Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-05
A HARVEST FESTIVAL ADDRESS

Recently Editor Gunnar Bjorn-
son of the Minneota Mascot, dug
up some old speeches that he
had delivered some fifteen years
ago, and in an editorial states
that There is Nothing New"
The harvest festival address was
delivered at Garyin and was in
part as follows:
Many of those assembled here to-
day are no doubt pioneers and from
these early settlers there are many
things the young might learn with
profit.
One of these things is not to be in
a hurry.
The pioneers learned this lesson
Their lives are noble protest
against the hurry and scurry policy
of the present.
Deep and solid and substantial
these men laid the foundation of this
community and similar work was
done by the pioneer farmers through
out the country. 1t is for those who
succeed these men to build upon the
foundation they laid a super-structure
that will last-that will be in keeping
with the foundation. Il
The great trouble with so many of
our enthusiasts and reformers is that
they have not and will not learn the
lesson to wait.
Reformers insist on enacting into
law their half-baked theories and
think that if they are not allowed
to experiment with their whims and
notions on the body polite that that
same body will go to physical wreck
and ruin.
There is nothing genuine, nothing
real nothing true that can not afford
to wait -.
William Jennings Bryan made a
statement the other day that has been
quoted with approval by many peril
OdicalS of the more conservative trend
of thought. He said: 81 have found
that only those who are in error need
to win at once. Those who are right
can afford to wait" .. -"
The true is never in a hurry-it
is the false that is always trying to
beat you to it. - -
If you intend to build for time,
you must take time. If you are going
to be satisfied with sham structure,
you can put it up in hurry.
Someone has said that when God
wishes to make a squash, He, takes
three months. But when he wants to
bring forth an oak He takes three
hundred years.
You who came here in the early
days and settled upon the then barren
prairies know what it is to plant the
seeds of progress and watch things
grow. Today the young man expects
to find, ready to his hand, the con-
veniences it has taken you q gen.
GRAFTON to acquire and complete.
We complain about the high cost
of living, and to be sure, we are
paying high price for the privilege
of existence.
But is it not a fact that large
part of this high cost of living is
merely toll on the speed at which
we are travelling?
In this day of the fast train and
the faster automobile every munich
pality has speed limit law. Nature
has also placed a speed limit law
on the individual statute book of
every man and every woman. All
too seldom are these laws observed
and the consequence is injury, de-
struction, death.
1t pays every time to observe the
speed limit law.
1t pays to learn the lesson that it
pays to wait.
Somewhere in the good old Book
there appears this sentence: BE still
and know that 1 am God" - "
What volumes does not that SEN
tence speak to him who listens!
Because we have forgotten to "be
still'', forgotten that God is God, we
have lost our grip on the wheel and
the machine is running away with US