https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/e9b3390d31210d2c19220a8887a38264.pdf 6f5b5232fb8b6d7665edb753b461e5cb PDF Text Text Title: American press comments clippings scrapbook, 1925 Date: 1925 Identifier: p0562_clippings_12 Front Cover Page 1 Where Alien Groups Are Found, 1925 June 18; The Unsung Millions, 1925 June 20; The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 February 6 Page 2 The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 February 6 (continued); Building of Bridge of Fraternity, 1925 June 25; Coolidge and the Norsemen, 1925 June 12 Page 3 The President's Trip, 1925 June 10; Hail To The Norsemen, 1925 June 8; Our Melting Pot, 1925 June 16 Page 4 Our Melting Pot, 1925 June 16 (continued); One Of the Reasons Why President Coolidge Appeals To the People, 1925 June 9; A New Norse Saga, 1925 June 8 Page 5 Rooseveltian, 1925 June 9; Norway Likes Coolidge, 1925 June 16; Our Melting Pot, 1925 June 25; The Unsung Millions, 1925 June 25; Coolidge In Minnesota, 1925 June 9 Page 6 Coolidge In Minnesota, 1925 June 9 (continued); Special Train For Coolidge, 1925 June 11; The Norwegian Centennial, 1925 June 9 Page 7 Untitled, 1925 June 11; Our National Melting Pot, 1925 June 9 Page 8 The Making Of A Country, 1925 June 9; �Untitled, 1925 June 19; The Norse In America, 1925 June 13 Page 9 What Coolidge Could Have Said, 1925 June 9; What He Could Have Said, 1925 June 13; The Norsemen in America, 1925 June 10 Page 10 The Norsemen in America, 1925 June 10 (continued); Politics In Everything, 1925 June 12; Our Melting Pot, 1925 June 19; The President's Trip, 1925 June 13 Page 11 The President's Vision, 1925 June 10; Making a Poor Showing, 1925 June 11; Shall America Abandon Tolerance?, 1925 June 9; America Is What We Make It, 1925 June 10 Page 12 The President, 1925 June 8; The Strength of the Nation, 1925 June 9; We Ought to Know, 1925 June 11; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 25; Mr. Coolidge Goes Visiting, 1925 June 10 Page 13 Mr. Coolidge Goes Visiting, 1925 June 10 (continued); Mr. Coolidge's Vision, 1925 June 10 Page 14 Paying Tribute To A Hardy Race, 1925 June 9; The Norsemen In America, 1925 June 13; The President's Special, 1925 June 7; Norse Celebration, 1925 June 3; The Unsung Millions, 1925 June 23 Page 15 The Norse Celebration, 1925 May 7; The Noble Norsemen, 1925 June 6; A Great Celebration, 1925 June 11 Page 16 A Great Celebration, 1925 June 11 (continued); Great Norse Celebration, 1925 June 7; Another Coolidge Talk, 1925 June 8; Scandinavian Day, 1925 June 19; The President's St. Paul Speech, 1925 June 10 Page 17 Norwegians, 1925 June 14; Untitled, 1925 June 11; �Coolidge And The Norse, 1925 June 11 Page 18 The Norse Celebration, 1925 May 12; A Great Celebration, 1925 June 18; Norse Centennial, 1925 May 23 Page 19 Norse Centennial, 1925 May 23 (continued); Descendants of Vikings, 1925 June 10; Comment Of The Day, 1925 June 6; America Is A World In Itself, 1925 June 9 Page 20 Untitled, 1925 June 12; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 4; A Centennial, 1925 June 10; Remember This!, 1925 June 11; Coolidge on Freedom, 1925 June 9 Page 21 Coolidge on Freedom, 1925 June 9 (continued); Untitled, 1925 May 28; Untitled, 1925 June 11 Page 22 Untitled, 1925 June 19 Page 23 Untitled, 1925 June 13; A Great Race, 1925 June 12 Page 24 Good Citizens, 1925 June 15; Helps Dissipate Radical Wave, 1925 June 9; Coolidge At Minneapolis, 1925 June Page 25 Tribute to Amundsen, 1925 June 8; Backgrounds of America, 1925 June 9; As Others See It, 1925 June 12 Page 26 Good Citizens, 1925 June 16; President's Trip Helps Dissipate Radical Wave, 1925 June 23; The President As Historian, 1925 June 14 Page 27 The President As Historian, 1925 June 14 (continued); A Politica Mission, 1925 June; Geographic Rivalry, 1925 June; The Norwegian Centennial, 1925 June 2 �Page 28 Geographic Rivalry, 1925 June 27; Untitled, 1925 June 10 Page 29 Untitled, 1925 June 11; Albuquerquean Rushes Up to Famous Norwegian Actor, Kisses Him; Acted With Him Years Ago on the Continent, 1925 June 18; Untitled, 1925 June 11 Page 30 The Norsemen, 1925 June 8; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 9; Scandinavian Americans, 1925 June 8 Page 31 The President And His Party, 1925 June 10; Untitled, 1925 June 13; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 8 Immigrants' Luck, 1925 June 9 Page 32 Immigrants' Luck, 1925 June 9 (continued); The Norse in America, 1925 June 8; The Norse-American Festival, 1925 June 9; The Norwegian Centennial, 1925 June 8 Page 33 Mr. Coolidge's Tribute to the Norsemen, 1925 June 9; The Norwegian Centennial, 1925 June 4; The President to the Danes, 1925 June 9; The Norwegian Centennial, 1925 June 1 Page 34 Praise For The Norsemen, 1925 June; The Minnesota Visit, 1925 June 13 Page 35 The Minnesota Visit, 1925 June 13 (continued); The Muchly Gummed Melting Pot, 1925 June 10 Page 36 The Muchly Gummed Melting Pot, 1925 June 10 (continued); Secretary Kellogg Speaks, 1925 June 11; The Norse Contribution, 1925 June 9 Page 37 The Norse Contribution, 1925 June 9 (continued); The Norwegian Celebration, 1925 June 9; Calvin Says A Mouthful, 1925 June 10; The Norse Centenary, 1925 April 4 Page 38 Coolidge in Norseland, 1925 June 9; �North America's First White Child Born in 1003 to 1006, 1925 June 16; Coolidge and the Vikings, 1925 June 10; The Town in Review, 1925 June 11 Page 39 The Town in Review, 1925 June 11 (continued); A New Norse Saga, 1925 June 7; The Trail Of Politics, 1925 June 8 Page 40 America's Making ,1925 June 10; Mr. Coolidge Hopelessly Behind the Times, 1925 June 14; Calvins Of Anthropology, 1925 June 19 Page 41 Calvins Of Anthropology, 1925 June 19 (continued); Character, 1925 June 15; The Norsemen In America, 1925 June 8 Page 42 The Norsemen In America, 1925 June 8 (continued); Mr. Coolidge's Tribute To The Norsemen, 1925 June 9; What Mr. Coolidge Learned On His Trip West, 1925 June 11; This Stamp Issue Passes New York, 1925 June 16; In The Day's News, 1925 June 10 Page 43 Freedom, 1925 June 11; On Second Thought, 1925 June 12; The Strength Of The Nation, 1925 June 15; The President's Minneapolis Address, 1925 June 15 Page 44 The President's Minneapolis Address, 1925 June 15 (continued); The Norwegian Centennial, 1925 June 8; Norse-American Celebration Opens In Minneapolis, 1925 June 10; The Norwegian Centennial, 1925 June 1; Minnesota Looks Back to Kendall, 1925 June 10 Page 45 Communism to Be Crushed, 1925 June 13; The Melting Pot, 1925 June 11; The Norse Celebration, 1925 June 9; Seeing Things, 1925 June 10 Page 46 Seeing Things, 1925 June 10 (continued); The Norse Northwest, 1925 June 9; Untitled, 1925 June 14; The Norse In America, 1925 June 8; America's Lesson To The World, 1925 June 9 Page 47 �America's Lesson To The World, 1925 June 9 (continued); The Norse-American Exposition, 1925 June 9; Coolidge On Freedom, 1925 June 9; Not A Weakling, 1925 June 18 Page 48 The Broad Norse Trail, 1925 June 9; Coolidge on Freedom, 1925 June 11; Coolidge in the Northwest, 1925 June Page 49 Coolidge in the Northwest, 1925 June (continued); Norwegian Centennial, 1925 May 16; Coolidge On Freedom, 1925 June 9; They Believe in Coolidge, 1925 June 10 Page 50 They Believe in Coolidge, 1925 June 10 (continued); The Norsemen's Centennial, 1925 June 14; Our Melting Pot, 1925 June 22; "Spiritual Union", 1925 June 13 Page 51 "Spiritual Union", 1925 June 13 (continued); Reason For Coolidge's Trip, 1925 June 9; Coolidge Popularity, 1925 June 10 Page 52 The President's Triumph, 1925 June 12; Good Citizens, 1925 June 17; Children Of Freedom, 1925 June 10; President Politics, 1925 June 16 Page 53 Coolidge and the West, 1925 June 24; The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 11; Geographic Rivalry, 1925 June 27; They Are Good Citizens, 1925 June 13 Page 54 Coolidge On Freedom, 1925 June; Fess, 1925 June 22; Coolidge on Freedom, 1925 June 9; The Norse Contribution, 1925 June 12 Page 55 The President's Vision, 1925 June 10; Why Stop With Talk, 1925 June 12; Contemporary Thought, 1925 June 18 Page 56 The Melting Pot, 1925 June Page 57 �The Norse Centennial, 1925 May 29; No Norwegian Elkhounds Could be Found in U.S., 1925 June 12; An Outstanding Pioneer, 1925 April 23 Page 58 An Outstanding Pioneer, 1925 April 23 (continued); Our American Norsemen, 1925 June 4 Page 59 Norwegian Centennial Celebration, 1925 May 20; Coolidge Is Clever, 1925 June 6; The Hardy Norsemen, 1925 June 8; The Imperial Northwest, 1925 June 9; A New Norse Saga, 1925 June 13 Page 60 A New Norse Saga, 1925 June 13 (continued); 1825-1925, 1925 March 5; The Epic Scandinavian Migration, 1925 June 10 Page 61 The Epic Scandinavian Migration, 1925 June 10 (continued); Our American Norsemen, 1925 June 11; The Norse American Celebration, 1925 June 4; The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 June 18 Page 62 The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 June 18 (continued); Our American Norsemen, 1925 June 11; Norse-American Centennial, 1925 March 21 Page 63 The Scandinavian Centennial, 1925 April 8; The Centennial's Challenge, 1925 May 5; A Nation--One and Inseparable, 1925 June 9 Page 64 Revitalizing Our Past, 1925 June 11; The Need of Vigilance, 1925 June 12; Notable Days, 1925 June 12 Page 65 The Norwegian Centennial, 1925 June 7; A Swedish Tercentennial, 1925 June 12; Our American Norsemen, 1925 June 12 Page 66 Our American Norsemen, 1925 June 11; Our American Norsemen, 1925 June 11; The Imperial Northwest, 1925 June 11; Centennial Celebration of Norse Immigration, 1925 March 26 Page 67 Centennial Celebration of Norse Immigration, 1925 March 26 (continued); �Norsemen in American History, 1925 June 18; Untitled, 1925 June 20 Page 68 Untitled, 1925 June 20 (continued); The Norwegian Centennial, 1925 June 12; Our American Norsemen, 1925 June 12; The Norse American Centennial, 1925 March 20; Norse-American Centennial, 1925 May 29 Page 69 Norse-American Centennial, 1925 May 29 (continued); Untitled, 1925 June 12; Our American Norsemen, 1925 June 11 Page 70 Our American Norsemen, 1925 June 11; Revitalizing Our Past, 1925 June 19; Untitled, 1925 June 11; Our American Norsemen, 1925 June 12 Back Cover � https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/aa3091f2b58d34258859601ff284b597.pdf 884161864c38ac8bbb0519c8fbec9b9b PDF Text Text NARA MSS Norse American Centennial American Press Comments 1925 ' SCRAP.BOOK �WHERE ALIEN GROUPS ARE FOUND ______ ___ ___ _,. !',fore than one-half the 1¼ mil­ lion Scandinavians in the United States are grouped in the half dozen states represented by the great aud­ ience addres -bY-'Fresldent Cool­ idge at the Norse-American �nten­ nial celebra 1 aul a few days ago. The latest population fig­ ures of the United States, says the trade record of the National City bank of New York, show the number of natives of the Scandinavian coun­ tries residing in the United States in 1920, the latest official figures, at 1,178,596, of which number 625,580 were natives of Sweden, 363,862 of Norway, and 189,154 of Denmark. Out of this• grand total of 1,178,596 Scan­ dinavians in the United States in 1920, the census reports show 219,1 209 living in Minnesota, 53,285 in North Dakota, 31,369 in South Da­ kota, 83,749 in Wisconsin, 57,857 in Iowa, and 150,460 in Illinois. Ot the 1½ million... Germans in the United States in 1920 over 200,. 000 were in the state of Illinois; 151,000 in Wisconsin; 100,000 in Minnesota, and the Dakotas; and 120,000 in Pennsylvania. To the Poles, coming from the northern secti6n of Europe, the mining and manufacturing sec­ tions of this country offer special at­ tractions, for out of 1,140,000 Poles in the United States in 1920, 178,000 were in Pennsylvania, 162,000 in Il­ linois� 103,000 in Michigan, about 150,000 in tne New England states, and 247,000 in New York state. Of the 1,400,000 Russians in the country in 1920 the mining and man­ ufacturing states had absorbed large proportion, Pennsylvania 161, 000, Illinois 117,000, New Englan 147,000 and New York state 529,000. The cities seem especially attrac tive to the natives of Ireland, for . f 1 037,000 natives of Ireland fo ,..,.._ 1920 in this country 284.,000 were in New York state, 183,000 in Massa­ chusetts, and 121,000 in Pennsyl­ vania. While the southern states, with their genial climate, have attracted comparatively few, the opportunity for outdoor life in the grain and fruit areas of California have given that state a larger number of white per­ sons of foreign birth than any other states except New York, Pennsyl­ vania, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Illinois, the total number of "for­ eign-born whites" in California in 1920 being 681,662, a number only ex­ ceeded by the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Il­ linois, despite the fact that the aver­ age "foreign-born white" entering the United States had to travel a dis­ tance of 3000 miles to establish him­ self on the Pacific coast. The offi­ cial records show the total number of immigrants entering the country in the past 100 years at about 37 mil­ lions, while the total number of "foreign-born whites" in the United States in 1920 was stated at 13,712,754, of whom 2,786,112 were 1n New York, 1,387,850 in Pennsylvania, 1,206,951 in Illinois, 1,077,534 in Massa­ chusetts, 726,635 in Michigan and 681,662 in California. Of the 13,712,754 "foreign-born whites" in the United States in 1920, 11,914.617 were n11Hves of Europe, and 73,824 natives { 'T�E UNSU�G MILLIONS l 1dent Coolldg·e used one phrafi•J in h Norse centennial S!JCech w<)l' thy ot special empha.sis, when h'"­ spoke o-J the " LDe'Ung millions," 1 he plain ap.d quiet people who daily dis­ play_ modest and unpretentious vir­ tu�;i. In June of the present year, in the city of St Paul, there will be observed the onehundredth anniversary of the ar­ rival of the first group of Norwegian immigrants The Norse�n the United States. It American 1s expected that dele­ gates and visitors from Centennial every state in the Union, , from Canada, and from the homeland of these . . sturdy pioneers, w11l be in attendance, possibly t? the number of 125,000 or 150,000. The' par­ !1cular event to be commemorat ed is the landing m New York 1?arbor, on Oct. 9, 1825, of th� sloop Restorat10n, carrying a ban d of coura­ geous men and women seeking homes and for­ _ tunes m an alien land. As one surveys the progress made by these 1 peopl�, their descendants, and the thousands �f _ Amer1can1ze d Norsemen who followed them into the great northwestern c0untry, it seems that �nuch more _than a century must have elapsed in its acco;111phshme t. An effort will be made to � appropriately depict this progress in a pageant !o be hel� on w�1at will be designate d as "Amer_ 1,c� Day. Smularly, on "Norway Day" ther e will be portrayed the history of the moth�r coun­ try from the most ancient period down to th present. In �nteresting contrast there will b! shown a replica of t�e vessel supp osed to have _ been used by Leif Erwson in his voyage of dis­ covery, and one of the Restoration the some­ what less cru�e sailing vess<.>l used by' the pioneer group centuries later. �--rhe capital city of MinneBota has been appro­ priately selected as the setting for this celebra­ tion. It is in the states of tlJe old northwest, now more definitely referred to as the middle west, that the immigration from Norway and other Scandinavian countries centered. A century ago there was little to attraqt the newcomers to Canad::i. Had the developme11t there been as far adv'51nced as it was in Wisconsin and Min­ nesota,,no..doubf the Dominion would have been the goal of the immigrants, despite the fact that iheir J)refer�nce wa� Jor �Ide�nc;e_.1!..ti<Je..L..,a democracy, rather than in a land governed by a constitutional monarchy. But the search of the, Norsemen has ever bee , for the land "farthest north." They, like the 11 orles of every other country, seem naturall)'i migrate along lati­ tudinal lines. The tendei'. y is almost invariably indicated by the movem ts of populations in the United States, as is apparent to anyone who cares to study the migration from east to west, and even from west to east, during the last hun­ dred vears. It h·as been said to the credit of the A�rican­ ized Norsemen that they do not come wif'hin the classifications adopted by those who have been somewhat ·criticallv referred to in recent years as "hyphenates." They recognize no divided or dua1 fealty.. In their schools and in their ' churches, as well as in their homes, they teach and practice all the cherished precepts of loyalty to the institutions of the land of theil\ adoption. I­ It is because of this that thev have taken their places as leaders, i11 those states and communi­ I ties where their numbers are great, in social, political and industrial life. Naturally, in the celebration which is planned to commemorate the arrival of the pioneers in this movement which has meant much to the people of two friendly nations, there will be that commendable co-operation. among those of the two :races most co11cerned which will testify to the regard in which each is held by the other. No inherited rivalries remain, even if they ever existed. ,.IUN 2 5 '25 On recent fraternal visit of Canadian Free­ ma.,c/is, from Ottawa to Potsdam in New York . Stl>t},, the Racket River L1dg� greeted t�e visiter Buildin ing brethren with the . o!", emblems of Canada, the the Bridge United States and Great of . Britain strung together across the street. In the Fraternity lodge room and at �he banquet hall, the Umon .Jack, the Stars and Stripes and the Can�dian J;Jnsign were similarly _mounted together m, an inspiring display of umty betw�e�1 the English­ speaking nations. The fratermzmg craftsmen marched through the streets of Potsdam to­ gether, with the banners o_f the British Con�­ monwealth and of the Umted States, beauti­ fully worked in silk, abreast at t�e head f th_e procession. The State Normal School 01?ches­ tra played "The Maple Leaf" as the Canadian visitors entered the hall. The assembled Free.: ma-sons, 300 or more, toasted the President the King and the Prince of Wales, sang the Br' and United States national anthems, as wellitish as a verse dedicated to both nations, and rejoiced in that growth of fellowship and good under standing which cannot be deterred by imaginary­ boundary lines or the seeming obstacles of distance. About the same week-end, at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds, 75,000 people assembled to hear the speech of President Gool.idge at the Norse-American centennial celebration. They remained to hear Thoma H. Johnson of Winni­ peg, i,.ffi.cial .t'0ftl'e5Bnfative for Canada at the centennial, ·convey the greetings of the Domin ion. The great throng gave the Canadian reJ}·­ resentative a rousing reception when he roswto speak. In payi:1g_ this _!�op�r �ibute � t�_ Dominion, the people at Minneapolis were par­ ticularly responsive wben the speaker referred to the fact that, for more than 100 years, Canada and the United States had lived _peacefully side by side. Canada furnished one of the features at the Norse-American exhibition. Besides showing a typical Canadian farm scene, the Canadian ex­ hibit included two remarkable pictures, one showing Leif Ericson, the Norse explorer, ap­ proaching the shores of Nova Scotia in his vik­ ing ship in the year 1001 A. D., and the other depicting him about to step ashore at what is now Cape Breton. The pictures were appropri� ately done in grain and grass seeds. In another part of the Canadian exhibit, a large viking ship made of sheafs of grain and grasses bravely displayed the flags of Canada, the United States and Norway. How closely akin the northern people of Europe are to the people of North America is to be seen in such gatherings as the Norse-Amer­ ican centennial celebration. In Canada, the Scandinavian ·settler is almost as much at home as the Scotsman. In the movement toward world peace through better understanding, fra­ ternal visits across the international boundary line between Canada and the United States are helping to build an enduring bridge·-, --�= __ advocacy of a world State sentences ernment. or threat of a super-gov Mr. Coolidge , at the Norse cen­ was content simply to pay tennial .--.... tribute' to a race which has done fron-1 _.....,,._ -·-- much to consolidate a western � tier. This migration of a hardy, northern a in live who frugal people I land of lakes and iron to another , Jf .'V northern land of lakes and i;t'�n impressed the presid:-nt as an epic. story, and the motrve power �e• hind that migration interested him no less than its social effects up­ our national life. Why, asked ==============�, I on e, should the Norsemen olidge and the Norsemen. Mr. Coolidg • seek America in such numbers that � (Kew York World.) --✓ to-day there are as many people l Unite� • Nl:r.• Coo idge's adi attn of Norwegian stock in intheNorway. • fess "" at es as there are Norweiian centennial celebratio �t t holds l{ttl� for those political str ate '.!'he answer, Mi.· Co lid e though liberty; gists w'hti read b�tween the line is th�: the Norsema i lo�es ual individ the of every presidential statement an and H;re his find therein a message to the poli was lor ?f 1 1\ master of own of his " ticians. It is true that �r. Cool own deatJ� �ee ��r was free.s I idge pointed out that unlike races sovereignty heie ' e ort live at peace with one another in Pr�bably some.thmg of that Not ration. i g America drew therefrom the les- explams the Notse m son that a certain "spiritual qual- in as complete degree as Mr. Cool an ity" is common to all men and idge pictures has the Norse free:om asl,ed hopefully the questio� "If won his freedom -his an so­ d • 11 politically fraternity and co-operation are ' pos- e�onom!ca his adoption. sible on the scale of this continent cially- m t?i8 '1and of new in land a d among people so widely diverse, But one fr helmingly why not on the scale of a world?" an old wor1� . ��s overw Not even the most ardent isola- best.owe d on 111m. That is freedom • ·o t e tionist however will r a i l· I • ! �-nI:: �7 / H A ITOTH E N O R S E M E N ! \ THE PRE SIDENT'S TRIP. No such official trip as that w hjch President Coolidge has been making to the Northwe,,t can Jscape the attention of the politicians. While Mr. Coolidge's expressed intention was mere- l ly to address the gathering in St. Paul in celebration of the centennial of the arrival of the first Norwegian settlers in the United StP tes, h':'- had to pass through many States to g;1J; there. One of these was Wisconsin, the home of Senator La 'l'ollette. That was the only State of the section which he failed to carry in the election last year. Interest naturally attached to the na­ ture of the reception aciorded him by the leaders in politics there, many of whom are of Norwegian descent; According to reports, the reception was a hearty one. Not only was assura.nce given the President that he was gaining in strength in the State, but there was reference to the possibility that, if he r1n for the second full term in office, Mr. Coolidge w ould carry the State. That political discussion was not going to be frowned upon dur­ ing the trip was evident from the fact that Se-n ator Lenroot of Wisconsin had been invited to accompany him. There was no other inference to be drawn from this than that Lenroot was in the favor of the administration and the chance to show it was taken. Since this senator's term expires in 1 9 2 7, two things may be guessed from his presence. One of these is that Lenroot will be a candidate for re-election and the other is that the Republi­ can national administration will be behind him. This is important as it would throw down the gauntlet before Senato La Fol­ lette in his own State. • La. Follette is opposed to Lenro;t --;;;d is said to have picked a candidate to succeed him, thereby causing a row among his own followers. Whatever the influence of such a dispute over the candidate 'm.ay have, it is clear from the , situation that the entrance of Lenroot into the field for renomi1 nation would bring the administration forces into close contest 1 with the La Follette party. TJ1e defeat of the latter . would ' squelch the prestige of the radical leader in the eyes of the coun- 1 try. There is every reason to expect that the President will , have won streng� h during his Yisit. His is the character likely to appeal , to the frugal, peace-loving Norwegians when they I come into personal touch with him, as they will have had the op1 portunity in j oining in the celebration in St. Paul. Lenroot is ­ certain to share in the prominence of the occasion and the po litical results which , grow out of it, so that a conflict betwee:o, him and La Follette next ::ear would unquestionably be Olf� of broad interest throughout the country. j 1 iI 1 I : ' ' r Th!1 fesident has taken short leave r of his uties 11-t Washington to travel , to M:innesota. The occasion which / called him forth was the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first im­ migration of Norwegians to the United States. Since the first exodus of Nor ­ wegians to the United States a million of them have come to this country dur� _t}:I�. centurv: that bas m:irna:� of them settled in the regions about the Great Lakes. Minnesota has had the' large!:' proportion of these Norwegian settlers, and it is ·fitting that Minne­ apolis should be the center of the ob­ servance of this centennial anniver­ sary. It is at Minneapolis that the­ president will make the add1·ess in 1 honor of the occasion and pay tribute, in behalf of the nation, to the grea.t part which the people of the hardy Norwegian race have taken in the building up of the Northwest. It is we!J to be reminded of the coun­ try's debt to these pioneers. This cele­ bratio� will serve to r,emind us of the virtues that they •brought with them. It has been well said that these sons of Norway "have fused themselves in­ to the life of the United States, giving to their new homes ln the woods and plains the same loyal affection that their fathers had for the hills and fjords of the Scandinavian peninsula. They have gone into 11cany countries, never with empty hands. In particular 1s this true of those who came to America, for they gave not only their unremitting labor but also their san­ ity, their persistence and their strength." Our M etti ng Pot The Norwegian cep.tennial �ebn:i­ tion at Minneapolis provld0d the Pnesident an opportunity . remark · ncidentally upon a Y,hich per• nJ.y enough appre­ • h ciated and which is, the Americanization of differing Europeans. "Out of the confusion of tongues," as h0 put it, "the conflict of traditions, the variations of historical setting, the vast difference in ta.IE•n ts and tastes there has been evolved a spir­ itual union accompanied by a range, of capacity for a preeminent desti­ ny. " Amrnrica has made a succeEis of the tower of Babel. It is a fa1ct not to be despised in connection wit11 our history and institutions that val riouE peoples and rares which have held themselves apart in J<":nropc and have for a thousand years fought wars with each other have �come to this country ancl have de­ veloped into harmonious Americans. A, Scand iiiavian histoTian who not long ago traveled in this cotmtry, going to nearly every State, saio that the typical American came fror.i nearly every race in Europe. It was, he said, almost impossibl,e, to d istinguish between an Ameri.iJ an with six or seven generations be• llind him and one whose grandpar­ His theory ents were immigrants. was that the immigrant as a rule did not bccon\,e, a typical American, and neither did the children of im­ mig-rants, for there was still much in the homes of their childhood to But the remind them o f Europe. grandchildren as a rule grew up to be typical Americans. Whe•n we seek the rea.sons why di ffering people who have 'quarreled in Europe for generations are thus merged into a peac�.ful and indull­ trious American life, we shall find them, not in any pec'u liarity of the, country or its climate, but in the pe­ culial'ity of American institutions which have been developed from the principles of civic anu teligious li berty laid down • by the founders. The, principle of individualism combined with local self.government and, for a national purposes, federa­ ted into a union, with a government limited to national purposes, has 1provided the methods py which P in ples that hold themselv, es ap er ·as Europe live and work tog tates.­ Americans in the Unite Fro tile Sprfagfielcl because of the nature of tJ1e man. But if the truth were known, perhaps religious consistency and its relation to the ] office he holds have had more effec't than has been suspected. The president's hope for world-wide fraternity and co- , operation are ba_sed up c,11 tl:i t=i _wisdom a.rd experience of 1:;,o _ ; _ years in our nat10nal life. B:1s address was directed mamly to the Norwegian people, but it bore its greatest significance in the knowledge of every listener that here was no ma.king of phrases to stir applause, but the sincerest truth of a human heart. Of all the gifts of men character and spirituality are,'at These gifts Calvin •Qnce the noblest and most useful. Cooliage possesses in the largest measure, the heritage of a line of stalwart forbears, strengthened by a life of single­ minded devotion to the day's task and duty. 13y such clear ·s ense an·d straightforwardness, what problem cannot be solved ! A New Norse Saga I m e n tal versatility of Prt'�idtm t ; His public ad- I Cooli dge is amazing. dresse-s one . after another s'110 w th e i gra sp of speaker on h is theme. '\Vheih· I er it is political, social, or histor ical, it is the same. H e is mas ter. Mr. Cool ­ idge's address a.t S.t. Pa ul this aftel'• noon ls a tribute to the Nor� .; m e n : "One houn dred year-s a g o �- l i t t l e lJark sailed f1,om N<>rway to Am1eri,;a. l t v;•as a l most un.notice·d at the lime, save / or t h'e darin.g and ha rdihood of i ts n a v i • g·at ors, but i t brought with I t the rep• res ent,a,t ives <>f a stalw•a rt race, m�n and women of fixed determination, en­ du ring courage and high character, who w e-r e to draw: in their re<tinue a, Jong I l i n e of their fellow countrymen -d es- ! /4ne Of the Reasons Why President Coolidge Appeals To the People. It was a high _tribute and one well deserved-that of the president-when he said in his �ddress at the Nor­ wegian Centennial celebration in St. Paul yesterday : "The pledge of the Norwegian people has never yet gone unredeemed." x x x x x In coming to America "they engaged in an in­ verted crusade, a conquest without invasion and without force. America proved its truly natiqnal unity. It demonstrated conclusively that there is a spiritual quality share� by all races and conditions of men. x x x If fraternity and co-operation are possible on the scale of this continent among people so widely diverse, why not on the scale of the world ?" Does not this question echo one of the reasons why President Coolidge appeals to the people ? Is not the advent of a man of this type in the presidency timely for America and for the world ? The force. of President Coolidge is obvious in certain results. The elements of that strength are hard to define t i n e d to ch,a nge the face ot ,111 -area bro,ad as an empire, di rect •t he historic course of 11ove·re•i gn 11,ta•tes, and contri ­ bute to t'hie s·alv-ation of a great m.- 1 ti o11, These m ighty ·works have ncen wrought because those Norwe•gia n in1·· m i grants were well worthy to follo•v ln bh e wake of the Pilgrim and Oava­ Her." 'l'he Presid·ent r·e fers to the·se sons 0! Thor and Odin as the "J)rinc·e s of h i g h a n d hardy adventure." To further quot,e : "One Hkes t o U n ­ ger over t h e s e t a l e s o f adventur� a,nd explo-r ation. One of them h-as a special s,igniftc•a nce in connection with this cel­ ebtatio·n which e n titles it to more par­ ticular reference. This, of course, is the voyage of the little sl•oop Re·s tau• 1·ationen, which i n 1825 bro• ught the fln,-t organ-ized party of Norwegian immlI grants to this coun try. One re,u red o n t h e N e w England tradition of the :rvin y­ flower will find a l l the mate1'ialci tor a new l egend of pioneering in the v oy­ age of the Res• taurationen. S'he w,c� a sloop of 45 tons , whereas the M,ayt!ow· e r was rated as 1 8 0 tons. The He·s lau­ rationen sailed from St •a van ger, No r­ way, on July 4, 1 825, with a desperate he-avy cargo of iron and a par,ty of o'.l people. Sh e came safely into the por·1L of New York ·after a voy,a,ge of 14 ,w eeks, which compares with 9 weeks required fo,r the historic pa,s sage of the Mayflower." To . be sure, the Mayflower h'ad a r­ ri ved 200 ye,ars earlier, ye,t t'he para llel was there . The N orw,egian,s, had � J :ne before the revolu tiona.ry wat· and s·nme as fa r back as the Colonial days. SWJ i l is time tha,t the Norwegian .commu n ­ Hie·s of t h e Northwe·s t that have c o n ­ tributed so gre,a, tly to t h e build ing- u p of o u r Northwe·s t beg,an with th'l "Cl�·­ age of the Res•t•a u'h1a,ti onen. Pr e•si dent Cooli dge gave spl•e ndid t1 i­ h 1 1 le to· tlrnse n o-r thme•n for their con­ tribu tion to the new cou ntry. He �a-i d : ''They e•nga �;-ed i n an inverted c 1 u ­ l!·a de, a conqu es•t wi thout invasion and :Without force. The new country oJ'tered not only material o·p portuniti es, but pos,sib ilities of -a spiritu,al and in teHec­ tual emancipation which they ardently wis·h ed their friends 011 the other side Citize•n ship i n the r,,.,w to s•hal' e. · w o rld meant something that it h'ad 11ot m eant in the Ol!i, It was seen t!iat the New vVo,r ld offereq something n ew. There was increasing re-a liza. tion th :i t m a n y burdensiome traditions a n d i nsti­ tutions had s·omehow been shed. Here at la.st t h e individual w,a s lord o f hi m­ self, master of his own d•estiny, l;e('per c:Ie was of his own _sover ei gnty. free." �I ' f OUR MEiLTI NG-POT. President Coolidge ref erred in hi,s Norse centennial ad­ d ess, to the wonderful uniity whkh has been achieved in this country, throug'h that process of amalgamation called ·ou:r "melting-pot." V/ e have taken. l"laces which in the old world could nE1ver get along in harm ony, and we have made one united peop·le out of them. If we allowed the faults and weaknesses of all our con­ sti't utent peoples to devel,op unchecked, our nation m�'ght gain material success froim its favorable p osition, but dt wou'l d never be a world leader. But if we can adopt the strong points of all t'h ese constituent peoples, we shall have a race whose p o, w er wi'l-l set its stamp on a1l future world development. 1 Rooseveltian · It ·the l\Iemorla l Day a ddress ot P r s dent Coo, l i dge sounde d l i k e Wood­ row Wllson and propounde d a philo• Soph y agalnirt f u rther devo l o p m f n t of federal po wer through shlr·k!ng o f lo• cal responsib i lity. so t il e Presid ent's , Minneapo lis address so1rnds like Theo. f do , e Ro.:,.se velt. The n c \.t.n.8'-.llAi. h.ad., so many uncalled for whacks w it h i n pas t few years t h a t i t w a s g o o d to have from President Coo l idge t h i s fine expression o f the contributions to Am erican citizenship ma.de b y t h e m any races, w i t h t h e proot there t h a t It races may l i ve si de by side In o n e c o u n t r y and be v e r y happy toge ther and create a. nation i n stead o f a col• lectlon o ! people so· these same, 1·aces ma.y• l i ve together In peace. with a rtl, flcial barriers for boundary l i neir. The analysis of the contrlbutlon the hardy Norsemen have made, to t h e, Ameri can expression o f human l iberty was h ighly reminiscent or Rooseve l t who understood his sag;i.s and his Nono inheritance so completely that he sur­ prised the Scan di n avians o n their o w n gro und. THE UNSU NG Ml1LLIONS. Presid ent Coolid ge used one prh rase in his Norse cen­ _ t n �:al s,p eec'h :'"?' �'h of sped l emphasis, when he spoke r, � of t� unsun g m1lh €!_ , the plam and quiet peopJ. e who daHy chspla y modest anu unpretentiou s virtue s. The he11oic is �ound not merel y in t'he e�ploits of . our . sol_d1ers _ and m the ideals of our statesmen. It is found in the da_1ly toil of the people wbo have built u p this country in spite of great �ifficu lties and sacrifices -.J:r r.omm ent among whom r!l't :-t�� Norse men, in whose' '<bon.011 Presi dent ·- '!c i :. Coolidg��a·.ui,t spoken. t1 . , • .., -·,� ..1 ♦ Norway Likes Coolidge 'l'h e recent .«actl"ess of President Cool• 1d:;e at th ·orse centen nial at St. Paul h a s called �th unbounded enthusiasm In Nor n1.;-, whi ct, i s refl ected in t11e dispatches, special articles and edito r i • a l s i n t h e Nor-.veg;ian pupers. T h u s t h e , ·o rwegian ;l,ie,c.-r ntile S h i p p i n g Uaz ett,. rema rks : ''Presi dent Cooli dge's words i n h igh recogn it i o n of our compatriots wh_o e m i grated from the h o m e country must, ira directly to the heart and ,a ttach Nor­ wegia l)S still clo�er to t h e n a ti o n of w h i c h ·they are new a part. But words of joy and pride in Norway also w i I a r ise, for t h e p resident's words w i l l b b eard hy t h e fam ! l le s and friends o { til e e m i gTants a n d will be. rem embered bv a 11 Norwegians because more t h a n a i l else t h e y are evidence o f f a i t h a ml con fi dence i n t h e Norwegia n people a n d Norwegian abilit ie.!1 i n a gTeat country w h e re compe tition i s keen." Aftenposten says; "Presi dent Coot, i d g e's address can without exagge ra• tion be describrd as an h istoric e,en o! the m ost j oyful nature for the Amer­ ican c i t izens •Jf Norwe;dan origin an for every Xorwegian. Mr. Coolidge ha been Clilled ·the si lent Coolidge . " Therefore when he speaks he stands by what he says . . His unreserved recog­ n i t i on of Lief Ericson (son of E r i c the Red) a s Am er ica's di scoverer will be no ted by h istoria r,_g o f all countr ies. It w i l l be long before Norway forgets Cool idge." d- NN ESOT A COOL ID GE IN MI States is sure of an outp our­ / \.The Pre side nt of the United enth usia sm whe nev er he ing of peo ple, pop ular accl aim and goes viiiiti ng. . was marked b ), an Pres iden t Coo lidg e's Min neso ta visit three . . p res1'd ent, an d. a re� Wh en Mr. Coo lidg e was only Vice ta gave h1� th neso Min markably silen t and rem ote one, er. care wors t "frof5t" of his political l are interpreted Outb ursts in Minn eapo lis and St. Pau sent imen t. . They by Rep ublic ans as a won derf ul change in �he Pr�Siden cy, forget that no matt er the man elevated to ved with equa l recei been or his political part y, he wou ld have respe ct and friend liness . cond ition Ame rican s migh t well feel conc erne d over the wise, other it were of their country �What the visit sign ified, if anything, was the vast dif ference between being President and being Vice President. No · doubt it impressed Mr. Coolidge, who has the Ne'w Eng­ land habit of keeping his feet on the ground and not plac­ i ng too high a value on popular adulation, and i nspired a p rayer that he might measure up to the great resp onsibili­ ties entrusted to him. His speech 'ndicated as much. Secretary of State Kellogg, the President's host, did not suffer from modesty or humility. His was the d iscordant voice. Speaking to the same audience, he viewed with alarm everything that does not bear the stamp of self or G. O. P. Yet he tells us he is no an alarmist. Mr. Kell ogg beholds America flooded with v1c1ous Red propaganda, all emanating from Moscow. In this class, of course, he puts all opinion that does not agree with his. Secondly, he sees grave danger to American institu­ tions in the "considerable body of our citizens who in the name of liberty and reforms are impatient of constitutional restrictions and by insidious approaches and attacks would destroy these guarantees of personal liberty." As Mr. Kellogg was so free to admit, he isn't an alarm­ ist; he is a calamity shouter of the old, familiar sort, capi­ talizing the presence of the President for party profH . And as a dispenser of food for thought, the secretary of state runs a poor second to a namesake who supplies part of the nation's breakfMt food. ,," S P E C I A L T R A I N F;O R C O O L I D G E President Cool idge, g o i n g t o M i n nesota t o d e l i ve r a n add ress o n, T h i s was done " i n, compl i a n ce i n g convenience and every precaut i o n for safety." I t was d o n e, too, i n i n g conve n i ence .a nd every preca u t i o "' f o r safety." It i s done, too, i n J u n e 8, trav e l l ed in a s pe c i a l tra i n. c o m p l iance with the w i s h e s o f t h e t h i n k i n g pub l i c. It is easier for the rail roads, to take proper care of t h e President when they h a ve him in a special train, e njoy i n g t h e r i g h t of way ove r eve ryth i n g- e l se. There he is s u bject to fewer co ntacts and dan.gers t h a n _he w o u l d be if trave l i n g a l o n g with a p ro m isc u o u s crowd in a n o rd i n a ry P u l l m a n t r a i n . The r a i l roads a r e better sati sfied because they can keep a n eye on him and fend off people w h o h ave n,o busiL n e ss a r o u n d h i m, a nd the p u b l i c is better satisfied because it kno ws h e , i s , safer. It costs 'm:ore, of c o u rse, a s fa r as mere trave l i n g �xpenses a re concerned. Yet it is ec o n o m y. It is l a rge economy a'ga i nst smal l ecorwmy. T h e hation c a n afford spec i a l t r a i n s and com o rts and saf�g u a �ds for its Ch ief M a g istrate far m o r e e a s i l y t h a 1 t ca n afford to e n d a n ge'lo-- h i s l i fe or wear h i nf out. The Norwegian Centennial In his speech at Minneapolis yesterday on the occasion of the Norwegian Centennial celebration, President Coolidge spoke of the influence exerted upon Europe by Americ� during the past century and a half, So deeply fixed is the diRtinction embodied in the terms the Old World and the New World that a ireat many people fail to keep in mind the fact that with resrect to the practice of democratic govern- ment the New World ls the older of the two. Mr. Coolidge did not refer to it, but he might well have cited the influence of the United States as ex�mplified in the French Revolution. No one "°"' ''[ tion that the example of the successful revolution in , America contributed to this great convulsion which has destined ultimately the result in larger human liberties. The President did refer t o the effect of the American revolution upon th� Old World geµerally. The United States, he says, appeared not mere1y as a new country, but as a di fferent kind of country. "It was considered not only different from Europe, but different from any earlier social creations. The European peoples had been greatly stirred by the intellectual awakening of the eighteenth century, and the liberals among them had been deeply disap­ pointed at the seemingly meager results which accrued from it. We may well wonder what would have been the fate of Europe after 1 8 1 5 , if the liberalism of both England and the Continent had settled down to disappointment and cynicism . We can not doubt that during this period, say from 1 8 1 5 to 1 8 4 8 , the beacon which they saw had been lighted over the western Atlantic was a lamp to the feet and a hope to the hearts of liberals throughout Europe . . . But for American example and influence the democratic move­ ments of 1 8 3 2 and 1 8 4 8 in Europe might have been long postponed . " I n this reaction the tide o f immigration which set in the early part of the nineteenth century pl ayed its part. Immigration from the Scandinavian countries dates from 18 25 with the arrival in New York of the sloop Restaurationen. "\Vhatever the forces that drove these and other peoples of northern and western Europe to our shores, the fact that they encouraged others to follow them made a profound impression upon the people at' home, and furthered the cause of liberalism there . "An inverted crusade," the President aptly terms this momentous migration in which the Norwegian11 played a vital role; "a conquest without invasion and without force. Those who had been the first to come realized what the new country offered ; those still at home sensed that here the conceptions of popular 1 government, religious freedom an1. intellectual liberal­ ity had taken a definite form. :r-.')t all could leave their homes, but those who could 1ot were heartened I by the example of America in their struggle to I achieve similar liberties in the O d Worl d." �Ou i· N aj.ional- Melting Pot ;rr !dent Coolidge- made a very fl�e I peee h at e Minnesota state fair groun s this week, in co�nect\on with 1 the contenni I celeb..ation of the com• Ing o! the Norse- Americal}S to this country. T re are some ,vho see in Mr. Coolidge s jom:,ll'ey to Minnesota at this time, a -,po1itical motive. They think that he feels that that state Is a cente,· of unrest, and that he can ad­ vance his own fortunes ancl those of his own party, by making special 'ef• forts to. win support in that section. This conception of hi.a trip, however, ·does not quite flt in with, the rest ot the president's conduct . It clear that Mr. Coolidge has made he !eels he • can win the best support from the people by sticking strictly to bu.siness, by reducing- the taxes and, improving the efficiency of the gov­ ern ment service . However, he has felt deeply concerned over the cl!mcul ti<"s whicll the people of the northwestern �tates have had to face during the rec.e1�t period of deflation, and per.' _h aps he thought that by visiting that section he might gain further l)nlight­ enment on Its need,i, and accompllsh something to promote the plans by which he hopes to improve ecohomlc conditions in that region. Mr. Coolidge's address included a fine tribute to the Scandin<1,vian im­ mig:rants "lvho have done so much to dev.elop that section. The s. tory of j their achievement, in the northwe:it must be a very romantic one. Their early days in Minnesota and near•by states must have invovled many hard• ships, which were probably more seVere than those of the states fai-the1· 1 south, owing fo the very ·cold winters . . The • work of clearing off ·the forests that .eovered many parts of that sec• t!on must have ,been a specially arduns �L It was well worth the pr�sident's time to make a journey to Minnesota 1 to P�Y tribute to a race that -ha:;i been so s4bstantlal and lndustl'lous. A com­ munity !_Ike that, where so many raoi;,s unite to form the American type, ls a wonderful product of 04r melt!ng-pot. The ideas on which our government ls founded have a remarlrnble power for harmonizing peoples who come ft"om differing antecedents. rrhe Norwe(i� n C�ntennial celebration at l\fo:neapol is p ovi defl Lhe President an oppol'• , _ tumty io remt rk mc1dcntally u pon a fact which pel'haps is not lm'li only enough a ppreciated and which is the Americanization of differing Euro­ peans. "Out of the confusion of tongues," as he Jrnt it, "the conflict of traditi ons, the variations of historical setting, the vast difference in tal­ ents and tastes tl,ere has been evolved a spirit­ ual union accompanied b.y a range of capacity and genitts which marks this Nation for a pre­ eminent destiny," America has made a success of t he tower of Babel. It is a fact not to be ctespised i n con­ nection vdth our history and institutions that \'arious peo ples and races which have held them­ selves apart in Europe and have for a thousand years fought wars •wit h each other have come to this country an<l have developed into har­ monious Americans. A Scandinavian historian who not long ago traveled in this country, going into nearly everJ' State, said that the typical American came from neal'ly every race. in Europe. lt was, he said, aimost i m possible to distinguish between an American with six or seven generations be­ hind him and one whose g-randparents were immigrants. H is theory was that the immigrant as a rule did not become a typical American, and neither did the children of immigrants, for there was still much in .the homes of tbei:r childhood to remind them of Europe. But the grandchil-. dren as a rule grew up to be typical Americans. When we seek the reasons why differil)g people who h,we quarreled in Europe- for gen­ erations are t.hus merged into a peaceful and industrious American life, we shall :fi.nd them, 11ot in anr pecul iarit�, �f the country or its climate, but in the peculiarity of American in­ stitutions which hav:e been developed from .' the principles of civic and re 1gious _1.i berty laid down by the founders. The principle of i ndividualism combined with local sel f-government arid, for nati onal purposei;;, federated into a union, with a government lim­ ited to 11ati onal purpose�, h a s provided the meth­ ods _by which peoples that hold themselves apart in Europe live and work together as Americans in the United States. • �PT HUR ON' MTCT-I RER JU!JJ�DA" JUN r• 9, 1925. I THE MAKING OF A CO liNTRY. ''The m · illf of such a country is not to be told ini -fiere category of dates, battles, political e Ju tions and pal'tisan controver­ sies." President Coolidge was speaking at \he �or­ wegian centennial celebration at Minneapolis Monday. ,,,,-It was a un ique occasion in , many ways, this Norwegian celebration in Minn esota, but more than anything elsa in the fact that it was, .as the President so graphically describ­ ed in his add ress, a commemoration of the part played by the common people in build­ ing a great cou ntry. And it ls all the more significant, coming as it does in the midst of our commemora- 1 tion of the more spectacular and the seem­ ingly more heroic events and deeds by which &he nation was given birth and by which it was preserved through trial and tribulation. 1 "B,ack of all these, which are too often the chief material of history," said President Cool,. l<.lge, referring to the battles and other spec­ tacular events which we commemorate in an� niversaries and centennials, "lies the human story_of the . unsung millions of plain people ·whose names are strangers to public place and fame. Their 'lives have been replete with quiet, unpretentious, modest, but none the less heroic vfrtues. From these has been composed the sum of that magnificent. won­ derous adventure, the making of our own An1erica." And indeed it is this which really makes a country. The battles, the political evolutions, the partisan controversies-these may all have been necessary, and may continue to be neces­ sary in securin f and maintaining the liberties and the American institutions _which ,�e cherish. But they must be only incidents in the other and the greater work of building the country and creating a homogeneous society ·which only could make it possible for the country to continue to exist. We have been accustomed to think , of ou1· CE'ntennials and anniversaries of the spec­ tacular and heroic events. in our 'history as productive of ins]';)iration to that high and intelligent patriotism so much to be desired. And indeed that should be so. But even m ore should we find this in- I apiration as the President said, in knowledge of the unsung deeds and stMJggles of the peo­ ple who have built the nation little by little, through those commonplace lives which not always have been as quiet or simple as the absence of place in our historical records I .might seem to indicate. I GRAN D RAP DS f M l t' l-l.) C H RON. JJ'RlQ�Y; JUN.t!l J.91 !a3o, AMONG POLITICIANS in Washington President Coolidge 's trip to Minnesota to deliver an address at the N rsiAmerican c<iliib.ration is taken to mean that ac'a�for President in 1928 and that he wif t• he 2 00 mile j o urney to Minneapolis and return was for the purpose of putting the presidental fences in 1 order in that part of the counb'y. The President was immensely pleased by the hearty reception which he :received in Minnesota, especially in view of the fact that the last time he was there before he was howled down in an attempt to make a campaign speech. At that time he was running for Vice-President with Harding and the Northwdst was tHen getting into the control of the Farm-Labor party, .which had slight respect for the red-headed Massachusetts Governor who undertook to explain New England Republican principals to ' �em. RANT ) RAPI DS. M lm'l . . HER A U> Y, JUNE 13, 1926: RDA�ATU - -- i through the times of Magnus the Good, Eric THE NORSE IN AMERICA. of Pomerania and more recent rulers, the Muc has • been --said &lid �'ffttep. of the Norwegians have been resourceful and cour­ part !g� y:th, Scotch, H olland, German, Trench have played in the upIrish building of the United States. All of these races have participated prominently in the ama.lgama tion of the American racial en­ tity. But until President C�l.i.d.$ �eled across the land from V,.Ta shingt0n to Min­ neapolis to pay tribute to them, little cog­ nizance ever had been taken of Scandinavia's contribution to free America. President Coolidge's tribute was well deserved. The verbal encomiums he laid before the Nor­ wegians have been earned. .Just as in Grand Rapids, we have intimate 1 understanding of the part played by the peo­ ' ple of The Netherlands, for example, in the structure of our Michigan Americanism, · so in Northern Michigan, as i n Minnesota, the Scandinavian has . played a great role. The men from the North- are physically hardy and mentally sta unch. · They are a de­ pendable race. Michigan's greatness in the later 19th century as a lumbering state was attained throqgh the dominant sturdiness of Norwegians and Swedes. Through our nortil country now a dependable, ha rd-working, conscientious group of good citizens is still of Scandinavian ex traction or naiivity. These �eople of the Northland make good Amer­ 1 ' 1cans. Proportionate to the population of the Mother country, the immigration of Norse to America always has been heavy. They are I by a ure a liberty-loving race.. Their na1 tional history is rich in expressions of a righteous devotion to popular rights. Since the days of Harold Fair-hair, and down ageous. In 1 905 their traditional indepen­ dence asserted itself in a final separation from Sweden. The Norwegians of this country are typical of their race. In the lumberwoods they were and are the best of workers ; on the farm they produce well and hold to policies of thrift. And perhaps most outstanding of all char­ acteristics of the Scandinavians is the ease with which they are assimila ted into Am er­ ican citizenship. They sever ties with the home land when they come into the Un ited States, and thereafter this is their country. Unfortunately, not all immigrants enter this country in that spirit. �, WHAT OOLIDGE C OULD \. �AVE SAID. Presic!e·J;l Coolidge traveled northwest Monday\ on a voyage of friendly diplo-• macy. He went up into the American ·Normandy-�into Minnea.p olis, the heart of a rich c ountry chiefly pop ulaled by o u r great Scand'!navlan immigration. To these sons of Norsemen he made a scholarly centen �ial s•p eec11, congratu­ lating them on the fortitude and de­ p endability which have distinguish ed their race in America ever since their first shipload of pilgrims-in a tiny vessel one-fourth the size of the May­ flower-sailed into New Y ork har,b or in 1825. H Mr. Coolidge had ' been wH!ing, however, to plunge boldly into dynamic facts about these sam e Norwegians, he m ight have spoken as follows : "You, my friends, and your fellow Americans of Swedish and Danish de­ scent, made up a good·l y p ortion of the voting total against me her� in the northwest in 1 9 24. Your votes were legion in the p olls return of -1 , 6 8 6 , 6 8 1 f o r Ro•bert M . LaFollette. If he hadn't p ossessed your good win and that of the peo:ple of G erman origin, he would have sung very small indeed. The really 'radical' vote left to him wouldn"t have am ounted to much. "You people aren't radicals. Y ou Ol' your parents came fro 1n t a cou ntry which has a consti-tutiona m o narchy, and whose good King Haakon is greatly beloved. Norway Is a solid and substantial nation. It has r.1any indus­ tries and indicati ons are tha t before ,o-n g it will be the Muscle Shoals of all cen tral Europe, sending power from its fjord waterfalls to be sold 'in Germany and other nearby ind us-t ria.l countries. , "Yet this Norwe,g ian heritage wa.s nevertheless a chief factor II'\ the queer 1 com plex which caused you to su<pport Mr. LaFollette. ''For it has been pecu!ia1 ly t r u e of Scandinavia, with its mar�elons re­ s.o urces waiting devel o p m eµt and its bare or mountainous spaces'with small frontage capacity lfor taxation, that its people have leaned far m�re heavily than their neighbors on wh11t we !fl .America call 'state socialism.' "They have their Norwe�ian State railways, their state-Su bs-idized steamer lines, their state tele,p hones and state telegraphs, their government water­ power, their farmers' co-operatives and state farmers' and fis•h er.m en's ·b anks. "You peo12.le h ave carried the tradi­ tions of Scandinavia into your north­ western politics here in America. 'l'he Nonpartisan league, the demands for government control and o:p era.Uon of all kinds of utilities, the i nsistence upon socialistic ventures of one kind and an­ other, which have been excellent draw­ ing cards :for your support are sim•ply new-world revivaJs by clever p oliticians of a proposition which has worked solidly and safely enough in the com;paratively compact and homogeneous lands o f your origin. "You want to rem emrber that this is e, tre,m endous nation, which cannot be operated as su·c cessfully by centralized ibureaucracy as little Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Our government is al ready too ,big and unwieldy, and we are trying to untangle it and keep responsibility lback in tho localities where it belongs. We are learning to trust large private �ndusrtry instead of go•bbling up, handi­ crup•ping and condemning it. "vVe wish you splendid people up he1·e in the northwest were able to dis­ tinguish between t'he needs of an al­ most continental nation and nations smaller' than many o f our states." But Mr. Coolidge-, of couri£>e, saicl n othing of the sort. He was on hand Ito grace a Norwegian holiday, not to chastise nor exhort. He made him self simply a good Norwegian for a day, harking back to Leif the Lucky, mourn­ ing lfor Aim und sen, citing history and ti�es. And pro,bably created a better dm,p ress91� restraint. IRONWO OD MTCH GLOBW �URDAY, JUNJJJ ·Pr 1925 .:._ WH l� E C O U L D H AV E SA I D (fi:om the Grand Rapids Press.) President Coolidge traveled north­ west Monday on a voyage of friendly diplomacy. He went up into the American Normandy-into Minneapo ­ lis, the hea:rt of ,a rich country, chiefly populated by our great Scandinavian immigtatlon. To these son,a of Norsemen he made a scholarly c�rrtenmal speech, con­ gratulating them 011 f'!rl:!' fmotitude and dependability which have distinguish­ ed their race in America ever since their first shipload of pilgrims-in a tiny vessel one-fourth the size of the Mayfl ower-sailed into New York har­ bor in 1825. If Mr. Coolidge had be�n wi lling, hoW!)Ver, to plunge boldly into dyna­ mic facts about these same Norwe­ gians, he might have spokel'1 as fol­ lows : "You, my friends, ancl your fellow Americans of Swedish and Danish de- , scent, made i1 p a goodly portion of the voting total against m e here in the northwest in 1924. Your votes were legion in the polls return of 4,686,681 for Robert M. LaFollette. If he hadn't possessed your good will ancl that of the people of German ori­ gin, he would have sung very small indeed. The really 'radical' vote left to him wouldn't have amoun ted to :much. "You people areri't radicals. You or your parents came ft'om a country which has a constitutional monarchy, and whose good King Haakon is greatly beloved. Norway is a solid and substantial nation. It has ma11 y industries and indications are that be­ fore long i t will be the Muscle Shdals of all central Europe, sending power from its fjord waterfalls to be sold in Germany and other nearby industrial countries. "Yet this Norwegian heritage was nevertheless a chief factor in the queer complex which caused you to support Mr. LaFollette. "For 7.t has been peculiarly true o f Scandinavia, with i t s marvelous re­ sources waiting development and its bare or mountainous spaces with small frontage capacity for taxation, that its people have leaned far more heavily on what we in America call 'state socialism'. "Tl1ey have their Norwegion State railways, their state subsidized steamer lines, their state telephones and state telegraphs, their govern­ ment water power, their famers' co­ operatives and state farmers' and fishermens' banks. "You people have carried the trad i­ tions of Scandinavia, into your north­ western politics here in Ameri�. The Nonpartisan league, the demands for government control and operation of all kinds of utllities, the insistence upon socialistic ventures of one kind and another, which have been excel­ lent drawing cards for yom· support are simply new-world revivals by clever politicians of a proposition which has worked solidly and" safely enough in -the comparatively compact and homogeneous lands of your ori­ gin. · "You want to remember tha t this is a tremendous nation, which cannot be operated as successfully by cen­ tralized burea.rua·a.cy as little Nor­ way1 Denmark and Sweden. Our gov­ ernment is already too big and un­ wieldy, and we are trying to untangle it and keep responsibility back in the localities where it belongs. Vile are learning to trust large private indus­ try instead of gobbling up, handicap­ ping and condemning it. "\Ve wish you splendid people up here in the northwest were able to distinguish between the needs of an almost continental nation, and na- ' tions smaller than many of our I states." :But 1'Il'. Coolidge, of course, said nothing of the sort. :He was on hand . to grace a Nor\\'egian holida.y, not to chastise nor exhort. He made him- 1 self simply a good Norwegian for a day, harldng back to Lief the Lucky, mourning for Amundsen, citing l1 is­ tory ancl figures. And probably creat� ed a better impression by his restraint. ' ll NFJW• LU OlN G'1' 0N MJC B l(Ji !ijZ 6; JUN AY, W l1/DNE SD ---- The Norsemen in America. In l l he Norwegian Clcng Pecrso1rt anded in Ameri0a, and in 1 5 the ship Restaura­ tio nen initiat ed Norse i m n1ig-t·a­ tion in earnest. The centen­ ary, cel�;i:.a.ted i n the nffl'h­ west This week, deserves the n ational attenti on w}1 ich Mr. I Coolidge 's presence will give _ it. i When Fredrika Bremer vis­ itrd th e United Stn,tcs i11 18-W s h e '- found nearly 40,000 Nor­ wegians a l ready settled in Wis­ consin alone. They were the advance guard of an army which, with Leif Erics�on 's iPioneering spir it, swept rap­ i d l y over the Minnesota and Dako t a prairies. Am erica now h a s a million and a q uarter iuhabitants of Norse blood ; and their contrib­ ution to our n a tional chara cter, trad itions and achievement is out of all proportion to their nu mbers. �They a n d t heir fellow-ScanNJL'l!JS MICH STAR-SUM' 1cl inavians h ave larg<•ly made f��:PAY, JlJNJ1J iV, 1m. the n orthwest what i t is. They in whatwas t1ren mayJo ok around them in Min­ OU R M E LT I NG -Po-r":' _ and reflect that this "Ond taes ilcan wintres waes u, , neapolis Preside n t C oolidge ·referred i n his ,.N._ox c i ty of 400,000 people was rothur mid Healfdenes · on Westseaxurn o ente n ni al a ddress, to th.e .wonderfu l namarked by a s ingle cabin scv· Defe-n ascire mid xxm scipum ; 'ond hiu en1.y-five year8 a go. 'l'hcy tio n al unity which him-"l:1t!e'rr-achieved - i n man tliaer ofslog ond dccc monn a m id hin Jia".e tu!·ned t h e cold n orthern , this cou n try, through that process of ond xl monn·a · ms heres." · plarns mto one of the m t -� mal gamat10n • c a lled � ur ' '.meltin g-pot." We A l ready iu the time of Aeth'.el bert' J·(' rtile farmi n g l'cgions of ��e y. a ve ta ken r aces which m the old world _globe. Jn pol itics t h ey have grandfather, Ecgbert, and of his father a ssumed control of t heir sec-j cou l d n ever get along i n h a rm ony, and we Aethelwulf, the Norse ra iders came, anc _ ti 01� and l e ft_ t he i r i m print on have ma de on e ll. n itecf people out of them . during the fifteen years of the rei gn .,.i If we allowed the faults a n d we a knesses 1t?.t10nal a ffairs . O f t he l ast himse l f and his' tw'o brothers, they overrar 1:;me governors of ll�i nn�sota 1 of a ll our constitue n t peoples to deve l op u n� . the Northern country a ncl harried everI six 1 rnve been Scttndmav rnns 1 h ec ke d ' our, rnt10 • • n m�ight ga m material •• � Wessex. Bu� for t h e u ntimely d eath of c success frm� its fa vora ble posi tion, but i t their great l ib eral l eader, John Not un-1:H the time of his young-er brother, But if A . Johnson-like Knut Nelson wou ld n ever be a wo.r l d le a der. Al fred the Great; was peace made with · of Swed�sh blood- they migh t :we c an a dopt t h e stro n g points of al l these the m , ancl with i t the foundatio n of what h ave_ given t h e count ry a constitue n t peoples we sh a ll h ave a race beca m e the J(i n gdo m of Engl a nd. ;presid � nt. :Whose power will • set its st amp on all . It was a sorry rei gn, o.f which n ow, a Comrng from n a t10ns inter- future world develop • m e nt • • • • thousand yea rs l ater vre are reminded by C1::ted m experim ent th ey• h ve. p resident C ool ldge w�ed o n e phrase i n his • . t� • e' the· diggi n g i'.1 p o_f a c fi n . , Ion N orse ce te · to o-ope ra taken nat u rally • 11 n ma • l speecl1 worthy of speci a l nnfl equal suffran-e-a•"· t un,.s ' , _ "' l ea gu e an d €'Ill . P_h as1• �; ",1i e n h. e spoke of the " u n sung t,o t l � e Non-Partisan THREE RTVETIS MTrH COM'l t h � id eas espous ed by Hendr ik m1lhons, th� pla m and quiet people who SATURDAY, JUNE l3, 1926, �lupstea d _ and M:ag11�1s Joh n" dai l y di sp l ay n,1odest an d unpretentious vir­ son. Then· cultural mtercsts tues. 'l' H E PRESlOENT'S 'l'lUP -suppr essed durino- th eir yec1,. 1.s'. • is Th e h ero1c Inunediately following upon the • fou n d not merely i n the ex-o f stru ;., "o-g·l e "'I " ; tl1 o raw . natur e ' P 1 OI• ts O f our soldiers a nd i n the ideal of out jour ' ado by Prc,sident C.ool­ l i a ve stead i l ..v "o-ro,", n 1•n vig . . . • or. idgeff t � innesota,, where he spok¢ . It IS fou n d m the d a i l y toi l of T h e Norse m parti cular do not statesmen. at t e orse \centennial in m uch ; cou n try forge t that t b ey come from the the people who h ave built up this the sama vigo�,11,l)ncr Uiat • ' has ehara.cterized his rec'i\"r.i utter­ fan d of Ibs�n , Holbe rg, Bjorn ances elsewhere, there i s the to­ son and Grieg. stamping grounds at Marietta�the other l)e-exvected con seq uenco of com" day, and he was scarcely o ut ' of the train mont to tl10 effect t11at ho is keep­ Cultu rally, mr stock has bepolitithe t,,,11 t.o •ing a weather eye on the election before he was interviewed ?O rn e more quick ly Amer icanof 1 9·z s. • That is one of the hand­ ca l significance o f his visit, while the comicaps always p,laced on a President � zccl t h a n the Scand inavia ns. k gro_u nd all ready aq b the in d sto mittee They have enter ed the country � . i n his fi.r st term-everything ho � . j:,_ol!t1cal . . addresses. to invite ·him to ~mali;e · docs with reference to tho people! t? make h omrs, to learn Eng'of any one 5cction or - the inter- I Mr. Dawes turned it all down , h�•e-;;-er . hsh and to rear their cJij , 1 ren ests of any one group is interp­ He Just explained he was there to attend to_ be patri otic citize ns ; thev reted from a pei•sonal political · a reunion wlth his former classmates in rnigI1_t easily have form ed i i�point of view-not even a bron. d ly Marietta College, for a small vacaiion rest, pantisan political point, , but. his •�Jervr ous forei g- n col-::m ies, but own ambitions to ,sueoeod himself. and strictly not for ,p o l itics, for spee,,hes, nor li . :wa� not t heir natu re. ,Jacob An ambitio:i for re-election iri for any formal statements on the �state o f R,n s I n ,", Tb e 111:ak.inn, an �mtiFely legitimate one for the . ,,, o f an the nation · A 1:1 ercan eang- ht t h e spiri . He will have his own Nay, but Drcsidcnt to lrnld, and within math t of i t is only a half-hearted credence that is onablc limits the clcijire to so 1 '.Jus a ?opt iv e Joya l ty. Yet it shape l1is course that a majority given t o his denial o f any political �ignifi�s not rncom pa t.ible with 11 srn f ' of the people wj!J want to return canoe attaching to his visit. 1 111ent of reve renc e aucl . l o ve him is , not only ligitimato but Similarly, the presidential visit to the micJ. for t h e trad ition s of t. l i e lt omtllauditble . die ground between the Tw,in Cities of Min Neverth eless for every gracious lan d . 'l'h e ..l\Tn , 1 tl lat · · 1•,·r, j' Le; act, a1:d every bit of activity oh nesota, to make a celebration address in 1; ! 1 ey l1ave a grea t · ] 1 ; 8 tory, (la t bohaH of any group, to be con­ · honor o f the Norwegian immigrants o f a . n_1 g_ from the, ti •iie ,) f "t h e strued into a warp and woof of hundred yea�seized upon as a v ilon gs, and that political r;cheming is neither just t h e conq uest sure enough p� litl ca l move . New York, I n or belp[ul. ?f the Ame rica n nort hwe st is an' , ·when Presi;dent C.o-oliclge wer1t­ Washington and Chicago papers carry colrnte gral part of ·it T l . . ay to M inn;esota µe did so to pay Ms umns o f dissertations upon the political &igwe 11 b e pron • d of- their • •. livy rn I respects to a great and useful erita 0 P-e . nif!cance of the visit, and seem to have 110 body Of citizens of Norse extr,a c­ and its t1:an sJ?l.a;1,t ation . idea at all that the President may simply tion who we-re . . celebrating an event 'of grea·t i"m portance in t11elr have welcomed the opportunity to get away · view . That tlie· Presi,lent of the SA.GINAW MHrn NEWS -COtl'lil on a trip to a part of the country with United States should recegn•i �l)I -FR!DAY; JUNtl H1 l-P2G, which he Js not familiar, and in do i ng this their big · day was of tile u.tmos't to pay a deserved comp l iment to a large nigni&cance to· tl;rn m. The Pres POl.ITICS IN EVERYTHING. nun,ber of his fellovv citizens. ident 'f,a"". in it an opportlmity to do - h0por ' to a splendid gT.oup of: That is a difficult, an impossib;e, thing However, public men probably know citizens, ·to promote further good for a public man to make any kind of a and expect that to very many minds there citizenship and IBC!identally to set move in this country without politics forc­ is politics in everything they do, and they hefore tlrn 1rn blic· with a llette'r ing its way hl. No matter what ,it is, the endure it as be:at they may, as part of the chance of being eaqwstly heeded, some of the things that he be­ JJOlitical motive is attributed, because with job. But it must sometimes be an awful lieves to be for the best interestJ so many people there is politics in every­ bore to them. of the nation. thing. Vice President Dawes went to his old o sto n , -T�ans.cr ipt succi.J,1ct-J ------------------ ,-� ly · Tho:D states a point nf real meaning I'-------' ------------------------President. in this eennectio n. Coolidge, it says, has already won his poiitical victory. What faces llim now is• a legislati vc battle. Iiio aic1 is to secure lcgisln.tivo support for his measures, 11ot political support for· himself. Th'\t is tho gist of the ,situation. If traveling about the' country to meet great ,c onstitu,encies in their ewn surrcrnndings ancl impress his program , u,p on them will . help to create better support for the Rr, esident in C,ongress, then tile trips are well made, aad the President ought n.ot to be held up to scoffing for making th.em. C•- I 1 • • �rmt.Vl!YJ?A. MO. MIS!JOlJnf.A.lf ' ,IUJ>l'.E l0, l92ti, _ � PR��ID�NT'S VISION President •Coolidge paid a high col'!'fp1i\Jie to America in his Twin Citi:. s l'p elh at the Norwegian Cen­ tennial C bration when--hs )i;i:Qi:,Rd the democratic conditions ·which make possible "a spiritual quality shared by all races and conditions of men which is their heritage and common nature." The president hit a basic fact when he said frankly that world peace hinges uporr,- the re-a:ltzation of a spiritual union of the races throughout the world. "If fraternity and 00-operation," I 1 said the President in speaking of the ·upbuilding of th' llJ United States, "are possible on a scale of this con­ tinent among peopie so widely di­ verse, why not on a scale of the world ? " he asked. America's great achievement, Mr. Co.o.J idge said, has been in harmo­ nizing the many races and nation­ alities that have come to her. This, he said, is basic proof of a basic. br0 �herhood of men. In other words, simply stated, the presiden­ tial theory is that if races from ev­ ery place on thie. face of the earth can live together in virtual peace in America, why cannot the races achieve a race sympathy in. all lands and emulate to a degree the Amer­ ican •example ? he president said he believes that race unity is not a dream, th,:t the thought of a world living in· the soothing bonds of universal broth­ erhood is not ·a chimera ; between · ·the lines of his address he pla�nly ·expressed the belief the time will come when the curren;s and counter j currents of racial strif� ant! n:1tional hatre, 1 s wi 1 1 be swept aside. Thoughtful Americans, H ose who sympathize with the !]:reat stre:i.ms of national expros·, i( ,r, going on in the 1,, ''.ff East and the 1Jowe!fol strides toward regenerHtion in the Far East, and those who her•� for a lasting settlement ,;f Europe's pt'<)h­ lems, will hope for a speedy fulfill­ ment of the president's vision. l{ANSAS CITY. J.IO.. J'OURN'AL J UN"I!J 11, 1925. Making a Pool." Sh::rwing. '1,be trip of the big dirigible, the Los Angeles, to the Norse centennLJttt:�ti... Proposed no'c merely fllfS' •• f�ure or tfff cei e raffon but to demonstrate th e$' ienry of the navy's air service. glorious breakdown of the Los Angeles ho'l'l'ever, forced it to turn tail ancl limp its hangar at Lakebnrst. Then the Shen­ andoal was substituted, with orders to transfer the helium in the disablecl ship. Now comes the conunanchrnt of the naval air stn tfon ft t Lakehurst and dcclai:es that there is ernn less chance to get the Shenandoah, to Mi nne­ sota in tlrne for the <;entennial than to repair the Los Angeles. The showing thus made is not calculated to 1 make a very favorable in;i.pression upon the gen­ eral public, which has favored the development of the air service to the highest point or effi­ ciency. The service appears to have been caught flat-footed, if the figure is not to violently • in­ appropriate for airships, since they are operating on the ground instead of in the circum1tmbient atmosphere. The unflattering situation thus reveM.led wlll be generally deplored. Navy air service officials would do well to keep such ship� as they have in working order before the people will favor spendJ iv�� large sums en the development of the service. I f, U-'lU.9 ClTY MO, STAR ,JUNE 9, 1925. / SHA � AMERICA ABANDON TOLERANCE ? • �N1H9 CIT'li MO. STAii JUNl!J 1Q.....l925. Tll¥ll is one passage in President CoCJJi St. tiu\l ,JliQQF'WS � prell'se fine the fundamental phi.• losoph he resident that The Star single o for especial emphasis : Ou America with A.11 that it repre­ sei1ts of hope In the world Is now and will be what you make it. Its institu­ tions of 're!lgb'Us Ilberty, of educational .and' economic opportunity, of constitu .. tlonal rights, of the Integrity of the Jaw, are the 1nost precious pc,sse_ssions of the hun1an race. T11ese do n ,.Jt emanate from tl;ie government. '.rbeir abiding place Is with the people. 'l'hey come from the consecration of the father, the l 9ve of the mother, and the devotion c,f tl\e children. , They arc the product of that honest, earnest and tireless effort that goes Into the rearing of the family altar and the making of the home of our country. Through the years he has been in the White House Mr. Coolidge has been steadily preaching the gospel of th'3 homely virtues of everyday life. He has been insisting that people must not wait for the government to ·do things for them. Tl;le government cannot make ·a· magic to make us all prosperous and happy. It can do certain things. But ' they are limited in scope and impor- \ tance. i The destiny of every man and every l woman is not with the government. It is with the individual man, and the individual woman. What we call char­ acter, the complex of the great virtues of integrity, courage, energy, industry, trustworthiness, is the product of our individual effort. No father can hand his son a character ready made. The hoy must work it out for himself. No government can make its people suc- 1 cessful. They must win success as in­ dividuals: China is different from America not because of the difference in the government but because of differ­ ence in the people. America is what we as individua1s make it! AMER I CA IS' WHA.'l' '\VE J.UAI(:E I'f', I Rea� ,Jhe light of recent developments ' n �e United States, the Presi­ • ess at the Norse-American ent's G;enten ial yesterday was ilPtdiil\lPl/Ai\iit:>lli!la a!gailist the spread of intolerance that has been menacing the unity of Ameri­ can life. This, we take it, was the mean­ ing of his emphasis on the way In which 1 the national spirit had come from a 1 diversity of racial elements. This spirit has developed without com­ pulsion. without..p.ersecutioll. It ha� de­ veloped because American ideals ap­ pealed to the best In human nature of whatever race. I There has been a tendency of late to get away from this free development. Earnest persons, believing strongly in their own ideas, have been trying by law to run everybody in their mold. The country has recently gone through a political campaign in which a group tried to create a religious issue. Just now attention Is centered on a state where the legislature has attempted to interfere with the details of the teaching of scientific truths and has set up its own interpretations. It is not in this way that the Ameri­ can republic has grown. Its foundel's I were broadly tolerant men. They laid down fundamental principles of toler­ ancaln the ConstJ.tu..tiQll. Th.ese prlllci------------------------. pies were developed under the leader- I------------------------------J ship of Thomas Jefferson !.nto a body of political doctrines which guided the course of the new nation. Tolerance is in the background of a century and a half of American history. It was to this great historical experience that President Coolidge so finely ap-, pealed. �1.UJ'•.H CITY. MO., T'tll'lt9 J U NE 8, 1�25. IUNSAI ffiTY, MO., 'l!Willl J UNE 9, 1�3�. The Strength of the Nation, iee.n centennial obis more or less Minnesota's LTHOUGH this movement of people originated President Coolidge's trip to in Norwa;, in its essence and its meanin g it is peculiarly Americ is to deliver the address of an. .• .- , It has about it the strengt h of the home and the fireside cc on ls the West's event. The ; the West cla s and acclaims it. It wel- _ family ties of the father and the m9ther , the childre n and the con\es the President and wishes him a 1 kindred. It has all been carried on very close to the soil, 1t has all pleasant journey and a good time. 1 been extrem ely human . When I conside r the marvelous results it ha� Our national domain is e:x:tensive, we accomp lished I cannot but believe that it was inspired a re both a nation n a-- continent, ancl by a Higher it i s no small part of the President's Power. Here is something vital, firm and abiding , which r can only ta:,,k as its chief executive to make the describe as a great reality.-Presiclent nation realize that sectionalism and geographical considerations do not and should not enter into its polity. Proba­ bly he could not better bring this real­ ization home to the American people than by journeyings among them like THE NORSE CENTENN IAL the present. It is these contacts th!t (?n Octobei- 9 , 1 8 2 5 th e ,, : tip R 0 <:: Lau ratio1 ne nrrivr rl , fr, remove the sense of remoteness attach­ pn:t eric a, J.n·i � ging 52 Norwe[>' im1 ;_ This w."' � he "i1 , 1 o�p-aifr-, ,:, d ing to the government and the Presi­ grou p i. m i grate from Nonvav to H,c' United Rt t.( •• L m '1rk­ . dent when they are too much thought e d ! h e . !'SJ low wai:;h of a grea 1':a\·e of Norw,•�: , , • rr 1igrat:on of as expressing Washington only and which 1 1 wed. not America. o s the first white child. born 1 It s i_n o nor of theone- hund redt h an 11h e :.�,1ry of the eve11 t _ rth Anierica? It is recalled that before the govern­ t h at Presi dent qoohdge ·went to Mlnnea poli>l to 1 e p 1 es1=mt ::t Answer: The first white child born ment got quite settled down and wa< the Nors� w n� cnte1111 ia l . No F m a l portion of the dc­ in the n'e w wo-rld iR presumed te hfwa rooted on the banks of the Potomac, the \'e l o pm ent an d u p b u i l ding of th e North,, ·ef't.__ �-n ;;' ates i.' d u e to capital flitted about quite a little, been Snorri, the son of Thorfinn and the efforts o � Norwgfans or deccn<1 .m1ts of N01 • n Gudrid Karlsefni. The place of birth 11. And no There were reasons foru of course in was in Vinland, on the Atlantic coast, b eter � l a�s of people e y�r £oug-11 t a ne, homn i n .A , r , i c a. Tliey those days, but i n jumping about from variously placed from Rhode Island to ':' . _ had w1thm them th sp1nt of .A rn encams m b efore, 1 nv r· :i,me to Philadelphia to York and Princeton and Nova Scotia by students of the Norse the new land �.nd ad apk d th,».n solves to the ne y attempt at colonization ; the time was back again, it probably served other (' iv�rc,n� ant i n­ v oJ_ved � o ra d1ca} alteratio � vie w -1, or h a bits. T11 ,y niny tal·e :han strict military purposes ; it gave between 1003 and 1006. _ _ At that time some 16t0 men and women a J 11s 1f1 b l e � pride 1 nexh;1 bntng- wria.t h a/':\ been .·� c h ' · '> e ll by .he people an opportunity to become from the Greenland ,colony under the � _ them m tne d eve l op m ent of a sec·t1011 tcquainted with it, and we believe the I leadership of Thorflnn settled in Vin­ of the Ur:ifod SUtc , where the m ass of them is settl ed. ,istorlans agree that was rather an es­ land with the intention of founding a A p agean t p ortray ing- a c o m posite pi _ tnre of ential matter at a time when it wasn't new colony. Thorfinn's wife, Gudrid, e nmt p hy­ _ e d by No1;semen m the settle m ent 01 fop Nortln ve t w i : l b e pre­ lUite settled whether we were a nation was the widow of Thorstein Erickson, brother of Leif, who in 1000 was blown ent d . h e event � � a l o Jr an association of ideas. pro,·i dos t h e oppor tunity ;for a g •eat � � out of his course in returning to Green­ 1 e u m�n of th�se Amen ans wl h lve an a.1ce But it is now because we are a nation land from Norway and discovered an 't y driti 1,:g back ;� � : , to �onvay . 1hat that it is desirable the President should unknown land where he found "self. they Lake pr,ae r n their origin (l ot s not nee es­ san l m a sown wheatfields and vines." k e t from time to time make what the Brit­ �1en� a �_Y the Jes ::;Ame 1ican in -1pfrit 01· the ! e.;s � cte . President Coolidge the other day i n votec. to om m�htuL10 1is. It has been to th� proCt ish call in connection with their con• of Amei i...:: _ i s speech at . the Norse-American cen-J that so m any �o�·weg1;; tacts with the ir • ruler, a "progress" htennia,l ,ns sough t hon,c s he1e a::; ½ e l l was (JUOLei! d§ b&j hfg , ifKl!h, to the forme r 1m1gr ants thems e lves. �brough tbe republic. It seems the best seems little doubt that several centuries way to establish that intimacy and co­ before Columbus saw the light of day fl operation between the people and their there was born upon Amerrcan soil, of government which President Coolidge I Norse parents, a boy who afterward be­ has recommended and done so much to came so great a mathematician and as­ tronomer that his studies may have· promote. H is present visit to the West contributed much to the fund of knowl­ w ill, it is hoped, be repeated and on a edge which helped coi;;-:-,1ous formulate more extensive scale. He will see some• his vision of the, world as we know it.'J th ing of the West on his trip to Minne• I sota, but not all ; he will not have seen q Ult>'ID MO. GLOE» the West until, for example, he sees J ,UNE 10, 192�. _ Kansas City and its surrounding terri• �. COOLIJJGE G~OES VISITING. tory. that state a set of political views and an ascendan Kansas City would have no difficulty Vi1?its by a Pr ..sident to different parts of th e officialdom with which great numbers of the people in finding an occasion as appropriate cottnt • ,..1f> lend such distinction as his office maj of Minnesota have lost all sympathy. for a visit from the President as that lend t ,oc�sions of large public interest, are usua l, A lack of quietude described in other c�unt�ies _ , which its fortunate neighbors to the I at le t t uncommon. "For several reasons M r. as agrarian unrest had not merely caused d1s11lu s10 North have found, and would esteem it w cu pe s o ooli C dge's visit to the State of �innesota. a f s ment with particular personalities and parti l a very great honor if it could have an 1 cial interest and will be remembere'1 as pro ta Te i• political organizations. It was being manifested in 1 intimation that such an opportunity more than ordinary degree. a lessened confidence in the bounds previously set to would be welcomed by him. On the same 'fairgrounds 0n wJiich he spoke lar I governmental activities and in some of the principles Sometime •soon, and probably when it's not quite so hot, the dedication of Monday, he had been left almc • audience-less th� by which official functions had customarily been the Liberty Memorial will offer such an years before, when those who 1 a· listened to hi directed. Minnesota's demands for new devices in occasion. It is something for Kansas for a while turned a,vay tu seeR the thrills of � ameliorating economic ills and sustaining i ndividual City to fix its eyes on and plan for. horse race. That he was a mere Vice President then effort were held to be dubious experiments. They Meanwhile the people of this city and territory join their hearty welcome to ' but a President now, by no means explains all th( were hardly experiments, having been tried before difference between the receptions accorded him a1 in the long history of other peoples, but they looked the President to that of Minnesota and the West. I the two meetings. Mr. Coolidge represented then to to a widening of the field of law, already overex- <?� Dnxona I �-tended. and such�a�ening always means a corre­ rcommon interstate interests. We have blended into sponding narrowing in the opportunities and par­ one nation many peoples and many governments. ticularly the incentives of the field of citizenship. We have not yet solved all the problems arising Much has happened since the year in which Mr. from the mingling of different races nor all the Coolidge appeared there before and in which the problems that arise from the division of powers be• people of Minnesota rejected one of their own fellow­ tween the Federal • Governme:ht and the state Gov­ citizens, Mr. Kellogg, and elected Mr. Shipstead as l ernments. Our success has been marvelous, and, in their Senator by a majority of 83,539 . . One evidence supreme tests, such as the World War, where we entered into a European conflict, the loyalty exhibited of what has been happening was Minnesota's vote by citizens who had come to us from Europe, and the for Mr. Coolidge last November and another of more descendants of other earlier immigrants, despi te kin­ human quality is the warmth of the ovation accorded dred ties and strong sympathies with peoples against him when he went there for a second time, accom whom we were fighting, was amazing and unprece- , panied by Mr. Kellogg, now his Secretary of State, dented. to address a great, enthusiastic gathering presided We have proved conclusively that peoples of vari­ • over b; this same Mr. Shipstead. ous races and nationalities can l ive together in • ac­ The centennial anniversary commemorated was j cord and can find common loyalty, aspirations and / worthy of rec9gnitio11. Important dates associated j i1deals in one country. It is not worth while as yet e1Ten to speculate on a with the coming of other races have had repeated G. Wells, honors, but Jess has been heard about the coming of world federation, which is the Utopia of H. so many differing civilizations and are there because th e Norse. Of course, the pre-Columbian discoveries stages of civ.ilization in the world. But undoubtedly of the race on this continent and their ill-fated early the possibili ties of co-operation among the so-called colonies, preceding all other colonies, were recalled civilized nations, particulal'!y thos& of Europe, for an and M r. Coolidge made due acknowledgment of ho\1 association organi zed. to J;Jl'0tect the common inter• much the nation owes to the fact that certain stal• esL and co-operate in common ideals are very good. rhe idea oC a European federation is not by any wa1·t European stocks had predominated in the im migration of the fir-st half of the nineteenth century mean:; new . It is a vision of some · or the best minds and so. when the slavery issue pressed for decision, of Europe. The real ization of that vision cannot be forced, but made it possible to decide it aright. The example which America presents to tho must work itself out step by !Jtep. It is yet a long way off, and unless rapid progress is made in the I world of fraternity and helpful co-operation, n�t elimination or hatreds, fears and revenges, wb lcll are only a mong many different commonwealths inve•.;tel. now working against accord and friendly co-opera1 with sovereignty, but among many different r.olces tion, the federation wm be indefi nitely postponed . and territorial sections of varying ideas and in�er­ Practl.cal steps, however, have been taken 011 tw o ests, has furnished a text on which numerous di'!<;­ continents for tbe co-operation of nations in the procourses have been framed. Mr. Coolidge again mad! motion of common interests and ideals. Our own .1 an opportune use of it before this audience, includ• Pan-American Congress is a prom ising experiment in I ing very many born in turbulent Europe and their i nternational accord and has accompl ished much in [ immediate descendants. "If fraternity and co-opera­ the bringing together of the nations on Lhis conti- 11 tion are possible on the scale of this continent, nent for co-operation and the promotion of peace and common interests. among peoples so widely diverse, why not on the In Europe the League of Nations is organized and scale of the world?" he asked. "I feel it is possible working steadi l y towards the co-operation of nations of realization." At any rate he took cognizance of i'I, in the maintenance of justice and peace between reflex on E uropean sentiment of American influence nations. Born of the vision of world peace which in the past and declared that but for this influence ill uminated ibe hearts and m inds of men after the democratic evolution abroad during the past three World War, it is struggl ing towards a consummation o[ that i deal. Its intended sphere of in fluence is the generations might have failed. Mr. Coolidge had personal reasons for feeling a whole worl d. al though that objective has not yet been realized . deep gratification at this visit, which exemplified thG The practical way of working towards a realizatioo reflexes that come with time's whirligig in our own of Mr. Coolidge's vision is to co-operate along these country. And there are reasons for general gratifica­ two Jines of international acco rd . If the melting pot' tion. Minnesota seems definitely to have set its face of America is ever to become the melting pot of the against fantastic economic dogma and its devices of J world, the ideal can on ly be attained by an organiza. eccentricity �11r! hl'u•n, lion sim ilar to the League of Nations, open to the co• operation or all nations. SI'. a.ours ,MO. FO&T DI�l'ATCII ,, Mr. Coolidge can do more than any other man on J DN.El lj), 1!125. I earth to accomplish tile first advance towards b i s v MR. COOLIDGf..':, r.,rurr. 1 vision. H he would devote h i s leadership to the par­ T ent Coolidge saw a vision Monday. He saw I tlcipation of the United States in the International the les of . the earth taking example from the I Court or Justice and in the i�eague of Nations, on melt' gi ot of America and coming i nto accord and .satisfactory terms, the foundation of world accord co-opera on on common i nterests and ideals. I would be laid. It is true, as Mr. Coolidge said at the Scanqinavian Celebration, that there were many forebodings and prop 1ec � of disaster over our expei'iment of mi n­ gling diverse races and nationalities and blending them into a nation. It is true that we have had extraord i nary success in holding together diverse races in common loyalty. Not on1y \1ave the differ• ent races l ived in peace, but d i fferent states and Governments have worked in accord with one central Government having in charge foreign relations and I I �S'1'. !AOtllG MO. STA.It ____.l_L_ ,_ l"i.!J ti, .1\,2J.4 . ,;FAYING 'l'RIBU'l'E 'l'O A I-IA.RDY-RACK re,sident Coolidge went all the way from -on to Minneapolis yesterday to speak e hundrggpl;i �n,p�ersary of the arriva i\ New York of a colo]ll_jlt,..lioJ;.:.. wegians. 4fhe abntion which the President pays the men of that race is well deserved. The Norwegian is one of the races influential in settlement of North Europe, and p1·obably the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Under popular acceptation Americans are prone to credit discovery of the American con­ tinent to Q�"kul ...Still,- every schoolboy is taught, although many of them' forget, that 500 years before Columbus landed at San Sal­ vador a hardy group of Norsemen beat their way ov�r· the colds of the North Atlantic, came down the coast of Labrador, and probably wer<l the first to touch American shores. Their exploits, however, have not the interest of Columbus's voyage, since they did not lead directly to p�pulating the country. It is be­ cause that out of Columbus's discovery, Eui·ope sent ships laden with men to explore the new country that his renown is celebrated to the exclusion of the men who arrived five cen­ turies before. The President dealt with foe influenc.:i o-f the Norwegian in building up the Northwest, including the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota and Northern Iowa. All of them have large numbers of men and \ women descendants of those who came over in the small cotony irr"-1-8-25 and whe settled in Northern New York. Their word back home encouraged other colonists to come, but the lat­ ter were attracted by the description of the I They and thefr fel low-Scan d inavians have made the .Northwest whM it 1�,. They I largely may look around them in Minneapolis and reflect tha t_ t h is . city of 4 0 0 , 0 0 0 people wa s marked by a. single cabin seYenty-five years They have tu rned the cold n o rthern I ago. plains Into one of the most fertile farming regi ons of the globt->. In politics they have assumed control of t heir section and l eft t heir im print 011 national affairs. Of the last nine , governors of M i n nesota six have been Scana!navians. But for the untimely death of their grea t li beral leader. John A. Joh nson-like i{,r:.u te Nelson, of Swedish blood-they might have ;;lvcn the country a President. Coming from na!l ons inte_r.ei,ted i_n experi m.ei'lt, t hey h a ve taken natu-ra.lly to c·o -operati�n and e·c[ual suffrage-at t ime!3 to the Non - Partisan .'teague and t.he ideas espoused by. Rel).dhJc·, ShJpstead and Ma gnus J t.b,nru:1n._ Their cilffn'rlITT!lte rests, suppressed. during their years of struggle wit h raw nature, have eteadily1grown in vigor. The Norse i n particular do not forget that they come from the land of Ibsen, Holberg, B.io1·n­ son and Grieg. Culturally. no stock has becomt>, n1ore quickly Amerizanized tllan the Scandinavians. 1 They ha.ve entered the country to make homes, to learn English rtnd to rear their c_hildren to be patriotic citizens; t hey might easily have formed impt>rvlous foreign colonies, but i.t was 1 not t h eir na.ture. Jacob R iis in "'l'l1e Makinis of an Am erica n" caught th e soirit of this adoptive lo)·alty. Yet it is not inco mpatible with a sentim ent of reverence and· Jove for the l raditions of the homeland. 'T'he Norse feel that t hey have a great history, dating from the lime of the vikings, and that the conquest of the Ame rica n Northwest is an int egral part of it. •rhey may well be proud of their heritage and its transplantation. B'A LO'tTIS MO. TIMES J UN!<""; 1, 1925. THE PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL. land farther west. There is no doubt of the Norw�ian hon­ esty and thrift. The great wheat district of the Northwestern States largely is due to their thrift and industry. The emigrants were farmers, and they remained farmers after their arrival. Several decades after they came over the drift of immigration turned to Southern Europe, but under the Johnson immi­ gration bill, passed something more than a year ago, the trend is to give better opportu- , nities to the men from Northern Europe. This 1 is an invitation to the same stock of thrifty farmers who are as welcome today as their 1 • country�en were one hun.dred years l: go. cision of PrMident Qoolidge· to take ming trip tq Minnesota. by special tc d of using the cquipme� the reg­ ul ar tr ·us , ill be received with ge�eral public ,,Jll sat isfaction. In the interests of economy 1ast winter it will be recalled, the President and �lrs. Coolidge went to Chicago on a regular train. 1 ,v J;J�.. ICJ\ 1" On the coming Journey the presidential party I Sl'H!':·WFI�\J _· '1' _ w11l go on a special train " in compliance with . THE U�SUNG MILLIONS . . t he · r equest of the railroads for th e purp os e of j ; �1dent Co_ohdge used one phrase m �1s Pte . _ -0perating convenience and, .meeti� g ev ery pre p J.'fOr ,,.;, �entenmal speech worthy of special , , . c � ution of safety. The Chicago Journey occa- ,1 emp!'mMll't"�i'ltl<Em..Jile spoke of the "unsung milplain and quiet people who daily srnned general disapproval at the time, fea?;J li�ms, est and unpretentious virtues. being entertained that this mode of travel might I display e.xpose the President to unnecess arv• h az ard an cl ' The heroic is found not merely in the exploits of our soldiers and in the ideals of our possible annoyanc e 1 ,s •safety and comfort, e v en o statesmen. It is found in the daily toil of the . Th e p resident t people who have built up-this country in s ite an economy-struck people, are prior consid-, of great difficulties and sacrifices, promhient -cra tions over the difference jn th e cost involv ed. among whom were the Norsemen in whose �' he comparatively small a m ount of money spent honor President Coolidge has just spoken. for the President's traveling expenses is not likely to meet with disapproval. Quite to the contrary, it is likely the public will approve the journeying of the President with dignified as well as comfortable surroundings, to say nothing of the element o � personal safety. O I --.- ff., LOUIS MO. ST.lll JU�ill UJ, 1925. TU E NORSE)JEN IN l'\.)JERICA . ( :\'ew York World. ) 1 2 1 the Xorwegian Cleng Peerson land ed i nerica, and in 1 8 2 5 the ship Restauraltiated :\'orse immigration in earnest. / tionen Th e ce tenarY, celebrated in the Northwest national a t t ention this wee ,, which l\fr. Coolidge's presence will give it. Fredrika Bremer visited the United When States in 18 5 0 she founl nearly 4 0, 0 00 1\' orwegians .:. ! ready settled in "Wisconsin alone. They were t h e advance guard of an army which, w· ith T,eif Ericsson's pioneering sp irit, swept rapidly over the Minn esota and Dal 12. 1 pra.iri�s. America now h n !J a n1illion and a I quart e r inl1ablt,mts of J',orse bloo d ; and t h eir contriuulion t o our national ch aracter. trarl i ­ I tions a n d aC'h!evement i::1 O11t o f al l proportion to 1 11 eir num bers. I s�-anHJin::1:D 1vr'l. :r.o::.\t. r:.m J Ul\!EJ 3, JJ,i. NORSE CELEBRATION. Norsemeh and . their families, pione who settled the north�ester ates, will hold a great in: inneapolis, beginning usands of Norsemen and persons NorwegI'an descent will attend the celebration. Ordinarily Americans are in­ clined to look askance upon cele­ brations so largely confined to a people of one nationality or de- , scent. But in the northwest there ,., is no such feeling. One will search the country over and not find a higher type of citizenship that has developed . in Minnesota . and th.f:l. Dakotas. They are a bit clannish, of course, but this is not unnatural. Their loyalty and devotion to American principles is not questioned. There may have been a few regrettable instances during the � orld War, but these did not constitute an in­ dictment of the Norsemen gener- ' allr. These Norwegians are a hardy people. They are industrious, thrifty and progressive. Fre­ quently they have been imposed upon by political charlatans, but eo have the rest of us. On the whole they are aiming in the right direction. It is in a measure regrettable that so few such immigrants as the Norsemen now come to Amer­ ica. Had we coi:itlnued to receive that type of alien instead of the low scum from souther°""'�t,1,1;i,n e, less drastic imm!grat n le�1B_ tion would have sufficed. T Northern European has been a -the building of real factor America � the Norsemen have onorable share of the had a work, I - -- - �THE NORSE CELEBRATION. St. Paul annom1ces a six governors, all of them f Norse ancestry, one of them Montana 's own Erick­ son will attend the Norse-American centennial to be held on the Minnesota state fair grounds June 6-9. Extensive and enthusiastic as have been the prepara• ns for t his, the celebration of the one-hundredth anmversary of the arrival at these shores of the first shipl,>a-d of �eandinavian immigrrnts, the public was hardly prepared· for the prediction which St. Paul seems to be · making in all sincerity and confidence, namely, that the attendance will run from 250,000 to 500,000, including no less than 60,000 Norse Ca­ nadians. Eloquent tributes to the industry, the inteiligence, the enterprise, the sterling worth of the Norsemen, those of past generations and those who are honorably busying themselves in the world's activities today, will be paid by President Coolidge and other distinguished men, American and Eu­ ropean. Norse history will be depicted in pageants and musical recitals, and there will be a notable exposition of Norse industry-jewelry, woven tap­ estry., furniture, musical instruments and the like, the exhibits, in fact, comprising 22 departments. Splendidly have the Norsemen contributed to the American citizenry, and that the celebration may be as big and brilliant a success as the outlook promises 1s ·he sincere desire of the whole country. j/ THE NOB� NORSEMEN. VToday at St. Paul the �ns in the United States begin a celebration of the one hundredth • j igration to anniversary of their first c ,tliis country. There are 2,500,000 of t em in the United States today, including the descendants of all the immigrants, early and recent. 'l'he first scattering S�andinavian immigrants of which any note was taken came in 1820-there were only 23 of them in all and they did not come in a body. � Minnesota celebration commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the first stated immigra­ tion frotn orway to the United Sta , . That took place in 1825 when Kleng Peers-0n and 52 Nor­ wegians landed in the port of New York on the sloop Restoration. The ship sailed from Stavanger, Ndrway, on July 4, 1825, and arrived here in October of that year. Scandinavian immigration reached. its peak in the decade from 1870 to 1880, when they came in thou ' sands. They settled almost exclusively in th� Northwest, mostly in Minnesota, Dakota and W�­ consin, though in more recent times a goodly nurtt- ber have come into Montana. '!'hey constitute a sturdy and industrious population of farmers and producers. '1.' hese Scandinavian immigrants did not remain foreigners any longer than the laws of �his country made necessary. As quickly as possible they became American citizens. They leamed the customs and manners and language of the country. More tha.n that, they contributed m,!lterially to tho • country 's prosperity and welfare. 'f he ancient Norsemen were free a11d independent . They elected their rulers in an open assembly of the people and all of their laws and public matters were decided in these public assemblies. They w�re darin g adv..eu.tw:.ex nd explorers, competent sailors and fighters, and, as the Vikings, they became known to every part of the then civilized. world. They visited the shores of Europe, conquering the people and planting colonies. They subdued a large part of England and held one-third of it for many gen­ erations ; they took Normandy, the fine:-;t . province of France, from the natives, conquqred a large por­ tion · of Belgium and invaded Spain. 'l'he English rulers are descendants of the Norsemen, and, despite the fact that English historians insi1:it that it was the Anglo-Saxon branch of this great 'l'eutonic race of 1 people that formed the backbone of England, the influence of her Norse conquerors had mncl1 to do with shaping England 's career and destiny . • The celebration at St. Paul, including, as it will, addresses by President Coolidge, several state go-v­ ernors and other eminent men of Scandinavian ex­ traction, will constitute one of the fD-OSt notable and memorable of the several celebrations on· the cal­ endar of the present year. All honor to the Norse­ men, ancient and modern. ! With their inherited love for courage, liberty, industry, fair play and . _ equality • of opportunity, _the Scandinavian immi­ I grants have ever been welcome to these shores and have ever strengthened the hearts and the hands of f;\e loyal Americans already here. ---- o•H>" T•�m uer tMo nt5 t'r.. _ HUR-iD.A¥-. JlJNEPion 11. 1925 l' i. REAT CELEBRATION The Norse-Am erican celebra tion, j ust closed at M inneapolis, as one o t 1e grea wentions, in point of nttendance and enth usiasm, eYer held in these United Sta tes. Two hundred thou­ sand visitors at tended, and two h undred thousand loyal Ameri­ ns, native a n d foreign born, went away happier, bet ter and bigger Americans. I t was a grea t gn thC'ring of a great people, em- 1 1 bracing all na tionalit ies, all classes, all ages, but all Americans. President Coolidge was the main a ttraction, and press reports · state tha t he never m ore thoroughly enjoy d a visit to any city forming a part of the grea t domain of which he is the popular h0ad, He had been at Minneapolis before, ,•,bile vice president, and dur­ ing the course of his a ddress on that occasion an impatient crowd fret ted tha t he might close and perm it the races to start. This �time he spoke in the midst of rain and-dust and clouds, but the nesota, filled ibhe position od' United immense throng listened throughout H masterly address with in­ States senator for many years with terest and in tentness due from a people to their chief magistra te. g1'€at disltinction and cre<lLt to himself One statement of the president was particularly well put ' and his pe01ple. Beaverhea:d has her quota of Scalll­ and has especial reference to the early history of Montana, and dinavians and rtheir deS"cen�dan�. Th to what is now Sweet Grass county. It reads : ,ahl pros,perecl and are numbered "Minneso ta would not be Minnesota, the group of imperial have al a;1.ong ·orur bes,t and mos,t substanti,] northwestern states would not be what they are, but for the con­ c izens. f tribution tha t has been made t o them by the Scandinavian countries." Incidentally it might be rernarked that among those who govern the states referred to by the president, the �·onowing gov- "'"":r--�------------------_,,,,,,c___--...- .!-. ernors of Norwegian descent attended the convention and sat on 1 THE PRESIDENT'S ST. PAUL SPEECH t.h,e platform with the president : Blaine of ·wisconsin, Ch�istian­ South of Gunderson Dakota, North of Sorlie Minnesota, son of The speech of President Coolidge at St. Paul, to the .I�akota, Erickson of Montana, and Whitfield of Mississippi. somblod Norscw �mped him as a statesman of broad-mi ed stature, and one o riginal ideas all his own. The president put it in thes_e words: The newspapers of America and Norway have commen • 1 "We are rounding out a century and a half from the beginning of the revo- upon the speech in terms of highest praise, the papers of 1 lution. It was half a century from "old country" of his auditors declaring that it more firmly fe­ the days of Concord and Lexington to rnented the friendship of the two countries. One of the llJ.OS_i GreQt Ne�ebration. the beginning of that stream of Immi­ influential papers stated "it will be a' long time before we fotgeil gration from Norway which was to President Coolidge." Minnesota is about to .be the locale of help guarantee that the spirit of free­ a great Norse celebration, a thoroughly The Chicago Tribune comments upon the speech under the· American affair in concept for it is to dom which had been so triumphant heading : "Coolidge Is An Orator," and other connnemorate the arrival in this countr:( • • newspaper expresin the colonies should not be lost to of the first Scandinavian, contingent. sions are equally as complimentary. the states." hroughout the years in which this j The president has never laid claims to being a flowery orator epublic has been working its way to. a The main point presented by the and he isn't one. But he has a knack of assembling together national greatness unsurpassed in the an- • president was that if our nation can nals of history, citizens of Norse lineage some very concrete statements of fact which are con.vincing and be successful in achieving this mingling have had a very prominent and thorough- ' ly valuable part in furthering the best then it should be reasonable to as­ of the St. Paul speech the Tribune further says, •�this speech welfare of the nation. sume, !lll an international basis, that was in a literary style not equaled by many who · count them­ Norse ability, stamina, determination ' a good many nations could get together selves orators," and : and courage have been among the fore­ "The address was chiefly a moving_ narrative of the immi­ In harmonious promotion of the things most factors in the development of the United States and in maintaining its relating to the common good and the gration of Norwegians and of their contributions to this coun­ power and prestige in the world. general welfare of mankind. By th'> try. 1In it was the drawing of a striking parallel between the Indeed, it requires volumes to detail way, since the president came as far coming of the Mayflower and the arrival of tlie Restaurationen. what the Norse influence has meant in this w'iy as Minneapolis, it's a. pity that It was an eloquent and deserved tribute to a century of achieve­ the world's advancement. A sturdy, conscientious, persevering he did not keep right on coming West ments of Norwegian-Americans. and achieving disposition has been the until he reached either one of many "Headline writers grasped at the President's words concern­ Norse contribution to the general Ameri­ attractive spots in Montana where he can character. ing world peace and his citation of the success of the melting could have had at least a month of Different peoples have figured in mak­ pot of America. But the speech contained little which bore di­ ing America what it is, and in this I-and release from the torrid heat and th( they have found an opportunity for the rectly upon these topics. The few words given to them were maddening crowds. '£hat wo11ld havf manifestation of the brotherly regard and been a good deal more refreshing thar c!eftly woven into t e general theme, woven in the manner of althuistic endeavor as well as individual the real orator. • progress that are so well epitmoized in i:;everal weeks at Swampscott. l the wonderful word Americanism. "This president who lately has declined ,somethh;ig like a score of honorary academic degrees took occasion to make a sug­ n ... ;. . ., .;:.t Dillon, 1' , ·i ' gestion to the academic world. He said some historian might MON DAY, JU.:,. c. 1 "25 FRIDAY,. JU.N i,, ", .u.,:; well devote himself to a study of the motives which have im­ ANOfHER OOOLIDGE TAL pelled various groups of immigrants who have come to this --,_ SCANDINAVIAN DA;-� cou try. Such a study would be a genuine • contribution to Today, in Minneapolis, the much That wa� a ,great celehration which kno ledge. That suggestion }Jkewise was made in such a man­ discussed melting-pot ��on was the Norwegians, Swedes and Danes ner s to leave no rough edge's of apparent :irrelevancy. theme for an address delrn b sta.ged in St. l'a'ul fund 'M1.nnea,polJs Te­ " o, this unpretentious man makes no pretensions 'to being President Coolidge. He isn·t disturb <lernbly, to celebmte the landing of the an or tor. But for unity, for coherence, for beauty � over !t ; on the contrary, he spoke first contingenJt o,f !immigrants in ithe and fo brevity this address was a model.�'" . .,,,.,,,,- .. -r-laudatlon of the good that has co e Uni,ted Sitates from their belwed , 1 of the mingl:ng which, for instance, n that part of the republic centering at or near Minneapolis has contribute so , much to excellent American citizen Ip. Essentially that was from Scfndi­ navlan sources which started im�igra­ tions that were prior to the civil-war period. Northland. It :was ,a well-deserved itrihute to ithe early Norse settlem and their descendants. They have ,plruyel a highly- im,po ant part in the develo[Pment of the They grea1t No11thwes,t es edally. ke good farmers , d iooid govern­ t, . Senator Knute Ne.J.t,on, of Min- fs , _____ , ��rec::;,..::: r.. •.d:?.�ll NORWEGIANS President Coolidge's visit to the J:£lin_Qties is one of worthy comment, �. the lOOUi anniversary of the migration of the Norsemen to America. This is the longest trip he has taken since his election to the presidency. This is a notable address for the occasion and well expresses the Nation's tribute to the Norwegians. It also expresses the fine type of Americanism dis­ played by our brother Norsemen. This Nation owes much to the sturdy Nowe�ian trailblazer who came to these shores a century ago as well as to those who followed. Our observation leads us back to the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, where large com­ munities are made up of · Scandinavian ei-x traction. In those com­ munities we found that predominating perseverence that constructs real homes and a fine type of law abiding centers. Schools, churches and other organizations for the improvement of their kin are always to be found. Take a view of the four states mentioned and you will admit that the genuine American spirit is not found wanting. We most heartily concur in any tribute that is paid t these Norse-Ams;ricans and the big Centennial held this week. Our ] at is off when the Norwegian parade passes by. � PrPsid@pt,:G661idge in a notable address at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds last Tuesday, the occasion being the celebration to , commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the first organized migration of Norwegians to the United States. The Presiden t pai d high tribute to the hardy immigrants from Scandina via who settleq,, I in • .,e North� develop a great agricultural empire. I I A,Lhough the weather was unfavorable there was an im mense I attendance. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg also made an address. I 1 Helena, M rHUR!) A COOLIDGE AND THE NORSE. No doubt President Coolidge made one of the most inspiring and gripping addresses that he ever delivered anywhere at the Norse-American centennial celebration at Minneft'ffohs. Am iif:i cle n er and a, cool temperament, so his talks are usually reasoned, and the further the worl d travels along the road of real culture a1:d : intellectual attainment the more apparent will become the fact that only that sort of a.n address is really worthy of respect. Spellbinding and oratory are not directed to the min �, but to t �e lnflammable sentiments. But a rat10nal talk is offered to the reason. On a,ny occasion whe� intelligence, good sense and reason count, President Coolidge will rank high as ii speaker. . , The Norse people afforde d him an opportunity to say some things much worth while, and to trace some of the important factors and elements that have gone to create the Unit� d States and �he na.tion of Americans as they exist today. The j story of the Norwegians is a proud one, but the I I 1 :hief executive broadened itto take in humanity, and to suggest that from the unity that has been �reated in this country by diverse races, among which t'he Norse were of prime importance, the world eventually will find the touchstone that will bring all races and nations together, and on this point he spoke a-s follows : "It is not so many years since visitors from other quarters of the world were wont to con­ template our concourse of races, origins, and in­ terests and shake their heads ominously. They feared that from such a melting pot of diverse �lements we could never draw the tested, tem­ pered metal that is the only substance for na­ tional character. Even among ourselves were ma.ny who listened with serious concern to such forebodings. They were not quite sure whether we had created a nation with the soul of a nation. fhey wondered if perhap s we had merely orought together a large number of people in a large place. Had these misgivings been j ustiifed when the hour of trial came, it would have meant disaster to us and to the world. But instea.d of !rumbling into a chaos of discordant elements, A.merica proved its truly national unity. It dem­ onstrated conclusively that there is a spiritual :i_uality shared by all ra.ces and conditions of men which is their universal heritage and com­ mon nature. Powerful enough to hold this peo­ ple to a high ideal in time of supreme trial, why may we not hope tliat the same influence will at length reach men and women wherever they are found on earth ? If fraternity and co-operation are possible on the scale of this continent among people so widely diverse, why not on the scale of a world ? It is not a new thought, but it is a, profoundly engaging one. I firmly believe it more than a chimera. I feel it is possible of realization. I am convinced that our national 11tory might somewhat help to guide mankind to­ ward such a goal. Therefore, I urge the deeply thoughtful study and teaching of our history." President Coolidge finds a nation here, united, solidified, sending two million soldiers to fight for this country in the World War, men of every European stock a.nd Indians, Africans, and peo­ ple of other origins. The Nordic question that troubles the intelectuals, so-called , and persons such as Dr. Chas. W. Eliot, who think the melt­ ing ,pot fails to fuse his contents, does not enter his mind. However diverse the racial stocks that compose the American people, they are one peo­ ple, and that is the point with him. In speaking to the Americans of Norse descent a.t Minneapolis as follows he a.ddressed every racial stock in this country, and his words point out the duty of every American of every racial stock : "Our America with all that it represents of hope in the world is now and will be what you 1ake it. Its institutions of religious liberty, of e ucational and economic opportunity, of cons ·tutional rights, of the integrity of the law, a.re ;h most precious possessions of the human race. 1'h�e do not emanate from the government. The abiding place is with the people. They com e om the consecration of the f\ther, the love of e moth�, an d the devotion �� 1 1 dren. They are the product of that honest, earn­ est, and tir_eless effort that goes into the hear­ ing of the family altar a.nd the making of the home of our country. They can have no stronger supporters, 110 more loyal defenders, than that great body of our citizenship w!tlch yog repre­ Jlent.' �Livin g-stone. �on t.. Ente- r pri ,a , IUESDAY, MAY 12, 1 925 ' ---l__ _______.....______ J THE NORSE CELEBRATION St. Paul announces that six governors, all of them of Norse anc •try, one of them Montana's own Erickson, will attend the No "'e-American centennial to be held on the Minnesota state fair gro Extensive and enthusiastic as have been the preparations '--for this, the celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the arrival at these shores of the first shipload of Scandinavian im­ migrants, the public was hardly prepared for the prediction Whkh St. Paul seems. to be making in all sincerity and confi� ·dence, namely, that the attendance will run from 250,000 to 500,000, including no less than 60,000 Norse Canadians. Elo,­ quent tributes to the industry, the intelligence, the enterprise, the sterling worth of the Norsemen, those of past generations and those who are honorably busying themselves in the world's activities today, will be paid by Pre·sident Coolidge and other distinguished men, American and European. Norse history will b e depicted in pageants and musical recitals, and there will b e a notable exposition of Norse industry-jewelry, woven tapestry, furniture, musical instruments and the like, the exhibits, in fact, comprising 22 departments. Splendidly have the Norsemen contributed to the American citizenry, and that the celebration may be as big and brilliant a success as the outlook promises is , -t,he sincere desire of the whole country.-Anaconda Standard. ! As postal rates, mount higher, letters by the hundred from \various government agencies come with extra enclosures under l\e usual government franking privileges. I . _A GREAT CELEBRATION / rr l � e l\ ud,e-American celebration, j ns_t clos� d at _ .Min­ " nenpoM,-nlt1' 011& of �@ 15.i:.eat�st convent10ns, m pomt of attenda nce vnJ intJ;m siaRm, 0ver held in these United , StateH. Two hundred thousand vi sitors attended, and two J. 1 1 1 1 Hlred thousand loyal Americans, native and foreign hom, · w ent a,vay happier, better and biggei· .Americans. It wm; a great gathering of a great people, embracing all uationalities, all classes, all age�, lmt all Americans. Pre:-;i dent Coolidge was the main attraction, and press reports :-;fa te that .he... neve1· m 1·e thoroughly enjoyed a \i:-;if to any eity forming a part of the great domain of ·w hi<·h he is the popular head. He had been at Miuneapolis before, while vice preside11t, and during the course of his address on that occasion au impatient crowd fretted that he might elos_e and permit the mces to start. This tim;e h e sp6ke iu the midst of rain and dust and clouds, bnt the inunenHe throng l istened throughout a maRterly addres:-; with i nterc1-,t and .inte11tn_e·s :-; dne from a people to their chief magistrate. One 8tatemeut of the preRident was particularly ·well pnt and has especial reference to the early hiRtory of Mon tana, and to what/ is now Sweet Grass county. It reads : " Minnesota would not be Minnesota, the group of imperial northwestern states · w ould not be what they are, I 1mt for the contribution that ha:-; been made to them hy the Scadinavian countries. " In(:identally it niight be remadced that among tho8e \1'1 1 0 go-: rn the 8tates referred t o by the president, the following governors of Norwegian descent attended the eonventiou and Hat on the platform with the president : -:Blaine of 'W isconsin, Christianson of Minnesota, Sorlie of .J orth Dakota, Gnnderson of South Dakota, Ericlrnon of Montana, and Whitfield of JYi ist-Jissippi .-'fbe Big �l1 i ii lher Pioneer. ---� �--�----11 ' 'TE :\' :\ 1 -\.L "'.I: Tl' ' ' ' of t h e r " nl'.lrka lJle fact:, brov r,!J t ou1 in connel'tiun wit h t]w h o l t'. i11g o ( t he N ofoe-- .\ ,110 �' J _ ican c P n t e u n r nl cele•.wa t1on that Hf sche-a u l ed to 1 ,1 [.e tlfarA i n t he T w i n i tfr� it� <.: a_r ly J u n � i,; t h a t the prin­ cipal. strrtes taking a rnore or Jess clirpct i n t ,1 J'P.BI i n I ll e event eo11 t a i n a hu·gc S<' � na'i navia n population aml e a c h or t h eu hn vP a go,'crnor of Scan d i n a vian ,1e�f'Pn1. \V isc·ons i n , i\l rn n osot a , Nort h and S o u t h n..l,ot : 1 u n rl Montnna lU\Vl' chief exec- u t i \'C'R v. hnsc ancest ors he• lon ged io t h e \ i k i l , g ni ce and it i s i ll t he 11.i<lR! of t h ese c· nm rno nwea l t h s t ha t tho ce11 t e m 1 i a l f] U i tP pro p<'rly i� l1<aipn; l , e l cl . 'l'lw 11ort h we�t owos much to the :Scn ncl i navia n I'acc-> }- •rob:i.hlv 11 01 MO rnncl1 in ! h e arts a n d J iteratuiP. 1. rn t J:,rgely i n tlmt m o 1·e prac tical cleve l o p m o n t of t he coull l t·y t h a l 11:i s n1iul 1-l it u n p of !lHi gr1..' a t t.-: �HI g:ndE n r,'P-; i o n s in 1 1 , e worl d . Sol l cl . A l l l ls t a l l l i a l ci1 i7.ens, t lH 'Y h a ve p laced t h eir m a rk u pon the soi l. Thn1 I J a vp t aken an in terest in the govc1;n lllf' n t 1111def " l\ i c h t hey l i vr< 'T'll F>v lrnv<> hP<'ll eagei' a n d a u­ XiOl;s to h e a ]1.tl't a n d par<'el of t lH' nol if ic:1 1 a <' t i v i t iPs:, and t o ! h eir rre<l­ H may i t h1 im i<l , that n e ver in. t ile J1 ist 01·v of tlleir nc<'o mpl ishm e n ls i n these · r;tat e� ll n v e lhey m a rd l',,�tecl a n y o ther s p i r i t than tha L or l ove a n d J 0y;.1 J LY to 1 he poli li.<'nl i n?tit u t.ion,, Nn inra!l y I t h f\ t l 1 a vo hcPn ere c t Nl . they are for m P n a n d women , ancl pol i cius :i n d p n nJo�<:� I.hat t hey l underst a n J _ Tl10 i 1' ] P8 rl PrS h n ve heen I t r n e to the responsib il i t i es ! hn.l hav0 been h ea11ed u po n them. The Scan- · d i n a vi:ws 1•n ; ov l i hm•f v n 11cl ll l' l il'Vt and have fait h in Am erica. 'l lw fol l o w i n g a re t h e nn rnes of the govt1rnors <1f Scan di navian des­ cent. who pn1:,icl e over 1 lie c]pqt i 11 ie of t h e sev0rai Rta_ Les in 1 h e north wei,t t liftt a n, tlil'N·t.!y i..n.lr res• r, c] i n l h r r·Pn1 Plllt ial : iWon t � n a, Mr. J. E. Erir,kson ; Son t h Du lrot� . M r . Cn rl G u JJ rlerno n ; Nrn t h lla kotn, Ml'. A. 1 G . Sorl i e ; M in n esota , iifr . Theodoro r n 111·istia11 son ; Wt·, co,r n in . Mr. J. J ' Blaine, who is clescPntl(•d from the 1 Sc•n.ntl i navi,1 n people on h is mother' P , side The Twin nit i e R evrnt is t o cele­ llt'ate Llte o n e h n n cl rPdth a n n ivermi n of t h e arrival of a bancl of Nm·w"'' iano, who ca 1n<> ovrr fl1e J\ t l ,i n tir wa vc,s and sett led in "Kew York i r J 8 2 n . I t was 11at nral a11 d l ogi/',i· t hat from this f i rst f'Olon i�a t ion i n New York R t a t e t11Are should 'i:, ter :,e a m ovement lo the west a nd n n rth­ wer, t . Tor] n v t]1 p T w i n C! it ic1s forn· 1 1 11 0 ack n o ,v Jod P:c•rl cen 1 ,-r of t h e Rcan <l i11 s v ian popu hit,ion r,f 1 h f'l rrJ11 n t rv. Till"\ 11r0·jf'f't fnr ! h i<-1 f'e]Pl>rnt i oP h UR a.l reacly m P t w i t h surh e n t h u s i n st ir 1·Po.poll 'se. nn1 on Iv in "Jl,f i n nesotn :Jllcl t h e llOrl h w PHt. 1;01, 0nlv i ll t i l t' I U11 i t Nl 8 1 -i t e� an,1 n a n n rl a , h u t n.lso • in o l d Norway i f <•n l i. t li at· ( h P s n c _r ess 0.f J.Jw n.ffair R•wms hcvonr' q u est ion. Th e )lrom ise or PreR icl e n t f'001 ;,Jgp 1 '1 com<> n n cl p:1 1• t ic- i pate on Monrhy .T n n<> � < :, n (I l lw proha b i l itv that 80 1 11 P, , h )g-11 1'Pl)l'()�Pn t n t ivn of i l1 P 1)0 m i n i on g'OV('J'l l lll P n t will hP (h P1'8. n.� ,..,·pl] ;l q t l"l n nrnn1i��f:lrl rom i n g of t'h P dPlfl':ntr,s from t l w 'orw,ocian stort h­ i n P- s n rt P-OVPrn rn0n t . giv<' t i l e rol e> l1T>-: i i o n fl, p f1 CJ "r•t nf ri r0.-. 1 ,vnrl rl r ffa i r . 'f' h n o f'l'l ,-, ial (!e]rgat ion [1·om Norwn v w i l l i n r ! u ,l e :i P' Pmher of the cn l1 i n n t . n nwmhf'r of 1 h <> � l s 1•th- 0 -NE 0 1 11 �oT the arrlvn l of t bc>1 cestor3 or many of the Norwegian JJO IJltlalion. A s q 11ickly ar; pnsHi hle t h c ,.r hc­ <'c lllP Alllf'!'ica n c i l i Z<' ll ll. Th•'Y lea rJl· No nnial "" t ]H' C't1�t on1s and 11Hl lll1Pl'S H IICl languag e of the count ry. 1\IO;P titan bration in Minnesota yesterday, said that Amert t l la l, they co n t l' i ; 1 t1 t<'cl matenallY to 't lw <"<>Untry's prosperity a n d welfare. su ess in fusi n g national un ity from its melting pot o f TJ,,, ,, n,•i<••i t No r••� men wel'f' fJ f>" dive racial elements points the way for fraternity and and independent. They elected tl1 ei I' rnl<'rs in an OJH'n a s!'nmhly n f 1 1 "' \ cooperation amon g peoples on a world-wide scale. " I f fra­ pPop le and all of their laws '.1-nd puh- 1 tern ity and cooperation," he said, "are possible on th Ii<' m a t ters were der-idccl 111 rhrisc 1, nhl i<' assem b lies. TJwy w<' re dar­ scale of this continent amo n g people so widely diverse, wny ing a rtvent11rers ancl expl orers, com­ not on the -seale of the world ? I feel it is possible o f real­ pPtcnt sailors a n d fighters, a n d , a ,., the Vikings, t hey hecame kn?'�� t, ization. I am convinced that our national story might every partf of the then ::1v11lz,�• somewhat help to guide mankind toward such a goal." " ortd ' h f> v v lRited th e slrnr0'l o F 1l !'o1�P. con � u c>ri n g t h e people a n r President Cool idge is right in intimating that many o f planting colon ies. They 1-mhcln P<l } t h e inter-racial problems o f the world have been met and larl{e part of England and held o ne• t h i\'fl of it for m a ny ge1wra li<rn s ; solved in the wide expanse of this country, with its many­ they t ook Norm andy, t h e fiar>Rt yro­ racial and once-polyglot population. In a measu re the vl nce o[ ! 'ranee, from t hf> nah vc�r;. conq uered a la rge portion of Bel­ melting pot experiment has been a success. A composite f a n d inva<led Spain . ile r•; n g­ ' gium lish ru lers arc descendan ts of • h e population has been formed from a mosaic of many peoples Nori;eme n . a n d . despite t h e fa<"t t h a t from many lands. That there is in this population a great }<}nglish h ls1 orians insil-'t that it waR DESl ' l<� � IlA ST:,, (W \' I IU '.\'OS t hP Anglo-Saxon branch of t h i:-i ,rl'rH t solidarity was p roved during the recent war. If the world .:• ; i 1 _ 1 ! b IJG 1 1, •re utnnic race of peopl P. that forme1l D ll�(l).fbI T Cl.JU . Iu ::,;t would consider carefully and intelligently the American 111 ay I\loucl . on. fl u ­ t h o bal'khone o f Eng\a n1I, t i1e in <Lil�;;; · � i '' ' ence of h e r Norse conquerors h a d 0 11 the occas ion of tho 01v:m example it might fin d its way to un iversal peace and mu­ • redth • . ' � m u c h t o do w i t h shaving England's t h e ono hund tl <'a 1·eer a n 1l des t iny. ur l:; i;�rau tual u nderstan ding. imm of ding la the U nitc1l Sthlt' N rwcg The cclchralion a t St. Pau l , i n­ However-and we bel ieve President Coolidge would state 11t�uc k a happy note whcu lie_l tll' tll r l 1 1 d ing-, as il docR, ad dresses by �Ul hank t i::i admit this too-the great American experiment has not been rica Ame that ent Coo l i d ge , several stnl(' A"OV­ icl rres n(I P�tc d comi ng; o[ this h ardy ' acl', O( � h< "1·nors a 11rl oth€'1' e m i n e n t n1 Pn ot' entirely successful everywhere. There are in this cou ntry antK o[ the great V i lWl�:c\ o r w c.'gia� S('aucl i navian extra <"tion . ronsti t n te·, hun dreds of thousa nds, perh aps millions, of immigrants d inav ians on \ll•l .K nTt ,, of t lw mm;t notable a n d m emor­ Scan u f l ll�, hl:lY t si_< e . • U pon their arnv al u n o_r _ 1 11\, a ble of t he sevl'l'al <·<'! Phra t i ons 0 11 from other lands who never will become real American citi­ -,?d1 th_at yPar. A l l a l l y soug h t out n_, t h e rah-ndm· of tlH• present zens, even i f their children and their children 's children cou n try whore chma t1c cont,fcl1t1? h o11 or t o t h P Norsemen, an<:iPnt a n rl -­ � o N tt�.il were mo e simil ar to moctem ! With their in hPrit('(l \ovr hen. t I t is for this reason that the U n ited States has seen i, may. .ou11'. they ntly l U cJ f•a i 1 way, conse i.o \l fnt· <·n n ra c-P. H lwrtv, i n cl 11<1trv. way to the north west whc l', fit to adopt restrictive immigration laws. The melting pot play a n d equality o f opportuni ty, t h e t>( alf h a ,rncl more t h a u two m illion f-'. r·a n cl i n a vian i m m i lZ'rants have ev<'l must not be overloaded, we argue, and that, undoubtedly, hled. usscm a rn them are n_tl h<'<'n wel rom<' to t h<'i-<C' i;h or"R Tilc� e peop le have m a1l c l r ile Jai I � h a vr> 0vp1• � t rP n i d h P n Pcl t h e hPart -is the proper way of looking at the situation. But as far :.nl y i • ,•,· tho hai-;i::J o l their pro:; L l • l � n n d t h e h ands of the loya l Americall as we have gone, this country certainly has been a fine h a A b lo::,t;o m ecl. w it h t lt•· l ru ' an • . a l ready here. t b 1>;r Jahor and toil . Stron � " 1 1 l ­ ex�e o f what can accomplielu■ �a fosigg of races. physi cally perfec t , r1ossessl'<l of . l­ i n g d ii,. posili om, t o meet 1 he <'.XJgnl 11, ;i11 r; r :·. '\IT=c;soula. 1\";: ofll:.. 1;;so1iliaci os- and o hst:.w les uatunu lNori; e1ncn • 11 a n " w world , thet;e SATURDAY, Jl'NE 6, bZJ y v;a _ :· 1 •• h t 1g l1cll'i1 or job Urn d : ackle i ncl t o­ to s u · stan\ Jal l i vcl ihoocl K. ,1 1HI f:1 rm daY NonH •r;ian h o u sehol ds l' prope rlies are n u m h,•n•ci a nwn:; l•h T ,)�;t rnu::;t prOSP <'fOUS in the 1101 t h ,\ :· · .1:1 l'.u.; ll'll,-,; K that '.! It w a s i l l 1 S :i 11 cl ,1 t is . ·v and f ifl •-t wo �cn• wpgia n,; ,uTn· , !;i ncl \ noteworthy e'\ en the f i rst ;-..or , of .t . • ion rat t h e port of 1' e w York on l t1·'1 ' 1 1_1�.'' mig the po is . of sure t s h i p HPsto ra l io n . 'I ltl' nau,el 1. 1 r ::. 1 ,,­ at• :\Ii nea � lllC'l'I Ca lt i· s• 1· m1)ossible to mea y1Jssd t oday po,1:.,cs,;0.-; a pen1 s t a was l1.-; t n 1n<' northwest dnc • to � the of nt n l ficn nco. Abo n t fou r ;m<' <'lo1 � ce :t•dev P g1 dc�r and Sw( 'cl1 co11s4 med i n mak ing t hat _n_1 cmor,1 1'.hl o f th e rorw<'n,..,-ian . . �1 t ri p , t he Hesto ration RU 1l111g I 8 '..•; iJ , men and wo men s o f l10n t> s. lttlc qna ive 4, mit y al St a vange r, N orway , J oss<'SSNl. of the pri "ac•es " • n, tliese stu . • .r "t O_eLoh b 1 1_ 1 rica f' 1t1o nl A c and am a nd reach ed . 1m­ m : • d n• �•try thri ft paf ienr From 1 8 7 0 to 1 8 8 0 t,:,.,1 1 1 d rnav,: 111 nce on the 1 • 1t iz<' flue n i t h grea '1 � ry 1""r a._vc v 11ca�. hail e 1wop c m i t�r a t io11 rc al'\1erl _ jt•; . n lth wea t• and m al1 <1•mg :t o 1-ls• a ccauc• many i 1u 1111gra nts l l' On!r lioth . • llars OJ. w a v s1 1 •1 p of \m ('rir 11. i p s a tlwm nt :r-; o rway a n d Swed en fou nd t lr nli :-- .1:inc!-_ cou 1 In i\fon h n a we 1 oeth rou g h t h e ga i t>:; of ¥?I i .; 'fhe nd. fou · 're r ( 11 • <•�m mnn ity wh( .Almos t invari abl y 1 heY_ rou n�l tl,1t lw spg't l1 :,1· n ,"ver·v ptro s rrn she l10nor<'cl hy tl ie pre wny t o wa i tin� relat ives I ll ly to 1i ? t 1I inn(' apo lis will , .s1on t t a lir>'1 en of in<l<'11 and <'R Stat n o l'tltwent. or cam<' itecl rn the i l l(! 1 c•1wc of t h�..p • ffl!lf'nt of curve out t heir rorLu nPs in ac w :H.11c . . _ hloo d inc· lud ing l • o f iN o rsc strang e \ands . 'l'hey ma<l c' go•.lll man v cl istrn grns h ('d mrn Da­ w u t he t , a l)rospo re<l . M i n nesot na. nta )lo or of l,�1kotas . \V it;rons iu an<l e:i<<t e rn _\[ Ill 1 hr gov ern tana in the order nnrn e<l sh an•d \\ e n Jwrcly hese t t ho recept ion of co� :0 • o[ t he happi l y n c-ticea h l " : things i n connc•c tion w i t h t h i s Par\y i m m igra tion is t h a t t h N' P nr•o p ! P ,\1rl n o t remain forni1�m•n; i n _t he \a nti of t h eir a d o p 1 i o n . Jt is t l11s nha .} · of t h P I I' sot l l ing i n A m r•l'ka t b:it ·• as �'l'c17:1e <tel g fi>s wlll l'O e h. r1•,;e1l f t lw on,•,•r ia n l at e drnr<' t h<' l l11 i ver;it ,· or O. l o , .1 11tl Norcl . , 1nn1Hll'l forl, n 11<101 . \\'h i l l' t h " o""ll i n �· ,1 : 1 ,· w il l ll<' <l f' in�n, _n!Pet ag" l q;<le_ B " the to voted 1 11J"n'1t cit· 1 l 1 e n 1 <'n u d 1 1 1 l 1 11g w 1t11 a cl�11·,. :-1 <'Jtt n�c•n1 11Pr . or Ji;1n q n et , ana tt0n !wi ng- m n 1; u for a p u bhc rp1•c•p l n t n '1 ' . }-�at u 1·d :1 v PV!'n i n e- h v O OYf ' J'l • Mrn­ of anson i rist h l\l l'S Tli<'<H lol'e C 'f«,'1 a'p lH ll l ;\l 1' 1 1 ;1 1] n 11 t ro he t ll i , n ;H isot > 1 th f,t :, t <• en pi , ol i n 81 . J , , 1 1 1 . O itc• "f t h o .; o 011, ir::11 (l n i 1, 111 08,t JH'O!ll isi n 1 ,·,,acJ<'n i ,ir.- of in t1•J'l'�t 1 11 1 \J ,? <"e11ten 11 ; a 1 i', C" > l l t ·1 i lwd i n t h <' a .i 1_, ou11<·P ment t h at :\J i n nPsota 's execu t 1Yer (iru�cl " h i .-; <•sl itn a h l P \\· i 1' p , ·i l l :,,, '1 ""1 ·t • n·a n�ill f' for t11 is r<'cept ion h y th<' i_za n a or;• 's worn,.11 iPd l l :• 111 �t p:1 t ion11.. compr ising ri 2 cl if �1•.rc>n t ho<l '."" , • 1 ,• ,,·." prol'!·:,s iol' al . pol1t 1<'a l, �orrnl pl j <•inll l'\ :1 1 1 !1 fr:> f f' 1'1t:i l h 11 v 1 n c; ,, mbinP'!l nwmb Nship of 1 0 , 0 0 0 wo· ◄ be \ COMM�� r r ·t . . ... :�.:::.��!., �T i'ncotn. Ne'(, .. Journal. .FRIDAY. JU.NE 12, 1925 "'J"'brnska c· t •• WEDNESD.AY, j TTI- A· Cen·tenniaL� tr yan a honor1 of the Scandinavi an ! m migrants who c ame there in the mid- 1 di e years of the last century. _ owe much to the men an wo­ • We d men of the . Northland-Norwegian, Swede and Dane. They have added to our wealth ; they have contributed l argely to OU" arts, ou r industries and .our s ociety. It is of pecu lia r interest t,hat a President of the United States . l.;l.as lionored tucm to tlle exLent ot President Coolidge traveled thru 't'HE first organued settl.ement of heat irom Washington to Minne­ Norweg ians in Americ a was in the sota and back to pay tribute to one samme r of 1825, in Orleans county, ,I ''alien" element in our :populati<'n. I New Yorl,, and to commem orate this 'l'he Scandinavial;l.S made them · ous event the Norweg ian peo- ' selves the backlbone of the agri­1 auspici of Minnes ota which is the center p!e · culture of great areas of our north� of Scandinavian ' settlem ent in the west and America has appredated Vlest, held an important celeMiddle their service. No one is sorry the a day or so ago. An imporbration Scandinavians immigrated to Amer­ of this celebra tion was feature t n ta· i•ca. The backbone of the industrial 'ihaving traveled h�lf way.. acr-;;:ss the of the Preside nt of the , ce presen .. the life of our great cities is now mil­ Continent to attend a celegration 1 United States. 1 Jtons of "aliens" from other sec;­ m_ark ing the one hundreth celebration ented pres I,t was Mr. Coolidg e who. tions of Burope. We have drawn I . j of th e arrival of the • first genuine fhe facts conce1·n ing the fl. r st _settlelaws to check the inwmkg of. .Norwegian colon y. who e peopl a of ica Amer ment · in tllese less welcome peoples. In half sturdy their for have long been k nown n, century or so, when the descend.I Cfi'Y '.'\BB PHJT.t!:1(!, citizen ship and their home-ma.k ng �'llf!R .MlE'.A ants of these "aliens" have taken J_m-;cE 11, E• 25, \ came hand little first The s. CJ.Ualitie the political . and economic leader­ . rtm6er o.v er from Stavanger, Norwa y, sailing ' hip of the cities shall we be pay­ � from that port on the ausmc1 ous dat/e address delivered by ,•· th mg as notable tribute to the city­ of July 4, 182. 5 . 1 T1iey were only 52 lvin Cooli dge on the oc nt building south Europe as now we . f 18 N����X pers ons and thei r ship was load ed to caswn pay to the farm-building Nordic ? • ? the gunw ales with iron o re in adaitio n ce{.!l)ffea.t,io at St. Paul : Who knows ! to human freight. Our America with all that it repre, For weeks• the little craft, said to sents of hope in the world is now and 1\IcCOOL .,UNCTION (NEB ) JOl.iRNAt, h ave been the smalles t ever en.t_ering 1 will be what you make it. Its instituJ U,ti.t!; 'l, l��g: Tlie Norse Centennia l. the port of New York, battled with , tions of religious liberty, of education - , wind and wave but after 14 weeks al and economic opport;,mity, o·f con[fe'! .""'' en t_, T�-�e�g�o�•llll'J° docked in the Land of Liberty. New stitutional rights, tJf the integrity of f lt!i'�'fffll'ffl!11' Norway !has shown PP_reciation of the im:York Il6rt authorit ies balked at per- t1ie law, are the. most precious t>Or<pork, e S1gntflcanoe of the 1')1itt,i rrg the 'ship to Jand, claiming 1� 0essions or t.ne�h u man race. ?I'h�ecfo A�rica Centennial celebration in Cities June 6-9 bY. was . too heavily loaded with freighi. not emanate from the government. fesigna g as l lega:tes its two l�d • passenge rs, but friends of the Their abiding place is with the people. and ng me the pr I a d the prasid ent O its pa rl ia :;;,t n passenge rs finally prev:iilec1 upon 'the They come from the consecration of ·remier is J', . L.' Mow!nckel of · , officia,.ls to relent. the father, the , love of the mother and T;J��tiJ em and the Storthi has the devotioni_;of the children. Tl\ey an Norway although ­ that seems It president is Ivan Lykker of Be n.gs e Appropriately enough the one �; � ever been a sea-faring na'tiop. the the prod u ct of that honest, earnest member of the Left or radical par­ into th< first settle.rs, in America were .fai:mers. and tireless effort that goes ties, while the otiher ls from the Ri ght and th or conservative l)at·ties. ·C11e of · their reaso1IB for comh'lg 'J:iere ·1. rearing of the family altar _ of the home of our countr) There is also a fair chance that freedom: 1'lHlY making religious seek to was the Storthing will authorize Crown belonged, these people, to a Nor.:: Prin?e Olaf, who has recently attain• majority, to visit America. and Omaha. N fa .. J\fo,.v" wegian religious community, some­ �de his the guest of Minnesota at th• TUESDAY, JUNE o, in.., what akin to the Quaker denomin a­ Norse Centennial. The only obstacle is said to be economy, an issue as tion, and Quakers in America stood para.mount in Norway as in the of tl}em and found them sponsor United States. The crown prince Is Coo lidge on Fre edom , homes in Orleans county, New Yot'k, m­ desci·ibed as a ciharming young man. ident Cool idge 's thought is unha Pres n Whe an $5 for ed democratic i n his ways and taste purchas was land where and macy diplo ical polit of the pressure patron and participant in outC:�o� a.e re, to ·be paid on the installm ent pere d by shows a fond­ sports, �nd very pdpular with th e• he give s iree rein to his fancy he Norwegian people. plan. idealism. of s realm the in e ntur adve The signal recognition of the 'fhe people prospere d, as might be ness for ennialCele­ Cent egian Norw the Norse Centennial by Norway shows at i His address expected , for the Scandina vian i s in­ that the ancient kingdom, however was nortJ)oltical and his esota Minn in ion brat much it may miss at home the many _dustl'ious and persisten t.· Letters , 1ly good seem ed to be having a thorougl sons and ?-aughters it has given to went baclr to the home-lan d and am­ mind er.s. addr g ·estin America, appreciates the historical inte1 An : lt Resu time . significance of tlhe centenary. Nor­ bitious young folks, decided to come emorated the This particular celebration comm way in fa.ct has had all through the to America to enlarge their opportun­ egian immigrants in 1825, after Norw of al centuries an intens<ve influence over arriv ities. Norwegia ns began to ' go t,) , n and the :firm the_ out�r world out of all proportion the succ essful American revolutio to_ l�s size an d population. In the old s as an inde­ Illinois and Ohio and Iowa. And in State d e Unit the of ent lishm estab ".'ikmg days this influence was mar-. great tide of North • d on the the yea.rs urse few a disco ng Havi . n t1ally . exerted, and its stirring story pendent natio land immigrat ion began in Minnesota. moti ves that had prompted earlier immigration is written into the n1;;tory of Eng� land, Ireland, France and other coun ly stimu lated The great success of that that state to these shores from Europe, l�rge trie_s of Europe. The Norwegian in­­ is due in large mea.sure tD the ind usvasron of the United States, begun a century ago, has on the otih er hand ____________________________________________ ?cen peaceful, but n one the less has .______ 1t proved a vital influence in Amer- • wan development. '=1 Tfiisr J �from tlie otlier-side, tlie presTfent came tothe immigration encouraged from this side of the Atlantic aftet the establishment of our govern­ ment. He said : c "F rom the time when th!tlr fast-devel opi ng i n­ stituti o n s of popular govern ment, re l ig i ous free­ d o m a n d i nte l l ectual l i beral ity had come to tal5e d efi n ite an d attractive forms, ''the people of the colon ies took a new i nterest in i n d uc i n g the i r Eu ro­ pean relati ves to fo l l ow them thither. T h ey en­ gag�d in a n i nve rted crusade, a conquest with out i n vasi o n .and without fO!rce. The n ew cou ntry . offe red n ot o n ly mate rial opportunities, b ut possi­ b i l tties of spiritual and and i ntel lectual ema n c i pa­ tion which they a rdently wished the i r friends on the other side to sh are. C,itizenship in the N ew World meant someth i n g that it h a d not m ea nt i n the O l d . It was seen t.h at the N ew W o r l d offered somet h i n g new. The re was an i ncreas i n g reali za­ t i o n that many b u rdensome tra d itions a n d i n sti­ t utions had somehow been shed. H e re, at last T H E I N D I V I D U A L W A S L O R D O F H I M S E LF, M AS T E R O F . H I S OWN D ESTI NY, K E E P E R OF H I S OWN SOV E R E I G NTY. HERE HE WAS F R E E." President Coolidge can devote himself to no greater crusade than to lead the :fight to restore this country to the blissful condition he so elo­ quently describes as existing in 1825. A thoughtful survey of his country today, of the harmony, patriotism and idealism of all of the people in 1 917 and 1918 and the insidious attacks on freedom during the past few years of awful reaction, must convince him that J: ; can not say truthfully today that in the United States in 1925 the 1 'indiv:dual is lord of himself, master of his own destiny, keeper of his own sovereignty. Here he is free. ' ' For probably at no time in the hjstory of this country has bigotry and intolerance been more vigorously offensive, or religious freedom and in tcl l ectual liberty l ess secure than right now. I -t· , �&,QfiMl\'i"i;ffl'i,bMWWW :MAY 28, 1925 ' �Olaf uth�·an Choir -withfull �the home of his brother-in-law, John o voices, broke a p recedent Smith, in Lincoln, and had decided to Q a fecentl� in roadcasting a radio pro- 1 go to Newman Grove to visit his, . . brother Charles, Johnson, who resides m at�nneapolgram I 1s, on ehai; of the Nitcse-Am�rican there. Though he walked with a. rof. F. Melius Chnsfian- 1 Centennial. • was app arently m son, dfrector of the choir, and Prof. 1 cane, Johnson . advanced. of his one ealt or robust f b � Paul G. Schmidt, its business manager, 1 and � id no•� seem to suffering consented to waive their p revious ir.on"'1 years, from excessive fatigue as a result of clud rule against radiocasting by the l , long hike.-Columbus Telegra choir in order to give full measure of j his publicity to the Centennial celebratiOn. 1 , • ., t .S-": Walking from Lincoln to Newman : G:rove, . George Johnson, 85, was given , S candinavians other than Norwea ' "lift" bY deputy Sheriff Ed Kav- '. gi an s in the middle west are gather­ tnaugh Saturday. Friday the aged ing a record of their achievements in ,, �destrian appeared at the farm home I America in order not to_ be left in by the Norwegian Centen­ · lO mi- 1 ei1; l the shade '• Mr and Mrs. c•• J . Bisson, nial celebration ·n Minneapolis, J une wa:• he orth of Columbus, where 6 to 9 . One of the outstanding monuments iven a meal. Upon learning tba in the United States to Danish enere had traveled the way from Lin gy and business ability is the Farm­ oln and was en route to Newmai ers Union States to Danish energy }rove, walking in order to conserve and business ability is the Farmers he only dollar he had, Mr. Bissm Union Creamery of Superior, one of wtified Deputy Sheriff Kavanaugl1 the largest co-operative creameries the world, handling milliqns of v'llo drove out and brought the oi. in p_o unds of butter every year. The hin' providing After town. into 'tilan company was organized by James C. at the county jai; Norgaard, who arrived in this coun­ 1 accommod ations over night, Ed bought him a ticke1 try eleven years ago without capital unable to speak a word of Eng­ Saturday and placed him on the Nor­ and Americanized Scandinavians lish. Madison. folk bus ride as far as of every race may point to his record Johns.on said be had been staying at as evidence of the values these na­ tionalities bring to citizenship. ✓ I' I I I . Norgaard arriv ed 'ln New . Mr m 1 V I 4 with capi tal cons istin gYork to us� his .own word s, of "a toot h br�s h, thirty-fi. ve doll ars, a lot of amb ition � nd, ener gy, but not a wor d of Eng 1sh. ., He went at once to a sma ll �an �sh sett leme nt in Wis cons in, but f� ndm g that he coul d not stud hsh ther e he took a job in y Eng ­ crea m­ ery at Green Bay , Wis ., at ateh dol­ l � rs, 111 mon th and boar d and wen mgh t school to learn Englisli. t to less than a year , he knew the langIn u­ a?e well enou gh to go in the sity of Wis cons in, at Mad isonUniv er­ for a c� urs_e in dair ying . Afte r h 1 � d! plom a, a year later, here�eiving M1c? 1gan as a butt erm aker atwen t to seve n­ I ty-f ive doll ars a mon th. In 1 9 1 7 Mr. Norgaard wen t the :1rm y. He was exem pted into and . appo mted mstr ucto r in dair ying at the -Uni vers ity of Wis cons in. rn M arch of 1 9 1 6 he - was calle d to Riv­ . n, Neb e1to r. , to be man ager of a crea � ery. The plan t was dest by fire �oon afte r and M r. Nor royed gaard was agam called to war serv ice as a purc hase r and insp ecto r of butt er for t?e U. S. Nav y. He used his leisu re time to take a cour se in traf fic man ­ � gem_ent from LaS alle Ext 1ver s1ty . In May 1 9 1 9 he ensi on Unthe Far mer s Unio n Crea orga nize d y Com ­ pany. Mr. Norgaard wanmer ted furt her stud y in Ame rica n busi ness met so_ �e took a course in Busi nesshod s mi:;11 str� tion from LaSa lle Exte Ad­ I nsion Umv� rsity . �e place s a h igh valu e on h 1s exte ns10n stud y. I "I attri bute mos t of my succ ess to the busin ess courses I took from La Sall� , " ? e �ays. "The know ledg ' e and mspi ratio n rece ived in my cour ses of stud y were indis pens able to me. " At pres ent Mr. Norgaard is man ­ ager of the Farm ers Unio n Crea mery ' Com pany , pres iden t of an ice crea m ,com pany , pres iden t of the larg est c ? ndensa :y in the state of Nebr aska, vice presi dent of the Superior Grai n E�chan g�, �nd director of the Sup­ erior B1l_ lldm g and L n. -Com pany Here 1s a man who , �tding in A m . � erica almost pennil ess and unable to speak a word of the language, made himself in eleven ' years a leading citizen. Gradua te of a great uni­ versity and instruc tor in one of its d � par�ments of husban dry, he bent h is mmd to acquiri ng knowle dge of higher busine ss by two home study course s from the leading extension univer sity. Witho ut making any cl.aims for Mr. Norga ard, other than h is record , h e is menti oned as a sam­ ple of what a Dane can do. Danish and Swedi sh societi es are checki ng over their record s of succes s, in,-vie ,. of the natio nal intere st in the rwegia n_ celebr ation. �---- - ·" '----- - �{ The President last Monday made a notable address at the Minnesota state fair grounds, the occasion being the cen­ tennial celebration of the first settle­ ments by Norwegians in the Northwest, in the development of which they have done so much. The fitting celebration was also marked by greetings from Nor­ way' s King, the extension of best wi� by �nada, and addresses by_jJ;e'secre­ tary o�and others o� l In the last days of Rome they went I forth by land, got down I nto S pain, across Into Africa a.nd estah lished kingdoms where Algeria and Tunis now are and tn the mountains of those j co -ntrIes th ere are 8till f oun d big , people as blond Swedes wearing Mos1 lem garb, talking Arable and worshipping in the mosque. Their blood Is still In Spain, the royal .l'amily goes back to their chieftalns for i ts origin. The} conquered and ruled England and some of 8cothrnd. The�- never conqu ered Ireland, though they held many townR on 11,e sea coast a.nd when Richard Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, came tu Dublin in 1 1 7 2 w i t h a n army o f \Velsh men commanded IJy Norman l•'renGh, the Danes or Dublin welcomed these Norman French a.s thelr fellow Scandinavians and blood brothers. But the greatest deeds of the men of Norse stock were those of. the . -orman - French. fnto the North ot France came these ·orsemen, inter­ married with the native population, lost all of the old language, even their very names, becoming French ln culturP, The_ went out of France and conquered England and Ireland. They colllJ uered 'siclly and it was a Norman fief untll the famous Sicilian vespers, when the natives broke the Fre nch power by slaughtering twenty thousa n rl of them at even ing services of th<' c h u rch. 'l'hey went to Con stan tinople, l h <'n capital of the Byz­ antine Empire, a Christ ian empire, aud became powerful in its affairs. They were the backbone of the Cru­ sades. furni i;hed t h e princess of the Fren c h kingd om s of Jerusalem, An ­ tioch, a nrl Eclessa. They even rul ecj Greece and the Villehardouin family A G R E AT R A C E . Th !' greatest se.1tfaring rac!' of men n f all the world dul'ing- all time, have gone forth on the water from a smal l country up under the midnigh t sun . Sclc'lmn does anyone rise to tell of t�at wonderful race a n <'l i ts remark­ nhle r,ffcct upon the prog-rcsq of h i s ­ tor�- and the even morP remarkab le d i ffusion of \ts blood. �e,·eral na- I t i onA are related to one 1,noth er be­ cause of the common possession of a.n ancestry in part derived from as the Dukes of the Morea introduced Norway. into t h e ancient realm of the Rpar­ are descent American s of N tam, the French feudal system. 1 , h th is w"ek celebrati n,; t h e hundredt 'iVith that other race of sailors, the anniversa n· of the firs t arriva l ut Bretons, they were t h e pioneers of colonists, of t ha t stock i n this coitr• cry. France in the New \Vorld, the men B u 1 Norse blood "(l, a,a: here long ' >PforP who had dlscm,ered the whole in­ Tn addr<>ssing a NoJI wegian , terior of the continent of North that. ga therin g a professor of a u r iversity America before the English had Norse I crossed the Alleghanies. state said : "The . In a Western . home­ le !U l their went forth from But their blood in the British PPO­ l and and settled i n France and be- / .l;)le showed itself i n the wond erfu l came the French of the French ; they 1 seamanship of that stock. The proud :settled in England and hecame the I record of the Bri ti sh at sea, their ex­ , English of the English ; they settled , plorations, the colonization of n ew in Ir-eland a n d becamf' the Irish of 1 countries, is only the old- story of the the Irish ; they h ave come to America , / Vikings told a new in a country by to be the Americans of the Amer- I the same st ock, speakin1a, a different • ieans." language. Norse they called them, Danes they A Norwegia n Rcholar ma.kes a very j cu l l ed them, those old l'<PR rovers. plausible a rgument for his theory / The difference between Swedes, Nor­ that Rcandi na.vla , not Caucasia, waR I Thlly are weglans, Danes, iR slight. the original home of t he_ Caucasian all Scandinav\am1 and all three na­ ra.ce. He sconts a l l the d i fferent origins assigned to that race. tions were represented mong thoM He I says they did not first Rtart in Cau- j thal went forth to set Ile in warmPr countries d u ring the centuries of the casia, in central A si a, in India, in past. I I I Iran, in any of the places various scholars give as their first home, but they began i n Nor�ay, went down In to Germany, justifylng that de ­ scr l pt lve title In do- Ge rmanlc race, and thence spread Into the various white countri�. _.._ ____ �GOOD C/1'/ZENS I f innesota they are celebrating with : great pomp and thoroughness the hun- , dredth anniversai·y of the .first organized m igration of Norwegians to the United States. In a sense it is a national cel ebra­ tion because the Norwegians are represent­ ed in every State of the Union and because 1 the whole nation recognizes that the country gained much when it received that first . band of Norwegian immigrants to its shores. Conservative. ind ustrious and honest, the Scand inavian people, incl uding the Norweg­ ians, have brought progress and wealth to every section in which they have settled. The upbuilding of the Northwestern S tates has been due in large extent to the efforts o-f this hardy and thrifty race. The Nordic races have brought to Amer­ ica no problem s of assimila tion. They have sought the expanses of land and sea rather than crowdin g into ove1·pop ulated c ities, so they cre�ted no housing or labor problem s. I Who w i l l deny that the Scandi navian im- f m igrants have more than compen sated their adopte d countr y for its hospita lity and pro­ tectio n ? That the N orwegi ans have not con-fou nd­ ed loyalt y to politic al organ ization s with l oyalty to count ry is demon strated by the stupen dous recept ion given Presid ent Cool­ idge at their centen nial in spite of their no­ toriou s aloofn ess from the Presid ent's par­ ty in the l ast presid ential electio n. Ever thing in the makeu p of _ the S� (_!3:ndin, n. an menc A avian ma s him a good H'.ELPS DISSIPATE R\DICAL WAVE The radical wave, already receding, ha& been further •dissipated by President Coolidge's visit to Minnesota, and the generous welcome he received there, according to many of Washington's most skilled political observers. Tl1ese observers see in the President's Minneapolis speech , tlrn opening gun of the congressional compaign of l 926. It ls regarded as especially si gnificant that the President and his party received so cordial a welcome in the state which next to Wisconsin, was the radical stronghold in the north west. The! tact that the Pret{i­ den t's party included Secretary of State Kellogg, who as senator was engulfed in tho radical wave, and Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, who is about to clash with the radicals in his ow n state, is said to show the significanee of the political situation as nnw shaping up in the n orth­ west. "Senator Kellogg must have gotten a great deal of satisfaction out of his visit" ono political seer put it. "A few years ago the people of his state, infected with radicalism, defeated him for the Senate. Now he comes back to them, as a former .-mbassador to Great Britain and the present Secretary of State) in the President's cabinet. Evidently the President's r ecognition of the regular Republ!cans in Minnes-o ta, to the detriment of the radiacls, has not affected his standing in Mi ,,�sota . COOLIDGE AT M1NNEAPOLIS A Camden l ady is now in England, trying to get p roof that her ancestors came over i n the I Mayflower. I Presiden-t Coolidg 1-reeeh ,,' the Norwegian Centennial Celebration at St. Paul will start Americans of Norse descent looking up the records to see i f their people came over on the Restaurationen. This l i ttle boat, a forty-five ton sloop, sailed from Stavanger on the Fourth of July, in 1 825. The Mayflower was rated at 1 80 tons. \ The Norwegian boat brought a heavy cargo of i'r on, and fifty-two immigrants. We imagine Mr. Coolidge chuckled as he compared her with the dear old Mayflower. Pres ident Coolidge is saying thi n gs these days. Sit up and take notice. Do you know what he i s doing? He is going right back to the good old "fundamentals," starting all over aga111. It's good stuff, too. He says the Northmen were just what we wan ted-simple fol k, hard workers, keenly in­ telligent, with the sense for polifa:s that builds up a country. He took the trouble to go out to their celebra- �--------------­ tion and make his address because h e wants th e American nation to refresh its memory of i t s h istory. And when you come to figure out party strengths for the election of 1928, this address / at Minneapolis in 1 925 will need to be recalled. Mr. Coolidge is making no mi stake i n paying honor to the Norwegian citizens o tfiere. It i s a deserved honor. And i n ying i t , M r. Cool idge WON'T H U RT ELF one bit. �Tribute to Amundsen Sta e Fair -Grounds, Minneapoli s,-S·t . Jun e 8. President Minnesota, aul, Coolidge, iiyhi:s- addres� before the Norse-Am¢:-ican, Oentenmal eel ebration here today, paid glowing tribute to the daring of the blon_d sons of :t:7orwa !: mtrep1<l s,iru"'Hng oU't especially the Am�ndsen, now mis�ing somewhere in the icy wastes near the top of the world. "Thev found the western ocean," he said, "and it was a Norseman who first traversed Bering Strait and demonstrat­ e,d that there was no land conn€ction be­ tween Asia and North America. ·with­ in a very few years one of •them first tra,versed the northwest passage from Atlantic to Pacific, and the same one, Amundsen carried the .i].ag of Norway to the south pole, and now, wi•thin a few days past he has again been the first to make large explorations i n io:q, of the North pole i temptiong a fate wh" , as I unkn wn . ].'re-s'dP·!:lt Oocli<lge lfods a ready an- / ,,,;er :,, t ht ,1ueation vf wb1 lt ;.: ii1a•. .1meri!l8.r.,s �.s• "- hle so 2(:-t11-r2 !:y i•i1<1 I ��� r�ily io Y-e-oo,:( ?i.i ae i.'b at 1n1;·JJig-r � i io.a I o., Xonv�!fia:J ir-- -o/ Sca.11<li::.s� Ja:;u-- h,tc, J be<>.u a hirbJy i:-nJ}')rtllllt l'-0J1: r_i bu r.i-on to tll.e 11tr-,.;ar,3l .,� ,·il'ilJty u:od hi g h lJ:Ir�osa of .he Am,wic"-4 1':.,don. It ill l:?ca•Ult t!:i1 t•,�oe bere, 1,.:,t ooly to J!lr.k• il'>l'H:.• t,;, 1 .11,; nl>l�"f•.s a nd th 9i r :ltorill!es, talJ,] ! o gi • e t b "U' c!1�!.1 11·eu .!.nd thalr �-;,1.hi1·1•n·.. c· 1 :JH�"1'.l It free.na.n';i <ih1s:J::•e, ��l'•! b. �!io c,J me �re !-0 r.�ke, / _ --U tt 1:::, .. the-?r t�atr1:.1t1l!•·!l (-0 :h, J.. ti'.if ni. periruen, ,,f ,..oc'Ull 1·•.-la ti,-.-n .,i,l p 1to<l p<')i. tJ.oaJ fre,,:om. '.I'.h� S01ms!in4 ,-i llll b�ij no-t fol'ked i,n responsrlbi1H)' for his pa.rt in gov&rn1n1mt mid 1oor-al high stan<ling d th& Amel'l:>llll Nation. If the Noi:wegia.n� had come to Arue1,Jca, as s-orue he\'e come to i.t, to make what they could for themi,�lvet; •nd to contribute as little as possible t.o the effec,ivt• upliol<liug of it.s id�nls, they woul<i th) t ha\'e a ttainf'd th f' hlgh place they hold.in the re-spe·c t ot A.me1·i• cans of any name or race. The best t,hat they had to g·ive was freels• offered to the laud that the,v hnd chosen as theii: adopted home, •a nd to be the native land of their children and their chil­ dren's ebiklren. It is men of the high moral. re1igious an<l political JJUl'lJOSe of tJhe Norsemen who hnve m&de America the strong, free ccmntry that it i�. Th e fiber of their moral nature was not le1,s , ron,:: muke­ t n the sinew of their 1,hys· up. (::} l- Backgr up. ds of Am,_erica. '.l.',h e l00,6uO \Jlen and woIUen of the : 'or thwcst, who ca_m � out lo greet the ] Preimlent of th Umted States on the occasion of the entennial anniverisary of Norse immigra+ion to Ameri,·a, were repaid by an addre.sis llrnt h!'lped t'hem to see and unden,tand the so-c:ial back­ grounds of this Nation. and to inter­ preL willJ new under.standi ng the tipirit of immigration to Ame1,ica. l'r esitleet Calvin Coolidge confesses that he doe!l­ not po.se a,; a de�p student of the sub­ ject of immigrntion to America, and tile con<s equent results of an amalg amation of many l'acet-: and strains of blood and ambi tion thai have made the A merican nationality. He has �hown, however, on lllDl'e than fJile occ11si,.,n, t'hat h e has a deep !.nsight iuw ,:be lntc�,,; round of I our A.m�rie,in ,ife. He hns ,f oep under­ stit-n ding of the force-� t h n c have created the Axuerira.n i:enitlt> u n,! ,:hnr,wter. 1t y,as r,o-t 1lifiicu!t for Pre,;;ident C1101id�,e to uri,·e 111. the ,xinch,sion that America 1;rofoto<l ::c1ightjJy, ,'i n<l civiliza­ tiun, .ill �'.>11s�11ueuce, ;11·0:ited mighbily whe.n :-t N�,."l'ived lnw it,;: lire the �ml blood :,.nd tile nu-dy, daring rspirlt and :unhiti,,!I <J i !:li♦ gcandinavinn. Aruer.ica h,,s adlllitted 1,0 t>etter blood lut-O the 1:,•; Priea ,;.( itl:l l"Ocial, political and in1fa a; :·iuJ J;fe. AS OTHERS SEE IT l AM E R ICA'S M A K I NG. President in his Minnesota ad­ dress recognized ahd emphasized the !'a<'t that .America. was not made when its eastern rim was settled or its independence was won) and that each group of settlers coming : from a different racial an d social background has made a distinct con­ tribution to the America that is and is to be. This was visualized in New York City a few years ago at an exposition in which each of twen­ ty or thirty groups represented, so far as it could be done in a visible or audible way, tlle special gifts that each bad brought. The late Secre­ ta1--y of the Interior, Franklin K. Lane, celebrated in a brief summary what they brought. Besides their mu­ sic, their poetry, their art, their fan­ cies of the mind. woven in wood or wool, silk, stone or metal, their mem- 1 ories o� familiar things in home, J fiel d or forest, kitchen or dress, a favorite tree or an accustomed flow- ' er, a style in cookery or in costume -besides these they brought ha,nds to work, minds that could conceive and stout hearts. \ri'.11e It is a somewhat debasing figure ef 1 • ' speech to say that they are all I thrown into a melting pot. One can I but feel that such a fusing of their gifts would mean an alloy le13s precl- 1 ous than the best, even if better than the worst; for many of these gifts I have value of form as well as of sub- I stance. America would have no such ' promise for the rest of mankind if it were only a melting pot. Hope lies in the fact that all these best gifts may be preserved in their :Integrity in such variety and vastness through a unity of purpose and a basic brotherhood or spirit. As the President added, the history of America did not begin with its discovery nor inside its own bound­ aries. Far beyond these the "magni­ ficent and wondrous adventure" began. .Much of it was written by un­ sung millions living in other centur­ ies an d other lands. To throw all that they have produced culturally into a melting pot on its entrance into our portf!-or, as Mr. Lloyd George put it in another metaphor, into concrete blocks of a common mold-would be to throw away the finest flower of our Inheritance. The making of an America in which free­ dom is given for the cultivation of the best that has anywhere come to be, though of varying type and talent, but with a common ideal "powerful enough to hold it together in time of supreme trial," is not only a work­ ing out of America's own clear des• / tiny, but fulfilling its mission to the rest of the world. As Mr. Coolidge said, if this fraternity of individuals and groups of tlifferent backgrounds and their practical co-operation are / possible for a hundred million on a I continental scale, why not on a I scale of the world ? It is in that di• rection that the rest of the world is looking, though we give them li helP"<!!,side from example to do the grand scale what we oing ourselves.--�-..��..w.ar- ,. I I �GOOD CITI ZEN S are cel�b ratin g with �reat p omp and they In l\fin sota first organ ized thoro ughn ss the hundr edth anniv ersary of the In a sense it is . States d Unite migra tion of Norw egians to the repre sented are s egian Norw the e ecaus a natio nal celeb ration b n 1;ecog­ natio whole the s� becau and union the of fo every state first that ed receiv it nizes that •the country gaine d m uch when s. shore its to of Norw egian imm'ig rants band • inavia n p eo­ Conse rvativ e, ind ustrio us and hones t the Scand ess and progr ht broug ave h s, egian Norw the t)'.lle, includ ing up­ The d. settle (Wealt h to every sectio n i n which they h ave ex­ large n i due been has build ing of the north weste rn states race. y thrift and hardy �ent to the effort s of this probl ems of The Nord ic races h ave broug ht to Amer ica · no and sea land of assim ilatio n. They have sough t th e expanses creat ed they so , cities :rathe r than crowd ing into overp opu lated ems: ;no h ousin g and labor probl grant s h ave Who will deny that the Scand inavia n · immi it's h ospi� for ry count ed adopt their ed ensat comp more than tality and prote ction ? makes him Ever ythin g in the make up n . � good Amer ican citize I ,.- .,,rrffl� ? ,, , .- P1·esident's Trip Helps Dissipate R;adical Wave ¥-- , The radical wave, already recedin-g-- has been further dissipate d by Presiden t Cool idge' s visit to Minneso ta, and the generous welcome he rc­ .c �ived there, accordin g to many of Washin gton's most skil lful political observer s. These observer s ser in the Presiden t's Minneap olis speech the open­ ing gun of the �ongress ional campaig n of 1 9 2 6. It is regarded as especiall y significa nt that the Presiden t and his party received so cordial a 1 wdcom e in the scate which, next to Wiscon sin, was the radical stronghold...in the....n.o.rt hwe.sl,_ -r he fact that th� Presiden t's party i ncl ud�d Sec­ retary of State Kell ogg, who as senator was en­ g�lfed in the radical wave, and S�nator Lenroot of · Wiscon sin, who is about to clash w ith the radicals in his own state, is said to show the • signific ance of the_ pol it1cal situatio n as now I shaping up in the northw est, • ''Secret ary Kellogg m ust have gotten a great deal of satisfac tion out of his visit," o e politica l seer put i t. "A few years ago the � 'ople of hi , 4tate, infected wit 1 radicalis m, def ted him for t � senate. Now, he comes bac to them , as aj f�� ambassa dor to Great ritain and the l present Secretar y of S t� in the Presiden � �bi-net. "Evdien tly the Presiden t's recogn ition of the regular Republi cans in Minneso ta, to the detri­ ment of the radicals. has not affected his standing in Min nesota. He was gneted by la rge crowds and m uch enthusia sm, whch indicate s the the R �pubiie1n s of Min nesom have had enough of theu excurnio n into the pd itical by-pat hs " • C -- 'l'\1$ PRESIDENT AS HISTORIAN. Presi �ent . Coolidge last Monday at the Norse Centen nial in the Twin Cities o f Minnesota re­ veal,ed more fully his qual i fi cations as h istorian There h ave been other revealings of the kind , b u t. • • · occ � s1on o n th Is his . add ress was a, scholarly monog raph showing a ph1 losophical i nsight of particular and general events in the h istory of America. It s h?� ed t? e result of careful research and the sbI!tiy to mtelligentl y evaluate the forces operatin � o produce an America which, "instead o f crumblin! � n to a chaos_ of d iscord ant elements" h as "proved its . tr� l y n at10nal unity.'' This unity, he declared, has demonstrate d conclusively that there is spiritual quality shared by all races and condition: of men which is their u n i versal heritage and com­ m,on nature." ihe Pres ident's thesis turned upon the voyage l ? 1825 of the Norse ship Restauration en, \\'hich, like the � ayflower of two centuries before, brought to America hardy and re,solute pilgrims destin e to make a valuable con tribution to t h e progr ss and to the composite economic and spiritual cha . acter of the cou12try. The arriv�l of these deep-sea voyagers at Ne\\i York a n d their passing to Kendall, Orleans County, )r,,J w York, to make the first group �ettlement of Norwe&..uans i n America, is rel ated . '.n a sc_ho larly, pictures que fashion, with furthe r mterestmg detai ls of 1::n·er . groups reach ing the country and movi ng westwa,tj to I llinois and to the Northwest. S tyled as having I:,eien in all ages the princes of high and hardy adv,e ,nture, these early settlers formed the vanguard of ran army of sturdy pioneers able to fel l the ti mber i or break the soil for the making of a greater Ame:rica. With these parti culars stated th,e President wove about them a scholarly thesis for an America united by spirit � al bonds which in every g.reat emergency �of its h istory h ave h eld fi rm and true. llis meas­ u red periods rose to h eights p rophetic when h e declared t h a t t h e "i nstitutions o f religious li berty, of education and e conomic opportu n i ty, of co nsti­ utional rights, of integrity of the law, are the most p recious possessions of t h e human race,·• and that they do not emanate from the Governm ent, but that t h e i r abiding place is with the people . Governor Christiansen in h is welcome said, "The people of M i n nesota believe in Calvin Cool idge," and t h is appreciation along with the mass ing of a great multi tude to meet h i m evidenced the esteem of the North west for t h e m an w hose solid abi l ity and p rogr, ess ive reveali ngs of q ualities of leader­ s h i p and ph iloso ph ical p u rviews of the h i story of h is coun try m ake him in the minds of the vast m ajority of Americarls a tower of strength and dependabil ity a s a Presi dent and as a man .., Cen�e_nnial Presid ent Coolidge chose the . orse P?ht1c ally r n Minne sota as the occasi on to vis t the . The J:?O• -turbule nt Northw est and to rrake a s eech• . t hes litical signific ance of this moy� of the residen less in th e speech tha n the v1s1t. hcan Those wh o h ope to squeeze some_ Repub_ pohs to propag anda out of his a ddress at Mrnnea d. The a vast throng o f people will be ?is a pp�inte to the Preside nt, for the most part, paid a tnbute set• descen dants of the Viking s who have l argely con­ tied in the a rea of the norther n wheat belt an? mto a ver ted the f ro n t ier o f that rugged cou n try when prospe rous agricul tural region- prosperous . •. the price of wh eat is high. In the assi m ilatio n of the Norweg ians into the nt life o f America , the Preside nt found an exc�lle l example o f t he way . the me�ting pot fuses �.ationa fra­ strains into one spmtua l umon and a sked, If scale tern i ty an d co-ope ration are possible _on the_ , of this contine nt among people so widely diverse is in why not on the scale of the world ?" There e this, however, n o hint of a world court, _no concret program of internat ional ami t y. That 1s the near­ . est app roach of the Preside n t to politics directly The tenor of his speech was that o f conserv a­ ed tism i n politics and the merit o f the establish o�� The meri.t of regulari ty may not ha v e been impressed o n the politicia ns of the Northw est _by t�e t m Preside nt's words, but it was perfectl y mamfes the person of Secretar y of State Kellogg , the lame , duck Sen a tor whom t h e voters of Minneso ta repudiated several years ago and whose political ly costly loyalty to the Admini stration was rewarde d first with t h e a mbassad orship to th e Court of St. J a me s . and then a cabine t post The Presiden t further impresse d the r.ewards of regularity on the minds of the politician s by a p­ E_ointi n g j ust before he le ft Washmg ton, ex-Senat or McCu m ber to t h e Internati_o nal Joint Com­ Porter mission a t a salary o f $7,500, a smecure reserved almost exclusive ly for rejected politicia ns. �hat the two Minneso ta regulars lost at_ holne they gamed at Washingt on. The President 's journey was a tribute to a fine ra ce, but at tl,:ie s ame t \me it ca n be considere d as nothing mote than plowmg t h e ground . for the Con­ gression a l campaign next year. Chairman Butler resident a n d sow the seed of is to follow the even as far a s the D otas. political righteous n e j. --- 'i • GEOGRAPHIC RI VALRY. . Wher �er two cities g,row up in too close prox­ �' m1_ty o ;tach othe r _inten se n valry • is inevi table . . i C!ties �eJ?l rated by a river or a State l i n e or b on! a few miles a re like nva l s fo r the hand of th! sam: ', gi rl . �ac h tnes t o exce l the othe r and the m ethod s by whic h t)iey stnve for super iority sometim es the . <;ire t h e P1_t y, v10la te al l rules o f sport sma n ship' ahd f 1 c omP,7 t1t1 o �. C_o m muni t ies, Jike indiv idual s, be­ li: :e t h e en d J usti f1 es the mean s." he ece ce n te_nni a_l i n _M innes ota of the com ing of ze / Fiorw� gian 1 m m 1 g!·ant s a ttract ed th e at­ te n t"10.n _ 0 t e n a tion to the n va l ry exist ing be. t wee n th e c1 t 1es of M mnea polis and St • Pa u I • So Jea I ous ' are th e. twm • • c1•t 1es t h a t a !J offic 1 aJ ment ion o f the cen tenn ia l was tactf ul l y issue d from t h e M J11neso " ta St a te. Fair _groun ds. pre� 1-d. e!}t Cool idge show ed except ional d1plo�a_cy by d1v1d mg his t ime equa lly betwee t h t o ci t ies when he a t t ende d the cen ten n ial M h h • uc t_ e sa m e feelin g is co n spicu lous l y prese n t In t�e relat ion s be t wee n Calif ornia and Flori d B t i a In t h e usme ss of s_e lling . t heir clim ates a nd e�ch y c re, a i m s a c im� te supe nor to the othe r. When Los Ange les expe nenc ed a bn orma l rains recen t! Fl . d ! ok kee n �e l igh t in adve r t ising the fac d t . Eiery Flor� 1 a storm i_s c�ref ully co mmen ted upon i n Calif ornia . ut th1_ r a l ry be t we sta tes , cities and towns• is no� a ll 5(jl_Y n:J ea l ousy andenpet ty civic pride From , th e com pet1t 1on both sides o f the "f eu d" must . • be n efit• Th ere is' _ �o d ou b t th at M i n neap olis a n d S t Pa ul i a e be t t e r c1 t1 es for � avin g been bit te r riva l s· h s a me can . be said for Flor ida ! d li a n d Cali£ ia / n a o th er n v a! com m un1t1. es. I T\ Norwegian Centennial. '11:e 11 hundredth ann frersary of the coming otfthe 01'\vegi ans to America wi ll be celebrated in St. Paul, l\fin11., the first week in J une. present at the centennial Among those to will be Bishop Lun<le, Primate of the Established Church of Korway. He comes as an official rep­ resentative of rus �vernmen t ; a government that 1,eems to feel pri<le in the achievements of her em­� igrants to the New World. The Bishop a rrived in New York recen t1y ac­ companied by :fifty members of the Graduate Stu­ dent Choir of the Unive1·s.ity of Christiaui j:t . The Norwegi an centenn ial will focus a ttention upon a highly respected but little known racial strain in our population. During the N ine teenth century, Norway lost by cmig1•ation a compara­ tively larger proportion of its popul ation than any other European country with the exception of Ire­ J and. Most of these emigrants came to the "Gn ited S tates and settled in the North west �-here they h ave followed with industr,r and thrift the tradi­ tional occupation of their forebears-farmi ng. They are i 11Clustrious, loyal, law abiding, and provident. We congratulate thom ou their one hundred year,; of participation in American ae­ tivities, and hope to know thrn1 better by reason of the ubl icit- "iYen their · ubilce. oo �. .. . . . � n Oc � ober 9, r n?.5, the ship Restaurationcn �lVed m America bringing 53 Norwegians. 'this was the first organized group to emigrate ,. t wo cil ics grnw up :oo do.e p,oxfrom Norway to the United States. It marked in,.i t v t( oach other intense r1rnlry is i uevitable. :h e �rst l?w wash of a great wave of Norwegian 0.iti�s separa ted by a ri ver o t· a ::-ltatc l ine or by 1mm1grabon which followed. onlj, a few m'iles a re l ike ri 1·als for the h and of the It is in honor of the one hundredth annivers• same e,o·irl . Each tries to excel the' otber and the ' ary o! the event that President Coolidge went . supenonty for ve mrthods by which they stri to Minneapolis_ to be present at the Norse• ScJmct ime,, th .. more the pity, violate all ru_l es o_f . American Centennial. No small portion of the sportsmanship and fa ir competition . . Co�umum­ development and upbuilding of tlre--Nm-!J:.,. tie:S, like incl i r i <luals, lwl ieve the "end J u stifies the States is due to the efforts of Norwegians or 1nea ns.' ' descendants of Norsemen. And no better class The 1·ec:en t. centennial in j[i1111osota ·of the com­ of people ever sought a new home in America. They had within them the spirit of American ism ing of the first Xonvegiau immigr_a n ts a t \1:ac�ed before they came to the new land and adapting the att ntion of 1 hc nat'ion to the nvaJry ex1stmg �Jetween the cities J;>f ll irnlC'apol is and S t. Paul. 1 themselves to the new environment i nvolved no ,So jealous are t.b:e twin cities that aJl ?ffic ial 1:1011- • radical �lte :ation of views or habits. They may take a Justifiable pride in exh ibiting what has tion o f i.he ce11 tcnnial wa� tactfully issued from been achieved by them in the development of a President oumls. r gthe .1\1 inucsota State Fair section of the United States where the mass of, Coolidge showe<l exceptiona l d i plornaoy . �.)' d i vid­ th em is settled. i n o· his t ime equally between t hn two c1t1e5 when A pageant portraying a composite picture of he" a t tende<l the ccn tenni a l . the part played by Norsemen in the settlement 1\l nch the same feeling i:- couspi <:uonsly present of the Northwest will be presented. The event in 11e relations betweeu Cal ifornia all(l, Florida; also provides the opportunity for a great re• Both are in the ' business of sel l illg their climates union of those Americans who have ancestry imd earh cl aims a cl ima te superior to the other. dating back to Norway. That 'they take pride When Los A!lgel es experienced abnormal rajn,s re­ in their origin does not necessarily make them <'entl_y Florida took keen ._Lleli�ht i n advertising the any the less American in spirit or th e less de­ -fii ct. Every Florida s torm ts care. fully comment­ voted to our institutions. It has been to the ed upon in ·Californ ia. . profit of America that so many Norwegiani. . , But this rj val ry between S t ates, cities and sought homes h ere as well as profit to the form­ t owns is not all ·si lly ,i'ea l c•usy and petty civic er immigrants th emselves. pride . From the competition both sides of the ; . fend'' must. benefit. There. ic no doubt that f innea poli s and S t. Pau l are better ci ties fo:· h � v" J ·n"" been bit ter- r i vals a n d the same can be said for • J6rida awl C a l ifo1�1ia, and all other rival cor/-l / mm1 i hf>� 1 I: �U,IIUQUltnQUE. N. M.. STATE Tl'!ta. "'"��.UJJ!2:_ _ ___ _ President Coolidge's thot is unhampered by the pressure of lo acy and he gives free rein to his fancy he shows a fond­ en re in the realms of idealism. res at the Nor��ian Centennial Celebration in Minnesota • was non-p itic and his mind� good time. Result : /\ int esting address. This particu ar celebration commemorated the arrival of Norwegian immigrants in I 825, after the successful American revolut and the establishment of the United States as an independent nation. Having discoursed on . the motives that had prompted e " lier im­ migration to these shores from Europe, argely-:ttimu.l.aj;ec;Lfr he oth- • er side, the President came to the immigration encouraged m is side f, of the Atlantic after the establishment of our governme . . "From the time when their fast-developing institutions of popular �j government, religious freedom and intellectual liberality had come to , take deqnite and attractive forms." says Mr. Coolidge, "the people of the Coldrticc;s . took a new interest in inducing their European relatives to 1 follow1 t�efu tliitner. They engaged in an inverted crusade, a conquest without inva.sion and without force. The new country offered not only materi'ar opportunities, but possibilities of spiritual and intellect�al emanc;ipatio11 wh�ch they ardently wished their friends_ on the ?ther side to share. Citizenship in the New World meant something that 1t had �ot meant ' in the Old. It was seeen that the· New World offered som,ethmg new. There was an increasing realization that many burdensome tradi­ tions and institutions had somehow been shed. Here, at last THE IN• DIVIDUAL WAS LORD OF HIMSELF, MASTER OF HIS OWN DES­ . TINY, KEEPER OF HIS OWN SOVEREIGNTY. HERE HE WAS FREE." President Coolidge can devote himself to no greater crusade than to lead the fight to restore this country to the blissful condition he so eloquently describes as existing in 1 825. A thotful survey of his country today, of the harmony, patnotism and idealism of all of the people jn 1 9 1 7 and 1 9 1 8 and th_e insidious at-. · tacks on freedom during the past few years of awful react10n, must con­ �ince him that he can· not say truthfully today that in the United States in 1 925 the "individual is lord of himself, master of his own destiny, keeper of his own sovereignty. Here he is free." . . For probably at no time in the history of this country has bigotry a�d intolerance been more vigorously offensive, or religious freedollf' ,,_/ and intellectual liberty less sec:ure than right now. --� --•-··::- T'' ". :� "'f . �ri: .•�r:: r:! T · Trtffl . l. -- - _.J IJ�.'-" _,;,_),__,, , ,iJ, -� ,u.u · -- f Albuque 1"quean Rushes Up to ft'a-mous • Norw<?.gian Ao;�r, Kisses Him ; 1',cted With }Jim Yea1s Ago on he Contine nt t 'co1�lni • fa s at the stu,tion r cenUy w� ·q st' 'tied ·wh e n an aged man sur l cnly lrnrst l'fllt of tho 1) to a very erow d • 11 rm; d isting1 .·;hod man w i t h irnn 1 a kiss upon !Jcstowed ir, gray ·each c eek. Not until n day latC'r clid tho nows ofl the inciden t become gen cra l . , ' "hc agetl 1n::m was at one , time a n actor on th e c on t i n ent'the distingu ished persona ge upon whom he bestow ed the k iss was 1 E rling Drangsholt , one of the greate st actors on the contin ent and thd idol of Nor,vay. No one knew of his coming save tho feeble old actor who 18 _now 111 a 111aking a liviNg bv c ooking He had one acted local hotel. . I • 1 th Drangsholt in the enr!y days • ,A of his sucr,oss and was recognized nnd welcomed by the famous actor :tncl his wife. Ii rnngslrolt, with his wife and three year old son, Erling Jr., were 0 1 1 route to Los Angeles from the in atten ded as ���tM�m!��e��:ic� special gu�st of the Norwegian go v ernment. \Vhile in Los Angeles, the actor will make a sludy of the motion picture indu stry in order to incor­ porn.to new ideas into the industry in Norway. His wife will visit her p,1f.ents in that city and they are · heinry welcomed by members of th o N orw egian embassy and thei r leading c ountrym en thruout the I ! west. They will return to Norway thru Albuque rque on August l 5 . I r.,�S ,r!U�;'\ S F! 1.T. rn.' 'r!d 1 E ]J, l�f, 1'= U_ J� ----'"- - --- , ' It' (• rt1 1J l'(' t1 � 1 l t• i l•1l d ( I t ('.\ q ' 1 ,, nol 11 i c· . i1 m 1 : 1 1 V(' i n t o C V 1·.v ('1 o r , I P l ! 1 , 1 1 . J ) r : n·:-: 1 1 L i 1< y P i m p ! , . ion ( J f ( i i <' fi t•,.,t 111 w}i k h 1·c:-1· d Tr"\'fflti'������.,..('t'�;ri,1.li:,k',,.; l;,.�.'"l ���,���i'f!- 1Ji !.! 1 ,, n u t' p 1 ! p 1 1 ! ;d : 0 1 1 . \V L ,i f r · c .i 1 d ]H• m (I J'P 1i .1i n 1·1 I P1·0.-, i d eri 1 ·1 0 ! :1 1« 1 p m'i. i n m1d1 :-i 1 1 0 / t� ,vori h v c-n m Y c• L U 1 e o b:{0 1·vc 1·s m , d ·ilw Ld nrp :0l.r 1·�: an• it 1 r< < y ! i e:u·L. They s,�0. h i m :11 )){i. l ' k ed 11 p m 1 a p o l i i i e a l j( fflW . ts i n va d i ng 1 h c• La Fo l l<-!1.10 t· o n n t ry. Deep l y ::;ig-n i f • �rnt. if, 1.h c ' f'n<.' I. t h a t Se1; ; t 1 o :· Le m·oot, s won1 e n e m y o f L n Fo l l et . and sen­ � ri 1 1 e<•d b:1 i h c Lt li er l o p n l i ( ic:,d deat.h , is accom 11anyi n,,· th 1-'rc�: i d < m L '!' h is m 11 kes it c c 1· L a i n 10 f;0mc pen etrati ng ; i n d s i } i a t. M r. Co(; ] i d g·e h as alrnn cly h0g·n1 1 p l a n n i ng- 1.h c Cong rcR­ f'. iot ! a l <'l cc:ii o n :-; of' n ext y e ar· a n d t h e Presi den t i a l c a mp aign o f' ·1 !J.� 8 . F'rnm so Fim a l l a m att er is a gre11t fire k i n d l e(] ! P o l i I i(·:tl ora, · l cH �ll'C' 1wvcr ,vi l l i np; Lo :-tc c- c 1 l l an f>Xp l a n n.­ Uon t h at. l i es o n I l i c s u r /'ac· c . They 8Ntrc h ou t h i d d e n ca usc8 :i. 1 1 d sen-c t i n te n ts . Ii i:.; easy fo say t h :d 1 he Pre�i d cnt i8 m e re­ ly g i v i n g o ff i c i a l cou nte n a n c e ar, d p rcrc n c e 1 0 an i m p orLn n t (•c l e l n·ht i o n . 1 n a d d ition to. d oi n g t h at d n ty o f h i s o ff i c e h e _ m i g- h t he i h t rn g h t to h a vr : t n i n n o c ent d c:-;i1 e to s e c some t h i n g _ � ( t h e cou n fr y o v e r w h i c h h e ru l es.' He h a s l o n g- b een a h ome­ k e e p i n g P 1 1 i> l i,'. 1:.;c rvan t. H is Aaicl t h M o n ly 0;1ce befor e h as h e \! V m· heei1 as .far Wc.�t ,ll'l M i n n ea p o l is. A n d iL w o u l d seem o b v w n s t h at h ii:: hri e f ap peara nce t h ere, with h i s h n rried t'C1. � i rn L< W�sh i n gfo n , c o u l d n ot lend itself to myst eri o u s 11 1ot­ '.. t rn gs 01 a11y k in d . B u t t h e p o J i t ic-iarn � w h o are wi r-1 cr t h a n seven m mi fo at can ren d er a rc ar-mn w i l l n ot h ave it so. 'l'h cy i nsisl t h a t vm:t and s1 1 b l l e d esign s arc conc eal ed b e h i n d w h at a p pcan; Lo he a n m· I. rou1. i n e Prcs i d e n Li d tri p . Ir M r. Cool idge were : � � i.o r x 1 emt h i::; J om·n 0:v a n d g·o i 1 1 :-.: earc h of the O rcg·o n Tra i l h is . _ crdic .s wo i l d be mn·e to i:wc :rnol h e r t r :-i i l m u c h more o m i n o u s � -t h <' t r ·u_ 1 0 1,. 1 h 0 ''0rJ1 r n l nf n 0 l i1 i c-R ovr:r i t :i l l .-N ew Yorl < ,,,:_ 1 �THE NORSEMEN LL Am erica i s inter � sted i n t h e Nors _ _ _ • American centenmal celeprat1on m Minnesota, commemorating t e un redth anniversary of the Norse trek to the west. The President of the United States is a guest of honor. Four governments have sent repre­ sentatives to the c elebration. Governors of six states, who come from the hardy rac of Norsemen, are taking part. The government of the United States has issued special com­ memorative postage stamps and has also is­ sued silver medals. America owes much to these d_escendants of the hardy Norsemen. And it is reminded again how many excellent m en and women of other lands have contributed to its up­ buildini. A iHE NORSE CENTENNIAL. Thousands of visitors are in th( Twin Cities, St. Paul and Minneapo, lis, gathered to attend the cere-­ monieis in connection with the cen­ tennial of the first immigration of Norsemen to America. It is a note­ worthy occasion and President Coo ­ lidge is justified in recognizing it by making the long and somc""t h:1.t tire­ some trip from the nation's Capital. The Scandinavians have been a pow­ er for good in building up the North­ west, especially Minnesota, and they are entitled to all the credit that comeR to them. A hundred years ago, fifty-two I per"ons sailed on the sloop Rest­ aurationen, from Norway, reaching America after a trip of six weeks duration. ApproJ;Jriately enough, they made their start for this coun­ try on Independence Day-July 4, ' 1825. The present prosperity of the North-west is largely due to them and to their successors. A model o! tli e sloop is on exhibition at the Fair Grounds at St. Paul, where the cen­ tennial is being held. served in the days of the Hanseatlc League as the northernmost outposti; c President Coolidge made a long , of commerce. In those <la,v s the c_e uter ·and tedious journey in order to � of European trade was at Vlsby, on 1 1part in the Norwegian Centenni a l the Island of Gothland, in the Balt ic-. ' 1celebration i n Minneapolis today. A"­ l n t h e same city o f Bergen. with her ,a student of history he knew that !'even hills, more impressive than 1 the effort � a s well worth while. It t hose of Rome, is a monument to Ole \s altogether fitting that t he Presi­ Bull, a great musician. Grieg was \1ent should speak for the whole couu- ·born there, and Ibsen made his first • try in paying tribute to the Nor�e­ bid for fame as di rector of the Ber• ;men who have contributed so much gen Theater. ,to America and to the world. Before Ibsen and Bjomson there 1 ,When one reflects upon the acbiern­ was Holberg. And since Grieg have : ments of the race that conquered the come Sinding and other composers of 1 formidable Scandinavian Peninsula note, while Scandinavia bas produced tlie idea that greatness is a matter more Nobel Prize winners than any of population or fovornble natural other part of the world, besides <pro­ 'conditions is bound to suffer. Small viding the prize itself. A great t_r adir:a tions barn occasionally a chieved tion in music and art and l iterature is g11ea tness. but the Old World is scat- J,eing ma intained and is having i ts • tered with the ruins of civilizations 'influence upon all countries, notably 11"\/lt somehow failed to survive. The • :Americtl., where Hamsun and othe1· S�andinavians are un ique in that writers are wel l up among the most i 1 t fey have maintained an unbroken • �ppreciated l iterary artists. •ret:ord of progress since ancient times This i s the background of Uw I :"•ithout vastly increasing their popu- ' �orsemen whose coming to Amni;tation or decreasing their Yltality. 1-'a is being celebrated iu Minnesota. , The secret of this remarkable "l"it is not surprising that the Scaudltn.lity has recently been discusserl by 'l'lavia ns should have been eager to : t he experts called upon to explain jjoin the pioneers in the great aclven. t 11 at physical phenomPuon. Paavo I ture of conquering this continent. Nurmi, the Finn. A 11ossible cle, • 'They first came a hundred years ago, may be found in the fact that only the earliest group settling in Kendall, in the Northland are lmman beingi; lip in Orleans County, ;::f this State. regularly subjected to t he extrenw il.r: 1840 there were 40,000 Norwegians rigors of both heat :l l'd cold. But in Wisconsin alone. Today it ls e�tl­ there is something else. The Scandi- ,.nated that there are as many Nor­ navlans ha Ye a spirit tllut is splen- .,·egians in America ns there are in clidly irrational and daring, which ac. Norway. The other Scandinavian •<'ounts for most of t h!' wonderful �ountries are almost as <'trongly rep­ tbings that are accomplished by races ,:esented as Norway. 'and individuals. • What the Scandinavians ha,·e conThe old vikings ha� this spirit, 1r nd hibuted in building up this Republic their sagas are among the most stlr- Jannot be estimated. They did not ring in human annals. Since the llays I foive to be Americanized They were when Norsemen set out to conquer ttlready American in e,·ery essential tbe rt>gions near the Pole, when ther , t·r1>pect. They are among the most r,etually set up a civilizat ion in Ice- ' ,d,?mocratic, industrious peoples on land which has persisle11, down lo the :,,arth , and the loYe of freedom 1s day not long ago when Amund�en ji11rn in them. Tht>y are among t:ne f tarted on his flight for the Pole, this fl"eatest of sea-going peoJllc-s, yet they f,tiirit of adventure has rl ominated the i i a Ye played a great part in creuting people of the Northlaml. It is not a ' , il l' ya!'t agricultural empire of the mere coincidence that Scandinavia ' !\�' est. Th eir c om ing to America and 11roduced Amundsen , Hansen a n d l hC' i r sta y ing a re worth celebrating. Hedin, to name but th ree modern ex- :r11e simple recital of the story of 1 •lorers. L ong before, t he- re was Lief , • pi e Norsemen i s as i mpressing a bit who was the son of Erik. tif patriotic endea-,;or a,s could engage The vikings were pirates, but the service of the President or the at• there are to be found in Bergen to- t,•ntion of the country. day rows of quaint warehouses that ,I SCANDINAVIAN AMERICANS. �THE PR'.ESIDENT MID HIS PARTY. Court policy, inherite�l f11om Mr. Harding and so warm(.\' advocated by Mr. Hughes, Mr. CooEclge's leader11-bip will have to be asserted not alone • against the irresponsibl radicals who have been formally read out of the Republican party bnt ogainst Senator Borah, who, n s chairman o f the Foreign Relations Committee, i s still within the IJa le, \ and against the reactionary Re. rmblicans in the Senate who agreP 1 with Mr. Borah on thir; issue ancl '011 little or nothing el se. The Eagle b(•· lieves that the bulk of p11blic opi nion in the country would like to see Mr. Coolidge stage an aggressfre fight in behalf of tile Court antl ,Yould like to see hirn win. Presldent Coolidge, . atcording to the newspaper corr 2si,ondPnts who --u::companied him 011 his "\Vester11 jour­ ney, is well satisfied with his ·ece·p­ tion a t the points ,isitecl. He found his audience cordial and responsiYe. Such direct greetings as be was aule to receive wer.e all that a President of the United States - could desire. He thinks that the West, or that portion · of it ,rhich he visited, i s moving away from radicalism a nd nearer to those good Republican dO\'­ trines 'l\"hich he represents. The de­ duction drawn from his obser,ations ii:: that , if debt settlements can be arranged • with foreign n ations and taxation lowered through economies in Go,•ernment, Republican re,olt in the West .and Northwest will 1 ba checked, if � altogether • ex­ t inguished. __..,/' All this readjustment of political thought must depend in large meas­ ure upon the quality of Mr. C•)ol- 1 --�--��==�:=:c::===-­ idge's leadersbip. There i s li ttle IJe Nor!'if'mf'n dis<:01·ered Amef'icA , question that majority opinion in the and now Pr0sicknt Coolidge has '1 1s . Vv'est, as elsewhere, agrees with his c,wrrefl the Norsemen. As bclw,•en efforts to haYe the cost of adminb­ Eric the Red and our uon.Ri!!d C hief tra tion reduced, to secure a further Magistrate h<inors are. easy. lowering of taxes, to arriYe at agree­ ments funding foreign debts. The Pre,dcleut has proceeded cautiously, but with a h igh intelligence in respect of these desirable mds. His election last fall was more of a personal triumph than a party ,-ictory. Republican success in the Congres­ sional elections next year will come, if at all. as the consequence of Mr. CooliclgE>'s aemonsfratrc capac1 ·y to direr-t party actiol1 in Congress on The N=Centennial. 1 1·ight li11e�. 'o-day the country . attend� �n Mr. Coolir'!ge has seldom reveal<"d spirit the ceremonials m th� rwm any of tha t aggressfreness and in­ Cities, capital of Norse Amenca. B_y sist0uce in 11arty leadershi p which agreement f.or the purposes of this , characterizecl Theodore RooseYel t �huntlred celebration it was fus and Woodrow Wilson clurini their an mi- \ inavi Scand the that ago years terms in the White House. Yet in the n1atter of appointments, at least, he gration to this country began. .T�e , has sho"·n a positiveness of 011iuion finest flower of that movement is m not unlike those of his two dis­ :Minnesota, where for years the men tinguished p11edecessors. and Wc.'11en of Vikin g blood have Poss'ibly the country will Fee more domin ated the population , and wl�en of tbat in the future. Certainl y, t11<" tc-day the President of the �mted prestige that is undeniably his be­ States is making one of his e�­ cause of the amazing P+urality won tremely rare appearances in public, o.t the polls entitles lrim 1. o �peak sealin g with the most official sort -with · emphasis not alo!le as Prt,si­ of approval the claims of the -� orse• dent of the United Sta t<> � but ,1 s the mEn's d-escend ants for recogmt10� . Jencier of his party in the Nation. Our Calling attention to these clam�s of the most formidable of a l l possilJlc, and to the services of the N ord1c tests awaits him 011 the World Court n orthwesterners and to their gr��t I Hrnue "·hen Congress a sse1mbles i11 zeal and patriotis t and public_ spirit December. If Republican n•Yolt I at all times is the happiest privilege I aga,inst Republican policies is fading of the day. in the West it is not f:i din� in the I United States Senate. 0n the Worltl ----- Immigrants' Luck. Th� centennial of Norse im.migra.. tion to this country was commem­ orated yesterday by President Cool­ idge in an address in Minnesota, where the' greatest number of Scan­ dinavian immigrants have settled'. It was appropriate that President Coolidge should pronounce a c&.r-e­ fully studied discourse on the Nori wegian people in this country. The United States is the leading Norse country of the world-that is, there are as many Norse persons of Norse descent here as there are in Norway itself; and they are well liked and esteemed in ev-ery part of the coun­ try in which they have taken up their residence. Yet while the merits of immi­ grants are extolled by the President, the national policy of tightening up more and more on immigTation con­ tinues unabated. It seems almost a!I 1 if we were saying : "You who have mana�d to get here are splendid people, but we have not room for so many immigrants like you in the future." Take the Scandinavian classifica­ tion of nations, for instance. Under the law enacted in 1917, there might come in annually 1'2,202 N orwegi,ans. The act of 1924 cuts the quota down to 6,453. The former law admitted 20,042 from Sweden annually; now 1 I but 9,561 may enter. From Denmark j 2,789 may come into the country each year, whereas the law of 1917 l admitted 5,619 annually. I Congress has been groping for a I basis for its immigration legisla• tion. First it enacted that the census of U \10, the one last at hand when the law of 1917 was passed, should be consulted to find out how many per­ sons born in each foreig12 country n were then living in the U.ited States and that 3 per cent. of that number should be admitted anhually as the quota of each countr; respectively. That principle was, in a way, com­ plimentary to the foreign-born al­ ready here. It indicated that the more people of any particular na­ tionality happened to be here at tht, last censuR the more of that kind -we wanted in the future. But last year Congress decided to make a new law based upon the cen­ sus of 1890 instead of that of 1910, and to make the quota but 2 per cent. instead of 3 per cent. The re­ sult of that was to cut down the �quota of some countries dispropor­ tionately. The nations which led in quota under the first law were, in order named, United Kingdom, Ger­ many, Italy, Poland and Russia. Un­ der the present law, which goes back for its basis to conditions . existing in the last century, the favored countries are, in order, Germany, Great Britain and North Ireland, Irish Free State. The rest are away bP-hind these favored nations. So that the present law is not quite so complimentary to the . for­ eign-born now among us. It says: "We like the aliens who happened to be living here in 1890, in the order in which they were numerous then ; never mind about how respectively numerous they were in 1910." But even this is not to be the per.manent 'policy. After having changed the basis from the 1910 census back to the 1890 census, Congress provided that after 1927 it is to be jumped forward to the 1920 census ! Total immigra­ tion under the first restriction law amounted to about 350,000 a year. Under the new law the aggregate of the quotas comes to about 164,000 a year. And after two years from I now it is definitely fixed at 150,000, to be allotted a.mong different na­ tions according to the number of foreign-born of each respective na­ tion discovered in this country by the· census of 1920. So the basis is not at all deter­ mined by the ancestry of our present population. So far as the immigrant can see, i!. is determined mostly by luck. It is not at all a question, for in­ stance, of what proportion of Amer­ icans are of English descent and what proportion are of Norse de­ scent and what proportion of Italian descent. No ; it is "How many per­ sons were there in this country in , 1890 who were born in England, in Norway, in Italy ?" And after 1927 1 that question will be asked as to I the foreign-born who happened to be 1 here in 1920. Nobody is quite satisfied with any of these systems, nor with the prac­ tical working of any of the immigra­ tion laws we have had. The Order of B'rith Abraham in annual conven­ tion at Atlantic City has called the present law "inequitable and un­ A questionably discriminatory." committee of the National Associa­ tion of Manufacturers says it ought to be reconsidered in view of the dwi ndl ing of labor aupply. The I grand master of t�e B'rit� Abraham / protests against alien regi stration and proposed legislation for depor­ tation of persons liable to becom& p11blic charges. The National Asso­ ciation of Manufacturers' committee comes out strongly in favor of alien r JJUff.A I O "!-{ Y TIME■ registration and simplifying the de• IUESD.t\Y UN.Hi 9, 1.92 5 , portation of radicals. Ev;erybody fs dissatisfied, but dif­ �-==�=-·-------==----� \ ferent persons are dissatisfied for different reasons and with different • . ' "' cs mu: pas:-;a gcs o 1· l'• rc:s, ue��.1.1.!: f6'!l.tures. P. � • [ J J ·when a foreign-born person does ' P''- 11 ,Y est el'd u :v at t h e .\ I J J'\\'l'g'i a n crniP J I J J i a l i l l -:\ l i 11u m-/mage to squeeze in here, through ,rn;; he 1n rul l el l i e d r(• 11 lwt 1H• c 1 1 1 b c a n c ien t U n·c k e i r i l iza t i o u a:n atmosphere of suspicion, distrust iu t l; o }Ie d i t e 1·1·a u ea11 l'O u u l l' i es :w d t h 1 • . ·or:,e i 1111Ltc1 1 c e i u uort liern and hostility, his fate will probably 1-1nd western B ut·opP. Jt i:s a co m p a ,·i sou w b i <' l1 h o l cb good . In t lwie b ol d 4 ucst.� he to do fairly well financially, read soone articles which describe him as n[ t h e n n k i 1 o w 1 1 . l l i e i l' sPan· h f 1 r n c ,r l a nd:-; ,w d acl veut ures, t h e i r a "menace," read some more articles asecrt a m m c·nh o l ' g-1:og t·.1 pb i ,·a ! . J'u<.:t :,, 1 l i f• !-\n1 J J d i n a Y i a u rnyc1 °lA declaring hini to be the bone and n l' t h e ) f a l d l ( • ,\� t ·s linnriT"S'f:tj'fr ,,1 g re1-ie t u b lanec to the U ree k�cif o l\ l t ,rm, I l i e �p i r i t o f l ' l y:;se, " li i elt a n i m a t e d t b t: \ ' i kfi°i g:,;. '1'l 1 e sinew of the neighborhood in which he lives, worry a little for fear some ii l't d0 ,elopnw 1 1 1 " h i e h s i gn a l i zed t h e G l't'C'k e i Y i lint t i ou f'o 1 u 1 d new law will be passed ordering him e.x pl'css i o n a 1 1 w i 1 g- t ill' Sean J.r1 1 a y j a 11 s at a lalcr period o f t h e i r deported, and finally wind up by h istor.1· . D u t w h c 1 1 i 1 a 1Ti Yl'd , t h e ai'List i r• a 1 l ll l i t f • t'H r) l >'l'ogresr, wais hearing himself cordially praised in mome n t o u s ;i 1 1 d P p o e l 1 11 I . T i l e l a n d o f t l i e Yi ki n gs i :-, a bo the J u ud a special speech by the President ot nf L bsen , Bjorm,o n a n d U ri{,g. tl,e United States. 0. - �-· , NORSE.AM ERICAN FESTIV At.. ELMTRA MONDA , J NORW EGI N CENTENNIAL. The 100th a .,-ni>:"Crsary of the coming of the Norwegians .o America will � e celebrated Minn., the first week m June. J: in St. Paul, those _ to be presen� at the centen­ Among --ey-�; , " , \; 7' \ The Norse in America.-' nial will be Bishop Lunde, Primate of the Es­ Fi;ve centuries ·,b,efore Christopher tablished Chmch of Norway. He comes as an · Columbus .;et. official representative of his gove :nm�nt ; a ,.. 'sail ·f;om Palos. in- his three little boa�;-· the shi� government that seems to feel pride m the :Norsemen were coasting Icelancl' and achievements of her em igrant s to the New in the few hundred years that' foltlowed they had landed a party on: �he World. The Bi:,hop arrived in New York recently • shores of North Amedca. Iceland . they kept, but Nor½�_,A:g1erica seemed accompanied by 50 members of the G:ra � u1:te too distant ahd ei;'npty of spo1} fqr • Student Choir of the University of Chnstiama. The Norwegian centennial will focus atten­ the old •'s ea chitli. whose migatory' iri, stincts led them Southward, so the tion upon a highly respected but little known . •· Norwegians did not ·come in large racial strain in our population. J? urm � the numbers to this land until 1.1,bout. a ' 19th century 1Jorway lost by em. grat1on a 1 ? _ century ago. Then,· strange to say, opula­ it was not by the sea that they ·set- comparatively larger proportion ef its p_ . t.led, but in the Middle West . • Min­ tion than any other European country w.ith the llesota, Michjgan, these wei;e · the ·1 exception of Ireland. Most of these em1 �rants 1 • States in which they settled and came to the United States and settled . m the • farmecj and cleared .the -..yild. Northwest where they have followed with in­ • In • Minneapolis yesterday began dustry and thrift the traditional occupation of "the celebration of tjle centenru;y their forebears-farming. :the second niigration. It is a cel-e� They are industrious, loyal, law abidin � , Kbra'tion in which all Americans· will and provident. We congratulate the_m on th� ir Nor­ f; women . �nd men he l' • j oin. ' ? 100 years of participation in American activ­ of qualities contributed way have cour!l,ge. -a.nd -strength to our • Ameri­ ities, and hope to know th_e� be_tter by reaso:1 can amalgam.. .They have made a . of the publicity given their Jub1lee. wonderfu l land of the Lake Stateii. l • We rejoice to have them among us • and ·of us, and �at] as brethren under_ the Stars and Stripes the children i .af Norway. I �FLUSHING T TU.!'21311 /J. Y I • I ftt�A. N T < S�r, "'11 DISP.A rvti� l) A Y TTll\/1:.: � 1 ?3fi . ...- T-QTTRNAL 9 1.925. �- �olidge's Tribute to the Norsemen (N. Y. World) I l\l r. Coolidge's address at the . orwe ian Cen­ tennial Celebration yesterday holds ,1tiie °f'M. those political strategists who read between the I li nes of every Presidential statr ment and find therein a message to the politicians. I t is true that Mr. Coolidge pointed out tiiat unlike races live at peace with one another i n America, drew therefrom the lesson that a cc:rtain "spiritual quality" i s_ common to all men, and asked hope­ fully }he question, "If fraternity and co-opera­ tion are possible on the scale of this co1 tinent among people so widely diverse, why not on the scale of a worl d ?" Not even the most ardent isol ationist, however, will read in these sentences advocacy of a world state or threat of a super­ government. M r. Coolidge, at the Norse Centennial, was content simply to pay tribute to a race which has done much to consolidate a Western frontier. Why, asked M r. Coolidge, should the Norseme'1 seek America in such numbers that to-day there are as many people of Norwegian stock in the United States as there are in Norway ? The an­ swer, Mr. Cool idge thought, is that the Norse­ man loves liberty, and " Here at last the indivi­ dual was lord of himsel f, master of his own destiny, keeper of his own sovereignty-here he was free." The �orwe11.ian Centennial The 1 0 0th anniversary of the coming of the �orwegians to America will be celebrated in t. Paul, • Minn. the first week in June. ose o b e present at the centennial will be Bishop Lunde. primate of the Established Church of Norway. He comes as an official representative of his government ; a government that seems to feel pride in the achievements of her emigrants to the New World. The Bishop arrived in New York recently accompanied by 50 memb ers of th e Graduate Student Choir of the University of Christiania. The Norwegian centennial will focus atten­ tion upon a highly respected but . little known racial strain of our population• During the Nineteenth Century, Norway lost by emigra­ tion a c omparatively larger proportion of its its p opulation than any other European coun­ try with the exception of Ireland. Most of these emigrants came to the United States and settled in the Northwest wh ere they have fol­ lowed with industry and thrift and traditional occupation of their forebears-farming. They are inliustrious, loyal, law abiding, and provident. We congratulate them on thefr 1 0 0 years of participation in American activi­ ties, and hope to know them b etter by reason of the publicity given their jubilee. The President to the Danes Pi- 1 ent Coolidge at the Norse-American centennial celebration at St. Paul emphasized 'tlie eHect1veness of the Ameri(lan Nation as a melting pot, and said that it pointed the way to the rest of the world as a means of ironing out international animosities and troubles . )· Such a cure for international ills, however, is extremely remote. Perhaps tne- country, afte all, has proved a better melting pot than has been conceded in late years. Possibly the hyphen was exagger­ ated by relatively small and noisy groups of ; the " alien-minded " during the war, and thus misled many Americans to believe that great masses of immigrants were failing to become the ardent supporters of things American that was thought. At any rate, the bars were put up against the former wholesale migration of foreign peopl es to America, and it is certain that under present restrictions time will weld large portions of the later immigration into a solid race with common ideals and purposes. The length of time required would be :l:ar greater without the restrictions. The :Danes have been ready to learn the I American language .and to acquire the 1r nbits of thought and the ideals of this country. '!' hey have not sought to set up a little nation 0f their own within America with foreign langnage schools, a foreign press, and by other methods, but have quickly become good Americans. "'.-..TOWN. l'f. Y.. l'Off. MONDAY7 JUNE 1, 1925. They a:re industrdous, Joyal, Jav;­ abiding, and p rovident. They should be con,gratulate'd on their The o n e undredth a n n iversary' o..'l.e h u n d red of pary ears ofa the com-i n,g of the .'orwegians tlcipati·o n i n America n activities . -0 Amerka will ib e ce1ebrated i n Sl. and may be k nown ' b etter by :rea­ son of the ,purMicity given their Paul, Minn., the comin,g week. A mon-g, <thooe to 1be prese n t at , jubilee. ---�-___.., .,,. the ,c entenniail w ill be Bishop Lu nde, Primate, of the Estab l ished Churc h o,f Norway. He comes as a n official representative of his governm ent; a government that ,seems to feel -pride in the achievements o f its eITicigra n ts t o the New 1 v\'·o rld: The Bishop arrived in New Y ork I recently acco m panied ,by fift,y memJbers of the Graduate Student I Choir of the Uni vers"i ty of Ch ris­ tiania. The Nor1wegian centennial w!ll focus atte n tion u,p o n a highly re­ spected but little known racial strain in our p 01pulation. During the nineteenth ,cen tury, Korway l lost lby e migration a comparatively larger proportion of Jt.s population than any other !European c-o untry with the except.don -of Ireland . Most of these emigrants came to the United States and settled in the Northwest, where they h ave fol­ l owed wdth industry and <thrift th 'e traditional occ upation of their forebears-farming. --� ,.. ,v--.._ ,'1.l..!,j J , r :1 Z b . THE NORWEGIAN CENTENNIAL. �PRAISE FOR THE NORSEMEN. N paying tribute to the N or:;emen and his clc­ sct·ndants in a s1)eech dclivere<l at the State ] Fai r G rounds in .M innesota l\fonday afternoon. President Coolidge spol-e splendid ' words oI Cl •111111Clldation to a 'people that have c�ntributed in la rge measure to the est ablishment. of our present-day American civi l i zation . . The President spoke in Minneapo1is, out his ,vonls were 'a ddressed lo the descendants of �11 that sturdy race who, coming here in large 'm11n­ l1er;; a century ago, carved a civiliza tion out o f t h e wilderness in ou r great northwest unlil t o­ day i t is know11 even in remote portions of the world �s one of the finest and most prosperous agricultural regions in all the world. From lhe start they tried in every way lo ue�ome real,. law­ ahiding citizens of this great commonwealth and orn: has only lo study the homes lbey have ma(k ihe men .they have contributed to our publ il'. liic, !he :-{:hools they h a ve erected for Lite gt-omiding of their childi-eu in t ru e American fundamen tals, the prospei·ity they have evolved and the prob­ lems they have surmounted to appreciate and ad ­ mire the splendid success that has cro1<'ne<l their efforts.. l\fr . Coolidge drew a striking and reabtic comparison when he poi n ted out tha t tl1t: a rrival in this counfr.y 100 years ago of a i;roup o f pio · 11eer Norwegians in the sloop "Reslanrationen" 1\·as not unlike the arri val of the f'i igrims to th� shores of Massachusetts 11 early 2fl0 years be fore an e vent that has left its impress u pon Am •! n­ can history i n unmistakable outline. The Scandinavians, being a peace-loving pu h­ lic, i t was entirely in keeping for i l 1e Chief Mag­ j ,, t rate of the nation to dwell, at knglh on the heauti fol thought that this g reat cou ntry has had such remarkabk success in assim.1 laLing a poly­ glot population and diverting the inte rests and 1 11dustry of these many peoples into the pa\Ls o f peace a n d brotherhood t h a t Lhe out side w0;- ld ma_v yet learn the grea t lesson that will LU rn thu11 from the pit falls of war and turmoi l fni· evermore. Or, as Lhe Presiden t himsel f put i t, ' · Out of the confosion of tongues, the con flicl o f t radition s, the variations of historical setting, the vast d i fferences in talents and tastes there lias l ,ecn evolved a spiritual union accompanied hy a range of capacity and genius which marks th is nat ion for a pre-emi nent destiny. The Ameri­ can people have commanded the respect of the \\ Orld . . . . " • Veri ly it has b�en this spiritual union that has cu-ried America to a hig:h plane. And in t!1e accomplislunent of thi� purpose 1hcl sons o f the d aring Lei f Ericson have pla;'cd a. noble parl i ndeed. H appiiy, by reason of the facl t hat the last Congress saw the wisdom of granting a large1 immigration quota to the Scandinavian rnc-:.s t hau those of some others less desitable, America will continite to benefit for years to come wi ;h that inestimable qttali l_y that good citi zens o f th'.s . re-1>ublic have never found wanting in the sturdy sons and daugh ters o E th()sc hard_v peoples nf tl1e northland. tl �1'-htit-Jtti'innesota V mt / Th visit yf t h e President to .:.\J i n n csota won ,,· idc com ment , for e ven move made b v a chief rxect1 frvc excites publi� iYlterest. T h; address deli varcd b.1 · i\I r . Coglrtfi e ,,·as not i.m porta n t , b e i n g 11t..e.r c l y a ni.c;dy fra nv.::d t ribute l o the Scan­ d in av~ia 1 1 s a11d their con tribu tion to .\.111 c1·ican l i fe ;i n d c u l ture. The Pre sident w a • nut an) more l i l attc ring Utan he was some ,1-c cks pre violls \Yh cn l i e 1J1a<le a v r ry co m pTT m e n tary rc lcrcnce t o the J e w i :;h propl e of the coun t r y . ,_ IJ n t in s o m e q11arters bot h the Y i s i t to :d i11nc­ ,. u t a and t h e President's n· ibute to the S,1 edcs and ;(unvcgians was interpreted as a ye'ry ,-h rC\YU pol i t ical e ffcf1:t to win back these races 1 0 t h e 7-t cpub l i c;in p a rt y a,Jl<l al ienate them from I l i e Fa r m er -Labo r group. 1t i� � pol i t i cal fact t ! i a t in the ,'\ortlrn est t h e Scandinavians liavc q n i t t h e Republ ican Part) , and tl;eir represcn t,L­ t i ve� in the Congress haye bee n t h e most Ya<lical 1 1 i i 11 :;11rgc n ts. The l:lal t i m orc '.)un refe r s t o the Presicl�nt as ;1 t roubad our. in an editorial l·ommenting· upon l1 i ,; journey. and says : · · . \ m i d t h e clash o f r e sounding a r rn s in China , . t l i e r e n ,ussance of .:\ Ioorish do m i n ion on 1.hc t lirc sliolcl o ( Spain. ,r i t b i ts accompa nying· th re at l u the far fl ung ,i.crritor iaLambitio 1_ • of France, ;i nd t l i e cl amor o( 1.h e .\ l lied fi re engines rush ing iur t h e Ii ft i cl h t im e to p0tp· m ore securi t y ,Y ater 1 1 po11 t h e con t in e n tal yolcano ,... t h ere co m e s l o us f ru m .,_\ [in ncsota ;1. charming and ·cfrcshi11g 1-'rcs idential 'e),cursion.' riva l i'ng that o( \\' ords11 orth. into t he delight ful fields o[ historical romance, poetical glamour and J1igh adventure. \\'hilc Asia and ,\frica arc shaking· in the fi rs t :-pasms o f 1rnr. a1i d Europe · i s groaning "·i t h ;cc u t c i n d igestion. w e stan<l at peace in a shel­ t e n�d parad i se remote from b u man i l l s , ,,- i t l 1 110 1,robl e m s to clistress us. l i s tening deligh tedl y to 1 1 tir m odern Presicle11tial t roubadour, harp i11 l 1 and . .,;inging h i !> lyr ic to t h e daring- ?\ordic ex plorers and w _?rld pioneers o f m any ages ago. �- ' ' The Prcsitlr r1 t's adtln �-:� to t1i e 11 arcl3· , o n,c, J'l v G r . ol a i l o f h ist o ri c t ru t h. ,{ by n o l iol l o w t h e \ 1 11 c ricans i l l ustrates a s n o t h i n g else ccA11d do t h e end ? Perhaps we m i g h t fi n,J t hat to C:r· lraii -..l r i k i n g l y our m e n ta l se pa r a t i on fro m a p e r- · N oal i ,,·a s the o ri gin a l cl i scoYercr uf .\m c r i c a a n d t u rbecl o u t e r "·01-ld, and t h e breadth and depth that li e l a nded 011 a :\ C l\ England h i l l . I f you nf the national c u l t ure w h ic h demand � snch, _ m ust explore t h e.: j u n g l e s u f his tor: , }l r. Coolidg � . j _ schobrlr excu rswn s mto t h e remote reg10n s o f; wh , bar out t h e voiclcss me mbers , i t t h e .\ 111rn h i s.t ory. Jt i s not o ften thal eve n a Ne,v England ,, · a n. fatl1 ih ? '' 1 1 ubljc man s u rrender· so completely to th e Pux i tal l passion for the ' lJigh pot s' in h i storical l i t e rature ; a n d. so far a5 ,ve reme111ber l\f r. Cooli d ge i s t h e first o f h i s t ribe to insti t uk a com j >ar ison b c l wer:-n the M a y flo,\·e r and any other , esscl that ever s a i led t h e seas. That the Presid e n t actually <l i d both of t hese th ings in h i s ¥ .\ l in n esota lyric io r ordic courage and Xordic achievement-excluding even a reference to the I J e n c Jicent influence o f Xcw England ' s high tari IT l e ,·ics upon t h e " cst; r n farmer-constitutes -r-an epoch i n Pre idential- orat9ry, and encourages THE MUC HLy GUM MED MEL TING POT t i l e hope tbat he reafter 0�1r public speakers ,,·ill Presi dent Cooli dge in his Minn esota speech prais es I abandon the low grounds of pol i t i c s and al ways the ea'fly Scand inavi ans wh-0 p-roneered that' .sectio n, ., uar into the empyrean of erudi tion ant! beauty. lauding their desce ndant s for the way they have be� ' ' O f course, there are .cynics ,,·ho w i i l sec i n come tho-roughly Amer i:--:: nized . Ever y word said along · that line was con-eet. T 1e men and he t h i s Coolidge · saga' a familiar bait f o r the, Korse wome n who came to Minn esota from Norway and Swed en in ,·ote i n the sweet bye and bye. Such weaknesses the '70s and '80s c:ame have been detected in Presiden ti a l m inds before become Ameri cans. They with an intense desire to came to toil, to struggle, t h i s . :· till we refuse t o believe the M in ne sot a to save and to deny , that they might build home s for add ress repre sents anyth ing bul a ;\;ew Englana: their children. And they succe eded. However, where that is true in that secti l u y c for cultural investigation and an inten se in­ on of the t er e s t i n h i storical subj ects. T h e Puritans <le - count ry, if one n ow will but turn to certa in Eastern thickly popu t i cl c d l o n g a g o t h � t i F t h ey did not act.ua l ly d i s ­ quite a differlated iBdus trial and busin ess sectio ns ent condi tion will be found . While ry t n cou s i h t ade m co Y e r t h e new ,vorlcl t hey i� true, pract ically all who c ome to this count tha; r·y pre­ 1\ hat i t i s , and t h a L wi thout them it would have vious to .around HlD5 came wrbh the same hope and b e e n a n�ight)' 1,oor affair. i t not a compl ete ambit ion as the early h o1 wa8 1ans of the Northwest - i a i l u r c . That point h av i n g been defi n itely sct--1 and they, like their Nort he,·n fri"m ds, becam e Amer i­ 1 led a� soon as the Pilgrims settl ed on Pl) mout h can citize ns, and th.iir chllct ren of today are active in adva ncing loyalty to Ui13 <..Gili. try and a spirit of I\.UCk, i t seemed proper at this time, \Yh e n t ltere patriotism that is ts be comn rnn,fa <l, yet what do we i � noth i n g else o f great importance pending, t o fbd of those who reach ed our blJ\.\,tes since that time ? render a final dec'i sion i n t h e long-stnading ca · e Not all, of course, but a ce;:·ta m great numb er of them . .: , 1 f t h e Korsemen vs. Columbus. N o w t h a t Co They have not j:Jeeem e Amer ica11iz ed. 'l'hey do not l u m bu s has been deli n i.t e l y kic;k e d out of court want _ to becom e Amer icani,;t,d. Many of them , even :rncl o rdered to go back to Italy, or Spa i n , or to thts day, do not s13eal< the English language and \1· h c r�ver he came from, 1\ c can re5t easy aud read only the papers and magazines published in their J c· e l that there is nothing l e f t to worry us.. own tongues. ' '\Vh a t the President's close fri end, Henry The greatest menace of this nation today is tha • l •" o rd mav think of h i s ;,candi n avian pa::an we attempt on the part of this class of foreigners to don 't, k no�v ; but he is a practical man ,,;ho real- dominate. Instead of dropping into the melting pot ' and coming out Americans, they have tainted, to a i z e s that, as autos must be built of wood and i ' certain degree, all others, including the more sus- I � tcel and rubber, so Presi<lents m u st be made ceptible American himself. They have impressed fr o m popular sentiment, and t h at s ugar cat c h e s ; upon this country certain foreign ideas and customs more fl ies at the ballot box t han vinegar. \Ve which are detrimental to the people. One has but to , e nt u rc to sa\·, ho \\·e yer, that, con sidered as a stand ten minutes in any subway station in the city .1 , i s L o·. rica) inv; • L i �!.:ta lor. the Preside n t h a s p e r- of New York and notice the downright selfishness and thoughtlessness of the great majority who try to jam ton n c d an i 11 c o 111 plcte job, l f \Y C arc look ing ior the cars, "to recognize that such action is far from 1 he first <;:lisco, ercrs of the n e w worl d , w l i y s lop , American. 1\ i t h Eric the Red and others of the Kordic famThey brought with them a form of greed that is i i � ? How about the American In dia ns ? 1\'hen foreign to this country. This form is manifested in did t h ey arri v e ? Did Eric bring them 'over iii what is called the tipping system. No one objects to tipping for a .service when the character of that h i s Goa l :' And how about anc ien t M exican and service warrants a tip, but today in New York S o u t h .\merican c i Y i l izai!ons wh ichi it is said, go and this is found elsewhere-one can obtain theCity­ most kick for l h ousand s o f years : l t is t ru e t h e l n - ·a bominable service in a restaurant for instance, or l i:rn s d o n ' t rn s t m a n_,· 1·o t e s anJ t h:1 L 1 1 J ,, . \7 t c c ;:; go in and get .a shave with a co:-ple of neat cuts across ,t rc· ,J c zi cL U u t i ( l h i � i. s a. ;;qni rne c1 1 1 c 5 t fur l it e the cheek, and if in paying a tip i s refused then the customer is insulted by some one who can hardly , make himself understood in the English language. �1 Tippiri.g is founded ,on greed. That greed is so I marked that it is becoming positively obnoxious. The marked ponesty of some thirty years ago has been . replaced by a proverbial dishonesty. One making � purchase in a store is forced carefully to count the change to make sure he has not been gypped, Laws which attempt to hinder and punish all forms of dis­ honesty are flouted to the winds. The general con­ tempt for our laws, if carefully traced, will be found to have originated in the actions-concerted if you please-of ta certain group of foreigners wI:o do not want to be interfered with in their mad desire to get something for nothing, One reads daily of this or that crime, of thl.e or that act of dishonesty. Check if you wm; those who engage in such practices, and in nine cases out of ten you will n ot find the accused Americana-but of this late :foreign importation, It Is time this situation ia corrected. It is timo a flrm hand wa11 taken, But wh@re �here is con­ siderable for1.1lgn population every one seeking office feels that he must play for the Irish-American vote, the English-American vote, thti 11laHan-Amor!can vote, tho Jowlrlh.Amerloan vote, etc., and 110 tho correotion does not come that way, It's time for the complete olimlnat!on of hyphens. Those who .came, hero hon­ estly desiring to become Amerloan citizens, and did becomo American eitillens, are not Irish, or Ji,nglish, or Italian, or Jewish-they are Amerioans i.nd unless that spirit ean be pounded lnto their heads, any at­ tempt to further progress in this land might as well be abandoned. S ECRET ARY KELLO GG SPEAK S 'l'he timely remarks of Secretar y of State Frank � 'I!. Kellogg, in addressing the Norse-American Cen­ tennial celebrants at St. Paul, serve to call attention anew to the fact that the count'.·y is under constant bombardment by radicals bent upon the destruction of the present form of Governm ent. It is significan t that Secretary Kellogg, who lived some years abroad before assuming the duties of the post he now holds, has reached the same conclusion regarding the danger to the United States from foreign propagandists, as his predecesso r in office, Charles 1 I E. Hughes. To him the apparent cessation of hos­ tilities by the enemies of the Government is only apparent. He knows that all the time the alien enemies of. America plot and plan to create trouble here, and he knows also that as the y'ears go by they ,grow more subtle in their method of attack and consequently more dangerous. The average man who reads his daily newspaper, goes to the ball game in the afternoon and gets out the flivver for a Sunday ride, is not conscious that groups here and there, spending no time in such pl easant and wholesome recreations, devote them­ selves to plans which they hope will fruit in the over­ throw of the republic. They write, print and disseminate literature cal­ culated to inflame men's passions ; they poison the minds of the young and they get money from abroad with which to carry out all their plans of revolution and destruction. Nobody thinks that the Government is in danger of being overthrown within a few weeks, months or yeara, The destructioni sts themselves have no idea that they can malce their nightmare visions come true at once, but they de, beljeve that the y are now sowing the seed which will later produce the harvest of Com­ munistic fruits they desire. How long it will t ke---for � that crop to ripen does not concern them. They are r fanatics and concern themselv es with the preaent in the belief that if they do that the future as they ' would have it will take care of itself. And it will unlesa the American people heed such words of warn­ ing as Secretary Kellogg uttered at St. Paul. Tlie Commer cial strives constantly to make good citizens unde1·stan d the importan ce of eternal vigilance in thia matter. The enemies of this most fortunate and greatly prosperous land are numer us, and , abroad they plot constantly hoping to repeat here the ohapter of horror they have recently written ill Bulg1u·ia. 1 The Norse Contribution l President Ceolidge'r. Minneapolis sp:ech ;wis rn0re than a s �e tribute to the quaJ1ty o_ be Norse c�ntribution to American develop �nel1t a;-d citizenship. It was net only very effeetrve in �ts historical- presentati0n, but discl� sed a fine tncerity in its apJ')reciation of an influence w___ ieh has done much ta shil,pe A111erican life, e�pec1ally 111 the Northwestern states. The None nations have alw11,ys been foremost in pioneering expl©ration. They were the ,poldest of the navigators of the late Roman Empire . era, They settled Iceland and crJ'.lesed the Atlantic to Greenland and Vinland, They were l;J,ppar- . ently the first Europeans to reach the New World. They impressed their character an_4 a?­ venturous spirit on southern Europe and lrve m 1ts history as a race af conquerors and super­ men.' Their nioneering instinct fitted them erp.inent.. ly to play a helpful part in the b�ilo.ing up Qf the United States. They toek naturatiy to the fron­ tier life and in the nation's firi;t century Amer­ ican development was intimately co1mected with the feverish push of the frontier towud the Pa­ cific. They c,ame here to subdue the land ,'Jnd to own it, just as the earlier Elnglish, Scotch a.'14 Irish immigrants did. Merely as settlers there was thus a natural kinship between their idefl,s a�d those of the ('Jlder Amerkfl.ns. They brought here a specific determinati�n�to e11j oy religious . and political freedom, to till the soil, to ereate better conditio11S for their descendants. They ' may have expected much of America, but they had also much to give it, since it Wai$ to become for them in all senses their chosen country. There was another bond of sympathy between them and the people of the region in whieh they ;ettled. They cherished the ideals of freedom­ of pe_r_sonal liberty. free speech and free lab-0r. So, jn the great struggle to fl.holish slavery a11d €nd its economic blight, they were absolutely at I one with the free North. By contributing to the j growth in population a,nd wealth of the non-slave states a,nd fortifying public ;;;enti-ment against slavery' the Norse mflow, as well as all the other inflow from Northern Europe, helped m11,terially to rid us of the cramping and antiquated slave s stem. �Our Norse immigrnnts, mostly fa1·mers on the frontier fringe, were rooted, in dh-id1:u1Jists. They were the mo1·e easily Americanized since they fitted in with the life and notions of the West of their time. Nobody talked then of the ' melting pot." It bubbled without being noticed or labeled 'I'he modern problems of immigra, hon had not intruded, the United States at thaf time having both the political and the economi< motive to encourage immigration as far as i­ cou!d. Excess alien population in cities and ex cess alien labor in industry were worries un known. 'I'he Norse inflow, n1oreover, has never raise• uch problems. It has always held to the ol· line�mainly to replenishment of the agricul tural popuhition of the Northwest. Of the man accretions to its citizenship America can there fore set the Norse immigration apart as one o the most welcome and whole&ome. Our Scan dinavians have made good citizens and' sturd: patriots. Basic American notions and p:reposses e10ns were already in their bloocL They were ir, a way genuine post-colonial colonials. On the hundredth anniversary ,of the sailing of the tiny bark Restaurationen, carrying the first company of Norwegian i mmigrants to this country, it was fittmg to recall what these Norsemen and those who were to follow have done for America in re-­ turn for what America· has done for them.. The balance is equitable and h onorable, representing fulfillment on both sides. "You have given sour pledge to the Land of. the Free," Mr. Coolidge told the Americans of Norwegian birth or descent whom he addressed yesterday. That p ledge, kept, is all that can be asked of any group of eitiuns, native or natu--ralized. ' --__,.... The Norwegian Celebration. President Coolidge's presence in Minneapolis has in no small degree heightened public interest in the celebration that is being held by Norwegians incident to the centen­ nial of the landing of the first Nor­ wegian settlers in the United States. In the course of his ad­ dress yesterday President Cool­ idge pointed out thrt we number among our citizens about as many persons of Norwegian blood • as there are citizens in Norway. He likewise called attention to tha fact that in Norway about 80 per , cent of her people are engaged in ' agriculture or related occupations, while the remainder are more or less identified with maritime en­ Norwegians who have deavors. settled in the United States have about in the same proportion fol­ lowed like undertakings in their adopted country. Energetic and progressive in their chosen occupations, the Nor­ wegian-Americans have contrib- I uted largely to tlfe development o f the United States. They have de- veloped productive grain farms fo the Middle Western States that they have populated, and along the Atlantic Coast they have assisted in marketing this grain in Europe. It is in the field of shipping, how­ ever, the Norwegians have prob­ ably been of greatest service to American trade. This contribution I has not infre '\uently been over­ looked. The merchant :fleet of Norway, per inhabitant, is the largest in the world, and in gro::,s tonnage is usually considered the fourth largest. But merely a small pro­ portion of this tonnage has been used to trade between Norwegian ports. A large proportion of the Norwegian ships has been char­ tered out to otllers to transport freight between foreign ports. These ships are today being used in large numbers in trade between United States and West Indies ports, bringing us sugar and trop­ ical fruits. They bring coffee from South America and assist material­ ly in distributing our produce among the Latin Americans. The freights we pay for these services have contributed their part in en­ abling the people in Norway to buy our grain and our :flour. Norway's exports of goods are much smaller than her necessary imports, the country being under the necessity of sending her shi:>s and her sailors abroad for hire to equalize the un­ favorable trade balance. In celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the a.rrival of the little sloop Restaurationen with the first organized group of Nor­ wegian immigrants the United States is likewise celebrating the beginning of an inte:rnational rela­ tionship which has been advan­ tageous to this country. The com- , mercial and diplomatic relations 1 between Norway and t he United States have been particularly friendly. President Coolidge there­ fore expressed a universal hope when h e indicated a desire to have this fellowship continued and en­ hanced, and to have it inspire those of other alien bloods in our midst. The No se Centenary. Now th� -O'overnment of Nor­ way has officially indicated its in­ tention of send1m, members of the Norwegian Cabinet, the State Church and the Storthing to the festival which will mark the one hundredth anniversary of the first immigration from Norway to the United Sta•tes, the ceremonies in St. Paul in June will engage the active participation of three great nations. Both the United States and Canada preceded Norway in entering into the cele­ bration. No other immigrants have im· pressed themselves more characterfs. tically on the c'Ivilization they found in the United States than have the Scandinavians in the Northwest. Their traits and habits are reflected ia the life of the commuruties they founded, though no foreign training Is strong enough to stand out for more than a comparatively brief period against the assimilating influ­ ence of life in the United States. Physical traits persist, habits of thought and action may remain and national idiosyncrasies linger, but the inward and spiritual man i thoroughly American in time. So it is with the Northwesterni pioneers who began to com.e from Norway a hundred iears ago. Their nature is stamped on the environ­ ment in which they live. It would be a disappointment to the visitor to the Northwest to find none of the traces of the Norwegian and Swed­ ish life traditionally supposed to sur­ vive there. He will not be disap­ pointed, but he will simultaneously discover most loyal, single minded citizens of the United States in the men and women he sees. CALVIN SAYS A MOUTHFUL President Coolidge made a scholarly address at the Norse centennial in St. Paul. He talked of ''the glyphs of _Ur/' tli.e "tombs of the Pharaohs," and of Thor and Odin. ---He grew almost poetic in his utterances. We liked his speech, even though it occupied five portentous looking columns. But don't turn away, folks. This will be no scholarl review of it. We �II Coolidge in Norseland. ,1 ,• Tbe wekome of President CooL11><a: !n Mj.nnesola wa$ a greftt official and pers�.al romplime �t . , Four y ears . ago, "iten fre was Vice�! re5ldent. lfr. COOLIDGE i.:;poke at tile plac.e " here yesterday he delh•ered h is tribute o � the Norsemen. J:i"our years a�o t e Northwest was i n an eco nomic auct spiritual slump and Mr. COOLLDGE was coldl J• received. The people out there d i d not k no w him then; they only remembered that the price of farm products was low and that times were hard for the farmer. Yesterday, 100, 000 strong, they ho had become President h n d �hey saw h im ; hailed a a�c: known man who had dem onstrated to every quarter of th� country his common sense and his d emocracy and who had won nationw i de confidence. Minnesotans who walked out o� �he fair grounds in 1921 without waitmg tor the end ot Vice-President CooLIDGE's speech stayed yeste rday to the 0 end ot President Coo1.1DGY. N speech ; sta yed In the rain and cheered. Not h i ng could have proved more j conclusively that the fever of discoa tent t n the North�·est has aba�ed. This Mmmemorat i on of the centen• o.:• •�h e begI n n,·ng of th e great n1al migration of �orsemen to the Un i ted I States was not an affai r of Minne- · aotans alone. Thousands of men and , women of Nor�regian blood had gathered from South Dakota. Iowa and other nearby St ates. They are proud of thei r or igin, proud of the! r ac­ compl i shments In the Western World, e.nd manifestly proud or their coun­ try's President. In his scholarly address President CooLIDGE pai d a splendid t ri bute to the ancestors or his hearers when he 6&id: "These Norsemen whose be­ ,. ginnfngs i n the United States we ,. here celebrate have exercised a " great Influence upon our modern " history and Western civilization .. w hi ch it is d i fficult to mat;h amon� any other like number o .. people. :I This ts undeniable; yet Americans who admire the accompl i shments of these bard worklcg, thrifty men and women or Norse blood t hat have made such splendid citizens must remember that under our Immigration laws only 6,500 Norwegians may be adj mttted yearly. Congress, neglecting the country's need or a selective immigration pol­ fey which would let in t he sort of Europeans the land most needs, puts up the bars against s om e of the most desirable races. 1::: 1 • J : N�h America's Firat White . i d Born 1n 1 003 to 1006 ;� :.e first white child born in the J world fs presumed to have been Snorrl the son of Thorti.nn and Gudrld :icarJsefnt The place of bJrth was In Vlnland on the Atlantic coast, variously placed from Rhode Island to :Nova SCotla by students of the Norse attempt at colonization. The Ume was betwee n 1003 and 1006. 88.3,·s th e Kansas City Time•. At that time some 1 6 0 men and women from the Greenland colony under the leadership of Thorflnn settied in Vinland with the intentio n ':f founding a new colony. Thorftnn s :!el1"oo!r1�1:o ;i !r;t!�� o i!i:J�o:�� in returning to · Green land from Norway and discovered an unknown land 1 where he found ""seJf-eown wheat fields and vines. " r the olt hl; :::c� <;._� ::: centen nial was quot "There seerqs little do at several centuries before Columbus saw the , ligh t of day there iwas born upon e n r tr; �� a��:!�a�� i::=e : :�:t : mathematician and astronomer that his s tudies may have contributed much to the fund of k nowledge which help ed Columbus formulate his vision ot th e world as we know It." THE TOWN IN REVIE W 0 , i: 1� �,. .t. i I rI - -- - ·�-- . lidge and the Vikinga. l pled�e or. the-:'i�rn-ei,ia JlN•ple hRs nel'C'r �one unredeemed' 'l\ :u: the condudi ug �l'ntence of the 11.tidre�-s u! ttrc T'resifient to the �1gantlr tbroni:: a��emhled hf"fore him in ::\Jinne:.-;ota 1111 )[ontla_v in t•elehrn-: t:.:-:::1 or t h(' ('�• nh'llll i H I ,111nin•r!-JllT 0 the first immi�r:t iion uf :\'or�f>lllrn ti 1h(· jll\"f'llilO n•1111hli<' ,-.1;-, t(•ar-- :,;uh �t'ljttent to the fir�t JH'f'"�u rc• or �•·an<lina,·lau u,W.ttr nurn ·s foot 01 J th,• �oil (1f the \\'�•!'tern \\'orhl. . '.\Jr. ('ouiili�,• l\"HS addrt"!-�lllA' ,r rowd of 80,000 perli!ons, ot whom, ii 1 : i� qui te r,;nfe to assume, a consider­ I able majority ·were of !\'on;;e blood. 1-fo wns '-Peaking on t he spot wl.tere, 1 f1lur yeRrH ng-o. a similar fair grounds 1 Towd ''walked out on him'' because, j n the firr-;t plal'P, be ·was I.hen ..onQ· a Yif'e Pre51ldent'' a nrl flecoudl�_· be- I �l'au. .;eMinnesota was a lnnd of finan­ .:'ial d istref-s nnd �eneral unrest. _ )���••<·h.;':.'�.Jl!ii,·erej hy 1 p.rapuqe Jo sapn.111 .1awwns .IOJ paau ll!h\ zawwns nu .1OJ h\Ou XO H ': l ;l I X bis addrf'i.s nt t E' X'or�e Cf'nt nial in St. Paul on MonJ d:tr, the Sage the Sa p EuC'' .t stood on a kitchen chair, reach ed up into the clQMt, haul out t he old ::\felting Pot. 1 flicked the- duM from 1lre ram·:)r)c hanti:;.;erci.Jief, and holding it at o:rm's h"ngth , bade the Xorwegi:rn . 1ook at it and ( � �= It';. t he fir!';t time thf" old ::\f elting Pot has seen t he light of da)· sio� Colonel RooSl'n•lt used it. i-iome ytars ago. to hold verbal raspberriE'!-1 th:1t he hurled at the denizens of '·Tbe Poly­ glot Boarding House.·· " AKE a look at it, feIJc,w Norwegia ns." said Cal. ""I T thought for a time it could be supplanted b The Old y Oaken Bucket ; but I was wrong. The inside may 00 a bit areas)', but whafs a little grease among us Americans?" " OYS. this is a grea t country. Don't e-rer Jet anybody B tell yon diffnent. The fact that a lot of Dagoes, Swedes, Czech�Sto,·ak bus bo)·!'l sod GreE'k waiters ha-re come here to indulge in posterit�· and peri-piration. and to aan up enough tips to enable them to return to th e land of their birth and pay off the national debt, p1·0,·es this to be a won• deriul fond. ..There isn"t a place in the -l.-orld where a lot of ·wops and Chink� and Scotch-verdi ct-Russian Dukes could liv"e together in perfect frier.dship as they do here. Of course, once in awhile the�· ·n P.tab a customer or shoot up a United Cigar Store to break the monotony of the dull round of money­ making. But wha t does that ,pro e:'' (Cries of "We'll bi te ! Tell us, what does it pro,·e r, I ° th c I it 11 t ir y::� �:o:.�; �;1:� i t:�t::Jy ex:�� i !:c: i� t�: T�:n��� 1 n 1 be at d b g ��; �u��is��on: �; :�e E:;��� ::;:•b1:::n �:;a: ) contributors who enr parted a full set of white whiskers in the middle. _ ____ '' HERE are persons. my fellow l!lardine packers. who will 1 T try to kid you into the belief that America is nothing but a giga ntic grab bag-a market place, where you h1n·e to turn the strawberry box upside down if you don't want to get 1tuck. ''There are persons who wiil telJ you that I am a white­ eyed mi stake-that I was sent to the White House for the &ame reason tha t a kid sends his teacher a comic \"Slenti ne. "Don't let them fool you, my Norwegian friends. Don't e-rer let them peri.uacle :rou to sell the l:'nited States 'short.' "If this countr.r weren't a great country it would nel""er hat-e 8Urdn•<l Prohi bition. "\VhA.t country on the face of th e earth. ex<"ept th e good 1tituted the Rihle, for Bra dstreet. as we ha,·e <lone, anc.l ot g e.wa.v with a 100 per cent. re1>utation for sanctity ? "lVhat <"Otmtry on th!> fac� of the ea,rth. except he good oJd V. S. A., could run two insti tutions like the �ew York ''N • f;;�::. I _ 1 l _I / �Stock Exchange and the 'l'reasury Department, side by side, with the Treasury showing a surplus? "I'll tell you, fellow herring chasers, America has the re­ spect of the world ! "MY l\lercu_rial friends, Messrs. 1\Ienken and Nathan will pr0bably smile at this. But, learn us look into the matter. ,Yhat do we find ? "Spend a Summer ii Russia and see llow the Russians adore us. Get pinched in the German language for walking on the grass in Berlin. Tell them you're an American and see what will happen to you. Step into one of the shops on the boulevards of gay Paree with a fifty franc note in your hand. Fellow Norwegians, take my word for it. You'll not hai-e to count your change ! " E VERY one who studies the institutions and people of America, will come more and more to admire them. ''Step into a Sea Bench train on the B. R. T. some sultry Saturday afternoon. Mingle with the strong Americans you find there. True, they ham their faults. The men exude the pungent effluvium of llfc-ccas and the women use sachet instead of soap. But what of that ? I say you can't study them with­ out admiring them. You don't have to keep traveling with them day after day to admire them. You can mix with them once and then do what I do-sit in your office, se,eral hundred , miles awa;: and admire them with the electric fan tt1rned in their direction ! "A ND our institutions ! Ah, fellow tishball rollers. there's a subject to challenge the enth usaism and engage the talents of a Demosthenes-Demosthenes, that famous Xor­ wegian orator ! ''A lot of you would rather have me explain to you why nobody went to jail in the oil scandal. A lot of you would probably like to know why the Supreme Court knocks off work for three months each year with only half its work done. Some of you, perhaps, with inquiring minds, would e,en like to ha\·e me tell where some of the birds got the money from that they so lavishly contributed to the Republican Kational Campaign Fund. '·Dea1·ly would I love to expatiate on these matters ; but the hour grows late. " .l!'eliow Swedes-I mean, Norwegians-I am loat h to close. l could go on deluging you all night with remarks out of the Third Reader ; but I know you are anxious to get back to your h appy hall bedrooms and your sweet-scented hovels. " RETURX to your vocations, fellow fishlovers. with wilted collars and happy hearts. Don't worry about America. 'iYhen you wake up in the night with forebodings about the future of this fair land, remE>mber that I am on the job, and then 1·oll over and go to sleep again. "And whenever J'OU think of me, fellow clam-diggers, say to yon r�clves : 'Cal Coolidge--Pro Bonehe1td Publico !' " BEAU BROADWA:).:. SAGA. l A:mericans of Norse origin meet today 1 in M inneapolis to begin the c�lebration of the one hundredth annivenfary of the I first exodus of Norwegians to the United 1 States. A million of these people, more or less, came to this country during the century, most of them to settle in the 1·egions about the Great Lakes and in the Northwestern grain States. Some, un­ able to resist the lure of the sea which for so many generations had called their j ancestors, stopped at the Atlantic norts or pushed through to the Pacific N�rth­ west. Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wiscon­ ·sin and Illinois, however, have claimed the majority of the children of Norway_ who there took up the taming of a con­ tinent by the side of Americans of New England, German and other origins. It has never been the nature of :Norsemen to har,g back or to look to others to play their part. Cannot the Norwegians boa.;t of A1nJNDSEN az well as LEIF �Ic.SON ?_ _p_j9n��rin__g is in their blofil!.:_ In opening t:p the ol.<ler Northwest they had a congenial lifcw10rk. It is only n atural that those gathered together in Minneapoli • should d,vell fondly on the glories of the Norsemen L old. They are j ustly proud of the deeds 1 of theh· forefathers. But there should be some modern skald to recite the saga of the winning of the Northwest, and to celebrate the manner in which the,:;e sons of Norway fused themselves into the life of the United States, givin g to their new homes in the woods and plains the same loyal affection that the.ii- fathers had for the hills and fjords of the Scandinavian peninsula. The Northern peoples, as Professor LARSON of the University of · Illinois has aptly reminded us, have gone into many countries, never with empty hands. In paTticular is this true of those who came to Ameriea, for they gave not only their um:emitting labor, b1Jt also their sanity, their persistence and their strength. Nor have they been backward in directing the affairs of the North­ west. The names of KNUTE NELSON and J. A. 0. PREUS an still fresh in the pub­ lic mind, representing the best that this stock has contributed to American poli­ tics. To be sure, there is VOLSTEAD also, whose popularity has been more dubious than that of the other two, but he was not alone responsible for the Prohibition law. Yankee, Norwegian, German and Swede united to build this old Northwest. There, under the impact of common ex­ periences, living the sani.e life in forest 01· farm, building roads an<l railroads together, and creating to,'\,-ns, these kin­ dred stocks have fused into a new ele­ ment of the American population. The old people naturally cling fondly to the memories of the fatherland. Hard­ headed Yankees beyond threescore years and ten recall fondly the good old days in New Eng-land, and dreum of the little white farmhouse under the tall elms where they were born. So also th e Nor­ wegians look back to N�rW!lY with an occasional twinge of homesickness. But their children too often know neither New England nor the " old country," and are altogether absorbed in the life of today and tomorrow. They are con­ scious that to them has fallen one of the best sections of the great Mississippi empire, and that they will be called upon to share in the responsibility of crystal­ lizing its developm ent. Those who can boast of Norse he�-itage will take com­ fort in the thought that their forebears never shrank from hard work or danger, and that having once put the han d to the plow they never turned back. ✓ THE TRAIL OF POLITICS. he President"s trip to Minnesota lllustrates once moI"e the incffi•i'i.l:ili, tendency of America113 to read a Political If!0tlve into every act of a public man . To most people the thing appears entirely simple. There Is to be a cent<n1ary celebration of the first immigration of Norsemen to the United States, which resulted in add­ Ing a sturdy and valuable race ele­ ment to our population . What could be more natural than fot: the Pi:esl­ dent to take part in such a note­ worthy commemoration ? • Yet the / observers and the interpreters are I al ready reading h is heart. They see him embarked upon a. political jour­ ney. He is invading the La Follette country. Deeply significant is the fact that Setiator L�;NaooT, ::\worn enemy of LA FOLLETTE and sentenced by the latter to political death, is ac­ companying the President. This mak£>s it certain 1o some penetrating minds that M r. COOLIDGE has already begun plan n i ng the Congressional elect ions of next. year and the Presi­ dential campaign of 1028. l<'rom so small a matter Is a great fire kin­ dled ! Political oracles are n ever willing to accept an explanation that lies on the i;urface. They search out hidden ca uses and secret intents. It is easy to say t hat the President is merely giving official countenance and · pres­ ence to an im portant celebration. In addition to doing that duty of his office he mi ght be thol!ght to have 1 an innocent. d�si t·e to see something I of the country over which he rt,les. He has long been a home-keeping public sc-1· vant. l t is said that only once before has he ever been as far \\'est as llli n neapolis. A nd it would i,eem obvious that his brief appear­ ance t h ere, w i t h his hurried return to \Vashing·t on, could not lend itself to mysterious plottings of any kind. But the politicians who are wiser 1 th-an seven men that can render a reason will not have it so. They I n ­ sist th,1 t vast and subtle designs are concealed bC'hhid what appears to be a merely routine Presidential trip. If Mr. Coor,muE were to extend his .)ourn sy ::ind go in f'<"1.n:h of the Ore­ gon Trnil his critics would be i;ure I to ,;ee another trail much more omi ­ i:t 0us-the tr-ail of. the serpent of poli1 tics over it all. ---��·-- - �: • P�werful enough to hold it �th r m time of suprem e trial , ' ' is not only a working out of America 's own clear destiny , but fulfillin g its mission � to the rest of the world. As Mr. CooLDGEl said, if this fraternity of individ­ 1� uals and groups of different back­ �rounds and their practical coopera- / hon are possible for a hundred mil- ! lion on a continental scale, why not I on a scale of the world ? It is in tha.t direction that the rest of the world is , AMERICA'S MAKING. ooki ng, though w e 'give them little adl Minnesota his ln President Th e) help aside from example to do on thej' dress recognized and emphasized the w en I grand scale what we are doing for �act that America was n �t made_ l: � / m� , ourselves. its or sett.ed was rim n •lts easter - I I -:dependeuce was won, and that each � . group of settlers coming from a o.ifferent racial and sochl.l background has made a distinct contribution to � America that is- and is to be. This t w4s visualized in New York City a f-tw years ago at an exposition in which each of twenty or thirty groups represented, so far as It could be done. In a visible or audible way, the special gifts that each had brought. The late\ Secretary · of the Interior , FRAN KLIN1 l{. LANE, celebrated in a brief sum---.m&O'" what tit'�y brought. Besides their I . music, their poetry, their art, their l I 1 fancies of the mind, woven in wood , I or wool, silk, stone or metal, their ' ! memories of familiar things in \bme, field or forest, kitchen or dress, a favorite tree or an accustomed flower, a style in cookery or in costume-be­ sides these they brought hands to work, minds that could conceive and sto\lt hearts: It is a son�ewhat debasing figure of speech to say that they are all thrown ! into a melting pot. One can but feel / that such a fusing of their g·ifts would ' mean an alloy less precious than the best, even if better than the worst; for many of these gifts have value of form as well as of substance. America would have no such promise for the rest of mankind if it were only a melting pot. Hope lies in the fact that all these best gifts may be pre­ served in their Integrity in such va­ riety and vastness through a unity of purpose and a basic brotherhood of spirit. As the President added, the history of America did not begin with its dis• covery nor inside its own bounda ries. Far beyond these the " magnJ ficent and wondrous adventure " began. Much of . it was written by unsung millions living in other, centuries and other lands. To throw all that they have produced culturally into a melt­ ing pot on its entrance into our ports -or, as Mr. LLOYD GEORGE put it in another metaphor, into concrete blocks of a common mold-would be to throw , away the· finest flower of our !nher- , itance. The making of an America in which freedom is given for the culti­ vation of t � e best that has anywhere come to be, though of varying type and tal ent, but with a common ideal I �r� Coolidge H opeleuly Behind the I Times. he Preslden t is reported to ha ,·e decl ined the offer of honotary deg rees from no Jess than twenty colleges and umversltles. But that wa s before his Minnesota speech. Would th, 1ea-1·ned hlst!t utions bave Dllefl:""Q \.ite so €ager to shower LL. D.'s on a man who re­ vealed himself as hopelessly ignorant of the recent conquests o f human lmowledg·e as Mr Coolidge did at St. Pau l ? We wonder. Of ali things on earth It was the Melting Pot that Mr. Cool!dg·e chose to exalt before hls Norse a udience ; that melting pot which h a s been recognized as a delusion and a, snare by every one who ha.s made a thoroug·h study dr the army intelligence test figures in rela.tlon to the mean annual temperat ure since 18110 our decennial output or. borax and mang·a� ?ese, and the decisive factors In Napoleon's uefeat at Wate1'loo. What self-respecting col­ lege woi1ld bestow 1ts diploma on a man who says of the racial strains in the Un ited States toda.y, "We a re thankful for all of them' • ? Has Mr. Coolldge read Snagby's _ harrowrng exposure of how our shipbuilding program during the war was brought to t'h e verge of :failure by the high percentage o f Alpines i n lllinoi � ? ls t h e Pre$ident ac­ quainted with Doldrum's monograph on "'.l'he J nsanity Rate Among Mediterraneau Tobac­ co Growers in Fairfield County, Mass. " ? Why has not some one drawn the President's a tt'(ntion to Beowulf's conclusive proof that the flas<00 a.t the Tower or Babel was entirely due to the absence of the sturdy Nordic _ qualities among its builders ·t Right there in his�nce at St. Paul the President migh t have found ample proof that there are races and races and that one must not be thankful for all of them. The sturdy, �ober, thoug•htful Norsemen whom Mr. Coolidge addressed last Monday with wheat at $1.75 wel'e just as sturdy, sober and tbOughtful two and a half years ago with wheat at $1 .20 a.nd going down. With mort­ gages foreclosing and banks breaki11g·, the people of the Northwest refused to lose their heads, refused to g·o in for radical move- 1 . ments, but pers1�ted In electing Senators and I Jcepresentatlves of .the sturdy, conservative type. On the other hand , recall how the Al- J pine and Mediterranean mill-workers of Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire went completely off thefr heads, and under the sting of. unemployment and low wag·es demonstrated their unfltness for self-control <lemocracy and melting pot by .sending t� 'Washington men like Magnus J ohnson, Fra­ zier, Ladd, Shipstead and Brookhart. 'l'he President can look for no diplomas or de• grees from this column until he has ob• t_alned a thorough grounding in the pdncl­ ples o� the .New .Anthropolog-y. CALVINS OF ANTHROP� , :1· acial predestination as a te.st of fit­ ness for American citizenship llas been roughly handled within the last fort- \ night. President COOLIDGE j;pgk issue j with the neo-anthropohJgists i n his st. Paul speech when he dwelt on the variou;s racial strains that have en­ tered into the makin__g: of the Am�rtcan people and decla:i_;d : " We are thanlc1 ful for all of them . " At Faneuil Hall Mr. HUGHES thought the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Bunker Hill an appropriate occasion for rede­ fining true Americanism : " It is idle " to expect homogeneity 1n this coun­ " try with respect to race. True " Amelicanism ls of the spirit, and " not of any race or strain. " On the same day. JOHN H. CLARKE, late Asso­ cir.te Justice of the United States Su­ preme Court, speaking at Brown Uni­ versity, protested against use of the phrase " 100 per cent. Americanism " to express an attitude " of self-suffi­ cient superiority to our neighbors." Mr. HUGHES' s caution against the employment of so-called science to bolster up a prejudice is all the more stri.ll:ing because h e concedes the , existence of a body of facts upon I which the raci'a l classifiers have reared i their theory. He admits that the " vast numbers " among us who are imper{ectly assimilated and have had litt1e experience I n self-governm ent and political self-control provide a con­ genial soil for alien doctrine. He puts the problem, as it has specifically expressed itself in our new immigration I policy, where it belongs. The problem is quantitative and not qualitative. If America has turned to restriction of 1 Immigration, the chief reason has been the belief that we were getting more aliens than we could assimilat e. Our pioneer restrictionists were in the ranks of organized labor, . where the motive was economic and not racial. The American Federation thought only of wages w-hen-i clamored for putting up the bars. It could hardly have sub­ scribed to the theory of races fit and unfit for American citizensh ip, seeing how large a proportio n of the Federa­ tion's membersl1ip is drawn from what it has become the fashion to qescrlbe as tl1e Jnflt races. I The argument from racial fitness had some substance so long as It con• 1 fined itself to the record from experience. It was a fair presumption that the immigrant who had behind him a long training in democracy and self­ government would enter ' into the American tradition more easily than the immigrant from a country where I �,government wa; synonymous with op­ pression. But the political anthropol­ ogists have not been content with this distinction. They have insisted on I turning_ history into something like l metaphysics. They have tracked the : races back to their native habitats in Europe and discovered that the prob­ lem of self-government and self-con­ trol as against aµtocrat!c government 1 and restlessness is embedded in the racial protoplasm . If some European nations enjoy liberty, it is because they are predestined to lib'erty. If others live under feudalism or despotism, It ls because they are unfitted by nature to I develop any higher institutions. It j has been a fascinating game and ft has I been p!ayecl to the limit. The races of Europe have been classified by destined funetlon. These are born to lead [ and govern, these to till the soil and obey, these to seethe and destroy. For the purposes of Americanization It ceased to be a question of more prom­ Ising -and less promising mateI1al. It became a question of good material and impossible material. Against such extravagances 1n the name of sclence authorlti;itlve voices have now been lifted. Mr. HUOIIEs i n particular delivers a powerful counter­ stroke when he raises the question whether the ability and willingness to live and 1st live ls not In itself a test of fitness for American cltlzenshtp. " Capacity for self-government is " tested, not by the abiUty to cooper­ " ate with some of our fellow-citizens, " but with all ." It ls a11other way of sarlng that any attempt to portion off ,he races into sheep and goats Is poor \..mericanlsm. I I -· � .._.._____ Character It may fai rly be ter:ra�d one of 1'time's revenges" that the same Coolidge who nearly three years ago had by f,.irce of • circumstances to play on the Minnesota State Fair Grounds a forensic role even more nearly mute and ing-lotloul! than so often noted by the !·ate Vice President Marshall has just been greeted on that same spot by hosts then inattentive and hailed by ringing chee•rs where his Well considered words were earlier little heeded. In part it is appreciation of the world's greatest office. But also it reflects a new appreciation of the man. It is not so very many months back in our political history when that region was often considered the cen­ tral breeding ground of discontent and insurgency. Those were the rather recent days when so much was heard of the northwes tern farmer's magnified ills, so much was distortedly made of local financial and banking distress ( itself largely the fruit of unwise small banking). 'f.here was the native heath of new political Lochinvars spring­ ing upon Washington from the northwest, so largely both agricultural in vocation and Scan,d inavian in racial stock. lMitoriql fi•om the Botton l,,• ewB Bureau Yet· wifhfo tnree years :from Calvin Coolidge '; first seemingly dismal visit to Minnesota he received a record plurality as the national choice for President,-included in which was the 5 1 0 balance by which these Minnesotans preferred him. In one sense it marked a changed political and economic atmosphere on the prairies. In part it was personal, and it has become more so as ensuing months in office have made clear to those wide rea-ches that the Coolidge Administration has stood as sincere friend to the farmer, while a foe to panacea fallacies that could but hurt him in the end. To some political holders of office there m ight lie in such circumstances a temptation to lecture-reading with a tinge of reproach and an "I told you so" flavor. But the President reaches utterly above such small implications. He treats sagely and decorously the eventful chapter of our national social history that followed the century-old coming of the first little Norwegian bark, and with equal nobility of attitude and phrase deals with the vision of national and international concord and fratemity inspired by our own Americart experience. He takes the time and trouble in this season of anni­ versaries to. go to emphasize this particular one among "the social backgrounds of our country." Also to em­ phasize the profound _social-and economic consequences of the great immigration which this country received and so largely financed. And within and beneath the text of that tribute goes another typical. deduction or emphasis. It concerns a quality. It fa that same quality which in another sphere J. P. Morgan ranked first. It is char­ acter. Seen1ingly small things, the President notes, turn out Mstorically to have had mighty influences. Thac in­ fluence "flows from the character of those concerned.'' He observes that "the character of the participants brought tuture fame." And he goes on to an appreeiation of that broader thing-national character" or 'tlie soul of a nation ." It ;.. that which makes America. It is a fitting emphasis. And it is pre-eminently char­ acter that makes the Northweat-and the nation-now l�sten so keenly to t�i.s quiet voice. 0 00 r- c.-.-,. l 1'll 1 8 2 1 the No•r wegian Cleng Peerson landed I n Americ�, anc: in 18_2 5 _the _ ship Re,taurat ionen , 1Jutiated :Norse n111n igtat 1011 1n ='""'""'t � tenary, celEibrated in the Northwest this week, deserYes the national attention which Mr. Cool­ idge's presence will give it. When Fredrika Bre­ mer visited -the ·United States in 1 8 50 she found nearl y 40,000 Norwegians already settled .in Wis­ consin alone. They were the advance guard of an am1y which, with Leif E-ricsson's pioneering spirit, swept rapidly over the Minnesota and Dakota j prairies. Amecrica 110w has a m illion. fl,ncl a quarter inhabitants of Norse bl ood ; and their contribution I to our national chara.cter, traditions and achieve­ ment is out of ·au proportion to their numbers. Tiley and their fellow-Scandinavians haYe largely made the NortJh.west what it is. They may look around them in Minneapolis and reflect that this t of 400,000 peo� WM marked by a. sin THE NORSE.MEN IN AMERICA cabin seventy-five years ago. They ha.Ye turne the cold northern plains into one of the most fer• � tile farming regions of the globe. ln politics they bave assume-d control of their section and left I their imprint on national affairs. Of the last n !n� 1 l Governors of Minnesota six: have been Scandt· 1 navians. But for the untimely death of their great ! l i'beral l eader, John A. .fohnson-like Knut Nelson, �1 of Swedish blood-they might ha m gl ven the counj try a, President. Coming from nati ons i nterested 1 j in e7'periment, they ha, e taken n:> tu.rally to co1 op€raiion and equal suffrage-at times to the Non­ ! Partisan League and the ideas er;poused by Hend rll, Shipstead and J\la.g nus Johnson. Their cul­ tura l interests, suppressed du ring their years of str ugglf' with raw nature, h.ave stea dily grown i n vigor. The Norse in particular d o not forget that they come from the land of Ibsen, Holberg, Bjornson a,nd Grieg. CuM. ural ly, no stocl{ has become mon, quickly Americanized than the Scandinavlar.s . '!'hey have entered the country to make homes. to learn Eng­ lish and to rear their children to be patriotic citi­ :i;ens; they mlgtht easi l y have formed i mpervious foreign colonies, but it was not their nature. Jacob Riis in "The Ma ki ng o;f an American" caught the spirit of this adoptive loyalty. let it is not in­ compatible with a sentiment of reverence and love for the traditions of the homela nd. The Norse I feel that they ham ; great history, dating from the tl me of the vikings, and that the conquest of the American Northwest is an integral part of it. They may well be proud of their heritage and its transpJ.antation. ! ________...., I I WHAT MR. COOLIDGE LEARNED ON HIS TRIP WEST om ls Min nesota trip we are told by the co espona�ts traveling with him that the Prea• !dent returnea, b�J.�v;tng1. That he must be "more determined in his policy to collect t•h e foreign waT debts." 2. That "the policies he has pursued relative to P gricuJture anci tu Jealing with politi<;aJ !Problems In the Northwest have been correct.'' 3. That "radicallsm is less as·s ertlve." 4. That the coontry "furnishes am:ple ev1dence I of prosperity." 5. That his ta.rift program ito1 "fundamentally sound an d stlmulatf<n g." 6. That ·11e can "direct Republican Party politics In the n ext election." These are Interestin g observations because they are the observations of the President returning from his first trip West, as President, across the country. They are interesting observations be­ cause they show, among other things, that when the Presidential party was selected, a lower berth was saved for the Official Spokesman. The Pres·i dent went to Minnesota and delivered a 5,000-wo,rd address on the subject of the Norse migration. In the n ature of thing� we do n ot ----- , expect him to be as expllcit on the subject of the .MR. COOLID GE'S TRIBUTE TO THE NORSEMEN I Unite1i States. It is simply worth noting that .1'lr. Cool idge's address at th1> Norwegian Cen- when Mr. Coolidge talks of anything as near tennlal Celebtation yesterday holds little for those home as debts or tariff, he talks through th� re­ pol itical strategists wlJ,o read between the llnes of porters and with emphasis which varies naturall : every Presidential statement and find therein a in the case of each reporter's notes. The Worl<1 message to the politlcians. It is true that Mr. has pointed out on more than on e occasion Coolidge pointed otit that unlike races l ive at recently how wholly dependent the co·untry is on peace with one another ,in America, drew there• second-hand reports an d in direct quotation for from the lesson that a certain "spi ritual qua1!ty'' any knowledge of the President's conv1ction s. ls common to �ll men, and asked ho,P€fully the question, "If fraternity and co - operation are possible on the scale of this continent among people so widely diverse, why not on the scale of a worl d ?" Not even the most ardent isolationist, however, will read, J n these sentences advocacy IN THE DAY'S N EWS of a world state or threat of a supergovernment. '? N HIS A DD RESS to the lescendants Mr. Coolidge, at the Norse Centennial, was con­ l of the first Norse immigrants Pr es i ­ tent simply to pay tribute to a race which has • his Stamp Issue Passes New dent Cool,idge r,efninded ,.hem of one done much to consol ! date a Western frontier. This York thing tlpt neither immigrant nor m.tive­ mi gration of a hardy, frugal people who live in r oR _ the first time in the history of born should ever forget. Speaking o i' a northern land of lakes a nd iron to another the postal system of the United those who landed 100 ye:n, ago seeking n orthern land of lakes and iron impressed the State.s New York will be passed a home, he said : President as an epic story, and the motive power over in the sale ot: a special issue Of I behind that migration interested 11!m no less than post.ag• stamps, 'T'lw. issu� is t11 a.t \n Citizenship in the "'ew \Vorld meant Its social effects upon our national llfe. Why, commemorati-on of the Norse-A nerl­ something it had not me:rnt. in the Old. asked Mr. Coolidge, should the Norsemen seek can celebration Ip the Northwest. !t was seen that the i',ew IV01·ld offered America in such nu mbers that to-day there are something new. There was increasing They are p int�1n only the 2 and 5realization that many burden::;ome tra­ as many people of Norwegian stock in the United cent .values and Government officials ditions and institutions had somehow States as there are in Norway ? The · answer, Mr. regard them as pcrha.ps the finest ever been shed. Here, at last, the individual Coolidge thought, is that the Norseman loves lib· sent out from the Engraving Depart­ was lord of himself. master of his own erty, and "Here at last ·the in dividual was lord of ment at Wash in gton. So careful ha::: destiny, keeper of l1is uwn sovereignty. himself, master of his own dest iny, keeper of his been the work on them a.nd so costly Here he was free. own sovereignty-here he was free." that the numbe1· offered to the public Probably something of that sort exp1'ains the That difference between the two has been limited. As a consequence Norse migration. Not i n as complete degree as they will 1b e sold only at St. Paul, worlds, Old and New, remains. It is not M r. Coolidge pictures has the Norseman won his Minneapolis, Nort)1field and Benson, so sharp as i t was a hundred years ago, freedom-his freedom economically, politically I\Unn . ; Algona and Decorah, Iowa, but it exists. It is this rather than the and socially-in this land of his adoption. But and '\V'ashington, D. c. • With t,he ex­ skyscrapers, the open lands, the vast ception of ·washington, all are towns one freedom a new land in an old worl1i has over• spaces and the great resources of Amer­ whelmingly bestowed on him. Th>at is freedcnn or cities where the population is ica that makes and keeps the New World Jangely of Norwegian extraction . For from the dead. what it is. this reason and because of the close limit put on the issue, not one will be handled by the New York Post Of­ fice. r , l 1 , , . j r1 As a consequence the stamp col ­ lectors of this city have been sorel y handicapped in securing the new etarrvps and it is to satifllr them that the philatelic rugency of the Govern ­ ment at the National Capital has ibeen given a prescri•bed number for dist_r i­ bution. They will be sold as long as they last, first come first serYed. Al ­ ready there has been a rush for t he,m and _postal official� predict that they will last but a short time. The 2-cent stamp has for its central design a ship representin.g the sloop Restau ratlonen, with a smaller vessel in the background. At the top of the stamp, in a straight panel, a ppear the words "Norse-American" in white Roman letters, and below this, on a curved ribbon, is the word "Centen ­ nial" in dark letters. Ribbon scrolls appear in the upper portion on each side of the stamp with the years "1 835" at th/l lef.t and "19 25" at the right. The central design is in black ,vi!Jh the border printed ill red. The 5-cent stamp has for central design a Viking ship. At the t op in White gothlc letters are the words ''N orse -Am erican" and below this the word "Centennial" i n dark letters. At the left ls a shield of Norway with the year " 1 8 2 5 " above and at the right of the stamp is a shield of the United States with the �·ear "1925' ' :ibov.e. Below the crntral design, in three straight li nes, are the words "United States Postage F'i;-e Cents, " and !n 00th lower corners wi thin cir­ cles with dark background is ,he white nu01eral "5." The central design is In ·'black with the border design ,.hl Q:>Iue, 1· �---o>=:::::==-�----"--- FREEDOM I Not in as complete degTee as Mr. Coolidge pictures has the Norseman won his freedom­ his freedom economically, politically and socially-in this land of hie adoption. -New York World. Tommyrot l The Norseman who has come here I has been a free man politically as the elevation of many men of that race to prominent political offices prove. The Norseman has also experienced economic freedom as the material achievements of many of them attest and if they have not known social freedom it is their own fault-and here it is proper to remark that so fa1· as can be determined they have not, as a claBS, complained thllt they have been denied social �rivileges, It is the custom in some quarters to assume that freedom in the United States is something besides that-in :fact, that it is a modified fOrt of slavery masquerading under that name. Wnenever I. W. W. forces nre made to keep the peace and respect the riihta of others, up goes the cry that they are th (! victims of a tyranny that has no rightful place in a free country. If .men who unionize and seek by force and terrorism to compel others to submit to them are restrained, the charge is heard that they are being deprived of their liberty. If the natioti outlaws drink that edict Is described as another step in d_epriving all Americans of their rights. . Wherr government wreckers are stopped the agents of the law are pictured as tyrants. • Now the Norseman is forsooth only a man of circumscribed liberty ! Bosh ! The facts will bear a brief recital. The State of Minnesota-and this applies with equal force to much of the Northwest-is largely owned by men of Norse extraction ; they have become wealthy, they are politically in the ascendancy there and to say that they are socially denied is to make an assertion that is utterly false. It will come as something of a shock to the people from Scandinavia to learn, upon reading the World, that they are not free men in the United States. If the World would specifically state wherein the liberties , of the Norsemen in this COUl).try have been denied or 1 curtailed another interesting addition would be made to 1 the many chapters in The Book of Misinformation. More to the point than the trite and idle observation which we have just pro­ jected is the fact that the '\Vurld and the column have finally agreed on something.' Probably the entente, if that is what it is, will be of brief duration. Likely it won't last a.ny longer than the '\Vorld's support of Mr. Hoover for President in 1 920 ; but for the moment it exists. Sooner or later, and for brief periods, we get into acco1·d with everybody, William A llen White and this writer once supported the same can­ didate for Congress in the I•'ourth Kansas J_)j�tJ-.i�.t., Anyho,v, the fact that l\fr. Coolidge drew a crowd is unimportant. What is impo1·tant in the case of Mr. Coolidge ii,, that he keeps his mouth shut and has the abdominal investiture to go through with anvthlng h e starts. These are the qualities which capture and hold popular fancy, and the job of laughing them off. is one of the most gigantic in the world. --- � \ T R•E N G T H OF ,:.-;:;; N A T I O I' Presiuent Coolidg;'s joumey fron \Vashington to Minnesota's twin citie, to address th e thousands1of Americani of NOl'W�· ll,irth or descent in at tPJHlance at the cen .cnary celebratio1 oi' the arrival in this country of' th1 first immigrants from Norway is a , w01l-deserved recognition of n im- / vorlant and worthy element of Ameri­ can citize nship. IL is more. It is, as tlw Chi ca:go News points out, a recog­ nition of the nation's incalculable debt to self-reliant and liberty-loving men and women from all Joreign countries who liave thrown in their lot with native-born Anrnricans, a c c e p t e d A nwrican ldeals and insti tutions as their own and joined heartily in the common tasks that claim the atten­ tion of a great and united people. __ .JJ -=o---�- NYACK N Y JOUR MO. D.1,,Y, J UNE 16, 1925. THE PRESIDEN'rS MINNEAPOLIS ADDRESS fOn Se.coiul Thoiiifil I _l E AGREE with the esteemed. \Vorld that the great crowd which greeted I Preside nt f;oolid�e in Minneapolis does n't mea n any°'-i:g_g m artigular. Out· in the ' Great Open ,Spaces, ,rnere every voter knows who is President, a Pi·esiden t al­ ways draws a crowd. It is in the massed centers of J:)opulation, where only one person i n ten knows who..is President and only slx out of ten speak his langl1age, that he fails to attract attention. By JAY E. HOUSE of The President's 1lddress in Minneapolis on the occasion , wa No nger Stava ! � J:' the 100th ahnievrsary of the departure from nmm­ egian Norw first the . with of the bark "Resta.uritonen," ,vhat the fil'ants to the northwest' wa-s ·a deserved recogmti011 of o nortfu the of Scandanavian race has done for the up-building ally. w'estern States and the country gener assert­ But the President was on debatable ground when he eleme born n foreig the �ts ed that this country had assimilated m speak es, ra ent differ � how of pe ? and set an example to Euro eh· ent differ and ms custo � ent differ with different languages one nation­ gions, were able to dwell in amity and concord under al flag. 1 �T� e ado1:tion of the Restrictive Immigration -�� �; �ver- 1 _ whelmmg maJor1t1es _ _ m the Senate and House, proved that this · country, vast as it is_ in territory, has been unable to assimilate the millions of the foreign born who have come here and ·that to safeguard our institutions, it was nec�ssary to put down the bars on unlimite� i�migration. 'l'he war showed clearly that the proc�ss of assnmlatio _ n had not penetrated beneath the surface. It will take an?ther hundred years and a steadily diminished im­ _ _ to give accuracy to the President's picture. m1grat10n OSWEGO N Y TIMES WEDN.llIBDAY, J_!H'llli il, _l�Z5, r g NORWEGIAN OENTENNIAL '' e one hundredth anniversary �1e coming of th e :�orwegians to America will be celebra ted in St , Paul, Mlnn. , the first week in June.' Among those tv be present at the centennial will ·be Bishop Lunde, p 1·lmate of the Established Chureh of Norway. He comes as a n of­ fieial representative of his govern­ ment, a government that seems to feel pride in the achicn-ements of her emigrants to the new world. 'rhe bishop arrirnd in New York recen tly accompanied by 50 members of the Gra duate Stuclent Choir of the lJniversity of Christiana. The Norwegian centennial will fo· cus attention upon a highlS,, respect­ ed but l ittle known racial et.rain in our popula tion. During the Nine­ teenth century Norway Jost by emi­ gra tion, a comparat ively la rger por­ tion of its population tban any other European country with the exception o.l' I rC'land , iUost of tbese em igrn nts enmfi to t he United States a n d settled i n the �orthwest, where ! hC':V lla ,e foll owed wilh industry and thrift the traditional oc:cnpa­ tiohs of .t heir forebears-farming and lumbering. They are in<lw,t rious, loyal, law­ alii ding and provident. We c:on­ gra tnlate them on their one lluu­ clred years of participation i n Amer· ican activitie:'!, ancl hope to know them better by reason of the puib· . • ·ity given their jubilee. OSWEGO N Y TIMES !91 t�1m1 N OR S E-A M E R ICAN CE El!B,A- . T·heir coming was the inauguration of an extensiv e imm igration from Northern Europe- a most impor­ tan t contribu tion to the populatio n 1nd prosperi ty of the N'ew World. A vast number of the people who came here from Norway settled in Minnesot a and other States which constitut e the Great Northwes t and ' took a most importan t part in t-11 e developm ent of that section of Nie country. 'rhey were stout-hear ted men aud women who grappled with th& conditions of 'a new coun try, conquered all o:istacles and macle it the great farming section which i t ultih1ately became. These peo­ ple J?OSs�s;;ed great energy, de­ tennmat1o n and perseveran ce and the fruits of 't heir labors, · during the past . century, are t-be most elo­ quent testimony of t heir contribu· lion o f Americ:a. And they h ave succeeded i n all fields of human activity in which they have direct! ed their energies : in agriculture i n manufactur e, i n commerce i n 'the professions, in statesman;h ip, in all other realms of endeavor. The celebration now irt progress, sig• nalizes the completion of a century of American history, covering years among the most momentous in the experience; of this Republic, and of the i m portant part which the men and women from Norway md their descen dants have taken ln our national life. Ra�nESTFR r . ' TIMES UNIOM MONDAY, J .\!,.;, l, 1926. The Nr,twegian Centennial _j'f!.<.::!?N!:?!JPAY1 JTJ}i'll3 N S I N M I N N E­ SOTA Al',any Times-U nion One hudred years a.go the first people of Notwa y crosse d the At­ lantic to make their home in tJi.e ' United States. The centenn ial of tllat event is being celebra ted with impres sive ceremo ni.es at St. Paul, Minneso ta, in which Preside nt Coolidg e, represe ntative s of Nor­ way, and ma.n y other promine nt personag es are ta;?!ng part. The opening of the celebrat ion occurred wit· h divine services conducte d fn the _Norwegian language , and will continue for several days . It was on. Indep_end ence Day, 1825, when tlus nation was but forty-'nine years i� existenc e, that fifty-two Norwegia ns left their native land and sailed for America on the Sloop Resto.ration . Fourteen weeks were consumed in the journey. They are industrious, . Joyal, law-ab iding . and_ provid ent. We congra tulate them on their one hundr ed ye•a rs of partici pation in .A.meri ­ an activit ies, and hope to know the� b etter �Y. reasion of the 11mblicity given their jub'ilee. . •'fl'he one b u11di•eaut·a:nii'iversary of the com­ i ' • of the .Norwegians t o .A.merica will be celebrated in S t. Paul, Minn., the first week in June. 1 .A.mong those to be present at the centennial will be Bishop Lunde, primate of the Es­ tablisib. ed Church of Norway. He comes as an liw ga;rrri1ment, a official .representatm government that seems to feel pride in the 1;1,chievements o.f her emi grants M the new world. The bishop arrived in New York recently accompanied by 50 m embers of the Graduate Student Choir of the University of Christiana. The Norwegian centennial will focus atten­ ti<ln upon a highly respected but little known racial strain in our population. During the Nineteenth century Norway lost by emigration a comparatively larger proportion of its popu­ lation than any other European country with the exception of Irelan d. Most of these emi­ grants came to the United States and settled in the Northwest, where they l1 ave followed with industry and thrift the tranitional occu­ ·pations of their forebears-f arming and lum­ bering. 10CHE u TER N Y CHRO� W EpNE SDAY , JU:NE lQ1 lllili,.! bl Lo�ks Back to Ken ���s;; - l. ·1:tional attention was focusc<l on New York sLale as a historic and natural gateway,. :hrough v/1ich swept many of the pioneers from l:'.;uro:-e who . founded the commonwealths of the \'i< (;St, b�· thr, President's speech at the r I\ Cgia�ion in Minnesota last �; for 'the event which t he centennial ,y,u: organized to celebrate and about which the &ddres,; d the President centered was the • [ot,ndint: of the first permanent settlement of r:,; orwegia::1 s in America at Kendall, i n Or!eans !Ounty, j nst o ·er the l\Io1•n·oe -�ounty line. Were one to go to Kendall to-clay he wonl<l , i:nd 1few descendants of that fi rst company of :wenty-four No1·se farmers who found there �be land they }{ad crossed half the globe to sce;h, but the significance of Monday's celebra­ :wn was that the descendants of these Orleans county pioneers did not lose the pioneering 1:,p;rit o::: their forefathers, but soon p ressed i ,n ther we,;tward where the broad prairies of H,c then Northwest gave them space ample for Lhe exercise of thei.r energies. The great state of Minnesota owes its upbuilding largely to l lleir pioneering, and it would be fittil;).g and 1,Jca::;an� were that great state sometime soon to erec, at Kendall some memento of the fact t nat th�J e first paused the band \vhose heroic 1.,crnn-cro-'>sing in a small sloop was the begin­ nin�s of it1- existence. Th·� Norwegian s in Minnesota to-day, as the I rP.sident pointed out, are loyal Americans , but i.he thought suggested by the Albany Knicker­ l,e;cker Pr£$S on i\fonday, in comment on the I'reddent'::: address, is worthy of passing notice : W hile the nation turns its eyes to-day toward M.innesota , wl\tere a President dis­ e;u1:,-tes re1:,ults oi 100 years of the American pot a,, t�pplied to the Norwegian immigran t centennia l, New York state folk will be mclined to scrutinize that ancient hamlet, Kenda}; , in Orleans county, as the real be-· gir-ning point of the Norwegia n immigra­ i.ion wave in America. • There, in, 1825, the y�ar of th� Erje canal opening, twenty-four immigrants who h ad sailed from Norway in a tiny vessel carrying an iron cargo the previous July, began a settlement that was to serve as Lhe fir£t seed of Norwegian colonizat ion i n Americ a. Natural geograph ical gateways, it will be noted, 'J)re-determined the general area of first settlement. Those g_ateways still £unction, though tl1e settlement of the West, in which the Norse immigrants have l1e1ped greatly, l1as resulted in double use fo1· them. If Leif Erickson, first of the Norse immigran ts to America, had encountered such a natural gateway to the interior as tha� fonnd by Henry H udson, America n history might have been written in another language, as is indicated by the develop. ments from small beginnings at Kendall in ":o.nr Ya�t �i.P 11l1l......:s1o.!2.l� � a.n fT uo t: J.� n.lPuO;, •1� llO!TT!'l, q,.to>;t o·T TSl '.r·r.8va ,rno•8 . , S:UOOl all .llll. 'Rl!UJUaA� 8!!0t[d J O Jl1l;) ·va1gJ;ir,s 111"" •puo.1q11 .lln1oll Jon1t1.0 •nop,a, lt; (WvP • •1Ea.t :my 'aallJl AJJ,JttnU[ 'Al!:ll,(l-)ap ·{\lil){ '•lfpiq 'ijlOOIJ ])00M])JlHI 'O[)!S lIJ1'" smoo.t � oput,i ,.1, 11 ''J{qnop •anna.u, J;,L[SH'.!IA I X il : StTTO\ll l''"'l ,f•l>U\/i[ -lJT\ O;) !l'I\'. ;: r ;; '<-Oil U •J'IH!'T s,a.-, 0,1 J»n a 80.Q • Jqa1u,1y ·:,:: 'ilflJ'1SJDM,T- �•ocnm�TER N T CHRO� SATUR nAv, ,flJ 'T,' r n. lft.35.. --- ommunfom to Be Crushed. , caking aL t ';ic ��rse-�\ >ncrican c211tenary 111 l\Iinn,,:,pta, Secretary h/L., gg M our--recieral iJc '" ·1,1c1t of Hate told foe country of the �pread ing, dangerous r<>vok.lionar:v oropaganda a1H: org,,:-- '"'-ed assaults up11n ouz· Constitution l:,y "Red:,' who advocated tl.e on,rthrow o f our gViern rncnt, H e assertrd that foreign influ­ ence wn� bel, ind the move:;n ent . .and warned the' vropagandists that if they did not like our go,·crn mE-nt, this was no place ·or them and d11>y should get out. J r. Chin a, Japan and Mexico : i•1 France �l llci E ngland and here, and \n the Balkans and • �-11erever 1 hey can stir up t_·,m ble, Bolshevistic ..:. :1,n-itie<\ arc being carried on. But the · English J'J Verm11t'r1t is awake, as ours is, to the 111enace �1 : the 1;10Yf'ment and is all ready to suppress �t. by sndden d rastic step,;. It has the names of t i· n-e thot'. sand active Communists in the King­ G(•m , and r, t t he first e\'idence of a criminal act, i t prl)po.;;es to rou n d up and deport them all. 1 l:t•lying on the traditiol'lal fr<?edom of speech / i.-1 E1.gb:i<l. the "Reds�• 1-. u�e f,'l'own bolder n, ad ily untU they parade,! ,,n 1fa y Day i n Londo11 ca rrying portraits ot Lcrd11 and wear­ ing re1 belts in which long lmivc:1 were thrust. lJut the- have gone too far. The J,abor govern­ r.1<-nt a i.'owcd them to ship si:, nundred ma­ c i, ine gun.o and vast quantities of munitions to R ,1ssb, but the present government brought thaL t o a hult, and is only awaiting a n incident Li or de_. Lo strike them with crushing force and E .:,.t1rpa•c• them in Egypt, India and throughout t !;e Bmpire. Fl'eeclcm of speech and toler:mce of diverse . opmi<: n �•ncl conviction mad<: England the city cl. 1·efuu,t' for political offenders .;,:pd critics of �cve1:nmentnl i n sti tutions t !1roughout the world. _ _ _ Yh.. fol:owt:ed suit m estab 1 1 · h mg a government t r.der which all the peopl<'. here and yet to , ,)me w e,_•c> assnred wide l atit ude in belief so , kr,g ,u1 their activities wcrt! \·,ithin our laws. 'l hc- prmc:iplc> in both c:,ses was that con­ c.c ptiom: ,Yhich could not mee all reasoneci ar1;c1 mcnt'l �,nd verbal challenges were not the i.1• ul11 • OT t n ly part truth an,[ should be mo<l i­ i1er1. Tbi practical -..vorking of the theory "·as ,,.u rerb, fo;_• it drew racial elements from every- 1 w11erc. oper-mincled to truth, of incalculable , aluP t1 both nations ; and they became, in 01..riptun• phrase, spreading trees in which fowl of. cvel'y wi::-ig- found shelter and sa fety. But any principle pushed too far wo1·ks to ( , 11 anil destruction, and we are discovering now that no nation can admit disturbers, anar­ c hists, r.1 iscreants who come not to enjoy our freedo•-.: but to destroy it, to overturn our in­ s titution�, impose their o"·n class tyranny up. on t; • a1, r1 cru s h out the liberty which let them m. As this great truth is borne in upon the ::-:. ;1xo1,-Celtic peoples, they have closed th-eir gi.! Lcs to a t'raek and scrutinize all who wou ! d enter ; ar,d they find also that in self-preserva- • t 10n the:r must stamp out and drive out a l l the , elcr,1ents which misuse their freedom and arc I I 11 �thy to l ive under reas�nable l�ws. T� ,I;,,�; ~;liwe for them is under governments which w 11; ham me,: them into subjection and extermini:.te then;, if need be, root and branch. The in­ J :cntion;, are that this is soon to be the cardinal pohC:y 0.t tht> leading governments and that I v icious pn,pagandists are due to get the drastic treatment Fascist Italy visited upon them in all tl1e freP progressive states of C'arth. W hen i01·ces d0slructiYe of freedom organize to des­ troy it, forces preservative of h uman liberties 1 n� ust org ;mizr-, in their defense. I THE MELTING POT .I;.t popular theory of the Ameri­ caf m elting pot" has been under­ going a winter of discontent for the last 10 years, since Americans of brains and social standing have felt lt their m ission in m any cases to make speeches and write books o n race control, t h e rising tide of unde­ sirables and espeajal!y to boom the "Nordic theory." PrE>sident Coolidge had a chance big with all expectancy to all these when he was invited to express the national appreciation1 of the m o re Notdlc elements of our population at the centennial ce)e��QJit of tb,e coming of ouf l\rst successful colony of Norse men. He has taken occa­ ever, through splendid sio1 , praise of the families from Norway to hand boquets to every mother's son and daughter of us on the "melt­ i ng pot'' stage. He says it is his conviction that we are all splendid stoclc when w e l i v e u p t o t h e best traditions o f t h e countries o u r forebears hailed fro m. Then to "rub i t in" before goi n g back t o more extensive rejoicings with our Scan dinavian kin he puts it into the form of a philosophy. He ls convinced that we are related by a "basic brotherhood" with all o f the races that · have sought our shores. What becomes of some of the m ost prominent theories of recent years, which em phasize the supe,­ iorlty of one race or another or the essential peril of a skin because it ls white or pink or blue ? It ls even popular or was before June 8 i n many parts o f the country ,to think the "m elting pot" was o bsolete as the 1 8th century "social contract" or "checks and balances" in p lace of honest men taking counsel in m u ­ tual concern. Will Nr. Coolidge succeed in re­ st'oring the ''melting pot" the ory ? He said not a word about the immi­ gration act now in force and said to have been written by men influenced, possibly obsessM, by the sci-called Nordic theory. It hardly seems probable that some of the newer opinions of race will survive the period of thorough scientific criticism i n the extremely crude form that such high priests as Dixon and Grant Allen have given to it. Neither is It probable that the melting pot was so bad an ideal, i f talj:en with reason a s level-headed Americans really used to take it. America has never sought to pro ­ duce a n ew race here on the basis of unifo.r;mity of blood inheritance but of uniformity of opportunity and of mutual right and respect. The melting p!t has been eco' nomic and spiritual and so has been social to a high degree. It has suc­ ceec)ed with all the older material which thought itself as diverse as certain persons now imagine the three stoc!{s of white Europe, This new strange theory may do some passing good by throwing Into each other's arms such long-Jost c:ousins as Saxon and Irish, Celt and 'l'euton, even •if these get together to discuss no better a topic than the pe1·il of the Alpine stock or the in­ congruity of the transalpine dolo· chocephalics. The last WPrd of science has not been spoken, because the facts u pon ·w hich the theories have been spun with boldness that amazes truth are n ew and numerous and have not been all compared. Some surprises are coming when .iust what each race has contributed to the value of h uman life today is m ore definitely appraised. Mr. Coolidge cannot be far from the truth when he surm ises there are no superior races. The great races are a large company, of won­ derful variety in talent, and have been wider spread in the earth than 11ost of us learned at school. J . ' 1 BTIU.CUSE N Y HERALD 'l'lJ)118DA Y Til l\Tlil � 1 !!%, ck� B��;��N THE NORS� The celebration at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds has riveted public interest as a tribute to the Scandinavian elements which have contributed so much to the upbuilding of o.UT common country ; and it is fitting that / President Coolidge, who braved a trying j journey for the purpose, should have been • present to give official expression to the n ational appreciation. The present year markls the centennial an­ niversary of the first i1m.p ortant arrival of Norwegian immigrants to reinforce our still thinly populated Republic. As the President recalls, there were only fi fty-two new-comers in the venturesome hand ; but they proved the nucleus of a Scandinavian influx which has made a deep and wholesome impress on American life in the great Northwest. Our country has drawn n o better citizenship from European sources than the Norsemen of 1 825 and their Scandinavian fellow-nationals who came afterwards in ever increasing numbers have supplied. It is proper that this acknowledged fact shou ld be proclaimed , on the present ceremonial occasion, and the President of the United States was the man to do it. Incidentally, Syracuse must feel a special thrill of sentimental satisfaction at the concurrence of the Norse centennial with I the similar observance marking .the. birth of l our mother village. ---------- _,..;;,,# ,... 9TR.A<m "'Tl1 WEDNRSD \ SEEING THiNGS� Th'ef!e are those 'who will see in the t:rip of President C-Oolidge to the Norse-American cen­ tennial in Minnesota a strong political undercur­ re . . They will imagine it a;s th� �eg�nnlng of a. campaign ·for renomina.tlon • in 1928, a plea for political support. Thus do -the summer IJrophets see tb,!ngs. There was nothing political in the expedition to the Middle Wes-t. Thare v,a-� but the official recognition of the celebration of the Norsemen of America who hav� se.ttled in that section and be- come a sturdy .part -of Amer�canism. But there was nothing in the l)resi.dential trip to prevent the throngs who greeted him from be­ coming more enthusias-tlc over Mr. Coolid�e. U th�re were· no · political intent o.n the surface, no intention of campaigning, ther-e was, howe·ver, an �They cl id not fear work. They put urid ercurrent that will rem:iin until the time comes SYRA�l'f'E 1'J Y i'.:\'f ' ".T'ARD their hands to the plow and turned S U N lJA . , J l)fT.E; 14, .tJ2Ci. when the Pres!d.ent again goes before tqe people the furrows of ric h mellow earth. for their -considera,tion. ' The church and the school went with Presiden Coolidge •a:d Secretary �ellogg Once, in 19 21, Calvin Cooll:dge, .. then- vic°e presl­ them and little settlements began to den,t, went t◊ the · Minnesota -state fair , grounds went to St. Paul and Minneapol is this week, spring up. They were a religious and was booed and hissl;ld. It was an unfortunate made speeches appropriate to the centennial people, ' an ambitious people and a occur-rence. But ,t,he memory of that inciden:t was people. Those who · came loyal of the arrival o comQ)letely wiped · out by the tremendous recep· tlon Mr. Coolidge's Visit ..- _ = _ I before the Civil war laid aside the lrst boatload of N se accorded the President on this visit. It was fully to Minnesota. 'plow and joined the Un ion army, the immigrants to this indlca.tive of the strong' im:;iression he has m ade women running the farms until they upon the people. !),2!_ntry, spoke also of public q�estions, and returned. They brought with them There was no politics in the address t·h at the , were adequately cheered. The president was the vigor of the North. They sent President made to these descendants of the Vi�­ home reports of the wonderful oppor• advised everywhere' that the state which su:i,lngs. Only one refere•n ce cciuld be so c·onstrued tu.nitles which the new world held ported him last fall was glad , of the choice it and that was In regard to co nservatism and re­ out and others came. Every ship made, and that La Fo Jette was losing not spect for the egtabl ish,ed order _of ,things and a. gaining in power in the northwest. Mr. Kel­ from Europe brought its quota. of suggestion that restoration ,from econowic_ e vlls logg was given a reception which testified the ' Scandinavians and they quickly merged into the American national cannot be brought about througl1, legislation. pride which Minnesota has in its son, who life. They did not forget their old But there will be those who will see things, has since he represented the state in the customs but the people themselves who will pevsuade thems•elves . and try . to per- . senate become ambassador to Engl\md and • were quickly assimilated. suade oithers that Calvin Coolidge was boomipg secretary of state. There was no little colony which kept by it• Mr. Coolidge was in Minnesot� once before. himself for another term as pr,esiden:t. They wish selt and nothing but the names would to see the trip from tha,t angle· and nothin.g wlll That was in 1920 when he was a candidate for .ndicate that they were of alien birth. make · them see it othevwise. The only founda­ vice-president. He spoke to the farmers about The sons of these Norse men tion for· such belief is the necessary concom!-tant the policy of the Republi(::an party • towards �ame go:vernors, senaiors, membe rs the farmers, The audience showed its dis­ of political advancement tha.t ·conies fl'Om the per­ Jf -congress, they becam e leader s in approval of him and his speech. In fact this sonality and p,o·pularity of the mian. rarlous profess ions and in public speech was the culmination of a s eries of The changed attitude of the section ts not so ife. The late John Johnson of Min- i disappointing receptions which led to the impolitical as :i:t is personal. If •a.ppearii1g before the . mediate o.esota was the son of Swedis h par- 1 cancellation of the candidate's tour. people wtth a, messa,g� of greeting,· wHh ·a s.ttofig He got ents. There was Knute Nelson, h im· no further west than Minnesota. thought of national !fusion, be playing politics, then Two years later Senator Kellogg came up self a native o f Norway, who served Mr. Coolidge played the game. • But that was not for renomination. his adopted country in the Civil war He had been a conservative the inten.Uon. lit was merely a natural • adjunct ; senator. He had, however, and for many years was United kept closely . in arising spon;Eaneciusly and creating greater re·­ touch with his own people anq States senator from expected to win Minnesota. spect for tlie man and the exec�ti�e. ' re-election. He was defeated by a long­ They were but two :r,icked . at ran• I haired dentist. cl.om . Mr. Coolidge ' and Mr. Kellogg return in Preside nt Coolidge 1s in St. Paul ITJlACUSE N Y ST.ANDA.JUD triumph to the scene of their discomfiture: today where he is participating in l��iji ffHlE\nA v JTTNR 9. T Senator Shipstead, the long-haired radical, was the celebratio n He speaks for all on the platform with him. He shared in the the peopl� of the United States. The THE -���� �ORTH�ST. � applause. Norsem en who settled In Americ a The Norsemen claim that their m:i.nne1·s n1ade -a contrib ution to American life Politici is a strange business. that could come from no other racial were in America before Columbus came . They didn't stay. It was not until 1821 that a Noi-­ "ff.lTJifl.TOWl'f. N. Y" TIDI eup. wegian visited America to report back whether :M-ON!JAYi JU;NJil 8. 19 251 the land was suitable for Norwegian immigra­ lfATEllTOWN. N. Y,. TDal T H E N O R S E I N A M E R I C A. tion. In 1825 the first boatload of Norsemen TlHl1§Dt�i JUN� �i '!he whole country -can join with lanlled and made for the n orthwest. In 1850 the Kortl\west in celebrating the Now alone. there were 40,000 in Wiscon,sin L E SSO-;- TO � El Norse centennial. Jthich opened in St. thel'e are 1,500,00Q of Scandanavian blood, most W O R l-0. Pau , mn., Sunday. It was a hun• of them in the northwest. Pr ent Coolidge in Jds addre s s I d,red years ago that the first organ­ They may claim Minnesota and the Dakotas at the Norse ceu tennial act>.lebr a_Uo_n i ized band of Norwegians sailed from as the monuments of their thrift, for it was in St. Paul pa . 1:l:'fbt1t� t11-e very tlleir ' native homes to come to Amer• 1 f they who made the plains o .. the northwest to person of alien ·birth who came lo ica, S ince that time a great army or j blo�som, it was in them th,at James J. Hill Arnerlca and becam e a rea l Ameri."] Norwegians, Swedes and Danes , saw the making of an empire. They cany can. As the president polnted out, have come to this country and there with them into their new homes love of the America occupies a unique pl ace ln 1 is no group which has made a great• land they have left, but they become American the fam i l ies of natlonf!. l1 great er contribution to American life I not only in their patiiotism but in their habits m any persons, both here an.cl .abroad, than they. In the decades following and outlook. Senator Knute Nelson and Gov­ - ! , believed that we w ere undertaking ! ' the Civil war they came in gr,, • ernor John J'ohnson. are types of the statesmen a dangerous experiment. TJiey fear• ' j numbers and settled in the N reared from amQng them ; and if at times they ed that the mingling of races and west. follow the chimerical Shipsteads and Gronnas, nationalities would fall, and that The Scandinavians were people of they are in company with a,H othe1· stocks in there would be no weldfag of races · : e the soil. These hardy sons of th their lapses. that we would be merely a large col- ! Vikings were big brawny men. '!' hey The Norsemen are celebrating the 'centenlection of ind ividuals wJ.l Mut a son!. ( brought with them strong, vigorous 1 nial of the1 comrn:g· to :Aiiier1ca. Tffey have But when the crisis came it was wives and large families. They did reason for pTide in their contribution to Ameriproven beyond a doubt that the 1 not remain in the slum s ot the cities. country had a soul. Never was there , 1 can civilization ; and all the rest . of us unite They turned their fa.eee Westward · in testifying that we share that pnqe. a more cosmc>po lltan army gathered i •1 - 1 auq on the l>road plains of the North• than the arniy which was gathered I west they found their homes. These under Pershing. Nearly every- na- ! big-boned stutdy people ot North• tionallty was represented in its I ern Europe were the ideal settlers. ranks.. The famous 77th division of oo­ -if mai I I I i l 1 ..___,, �•• His address at the Norweiti.!J.D Certorftitti EJclcbHftion in 11�,Unnesota was n6n-political and his mind seemed to be havin,,. 0 11 thoroly good time. Result : An iuterestino- address . 'I'liis particular celebration commemorated the arrival of No �:wc�ian imm i grants in 1825, after the successful American !evolut10n and the firm establishment 0£ the United States as an mdependcnt nation. . )::Iavi�g discoursed on the motives that had prompted earlier �mm1grat1011 to �hese shores from Europe, largely stimulated from the other side, the president came to the immigration cn­ courag·ed from this side of the Atlantic aft,er the csablishment of our government. New York city was perha11s most typical. Raised almost entirely in �New York it is said that there were over 40 nationalities in it. IDn.gl1sh,! rish . Poles, Italians, Jews, Russians, French, Germans, Chinege and scores of other racial representa• 1 t iYes fought together In a conunon / cause. 'They were all Americans, 1 110 matter what their racial origin I , m ight have been. Out of the ni :my) ! nationalities which call • Amerka !I I. their _own came an Americanism of i f the h ighest type, the type that is 1 willing to tlfe for its ideals. So we 1 ,' need have no fear tbat America is a soul. l without I! And• the president asked : if ' scores of alien races can mingle to· i;-ether and un ite for a common cause in America, why cau ther not c-xtcml thls fraternity throughout the world ? The national story of Am erica stands as - an object lesson. 1Ve do not see in this country taces hating each other as they hate t,ach other in the Old \Yorld. \Ye see t hem uniting for a common ca use. There can he internat ional friend­ s.h ip when the nations of the world forget their hatreds and jealousies. The supreme test (:!!lie to America whan we united in a common cause. The supreme test will come to the world when it is ready to drop tts· hatreds and anlmositi.es and unite in the cause of peac� and better under­ standing. " FROM the time when thei_r . fast-developing institutions of popular go vernment, rehg10us freedom and intellectual . l 1bc:ral1ty_ had ;;ome to take definite an� attractive forms, " says . ?lr. �oolidge_, the people of the Colornes took a new interest i n mduqrng _then· _European relatives t o follow them thither. 'r hey tu�ga,ged m an m vcrted crusade, a conquest without invasion and w1tti�ut force. 'r �e -�C:V countrr offered not only material oppor­ t :m1ties,_ but poss1b1hties of spiritual and intellectual emancipa­ t 1 011 wluc� _t hey a_r d�ntly wished t11eir friends on the other side to !ihare, C1t1zensh1p m the New ,V-orld meant something t hat it �ad_ not mea�t in the Old. It was seen that the New World of­ fered somethmg new. There was an increasing realization that many burdensome traditions and institutions had somehow been s h;d. Here, at last THE INDIVIDUAL WAS LORD OF HIM­ , MASTER OF HIS 0'.YN DESTINY, KEEPER OF HIS SELF, OWN SOVEREIGNTY. HERE '.HE WAS FREE. ' ' --!1 .&.lritON romo I JOTJll . IUESDAY, JUN:tri 9, 1925, N9JS1EtMERIC4?� EX� JSITI�N . . r rse-Amencan expos 1tlof c1L the twm c1t1es 1 of the atten tion ing innes a is an event deserv m­ of all Amer an citizen s. It observ es the consu . ration immig Norse of ntury c matio n of a This nati:on owes no incons ider'a ble part of its agricu ltural advan cemen t to the_ thr�fty, stur?Y nes stock which came from the Scand mavia n count of to its middl e west. It was a pictur esque medle y strain s and breeds which had to do with the pion­ sippi eering of our most fertil e region s in the Missis -Ins�, Scotch es, Yanke nd valley - New Engla 1South erners , Bohem ians, Germans and the_ Scand were at10n occup their ()£ years first The ns. , navia the thin and difficu lt, but they have been good to land and the land h_a s been good to them. The fact that Presid ent Coolidge-who is no a­ great hand at travel ing aroun d to _atten d cel�o! 1t1on tions-singles out · the Norse -Amen can expos uous for the honor of his attend ance is entire ly congr ­ Norse grant immi the which part the of in the face y men have playe d in the natio n's econo mic histOT .,..I •------'''-� AKRON OH!O TIMES-P}U:SS TTT1<1$D AY,..J1lNE_J), 192'5. pRESIDEN'I' COOLIDGE can deYote himself t o n o greater . crusade_ �han to lead the fight to restore this country to the blissful condition he so eloquently describes as existing in 1825. _t houghtf l s�rvey of his country today, of the har�ony, _u patr;_oti�� and idealism of all of the people in 1917 and 1918 and the ms1d101:s attacks on freedom during the past few years of awful react_10n, must convince him that he cannot say truthfully t�day that lll the United States in 1925 the " individual is lord of lum,srilf, master of his OWil destiny, keeper of his own sovereignty Here he is free. " • '. • For prob_ably at no time in the history of this country has • b 1 g:0try and mtolel'ance been more vigorously offensive or re­ , hg10us freedom and intellectual liberty less secure tha'n ri "' h 110\Vi. . /___ _:__ _ _ 7 Coolidge on Freedom by the THEN Pr sitl9ut • Coolid ge 's though t is unham pered to • pressu re of poli tical dip:omacy and !;� gives frc.o rein of realms the in ture adven for ss fondne h{s faucy he shows a iqcali sm. I • MIHTA BUT,A OHIO BEACOW r s y JUNEJ J.8, rnzo. 7 , NOT A WEAKLING �-, I sfMur e Calvin Cooli dge is slight, but in :Pure grit as hardy as any Amer ican. in • At the Norse-Amel'ica":h cente nnial to uled sched was he week last is eapol Minn delive r an address. When the hour of the speec h came rain was cutting through the air on the wings of a typical :prairi e "blow ." De­ spite this the Presi dent bega n speak ing at the ap pointe d time and for 30 mi,mtes set forth his views on the serviceability of the Amer ic­ an melting pot. It is not so long ago that there was a hos, He Northwest. The President proba bly re­ memb ers the Minn esota state fair crowd which was too busy to listen to him when he dge was vice- presi dent. But if Mr. Cooli recol lecte d his treatment at his form er Minnesota visit he gave no sign of it in his ad­ dress, The Presi dent's gameness in fa,cing the un­ g, ceasi ng wind to talk to the assem bled thron the on n essio impr deep a must have m ade un­ Northwest. it must .... ve observed his cy. aucra bure on k attac ing finch It is no secret there are persons in the capi­ tal who do.. not like Cooli dge, persons who once occup ie d swivel chairs cushi oned with an excee dingly comfortab le salary. President Cooli dge's Minnesota . has done much to end the secessio ......--.. t. hwes radical Nort �- ont ro_r ce. 'I'he 11cw com1iry offered not onh m �t:-rial opportunities, but possil)ilitics 0'r s �J1�·1tual and intell�ctu al cmancipa ti011 "luch they ardently w1sl1ed the i r friends 011 t�ic othel' side to share. Citizensh ip iu· th (• �e"· "\Vorl�1 meant somethin g that it had QJ.,�<:,:,��.�,i;·i·,c·an cent e nnial celebra t i on in St. Paul, i n n ot me!n1 rn the old. It was seen i hat tlH• of ·':r �':' "\\ o�ld off�red i:;omcthin g new. 'l'heri• w h i c h t h e ent i re Northw est pa r t i c i pates, i s a h i sto r i c e vent . of e presenc " e h as an mcreas1�1� realization that man • t s i s i h t of n o i t i recogn the fi rn t i m portanc e One l�nr<len.·o mc tl'ad1hons and institutions ha� an i orweg N the f o resence Cal l· i n Cool i clg-c. 1\nothe r i, the p :-;?mehow been shed. Herc at last the indi­ '_ ,dual was lord of himself master of h18 Prime I\1 i n i s! c r , Johann l\lowinc kel, and of an official delega­ ' own destin bro, ' Ham Y, k eepcr orP. hrn . • own ' soverei"'nt •\' • tion from the .N or w e gian Stl)rthin g, head e d by C. J "" Ir ere he was free. ' · chairma n o f i ts For e i gn Relation s' commit tee, and for e most Pres1i dent Coolid ge cnn de,·ote hims lf 10 no grcatc 1: cmsad e than to lead the £i �i . amo ng the younge r l eaders of the Scand i navian kingdo m. Nor1 ? restore tlu� count1·y 1-o the blissful co:C1i- • 1;,,; ay's o w n cel elfrat.i on o f the o ccasi o n w i l l t ake th e form a fort­ t1011 he desr· 1·1bes as existiu"' in 1825 . . \ t!1oughtful snrYey of�his coun.try lo• n i ght hence o f an A m e r i can \\'eek at its cap i tal c i ty of Oslo, and �laJ,: of the J�armo ny, patrioti�m and idcal­ u f th e unv e i l ing of a monum ent on th e s i gn ifican t date of J ul y I tsm of �11 .o� the people in 1917 and 19] 8 4th at t h e sign i fi cant port o f Stavange r. and the mi;;1d,1 ous attack s on freedom durin \ , the �ast f�w years of awful reacti on mus1 From Sta\'ang- er, J til ) 4, 1825, sailed the Norse M ay fl o w e r I convm atione11 cc lu7:U that he can not say trutl1full Rcst,mr op o l s 45-ton the On e. nam r tl i ough i t bore anoth e da): �hat 11; the United States in 1925 th� � ? fo 0 5 .with s, Haukau man i nd1v1d al is lord ,, ere Lar s Lar ·en, J ehane and Guel of h inrnelf' mast er 0 f l11•• � op­ own destmy " O"'n sover ei"'nt l o w e rs, in search o f g-r e ater re l igious fr e ed o m and i n d i v idual . , k ecper o f h 1s '-'• . 0 ,/ 1 l r Cl'C lC JS frcr. ' ' ht por t u n i t y . T h i s \\'as the beginni ng o f an exodus which broug F�r prob ably at n o time in the histo r a· t<, Americ a about a m i l l i on stalwar t Norweg ians , and gave i t 1 th1s c�1m:_r:r have bigotry and intoleranc: _ ,000 eeu more , 1goro usly offensive, or re igio . present 1': orse-Am erican populat ion of 2,300,000 . or vvi t h i n 350 . � free Ill and intelle ctual liberty less se wegian or N of l i tra broad The e. of t h e popula t i on of t h e hom e land. poli· coun­ dustrial promotion a-nd often in Ericeneq�) ; n i t iati\:e and _i n d om i table i ndustry crosses our tics. ;.rhe descendants of Leif_ dics" eer• t r y from u1 e Lakes to t h e Paci fi c . Someti m e s these ' ' N o r son retained the impetus of the pion ad­ i m­ the r afte ury cent a lrn ve a l i t t k fam i l y fun about t h e s t rong qual i t i e s tl1at are for ing blood opean venturing spirit of other Eurempire puted to t h em . JJut they arc mi gh ty good peop l e . ons lias deteriorated. As nati have were mor e o f them. builders, the sons of Norway hwest nort the in field CINCINNATI. OHI O. POST found a splendid an \I 'J.'HURSDAY, J UN.E 11,__2?26. and they have left in a wide area l life. ona nati on ion ress imp e libl inde opening President Coolidge made the story ting the reci y, erda yest ht ug ress tho add e's EN President Coolidg and th of the exodus from Norway in virile, sure of ce uen infl se Nor of 18 nnliampered by the -pre�ies free growth seems to Coob terse phrases for which he ibly un· po litical diplomacy and hea �fondness poss ude, aptit ws has E G sho D special I L he O a O cv ve " fan ha D RESI rein to his r public speaker idealjourne d lf way across the surpassed by any othe a compliment for adventure i11 the realms of paid He of his day. C'ontinent to join with Amt •� ism. to the inI.! C�,t.iwiP'.,,. Nore& descent in celebratmr. • 'CO'l8U� 'Ti that was well deserved His address at the ress and prog of it ­ n ? , spir n anniv le was redth itab ota dom neapolis the one hund Notse uial celebration in :Min nesed to _be haV:n g the es eriz ract cha , of the first exodus of Norwegia1. ' thrift whi ch s of \ ant pol itical and his min d seem : An mte rest mg end desc the people. Unlike the United States. , tbe ples a tho �ly goo d time. Result peo an ope Eur 000 , 0 0 0 1, er oth least e at ry som In that centu a ch:h'CS S, United States eon� mcm oi�migrants came from this sturdy Norsemen look to theThey never have 'l'his pal' ticu lur CC'le brat �on · ion. mm igrants European people to· settle the north as their own nat 1·ated the arrival of Norwegian i an revo ­ for political in­ west. :Minnesota, North Dakota and gone back to Norway after they left in 1823 after the successful Americ of the dance, in­ gui this of or most tion nt spira South Dakota received lution �nd the firm establishme pted the Ameri­ atio n. flux of population. Some of it went its shores. They acce American insti­ rni ted Stat es as an inde pend ent n iYcs that to and on n porti utio ler stit smal a con and can mot onsin to Wisc Hav ing disc ours ed on the ndation of their _to t11es e Illinois. Few of the hardy pioneers tutions as the fou . They did not li ad prom pted earl ier imm igra tion ship ed zen stopp citi stnnulated American of the stock ot the Norsemen shor es from Eur ope, larg ely t cam e to k nor did they at the Atlantic seaboard. They found shrink from hard wor they put their from the othc 1· side the presiden this · Siicle en the Wh of . s ger space dan great ge the dod opportunity in 1hc imm igra tion en�omagcd :from hme nt of did not turn • northwest to expand in the true hand to ' the plow they r the csta hlis ()f the Atla ntic afte \ . . back spirit ering pione to tbe 0 111· gover nmen t. . .. In paying conspicuous honor 1r tast-clcYclopIn consequence, tbe Norse influence eer on pion ian " J?ro m the tim e when 11tc erm1;1cn t, :·e­ weg eso• Nor of :Minn in ants today end desc is almost dominant goy century anniver­ i ng i nstitutions of ))O�ula r tual hbc ral�t:v ta and the Dakotas. Swede, German the occasion of the dus, Pi·esiuent li"'i oui:,, free dom ancl mtcllccand attr aet1 "e. exo to ts first s the many � in of d unite �ary ee Yank and e American peo­ h�d come to take (lef\init ' " th� p_eo plc ot build up the northwest, but in these Coolidge represents thea descendant of . forms, ' · say s 11'1r. Coo lid_g c, self nt ancie Him the of ple at l�� l m rn duc mg­ three states, the spirit , dati ng back 1 he Col o11ic s too k a nrw mteres foll ow them Norsemen prevails in finance and in• New England Yankees 1o f'. tiYc rela an ope Eur ir thc ­ 'H l � inverted t hith er. They e gag .cl in an on and w1tl1 •a1=;i :-;a de, a conquest without in C'TNC' TNN AT' < TT TO 1'f'Vl''BIS liITAIZ ��=-�.,,.. TUESD =-i. J�NEJ1 l�fi, ir lidge on Freedom IP I �' to English ancestry of a prior century, CMlidge learned as a boy on the Ver• • ! n1on t fnr!ll some of the lessons that the sons of Norway learned in t�e wilds of North and South Dakota and J on the barren prairies of Minnesota \ in the earlier days. Farmi).1g in Ver• mont and farming in the northwest had Jllany elements in common in the last century. Coolidge was not born to a life of ease in the old Green mountains more than were the sons of the Norse pio­ neers, who pushed through to develop the wild spots of the northwest. His I sympathy with the natio11 that pro• 1 i:l uced Leif Ericson in the dark ages and that gave birth to Am1.1ndsen in :his age is the 1:110re direct be�ause )f liis own ancestry. As President of the United States, 1� honors the thrift, loyalty, stability t�d achieveme11ts of the sons of Nor• vay. As a native of Vermont and a escendant of a succession of Green 1ouutaiu formers; he speaks to the .,rthweatern pioneers with a sym• tthy that is close and intimate. COLUM13TTS omo JOURNA'a _ �ATllB.DAY; M;\j 1 6l 1 �3�. Norwegian Centennial. arson was the skipper in charge of the s'!oiw, the Restoration, that arrived in N ew York harbQr, Oct. 12, 1825, with 16, passengers, the first Norwegian homcseekers to reach America. The centennial of their arriYa! will be celebrated during the summer in many American places where Norwegians are residents. Ml�lis will haYe an important celebration the first week in June and has sought to make that gathering take on a. large official importance. President Cooli dge has promised; conditionally, to attend· and there will be a large delegation of officials from the gov­ ernment of N orway and delegations from the Nor­ wegians of Canada present. Norwegians, with ihcir neig·hbors; the Swedes ::i n d the Danes, haYe had an impoi:tant part. in the d evelopment o.f the l\'orthwestcrn section of the United States. Tbey select th eir homes iii places where the cnld . is severe, as such weather condi­ tions d,o not deter them In choosing, their locations. They are industrious, thrifty, eager to own homes antl quick to take on the cluties of citizenship in their new home land. 'l'here will be at Minneapo­ lil!I at the centennial fJtates who are Nol'we ns, some congressmen and otbers in official life i flt, te slness ln the Northwest and many have been notably s u c ­ cessful. There i s much to 11,rouse their pride a'! they obsei-ve the completion of 100 years from the time their' ancestors came to this country. They found a land of opportunity and tbey have made wise use o( the opportunities, amassing wealth for themsel ves and becomin g citizens of the best type. COLUM!BUS OHIO CtTIZ'J!DT TIIESD.AY.,..lUJ'iE _ ,..,l� .,._ � �OLIDGE ON FREEDOM President Coolidge's thought is , Wt!,u N ampered by the pressure of po­ litical dip macy and he gives free rein to , his fancy he shows a fondness for adven­ ture in the realms of idealism. His address at the Norwegian Centennial ceiebration in Minnes0� <Oa� :Fi'l19t1psl'tisg] ard his m ind seemed to be having a th oroly good time. Result : An interesting address. Th is parfrcular celebration commemorated the arrival of Norwegian immigrants in 1825. after the successful American revolution and the firm establishm ent of the United States as an independent nation. Hav ing di scoursed on the motives that h ad prompted earlier immigration to these shores from Europe, largely sti mulated from the other side, the president came to the immigra­ tion encouraged from this side of the Atlantic after the establishment of our government. "From the time when their fast developing Institutions of popular government. religious free­ dom and intellect ual liberallty had come to take definite and attractive forms," says Mr . Cool­ idge, "the people of the colonies t'ook a new in­ terest in inducing their Europi;a:i relatives to fol­ low them thither. They engaged in an inverted crusade, a conquest without invasion and without force. The new cou;ritry offered not onl y mate­ terial opportunities, but possibilities of spiritual and intellectual emancipation which they ar­ dently 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 was ' seen that the new world offered something new. There was an increasing realization that many burdensome traditions and institutions had ;,ome•. how been shed. Here, at, last, THE INDIVIDUAL · WAS LORD OF HIMSELF. MASTER OF HIS OWN DESTINY, KEEPER OF HIS OWN SOV• EREIGNTY. HERE HE WAS FREE." President Coolidge can devote himself t� no greater crusade than to lead the fight to re­ store this c ountry to the condition h e so elo­ quently describes as existing in 1 825. For probably at no time in the h istory of this country has bigotry and intolerance been more offensive, or religious freedom and inte _..,,. ligent liberty less secure tha:i. 1nn�rdi�i.t.,II\CI""'� 00LUM13TTS omo J'OURN.D WEDN;IDSD.AY, JUNE 101 1925, "• Pres!den}: ol1dge was given a welcome cordtal � and enthusias c when he visited Minnesota to speak at the N rse-Amerlcan centennial celebra, tfon at St. Paut n Gov. Christiansen 1ntro­ � uced him to the vast gathering he declared Min­ nesota and the Northwest believed In Calvin Coolidge. During his 11tay In the Twin Cit1e·s the �ttltude of the public was in harmony with the • <declaration ot the governor. 1 There are other states and sections of the coun­ try where the same statement could be made !n full tl!uth. It oould be ma.de broader and the t1a.t1on 1noluded, as there has been no evidence .that the national sentiment 1n his favor, shown �t the last election. has subsided. On the con­ l:rar:v the course c>f the President In ri.atlonal mat­ �ers and poltoies has strengthen ed the confidence the people of the nation have in the quiet man 1n the White House. , y Believe in , Coolidge. �[iut the showing of Mend.Ship-;-nd the expre8 fJ1on of confidence tn Minnesota had fta own pecu­ lmportan� That ter�ttory waa the battle­ ground during recent ca.mpalgns and much bttter­ pees ha.a been •hown there tn the past. There was more ot passion. prejud toe and resentment iha.n sound judgment used tn molding public =7 pa.r �ptnton and extreme utterances were made by many speakers. The Northwest had some trouble­ some questions tor aoluUon. some difficult sttua­ t1ons, had suffered adversities and had some grounds for resentq1ent agains t its affltcttons. There ls reason tor national gratiflcatton that in the midst of all these troubl esome conditions �ound public sentiment has gathered 1n support <>f the policies ot the Presid ent. During the years he has been In office he has had difficult sltua- l t.ions to handle e.nd troublesome problems for so­ lution . In his own quiet way and using his own .practical judgment he has gone ahead, depending On the publto tor support as his poltclea were Rnderstood and won favor e.nd a.pprovaL Be11eV­ :ling he was right, and sound ly American tn his ?ourse, he has decltned to become excited ove!" �lfficulties that were met. The statement made by Gov. Christiansen might be read with care by senato rs and congressmen be­ fore they resume their labors at Washington next December. Eviden,ces are multip lying that national sentiment is behind the Presid ent and his poU­ c,tes, and, as that sentiment is made stronger, that fact may be appreciated by the lawmakers who might want their Own poltcle s written into the laws or would elevate their judgment above that o! the President. President Coolid ge ts better un­ <terstood and ls even stronger with the public than he bas been tn the past. The publio ts wtth hlm in his administrative pollcle .9. These policies should be given their tatr consid eration by Con­ gress. Those who combat them are battling both �rtth the President and the overwhelming majori ty ot the American people. CONNEAUT O N.tiiW S -t{ER,t.1.a MONDAY �• lll�, -Oua--"- t � MELTING- OT Prt>sideut Coo idge , 1H.- , , 1 -1 ' ------ - 1 NDl A V ()t-4 1 (' -e o u �· S�-iTURDAY, JUNE 13., 1925. "S R - America.n doctrine in emphaetatng that they are one of many groups holding in common the eseentta.la o f good cit!zenshlp and of rational solidarity. _______ Akron Beacon-Journal. Tho !a.at that President Coolldg&­ who 1a no great hand a.t traveling a.round to attend celebrations-single� out the Norse -American exposition for the honor ot his at tendance ts entirely con["ru,ous ln the face of the pa.rt which th e tmm tgra..nt Norse men have played in the nation's economio hte• tory. Ctnc!nna.ti Timee•Btar. Sometlmee the se "Nordics" ha.Te a little fa.mUY tun a.bou t thei strong u l to t 1\�!Y 1:i"r� a.fii�gh�f ::od We wish th ere we re more of them. ��f p!�;le: New York He rald-Tribune. 0You have gti,en your ple dge to the land of th e tree ,'' Mr. Coolidge told the Americans of Norweg1a.n birth or descent who m he addre ssed yesterday. That pledge. kept, is all that can be ae,k:ed ot a.ny group of oltlzens, J\&ttve or naturall_ _ ze_ d_ . _____ New York World. The Norse fe el that th ey have a. great history, dating fro m th e time of the vtklngs, and that th e conquest o! the American nor thwes t ts an in­ te gral part of tt. Th ey may we ll be proud of their heritage and tts tra.nt­ pJantation. ------ - Louisville Courier.Journal. Unlike their stalwart ancestors, some e !ght centuries be!ore them who oa.me and left no trace of, thelr settle­ ment, these latter-day Norsemen. made the Idle prairie work for the m, m ade th e earth yield up Its m ine ral and built beside {he-r!Yers or on northern lake !ront the foundatiop. ot ptoud c1 t!ea, Hamilton (Ohio) News. That th ey take pride tn their orlgtn 8 0t 1 8 fh! 1�ss J:;,c�:1��� fn ��fr1t �� t�e de voted to our institutions. It hn.s been to the profit of 'America that so many Norwegians sought ho es h e re a.s well as profl.t to the !orm er tm � grants them selves, f�� pu ed Sp�hf1� b a:}� the people of }1�:Uio� �f i�1er:£i.:i!'lliliii�aooilo!I� a a his ,L__ ditors of America CommlhlU,,. • .i I tllf;'Trtd the AddrH■ ' of tha President in Connection with It. I St. Louts Globe-Democrat. And there ar.e reasons for g_eneral em ta l \ ���\�ct�tohniveMa�1t!{� fa�: :ga1�;t \ tantasttc economic dogma and its de• vices of eccentricity a.nd harm. I New York Evening Poet. The northwest m a.y ha.ve been e ne my country for Ce.lvtn Cooltdgo in 1921 a nd down to the summer of 192_4, but it is so no longer. As he traveled to M innesota he crossed only one state that oast its vote s against him last NovembeP. in fu½JmohM unify which has been achieved in this country through that process of amalgamation �ailed our " melting-pot . " W e have taken races which i n t h e old world eould never get along in harmony , and we have made one united people out of them. If we al.J.mved t he foults and weak­ nesses of all our constituent peoples to develop unchecked, om nation might gain material · success from its favorable pos 1- I _ tion, but. it would never be a world leader. But if we can adopt the strong �omt.s of all these constituent. peoples, we shall have a race whose power will set its stamp on all future world developll!_ent. Th;,N�;;;;e;s c;nt�al l • t . 1 · 4\rl t!\ l , M referred �fl£,; cente-nnial address, to the wonder­ UAL U N ION" � f Lh� many European nations whicJ1 hav� � uted to nia� the America of today fe w have given mo1_e largely of their substance than Norway, h ? r:ne of Le � f Ericson and of Amundsen , It is in recognition of this debt of Amerjca to a brave peopl e of the north that 1 p1•eside n t coolidg@ trav e led to Minn esota for the ad­ dress Ctelive red recently on Lhe state fair grounds. The trip and the spe e ch constituL e a fit tribute from one 11aLion Lo anothe r. On American Inclcpe11(le ncc Day, 1 8 2 5 , th.e sl oo11 n.estauranonen slipped ou· of Lhe hal'bor of Stavanger, bound _ for New Yorlc •r ·.10 voia._ge occ.t1pied fourteen weeks and was fl-aught vith perils quit� unknown to modern navigation. The vessel was of forty-tt :e to n s, _ carrie d a single mast. an d top sail and brought forty-six passenge rs bound for Ontario county, N e w York, where a Ua'ct of lan d liad b een ,l1ouglJt f:Jr them. The courage �f passengers and crew i n cro�siag the 1 1 AU au Uc in so frail a craft did noC sav e them from e m­ barrassµi8nt on l:"1-P;iva,l. Beca,nse tltQ sl,Q �ll ca_rried a 1 larger cargo and a longSr Passenger list than ' th e law allowed the captain ,was ,,ap:e stecl · ancJ; •s h ip \.;�1:n(ll carg ?: . embargoed by the cusLolllS servics. .... Fri e n d� inLerce ded, ' howe v er, an d the difficulties wer e o ve rco n'l'.'�_. . . This modern Mayflowe r is consid e re d the �eg1;r1pi1# I of the mod e rn immigration from Norway-an 1mn11gra­ L io n that in the intervening century h1aS , brought Jo. America more Norwegians i n proportion to the popula­ tio� of th e home . cou n try than any oth e r people has co n tribuLe d with the single e xc eption of the Irish. �rhere are today almost as ma n y Norwegia ns or Amer­ cans of Norw e gian descent i n the United States as there are people in Norway itself. . _ To a p e ople with this backgrou n d of Amencauism President Coolidge addressed his re marks concerning America's obligation to her jmmigra n t patriots. It is a.n obligation ofte n er felt than e xpressed; more Teal than som e narrow-visioned sous a n d daught e rs of the republic are willing to acknowledge. Tltel'e is no in­ consistency between a d�mo.. n cl for a po!icy of reaso1�­ able restriction and a £ra1� k recognition of the d e bt t, !11s country owes to such p10neer groups as that wluch ....__,1 came, almost as if by miracl e , on the ti ny sloop Res- I tauratio ne n .. By such accretions America has be come power[ul, aud by such inheritance!:i America has come to be a · fri e n d of all peoples. Sh e could not he otherwise with­ out bei n g disloyal to the el e ments of, her ow n character. we jnberit th e cosmopolitan View. The blood of many races courses in our vei ns. Nature and logic work to­ g eL h e r to 1'nalr e o f us the bea�ers of other people's bur­ d en t in times o f stress-th-e one n ation to which the d istressed and suffe ring look first for succor. I �The i n tl uence of A merican govern mental insti tutions on other freed9111-loving groups has be..:)_n otten e m pha­ sized ; the constitution of 1 7 8 7 has been copied far and w i d e ; republ ics have sprung up in m any parts of the world, inspired by the success of the republican experi ­ ment here . T o another k ind of Amer ican experiment Mr. Coolidge d i rects attention i n his ad dress at the Norse c�ntenn i al . He hlvite,; colls idcration of Lile fact that oul of this o r d e r l y conglom eration of races and nation a l i ti es has come a "spiritual un ion" which may wei l sta n d as ex­ a111 p l e and inspira tion to the world. People a re all m o re o r less alike in essen l i a l things. The considera­ tions which keep them apart, at t i m es watch ful and suspicious of each other, do not touch the foundation s of character. It is an old say i ng that much of l ife's enm i t y i:; due to lac], o f acquaintan ce. 1 So a world which has h e lped i tse l l' [reely l.o A �neri­ cau experience i n pol itics ,and govern ment i s i u v it�cl to observe l 1 o w d iverse race:; here l ive aud prosper to­ gclller, p u rsuan l s of Lhe same de� Liuy, s�rnrers pf the _ . s a 1 1 1 e b u rdens and IJlessmgs. I L 1s a poi n t u ot ofteu e n o u gh d we l l on. IL adds n e w glory to America, a n d I l l e w h o p e E o r a world whose m o s t pressing n e e d is con-" ccrd. -Clevel an·d Plain Dealer. :'I --- celebration. Ez2tering t!"tei'htory where lie was once given a decidedlv u.nfriendly greet­ ing, and which has long been a stronghold of the LaFollette forces, political foes of Coolidge and the theories of government that he espouses, he was acclaimed with en­ tthusiasm and approval equal to any demon­ stration accorded any president during the last few decades. Newspaper reports say that it was the greatest reception given the present chief executive during his public career. President Coolidge is not a leader en­ dowed with the exceptional personal magne­ tism of a Roosevelt or a Harding. There is . comparatively little about his physical make­ up, his personal mannerisms or his style of speech tending to stir the populace to heights of spontaneous enthusiasm and as a . consequence the increase in his popularity , is necessarily based upon the most substan- 1 tial sort of foundation-public recognition of thorough ability, sound Americanism, in­ :tense devotion to duty and other high quali­ ties which become evic:.ent only through the :test of time and service. President Coolidge furnishes outstanding proof that a man in public life does not have to be spectacular to gain a hold upon the people's heart-strings. Neither is it neces­ sary for him to be continually proclaiming :war against mythical combinations of wealth nnd "big business" presumer! to be trodding lhe masses of the people under foot. The .ex perience and record of the calm, sturdy cw Englandel'.. now piloting the nation show �hat the confidence and affection of Amer­ resi<J_el'lt :w� 6\ll­ a�s can be won b due reg:trd to the righ,t s l whether tb r•y be poor, rich or ·u st comfortably fixe, •1h '·.h er individuals or corpora­ tions, and h �s, by sane and just adminis­ tration t< ' 3ep them all ,:,orking hannon­ iously iinu energetically fer their mutual welfare. The tremendous grec'ing given Mr. Coolidge in the Northwest, :mce regarded as a virtual hotbed of radicaliru, seems to nro­ vide convincing evidence tlat the American people are weary of dema 1ogy and politi ca l pretense and are exceedigly glad to have the 1?-ation's affairs in chtg� of a man who never plays to the galleri3 and whose gen­ eral make-up and method of procedu re are the direct' antithises of le chara cteristics displayed by so many self:lorified le ;, public life. 1 , 1 7- Fo r Coolidge 's Trip On Oct r 9, 1825 the ship Restaurationen arrive<l. in America bring1 g 53 Norwegiwis. This was t'he first organized group to emigrate from Norway to the United States It marked ithe first low wash of a gi,eat wave of Norwegian imrn.igratfon . which followed. It is in h 1mor of the one-hundredth · anniversary of the event that President Coolidge0 went to Minneapolhi to be p1•es- . ent a:t the NORSE-AM AN CENTENNIAL. No small por­ tion of the deve opment and upbuilding of the No1thwestern states is due to the efforts of Norwegian:& or desoondant$ 6:f Norsemen. And no better class of people ever isought a new home in America. They had within them the SPIRIT (')F AMERICANISM before they came' to the new land and adapt� ing themselvies to the new environment involved. no radical al­ teration of views or habits. They may take a JUSTIFIABLE PRIDE in exhibiting what has been achieved by them in the devielopment of a section of the United States where the mass I of them is settled. A pageant portraying a composite pieture of. the part played by Norsemen in the settlement of the North west will be presented. The event also provides the opportunity for a g1>1eat reunion of those Americans who have ain ancestry dating back to Norway. That they take pride in their origin does not; neces­ sarily make them any the less American in spirit or the less de� voted to ou.r institutions. It has been TO THE PROFIT OF AMERICA that so many - Norwegians sought homes here· as �t:11 as profit to the former immigrants themselves. TIMEII "MA RT!NS FERTTY O l,ll�iit _ .,.J W EDN E�D AY, JUN E lO, Coolidge . Populari& IF THE�E has been doubt n yb?dy's mind regarding the popularity of Pr�s!dent Coolidge and his common sense admm1s�ra­ tion policies, it must vanish completelf sm�e the reception given him this week �urmg his :visit in Minneapolis and St. Paul m conn�c­ tion with the Norse-American �enmal 1 �- Nli:WA RK OHJO Tlt!BTTNV FE!DAY, JUNE lZ, 1920, ., -----;tiE PRESIDENT'S TRIUMPH. --- --r ■PRmGFJET,D ORJO NEWP TV�S�AY, JUN� 1G, 13�� iRlsIDENTIAL POLITICS W'ha,tever is done by the ipresident is al­ W.,ays viewed wit.h -polltioal significance, but there is more t11� ordinary .reason to believe Uiat President Coolidge has been grooming ltt11Dself to be a candidate for ;re-election. in 1}28. So it tis t01ld now that the M1nnesota e �� invasion on the occasion of t h of t�lJllial was ,part of a pre-conceived 'Plan grouip-s not ra-cial to g appealin �gn of drily 'but also of w inn!l.ng -a radical west any candidate •.;'here danger i s growing for istra­ who may .represent the ,present adm!l.n the fact ·that to t�on. Attention 1s called . mvi­ P'res-ldent Cooli d-ge has been iacicepUng Wn.sih­ in ions convent of sorts aU to tations of .i�gton, espeoially to th'Ose ,pe.presentatlve a 1arge groU'PS which may be swayed iby t'he in rfl�ss appeat T,heTe was nothing ;e&id-ent's address to the Norsemen ,which i--;_d political flavor. It W!;tS such a speech �· e.ny man might make, revl-ewing �he h1s­ g tttY of a people, and courteously throwin of t,Jquets in their dlTectlon after tlhc ha.bit . speaker .t_iie p.rofessional ,public IIPRIN(W JmLO O I I IO NEWI' EDNESDAY, JUNE 10 1»� �! President Coolidge in�ends aga1n to be Rltf� OH10 T<"Y NDUR A � a:; candiHiate the does well to get an ear-ly 1925. WEDN!i.SDAY, JUNE 17, s't:ar't, even though in doing so at t'his time Not alone for its historical value in re­ a; may violate his own advice tfor po11Uca.1 GOOD CITIZENS view of the immigration to and the share in aQJ-ournment for the summer. He lb<ru;i dlf­ nesota they are celebrating with development of America by. the sturdy tt'\-en,ces 1n h is -0wn party to smooth out, �omp and tho-roughness the�t}l Norsemen js the address of President Cool­ a':o there are ambUAous men to make t'he anniversary of the first organized m1gration idge at the Norvq,gtaD. centennial celebra­ �st of th-em. 'Dheire wlll -be, too, the c'harge of J:!.� to the United States. In a �ion, at Minneapolis, woHn :tile� {t Is a com­ c6at he is seeking a th!rd term, which prov-, sense it is a national celebration because the p!ele-rec6t or e..ecomp1lshment by racial ed a serious obst.rucle In the way of Roose--. / Norwegiarr3 are represented in every state of gr.oups, welded as a whole, which Is the last­ 1 ;�It. It wm be as great a 'handicap fo1· the union and because the whole nation ing United States, and in it ls a lesson on im­ �esldent Coolidge, and those wtho di�fer recognizes that the country gained much are migration problems of the day, from which fl"tlm hi_s_ tariff ipolicy, many of whom when it reeeiv,ed that first band of Nor� there need not be detraotion if on this oc­ !his pollt'Lcal faJtih, Will make use of dt. ' wegian immigrants to its shores. casion an exc,esalvely domlnant place be is a !long way to tlhe next presidential Ill Conservative, industrious and honest the given to those primarily discussd. Nor does e;1ict1on. but not so tong until a. ne-w House Scandinavian people, including fhe Nor­ the jssue of whet·her Erik's son, Lief, ante­ Representatlves and on&-third of the sen,wegians ,have brought progress and wealth dates Columbus, as the president states� af­ must be chosen. I:f the adm1nlstrat1on to every section in which they have settled, to fect the values. The problems of the United l.&i,�s congress ,1t wm prove a seirious blow The 11pbuilding .of the Northwestern states a,o­ States, arising from not only free, but un­ t, ffo hopes of Pre.sident Co6lidge. His has been due in large extent to the efforts of Re­ wisely encouraged immigration, still exist, �lty at th19 rtime may o-ielp retain a [ this hardy and thrifty race. l despite the restriction laws, and whether �bUoan congress and further his persona The Nordic races have brought to Amseem not would it view they wlll disappear with in two generations 4'-'bition. With that , erica-no problems of assimilation. 'They have ire• will depend on the a.ppllcatlon of thi nking OOIO ea,rly tor ,t,h,e presl'dent to &tart on sought the expanses of land and sea rathe.r hy people of today, The Norwegians have not) �ir of his .fences, especia:?Jiy e.lnoo a. wort than crowding into overpopulated cities, so · gone through t he melting pot. They have t'oe is getting ready to assault them. they �vated no housing and labor probdone more, they have helped to build it. But •·Lea.de� .ot'.t�� �em�ora.\�t� _�ve not _ I lems. they sought the open spaces as ch i ldren of i.e 'll!o,rements � ina.ot1ye, and w&. '� ..:.b Who .will deny that the Scandinavian im­ :freedom to live; theirs not the problem of thinlc pomigrants have more than compensated thetr � the White House which they more buey. rt.he deluded dweller of the congested city, tical, they e.:re g-etUn,g atm adopted country for its hospitality and pro­ ' time 1n a. first whose hopes denied, rebels against the 1nsti­ e h t heir deb't wiped out tor tection? fund in han'Q., tutk>ns ot the land, ,the easy prey to th e �cade and wM:h a. work1ng That the Norwegians have not 'confound­ n... � cam rit,\ worst type of poHtieian. • 1c Democ�ats ar, eta.rt1.n-g... now:_Q_ �d loyalty to political organizations with Tihe -presidency nI It is a coincidence but timely, that Presi­ 1 oyalty to country is demonstrated by the ':l.ign to win oongreae. laut , them to rn dent Coolidge has reviewed the tmmt8'l'at1on :,28 1a aw dmmedie.:te conce stupendous reception given ..,Presid�nt Cool­ ng to win con­ problem on the constructive aide, just as ·ere signs of lesue mak\. ·dge at their centennial in spite of their no­ bring t'he 'Pres1_� wlll ssful t here comes from Cleveland the story of a '._, w,htch 5ucoe torious aloofness frem the president's party agaAnat the tardf1: ma■s appeal by foreign born residents for tncy along. The crebellton in the last presidential election. ns, acoompanyone of t heir number who has been convicted •.. d the ,grovrtll of .combinaltio Everything in the makeup of the Scand ' ral Tm.de Com� \ and sentenced tor the henlous crime of wife L the crippi11ll8 of the Fede navian makes him a good American. V'llhat. may come. murder without a single extenuating cir�silon, ,g ive forecast of President Cooll.1dg') cumstance. The mass meeting in itself to nd all the bom•ba.rdme:nt candidate will no form a. peUtton for execut1-ve clemeno.y on ,ay expect 1f 11e ts a � basts of sympathy would deserve a. sym­ )me from the front. �. pathetic hearing, but when that appeal be­ comes demand tn which the charge ls made cf prejudice a�»:ettfcrorru tt t a1 "---------�----------,· cates a. dangerous -state of affaJrs. T·he ,----------------------t.hreat ts -particularly glaring ln the face o! the fact that on the day of the mass· meetjng, and perha.ps bee.au� .tt, anothe for r .. elgn born resldent, who had alread y confessed the murder of a. fri end, whose wife he desired, failed of conviction in a court 0 competent jurisdiction. This was not only '.! m1scarr1age of justice, but becaus e of thS. , which caused it indicates a serious danger t / ( the we11-be1ng of the republic. Judge Da ine I B. Cull, presiding, properly castigated th Jury for prejudice to unjusti fied clamor tht I' "the foreign born are not· gett i ng a square deal,'_' and rendered pa!trlotlc service by calling attention to the fact that jury negllge nce persuaded by mass meetings'' Strikes at the very foundation ot the American judicial system." Such an act b,1·eeds anarchy. It can come only because there ls neglect by those Who have the instituti on o! govern ment in charge, And Cleveland has a. real •ponsl­ � b1li ty. These immigrants, who now offend there, are no different than they are any­ where else. It is only that something has happened to cause an outbreak i ndicativ e of Ill. They came here seeking freedom and opportunity as di d the Norwegians, whom President Coolidge has praised, but their ideas have been perverted. Now they must be taught that freedom may be had only IV hen Its 1nS'titutlons are preserved and tha respect for law is paramount. I Parallel Of the record recited by Presi de Coolidge with the Cleveland situation ma be helpful. of Pl'CSJ<lent Coolidge to the Nol'thwcst seems to ha,·c been a . As vlce president reJa1h·cly uukno,vn, he had to run oppo­ b ge . sition to a hOl'SC race and could not g<"t an audience on a beautiful day. He, tbls u-·eek, ns P1·csidcnt at this same ·State Fnh• Grounds at St. Paul, is re­ puted to J1nnl hntl an audlcnce of 60,000 people, ·who stood through a drJz­ »JJna; ra.in to listen and applaud. Tho occasion which he took for going to the Not·thwest was a bnppy one, because he bad a chance to discuss the Nonl-·eglan, aml the Norse rnceS generally, and what they bad accon111Usbed in ffU; Jbft&fi�st, and to do this at their famous Ccntcnai·y Cclcb1·ntlon. But the oyation which be recchccl not only in St. Paul but on bis tl'jp from \Vasbiugton and rellll'ning to \Vnshingt.on w,as continuous, nn_d he was obdously ,·el'y happy oYer the expcrJcncc. It was (l'catcd as something of a ,:e·nhll'e, tWs appeamnce of his, 1n· bis e.nemies' Counh'Yt because 1n tbe; Northwest "·�s the real politlcal tllssatis­ rftctlou a year ago. 'l.'hat he should hn,·e received such an: o,·ntion indicates the change n-blch has taken place In the course of a. few month�, indicates that the statement macle wJth t·erereuce to change<\ conditions jn the No1·thwest was accurate, jndicates that tl)e Northwest 1s returning· to po­ Utical sanity. It ls always good tJ1at the people shonhl be cntlrnsiastic o,·er their P�csldcnt, at least RS n. symbol of go,·e1'llment. It js pnt"ticularJy goo,1 that tho peopJc of a section �,·blch has- sJ,o,vn dis�atis.fnction shouhl be 5e£ll 1·e­ tnrnlng to the slan�lal'Cls or consennthism nml sanjty jn go,·ernme / SOUD<l business principles. I 1 1 C LD EN OF FREEDOl\I r dfIt 1 I '1 I �TOt.Fnn mno TTMF,!11 :J:WlE.£n...i_ \' -mNg 24.. lHIL - '----_...:........,.._� P Coo liclge and the West ENT COOLIDGE 'S trip to the middle west S had n political purpose but it h ad a decideclly The jo urney was made t o kee p a political res t. 1:;peaking engagement and th e speech was not to have be en-nor was it-a discussion of politics. The pres­ ident was merely to be a speak ing guest at the cen­ tennial of the arrival of the first Norwegian immi­ Every circumstance surrounding the trip grants. i>hows it had · no political intent. Once the president arrived ir Minnesota things be­ :BJ vcrywhere lie went vast throngs gan to happen. :oough t him out to cheer him Governor Christianson" introduced him as one of the centennial sp eakers H e opened h i s introductio n with this statement : ' ' The people of Minnesota believe .in Calvin Coolidge. " With that utterance the enormous crowd burst into I tumultuous applause which continued for many min- • utes. Th e pi:esiclent 's address provoked similar en- • thusiasm. So it happened that the greatest re ception ever given President Cool i d ge was given i n the country of the radicals who but a few months before exerted th eir powers for h is defeat. The political servi ce to the country of the presi­ d en t 's journey rests in its di::-dosure of the wonders the Coolidge adn1inistration hns worked in the mid­ dle west. .l<' or se,·eral years the radical element has made the rest of the country feel that the wheat conn­ try was no longer a part of the nation. There is reas­ surance . now_ that the mi ddle west is with the country, not a gainst 1t. ! r WAPA R'ON ETA. O., N l!Wa THURSDAY_ BTl\1¼ !!; l��ij l 1 I @;EOGRAPHIC RIVALRY cities !l�row up in too close proximity to eac11 other in­ teu:,;c rivalry i:,; in evitable, Cities separated by a river or a state line or by only a fow miles arc Ji.lee rivals for the hand of the same girl. Eacllt t ries to excel the other am! the methods by which they strive for supcr'­ iority sometimes, t:llc more the pity, \'iolatc all rules of sportsmanship and fair competition. fies lhc means." Communities, l ike indiv iduals, believe the "end justi­ The recent centennial in 1Minnesola of lhc coming of the first Wl'gi:m i m migrants att racted the attention of the nation to the rivalry cxi::;,l. i n .;b�tw�dh f;w cilics d l\1inne<1polis and St. raul. So jealous are the I win cities that all official mention of the centennial was tactfully is­ sued from t'hc Min nesota Slate 1Fair grounds. President Coolidge showed exceptional diplomacy by dividing his time equall y bclween the two cities when he attended the centenn ial. Much the same feeling is conspicuously present i n the relations be­ tween California and Florida. Both a re in the business of sell ing their climates and each claims a climate superior to the other. When Los Angeles ex.p erien ccd a, bnormal rains recently Florida took keen delight i n :i clvertising the fa.ct. Every Florida storm i s carefully commented upon in California. \ But ::-h is rivalry between states, cities and towns is not all si lly jea lous y and petty civic !)ride. From the competition both sides of the "feud" must benf'fit. There i s no doubt that Minneapolis and St. Paul arc better cit ies for having been bitter rivals, and the same can be said i e;.;;s;..· ._ ___...,... .-for Florida and l'al iforniit anu all oth �r !'ival com_,,.,111t,;i..,t� _ _ -�----•- W!RREN O TRIBl'TNP , SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1825 ENS. THEY ARE GOOD CITIZ THE IiORSE -0,E11 ..1 ¥t11'l'1tiiF •·l11100 ollW•f11I.....,.• and thorouglj --� ln innesot a they are celebrating with great pomp On October 9 , 1 8 t 5 , the sh1' p Resta first organized migrati on of Norwe 1 the of sary anniver . th hundred the u-r at1· 011 en a rrived i n Amenca ""'""'�!IJ!lo l celebra tion becau . �ring ing 5 3 Norweginns. Th is . O the nited ates. In a sense it is a nationa was t he f irst ' , organize d group to emigrat union and becau tb the of state every in from i\"orw ay to the Unite d State s ted repre■en are • It m a rk e d th e f'1rs t l ow wash of a grea�.-,Orweg!ans wave of Norw egian imm ig�a tion which recognize■ thl.t the country 1alnec:J, much w h en it re ve nation whole . follow ed. that first band of Norwegian im migrants. to ita 1hores. It ls in 'hono r of 01.e one- h un d re d th ta n n iversary of the event that ' v peop f a . conserv ative industri ous and honest the Scan di na. Ian (Pres id ent Co 0 I 1' dge wen t to Mmne apolis to be presen t a t tiie • • meneve c to • wealth and progreea eluding the Norwegian■, have brought . can Ce :1tsroiMh No small portion o f the developm ent and upbuilding o t rt N he of e upbulldin1 The t o ttled. h r s have ion in which they tl ic !'', ort liwes tern state s is due ' to th e e ffor ts of Norwegians1 or descendants st I n la rge extent to the efforts of this hardy an d,• ty due been has ates ,, o 1. ., orsem�n • And no b e tt er � c l ass of people ever sought a new home in ra ce. A merica. f a ems rob T hey had within them the spiri t of Americanism before they a no meri i to A c ve p l brought o pha The Nord c races came to the ne w land an cl adaptin g themselves to the new environm ent tion. The; have sought t he expan ses of land and sea rather than cpg • invo lved no rad'ica I a l tera tion . • o f views or habits. They make take a Into oYerp op ulat ed cities, so they created no housing and labor r, I s. ',. . . Justif iable pride in exhib iting what has have m nj � 'b een achievedt by them i n the de\Vho wJll deny that the Scandinavian immigrants elo men of a secti on of �he United Stat es where the m ass o f them is co mpe ni:ated their a dop ted country for its hospitality and protect I-, t p v setl led. That the Norweg ians have not confoun ded loyalty to politic --�-"°l!!";:=:::�:=:=:-=:'.'!'.':���:MIIQ!Cs;u;a::2!1:!�.,,..,------!!".·- -- -4· I zations with loyalty to country is demons trated by the stupend of thei tion given Preside nt Coolidg e at their cente nnial in spite el ntial preside last the in aloofne ss from the presiden t's 'Party hi makes avian Scandin the , of p makeu the EYeryt h!ng in American citizen. �---- ---, l; - FESS, :-.!ATOR S. D. FESS, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, is so close to the adJninistration at YVashington that )I; utt�ranc�s on the foreign situation at the Norse cele�ation in Minneapolis, were interpreted by most as 'e" ·jttual opinions of the Coolidge regime. i ge's thought is un- , tampered b he pressure of !J)oliti­ During his speech, Fess declared France faces eco-, cal diplomacy and he gives free rein ruin and is furni�hing an obstacle to the rehabr!ita­ 11romic 1 to his fancy he shows a foundness tion of Eurnp� its a,titude of "debt repudiation," which for adventure in tr.e realms of idealism. indicates that the government may use its sternest pressure His address at the 'N'lr!-,; '"'"" Qel" to bring about a remedy for a situation it considers so te�l celebration in Minnesota was serious. no11pohhcal and Interesting. This particular celelkation com­ Senator Fess said the German situation created by the memorated th� auival ,of 'No1·wegian election of Hindenburg may be set at rest by a declaration immigrants in 1825 after the success­ ful American revolution and the firm from the German president himself that he will oppose re­ establishment of the United States as storation of a monarchy in that country. Fess is known an independent nation. to me deep in the counsels of his party at Washington as Having discoursed on the motives that had prompted tal'lier immigtra­ well as ln close touch with the President himself, and his tion to these shores from Europe, words in Minneapolis ma); therefore be taken as a correct largely stimulated from the ,o.ther side, the president eame to the im­ reflection of the administration's views on these all im­ migration encournged from this side portant subjects, of the Atlantic after the establishYOUGS'l'OWN mno '['F,J .J!I ment of our govern ment. 1,, 0 l92'TITH'.£DAY_ mi-. _,,, , "From the time when their fast de- , F.ANESVTLT :liJor-no Rmr,OlUI� veloping institutions of !J)Opular gov- ' '-- O LI D GE ON FREEDOM f�IPAY JUNE 1Z, mo, e.rnment, Teligiio,us freedom and intel- \ . � . , ' , . ESI D E N 'l COO L I D G E S th0ugh T e o e Contribution. W I E N PR Ide t ooouctge's 1'11nnea !ls speech was J.'r � is unhampere_d by the pressure _of political ore than a surface tribute to the quality or the I d'i ploiiiacy and li e gives free rem to his f. ancy he m ntrtbution to An1erlcan deVelop1nent and .,� t1zenship. It was not only very effective In 1 ts shows a fondness for ad venture ·Ill tl1e rea I ms of historical 1>resentntion, but disclosed a fine Sbtcerity idealism. Jn its appreciation or an influence which has done ' H is address at t h e Norwegiau....C@J tcani,t! cere- much to shape American life, especially In the No1·lhwestem states. bration in Minneso t a was"'iwn-politica l and his The Norse ations have always been fo1•emost n in They were the boldest pioneering exploration. mind seemed to be having a thoroly good time. � of the navigators or the late Roman Empire era. I Re s· ult ·. A 11 interestin,,:-,.tr address. P They settled Iceland and crossed the Atlantic to This particular celebration commemorated the Greenland and V4lland. They were apparently first Em•o1iea1,s to reach th<" New World. They . . . - I Of N onvegian w a•ter , the 11111111 • gran t �· 1 11 lS"5 _ . arriva hnpressecl their character and adventurous sph-it on Europe arnl live In its history as a race of southem , firm the and revolution American successful the . uerors and supermen. , •Ill d e pc n d- ! conqTheir c� tabl.ishm e .n t. of. the Unite . t es ,,cS ,lll d Sta pioneering instinct fltred them eminentI 1 ly to play a helpful part in the building up of the ent nation. United Stat.es. 'L'hey took naturally to the fronH avin g cl iscoursc d O il the motiv e s t li :t t h a d tier life and in the nation's first century American I prompted earlier immigration to these shores from development was Intimately co1mected with the rev­ erish push of the frontier toward the Pacific. They Eurone, r larg·ely stimulated from the other side, the c,,:me here to subdue the land and to own it, just as earlier English, Scotch and Irish Immigrants did. the ny, keeper of his own sovereignty. president came to tile immigration encouraged 1\-Ierely as settlers there was thus a natural kiuship fro m this side of the Atlantic afte r ! he establish - between their Ideas and those Here he was free." or the older Amer!--- - - -cans. Th e y brought here a sp ecific determlnatlonmeni of our government. e 1 e a to �!�t; ����� ':,�����: 7o� �':.':1r., d��:�;i�: "From the time when their fast-develop i n g i11 stitutions of popular governme n t, religious free- They may have expecred much of Amel'lca, but they had also much to give it, since it was to become for don1 and intellectual liberty h ad co111e to take them In all senses their chosen country. . . . . . . . . . . There was another bond of sympathy betwee definite and attractive forms, " says Mr. Coolidge, . them and the people of the region in which th( . .. ,, the people of the colo111-:s t ook a new m terest settled. They cherished the ideals or rreedom-o, in an inverted crusade, a conquest without invasion 1 Jlersonal liberty, free opeech and free labor. So, In great struggle to abolish slavery and end its . ,,. 1. c� d no t ,• .....,,q1e . :. �I- he.,. new count i.y Of te _ a� nd without fo1.cc. 8'lonomic blight, they were absolurely at once with fr e t <><; North. By contrlhutlng to the growth in h otl onlv material opportunities, but •possibilities 1 population ancl wealth of the non-slave states and • • • •• • sp mtua l and m tellectual emanc 1 pat i o a w hi ch the Y\ fortif�ing public sentin1ent against slavery the Norse ardenlly wished their friends o n the other side In flow, as well as all the other Inflow from Northern " Europe, helpecl materially to rld us of the cramping , W OJ·ld me,dl t 0 s I1a1• e. c·t I ·IZdlS � 1lip · •Ill tlle N cw t and antiquated slave system. Our Norse Immigrants, mostly farmers on the something that it had not meant in the Old. ffli . frontier n·inge, were rooted 1ndJvidualists. 'l'hcv w as seen that the New World offered somethm g were the more easily Americanized since the fitted new. There was an increasing realization that In wi th the life ancl notions or the West o� their . . thne. Nobody tnllced then of the "me1Un�t)Ot," n · many burd ensome trnd .1t1, ons an d m s ht utio n s had bubbled without being noticed or labeled. The mod,._________________ ..,�o � - � l{l t, T� l DlVID- nn problems of Immigration had not intruded. the Unlte,1 Stat�s at that t_ime having both �he po11ti�a1 UAL WAS LORD OF H I MSELF' MASTER OF ftlld the economJc motive to encourage 11nrnfgrat1on H I S OWN D EST I N Y , K E E P E R OF H I S OWN •.z. as far as It coulcl. Excess ailen population in cities 1 and SOV E R EI GNTY. H EI{E H E WAS FR E E. " excess alien labor in industry were worries uno n RESl D E NT CO�,Ll �G�' can devote himsel f I k ,��;e Norse Inflow, moreover, has never i-alsed lectual liberality had come to take a efinite �nd �ttractive forms," says [ , _ . Coohdge, the_ people _of _the c_Ql_ lhr omes took a new 1nterest m mducmg • their !European relatives to follow them thither. They engaged in an ill\'erted crusade, a conque�t witho,u invasion and witl-,out force. The new country offered not only material opportunities, but possibilities of sph-itual and intellectual emancipation ! whieh they ardently wished their l friends on the other side to share. I Citizenshi,p in the new world meant '. something tr.at it had not meant in I th • e oId • It was seen th at the new ; : world offered something new. 'fhei-e that 1 was an increasing realization many burdensome traditions and institutions had somehow been shed. : He,·e, at last, The individual was Lord 1 of l��mself, mastei· of his iown desti� 1 ' ' !:; 1· P such problems. It has always held to the old JJnes­ to no greater crusade than to lead the fight mainly to replenishment of the agricultural popula­ \on or the Nol'thwest. or the many accl'ctlons to Jt,; to restore this country to the blissful condition h e lmtfacnsbJp America c.an tllcrQfore Hct the Norse imSO eloquen tly describes as existing in 1 8 25 . migration apart as one of tile most welcome an '".hoicsome. Our isca1'.dlnavlans ham made goo A thoughtful survey o(his country today ot the citizens and sturdy patriots. Basic An1crican notions liarmony, patriotism and idealism of all of the and prepossessions were already in their blood. TJ,ey were In a way ge�uine post-colonial c o lonials. on p caple in 1 9 1 7 and 1 9 1 8 and the insidious at- the hundredth anmvcrsary of the saUing of the tiny . tacks on freedom during the past few years of ba i·k Restauratlonen, carrying the first company of Norwegl,m Immigrants to this country, it was flttlni, awful reaction, must Convince him that he can to recall what these Norsemen and those who were not say truthfully tot1ay that in the United States to follow have done for America in ,·eturn for what Amcrli,a has done for them. Th e balance is cqui in 1925 the "indi vidual is lord of h imselt • master able nnd honorable, representing fulfillment on b . . . "You ha,•e given your pledge to th e Land or th,• own µestmy, keeper of his own sovereignty of his Free/' �Ir. CooHclge told the Ame1·kans of Norweg Here he is free. " . . . . Ian birth or descent whom he nclclt·essed l\Ionday. For probably at no tnne Ill the history of this That pleclgc, kept, is nil tltnt can be askecl or an . group or citizens, native 01' naturalized. country has bigotry and intolerance been Ill vigorously offensive, or religiou • 1 intellectual liberty less se n right now . L • • • _ ' . �Th is may mea.n nothing very tan �ihle in results during h is Administration. If he can have the countr y adhere to. the Internati onal • Co urt, h e w i l l <l oubt-less believe t h u t he h a s I (J i n el ' 1 _m;::e �·:J: e �:.�:��81 a :�.�: . � ��we� - '- ia t ic ns ag t his o m a. :nan as car efu l � witb •voi·d , · s an d hr na. re i nclin erl to aloofness . , in wo rl d affairs . . . . ' 15 som e 1nd 1cat 1on that , I• r men lik e Pr . esi d ent C'o oJJd g·13 cann ot shut tlle 1 l . m i nds t o tho i d ea l o! w o r l d co- ope ra t i o n , som e d -a y t h. 1. 8 ro un try will laki, I• t � rightfu . l p l <1 ct i n t h e cou n c- i l (;f p n a t ion�. ::r. The Presiden t ' s Vision ·w hen P;esi d ent C'oolidge give1;1 himself u to t ho ug·ht� of world fra ternHy, he seemR to go far beyond Court. lhe bo u n d a rie11 of a World ls lt a conflict betwPen h iR ca11tio· 11s Nason a n d the prom pti ng,;. of his heart ? Does te�ling so met i m es d r::,wn logic and change the I 1. Tfirl,eagni> of Xa t i ons was rreMe<l fol' I Just _ Ruch a Plll'J)ORE' fill tlw P1'PRiden-t I pointH out hPrf\ yPt he• and • h i � iia rty l'nr.-[ l f'fuk!'d to linvr n n v t h i u g to /.o· with i t . ' It is ti;l<' to ttl'lk �bont t lwk<' thi ng!<, bul. dip r] (•siden l's d u t y <1,wH noi 8tOJ) w i t h talk . . AR 1 h <' k1t<lr1· o f t h� R<> pnb,l ic·a n pat·t:r. ye:i , ns the lrnclr,· of inwric-a, i t is h i s dn1y to t'xrr-t h 's i n tl u PTW<' a !Hl powr1· along J i Jws t hn t al'C' c·aku h t e-<l to bl'ing ' about wm·ld 1warP . :.\frrr fa lk will not bl'ing pPU<'P ; i t' takPs nc-tioH. 1'hr l '11il ('(l Rtates is 1 1w moRt powrrful of nll na t i nnR no w nnd i f Hhe w i l l through thr m01·,1l and p•h yRirnl suppor,t brh i nd th!' LP-:1 gnt:' of �ationR or somi, oth<'r similar organ izn tion i f JH'<'tls b€', WP <'n n g·rt prnrr. I ( .'s not h ing but i Hc-onsis/rn('y for t he • I'rrsi<l<'nt to t alk about what WP shou l,l do than thrn br sn t i sfip,] w i t h mere t a l k . , face o f what appeals to him as political ne• cessity for the r6public ot wh fch. be is Pt·e,ii­ d e n1. ? at sota, vv 0rld • • may be, the Presidenl, spe:i.lc ing q u estion MT HY STOP Wl'f}J. TALK ? of a.s he discoursed on the unity of r ,i, et"s tha l has heen a ch ieved in the United Sta les. The LhemEl moved him t o say : "If fraternity a n d co-operation jj J"e pos­ ioible o n the scale of this con tinE' n t a m ong people so wide ly d iverse, why not o n the scale of a world ? "It is not a new thouirh t b u t a pro­ foundly enga g ing· on e. 1 firmly believe it ls more t h a n a. c h i m era . I feel it is poss!J1le of realization. 1 a rn co nvince-(1 that our national storv milrh t somewhat help to guide mankind towa rd such a goa.l.'' trym en and to the pe ople o f. the Old ·w orld that this nation will g·o a ny fa r t h e r along the roa•d of. i nternational co-opl'ra tion posRible joining of the Wot·ld Couet. tha n the I f aSlled , 11 t ,1 , W h i te Ho use correspon dentis' c o n fert'!nce w h a t he thoug· h t of A m erica'R f l'sponsibi!lt�• , for moral lea,lership a m on g t h e n a tions, :\fr . Coolidge very likely would sa�· som eth ing quite d ifferent, if be did not l·eply that b e b a d n o t h i n g to sa:v t o r p ublicaiion. Yet, h i s mind a.t work o n a h i gh su bjecl of A m er·ican ac­ In is speech at t e Norse American celebration Presirlen t Coolidge- devoted Homo tjmc -to a d iscus, · on of worJd needs. He •l'eitera tecl that -the lJ-1:ri!tecl States: wants world peace {Ind is w illing to d'o her part in making such peace possible. -'I'h,• u n i t y of rac·es has been arcomp- ; lisht'd in the Fni tec1 States, the Pr<'si<i<'nt point<> d ou t . declaring •this fact rc­ :,;ponsiblc i n no uncerta.i.11 way for itlle growth -and power of the United State:;;. H<• nddcd : I ''If fra terni ty and co-operation are pos• "ib](' on the srale of th i s cont i·n ent amon"' people so widely diverse, why n-ot on th: :sc-a lP of a worhl ? "It is no-t a new thought bu t a pro­ fou ndly engaging one. I fi rmly bel ieve H i s mo1·<' than a c'h ime-ra . I feel it is 1rns,;iblc of real'izat ion. I am convi nced thnt O\ll." na,tional Rtor:v might somewhat help to guide mankind towiard such a g- oal." 1 ThC' PreRirlent is exa<;t1y right ,i n this thought, bnt whwt he i, doing - to put the thought 'into practice? That's what tlle world k:rnts to know. The President cloci- not thi nk that po,w erful armies and navici, cn n bring peace, for ,in his address be sa id : '·I do not believe that the American Navy should represen t mere 111lked W.:;:;!": I no in- / No dou bt Preside n t Coolidge h a d tention of giving ho p" to many 0f his cou n• I * '' * I f/ WE' f\I 'f' to hn ve ))Pacr Ol1Plll th, 1 ' W<' m n�t havr a ' gl'<'fl t df'rt l mr11·c t ha n into American ci tizen ship, the President seems trnt /n \YE' ·word. hC' t of powP1· tltP <'al l ,' I t o forget preceden ts, party politics a n d his i J1,(o a <-tion t lw spi1·'t ulll and morn ! forc0 s circumspect conse t'va lism . For a !ew min u l es I of m u n k i iHl. " / comp lishment in welding div"r�e race stocke he will let himself fo llow t h e glea m of a g-reat Idea whose content ls wor1d fratt'!rnity. 1 THOUGHT I NEW YORR nAILY Nl1'\YS. Cahill Says A Moll!.hful. Presid ent Coolidg-e/4'\de a. Sl'h9J� I arly add1·eE1.s at the t.�se �nial He t� of "t1W i n St. Paul. glyphs of Ur," the tombs of the Pharaohs, " a nd of 'J'h o r and Odin. He grew almost poetic i n his u tter­ a nces. v\�e l iked his speech, even U10 ugh it occupied five porten tous looking columns. B u t d on't turn away, folks. T.h-is will be no scholarly review of it. Vl'e merely want t o quote h is opening sentence , which we lil;:cd best of all. \ 1 A ttend : How often i n t h e affairs o f this world a small and apparen tly i n ­ significan t occurren ce turns o u t to be an event o f gTeat impo1·­ tance, carrying i n its train a m ighty i nfluence for good or evi l ! V\'e commen d that sentence t o a who Johnson, rea(1 ing by Hiram once spurned a small and appa rently insignific ant vice-p1·es iden tial nomi­ nation. �THE MELTING POT. -�dressin an im1fuense\th ro n g of Scandinavians and descen­ �ants of Scandin�vi ans t11e President descanted w ith muc h eloquence on the devt'.l o p ment of the American c h aracter, .American c i tizen�hip an� the political i deas and th e national purposes of a peop l e composed of th e bold and enterprising men and w omen wh o c-a me h ere from the 1'orth and w est of Europe. He went so far as to recognize Leif Eriksson as the discover­ er of America. It will be interesting to see wh at lie will do ,with Columbus w hen in h is voyage of discovery and political conquest -he s h all h ave occasion to address a mi;l,ss-meeting of Italians, and he has left himself very li ttle room for remarks ' calculated to thril l Americans wh o h ave come here from the sou th and east of Europe. Perhaps immigration from that un­ kno w n territory has no w been cut off to an ext ent th at makes it unimportant to cater muc h to th e Americans wh o h ave be­ come suc h within the last 30 years and w ho came l argely from t h e r_e gions w h ere the Nordics are unknown. T h e melting pot was th e President's general th eme. T h ere h ad been fears of it, but it was maintained, and now t h e re­ sults :fill th e bosom of Mr. Coolidge with pride. · T h e melting pot h as done so muc h for this country and h as produced suc h a distinguis h ed combination of th e best elements of humanity t h at th e President is not only grateful for it, but ·t suggests to him th e production of a w orld type of citizen, the concerttra-· tion of all th e most desirable traits, including th ose to be found in th e sout h and east of Europe. • T h is is a noble thought on th e part of th e President. T h e United Stat es has done so w ell with t he products of the north and west of Europe th at something might be expected to be , done wit h th at part of t h e w orld whic h unfortunately includes th e south and east of Europe, and even a l arge amount of ter- • ritory and population t h at are not in Europe at all. T h e melt­ ing pot h as done so muc h for America, may it not also rejuve: nate t h e world and boost it upon a high er level ? Unfortunately tw o discordant notes strike the ear at th is point. Secretary Kellogg made a speec h insisting th at prag­ m ents not fusible h ave fallen into th e melting pot in sufficient amottnts to arouse alarm. T h ey are responsible for a danger­ ous communist agitation w h ic h Mr. Kellogg w arns us will do us great inj ury unless w e stamp it out. 'A nd at ' the same time th e Supreme Court of the United States wit h th e two Massac h usetts Justices-Jew and Gentile -dissenting, affirm ed th e New York anarc h y l a w wh ic h makes it possible to punish persons who are too outspoken in decry­ ing th e sort of government w e have, even th ough th eir remarks are not directly calculated to incite to resistance to th e G ernment. 1 �pitiful indeed . Twen ty-four of them who blazed the trail for those • • • who me 1 udmg their ch i·1 d ren com b'me d who came after them an d FRIDA , d so Jnuch to t e .b t . . . 1 1ave con n u and put u p a log cab m , m which 1 the development of the Middle The Norse Centennial they spent their fi rst winter. Af- , West from·· a wilderness lnf;o One h undred years aim a sma ll ter a few years, however, the c;et- what it i tod ay . One of the s vessel with 53 passen gers sli pped in- tiers became fai rly prosperous, most Prominent men among the l _ - to New York h arbor . Th e passen- learned to speak the E nglish lang- pioneers was Rev . E vPn John ­ j Twenty-four gers, w ere bound for Orleans coun - uage and were res pec ted by taeir s o n H O m m e. his li !e ty , Ne\W York , whe re an age nt w h o American neighbors. The little ye ars ol d, he began m preacher neer af-: pio a work had come to America some ti me pre- commun ity did not flourish like the forests of W isconsin. These viously had purchased a tract o f m ost of t.he Norwegian settlements forests were swarming- with , land. later founded i n the west, beca use In dians. There were no rail- \ The vessel was the now famous conditions were not so favorable roads in that part of the coun ­ !l!oop, "Restaurationen " and the for agri culture as i n those sett le- try and very few w hite people. passengers were from thl! vicini ty ments an d because t he Norwegi an s but Rev. Homme was a m an o f I . thousands 0· .vision and blaze d the way of a small town near S tavan ge r, at Kendall hke of other larO'e f or h i s count rymen w_ h o g·rad•·�iNorway . They represented the fi r st New Yorkers fel t the cal l of th e followed him a nd took up lly � to immigrati n Norse or anized o I west. Nevertheie ss this fi rst of a l l t he land wh ich they cleared of this coun try and forme<l a ('o ) ony in No rwegian settl ements did not die forest and stone and developed Orleans county . out. From time to time immi- the soil and built their homes. A li ttle later other Norwegian I i g rants of Norway located there and He located the vill�ge . of Wit- , • colonies were formed in this coun- hel p ed to keep alive the lan g ua ge tenb:erP.," and gave , it . i ts name a!1� th1 s �ecame J'i i s itelcj of actrv and as time went on the i m mi- and trad itions o f t he homeland . " t1v1ty unt1 l h e d1ed . . �" grants began commg by the thou a I I{e was a·_ very large m3:n • sands. •"• • h,J physically. He also had a big Tht> arriva l of the Norwegi an sh i p No Norwegian Elkhounds heart for the helpless, the sick, wHI be commem orated in an im Could be Found in U. S. an d the sorrowing. He had- r-t \ large vision and made great I pressive manner a t a Norwegian centennial , which w· be held in the The ol d adage of " eve ry do g can plans not only fo r the develop- I ;cw; eftfe!! June 7, 8, and 9 when a . have his day" di d not become true ment of the country but for the I1 I development of the Kingdom n umber of no(able;; including Pres- at the Norse-America n Centennial ; of God in the country. ident Coolidge will be p rese nt. The • at St. Pau l the fi rst of the week. , R ev. Homme was born in UP: Centennial will doubtless d raw thou- W i th more than a hundred differ- per Tellemarken, Norway, O ct- ' sands of Scandi navians from the e n t species of th e ca nine fam i ly re- ober 17th, 1843. In 1854 his North west. ' p resented, the Norwegian elkhound ])arent s immigrated to AmeriThe fi rst Norse �olony tn the U- faile<1 to be present. F or the past . ca . For R time he stud ied at nited States is described in a histor- two mon t hs advertisementd in all Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, , torical sketch in a pam phlet com- the leading papers and rniigazines ' and was ordained for the ministry in 1867. pi led by the Centennial manage- of the country have been Jea rching Rev . Homme was very much I ment, which foll ows: for the el usi ve elkhound with no a- interested in children an d his ! The residents of New York ex- vai l . Many of the No rse-Ameri· great heart yearned for the or\ tended a cordial welcome to these cans attended the dog show that phaned, neg·lected, and_ aband­ oned dependent and otherwise Norse Pilgrim tathers; Quak ers in was held in concection with the cen­ particular befriended them in more ten nial and it was thought ht>st to children. He began agitating for the establishment of an or­ Enough money have a dog of their native land pre­ ways than oo.e. phanage and in 1882 he gather­ was raised among the Quakers t o sent but after m uch trying, none �d enough mean s with which he pay the E>xpenses ,,f the immigrants was found in this country. began the erection of the first to Or leans county , New York , on 1 .· _ Norwegian Lutheran Children's Home in America. He select­ the southeastern shore of Lake On- I lt1'�ta, N. D. , Panorama. Adams, N. D., ...,tan,far--i AY Zo, 1 1i:. I I I I tario. There in the town of Ken- - -"tHUJr.S-D4Y. APRIL �. 1925 dall these brave, simple, Norwegian AN OU1'STANDING PIONEER folk founded the fi rst No rwegian In connection with the ai,settlement i n America. Each fam.1ly secured 40 acres of la nd , cover- proaching Centennial Celebration of Norse-Americans to Al ed with dense hard wood timber. To merica , it is of interest to note clear this land me�nt vears of h ard the kin d" of men aad womeh work , and the sufferinp-s endu red by I who came from Norway and these pioneers for some time was I ed a very beautiful site for this jnst i tution in the propose d vil­ lage of Wittenberg. This wa3 a two-story frame building- on a high basement. The building was soon filled with children . �. rschool pa�r both in tfi e N or- fo�1r _ City, Sl,um and Hos1;i�al an d Re v. Homme was cast�, o\:m ind E n glish language � : 1 Missw�1aries m fourtee n cities about for ways �nd means ?· we "' "Voisenhus" calen dar, a n d fro.m New York to Los Ange . not only s up�ortmg_ the, chil t h epape r called ''Tne Chri�tfan ) es anct it opera t es the Luthc1:­ a dren but also mcreasmg �he ca. Y outh . " The firs t paper :i.s su- 1 an Deaconess Home and Hosp1paci ty of t h e house. "For. Gamm e l of Ung," h as tal in C h icago where it trains Rev._ Ho� me_ ;¥8;8 a fir m be•� d pu b!lished regularlf for �eacones.ses for service for all be�n liever m pr1!1ter s mk. Soon af . I r y-fiv e years a nd i s sti l l be its ch ar1ty work at home a nd fo t h hon n's e c}).ddr he t ter t printed act and t at g he edited for i n Iy.Iission Work abroad. an� d e c been compl�ted he . ere n ' s Home. The Church i s doing all this c,ther b mldmg- . ,� hlch was td, Childre Pastor Hotnme manage d all work on a budget voted by the an ser\Te as a prn:�ting 0ffi , t undertakings h imself, Churc h amounting to $238,­ hese 1 se ve ra l papers w,er� � .1 e anu extensivel y, did a 373.8(1 for 1 924. printed in tha t p rmnti.v� s h oi, i traveling .eat de al o f Hom e Missio n - .• ·• n , . r t Rev. Homme disco.yere¢l t.h� 'Bea�h ;n ,�.,,or k and ed1't ed li1' s- paper s un� THURSnt,.Y, [T,- r: , · ,�5 rl i n he I nclians we:r.e wa:n1&-er une -· oua A:::.r n.RilcAN NORSEMEN e h ut i� the fore�ts .:without �d t il the 9time of h is d at , J n d 1 03. 22 , a d without hope m the worl c. I T ,, far of the Children 's The Norse centenial n ext week wiH m h',., ,- ded tv I t h ere fo�·e he d�i a lb� �t &Vent for the Nort'fiwest _acres. 400 to amounts and the thousand of splendid citizens b ld an lndum Mission HoµSt Home T capacity is ni n ety chi l dren. \vh-0 came from sNorway at on e time a 1 t his building W�S SQOU fit t Th e capacity of the Ol d people 's -0r anoth er during the past 100 years. wit h Indian children. T : I he e Bot h It is a fi n e thing for these people t o Home ni ne ty inmat e s. is I ians �ould . allow him . te� inst i t ution s ai-e in t h e very �et together in honor of the first arh Ve th e ir_ ch1ld_I·en, esp eciaU rirval in this _country of their forea st of conditio n . b : � t b t t he y U ime, er t win _ e th i bears,. Orf all the nationalities who • !1�t need t0\. , In 1 900 the governm ent pu r- h av e, m a de a n ew h ome in the U n ited t ld him he did - : I chased t he building- erec te d by States none are 1better citizens. Lib­ t aeh t h em hjs . re}Ig1011. Th�H· R ev. H om me and est ablished erty o l vin g in their native land , li k e :geJ,igion had b�en tn�og. en{)ugh its Indian Scho.oJ there and the all 1>e<Y.P1le of a mountainous country, for the m a nd it w�s good e- C h u r c h moved its Indian 'they have, pro,ba,bly, m ore l'l.uickly aXJ­ . nough for. .· their_ �hi l d.ren . _ lt School t o Inirersoll, seven m ile s •Sor.bed th E> nr1nc iples of Am erican liife ,.may be inter e s tmg-' t• (.) not_ice west of Wi t�trnberg, �nd later and tradi tions than any other race rel}resent ed here, which is saying t hat now the Indians brmg back t Wi ttenb�r · in fo t he A- l'l othing in disrespect to all the other the ir children t o t he sam e P.ad emyo b uildi ng g which had il'Ple d'i d man a,n d womanh ood that sch ool but now they are an- been ere cte d by Re v. Homme. has ncome from other lands and who xious to hav e th e�r . childre? In 1918 thtl government solct are Americans to the c re. , . � t� tlg-ht in the Qhrist;a-11 re.Ir- t he Indi� n School, which it ha� 1 . h e , g1 on. After the ,!�d1ap. Mis greatly improved b t:��! ;;:!e��, ;ll!:�!11�� e�: y the a cq ut- 1 it� in the early days and :gave u s the fi n e sion was bmJt, Rev. Homme e.i t ion of more land and bu l en and women who have , helped so erected a parsonage, �o: him se lf. ' i ngs , b ack t o th e Church at nd-d m materially in covering iour prair_ie s a \Vh en this w s :fimshed, h e th e Academy bulid ing· was con- 1 With hap,py h om �s an rl productrve built an • Academy. , and i n 1887 verte d int •o a Home fo•r the fal"lns. In every way th ?Y .a re u p he built a N..or'!}la, l S· choo 1 f ' Aged . Th 1s \�'as t h e )?e izi•o- citizens· o'f their adopte d • ,: E!tand< g1�1;�11:� <iou.ntry: a,nd h ave ever been ready t he purpose O.r e d µ ca t_ mg- Sch C:l • of t he exte ns 1ve C 1- 1ar 1tY vv �I , Wi th wi llingne ss and chflerfu ln €'Ss to teachers. carried on by the Norwegian p bear the iburd ens and th e resp;inBy this t ime . the ,origi nal Lutheran Ch u rch of America. hel' si! liti es or A merican citiz enship. . Children 's Home bujJdfng had c A t the presen t time , t h e Nor- biQuick to res•pond to the caLI of ,the i r t o smal b e come altoirether o l "' w egian Luthera n Gh;urch of A- .country. in time of i:i,eed, al'l �he arm and Rev. Il om�1 e • de�1'd ed to I· mer1ca • • con d uct s. • nme II - omes ies of • the United States· b,avmg been . bu,ild :,,. large r msht uhon By i for the Aged at De.corah, Iowa. ; filled with Nlorsemen or their des>eeJ!cl· and in times of peace no more thi s time he had learned t hat I B eresford, !Sou.thl 1D � k o t1 a : ants cl om�s tic people can be found. Natur­ i t was not desir.:.ihl(;i t� lctcate 1 B awlf, Alberta ; 1 Coeu r D'Alene, ally th e;v love the land of t hei� birth , the Children' s home within the I Idaho ; Gl enwood, j}ifinnesota ; ,or revere it as th e bom� .of their for.e; ag e refo e Th 1·e h e secur d Wit• tenberg , Wisconsin ; Stan� ..fathers. as all good c�t 1 ze � s shou lrl , • vill e. . a large_ trac t of l ."1. n d 0! �nd a < wood, Wa sh mgton ; • Sto�ght on , but whHe t•h at affection 1s strong, haJf mlles nort heast of W1_t ten- J Wiscon sin ; and Story City; Io� lo"Ve or th e land 'in whi cl:). tl.i.�;1-;1 .1,t:v,.� is . stronger, arid a·it thei•ffi'61i'�'&ri'� sq1,�ather berg a n d on a very prom me�1t wa ; with a. tota l capacity of 390 :a£ ·st. Pa u l we wish them joy in the s it e he erected a noth e r C h 1 l - 1 i n mates and conducts seven m e etin g, 1for without l::Jve of the fath ­ dren ' s Home w h i c h is to som e t orphana ges l ocated at Beloit, , erland no cit izenship can be ren 1. no extent patte rned after s om e of 1 Iowa ; Beresford , South Dako- -p-e,ople ,can d evelop to th� gr ,-t future th e Europea n ca�tles· from t he I ta ; Witte nberg, • Wisconsin. ; th: se m 0 b ff Middle Ages. I t • has a . very i Lake Park, M:innrsot a ; S tough- lt �� ' �i�\�e 1 ' ;,.� .,t'i k �' o out . i mposing appeara1 ;. �e . as v 1e w_ed i ton. Wisconsin ; &v�re�t, Wasl_1� at ' Y --�---· from t h� hi g�w, Y- T he on�- ngtl,ti ,; and 1',,:i ;U \ ,,_ ·, [ � ,r . inal _C hildren s r 9me . wi t hm ne sota'; lW;it ii, a, total c .r.t._ci L Y tof t h e vi llage_ of �/ittenbeig was 1•r881 cMidre.t1. T h ree resc e remodele d � nt ? a H� m e for the ◄ H omes Age d and i t 1s �(TVm g as such l. Minn . · .flor girls locate d a eapol is, Minnesota ; Farg01., at th e pr ese nt "tn,:1e . 1 North Dakota ; and Sioux Fa.Us, As sta ted bBfo . e R�v . Ho1:1� 1/ Sout h Dakota cari ng f o r abou t 1 me w as a firm beli ever tn 11 25 .· 1s an a' th e1r · b ab1es , an- i • k • He e d't d an d I • 0 g1r 'print er ,s m n a Da y N nrsetiE>s 11y. · " F � . and or Kind printed � pa 1. , cal 1 ergarte ns in Broo klyn and G�m mel Of t} ng, a 8UI_lTday 1/ Ch i cago. It hna a1so tw enty - d.td T l ? c; t I ◄ 1e ��t� � 1 �J 1 �Bism2r • . WEDNE • B:..;m "' •· l<� ,..., :1 , . 1'..: U �--�== :_:E:,:S:,:D �A � Y,_J ...il:E 9, 19�5 NORWE GIAN CENTEN NAL CELEB� ATION . There is a deep significance to the Norwegian Centenm al Celebrati on which will be held' in St. Paul next mo;1�h. �o I race has contributed more to the developme nt of thrn section r of the state than the hardy Nor�e ir�migran t: the "sod b�s­ ters" of the early eighties and nmet1es who tilled the N 01 th . . Dakota and Minnesota prairies . . A fitting tritbute should be given their part m blazing the trail for present day develop111e n�. It �as a �ardy, hon- . est and courageous stock that came u�to this state ahead. of the railroad and in any kind of a ,·ontrivanc� that _c_ould �eg°: \ tiat.e the difficult trails often beset by h ostile Indians . r_he)_ 1 had to fight agaiI)Ht the elements as well as the red ".. kms , their victories were not easy ones, but they stuck to the task and helped materially in producmg a_ &'reat commonwealth. President Coolidge, h igh stat e officials, and rel?res�n.ta­ tives from many foreign lands will gather at the Twm C1t1es. It is fitting and deeply significant of the debt owed these hardy pioneers that �'ficial notice is to be taken of the celebration. . Th e whole Northwest is cooperatm g to ,m ak e th·'1s event a most o utstandi ng one in the annals of tpat group of states which honor.s att her sturdy citizens thousand s of Northm en. I TUE IMPE RIAL NORTHWEST Presi dent Coolidge speaking yesterday .at th e Norw Cente�nial Cele�ration _at the state fait"-gi,,,mci. iTrBt: egian Paut r-e"fe1':rea o t h is sect10 n as the "impe rial north western state s.'' Truly a vast empire is embraced in t e territ ory ( to �hose dev_e lopme nt the hardy Northmen hcontr ibuted . rres! dent Coolid ge was not indulg ing in flatte ry w h en he said m h is address : "Minnesota would not he Minnesota, the of imper ial north.wes�ern states would not be what theygroup are, but for the contr 1�utio n t hat h as been made to them by the Scand inavia n count ries." I No race has been assim il1'-ted into th e Amer ican comm on­ wealt h more comp letely than those of Scand inavia '.!'h ey h,a ye demon�trated as Coolid ge well said, "t n birth. h at th ere 1s a spmt ual quaht y shared by all races and condit ions of men which is th eir universal heritage and comm natur e." " He compares t h e influence 6f the Sca:nd inavia nonrace north ern and western Europ e to that of t h Greek u pon states upon the , civilizati_on of th e Mediterran ean. eThey were th; first deep-s ea navigators. On sea t hey distin guish ed them­ selv�s throu gh explor ation as on land they became famou s as pioneers who blazed the trail for future gener ations . The w hole Nort h west yesterday celebr ated the 100t h anniversary of the arrival of the Resta uratio nen whic from Stavanger, Norway, July 4, 1825, and came intoh set sail the port of New Yor�. after a voyage of 14 weeks, with a party of 5�� people . This all h appened 200 years •after t h e Mayflo wer made its h istoric trip. Alth ough th e Scandinavi ans were a seafaring people iH little band was composed mostly of farmers and when ' tthhev landed , throug,h the kind offices of t h e Qu·akers, t h ey secured lands and establis h ed the first Norwegian settlem ent. To reinforce this little band of . s ettlers oth ers came as years _wen� by until settlem ent of t he Norwegians and other Scandm av1ans spread into Iowa, Wiscon sin Minnes ota anrl t he Dakotas,, reaching the peak not so many �ears ago. Wit rfree lands prac;tically gone, immigration from th e Scandin a­h · vian countri es slowed up somewhat but ' i t has been as steady as the law .allows and the contribution of t h ese nations to our populat ion continu es to aid t he growth and develop ment of th is imperial Nort hwest. President Coolidge in closing his St. Paul address gave , this fitting tribute : "You have laid up your treasure in w h at Americ a represents, and t h ere will your h eart be also. You h ave given -· you r pledge to t he Land of t he Free. The pledge of the Nor- , wegian, people has never yet �one unredeemed." I to fook ,to other s to •play their pa rt. Bis:n, 1 ' "Can not ,t he Norw egian s ,boas t . 7 SATURDA , of A;nu 1 1'T ,.... ·, • • "' SATURDA'l, Ju r ·, 1"��· COOLIDGE IS CLEVER Presid ent Coolidge is to abandon the mode of travel in a Pullman wh ich stirred up no little comment last winter and will journey henceforth in a private car as befits a hi'gb dignitary of state. . . . . Press dispatGhes _state th�t on l_us t_r1p to . Mmneapohs Norse-American centennial next Monday the to address th e elaborate , if not lavish, President and• his � will � occupy • quarters. In themselves these facts have little significance. But to one wh o seeks deeper than the surface the workings of Coolidge, t h e psychologist, are evident. . When Coolidge ascended to the presidency in 1923 the country was j ust ,recovering from :a severe period · of deflation and depi:ession . Samething 11,ad to be done to keep th� tendency for spending in c heck_. In going to ext!emes t�e President impressed on the minds of the spendmg pubhc that economy was a prime 111�cessity ,of th e times. And t o a great extent the President accomplished his purpose. . N ow that money has become more plentiful C oolidge, again t h e master of psychology, seeks to set an example of being more free in expendituress in order to encourage a laggin P' trade . This does not mean that economy-, once t h e shibboleth of the .administration, has !been abandoned entirely. It means that wise economy is giving way to judicious spend i n g with Coo1•1dge 1ea d'mg the way. \ 'Bistnarck, N. D .. Tribl1t'1€ Bism arck 1 T n-cts_en a,s well as Le!,f Eric Pio ti�ermg is in ,t he!!' 'bhood. sonIn? opem n,g up ·t he ·o lde1r No!'lt hwes t ( New Yo' t'k Times ) they had a .cong enial aifew ork J,t is only natur.a l tJh at t:h o9e AmerLcan s of Norse origin meet I 1 , tod ay in Minnea•polis t,o, lbegi n th e giatdl e re d 'toget'her in M innea-p·ol h i MONDAY, JUNE �,j.9Z5 th • s h' !hundred Cl'lll<d d w1'll l ,f ondl y on th e gilories ,c ele'b rat1on ul' l!Jhe one · RSEME N - THE HARDY N·O of the f1rst exodu,s o.f ?f the Norsemen of old. They a re y ersar anniv .1ust1 y proud of ithe deeds of their Many Bismarck residen ts o f Norw�gian . descent are at- Norwegians to •t'h e United •S-taites. centennial bemg held_ at t h� A mi llion of t'hes•e people, more_r o r i foreifa1tJ11ers. B u,t th er e s.ho,u ld be tending the Norl3'e - American ntry idu ��f \ some modern ,ska J.d ,to recite the :r S founo less, ca:me to tJh i s couthem ,. 1· n C1' t1·es. Thousan us of citizeris whos_e ancestry I T"' to \ saga of the winni n,g ,of the -North· the century, m ost of ry t coun that of ntative represe and Gre�t w�st, �nd ito celebrate the mann Norway f o ·n the fj ords tie in the re,g ionis, abou t ,t he estei er n �nd • • Northw country is h t of the in [n wh1•ch . tJh·ese ,sons ,o,f Norway Lakes and are united in . s inging the praises re to le_ used na f b i l u mte themselve'S ; So : , i m�. the n not States. to the li e of d ,g,r,,dn p rl' ghtly so. But to come to think of it, doe_s. the lure o!f th_e sea W'hrnh ..fle01 .he United Sta,t es, ,giving ,to tih eir States owe to the Norse pioneers a r�cogmtwn o f the1r con - ,,ssoist ,many generait1on s h a1,.I ,c2,, cl ,1 e� h·omes f n the w oods ,a n d At- ,I ams ,t,h e same loyal a ffecti triib utions to t h e · nation ? theJ.r ancestors, stop·p·ed at ,t he on th�ou,g h 10 .:hat t�eir fathe r,s h-a. d ,f or 1.he 1l itls \ Largely a sea _ faring folk, the sturdy Norsemen cam� '1antic ,plo,rts or ,puslhed 1 fjo rds' of tJ s o n a a , c • 1 west . • i w �: t . r e he S and i n v i n • Mm • PacUk No th here and Settled On the Vast tracts that were _later to becom e t!he t:he Da kotas, Wisco ns m and I ll l �enin � ula. TJ1 e Northe.r n •peop•l es, ; prosper ous farms. The central ·west owes its d�". e 1opment oi,s 'however have daimed tihe 1•� Pro, fe,·s1or Larson o,f the Univer'i,ty of Illin,oj s. has a,pt l y re,mind·erl to no little extent to th e descend ants of t�e V1kmgs who ,aj�rity of ,the chHed r•eanm _ofg Nor· ,f a �11 8., have _ •gone mt o many -cou n, tries, I ay, who ,took u•p ,tih it. m oan Op e ned a large area that s o on was to contribute largely to w contin ent by the side of Americ s e ve r w 1,t1h em,pty h a nds. I n ,pa r- , the nation' s standin g in the world . . � ic ul,ar Is ,this true ,o f thos e wh:J I o!f New Engl1and. German an � otthe I Id wou that mty iginis . It :h a,s never lb een the na , ame ,to America, for -they gave / The Norwegians have here an opportu r o result to good advantage both to th�mse lves and to the coun- 1ure of Norsemen to :hang lbaick , r �'Ot ·o_nly their nnrem) ttin.g la bw, ! A NEW NORSE SAGA ..., !. �-----------...JI.._____________ 0 try. Th ere •are Targe areas that _,st11l_ nave to feel the plow. No more desirab le elemen t than 1mm1gran�s �ram the Sca �f dinavia n peninsu la can coone h ere. And 1� _is . the duty local Norwegians to demon strate to the v1�1tor � the g�eat advantages of settlemen.t in th country of their adopt1011. �itft1i1Iso thei� sanity, tJlletr •p e1:s11st - · -""��- e�t�rprise likefuIS-ai-guesa hundrerls of· missionaries�· th ou sandsl ,nee and •t hei r st rengt!h . No r have · good deal of boldnes s in the m aster of native wo rkers and contribute mil1hey lbe�n lhackwa rd in dkeciting of the vessel, as well as an adventur- li ons annually. :h e affai, r," o;f itthe 1N o�· �.waens,t . Th e 1 ou s spirit in the p assengers, m As there is practically no illiteracy o st o:f ua me s Or K nu, e N e1 �- 0•c- 1' d •7 • A • • • • ants and the1r • 'm · N orway, the 1mm1gr o. Pr·e,u s a re still !fresh in the pwb· �h ?m be1ong . to farm· 1·1es from the v1. . l ie mind. ,representing tbe 'best th at cm1ty of a httle town at the south- descendants have been specially mter­ this •s took has c•o.ntri,but·ed tto Amer- we stern extremity of N o rway, near ested in establishing and m aintaining lean 1p•oli:Ucs. 'fu lbe ,s ure . •t here i,:; the city of Stavanger. Those who I school s and publishing hous es and VoJ.sterud a l•so. w�1•ose popul a r i ty cam e from the farms are dressed in publishing papers and periodicals in hais /been 'IllOre dubi o us than that coarse cloth of d om estic manufacture both langu ages fo r the general enI of the o the r � wo, b wt he wa s not of a fashion different from the Am er- lightenment of themselves and the a lone resp'onsilb le fo.r the p,r,olbiibl· icans , but 1 1 of the Am eric ans. those who _ tion law. . inh abited the rest < mg E'iel se�, _1rs t _pastor, Ell' Their • f' Yankee, No.rwe,g ian, G erma n ,an<l t own we�r car1cos, grngh aro s, and gay . Swede •u nited t•o /build this -0lc.' shawls, imported, we presu me, from �as ordamed_ m 1843_. They_ buil t their I f1rst church m 1844 m Racme County, No rthwest. ·There , . under t'h.e im· England. paict o f ,common •experi>enc,e,s, 1} iving "The vessel is built on the mo del Wiscon sin. Organized their first Syn­ th e E'1ame liife in fore st o r fa rm, common to fishing boats on that o d in 1851. The first Am erican news­ �-u ilding r oads a:i,-d ra il roa;ds, to� coast, with a single top-sail, sl oop- paper in the No rwegian langu age ap- 1 geth er, and creating t,,o,w ns, . thes- rigged. She arrivef! with the addition . peared July 29, 1847. It was called I a f kindred ,stocks have fus•ed into "N ordl ys et" (Th e N o rt.hern L'ight ) , new ·element o,f tho Ame, rlca n •plo p · o one passenger born on the w �r,, . . The _ nam� of the vessel was Res- and was I?ubhshed m th� to� of No r- , uta tion . The ol,d •people natura lly , clin,g 1'•ond ly rt;o the memio.ries •o f the tau rat10nen. It left Stavanger, Nor- way, R acme County, Wisconsm. Since that time over 400 papers fat1her.Iand. Hiarichieaded Ya nkee•s way, July 4, 182 5, and arrived at New lJ,eyonid tlh ree E'C'O,re years a nq ,te�1 York, October 9th, the s ame year. Ev- have been published in the Norwegian in y reoalll 'fon·d ly the goo d ol d· dia ,s , ery one of the passengers landed in language in 89 citie s in America. At �·ew En�la nd , and id rea:m of ·t!h e go od health and spirits. A child was I present there are 50 p apers of which , little white fa rmihouse under th0 to Mr. and Mrs . Lars Larson on 2 are daily and two semi-weekly. The ta ll el1ms where t.'h ey we.r e 1born . born h • " y. I s,0 a l so the Nlo,r weglans look ba,ck t e voyage. She_ was given the nam e re st are . weekl y or �onthl to.. Norway with an ,occa,si!onal �argaret Allen m h onor o� Mrs. Allen . The first _No rwegian Acad �my of I But m London who had befriended Mr. higher lell,rnmg was founded m 1852. twinge iyf 1hoimeistclmess. In 1920 there were 2,233 ,503 Nor­ their chUdren t;o o otten know nei· Larso n. ther New En,g land nor the ",ol d T�re Norse "pilgrim fathers and wegians in America, and when we cou ntrv:" a nd _ia,re ,ailto,ge,ther a h· mothers" who came over in this bear in mind th�t the good ship "Res­ s•o ribeiJ Ill the hfe o f today ;. nd to - , ..Mayflower of the North" s ettled in , taurationen" brough the o riginal 53 morrow. They ,a r,e consdous tlmt to them has .f allen one oif tihe l\:J,est Orlean s County' N ew York and the N orwegians to this country in 1825 ' • • com!-- we reahze th�t there has be�n some sec.tions o:f the ,great Mi, ssissi-ppi hundreds and thousands of the�r empire, anid that ,they will ibe caHed trymen who followed them dunng this development b oth her� and m N or­ u,pon to ,s1ha re In tlh ·e resipnnsi1bll itY century have settled and developed way. And when their descendants olf �rystallizin.g its deve-lopment large parts of Illinoi s, Wiscon sin. gather to cel ebrate the event, they Those ·w:ho ,can lbloaist of No,rse Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas and be- can d o so with the satisfaction of hav­ lherita,g,e will ta�e •co mfort ·i n • the yond to the Pacific Ocean and v;u°J'- u:p ing contributed s ome of the finest , and _ sirable thought that t heir �o•rebear s never .in C anad a. They were hard working, \ :rno.sLde elem ents into America. s!hrank ,from hard work or idarng·e T, fruga1 a�d m • • • • d • us t�ious , and bl zed � ' . .D., Advocaf'P Bottm eau. N . and that hwing once rp,ut the hand h .J!'lUDAY.. J.llN&.. lJLJ..925__ to •the ,p1'ow t1iey never turned I t _e way m . developmg the Amencan . wild e rne ss n�t o the _m os t pr o sperous . Jba,ok THE EPIC OF SCANDINAVIAN and progressmg reg10ns of the World. Eotti!�e:rn , N D . . C __,MIGRATION They- came well prepared to do their __-. THUR.SP� ,;w'.\ r:1 s. 1923 part for America. They came from a aidij,ress' at Minnie,apolis 1 n h.is fre€ country to a free country, from I ' . 1' ,.i a JU. • .St an·cl paw: 1825-1925 an educated country to an educated i the Pres1.d�3nt neficent country. _:rhey represented be a civilizat1 rai�:etfutl t ribu e to th e . . . . - --- \ g 1825 was a s1gniflcant year for · which the' gre'a,t Scan • , ;lence America as it m arked the beginning tion and culture of a thousand years 1nfl . . . h as �,�d. <f No rwegian immigration to this develo pm ent. They were bette1· Amer- Jrn,arv1an 1mm1:gra:t�on country. This is therefore the Centen- icans before they left N orway thanl u p on Ame r icra . I t all began with niaI year a nd will b e observed by a som e of those who have been trying Iiing of a little b arque N�tional Celebration, in Minneapolis, to Ame1·icanize them afte r they came! th ,e, COIITI . , · , d're d years a hun IX'<Jn . N onway J'uile-.!7th, 1ffl'l: and 9th, when N orwe - here. . gian-Americans will gather by the e As a rule the N orse immigrants a,o-o · a:nd - :f rom that humbl hundreds of thou sands from all parts came here empty handed, but they ; � o f th. -e rit · the prO§:pe :y of. the country to cel ebrate the event. were no t empty headed o r empty e e tJ . -1 • It Local celebrations will al so be con- hearted. Preeminently, they were a re- N o.r :th:wes,t has . 1 � rg ei .Y" S1Jl un.g. • . ducted throughout the countrr. ligions people and wherever they set- is not fOlr a tell i n g o.f a famJh a: In connection with this e ·ent the tled they built churches, , educational ho!\\.,eVte,r that· tlhe P res1following clipping from the New York and charity institutions. They have story rve remem • o,rtd s ' dese ' _;'S ' • w Daily Advertiser for October 12, 1 82 5 over 3,500 churches, 1500 clergymen, f dent • may be of interest. It was headed- and contribute annually about $4,000,- hranc-e•, b,U)t: fo-r • tiwo conclusions A N ovel Sight: 00�.o_o to churc�, ch arity, mi ssi on and he dlr'eiw fri.:: m it. One was t hat : • "A vessel has arrived at this port reh gious education. They have 30 col-. h verry rea,,u un1·t_y in hu1s a1 : : with emigrants from Norway. The 1eges, aca demi· es, no rma1 schoo1 s and t' e-re1 , vessel is very sm all, measuring, as we ftheologic al semin aries, 3 8 children's . tn an hi story ; the other was that , understand, only about 360 N orwegian \ homes, old _ peopl� 's homes, 1·escue if in this one conti nent so manY lasts, or forty-five Am erican tons, and homes fo r _girls , kmdergartends and • ,.i nations could be as- , ani" I races. brou.ght fifty-three passengers male day n urseries. • noit miay we and female all b oun.d . for_. Orleans , They have oyer 300 home mission- simiJatiep,, "w:h;y county, wh�re an agent who came arie� stati�n�d in the _Pi�neer fields, hope ence influ that t\he same over some ti.'11e since, purchtised a loggmg, mmmg and f1shmg camps, o­ and the large citie�. Being that �or- . Wl at l engtih r eiac'h men and , w tract of l and . "The appearance of su ch a party of way ranks very high am ong nations m en w,herr'lever the'y ar,e., f.OU nd .strangers , coming from s o distant a 1 in Foreign Missio n interests,. it is only on ea.rth ? " 'Surel:y "the Par1ia­ country and in a vessel of a �ize ap-[ reaso J_1able th�t those. w�o migrated . to . t cd: man ' tihe fed'e,ri8.\tion of parently ill calcul ated for a voyage America earned this mteres t with men • al a l\ogic t em. t'h i e i r o eref ve a h they , ped o devel Th e wo, 1:Td" •woulid b e across the Atlantic could not lbut ex- h larg·e mi ssi on field s in China, Mada - die1v EUoipment of the proc.ess th at cite �11 11nnrnal .-le;ree- "' �-,.-\·est. _ gascar and Africa, where they have 1 1 . I , ' . h a:'s ma.• d,e our N a,tl· on I I I I p ·u �l Th� story of America is not a d.e.t.a ched cha,pit.er in -human his­ tory, an.d our historians have come of late to rearrize it. As the !>resident put •i t, "for the r.'eal 'o-�ginnings ;of any people we must go ,b ack to t:he beg-in ning13 We are eve;n 0'f all peoples." une.8,rthing civilizations now which tnake th,e ancient seem world as we modern. In the know it the Scandinavians have p�ayed an eminent part. From the Mediter;raniean to the New Worldi theiir :footprfun ts are dis­ Thqy were, as the oornri.ble1. PreS'id:ent said, "the first de,eip sea navigators"-at least after the Tyrians who boldly sai'Ied . beyond the Pillars of Herc:ules. The Northmen g.ave N:orrnandt their name, a,n.d: thence• they crossed the Channel to cOIIlquer Elngla,nd. . The landsmen of our Northwest have not whoUy lost the stamp of an adventurous and seafaring r�es. I ' 'heir immigration in sueih numbeirs .to the New W:or'1id, like that of otihe:r -Eiuropean races, has p,ro:foundl.y affected t,he des­ tiny of Ame·riica.. English we re­ m,ai n in law and la.ng1uaige, bu:t New En gtish in social and po:iitir eal devei_!.oip ment. It was a v�.ry thoughtful and compre,hensive summary of ain epical e,p isode in history which t'he President gave to his h ea;rers.-PhiladeJ:p,hia Inquirer. ·ra 11ns:-7neTery way they are up- ?'h o.y ·came to lho land Of opporl u n­ standin g citizen s of their adopted 1ty Just as t h e early ,Engl ish , Dutch , cou ntry, and haTe ever been read a u cl . S?otch ca-m e ; to ca rve out n ew o / d es tn1 1 eH for themsel ves a ncl their with wil 1ing11es s . and cheerful n-ss O p y. How \vel l they carved t hose help bear th burd_ens a�? the 1:espon- d rogen esti n ies ir; m a n i fostecl in the i m portl, · sibiJit_1e s Of mel'lcan c1tizensh1p. ant p laces t h e i l' progvny con1111a nLl i n Quick to respond to the call of their the l ife o f J\.ruericc1 . The Sca n <i i iiav­ cou�try i n time of need, all th e ians wc 1·e by heredity er1u i pped t,) armies of the United State s having venture i n to Amel'ica 's l\'01.\ IJ w est, been filled with Norsem en or their a n cl th e h a zaJ"cl i; w h ic/1 th �Y knew descendants, an d in times of peace no t�ey m u st _face !a i l ed to cla1111t their more dome stic peopl e can be found. �-L l�rng :, p i n � . L1Jrn tho boastfu l Cae­ Natura ll y they love the land Of the�• i. sa1. they ca m e, I.hey saw and eon­ q u_erud--1i �t lly lho f'>rce of m i l i tnry . birth o r revere i· t as the home of their nug h t wlueh terized Caesar's I forelathers, as_ all good citizens 1Jo11 q 11ests-1J u t charac hy t h e peaceful should, but while that affection is c u pation of farm i• 11 g and ci ty b u ioc:­ lt!• s_tro�g, love of the land in which they d.ng. 'T'h e y con q u ered tho pra iries, l i ve 1s stronger , and as the thousands the ro rest.s and t b o mountains, and ? ather at St. Paul we wish them j oy th o;i: I.u rn ed g-rca t . waste lands i nto I m the meeting, for without love of the fortl lo va l ley� �•h 1cb eventual ly bo- j fatherla11d n o ci tizenshi p can be real , cau!e _the uati�n s food basket . . They , w i t h the other f or m er no peopl e can develop to the g eat ass 1m 1 latctl r [Euro pean s who were a lready h ere, future that seems t be om. s. and they p11f aside hard-bou n d Mr . N orsk e man, w e take o ff our trad iti ons wh i ch forthose centuri es kept hat to you.-Beach Agvance. i !Europe in a n ccou9mic ru t . ° * * * WHB: N W E rea l i ze that the>lP. peopl e lo ft ( h o l and of the m i d n ight 'I'� . .K Ofi S l�·A i\1' 1£TIJ: CJ\ '.'i! �- J Q.ll sun, with i ts roc ky mounta i n s · and 11 irt l lo be hclcf 1u 'TI10 "l";v rn C i ti f'8 l h i ;; rugged coa s ts, we · may uncl orsta ncl month wil l lJP · th e gr011hst <.'. elchn1- i n a m eas u re h o w they m ust h a v e when _L ltey came t.o a lan d t i on of i ts kind ewe !' hel tl i n the js�fferod with o u t uiou11l.a 1 n s , fa r from t h o ,ion� N or thwest. IJc·ca u so i t. U ll' ak e n s t he of t il e ocea n wa ves and whose pra illlincl to t h e S!',l lld i n a 1· i ,1 11 p i (}U O("l':1 lri es st.retch ed i n t o the Hunri:-;e w i t h wh o le ft their IJelovcd < · 01m l ry a n d h a rd l y a t ree for m i l es lo bren k t h o o[ a fla t t or1:a in. M u s t l !1ey c a m e to Am erica 's :'\ort l1 w est to vista 1101, have longed ag;t i n for t h eir h i ll:-;, . . lJ!a zc lh e tl'a i. l fo r n ur w c1 v ! l 1. za ll. o n . t heir [jo r tli< an d t he ocean w a ve!'l They t11rned the ,ba rrcu pru il'ies in• bea l iug on 1 h e rock y r.oas t., anrl m ust io ferti le fields. ! m i l l c i li os uud in· t hey not l lavr r, i g!tecl ar t j rn es lo iecl jectcd i n lo I ho u c w J; 1 1 1 cl the 8 pirit t he )' ,� em thousa uds oC m i les from . a l l f h01r loved ones ? T il e He a re the . or th e v 1. k111 g1:; 1 1 ilo w Nn l h c f i rst pa n gs o r pi on eers in I'l l range Ja nd r-; , ODuropeans to f o 1 1 c h A n1 eric;i 's H h o res. a nd al l i m m igrants t.u A mcl'ic a have Not so l ong ag;o a Sca n<l i n a v i an , 1 , t. a t t i mei; experienced, t h em . They Eric Ne lson i n .i octed t .h e v i k i n "'o spir- pnade A m eric,1 t h e i r home. �cl i t was • llll. • o worlcl na v i. ga I to l l hy hec o - a n e w home a u cl they m i g h t h a ve 1t m wep t fol' ;i flee l i n g g· I a nce • of I h o i r ing ouc o[ t il e fi 1·s(. f! y(' l';i to c nc;.i • · l e fa thc!' Jantl : yet, as Gra n t.laud fl ice th o g lobe, and pncu l i a rl y he 1nig-h t 8a ys iu h i i; a d m i ra ble poem : have c rossed fl'om nort h e rn E m·opo "And this i,; a l l t h a t m a lrn:-; i He worth the cos t : o ver t h e same i·ont c l ra v el' se rl by '[' Ir is e n dless d rea m , Some da y IEric the Red ,"i OO yPan; before ,C h ri s · l ' m goi ng home." top lier Col uml.Jus h a d a q 11 oou paw11 Bui many of I.h e m n ovel' rl itl go bHck her jewels t.h'a l. ho m ight. ( i ncl a n e w to their a n coi;Lra l homes, bec_ause world across t h e A tlantic. Tho fa c t t lwy fou p rJ l hal l11oy had secured a f'ff, t (- , . N D .. Rep:!:>'fr:·r,,, t.h a t the pre m i e r or Norway ancl I.lie finer home i n th o n e w co11 n (sy , a.url THU .RSDA� ,.tuNE 11, rnzs " pres ident or the U n i ted Sl ates w i l l be wheu they si n g "Ja vi eJr-;kcr d olt.c OUR AMERI CAN NORSE MEN visitors in the T w i n C iLies d nring lancl et," they have in m i n d t h o n e w l bea u ty w h i c h t hey h el ped _to . The Nol'Se centennial next week will t h e cente n n i a l bespeaks a n e w vi- l J a nel or . be a great event for the Northwest sio�1 be_t ween the !,wo co1mtries, " crea tc -T. l�. M cC. w'.11 �ll_'Otc:lt f h m r l:auds acros;=i n . ,, h r _,., 1 r : an d the t housands of splendid citizen s wluch t he a 1n en c! l y greot u 1 g. A_ m er �18, 1925 .T HU RS-DA - , wh 0_ came from Norway at one time a osees o [n s m u ch to tho earl y un m i-- ' I• g• the p as t l00 y ears. , c n w -AMER E NORSE or n other cl rn TH e of th gra t :; who l rn za rd ed tho peri l·;; m: :,i a fine thmg 1 I t 1s for thes e people to 1WesL ant! Northwest to erect a -reat CAN CENTENNIA L ·get togethe r in honor of the �rst ar- l e m p�re1, tha t :,he n1ever m u s t "' l ose · t • rival in this country of then· fo re- 1 tho opportu n ity to honor t h e i r worlrn . T �e gre at ga_ henng Of th e N01bears. Of all the nationalities who ,an d tho su cr i fi c: os w h ich they made . , place at thl! took which n race wegia e f ed farmer great th t 8 our Uni rom got the 'We in home ew n a made have Nol' f h or li;nrope, Norway, Sweden, twin cities last week is now a matt�r 1 States none are better ci tizen s. LibS c: o t lanrl , l r�l � n ? • . E �,glan cl of history. R eports i n dicat � that it erty lovin g in the ir na�ive land,. like �)edn ui �r�, rnous country, <1u G o i many, a o cl t_hon clu_l c'.1 en t_oin . fully up to expecbtions . . . •11 p eople of a mounta quick ly ab- d a y hold com m a n d 1 11g pos 1 t10ns m came _ . • b 3:bl Y, 1nore . a life t ile n a Li ou's i n dustry, agric u ltu re a nd pomt of attendance and m t\1� sue �e y h ave, PI? P11nciple s of Americ n the sorbe<l rrogram the of out vernment go carryinocessful . I race • y other * * * <> nd tradi tions than an • • • as laid. dow n b"'y th e arrangemen t . THE '.'\OR W EG I A N :;loop Restaurrep 1·esented here, whi ch 1s sa ym g comm ittees. On e of the _ outstandmg nothing in disre spect to all the other ntionen. w h ich la n d ed 53 emigra n ts the was n celebratio the features of \ <+ s 0 0 hat 1 1·bor a h year ago, t from New York l splendid man an d womanhood 1 h as come from other lands and who p1 i gh t wel l be ca l led the May- presence of Calvin Coolidge an d ths �owcr the of North west, b e• memorab le address which he delivere d are Americans to the core. • cause its la n d i ng put i n to the soul • . passag _s t gra f o t a o de h t wes N-011:hwes The o f America a new spiri t of a tl ve n- We quote 11ere the c 1 osmg • itude to the Norsemen who came here t.ure ancl rom a n ce which m e rged i nto of his speech : fine the us e gaT and s "T hese Northmen, one of wh ose an- ' those · fine s pi r i ts wh iel'l a ! l'eady had in the earl y day m e n and w omen who haTe helped so started the uew ro p u l '. l ic on t h e roa d n iversar ies we ar,J celebrating today, I e tness. grea l a nation tod en oreced un prairi to s om· materially i n coTeling -. Devils Lake, N. D:::k. , Jo urnal - THURSDAY. JUNE 4. l 92o . 0 0 with happy homes and_ productivP �1ore a ers, a s al l good c�bze1:s th�igorous per sl 0ufld£fi h ave from their first appearance 0n7'f��at through · , bu t w h1. 1e that affect10n 1s . 1 . . . � 1 the margm of history been the chil-_ Ij for ?1 ance of your duties YOl will add strong, love of the land in which they . dren of freedom. Native to r, rigor- new luster to your glory m the day live is stronger, and as the thousand� ome. to I gather at St. Paul we wish them joy , ous climat,J and a 11 0ne too produc-c l tive soil they have lea rn ed th{> neces . "Our America with all that it re pre- in the meeting, for without love of the' sity for hard work and careful sen ts of hope in the world -is now an ], ,fatherland no citizenship can be rea] , mana ge ment. They were move d by will be what you make it. Its . insti 1 no people can d evelop to the great future that seems to be ours. that aspiration for a fr ee h0lding i f. tuiions of religious liberty' of edu-I Mr. N orske . . . man, we take off our the . land which has always marke :1 catio� al �nd ec�nom ic opport�1 11 1ty, o f1hat t o you.-Beach A dvance. . tegr1ty const r the of tut10nal ghts, in , peoples m i i whom the democra ti c ideal was pres3ing· for rec ogni tion Eager of the law, are the most precious po£­ Fargo , 1�. traf.. Forum for both political and economic inde- sessions of the human race. These SATURDAY. MARCH 21, 1 925 pendence they realized t_he necess ity do not emanate from the Government. for popular edu:,ati on, and so have Their abiding· place is with the people. Norse-American Centennial always been among the most devoted They corr: e from the consecration of The Norse-American Centennial celebration supporters of public schools . Tho u - the father, tl-:.e love of the mother, sands of them volunteered in the ser -- and the devotion of the children. The ;v which is to be staged at the Minnesota State Fair vi::e of -the country during the Civil are the product of that honest, ,e arn­ Ground, June 6-9, is attracting much attention and Spanish Wars, and tens of thou- est, and tireless effort that goes into right now, not only among the Norwegians of in the United ( sands in th e World War. The -insti the rearing of the family alter and North Dakota aud elsew'here tutions and the manners of democrac y the making of the homes of our coun- • States, but in the Fathel.'"land as well. Invita­ came naturally to them. Their glory try. Th,2y can have no stronger sup - Uons haYe been sent by President. Coolidge to is all a,b out you, t heir living and their porters, no more loyal defencers, than l)1·ominent personages in Nor way ancl it is ex• mighty dead. They have giv�n grea v -that great body of -o ur citizensh ip t)€Cted now that many wi11 be present to help the soldiers, statesmen, scientists, edu,"e1- which you represent . When I look Norw glans of Amerrna . t.o make it a memorable ; tors and men of ·b usiness to the up - upon you and realize what you are occuS1on. . . building of the-ir adopted country. and what you have done I know that :he celebration will commemorate the lOOt.b i Th e y_ have been rapidly amalgamated in your hands our country is secure. I' anruversary of the Norwegians i arrival the of . into the J;i ody of citizenship, contr'i- , you have 1_m"d up your trea sure m / wbo formed the fi rst settlement .;i.n- America in . b u.ting to it many of the b est and wh at A menca represent s, and "'th ere 1825 n ost charact.e;rist ic elements. To will your heart he also. You have In commenting upon the celebration the Min• ;h eir adaptability the Nat io n owes g•i ven your pledge to the land of neapolis Journal recently said : "There used to 1 nuch for its success in the enormo.U£.. the Free. The pledge of the Nor- be a certain feeling of regret in Norway, when )rocess of assimilation and spiritua l I 'Yegian people has never yet gon� the migration of so viany of her sons and daugh­ mification that has made our Nation l unl'edeemed." ters to 4,merica was mentioned. It seemed a vhat it is and our people what they ' Elgin, N. D., N ews · . grea t and irr(ll?J!.tl!;bl.fL.loss U? t)).e old country. •re. THU�.IM,Y.. JUN� lh 1925 But tMtfeoling s�ms to be qudte vanished in "Although this movement of peoOUR AMERICA N NO.RSEMEN the swelling feeling of pride in the achievements ,le originated in Norway, in its es The 'Norse cen'tennial next week will and attainments of the Norsemen. As in the old ence and its meaning it is peculiarl y, be a great event for the Northwest Viking days, but by the a rts of peace rather than Lmerican. It has nothing about it and the thousands of splendid citizens of war, the Norseman is making his way everyf c lass or caste. It has no tinge of who came from Norway at one time where." ristocracy. It was not produced or another during the past 100 years . The Norwegian l)OOple here in America, as a It is a fine :irough the leadership of some great get togetherthing for these people to people, have made wonderful progress. This :is in honor of the first ar­ gure. It is representated almost en- rival in this country of attested on every hand. They have _ easily their fore.re ly by that stalwart strain wh 0 bears. Of all the nationalitie s who adopted the ways of America and American 1-a:ke the final decisions in thiE have made a new home in the United dtizenship. Unlike some other races, they have been, as another has pointed out, '1pecu1iarly free •orld, which we designate the com States none are better citizens. Librfrom temptation * * "' to put the interests of 1o n people It ' has about it thE erty lovi ng in their native land, like crength of the home and the fire- all people of a mountah1ou s country, the Fatherla11d above those of the United States." It is particularly fi tting that such a celebra-· ide ; the family ties of the father am they have, probably, more quickly absorbed the principles of American life tiou as t.hls Centennial should be held here in 'le mother, the children and the kin and traditions than any other race the Northwest which ·counts so many of • Nor­ red. It has all been carried 01 represented here, which is saying wegian blood among i ts citizenship. It will help ery close to the soil, it has all bee1 nothing in disrespect to all the other to emphasize the historic part played in the de­ xtremely human. When I conside splendid man and womanhood that velopment of America by the Norsemen and he marvelous results it has a•c comr has come from other lands and who should cement new bonds of friendship between shed I can not but believe that i are Americans to the core. The Northwest owes a debt of gratAmerica and the land of theiir fathers. r,as inspir�d by a Higher Powe: itude to the Norsemen who came here !ere is something vital , di.rm,_ a. in the early days and gaTe us the fine abiding, wb-ich I can o�6describe as I men �nd w?m en w�o h:ne helped so m�terially m connng our prairies , a g-reat reality. _with happy homes and productive ·"An enormous power has. come to farms. In e-very way they are up"I you, but you are charged w ith e qua11 Y I standing citizens of their · adoptect s 0 Th " e T " es. t 1 b 1 i respons1 _ country, and haTe ever been. ready enormou s lresponsibiliti es you have never fai witli willingness and cheerfuln ess to ed to meet, that power you have help bear the burdens and the respon­ never failed to sanctify. There·i n lief sibi1ities of America n citizenship. Quick to. resJ?ond to the call of their the sole title to all the glory yor cou�try m time of need, all the ha · fiChieve d in the p.ast --and--thereir arm es of th� United States having i gloq · the all to itle t 1 w i·11 1 ie th e so e been fil led with. Norsemen or their utur that you wi ll achieve in_ the � ·� descendants, and in times of peace no Bel ' eving that there resides m . ar. ·more domestic people can be found. enlightened people an all-compellm� �aturally they _love the land of their , fort!e for righteousness, I have e�ery/ birth , or revere it as the home of their �the traits o,f in<'.lu,;fry, 1iil:egncy ·and 1�e•· 1 11,a t made thei r forebear s substant ial, industl'i· <>u� and loyal citizens. It is fi Wng, indeed , bhat <this Centennial is bution The G overnment of Norway ha$ taken offi<'..ial i·e cognition of to be held to specifically note t �e contr� people to a gr�,a t �ati?n , .a nd _it can, great a of the St. Paul festival to celebrate the hundredth anniwirsary of the • • • • , and should, thus help m1ght1ly m focusing atT fn·st 1m�ugrat1on from Norway to tl,e Umted �tates • Members of. teution upon the challenge of today and tomor. the Cabrnet, the State Church and the Storthmg will attend the l'OW. For upon the ability of the N01·se-Ameri­ cclebration, and join ·with officials of Canada and the United States cans, j ust as upo1i the ability of all America•n s, 1u accept this challenge depends the perpetuity in observing the event. . Our own Government has taken cognizance of the :festival, and itnd adrn.ncement of the Republic . . , Of course t,h e Norse-Americans of t.oday w1U , · · . P res1' d ent Coolidge will be one of the chief speakers . . gh emphasiz. t rou h 1 , . • ' accept it, but' tl1e cen t ennm . The celebration 1s one that commands the attentrnn and sup- !in"" the ac complishme nts of the pa,st, will serve po �t of all Americans, especially t�ose �n t�ese �orthwestern States , ,,/point tlle ,yay to the future. From thi_s can, . wlnch owe so much to the Scandmavian 1mm1grants. North Da- and will , come the larger benefit from :this trckota, :for one commonwealth, is greatly indebted to the Norsemen 1nen.dru.r n ""a tllerin in June. who came here in th e days when it was first conquering the virgin prairies. Other States, notably \\.,risconsin and Minnesota, owe greater debts, and it is in recognitiou of these that they are enter­ ing so thoroughly into the festival. Paying a clearcut and mel'i tc,: tribute to the " No other immigrants h ave impressed themselves more char­ acteristically on the civilization the;r found in the United States Norwegian race and to what it ha� n(l{'()m))lis:hed than have the Scandinavians in thi• Northwest, " said The New in America, President Coolidge, :;,pe; king at the York Sun the other day. " Their traits and habits are reflected in Norse-A:merican Oentenni,al celebration in the �he �ife of th,a communities they founded, though no foreign train­ Twin Cities, made two reference;i, which are m � 1s st�ong en?ugh to sta:n� ou t for more than a comparatively deserving of the serioua consl<lcration of c,ery _ . brief per10d agamst the assumlatm g mfluence of hfc in the United America n ci tizen because one points out the Im­ State_s . Physica� trait� J? ersist, h�bi1s of thought and action may portance of a thorough knowledge of the histord­ . remam and national 1diosyncracies linger, but the jnward and cal phases of om· past, arnl 1 '1e other holds out the hope that .Amerioo.'s exan:: ple of creating a ,spiritual man is thoroughly America1, in time . " That has been parti�ularly true of the Scandinavians. '!.' hey Nation fl'om various races with the soul of a • were of the type needed m the yestetyears to conquer nature the Nation may point the way in time to a greater ! h ardy men and women who push. the ir way into new and wild tei�­ brother'hoocl and understanding among the nations i r itory and tame it for their own uses. They conquered where many of the Wo-rld. In discussing :the Norse anniversary, he said : l others would have :failed, and bt>causi they: did North Dakota and 'fhere were • '•'.rhe next few years will be filled with a connfinnesota aud Wisconsin are great States today. other immigrants, of co_u!se, but noncwho more thoroughly adapt­ ti nuing suacession of similar occasions. I wish r e � . themselves . to cond1t10ns and m�:l.e themselves so completely that every one of .them might be so impressively celebrated that a ll Americans would be moved to )--Citizens of their adopted States as dil the Scandinavians. In this St.ate, ·they always have hen :found in the front ranks study the -history which each one represents. I f Of progress and development. They 1ave helped make North Da­ can ·think of no effort that would produce so much , kota a remarkable farming State, anc today their descendants are inspil'!ltion to high a nd intelligent patriotism. co tinuing the work _in a rema:·l�able 'vay. It is fitting, then, that '� " * Anyo ne who will study the institutions and I :1 people of America. will come more and more to this State take official recogmtion o the centennial celebratio n admire them." ' :-- � ..:i .h.oln make i.t...L1_great success. Fa.-go, �- ml(.. F'orurr And, then, he adds : "It is not so many years : L,ES DAY. _MAY s. 192S since visitors from o,t her quarters of the World __ were wont to contemplate our concourse of races, origins, a nd interests, and shake their heads The Forum likes the statemen t of Justice ominously. 'l1hey feared tl:.at from such a melting c;rninbjorn Johnson, of the North Dakota Su­ pot of diverse elemen ts we could never d raw the t>reru: �urt, wbo, -in &'Pea.king of the Norse­ tested tempered met,a l that is the only substance ,\ rucncan ,Q_entennial to b.e held in tho Twin of national ohara.ctcr." nut be says : "Amcrka Ci ties :in June, �l'ft1.'€1S that it "will diret:t at­ proved i ts truly national unity. It demonstra ted tention to the contribution the Norsemen have conclusively that there is a spiritual quality :ma.de to American progress and dvilization " shared :by all races and <'On(l itions of men ""hich but that ''its real message is a challenge to tl;e ls their: un i,ersal heritage and common nature. • " "' If fraternity ,and co-operatio n are possible �orsemen of today and tomorrow to e:rnmplify on the scale of this continent among people so : u ,ch� ractor �nd conduct the tmits of industry, 1ntegnty and reverence that made the pioneers widely diverse, why not on the scale of the outstan ding figures w-herever they IiYed." "'orld." 'l'hc people of the Northwest, particul arly, '.l'lle study of our h istoric phases a nd what 1·ecognize that the Norse pioneers and their 1 hey mean will make for n greater America n ism, de;-;cencla nts 11ave contr:ibutecl much t{) the Na­ for a deeper respect for our institutions, for a t io n in general ang to tlli,s section in particul ar more cleterminecl effort to maintain them. Their con tribution has helped wonderfully i· 'l'he study of what our many clivergeut races t he building up of this vast Northwesteri ha rn accomplished here together in the building empire. of a united Nati-on wilh a oomm-0n- soul, cannot Hut the challenge to l'hem is the same a.s th< but convince one that our 1110.tiona.l experience cha l lenge to all Americans : •to build for toruor• will, as time passes, help more and more "to guide row and ,to "exempl ify in character and concluc1 mankincl" to grea ter ·world fraternity and co­ operation. Farve, N. · Dak. , Tribun<" WEDNE SDAY, APRIL 8, ��L · The Scand1navian Centennial A Nation-One -and Inseparable The Centennial' s Challenge I �Fargo, N. T"""'"' ., 7 0 �t'i� ____J'_li_URSDAY IL •• 1 tevitalizing Our Pasf � 92 ., Now that the Norse-American Centenni-al ;lebration is a thing of the past it is proper that here be a brief chccldng up on the net results, or it ·bas be!"n a memol'lllble event. The recounting of what the Norwegian people ,1 ave accomplished ·here from the earliest days, the stamina of the pioneers, their patriotism, their love of li•berty, their innate abHity to adapt them­ selves to their adopted Oountry, t'he honors which have come to many of the race, not only makes these things more vital today to the Norse-Ameri­ cans, but it all forms, a challenge for a like citizenship today and in the fttture. While the President was :'<p ealdng in honor of the Norse-American celebration his message wa s for all Americans. lfo expressed the wish that the next few years woul d be filled wlth a con­ tinuing succession of 1ike celebrations for the very reason that -they help just so much in build­ ing better citizenship. It ils well for the Country as a whole to recognize the contributions of the yarious races which make up our cosmopolitan citizenship. Such study, through such celebra- . tions, helps to make for a more thoroughgoing Amel'lcanism. America needs to• remember and emulate the rugge.d worth of the fore fathers of this Oountry. If Americans of today can only keep themselves anchored to the common sense principles of gov­ ernment and imbuerl with the same degree of pa�riotism, whlr:h tiuild this Nation, the Republic ii-: secure. Americans, whether of No•rse birth or some other !birth, who have studied the words of the President, cann<>' '• • • be impressed with the idea .,,,,;,.-n ilouslv better citizenship that it make� 1 for us to to pa� freque�tly to gl"l"e heetl to the record of 0•1r wonderful past. It is nn iuspi rotion to us of today to go forward, sanely and soundly, u translating our c:i t.'2;enship :iuto a wortlnvl1ile .lArilaii:e for rte �·1 1 : :-.,ns of tomor: h•·· Farao �� -..-���FRIDAY, J1; H -/ 12, 1925 -� '- rr:,h e N eed of Vfgilance The speech ot Secretary of State Kellogg at the Norse-American l)e11t nmal celElbration in Minneapolis, is deserving of the thoughtful con­ sideration of the American people. While he made it quite cle.ar that !he is not one who be­ lieves that there can be no improvement in ex­ isting institutions, still he warru; that we, as a , people, should hold fast to fundamental prin­ ciples which have made us great and which have perpetuated our republican form of government. Cautioning against revollltlonary propaganda which, he says, is b�ng secretly distributed in this Country by foreign influence, he likewise 1 cautions against il!advised and hasty action within relative to those safeguards which uphold our liberties. If the American people think soundly and act wisely in relatio·n to their governmental af­ fairs, revolutionary propaganda from the outside cannot make headway here. Vigilance in main­ taining our Constitutional guarantees will pre­ serve the legacies 'handed down to us as a hertitage from our wonderful past. .And so the Secretary urges vigilance in the custodianship of the principles of individual lib­ erty vouchsafed under the Constitution . Our v:!gilance, our devotion to and our recog­ nition of these principles which were "evolved " as another has said, "out of a tremendous stret�h and volume of human ex.peliience, " alone can 'naintain tliem uninmaired. r\r!'ltton '(N. D.1 'Ntws at " ==� F�R�l�D � A�Y�•� l� U�N � E�l2�; 1 9;:,;2:;;5��=� dis tin clion of being the first w hite child bcru in that t,e-rritory. DAYS ULE NOTA In Septe111her. 1 8 5 D , Ole DottoHThese a re not-a,ble days for the son also moved across the river So�N orway of tho great no rthfrom Nebraslta, followed the next west. The centenliThI llt p1•ogrITT!s ,at month )Jy Syvert Myron, El ling 0. M i nneap·oli.s at <1.cted the ·attendEugum, and L::trs Torhlaa. Durof sturdy Norseance ,of thoui,a' ing the following winter the rest of men. It was ,, n evtii wo,,thy of m uch attention, heraildiilg • as i t th o No rw egi an colony in Nebraska did . the m 'l:rvelous achievements of ,., rossqd Ute river on ice, so that in ,a, gre a t race u [ peo11le . N c rway has 1 8 6 0 ,,,hen th,e land was tormally h..§_r _l!!?e;e on tne map o f tlle worl<l \ op e ned f or settlem ent, a goodly ' a·s the home of a p rog ressive and band oJ Vikings were already i n . God-fe a ring people. possession. \VHhin,, a few years Thousands o f them 'blazed the nun dretls of Norwegians ha,d way for the march of civil iz ati-on in "t rek k e d." across Lim p rairies from ]\1in nesota and the Dakotas, while Wisconsi n: ·,.1i,d eti.stern Iowa to in every state in the union there are tl.te fe r tile valley of the M issouri in men o f Norw Eo,gia.n birth who have Dalrnta and the settlement extend­ taken their part in the world's ed all tlle wa from Yankton on the activities. They have given, t,o musewest to t h e Sioux river on the east 8 a 1 g 1 1 0 one of the large·st and richest :: ;· : � ; � 1 �i!�:i iel th 0 : �i 0 � �, : ��: Norse r·olc nies in Amerioa. b attle, to literature those whose inln 1 8 6 :t the sottlc/illent w as temspired1 geni us have made niches for f themselv'e s in the g•allery of the po ra r i l y a l.nUHlon•e d on account o · the l nd.,an ' \;care." Mounted solfamous . ; ll i · rn rn,1e ,a long the ·v a lley ordering In conn ection w it h th� centennial .th e ;;etllers to flee for their lives at M inne'.. polis it is inter·esting to Ulto J o w•a. This .e a usecl great d is­ k n ow that the fi rst Norwegian tress au rl h·anlship . some of the settlemer\L in Dakota tenit·or·y men wr,re away-ha uling p,rov i-s­ was, started in the " Missouri valley, ions to Ui e A• o .ld-iers o f the forts Clay county, in 1 8 5 9 . Two years hefarther west or emplcyed on steam- 1 . . 1 fore_ that _tnne n uu11'.L1er of NorlJo· ats plying the Mis.s ouri-and I wegran pion eer:,; had formed a tem' Lheii poor w ives were compelled to I p,ora ry sPttleme111t n t North Dend I cl r , ve their flo(;kS o[ ca ttle and and St. J a rn Es . Nebr,:i slta , on the sheep Le) the ren<1.ozvo1rn a t Ver­ south .side of the M isso ur i, wiLh the m illion or leave tltom to the• mercy intention of crossing the river atHl of the/ l ncli-ans. taking-· honH,,;lPa tls in Dakotas j ust nut the Indians were not the on­ as soon as the land there was cl•.i nger t ha t these first Dakota ly l� e t n ej to, thrown open ry. Th vel "botto,rn lands", as .they were c" lled, sett lers had t �• conteild w ith. The wMch Jay along the north ;to n k or floods were Elven worse . These came the M issonri from Vermillion west­ in the c,.i rly spring when the snow ward to Yankton, looked goou to th a wed , causing the Missouri to these Norwegi-im pioneen and they overflow its banks ,and sweep out were doterm inc,cl t() bave th El first I over the low " bot toms " . 'fhe worst of these floods w as that o f 1 8 8 1 . chance at them. There w a s a!l1 u.n us ually he·avy f all Ole Olson Gjeitli or Jet\ey may be of snow th•at winter and ·on acco unt called the founder o'f the colony. of a sudden thaw ea,rly in the He was a shrew-d , res_o urceful mm1 sprin,;, tho l.rn:g e rive, r rose in i ts \ from Voss1, Norway, who did not might, b urst the thicl;/. ice whicll stand s,o much in awe o f Uncle sought to hold it down , .ronue·. : an S,a m's rule's and regulations as mosl i ,n men·s,a gorge in a bend . 10,e'.ow of bis 1cou11trymen, and he pro­ Verni i lli-on a n d Lhon p � u red its posed th•at they s 0 lect their horne­ m ighty volume of w t e r out c,vor s,teacls :b•efore the land was opem:\tl the valley. Houses were swept f• or settlement, on tl"� theory that •8 way, al•m ost 2ll of the horses, .:; ses��c;i1 is nine) points of tbe law. \ p 2 cattle, 8hcep and swine were drown.­ ,Accorid i 11g ;_;, ; n COI11 P"'·' Y with Ch rist­ eel, a few yeople al·so drowned' and nder_ Torblaa ,rn w A '. iian Brucle, :U-11'8 � •e thers !I n cl narrow escapes. It was a and Halvor Svends on, he crossed , Lerr ible, lblow to th•e community, th e river on a tour ol exJ21_Qi:.atio n from wl1 id1 it tock many years to ••,c,.,; we St o f and some ei r:.h 1 - ro1·1 s nor h o f• recover. . n t iir ce Ve r,.,_i ,. ,, _ �,, , P e river, selert.E•rl h ' " (',,,tv re £ o m eiVJi.llll ft1POliB did hersel [' proud as stead, which lay on a "bench" or 1 h e centennial city. The a1dd ress ,o,[ slight ,elevation. On August 9 , 1 8 5 9 , , Pres.dent Coolidge w as an eloqu,en L Jetley an cl .Svondsnn brnug.ht their I ' tr:Omte to the Norsemen, in f�ct w ives and all of their possessions e, v ery featun1 of the program wa.s to their new homes, thus b e-coming recognition of the very large pl-a ce not only tlre 'fin¢- -vh-it-e settlB<rs in wb icll t1!e No,r seman has prayed in Clay county, but also the fi rst per­ the life of the repu,blic since the__________...J manent white settlers in Dakota., first emigrants left the land of territory. On M•a,r ch 2 , 1 8 6 0 , M rs. nature's glories to find a homEi i n Jelley gave birth to a son, 'baptized tlw Ian o ' t h e fre-e. le OJ.s on, who l r claiIUecl the �Gr�nd Forks. N. n r· '"'1Y AY, JU �_ _D N U_ _______S_ , 25 Grand Forks, ?J. D .. Herald . FRIDAY, JUN:& 12, 1925 • �--'---���======---1..,-.-�---THE NORWEGIAN CENTENNIAL-----"""·�•-'---:_ A SWE DISH TER CENTEN NIAL . The N o rwegian c e n t� tetra 1011 at St _ The N o �ian centennia) bcif.iJ _.,-,_ Paul , which 1s attracting th o usand s of N o rwe­ 1-i7!' havm g been a great sucq;ss fl-1,ans haYe r.c,:l!"'!l' gia n birth o r ancestry from al! secti o n s o f the be<:'n ?tart c oun trv, has a pecu liar interrst for the people �d for a Swed i�er�ent en ni 1 to be held m !908, to celebr ate the arnrn l of t e fi r st Swed o f the n o rth,vest, f o r i t 1s in this secti o n that the greater part of th e N o r s e element in our populat10n fo und itc; home . The century which has elapsed sinc e the real tide of N o nv egian 1111- . . Sta tes 300 y e ars ago . \ m igrati o n int o the l• nited Stat es begary has been IS h settlers 1 h U 1 t d n rrvalr y bet wee n kee l �e� a a\ � marked by s nccessive m o vement s which to ok T here 1: as �,i . d ,, So m et i m es th at nva l­ the N orthrn-en fron, New Y o rk farth e r a'.'n d far� , N o ny e g i a � s an d \ • ,..c ;e �� e d by b i tter ness, and r a h th er inland until th ousand s o f f am i l i e s o f th o se ry h a s b e en � � nz f the frie ndly sor t , but een i es t h o •f 11- e '" ;ir c ·n•h •• ·• o h• ::i- --1 •l eft -- I Tor,.vay· 1 -n- �" e -· t " h·• o •me - s so• m et m i ms t th e°-re h as a l V\. a ,·s bee r1 · T_ r o e so f s o nYalry established themselves permanent l y in the Y ery � i an' celebr ati o n orwe o N a h suc a t t 1 I center of th e c::-€lntinent There is a c ertain ap- ,..· a s c e r ta m d _ n o t be p :r mitted to pass . Le parent mcongr u1ty m • \ a s. h a c"' bee•,'" he1 - wnu l d Sw ede n , and, the ans h f act t h.at t.h e N orwew1th o. u t an a11 swer f. r om g i ans. fro m t 1me • peop.e, 1 1mmem o na. f • 1 a sea_armg • • The N orwe o-1an s ca m e wh os e little ships pen e trated to th e utter mo s t w er i s now f o r• �1:i ct :11 1 11 �· .;de s c am e i �med1 atel y e confine s o f the k onwn w o rld, i n wh o se Eves the I lOO y ears ago . u ndation s o f the P ilgrims :ia n d ';ai d tl,• e fou• so large a _p art , when thev sea h ad p !aved J J cam e afte r tbe stat es. T h e ref o r e , and qmte app r o p n to establish themselve s o n the new c o ntment \ on e o f f pnor will c e lebr ate. I n• the mat ter o o t 1e . sh o u!d have s ettled in such gr e at numbers a s I at e lv ., , th�v J . tw the • Of . e far fr o m tl:ie o cean as 1· t was po s s1'bl.e f o r th.ern \ ity s o me mc e ques tion s a : 1 s per m an e nt se ttf1e Swe de s f o und e d the ea r lie r t o get ion Ton �h! � ts, but if thei r claim s �o dist inct men I But th e incongruity is only superficial The the rei ntl rsiste y N o n, e o ed too pe Norwegians have alway s b e en a pioneering peo- sco r e a p r es s o n the fact that Leif the Luc ky, ck a b I fall p i e. Th ey have delighted in th e high adventure i a ,18 ,Yill Red , a l o yal sub j e ct of his Cat hr the Eric f o s�u o f seeking o u t unknown place s and inv e stigatt 1e Kin g of Nor wav , land ed o n mg hew possibilities. And th e s ame sp1nt that 1 1; maJ estv the tin ent m o r e con an enc A,_m rth o N the ( •1 e sent thei r little vessel s c o ursmg up and d o wn ;e th� Swe des sett led i n N w the coasts o f Europe and o ut into the b ro ad ���� �o6 ye�r s befothus prec ip i t�te d a ebat e � e � = Jers eY Th e r e is Atlantic i s the sp m t that sent them int o the on·n a nd �e\ t, ·een the relatffe men ts of disc 0very heart o f the new c ontinent t o which they Y qu alit� tlem ent, a d e b a te whic h h a s the bapI?1s a lway s at . h ad come and caused them to be among the _ , so that ther e ded deci being r neY forem o st to establish th e ms e lves by the. rivers r for <l1sp utat 1011. te mat l� ctib stru mde han d of M inn e s o ta and '\V1 sconsm a nd on th e br o ad ' pra1ries of N o rth Dakota Their desi r e vvas ,10t with-will ingi1ess and cheerfulness to help bear the burdens and the respons o mucl, t o get away fr o m an old envir o nment sibilities of America !! citizensh ip. as t o fi•• n d a new a 11d test i ts p o ssibilities Quick to respond to the call of their N orway h as made a large and splendid concountry in time of need, all �h� tnbut· n t o American life Her people have dearmies of the United States havmg vel o p e d �difr o ns and been wedded t o principles been filled with Norsemen or their OUR AM ERICAN NORSEMEN which mak� for the fi nest develo p ment o f nadescendants, and in times of peace no more domestic people can be found• ti o nal life. The Norse centennial .ey have been a d o mesti c people, week will next • • • • � Naturally they Jove the land of their e. ent � the Northwe st w1·th th•• e f.am1. o ccupy111g tl.1e centra 1 p o s1t10n j be a ?n·eat o• birth' or reve re it as the home of their and the thousands of splendid citizens in their life. I n�ustry and th r i ft are ap.1 o n£" th e ir � forefathers as a11 good c1·t·1zen s h came from Norway at one timem o st p ro n oun -d characteristic s T _ lhe s ame w oanother should, but while that affection i s during the past 100 years. • qualities which 111 the early centuries made or • a fi ne thmg • I t 1s sti·ong, love of the land in which they for th ese peop1 e t, them the m o st fe ared o f sea r overs have been get together in honor of the first arJive is stronger, and as the thousands e xpre s sed in ·equally grea t measur e , but in m ore gather at St. Paul we wish them j oy rival in this country of their forein the meeting, for without love of the p e aceful form 'in the building o f home� 111 what bears. Of all the nationalities who fatherland no citizenship can be real, to a le ss ente r p rising people would have a p- have made a new home in the United no people can develop to the great . p e are d a bl ea k an cl f or b 1' dd mg ;\' J'Id•e rn e ss Tl _ 1 o se States none are better citizens. Libfutui·e that seeI"" S to be ours. land, like erty loving in their native n h f h h w o came .rom t e nort. e rn penmsu 1 a o f .r:.uNorske man, we take off our Mr·. 1 with them the i r in- all pe<>ple of a mountainous country, r o pe . to thi s !anrl b roug.1t hat to you.-Beach Advance. have, probably, more quickly abthey t·d u s trv and enterprise , their l o ve o f h o me a n d sorbed the principles of American life fa m ily ,their independent spirit and their strong and traditions than any other race sense o f duty in the regulati o n o f th e ir own represented here, which is saying activitie s and in their relati o ns w ith o th e r s I nothing in disrespect to all the other Other peo ple hav e p o s s e s sed these qu a l iti e s in I splendid man and womanhood that greater o r le s s measure. H uman cha rac t e r is has come from other lands and who seldom unique . • But o u rs would b e a sorry civil- , are American s to the core. Th• Northwest owes a debt of gratizati o n we,e it n o t for the qualit1es which have itude to the Norsemen who came here st o od out m o st consp1euously in Nonvezian � in the early days and ga-.-e us the fine character. men and women who ha-.-e helpe<;l so r----- materially in co-.-ering our prairies with happy homes and productive I n eTery way they are up­ farms. standing citizen s of their adopted country, and have ever been ready �materfally in covenng our prairies established the firs Norwegian sefll e­ TT"' ?:�1toT'I, N. Dak., l-ldepenrf� • with happy homes and productive ment. THURSDAY., JUNE 11, 1n.; farm�. In: �very way th�y are up- To reinforce this l ittle ba nd of set­ OUR AMERICA N NORSEME standmg citizens of thell' adopted years went by unThe Norse centennial next week will country, and have ever been ready tl.ers others came as NO rwegians and e th f t emen tt il s e l be a great event for the Northwest with willingness and cheerfulness to t . and the thou sands of sp lendid citizens help bear the burdens and the respon- other Scandinavians spread mto I owa, Dakotas, the who came from Norway at one time sibilities of American citizenship. Wisconsin , Minnesota and or another during the past 100 yearsQuick to respond to the call of their reaching the peak not so many years It is a fine thing for these people to country .in time of need, ;iJl the ago. W ith free l ands practically gone, get together in honor of the first ar- armies of the United States having imm i"'ration from thti Scandinavian rival in this country of their fore- been filled with Norsemen or their slowed up somewhat but it bears. Of al l the nationalities who descendants, �nd in times of peace no count:ies law a_l lows have made a n ew home in the U nited more dome stic people can be foun?· has been as steady as the 'hese nations to • States none are better citizens. Lib- Natural l y they love the land of their and the cont �ibution of . . erty loving in their native land, like birth or revere it as the home of their our population cc,nt mur-s tO aic1 the all people of a mountainous country, foref�thers, as all good citizens growth and devel opment of this imper• they have, probably, more quickly ab- should, but while that affection is ial Northwest. sorbed the principles of American life strong·, lov� of · the land in which they President Coolidge in closing �1is St. and traditions than any other race ' l ive i s stronger, and as the thousands .Paul address gave this (fl:tting tribute : represented here, which is saying ?·ather at �t. Paul w_e wish them joy "Yo n bave laid up your treaeure in nothing in disrespect to all the other m the meeting, ��r w1t�out love of the and there will splendid man and womanhood that futherla11d no c1t1zensl11p can be real, what America represents, ha-ve given You also. be hea rt ur s come and who from has other land no peopl e can develop to the g,reat y-0 • your p ledge to the Lan d ° f the Free• a1·e Americans to the core. future that seems to be ours Mr. Norske man, we tak� off our �he pledge of the Norwegian ,,peo�le The Northwest owes a debt of gratitude to the Norsemen who came here J1at to you.-Beach Advance. has never yet gone unredeemed. -Bllil:mm·.clcTribune. in the early days and gave us the fine Hettinger, N. D.� Record men and women who haTe helped so T!fU RSDAY.. JUNE 1 1 1925 Langdon. �". D., epub'1rn" m:i,terially in coTering ou r prai�es THE IMPERIAL NORTHWEST TH U R3DA,� lV1ARCH 26, 1�2.:1 with happy homes and productive , CELEBRATION Presiden t Coolidge speaking Monday CEN TENIAL In every way they are upfarms. CLE. ORSE IM UGRA'l'ION 1 f standing citizens of their adopted at the Norwegian Centennial Celebra• I< country, and haTe ever been ready tion at the state f1,1-ir grounds in bt The �orse-American Centennial with willingness and cheerful ness to Paul referred to this sectlo:o. �s the " im- celebration to be -ll&ld,,;'lll'+-'"''l'l'ni'" J', innc• help bear the burdens and the respoti- perial northwestern states. " Truly a sota state fair grounds 11e xl J un!l 6.!), sibiliti e s of American citizenship. vast empire is embraced in the territory h as not been adverti� , o ex.plamed , very well ju this part of the state. In Quick to respond to the call of their to whose development the hardy North - other parts of the northwest it is al­ country in time of need, all the . n reside contributed i t g C001 u n ready pushed with much enthusiasm . e P armies of the United States having me It is to celebrate the one hundredth · was not indulging in fl attery when he been fi I 1ed with Norsemen or theu anniversary of the coming to America desc endants, and in times of peace no said in his address : of the first full ,;hipload of Korwegiaa more domestic people can be fou nd . I "Minnesota wou ld not be Minnesota, 1 mmig rants. Naturall y they love the land of their the group of ' imperial northwestern Th ey seL sai l from Oslo, Jul: 4 , birth, or revere it as the home of their states wou ld not be what they are, but 1825. It was not a very imposing af­ forefathers, as all good citizens ;for the contribution that has been mad e fair, being only fifty-two i n number, men, women and child ren, in a sail­ should, but while that affection is to them by the Scandin avian con n- boat of forty-eight tons capacit:v, not strong, • love of the land in which they t_ries." much longer than the boat Leif Erick1 1ve . is stronge r, and as t,h e th ousan d s No race has been assimilated into the son sailed, when h e discO\·ered Amerigather at St. Paul we _wish them joy centuries. before. But it was , ca in the meeting, for without love of the .American commonweal th more com- theeight forerunner of thou;;;anlls to come fatherland no citiz enship can be real, plet ely than those of Scandioovian after until now there are as many of no people can develop to the great birth. They have demonstrated as Norwegian birth in the United States future that seems to be ours. ' Coolidge well said, "that there is a as the present populati on of the Mr. Norske man, we take off our spiritual qual ity shared by all races Fatherland. It was but natural for the , � R ac b A. i! v c Norsemen to drift to our beloved ' an d conditions of men which i s their countr =H�e; 'f'.( r, �� -\;.. y of freedom, because they have . univer.sal heritagr and common nature " fought European tyranny for a thousTHURSDAY. J li-. Z �- :7;:;;_ fl, uence of the and .,"ears. Until about a hundred He Compares, the OUR AMERI CAN NORSE MEN -· Scandina�ian race upon northe1·n an d years· ago they adopted their present The l'l -..A...__ !JHie..ce.ll.te.Jl.Bia-l next week will const1tut1·on which is practically as j 'be a great event for the Northwest western E"urope to t ha t of the GrPek free ;i,nd liberal as our own. The king and the thousands of sp lendid citizens 1;1tates upon the C'iyilization of the l\Ied- of Norway being only an honored of­ who came from N cYrway at 011e ti·me iterranean. They were the first dPep- ficial . They have. always done their full or anothe1· during the past 100 y ears. sea navig.ators. On sea they diStinshare in making this, their adoptive It 1 s a fine thing for these peop le to guished themselves through exploration land, the greatest nation in the world. get togethe r in honor of the first ar- as on land they became famous as pion- The Norse ilmnigrants are not factory riva l in this country of their fore- eers ,vho blazed the trail for future workers, but mostly agriculturalists bears. Of all the nation alities who and used to work in the open, conse• have made a new home in the United generations. quently the Great Northwest appealed The whole northwest yesterday ce l eStates none are better citizens. Libto them. 'l'hat is why we see about us erty loving in their native land like brated the 100th anniversary of the ar- thousands of monuments m the form a 11 peop,Je of a mountainous countr ' y,• rival of the Restaurationen which set or fine farms aml farm homes to their they have, probably, more quickly ab- sail from Stavenger, Norway, J uly 4• honor and memory. They have also taken their part in sorbed the pl'inciples of Ameri can life: 1825, and ca me into the port of New State and National affairs as we can and traditions than any other race York after a voyage of 14 weeks, wi th see by the number of Norse names of represented here , which is saying of 52 people. This all happened U. S. senato1·s and members of con­ nothing in disrespect to all the other a party gress and loug strings of state gover� splen did man and womanhood that 200 years after the Mayflower made its nors. Also by the thousands of Norsehas come from other lands and who historic trip. men in the Federal army in the Civil Al though the Scandinav1ans were a War, less than forty years after the are American s to the core. The Northwest owes a debt of grat- -seafaring perple, this little band was first shipload of Norse immigrants landed on our shores. The fifteenth �tude to the Norsemen who came here 0,mposed m, .ly of farmers and when Wis. reg. was composed only of Norsej m the early days and gaTe us the fine they landed, through the kind offi ces of men, o fficers and men. They were men and women who have helped so the Quakers, they secured lands and with Meade at Gettysburg to h elp turn the tide of the war for v.-��ch t ° • Ill I. �they - received honoriilile meni;ion. the h eading;-� :novef Sight, t t voyag e s ba c k and forfo Sen. Knute Nelson, 16 yrs. old, at the f th at d ate b etw e en N orway, I c e l an·<l , time, was with Faragut brcakmg th€ the Adve rtiser o !Jlockade at New (?rl� ans. . . publishe d th e following r e por� : G eenland and America. The " A vessel has arrived at this last sailing of whi ch reliable Now we believe it is but !1tb!]g a�d '()roper that we put on this _ gigantic port with immigrants from re c ords hav e b ee n preserv ed Cenencan Norse-Am the tion, celebra l is v ery o cc u1·1·ed 1· n 1 347, when a ship te11nial to let the world know who we N or·way. The vesse small, m e asuring, as w e u nde �- bound for Ameri c a l eft B ergen, are and where we come from. It is ah·eady manifest that the af- stand i t, only forty-fiv e Ame n- N orway-j ust b efor e the of fair is to have the happy effect fty- " bl ac � cl a th" stru c k the counbrought fi t ons, and c an union unwonted bringing together in an d �ry, cut down two-t h'1r ds o f• th l . e the people of this widely scattered three p asse ngers, ma e strain of blood. Differences of poli- femal e , all bound for O rleans Do p ulation, kill e d i ts enterpris e tics religion, social distinction and all County, New Y ork, wh er e an :rnd broke i ts power for a hun­ triv'ial barrien, will all be forgotten a ge nt , who c ame over s o m<' l c years or more. in the impulse for a i·eunion of Norse- 1· me s1·nce, ur c hased a tract r d Dt1tch colonists who The p men from all comers of our country t 1 of land. and Canada. stablishe d New N e therland P res. Coolidge has promi !;ed to co�n� "The a p pearanc e of such a • ontained a liberal s prinkling June 8 to speak and shake hands V{itn party of strange rs, c oming 1f Norwegians . Ano ther c ur­ us. The following state govemors of and . ent of Nor·wegians J. oined the :Norse descent will be there: G ov. from so d1·stant a c ountry e ntly } ermans who settled in P e n- I Christian son, Minn., Gov. Sorlie, N. in a vessel of a siz e appar D . ; Gov . Blain, Wis. ; Gov . Gunderson, ill c al c ulated for a voyage tsylvania . A Norw e gian w a s ) v Mont. son G S. Dak. ; Gov. Erick , _ ; ? · a cross the Atlantic , c ould not h e fi rst pre sident of S o c i etas Whitfield, Miss., who will all g'lVe \ ree c undinaviens1s, · • orgamze • d 1n • \ short appropriate addresses. There but_ exc1•te an unusua l d eg will be musical and a hletic programs of rnterest . and 'hilad e lphia in 1769 and a gigantic frontier p agec1:nt �11 • "An enterprise like this hich still e xists under th e be staged. The famous umver�ity good deal of boldness argu e s a .me of th e S c andinavian S o ==============in the master of the v e ssel as .!ty of Philad e lphia. N orwegian sea c aptain b y I choir of Oslo, Norway, will come to w e ll as an advent urous spirit ente1 tain us. in th e p asse ngers, most of e nam e of Iversen settled in I Wi thout , itemizing any further we whom b e lo ng to families from e orgia in th e latter part of th e can as:sure vou there will be enter­ the vicinity of a littl e town at ghteenth c entury, and a tnini1W progi·am;; galore. e rn extremity of thwest the sou r . ·ov, you all understand, all the andson of his cam e to r e ­ I preparations arnl nil the expense at Norway, near th e c ity of Stav- resent the state in the Unite d ; tached thereto mu:-;t be met mostly an ge r . Thos e who c ame from tates Senate. 1 before thi:-; celebration can be put on, B ut the "sloop party" of t-therefore the executive committee has the farms are dressed in c oars e launched an advance sal<' of tickets at cl oth of domesti c manufa cture 825 is the b e ginning of th e ,, a reduced price of one dollar for the of a fashion different from th e ir ect c urr e nt of Norwegian three days progrnm. .If there will be Ameri c an, but thos e who li ved n migration . Its small v e ssel, :-ufficient moner left after expense� 1 are paid, it is propo.,e<l that a suitabk in th e town w e ar c alicos, ging- 1e Restaurotionen, is the Nor­ 1 memorial to the pione·er Norsemen hams, gay shawls, importe d, egian M ayflower. Like th e I will be built at an app ropriate place we presume, fr o m England. " "':rim Fathers, the sloo p , in the northwest. vessel is built on the ,lo°'ple sought these shores to - i _ 'ow we expect all men with ,.ron;c m o"The d el common t o :fi shing boats 0e fr e e to worship God ac c ord­ � blood in their Yeins to do their duty � and help in the celebration to the o n that coast, with a single ing to their faith a n d build I memory of our forefathers who so to p-sail, slo o p -rigge d . She arhomes on land of theil , nobly broke the grouud and smoothed l'ived with the addition of one new own. Indeed, they had ac J the paths for our future success. Buy . a three-day ticket for yourself, your p assenger born on the way. " quire d th e land b efore the: N orwegi:l.ns had be e n com - sailed. It had b een bough 1 . wife and e\·cry member of your fam1 ily. We invite you all to be there but in g to this c ountry long befor e for th e m by an agent th e y ha1 1 if for any reason you can not pos­ th at time in shi s "ill c al c ulat - sent to Ameri c a three y e ar p f sibl? come buy a ticket ;:,nyway and ed for yoyages a cr oss th e A t- b efore to investigate c ondition � do rour bit. We have tak�n the liberty without }antic." 'l'he first to land in here an d re p ort. Th eir inter consulting them, to appoint about Amcr 1ea were L e if Erikkson tion to be c ome loyal c itizens o 1 twenty-five solicitor,: "c...1ttered oyer e Cavalier county that we k110\V will do I and his men, vvho were driven the land of li b erty is sym b oliz - their best to put this job across in a out of their c ours e to " Vin- e d b y the fa ct that th ey set sai c creditable manner. land" in th e y e ar 1,000. Tid- n Am erican Ind e pend e n c ( LUDWIG PEDERSO�, n gs of this ac c idental disc o v- )ay , July 4th, landing in N e v. i l Chairman, Cavalier County . . ery of a new world s pread a 11 Y ork after an e v e ntful voyag <: T ,• sbon, N. Dak. .. re" -r-.,.e '," over northern Eur o pe and s o m e thre e months later, o n l'l·H JRSDA¥. JUNE l B. l'Jbl aro used much intere st . Thre e Octob er 9th, 1 825. Norsemen in American His y e ars after the r eturn of L e if r : 1 ,-hilic [N. D.� B :ic: �-- , , t< t o I c eland Thoro:finn Karlsevne .ERIJ1AY. JU h. ''L 19Z:i I head e d a n e w expeditiion with Some of our good friends and read. . Th is month of J� ne ma e hun e �th �nm�ersary 1 , , thr ee shi p s and a hundred and ers in St, Paul resent our repeated .�ixty men. They also had with statements that .Mr, So and So had :O r weg _dr . i an 1mm1grat10n tl 1th e m "all kinds of live stoc k, attended or were attenrling the Cen · Um ted S tat �s, an d a n eto t he tenmal in Minneapolis, when in real a te ce 1 e brat10n of this • labo • fo r they meant to settl e in new c ountry, 1'f poss1' bl e . " ity tne big N�·American ce I ebra ta n t ,a n .versarr. t� ok imp, T hey did settle in New Found- tion was held in . pl r . � go m � mn e a p o la�_ d , but . must ?ave me� wit� what �dvertisiog will do! Min ne a po� i�a � l'he �ii�o,. . . �an rt>cc 3 e 11ous d1sappomtm e nts ' fo1 lis advertised it5elf consistently as of th e b e fmn mg of t 1 after a lapse of thre e years the pl"ce c� celebration and we'll bet c u r1. �t or p e opl 1s fo�n d in they w er e ba c k in Iceland . In ; . .t-1.dv . y01k the ew that fifty pei�ent of the people of the \ . of the follow1hg . i. on that St. Or tob er 12th , 18 2r::ertiser for the course . are of the opin . Un d e r t.: e ntunes th e re w ere mt erm1· t- northwest u. -· __ _ � '· I -1 • • ' %- • - �I - ' ,,-� �e:x:presseam equally great measure, " · • ,,. 1 ( •�r , �-d (N". D.) T r ;, n s: · ,but in more peaceful form in the FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1925 building of homes in w·hat to a less • THE NORS,E-AMERlCAN CENTEN IA� enterpr ising people would have ap­ peared a bleak and forbiddin:g wlla­ Miruieaporiif -:Jottr-nal erness. Those who came from til.'e The project ,for a celebration of the Norse-American Northern peninsula of Europe -to this Cenitennia l in the Twin I Cities next June 3-9 has ,al­ Michigan, N. D .. Arena , not only Jand brought with them their in­ dy met with such enthusia stic responi:,e rea FRIDAY. JUNE 12, t9i:5 dustry and enterprise, their love of in Minneso ta and the Northwe st, not only foe United home and family, their independent S:�es and Canada, but also in old Norway itself, thwt the success of the afl'aiT seems already .>eyond ques­ spirit and their stron!5" sense of duey THE NORWEGIAN CENTENNIAL tion. in the regulation of their o,wn activiThere used to be a certain feeling or regret in Nor­ ties and in their relations with others. The Norwegian eentennial celebraway, whe n the migration of so many of her -sons :and Other pe�le hav•e po1isessed tbes-e , tion at St. Paul, whicn attracted daughters to America was mentioned . It seemed a qualities in greater or less measure. t housands of Norwe gian b i i t'.1 or angreait and irreparable loss to the old country. But Human char.acter is seldom uniqb.e. <. estry from all se�tion , of the country feeling seems to have' qui,te vanished in the swel l­ that But ours wo�ld be a so rry civiliza­ had a peculiar interest for the .people ing feeling of pride in the New World . achievements tion were it not fo r the qualities of the Northwest, for it is in this which have stood out :and attainments o•f ' the Norsemen. As in the old Vik­ most conspicu­ section that the greater part of the ously in Norwegian character . ing days, but by the a1�ts of peace rather than of war , Norse element in our population -Gran Forks Herald. Norseman is maki-ng hi,s way everywhere. So the the d found its home. The century which of Norway to the invitation to the celebra­ r esponse '1 �pof erm, N'. 1'.. H has elapsed since the real tide of , omestf!�,, tion has been most gratifyirug. FRIDAY, JU NE 12,' 192.S Norwegian immigration i nto the UnitBut the same spirit has been shown everywhere, ed States began has 1been marked by 1 the Twin City committees are continua lly warmed and OUR AMERICAN NORSEMEN successive movements which took the by •the cordial response of Norwegian blood in many The Norse centennial next week wil I Northmen from New York farther sections. The share it has had in the making of Amer­ be a great event for the Northwest and farther inland until thousands of and the th0usands ica in the la,st hundred years is certainly well worth of splen d id citizens celebrating. families of • those who had left Nor- who came from Norway at one time It is already manifest that the affair is to have way in search of new homes esta:b lii:· ,::,, or 31nother during the past 100 years . the happy effect of b ringing together in unwonted ed themselves p-ermanen tly in th., It 1s a fine thing for the se people to uniolll the people of this widely scattered strain of very center of the continent. There get together in honor of the first ar­ blood . Differenc,:,-s pf politics, religioll, social distinc­ is a certain apparent incongruity tn rival in this country of their fore:. tion, busin ess, what-not-al1 are forgotten in the im­ the fact that the Norwegians, from bears. Of a ll the n ational itie s who pulse for a reun ion of Norsemen everywhere. time immemorial a seafaring people, have made a new home in the United A significant phase ·of <the matter is that the re is whose little ships penetrated to the states no ne are better citizens. Lib­ erty loving in thei r native land, like be no campaign for contributi ons, no "drive" of the to uttermost confines of the known all people of a mountainous country, usual sort, The sale o:f tickets is counted on to finance world, in whose l ive-s the s� had they have, pr?b�bly, more quickly abth'e whole celebration , and possibly to leave a balance played so large a part, when they so rbed the prmcJ.ples of American · life wherewith to beg4 n .the erection of a suH::able Norweg­ came to estaiblish thems-elves on the and traditions than any other race ian-A1tnerican me;mor�al . Thi-s salEi has alrea dy begun new continent should have settled ln represented here, which is sayin g here in the Twin Cities, and is, to he actively pushed. such great numbers as -far from the nothing in disrespect to al l the other . The promise ·of President Coolid ge to come an d ocean as it was possible for them sp l endid man an d womanhood tha t , and the probability that some high repre­ participate has com e from other lands and who to get. senta1tive of the Dominion Government will be here, as a.r e Am ericans to the core . The Norwegians have always been well as the promised coming of delegates from the a pioneering people. They have de- . The Northwe st owes a debt of grat­ Norwegi,an Storthing a nd Govern ment, give the cele­ �tude to the Norsem en who came here lighted in the high adventure of seekbr atio n the aspect of a real w9:rld affair. i n the early days and ga..-e us the fine ing out unknown places and investi- men �nd W?men who ha..-e helped so gatin g new pos-si.bilities. And the m�teriall y in co..-ering our p rairies �Northwood, N. D .. Gleaner same spirit that sent their little ves- witJi happy homes FRWAY. MAY 29� 1 925 and productive sels coursing up and d own the coasts farm�. 11; �very way they are up­ NORS E - AMER ICAN CENof Europe and out into the broad standing citizens of their adopted A tlantic is the spirit that sent them country, and have ever been read:17 'l'ENNIAL into the very heart · of the n ew con- with willingness and cheerfu ln ess to h l ear t he burde n and � p_ � s and the respon­ tinent to which they had come r�aGernmibtee of caused them to 1be among the fore- sibib�1 es of America n citizenship. • u ck the Noree-American Centennial to i respond to the call of their Q most to establish themselves by the cou1;tr has completed an excellent pro­ rivers of Minnesota and Wii sconsin armiesy in time of need, all thjt of the. gra!11· Hotels have not raised and on the broad prairies of North been filled withUn i ted States havin g Norsemen or their then· rates-as rumor has had it Dakota. Their desire was not so much descendants, and in times of peace no -but to the contrary, some of to get away from an old environment more domestic people can be found. them are putting in cots at less as to fi nd a new and test its possi- � atu ral l y they love the land of their than regular hotel rates. birth , or i-evere it as the home of thei r bilities. . _Re_ser:7ed Seats-General ad­ Norway has made a large and forefathers, as all good citizens shoul d, !111ss1o but n 1s good for all progrnmE while that affect ion i s splendid contdbution to American ".troi:g, love of the land in which they m the Stat� Fair Ground s, excer life. Her people have developed tra- live i s stronger, an d as the thousands that 50c ,1/111 be asked for re­ d itions and 1been wedded to ,principles gathe1· at St • • Paul . served seats for the .Grand con­ • the me.etm •. •g-, �l. we WISh them Joy w hich make for the finest d evelop- in � ' without love of the = , certs at the Hippodrome ano - ===:';;;'::==��=======-- - fatherland no citizenship can be real. before the Grand Stand on Sun­ I 0 people can develo p to the great ioeen day evening, June 7th and for men t of nati onal lif.e. They have famil y I ui'.?e tha� seems to be ours. t11e presidential ses-sio� Monday a domestic people, with the r. N o1 ske man we ta\{e off om n 1 pos occupying the c entral afternoon, June 8th, and for the • iT? m hat to you.�Beach' Ad van ce. are wonderful historical pageant on their Iirfe. Indu stry and thrift I acTuesday evening, June 9th, the amo ng their most pronounc-ed char h in l::i.tter two being given before the teristics. The same qualltles whic the them Grand Stand, but thousands of the early centuries made been "eats befo�e. the Grand Ft�r 1 will 1, most feared of sea rovers have f'au1 baa nothing to do with 1t. Tife I Mill Ci$y evident ly if:-1 a past master in the art of stealing the bibical city'e thunder. That's right, folks, stand up for the rights of your home town . f �tlea'vai1ab:re-wfthout extra -Music by Dfv1sion B. of Luth­ , tl"l"1e I R D,) 0?.-,ne:. charge. Reserved seats were er College Concert Band, Deco­ THU RS:Q.AY • UNE;_ 1:, 193:, provided because of the public rah, Iowa, C: Vittorio Sperati, OUR A MERICAN NORSEMEN -a demand. Conductor. Franklin Horstmei­ The Norse centennial next week will :; Program, Sunday, June 7th er at the Pia nq. be great event for the Northwest l (In Hipodrome, Norse Tongue) (Grand Stand Sunday,2 :00 P. M .) and the thousands of splendid citizens Q Pastor B. E. Bergesen, Leder, Norwegian Guests' Session . • who came from Norway at one time oJ­ 1\'Iinneap-olis, Minn. or another during the past 100 years. d< Pastor B. :m. Bergesen, Leder. Kl. 10 It is a fine thing for these people to S< Konsul E. H. Robe, introducget together in honor of the fh·st ar- t M 11'1ik ved Luther College Con­ erer de norske gjaester, St. Paul, rival in this country of their fore- h "ert Band, Avdeling "A", Deco- Minn. bears. Of all the nationalities who tl ra� . I �J�'a. Prof. Carlo A. Sper- ; M usik ved Luther College have made a new home in the United p ah, D1rigent. Concert Band, Decorah, Iowa, ., States none are better citizens. Lib i • Kl. 10 :30 Prof. Carlo A. Sperati, Dirigent. I erty loving in their na�ive land, like B¢n-Past. Martin Norstad. "Ja, Vi elsker dette landet" all peop<1e of a mountamous country, r s�lme. synges av forsamlingen. I thh have, probably, more q�ickly ab­ sorbed the principles of A�nerican life Altertjeneste-Past. C.N.Eng­ Velkomsthilsen : ved Prof. and traditions than any other race E lcita<l, Chicago, Ill. Gisle Bothne, Formand for Cen­ represented here , which is saying Scl lme. tennials Bestyrels�. nothing in disrespect to all the other Kirken den er et gammelt hu� Prologue : av M . B. Landstad, splendid man and womanhood that -St. Olaf College Choral Socie­ Laest av Erling Drangsholt. has come from other lands and who tv. Prof. F. M elius Christianson, Sang : Det . bla.n dede akade­ are Americans to the core. Dirigent. miske kor fra Norge, Alfred ' The Northwest owes a debt of grat­ Festnraediken - Dr. H. G. Auss, Dirigent. itude to the Norsemen who came here 8t11 h, Form:tnd for Den Norsk Taller og hilsner ved N orges in the early days and gave us the fine L1·+h ersk0, Kirke. repraesentanter. men and women who have helped so materially in covering our prairies Lover den Herre-St. Olaf ColHilson fra H. M . Kon g Haakon with happy homes and productive 1-:p:c, <"::hora.l Society. VII, Ved Norges Minister, H. farms. In every way they are up­ I-In<i<=m frq M oderkirken-Bis- Bryn , Washington , D. C. standing citizens of their adopted h'""' Tollan P. Lunde av Oslo. Norges Statsmi nister, J. L. country, and have ever been ready 8.,.lme. Mowin ckel, Oslo, Norway. with willingness and cheerfulness to Altertjeneste. Stortingspreside nten, I.Lykke, help bear the burdens and the respon­ Salme. sibilities of American citizenship. Oslo, Norway. R¢n. Quick to respond to the call of their "Gud Signe Vor dyre fedre- 1 Postludium. country in time of need, all the land," i:;ynges av forsamlingen. 1:: armies of the United States having . . Grand Stand Kl. 1 0 ...! Kirkens repraesentant, Bis­ been filled with Norsemen or their Nn1•<ske Gu dstjeneste-Pastor , kop Johan P. Lu nde, Oslo, Norand in times of peace no H. K M adsen, Leder, M inneapo­ way. � 1 descendants, more domestic people can be found . t Jic,, Minnesota. Naturally they love the land of their N ormandsforbundets reprae- (_ Kl. 11 birth or revere it as the home of their ,entant, W. Morgenstjerne. fi foref�thers, as all good citizens HH"0,n_ fra Den Norsk Luther­ Forfatterforeni ngens reprae­ d;:c 1{i"'lrP ved Biskop Johan P. should, but while that affection is c;en tant, Nils Collett Vogt. T , P t' " · Pfld. E. E. Gynild, Leder, f'trong, love of the land in which they Pressef oreningens formand, T. live is stronger, and as the thousands \Villmar. Minnesota. gather at St . Paul we wish them joy Prysser. ·E . 11 :RO o'clock in the meeting, for without love of the S"rvicec; in English conducted Universitetets repraesentant. fatherland no citizenf'hip can be real, J, v Rev. H. 0. Sletten, M inneapo­ Sang av Det akademiske blandno people can develop to the great lis. Minnesota. dete kor. , future that seems to be ours. \ M usic by, St. Olaf College Band 1 Mr. Norske man, we take off our A ndre repraesentan ;;er. 0f Northfie ld, Mi n n., , Prof. J. ! I hat to you.-Beach Advance. Svar tale av Dommer Trygve Arndt BPrg, Director. 0. Gilbert, Formand for S!6n n er (Horticultural Bldg., 10 :OOA. M .) Arranged by the Young Peo­ av Norge, Willmar, M innesota. Sang av det akademiske blandples Luther League, Third Trien­ , :lets kor. • nial Convention. Prof. Marti n Hegland, PH.D., " Mmli k av Luther College Con- l Chairman. , �ert Band. Prayer-Rev. E. Rasmussen . Pem bin a N. D .. Exn,�"� Hymn. I __ FRIDAY, JUN � 12, 10..,:-; is over. Thousands of " •. Our Savior's. Church � Anth..:,m _ enca ,.,_A Nors.,..,...... .• n Sente'lfflial The th ' Choir, Omaha, Neb., F. A. CarlCities to on1 e n orate eople gathered in the Twi n �dred yea r: ,� a h�"'"'' son, Director. , wer o fl ay "1\II Lithurical Service : The Rev.H. vent of the landing of _th e don e nts o a . e tha t have C. Smeby. igo ib� fifty-three immigra and \ \ tes Sta �nited Anthem : Concordia College nuch to develc pe the_ res·ourc o t:: together Choir, Herman W. Monson, Di- �anada. The gathering has :,one 1ots to b,ing ation of wc le orab hon innesota. M ry rector, Moorhead, following eve t people who arc . Hymn. the o"'·athedng tha t have formed i dea_s from Festal Sermon : The Rev. J. A. ' if. e and who, are -prou d · ered and f or which t ri.ey • . wil l 1 ong be i:-ememb Aasgaard, D. D.,M oorhead, Mmn composed , cinc P;;. o:ver th e N or. Lhern • t Ch urch Chor - The special tram Anth em : Jo m Perough thro sed pas hes uses, Grand Forks, N. D., Mrs. of eight sleepers a�d da coac g nipe ed with people from W,in David St!6ve, Director. ma on schedule time fil� b" any for , room Closing Hymn. • • ts unti l there was no and other Canadian pom . Closing Prayer. y arrived at Pembrna. 11 else whe n the �eontributions of. the various races which make up our cosmopolitan citi­ zenship. Such study, through such celebrations, helps to make for a more thoroughgoing Americanism. America needs to remember and emulate the rugged worth of the fore­ fathers of this Country. If Ameri­ cans of today can only keep them­ selves anchored to the common sense principles of government and imbued with the same degree of patriotism, wllich build this Nation, the Republic is secure. Americans, whether of Norse birth or some other• birth, who have stu­ died the words of the President, can­ not but be impressed with •the idea that it makes for tremendously bet­ ter citizenship for us to pause fre­ quently to give heed to -the record of our wonderful past. It is an inspira­ tion to us totl-ay to go forward, sane­ ly and soundly, in tr anslating our cit­ izenship into a worthwhile heritage for the citizens of tomorrow.-Forum. D.. Tuttle, N. -Times TH�AY--! 1.u� .. �� !='M OUR AMERICAN NORSEMEN The Norse centennial next week will ,e a great ev,ent for the Northwest and the thousands of splendid citizens .vho came from Norway at 011e time )r another during the past 100 years. It is a fine thing for these people to get together in honor of the first ar­ rival in this country of their fore­ bears. Of all the nationalities who have made a new home in the United States none are better citizens. Lib­ erty loving in their native land, like all peo.ple of a mountainous country, they have, probably, more quickly ab­ sorbed the principles of American life and traditions than any other race represented here, which is saying nothing in disrespect to all the other splendid man and womanhood that has come from other lands and who are Americans to the core. The Northwest owes a debt of grat­ itude to the Norsemen who came here in the early days and gan us the fine men and women who haTe helped so materially in covering our prairies with happy homes and productive farms. In every way they are up­ standing citizens of their adopted country, and have ever been ready with willingness and cheerfulness to help bear the burdens and the respon­ sibilities of American citizenship. Quick to respond to the call of their country in time of need, all th� armies of the United States having been filled wit:. Norsemen or their descendants, and in times of peace no more domestic people can be found. Naturally they love the land of their birth , or revere it as the home of their forefathers, as all good citizens should, but while that affection is ;;trong, love of the land in which they live is stronger, and as the thousands I gather at St. Paul we wish them joy in the meeting, for without love of the fatherland no citizenship can be real, no people can develop to the great future that seems to be ours. Mr. Norske man, we take off our �t to you.-Beach Advance. ,... <1!'\hhurn : r "Some�-here � •:�e \-Li be l ,_.ncl l phi)­ of hun1a.11 r 1 ntions \vhic'h the wor!d will I greatly nrize.'' This statement F' ade by President , · ,., ri Coolidr , in hic; ::-,peech at tile � 01�Cente iial, seems to be full of significance for con­ d ti on ' of modern society today. If th r- -e who are the �:uid ng power behind the manv sects and c.:� eds of . r�ligious thought, or the co.nfli:;ting po­ lh1cal beliefs, or the co1c11 tless olutio!h offered a'> cure of the ills of org2.nized societ. ; if these leaders could find such a "philosoph y'' and offer it :o the world, they would become t1 e greatest I benefactors that society has ever kno, 11. " ophy 1 I n�. D ."1' Lea,•.-.- FRIDAY.. ..U,,NE..:19.. 1925 VJiliiston, '1-L" Dak.,· P' e,·al-: ... "-'tHWRS.DA¥� : .TU NE 11, - 1925 R E V I TA L I Z I N G O U R P AST l No - that the �orse-American Cen· tennial celebration is a thing of the ast it is proper that there be a brie! checking up on the net results, for \ it has been a memorable event. The recounting of what the Norwegian people have accomplished 1 here from the earliest days, the stam­ ina of the pioneers, their p;:itriot.ism, their love of liberty, their innate abil- 1 ity to adapt themselves to their a. d opted Country, the honors which have come to many of the race, not only makes these things more vital today to the Norse-Americans, but it all forms a challenge for a like citi­ zenship today .and, in the future. While the President was speaking I in honor of the Norse-American cele­ bration his message was for all Amer­ icans. He expressed ,the wish that the next few years would be filled with a continuing succession of like celebrations for the very reason that they help just so much in building better citizenship. It is well for the Country as a whole to recognize the I IJ� -?• �• °'G ' e Norse cente ·a l 1IQ • k- · u be a great event for the Northwest and the thousands of splendid citizens who came from Norway at one tim or �nother luring the past 100 ye·.1r:s. It 1s a fine thing for these people to get together in honor of the first ar­ 1 rival in this country of their forebears. Of all the nationalities who have made a new home in the United 1 States none are better citizens. I,ib- ' erty l oving in their native land, like all people of a mountainous countr) , they have, probably, more quickly ab­ f-orbPtl tl,e prind JJle1, n 1,ie• , • .., , 1: c and ttudltious than anv other ,ace 1 eprese nte<l here, whi�h is . a-yin • nothing in disrespect t ) :tll the other splendid man and womnnhood that has come from other lands and who are Americans to the core. The N'orth.,,-est owes a debt of gr--t­ Hude to the_ N'orsemen who camp here in the early days and g-nYe us the fine men and women who have helped so materially in covering our praides witlL happy homes and procluctiw farms. In fverv way they are up­ standing citizens of their adopted countr:,,, and have ever been ready with willing-ness and cheerfu lnc,ss to help bear the burdens and the respon­ sibilities of American citizemhip. Quick to respond io the call of their country in time of need, all the armies of the United States ha ,ing­ been filled with Norsemen or their descendants, and in times of peace no more domestic people can be found. Naturally they love the land of their , birth, or revere it as the home of their forefathers, as all good citizens should, but while that affection is strong, love o:£. the land in which they l ive is stronger, and as the thousands gather at St. P:rnl we wish them joy in the meeting·, fo1· without love of the fatherland no citizenship can be real, no people can develop to the great future that seems to be ours. ::VIr. Norske man, we take off our ',at to you.-Beach Advance. OUR AMERICAN NORSEME:I\ I • �� 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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