixed race extraction-nearly all are quite a ch�nge .from U,e ruggedness of i-Vcrmont blends of two or more of the races which and the - �{ll)sidcs . of Massachusetts. We have were represented in the colonies at the scenery t\�at· v.iHl produce crops-n�t- n1ount�in time of the Revol ution-British, H o l­ sid'ds'that took we!-l in pictures but qu-it there. He ·w ould see dairies hereabouts that would be mar­ land, German, French and Scandinavian. yels to the Nerrnont farmer, used to the little The typi cal American of today is patches of meadow and pastures chopped full of composite of all of the m , but n�t strik­ gashes by htllside streams, and where animals ingly l i ke any of them. En'g l ish in 1nust have s�rp noses to work down _ among the si;>eech, he is anything but English in rocks to get · at the grass blades. we would like to show him·· that while he may have had, as he tcmperment or metho d ; Teutonic in expressed it in able addres�es, "Faith in Massa­ earnestness of appli cation and commer_ chusetts" we here ha\'e faith in Wisconsin in all cial en terprise, he is markedly un-Ten­ t hings. And we 1\·ill all be down to the .stati? n tonic in many other respects ; Celtic in to give him welcome anyhow if he comes this his love of hu mor and disregard of dan­ ger, he is much more composed and con­ J A NE8VT1 Lil: I W I S . I O i\7 servative than the European (;el t ; ..,_., I)� .....__Jy. E 8, 1925 • '10 .F rench i n his propensity t o follow ex• • ----c-��__.,)¥..., The .Nohe. Centennial tremes in fashion, he is far stricter in 1 were eiglJt reon)e in i -.i.nd Clin­ morals than the French ; and he has consin, when Ole Nattestad came . into little of the phlegm and gravity found in _ n and began to make a hc:ne on the many Scandinavians and Hollanders. e r�oi1 Prairie. He was the first Norwegian there. 'T1uee years later there were many fam­ ll c represents, in fact, the inception of ilies from Norway. ' Three years from the time a new race amon!!i men, and the future that t�1e , ,:first log · cabin had been built at Janes­ alone can tell how good a race it will be ville, Nl'!,ttestad came. The Norwegian settlement when, centuries hence, it becomes full­ of Wisconsin began here though the first colony fledged and the work of the melting pot seems to have been at - Musl,ego in 1 8 8 9. Newark is lin ishcd . Prairie ·and what we now kno" as Luther Valley, followed immediately after, according to the story Well may we have regard for our moral development as a race. There o f the :•Norwegian Imm igrati o� tb th6 United States," by George T. Flom with many corrections are bad traits in the races from which as to data for Rock county by Ha.Ivor L. Skav­ we have sprung which too often are lem, of Janesville, himself a more careful and vaunted as ad mirable qualities. Meas­ accurate student of such things than Flom him­ u red by the standards of the Nazarene, self, and a descendant of. the earliest families in they arc not the qualities which make this settlement o f Rock . cou nty. for happi ness either in this life or the life So while Wisconsin did not get :iny of the im­ to come. And no man or race has ever migrants from Stavang·er on t hat first t rip of a li ved contrary to H is teachings and Yessel with the beginning of Norwegian immigra­ tion to the United Stat�s in 1 8 2 5, this state ,vas �ermanentlv prospered. one of the first to rcceiv.e tlie f ide v,· hich set in !hortly after th6 nc_:,·s of la.rids :.i nd free d om in A nierica had been spread ln Norwa)'. u • • . - outpo st for­ ' Therefore South ern Wi.sconsi11,tnc group s to the immigration that later sent other is deeply :Minne sota and farth er north and west, e Minne intere sted in the cerem.onies tod'a.y at Ui Calvin ent Presid v,•here ds groun Fair 110ta State . oon to a Coolid ge is makin g an address this aftern Stava n­ great throng of tlle descen dants of those s. ger, :Nume dal and Telerri arken imm igrant 80 it seems that Ole Nattes tad who bought e, Prairi on Jeffers on land m.ent govern acres of y in ,;,;hile his brothe r Ansten went back to Norwa in 1 1 8 3 8 , was the first actual Norwc g-tan sclt!er settled not Wisconsin. The :P.iuskcgo colony v,:as im­ until the follow ing year at which time other migrants were added to the Jefferson Prairie colony. who Pionee rs indeed were they and others n. Kosh­ settled in the towh of Newark and later o s on kolion g Prairie, made their indelib le impres and the eiviliza tion of this section of Wiscon sin eco­ aided the state in its ' politic al, social and nomic • p'rogress. �l.,- ('.-o��" , r _:tb.UR n • .,_ ' ,. ,. Welcome Oslo Singers HE visit of the Oslo University singers to the J f United States on the tour which brings them to La Crosse this evening is a fitting recognition of the close relationship which exists between this country and their native land. President Coolidge, in his address at Minneapolis this week, mentioned the fact that m pro'.Ifertion to 12opulation Norway is more strongly represent­ ed in the American comp�te than any other country ; it is a relationship that is strongly felt by both peoples. There is hardly a family in Norway, it is said, :which has not some mem­ bers in this country, and there is constant com­ munication. Understanding between peoples of different nations is sometimes a difficult thing to establish, but it is probably easier between Americans and the Norwegians than others. Unfortunately, only those of Norwegian blood, probably, know and understand Norway as well as Norwegians know and understand the United States. It is a surprise to Americans not of Norwegian extraction to know that "The Star Spangled Banner" is a familiar song in Norway, to hear that- the American flag is carried in the Seventeenth of May processions in Oslo. We ought to express, when the opportunity is offered, our appreciation of this good will, and the opportunity comes to La Crosse tonight with the appearance of the Oslo University Chorus. It is to be hoped that La Crosse will give these singers such a reception as will leave a lasting impression of our hospitality. They are sent to us by the government of Nolway as ambassadors of sentiment. They do not come to make money, but to make friends. Let us meet them :more than half-way. - MARTNE'T"'J'lil WT� iii"AnLJI' THURSDAY, JlJNE 18, 1925. I' �f GOOD CITIZENS In Minnesota they�112 bcw deb!acmg w+th l g�t pomp and thoroughness the hundreth anni­ versary �1i!H!l8 02gaili!ffi'o. migration of Norwe­ gians to the United States. In a sense it is a national celebration because the Norwegians are represented in every state of the union and because the whole nation recognizes that the ,::ountry gaineg much when it .received that first band of Nor- · wegian i mmigtants to its shores. Conservative, i:r;i.dustrious �nd honest the Scandi­ navian people, including the Norwegians, have brought progress and wealth . to every section ill. which they have settled. The upbuilding of the Northwester.µ states has been due in large e xtent ;to the efforts of this hardy and thrifty race. _ The Nordic races have brought to America no 11roblems of assimilation. They have sought the expanses of land and sea rather than crowding into over populated cities, so they created no housing land labor problems. Who will deny that the Scandinavian immigrants 'have more than compensated their adopted country for its hospitality and protection? That the Norwegians have not confounded loyalty to political organizations with loyalty ·to country is demonstrated by the stupendous reception given l'resident Coolidge at their centennial in spite of 11:heir notorious aloofness froin the president's party !in the last presidential election. ' Everything in the makeup of the Scandinavian makes him a good American citizen. - 'M..A.NlTOWOC WTS RO E.i::'TJ�:!1E, ,IUNlf :01 !9�o, ,----- -.�, - Good Citizens Inr,Mfn nesota they have been celebrating with great pomp and thoroughness the hundredth anniversary of the first organized migration of Norwegians to . the United States. In a sense it is a national celebration because the Norwegians are repre�ented in every state of the union and because the whole nation recognizes that the country gained much when it received that first band of Norwegian immigrants to its shores. . Conservative, industrious a11d honest the Scarnliumd:m people, including the NorwegLms, have brought progress and wealth to every section in which they have settled. The upbuilding of the Northwestern states has been due in lal"ge extent to the efforts of this hardy and thrifty race. The Nordic races have brought to America no problems of assimilation. They have sought the expanses of land and sea rather than crowding into over populated cities, so they created no housing and labor problems. Who will deny that the Scandinavian immigrants have more than compensated their adopted country for its hos­ pitality and protection? That the Nony_egians have not confounded loyalty to political organizations with l§;z:alt� to country is demonstrated by the stupendous recw{rnt n �e Cool­ idge at their centennial in spite o ft��� 1¾�U•rr u�loof----11 fwm,-the pres i dent' s party in -ttre----nrnrpresiaential'.r-________________________ ___..J election. 2'......--.. ���::I!!_ �=!. -� � of up make -_ Every thing in the him a !Yl od A erica ci izen. t::i;i; �MtL'WA"CTKEF: f',::(,Yq \ LF. .\ nnt 1025. SATURDAY, �., \: � , , ,�'lucHro LEARN BUT NO CHANCE l TO LEAJ N IT -i: 1·esident Coolidge, they s;iy, will insist on a daylight ririe through Wisconsin while Oll his way to the N__....,,,,,e.:..-.---1 en;;.i.i 1 :ration at Minnea lolis the week of June 7. M a.ybe he is curio• s to see what sort of a state it is that gave him his worst politicid drubbing on election day last fall. He can't find out much about that by looking out of the train windo'N. Ncither QU d he find out much by stop­ pmg a rew hours and shaking hands with Association of Commerce members, Rotarians and officials. There's really no way to do it at first hand except to mingle with the people and make note of their unusual intelligence and their tendency to break away from the fetters of tradition. Unfortunately the president has neither time nor op­ portunity to do this. If he could, it would be as good as a liberal education. 1 Why is it that Wisconsin is so different from Calvin's native Vermont ? Why is it that the west and the middle west are generally more progressive than the east ? It is partly. because the best and most aggressive and p rogressive men and women of the east were drained out of that region by the western migration. Men and women who have the spirit and the gumption to move out of their old stamping ground and go into a new country-as the early settlers did-and endu1·e all the hardships thereby incurred, are of a better grnde on the whole than those who do not have the gumption to do it. This, of course, is not saying that everyone who stayed in the east was in­ ferior, but by and large the statement holds good. Such men and women are more apt to be open to new and better ideas. And the mental pioneer is as admirable as the ph:ysical pioneer. 1 its heyday: Although that organization has bloomed ana withered, there is a very strong state Farmer-Labor party there, which has one United States senator in the person of Henrik Shipstead, and may have another in the person of Magnus Johnson, who claims that his opponent got in last fall by fraud. Further, the Socialist party is to hold a regional convention and mass meeting at Minneapolis June 20 and 21. Those, we believe, are the reasonfl why Cal Coolidge took the trouble to go all the way from Washington, D. C., to Minneapolis to throw bouquets and soft soap at the Norwegians. The Graft Old Party needs Minnesota and the neighboring states in its business of running this coun­ try in the interest of the wealthy aristocracy. A visit from the president-with plentiful showers of bouquets and soft soap-wil l, it is believed, aid the Graft Old Party in annexing that territory. Well, did we guess right ,or not ? ""1:IL W A TT K Pl ll: f \V I S , 1 . 1'. A l lfl" TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1925. WHY? Why did Coolidge go all the way from Washington to M inneapolis to toss bouquets at the Norwegians . "Bouquets" is rig e praised them · extravagantly, talking about the "l uster" of their "glory," and telling them that "our America with all that it represents of hope in the world is now and will be what you make it." The Norwegians are mostly good folks and deserve praise-but is it possible that they alone-and nobody else In the United States-wil l mold the future of this coun­ try ? Hardly. That was j ust a drench of soft soap. Bouquets and soft soap. Why did he go there to hand them out ? We are not mind readers. Neither were we present when the matter was talked over by the inside clique of the Republican party. But we can make a guess. And you can look our guess up one side and down the other and decide for your­ self whether it is a shrewd guess or not. There are large numbern of Norwegian voters in the northwest, especially in Minnesota. That state was one of the strongholds of the Natiom1J Non-Partisan League in Orr�rdvllle. Wis., Jeumat W'EDN�� • APR L 8 192,L_ 1825- 1925 L ,. 1825 was a significnat year for America as it marked the beginning of Norw.egian imma­ gratier t lm:: • tolffl'tl y. This is therefore the Centennial year and· will be observed by a Natior • al Celebrat· Minneapoli.,: June :7th, an.a 9th, whQ�� Norwegian-Americans will gath­ ed by the hundreds of thousands from all parts of the country to , celebrate the event. LocaJ celebrations will also be conduct­ ed throughout the country. In connection with this event the following clipping from the J:[e.w .lXQ!k· I>�ilYi Aay ti��! fQr I October 12, 1825 may be of in� terest. It was headed A NOVEL SIGHT _A vess�l has arrived at thh: port 1th 1;m1grants from Norway. The ssel 1s very small,, measuring, as we u derstand, only about 360 Norwegia n la s, or forty-five American tons, and bro ght fifty-three passengers, male and fem le, all bound for Orleans county, whe e an agent who came over some ti � since, purchased a tract of land. e appearance of such a party of stra gers, coming from so distant a cou try and in a vessel of a size appar­ ent ill c�lculated for a voyage across th Atlantic, could not but excite an Utlfsual degree of interest. 'An enterprise like this argues a good deal of boldness in the master of the vessel, as well as an adventurous spirit in the passengers, most of whom belong to families from the vicinity of a little town at the southwestern extremity of Norway, near the city of Stavanger. Those who came from the farms are dressed in coarse cloth of domestic man­ ufacture of a fashion different from the Americans, but those who inhabited the town wear calicos, ginghams, and gay shawls, imported, we presume, froin England. "The vessel is built on the model common to fishing boats on the coast ' wi�!>, sing.le top-sail1 sloop-rigged. s}J­ . ar:t(ved with the ad(li • on of , one passel\: �., .. . .. i • •) !" i • .This Norse Centenial has specger born ontlie way/' jO�\ WEnNESUl.A'' , • • ;, significance for soutjern Wis-.. ial The name of the vessel was "Restaur­ aLt CENryl' t;N i ationen." I left Etavanger, Norway,. ,,.- :B.',HE NOR�E It was only about twelve corisin; \ Jul y 4, 1825, :md arrived at New York, -October 9th the same Year, Eaveryone Many of our Wisconsin citi� or thirteen year.s after the arriv­ of the passengers landed in good health zens of Scand�navian birth �nd ) al of the Restaurationen that and spirits. A childwasJ:,qrntoMt.artd s began Mrs. Lars Larson on this voyagfie. She descent are this week attendrng_ Norwegian immigrant was given the name Margaret Allen in the great gathering at the Minne making settlements in Rock and ' honor of Mrs. Allen in London who had I sota state fair grounds in St Dane, counti,e s and at Mukwona­ befriended Mr. Larson. go: The Nattestad brothers These Norse "Pilgrim fat'h ers and Paul in commerm oration of th mothers" who came over in this "May­ made investigations in the er. saryof t flower of the North" settled in Orl eans one hundredth anniv County, New York, and the hund;reds arrival of the little sailing v '- neighborhood of Clinton in 1837, and thousands of their countrymen who and in 1839 the Nattestad party, • urationen, of only followed them during this century have sel, R,esta under the guidance a,riq girectto.:q settled and developed large parts of tons burden, laden with iron of one gf t,qes� �qy�ntµr,e s�rn� Il linois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, the first formal delegation the Dakotas and ·beyond to the Pacific brothers, pa:me tg thf') vicinity Qf ocean and way up in Canada. They were Norwegian "settlers who ca · li.ard working, frugal, and industrious, America. Pr-esiE:1-cnt Coolid Qlin.tgq �nq � elgit an.ct m�/fe -ger,ind blazed the way in developing the on M day ffHHl€fflt �ett}em entf'l, ffhe exte11t .\merican wilderness into the most pros­ h is excellent address �erousand progressing regions of the afternoon, gave some inter stin g gf their S.µ cc,ess l§ incticatect · by World. They came well prepared to do information on the Norw, giam Hrn pr,pp@rti gn gf Qt.ff (}iti21 e :rH1hip their part for America. They came from a free country to a free country, from in theiT relation to Ameri • . Th1: today thl-lt trt:i,c� s lni:(}k tg the an educated country .to an eckllcated histories of our •e ar.ly schoo day E §canP.imwig,n pe n,in s µ,la, country. They represented a civiliza­ of 3 :Pr.e§fd ent CooUdge has taken tion and culture of a thousand years contained vague intimation; • development. They were better Amtr­ visit to America by a Norw giar tirne to dig d.oeply "i nto th e his� icam: before they left Nroway than some year 1000 • tory {If Norwerian settlements. of those who have been trying to . Amer­ navigator about the icanize them after they came here. Much deeper research has been in the Un ited Statese, imd his ad­ As a rule the Norse immigrants came these matters in r-eceni drtHilS is ptlauUarly interesting here empty handed, but they were not made in empty headed • or empty hearted. Pre­ years, and Pr,e sident Collidge from a historical standpoint. It eminently, they were a religious peo­ goes so far as to .say that there should interest all who have any ple and wherever they settled they built churches, educational and Charity in­ i.s but little doubt that a great curiosity as to how we came to \ stitutions. They have over 3,500 churches mathematician and astronomer be what we are and what we are 1500 clergymen, and contribute annually bor� 00: lik y to become in the future. about $4,000,000.00 to church, charity, of the 11th century was missions and religious education. They Norwegian par•ents on American Es cially, it seems to us, will have 30 Colleges, Academies, Normal truly said that truth ous itizens of Scandinavian e,x. Schools, and Theologicaly Seminaries, soil. It is 38 Children's Ho)lles, Old People's is sometimes stranger than fie- trac • on find the address interest Homes, Rescue Homes for Girls, Kinder­ tion, and in the light of these, in.ir. gardens, and Day Nnrseries. They .have over 300 home missionaries disclosur es it seems most appro­ RACTNF. WT lOTIJl stationed in the pioneer fields and fish­ priate that the Norwegiam ' 18, 1:.11!5 T!!URS D,<\. Y 'T, !.' ing camps, and the large cities. Being __ _ --promin a such taken that Norway ranks very high among should have PAUL. ST. AT IDENT PRES of nations ·· in Foreign Mission interests, ent part in the dev•clopment W it is on ly reasonable that those who hundred years ago, the Norwegians Coo1. migrated to America carried this inter• the middle west. Pr,esident a movement with the purpose of enorga est with them. Therefore, they have 1 lidge paid a very high tribute to couraging emigration to this country, there ,�eJp,pi;d -Jarge Mission Felds in Chin,i, the quality of American citizen­ ·Madagascar, and Africa, where they have I1 were no immigration laws · restrictive in char­ hundreds of missionaries, thousands of ship developed by the Norwagion �er. Our gates stood' wide open and the new­ native workers and contribute millions immigi:ants . Tens of thousands annually. comers streamed through, father, mother, As there is practically no illiteracy in of these young Norwegians , both "children all, caretakers and relatives if they Norway, the !immigrants and their de­ American and Norwegian born, came along as many did . So it was that our scendants have been. specially interest­ from army union the entered maintaining ed in establishing and citizens of N.-.--.egjap pa.uvity and their child­ sahools and publishirigi houses and pub­ Wisconsin, Mim::.•csota, Iowa and ren celebrc1:ted th entennial anni ary of the lishing papers and · periodicals in both northern Illinois. One of the languages for the general enl ighten­ firs� organized movemen or emi� 1:, ra ion to the of the most desperate and heroic fights \ ment of themselves and the rest -United States at St. Pau on the 8th of this • 071\.mericans. ever made in the history of civil­ month. T�1e- oc <;asion-.was of such importance - Their first pastor, Elling Eielsen, was few a by• made was -<-t ordained in 1843. They built theii: first ized warfare �nd of nat10n wide scope, that Pre-s-rdd:it- --Co.ok._ Church in 1844 in Racine county, Wisc- , hundred Minnesota volunteers 1dge an invitation to deliver an address. onsin. Organized their first Synod in number The accepted 1851. The first American newspaper in against fon times their long .journey from Washington was made the Norwegian language appeared July of confederate soldiers on the with the "intent to enhance the importance of 29, 1847. It was called "Nordlyset" (The ' second day of the battle of Get­ the occasion and honor these hardy •and enter­ Northern Light), and was published in the town of Norway, Racine County, tysburg. These volunteer s were prising people now citizens of our great repub­ Wisconsin. nearly all Norwegians, and their lic, and who have done so much to create and Since that time over 400 papers have over­ against been publ ished in the Norwegian lan­ heroic d,efense build up the great northwest. guage in 89 cities in America. At piesent whelming odds was not a foolish 1;he address of the president was there are 60 papers of which 2 are daily , of the appropriate, and in paying tributes to peculiarly The rest are rntstal{e like the charge and two-semi-weekly. our Nor­ weekly or monthly. Light Brigade i n the Crimean wegian citizens, tribute was also paid to the The first Norwegian Academyofhigher war, but a de,sperately necessary millions from other lands who have all helped learning was founded in 1852. In 1920 there were 2,233,503 Norweg­ move in .holding the r.ebel army �o make our country what it is today, foremost ians in America, . and when we bear in in check while the main union 111 all that can contribute to the welfare and mind that the good ship "Restauration­ happiness of mankind, and foremost in earnest en" brought the original 53 Norwegians army took position. This com­ to this country in 1825, we realize that �rative handful of young Nor­ efforts to bring about a world peace . there has been some development both or In the wonderful assimilation of the many here and in Norway. And when their wegians refused to retreat descendants gather to celebrate the surrender, and held about 5000 j races that had gathered on our soil and created event, they can do so with the satisfacafter­ . new homes, was a. visioned picture by the presi ­ tion of having contributed some of the rebels in check for a whole 1 finest dent of an entire world coming together . What and most desirable elementsinto noon. This incident lacked only I I a Tennyson to make it immor- 1 has been done here by individuals, he said, coti.lcl be done by countries all living together in peace tal. I and 1:m de�stan �ing, nations on a _larger scale �riunglmg tog�ther and sinkin g "tnefr rac1al ferenc es. This was a happy i nspira tion, fordif­ by _ _ � o IJ? eans 1s t!us world union impos sible of rea­ lizati on. Every nation will be as now with its own entity , yet i n the gener al move ments of mank ind, giving and forgiv ing, joinin g in all _ that can impro ve, lift up and add to the sum total of huma n happin ess. Ever y line of business, profe ssion avoca tion occup ation is partic ipated in by thos� who hav� sought our shores and by their childr en Then tru� it is, that these same once newco m�rs and their desce ndant s fill places i n our legisla tive halls and occup y seats upon the judici al bench Our · r� nks of states men find many who have. ,� ortl� tly earne d our citize nship, and so it is the d1ffen ng eleme nts of huma nity have grow n and are &'rowing up togeth ei;, Ameri cans all. It 1s a happy augury for the peace of a world 1 ' and of good will. Rke Lak", 'VITic; t"'l,.-0r. • txn,: .. s N 1 AN NNIAL NEAR The Norse-American Centennial cel­ ebration to commemmorate the one hundredth anniversary of the begin­ ning of Norse immigration to Amer­ ica will be held at the Minnesota State Fair grounds, St. .Paul-Minne­ apolis, Saturday, Jane 6, to Tuesday, June 9, inclusive. June 6 is "Bygde­ lag" day, June 7 is "Church and In­ ternational" day, June 8 is "America" day (when President Coolidge will at­ teml and ddiver an address), and June 9 is "Norway andi Women's" day. Four nations will be officially rep­ resented-the United States, Domin­ ion of Canada, Norway and Iceland. Besides President Coolidge, the Unit­ ed ,States will be represented by Hon. Frank B. Kellogg, secretary of state, and by the Los Angeles, giant anvy dirigble. Norway will be represented by H. H. Bryn, Norwegian minister to the United States, and Hon. Lars Of­ tedahl and C. J. Hambro. The Domin­ ion of ,Canada will . send Hon. Thomas H. Johnson, former minister of labor and attorney general of the province of Manitoba, and Premier J. Bracken of Manitoba, while Iceland will be represented by Holmfrid Arnadottir and Inga Larnsdottir. Brig. Gen. A. W. Bjornstad, first Norse-Ame1·ican to attain a general's rank in the United States army, now -stationed at Ft. Omaha, Neb., has ac­ cepted the invitation to attend and will be present. He was born and raised in St. Paul, Minn., while both his father and mother were born in Norway. Six states will be represented by governors of Norse ancestry, namely: 'l;heodore Christianson, Minnesota; J. J, Blaine, Wisconsin ; A. G. Sorlie, North Dakota; Gari Gunderson, South Dakota ; John E. Erikson, Montana, I and H. S. Whitfield, Mississippi. President Coolidge in St. Paul yesterday at the fair grounds, located midway between the two leading cities of Minnesota, addressed moi-e than 100,000 people in one of the greatest demonstrations that has ever been accorded a president, and h e paid a fitting and deserved tribute t o those who m igr3:te<l to , America from Norway and helped to mold and play then- part ' in the affairs of government. The address of th e President was one of the leading features r of the Norse-A��r Centennial celebration, and while the audience �presentative of those whose ancestors came from Norwav and Sweden, still it was more- than this, for it represented the best citizenshi'p of Minnesota and western Wis­ consin. The attendance on this day must h ave been pleasing to President Coolidge, for in Minnesota in the last campaign there was an aggressive fight made to defeat h im. It only goes to show that when a man is elected president of this republic he gains and holds the good-will of the people, and while there are differences of opinion in the campaign, those differences are obliterated wh en the -votes are counted, and then a ready and willing citizenship joins in its loyalty to the chosen h ead of this iOVernment. It must have been a pleasure for the President to recount the achievements of America in comparison with other nations over the way, for we have gone forward with rapid strides under our form of government, which is dedicated to the idea that aH men are equal. IT is doubtful if we c.ould m e a better showing than has been made by many of the nationalities who COOLIDGE W.AS RIGHT have come to us from European President Coolidge made som al- shore�. That which has i'rked us kusions to the cha �acter of �he f'tr- most nas been the exclusiveness, the _ egian people m h1s Monday s spe h clannishness, the community of in­ at the Norse Centennial which sho d terest which results from racial ties ! . chord in t of any people located among strangtouch l 1t!,. c n. TY" heart 'of every Amer ers whose language and forms of us who have lived a larg_g pa� worship and social customs are difour lives in a community s ferent from their own. permeated with Norwegian It occurs to us that the life of our grant population can testify to • own coml)lunity furnishes a most fact that the President had made impressive object lesson of the inrather careful study of his subje tluence of Norse immigration upon America bas been the melting . American civilization and, reading Y the President's speech, we think he into which bas been thrown different kinds of material to be must have made an intimate study of fused into an American character. the history of such a community as has been pleasant to live with some g this. The founders of this commun­ of these nationalities, �ith otheri, it lty, encouraged the immigration here We has sometimes been irksome. of Norwegian immigrants. They did have sometimes felt that our immi- this because these Norsemen were when lax 'gration laws have been too trained lumbermen and because they 1>eople whose ideas and customs were were physically and mo.rally depend­ str�ngly at vari�nce with our own able. They placed their great tndua­ ins1sted. on makmg themselves too \ t.rial organization in the hands of much at home here in a land which these people. They did this after be­ we liked to consider our own by coming familiar with some of the rfgbt of being born here. predominating characteris,tics of the But we should, if possible, vizual- race and had satisfied themselves ize ourselves as emigrants in some that their int,erests would be safer foreign land, forced from our own fn • the hands of these people than .tn land in quest of greater opl)Ortunlty. he hands of any other. It should e und&retood- that they.- w-e1•e deen dent, to a grea extent, upon---------ity for labor ome foreign nati f!:; ., .,. ..,,,.,. n,t9l' <:: ) t'J,.,., ' . ,.,,_ FRIDA¥., .IYN.i:. 2, l9ZS - ----------------------------------------.;i... �and tl:iat organizationi f 'off'ffiix!'id- -n;i --�en the Scandinavian emigrants_ came tionalities anywhere nea,r §Venly bal- ' to th 1s coun�ry, they came spe8:kmg a language anc e d generall Y required a well . or- try, but which was .not that of th1s counthey came, n eve thele ss not as .. ganize� milit�ry or pohoe force to strangers but as kinsme n rof the English make it fUJ1chon succesafull1. speaking population. The amalgamation 1 For, nearly 30 years Stanley -had going on here is merely a continuation of the .most peaceful, harmonious and that which went on in England, Scotland law-abiding industrial organiza�ion and Ireland for many c enturie s and just w.hi�h we have e ver known. The as the Nor_s e elemen t played an important great industry achieved its ·destiny, part in contributing to the sturdiness of character �nd en�rgy of those old world worked out its program · and •. passed rac e s and 1n makmg th em . gr eat and sue. • c essful, . l�fe of the comout of the . industrial_ it is playing a similar part here munlty. But the_ civic organization and contributing a most important and founded by the people whom t�ey valuable factor in building up the great brought h ere . remains and w.ill • re- Am•eri�IL. • race_._of_±he_ Mure. main. We recall when -the populaliUPERIOJ1 WIS TEL1' MONDAY, JU�E s, _192_5,.,. •1 tfo� of this community was easily 90 •.-'·...-� p e r cent. Norwegian immigrant. .. It tiva The Norse Fes is to-day 100 pe r c ent. American or .....,, a e co_min,g of ea.rly j The cel.e'b,,at;almost that If there be one per Norwegian immigrants to this country 1s a cent. or a fraction which is unAmerjnota-bl e event. The mere fact th'.1� the ican it.i s not due to any Norwegian jcontinent was discovered �Y Norwe gian adinfluenc e or traditions. venturers before it was discovered by ColIn all its org-aniz ed history, St,anumbus may not have an importa_nt bearl ey has been on e of the most ordering on the cou1se of history but it s hould , ly and law abiding community which be more gener�lly recognized that there was more of a Norse element in the firSt 1 we have ever known. We doubt if a s ettlers of N ew England and th� Middle large r pe r cent. of the protestant Atlantic colonies than many realize. population of any community - lll Ge orge Washington pointed o ut on !he 1 • Am e rica is included in its church occasion of an interview with N orwe g1an m e mbership. We do ·not include visitors that his ancestry traced back to Catholic b ecaus e it is assumed that Norse s ettlers in England. The Norse ele all Catholic population is included in m ent is a promine nt one in th e mak� up ?f its church membership. '.!'he laws t he English nation and even more so m the make up of th e Scotch nation. It is have always been enforced in Stan• a 1 e t i 0 ley. Stanley was a permane ntly dry ;:�t:�s, ����:�, � : g�i �:ft�:� tt:t :;� town long befor e the people of the and earli er times, all rac es of northern re st of th e United Stat es decided to of _we stern Europe have their Norse eleadopt the 18th amendment. Our edtnent. ucational standards .have always When the Scandinavian e migrants came been high and in advance of those to this country, they came speaking a of most communiti es. Our business language wh ich was not that of th is country, but they came , n evertheless not . as life , our industries our educational • strangers but as kinsmen of the Engl�sh and religious life ar e dominate d by spe aking population. The am�lga�ation Norw egian immigrants, their children I going on here is m erely a contmuation of or their children's children. Yet we that which went on in England, Scotland belie vti we are the most Americanand Ireland for many c enturie s and just ize d community' in Ame rica. Coolas the Norse el em ent played an important I idge was right. in contributing to the sturdiness of part i,;.;; character and energy of those old world am r g Te1e , �t, Jetto r Wis. race s and in making them gre at and suc-1-,s htJ_n�'y ..DJJ\JE _'if. 19_;5 cessful it is playing a similar part here and c�ntributing a most irhi;,ortant and e Norse Festival in building up the great �lebration of the coming of early valuable factor \ race of the future . American rweg��s to this country is a o ble event. T he m re fact that the WA.USAU wrs·-REC-Hlllll lcontinent was discover ed by Norwegian ad'T'Fl;Trn,5n.AY1 JUNlii i1 ���l,ir . .:. venturers before it was discovered by Coltt be encouraging to genuine Wisconsin umbus may n6t have an important bear/Jt, ' Rep 1 ns 1· f p res1·d ent Coo1·d 1 ge cou1 d see fit to he 0 u s address the people of Wisconsin, either at Madison tg ;�r! g;i;:l�y �!�::�:eJ �h�t ��:; where the legislature is in session, or elsewhere , w-a s more of • Nors e e lement in the firtt settlers of Nqw England and the Middle �•he journeys to Minneapo lis to attend the cenAtlantic colonjes than many realize . tennia_!_:ele�ratio� of the settle11.1 ent ?f �rwegianGe orge Washington pointed out on the An� - 111 thi atrtry. 13:1t Wtsconslh; whi•ie occasion Qf an interview with N orwe �ian � clisappoin te_ , "il l 1:0t be disgruntl ed if _th� presivisitors that h is ancestry traced ba-ck to · .' _. I. dent finds 1t rn1poss1bl e to btoi, over on his Journey Norse s ettlers in England. The Norse ele t� .l\I_it)n�.i§. The &grt of weather this section o f ment is a prominent one in the make up of the English nation and even mor e s o in jPJe,'.(:cf1Jll-Wf'fi@ )jfeq\ �1ypiying isri'i; of a sort that is th e make up of the Scotch nation. It is , e11coiirai;(utg m; ;vi's'i@ni who are as heavily burdened also an important elem ent in Ireland, and Wit• 11 respons i bility as President Coolidge ; and the for that matter, going back, p erhaps, to trip from Washington t.o, Minneapolis is trying une arli er tim e s, all rac es of northern and of weste rn Europe have the ir Norse e lecler t he best conditions. ment. • �Wittenberg, "�1,� .• F'1t r r· , .., r>H �AL...ll.i : . , ,15:?,• The Norse Festival mfo g 1Jf e: The c.• le-ltt-a+�t!, Calvin Cool idge's trip to the· Norse ce11tennial Norwegian immigrants to this com is a notable event. The mere fact t celebration at Minneapolis v, as the Ji?'�cofflfotia-1,k l the con tinent was di scovered by l\ western trip he has made since he became pr.e siclent I . weg1an adventurers before it was 1 of the United States. \,Vhile vice president, he made [ by Colu mbus may not have covererl one trip into the northwest as far as the Dakotas. · important bear1ng -on the course of' h He also visited Chicago a few months ago. But the ,. tory but it should be more general j ourney to the Twin Cities was really 1.he first long L­ recognized that there was more of trip he has made since becoming the ch ief execu­ Norse element in the first settlers d tive o f jj,'-" natinn . New England and , the Middle A tlanti., I f there were any people who were doubtful of colonies than many realize. 1 George W ashing ton pointed out on the po\ml arity of Calvin Coolidge in the middle west the occasion of an interview with Nor­ and northwest, that trip has dissipated it. Sea­ wegian visitors that his ancestry traced -;onecl old newspaper correspondents who have been back to Norse settlers in England. '.l.' he covering presidentia\ journeys for years, waxed Norse element is a prominent one in enthusiastic and called upon most of the adjectives the make up of the English nation and of a complimentary nature in their vocabnlary when · even more so in the make up of the they attempted to describe lhe enthusiastic welcome Scotch nation . It is also an important r.) ven the president by the m�tropolis of the north­ element in Ireland, and for that matter west. The warmth of their description is sincere, going back, perhaps, to earlier times' for it is spontaneous in tone and lacking entirely in all races of northern and of wester� Europe have their Nors� element. the "cut and dried" effect the work of even the best W hen the Scandinavian emigrants of newspaper men has when some ho ppening i s �ame to this country, they came speak­ ·'covered" m erely a s a matter o f duty. Vv'hatever ing -a language which was not that of may have been those newspaper men's feel ings when this country, but they came, neverthe­ first assigned to the presidential trip, it is evident less not as strangers but as k insmen of from their reports of the Minneapolis-St. Paul the English speaking population. Th €' happenings that the manner in which the crowds a-m alg�mat �on going on here is merely welcomed the president, and the cordial, "good fel­ a conttnuat10n of tl;lat which went on in low" way in which the latter respomlecl to the Engla �d, Scot � and and Ireland for many hearty northwestern greetings, touched the calloused centur1es'and Just as the Norse ele,n ent played an important part in contribut­ journalistic h earts in a way that has not o ftei1 ing to the sturdiness of character and l)ecn equalled since the newc,paper men used to tour energy of those old world races and in the country with "T. R." making them great and successful, it is The president's northwestern trip has undoubtedly playing a similar part here and con­ proven a great asset to the federal administration. tributing a most important and valuable as ,vell as to the people in that section of the coun­ factor in building up the great Ameri­ Lry. Now that the path has bee11 broken, i t i s hoped can race of the future. --Superior Tele­ Nrr. Coolidge wll see his way clear to making more , gram. j ourneys to the country west of the Great Lakes and [ the 1\lississippi river, in the not too distant f"'-ture. J l."' hv f'W!s.l Tfn,l!!iJ WED N�DAY+ JUN E 24� 1925 THE UNSUNG MILLIONS Presiden t Coolidge ·u,:P<'l one phn,,-e i n his Norse ('Cntennial sp0ech worthy of ispeci™ 1 11pl de; ;;hc>u he spoke of t he '·unsung millions," tht> plah1 ,md qniet people who rla ily <'lisplay modest"' and unprt>tenti om, , irtnes. The hero lc is founrl not merely in It is the idea ls of our state,mien. found in the daily toil of Llw pcopl0 who hav<' built up this <>oun try in spHe of grea.t difficulties and sacrifices, prominent among whom were the Norsemen, in whose honor Prcsich,1t Coolidge has just sr,oken. if WAUSAU WIS REC-H1111 EDNESDAY. ,TTTNR ll_l._ 192fi. ltE PRES IDE ITT''S JOURNEY 0 � .. - �l",faner t7lyo Tr hm11" MONDAY. JU. "-; l't, 1925 0 A Splendid P�pk _In his :?ili:n:iesota address the president, who reeug11izes in the l::lcandanavian peoples one -of the best elements of our . • population ,said: :_ "Th��e ·Nor_thmen, one of whose anniversai·les we are cele­ Lratiug, 1ha,•e from· their · first - appearance on the mar«in of hist_ory _been the children o f f-I'�dom. They were moved by that _ asp1rat1011 for a freehol<lmg m the land which has . always ma.rke� peopl;s in whom the den:Q�ratic ideal was pressing for _ recognttio11. _ E�ge_r for both political and economic indepe11d­ ence, the;r., realized the necessity for popular education. Thous­ ands of them volunteered - i n the Civil and Spanish wars and tens of thousands in tlie W.orld ·war. They have "'iven fil'cat soldiers, statesiµen, scientists, educators and me�1 of t'>busi­ ness to· the upbuilding of. their· adopted country. You have laid up your trea-sur� in wha-t America represen ts, nml there w ill your heart be also." Vvhe at', <l, \�7 , �· 11es _2,,,, 19..:..5 _ THU.ls.SD� UP TO INDIVIDUAL There are some people who think the government can do nearly �verything for them. They forget that the real :ability to accom- • plish things is in their own hands. President Coolidge commented in his characteristic way on that state of mind in his recent talk in St. Paul. He preaches the gospel of the homely virtues of every­ day life. Perhaps his experiences with the never-ending :t1ound of delegations, blocs and lobbies in Washington ea:ch wanting Uncle Sam to do something for it, to hold the umbrella over it to the ex­ clusion of others in the rain, inspired this noteworthy remark : "Our .America, with all that it repr,esents of hope in the world is now and will be what you make it. Its institutions of religious liberty, of educational and economic opportunity, of constitutional rights, of the integrity of the law, are the most precious possess­ ions of the human race. These do not emanate from .the govern­ ment. Their abiding place is with the people. They come from the consecration of the father, the love of the mother and the devo­ tion of the children. They are the product of that honesty, ear­ nest and tireless effort that goes into the r,earing of the family 1 · altar and the making of the homes of our country." The individual must work out his own salvation. By his own effort alone can he acquire those great virtues of integrity, enter­ prise, courage, energy and trustworthiness. Success comes mainly / through individual effort. President Coolidge recognizes that � truth and passes it along. I �� https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/dddb6094cb860bbef2f4a1599e700fa3.pdf 57bef94d0594391640684bea307a23c8 PDF Text Text Title: American press comments clippings scrapbook, 1925 Date: 1925 Identifier: p0562_clippings_09 Front Cover Page 1 Untitled, 1925 June 9; Who Are Real Americans, 1925 June 10; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 11 Page 2 Mr. Coolidge At Minneapolis, 1925 June 11; The Melting Pot, 1925 June 13 Page 3 A Trait Of Human Nature, 1925 June 10; All In Vain, 1925 June 21; Naturalized Norwegians, 1925 June 9 Page 4 Naturalized Norwegians, 1925 June 9 (continued); Is America Homogeneous, 1925 June 11; Untitled, 1925 June 12 Page 5 America, the Fusing Pot, 1925 June 10; Radicals Always Busy, 1925 June 13 Page 6 True National Unity Proved, 1925 June 9; Untitled, 1925 June 9; Untitled, 1925 June 10; Coolidge And Kellogg, 1925 June 13 Page 7 Coolidge And Kellogg, 1925 June 13 (continued); Unsatisfactory Democracy, 1925 June 4 Page 8 "Regions Of The Past", 1925 June 9; The Hardy Norsemen, 1925 June 9; Worthy Of The Tribute, 1925 June 10; Coolidge Out West, 1925 June 10 �Page 9 Coolidge Out West, 1925 June 10 (continued); Coolidge in the Northwest, 1925 June 8; The Viking Explorers, 1925 June 10 Page 10 Untitled, 1925 June 8 Page 11 Untitled, 1925 June 8 (continued); President Coolidge In The Northwest, 1925 June 16; Untitled, 1925 June 19; Good Citizens, 1925 June 13 Page 12 Untitled, 1925 June 25; Our Dirigibles, 1925 June 11; The President at St. Paul, 1925 June 8 Page 13 Just a Flying Visit, 1925 June 8; Kellogg Warns the Northwest, 1925 June 10; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 5; Those Jealous Twins, 1925 June 9; Our Melting Pot, 1925 June 21 Page 14 The Unsung Millions, 1925 June 18; The Unsung Millions, 1925 June 17; The President at St. Paul, 1925 June 9; President Coolidge in the Northwest, 1925 June 10 Page 15 The Norse Centenary in Minnesota, 1925 June 11; Enthusiasm Of The Norwegians Gratifying, 1925 June 14; Norwegian Centennial, 1925 June 8; Untitled, 1925 June 10 Page 16 Good Citizens, 1925 June 16; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 5; Mr. Coolidge's Tribute to the Norsemen, 1925 June 10; The Norsemen in American, 1925 June 11; The Magic Of America, 1925 June 9 Page 17 The Magic Of America, 1925 June 9 (continued); The President's Trip West, 1925 June 12; To Celebrate The Coming Of The Norsemen, 1925 June 22 Page 18 To Celebrate The Coming Of The Norsemen, 1925 June 22 (continued); Worthy Of The Tribute, 1925 June 11 �Page 19 "Nordic" Superiority, 1925 June 10; The Norse Celebration, 1925 June 11 Page 20 The President Starts A Campaign, 1925 June 8; Our Melting Pot, 1925 June 9; Logical And Hopeful, 1925 June 9 Page 21 Our Norsemen, 1925 June 12; Those Terrible Immy-Grants, 1925 June 13; Page 22 The Norse Contribution, 1925 June 22 Page 23 We Admire The Thought But Wish He Wouldn't, 1925 May 30; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 11 Page 24 Norse-American Centennial, 1925 March 17; Next, But Not Least, 1925 June 13; Norse-American Centennial, 1925 May 28; Norse-American Centennial, 1925 May 7; The Norse Celebration, 1925 June 11 Page 25 The Norse Celebration, 1925 June 11 (continued); Untitled, 1925 June 8; The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 June 4 Page 26 Untitled, 1925 May 14; Untitled, 1925 June 9 Page 27 American Norsemen, 1925 June 9; The Melting Pot, 1925 June 15; The Melting Pot, 1925 June 19; The Norse Contribution, 1925 June 15 Page 28 The Un-American Northwest, 1925 June 11; Petty Politics, 1925 June 19; The Un-American Northwest, 1925 June 11; So Different, 1925 June 11 Page 29 So Different, 1925 June 11 (continued); Coolidge On Freedom, 1925 June 7 Page 30 �President Pleased, 1925 June 10; The Opening Gun, 1925 June 14 Page 31 The Opening Gun, 1925 June 14 (continued); Who Is Right On Immigration Issue, 1925 June 10; A Fitting Tribute, 1925 June 11; Coolidge On Freedom, 1925 June 10; The Coming Of The Vikings, 1925 June 9 Page 32 The Coming Of The Vikings, 1925 June 9 (continued); Could It Happen Anywhere Else?, 1925 June 12 Page 33 Indestructible Principles, 1925 June 19; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 11 Page 34 The President's Path To Peace, 1925 June 19; The Strength of the Nation, 1925 June 19; A Vision Of World Peace, 1925 June 19; Untitled, 1925 June 9 Page 35 Coolidge On Freedom, 1925 June 8; Immigration, 1925 June 9; Coolidge On Freedom, 1925 June 9 Page 36 Coolidge On Freedom, 1925 June 9 (continued); Coolidge In The Winning Of The Middle West, 1925 June 9; Mr. Coolidge At The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 June 11 Page 37 One Hundred Years, 1925 June 5; No One Has Been Able To Explain Why, 1925 June 13; Untitled, 1925 June 6 Page 38 Discouraging Hyphenism, 1925 June 22; Viking Centennial, 1925 June 14; Coolidge On Freedom, 1925 June 11; Page 39 Coolidge On Freedom, 1925 June 11 (continued); Norsemen Have Centennial, 1925 June 2; Who Discovered America?, 1925 June 27; A Tribute To Good Americans, 1925 June 9 Page 40 President In Minnesota, 1925 June 8 Page 41 Untitled, 1925 June 10; �Untitled, 1925 June 10; Norse-Americans And Coolidge's Policies, 1925 June 11 Page 42 Norse-Americans And Coolidge's Policies, 1925 June 11 (continued) Page 43 Voice Of The Press, 1925 June 10; The Trail Of Politics, 1925 June 10; Coolidge Steps Too Far, 1925 June 13 Page 44 Coolidge Steps Too Far, 1925 June 13 (continued); The Norsemen, 1925 June 10; The Rewards of Insurgency, 1925 June 21 Page 45 The Rewards of Insurgency, 1925 June 21 (continued); Coolidge Joins the Nordics, 1925 June 9; Hoover, 1925 June 10 Page 46 The Melting Pot, 1925 June 9; Come West, Mr. President, 1925 June 10; The Norse-Americans, 1925 June 11; Coolidge And The West, 1925 June 29 Page 47 Coolidge And The West, 1925 June 29 (continued); Coolidge In Northwest, 1925 June 28; An Unusual Celebration, 1925 June 8 Page 48 Unseemly Haste, 1925 June 9; A Norse Celebration, 1925 May 10; Untitled, 1925 May 23; The Norse Celebration, 1925 June 9 Page 49 America As A Guide, 1925 June 10; Coolidge Finds Another Welcome, 1925 June 9; The Norwegian and the Northwest, 1925 June 17 Page 50 The Norwegian and the Northwest, 1925 June 17 (continued); Coolidge On Freedom, 1925 June 9; Norway, 1925 May 17; Centennial, 1925 June 8 Page 51 Centennial, 1925 June 8 (continued); Notable Day, 1925 June 25; Praise for Norwegians, 1925 June 9 Page 52 �Special Train for Coolidge, 1925 June 7; Makers of America, 1925 June 17; Coolidge On Freedom, 1925 June 9 Page 53 Untitled, 1925 June 7; Makers Of America, 1925 June 9; The Norse Movement, 1925 June 9 Page 54 The Trail Of Politics, 1925 June 10; Old Immigration and New, 1925 June 10 Page 55 Our Norsemen, 1925 June 9; Untitled, 1925 June 10; Makers of America, 1925 June 11 Page 56 Makers of America, 1925 June 11 (continued); Shall America Abandon Tolerance, 1925 June 14; Vision Of Utopia, 1925 June 15 Page 57 The Norse Festival, 1925 June 13; The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 June 5; A Triumphal Pilgrimage, 1925 June 12; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 8 Page 58 The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 8 (continued); Four Years Makes A Difference, 1925 June 9; The Norse Festival, 1925 June 8 Page 59 He Says What We All Hope, 1925 June 11; Good Citizens, 1925 June 16; It's Good For Him, 1925 June 10; A World Model, 1925 June 8; Will Try Again, 1925 June 10 Page 60 Americans All, 1925 June 18; Untitled, 1925 June 20; Mr.Coolidge and Janesville, 1925 June 6; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 8 Page 61 Welcome Oslo Singers, 1925 June 11; Good Citizens, 1925 June 20; Good Citizens, 1925 June 18 �Page 62 Much To Learn But No Chance To Learn It, 1925 May 20; Why, 1925 June 9; 1825-1925, 1925 April 8 Page 63 1825-1925, 1925 April 8 (continued); The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 10; The President At St. Paul, 1925 June 18 Page 64 The President At St. Paul, 1925 June 18 (continued); Norse-American Centennial Near, 1925 June 3; Great Demonstration, 1925 June 9; Coolidge Was Right, 1925 June 12 Page 65 Coolidge Was Right, 1925 June 12 (continued); The Norse Festival, 1925 June 8; The Norse Festival, 1925 June 8; Untitled, 1925 June 4 Page 66 The President's Journey, 1925 June 10; The Unsung Millions, 1925 June 24; The Norse Festival, 1925 June 11 Page 67 A Splendid People, 1925 June 15; Up To Individual, 1925 June 20 Back Cover � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norse-American Centennial Papers (P0562) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context P0562 Description An account of the resource <p><span>Correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, programs, clippings, pictures, pamphlets, and scrapbooks of an association incorporated in 1925 in St. Paul, Minnesota, to supervise the observance of the arrival of the first group of Norwegian immigrants in America. The collection describes in detail the management of the celebration and gives data on observances in Chicago, Canada, Boston, and Brooklyn. Letters and essays reveal the loyalty of Norwegian Americans to their cultural heritage and the rivalry among area groups of Norwegians in America. The celebration was initiated by the bygdelags. The chief officials were Gisle Bothne, S. H. Holstad, J. A. Holvik, Elisa P. Farseth, and Mrs. Wm. O. Storlie. Correspondents include Juul Dieserud, Knut Gjerset, Hanna Astrup Larsen, and O. M. Norlie. The centennial received nationwide press coverage.</span></p> <b>Funding:</b><span><br /></span><span>Funding to digitize the Norse-American Centennial papers provided to the Norwegian-American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.</span> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newspapers Description An account of the resource <span>Clippings scrapbook about American Press comments on the Norse-American Centennial.<br /></span> Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. [Indicate the cited item here]. Norse-American Centennial Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota. Text