Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-12
WITH THE EL|G|BLES| PROUD OF PROGRESS
NorWegians ExtoI the Work of
Their Countrymen.
RECORD IN UNITED STATES
Tributes to Memory of President
Lincoln by Senator Nelson.
Minister Bryn's Address.

AS testimonial to the memory of the
great commoner. Abraham Lincoln, as
well as for an exchange of Fluctuations
over the work and prominence of the
Scandinavians in Congress, the Nor
wegian Society of the District of Column
bia gave smoker at the Arlington Hotel
last evening.
The special guests Of the evening were
the minister from Norway, H. H. Bryn;
Senator Nelson of Minnesota. Senator
Gronna of North Dakota, Representative
Haugen of Iowa, Representative Lind
berg OF Minnesota, Representative Steen-
erson Of Minnesota and a number of
Scandinavians holding high positions in
the official life of Washington.
There was a round of Fluctuations for
the individual success of those in at
tendance and generous appreciation of
the great progress the natives of Scan
dinavia have made in America.
Life and Work of Lincoln.
Senator Nielsen of Minnesota paid a
glowing tribute to the character and life
work of Abraham Lincoln. The senator
found ready text in the plain. homely
life OF the Illinois rail-splitter, and praised
the sterling qualities and conscientious
course of the martyred President. His
characteristics and striking type of man.
hood were the ideal types of the hardy
and unostentatfous Norsemen, and his ma
tiOnal life was one worthy of emulation
by any Of the worlds nationalities
Senator Nelson also spoke in high COM
pliment OF the new senator from North
Dakota, AISLE J. Gronna, who was a
product of the western farm and educat-
ed in the public schools OF America.
Senator Gronna Complimented.
Representative Stevenson of the ninth
congressional district of Minnesota re-
ferred with pride to the high political
preferment won by their fellow country
man, Senator Gronna. Mr. Stevenson
recounted the life work of the new sena-
tor and in passing referred to the prog
ress of the Scandinavians in this country
as something not only worthy of the men
who had achieved success in the land OF
their adoption. but also a matter of pride
and joint felicitation on the part of the
fatherland.
Richard S. n. Sartz. the honorary presi-
dent of the Norwegian Society, in pre-
senting Minister Bryn, complimented the
new representative of that government at
washington, VINO, as q successor or the
late Mr.. GUIDE, had already ingratiated
himself in the hearts of all his fellow
countrymen by his capable and tactful
administration of his office.
Norwegians in America.
Minister Bryn referred with pleasure to
the great part the Norwegians OF the
United States had played in the develop
ment and progress Of the country. They
had formed no small part of the numbers
who had gone into the new west, he said,
and carved out great commemorative in
the primitive country. Wherever they
had settled they had left their mark in
the stability and grandeur of the new
states, and the peace, thrift and enterprise
of the states of the great Mississippi
valley were objects of national credit that
truly reflected the Norwegian life Of the
Norseland.
Wins Own Way, to Success.
Representative Haugen of iowa. who
has been a member of the national House
ever since the Fifty-sixth Congress, spoke
of the work of Representative Lindbergh
of the sixth congressional district of Min
nesota, eulogizing him as one of the Nor
weg.ans of this country who had won his
way to success and distinction by hard
work and following closely the precepts
of his forefathers.
The committee in charge of the smoker
he