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Col. Rice Says One Trip to
Soviet Russia Would Cure
Radicals and Socialists
HA We FINE MUS
Atty. Cuthbert Points Ont
Superior Features of
American Constitution 81

In every european country the
people get the minimum Of return
for the maximum of effort, while in
America the reverse is true" said
Col. c. A. Rice in speaking at the
Constitution Week observance at the
Auditorium last evening.
Gov X. A. Nestos presided at the
meeting, F. T. Cuthbert of Duluth,
formerly of Devils Lake, gave an ad-
dress, and p. G. Harrington reviewed
proper flag etiquette. Henry Hal
vorsen directed the chorus singing,
while Mrs. Frank Barnes and Mrs.
ID. c. Scothorn sang. Mrs Arthur
Bauer played the accompaniment.
Colonel Rice, who has travelled
through most of the countries of
Europe, gave graphic description
Of conditions as he had found
them-describing the Soviet regime
in Russia, the tyranny, pestilance,
poverty, and similar conditions ex-
listing in that great nation at the
north of Europe as we'll as in the
SSHtid AIOAoPSdH NouhlA ASSs
~ wish could get every parlor
socialist or person dissatisfied with
the present American constitution to
Soviet Russia for a few weeks resi-
dence," said the speaker, "and /
would guarantee that they would
have no desire to do away with the
present American Constitution and
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government that is run as :yranical-
ly as any monarchy or oligarchy of
the past ages"
Conditions in odessa.
Recently when l visited Odessa,
all the freedom, prosperity, beauty,
and plenty of the past had disappear
ed" declared the speaker, Gin their
place 1 found poverty of the most
dire kind. 1t was no unusual sight
70 see people lying dead on the
streets of Odessa" asserted Colonel
Rice, "for all those who do not SYM
pathize with the Soviet authorities,
high or low, are simply allowed to
starve to death while the Soviet au-
thorities feast on the wealth of the
land and gamble with rubles-gold
rubles, not paper ones. I have seen
the rulers stake Thousand gold
rubles on game of pitch and toss"
declared Colonel Rice, "while the
streets were filled with thousands
begging for crust of bread"
The contrast afforded by the rule in
Russia, where there was no consti-
tuition to protect the personal rights
of the people in their pursuit of life,
liberty, and happiness and the gov
eminent in the United States where
the constitution lists the rights OF
the people while the supreme court
of the nation protects them was re-
peatedly emphasized by the speaker.
"Why is it that the radicals who
would do away with our constitution
and destroy our supreme court are
the very first to invoke it's protection
of their personal rights when in
trouble? ?" inquired the speaker.
Mr.. Cuthbert Speaks.
In mastery address near the
opening of the program Attorney
Cuthbert, former president Of the
! North Dakota Bar association, traced
the development of the constitution.
from it's inception in the time of the
Roman Empire and on through the
ages to its present completeness.
He pointed out that the American
fathers had the unwritten constitu-
tion of England and the Magma
Charta on which to base their docu-
ment although the letters of Alex
ander Hamilton, the master mind of
the fathers, and James Madison, in
The Federalist showed them to be
thoroughly conversant with all the
documents of the past ages from
j the wonderful governmental system
of the ancient Romans to the more
modern writings Of the French and
English authorities on constitutional
law
Mr.: Cuthbert declared that the cs'
adjustments of q representative
form of government was the bright
est star shining through the master
ly document given to the American
people by it's trainers. He pointed
out that the system of checks ant
balances allowed no particular
branch of government to usurp tn
rights of the other ana that the su
preme court Of the United State
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