Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-06-12
THIS DISTRICT
LEGION MEETS
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age is being given over to dictatOrs
Nations are spending more money
for ornaments than ever before" said
Governor Christianson.
He paid glowing tribute to the
American Legion and gave a brief
outline of the history of this noble
organization saying that some twenty
slider the feasibility of. establishing
such an organization to carry on in
the path those who fought and died
had blazed. The following year, 1920
in March the Legion was formed by
a caucus held in Paris. Since that
time it has grown to the present large
dimensions of thousands enrolled as
members.
The Governor read portion of the
preamble of the LegiOn's constitution
and voiced his opinion that this docu-
ment could be read along with many
important documents of the world to-
day, and that many sermons and pub
lie speeches could be made with full
ness from the thoughts implied there
in.
In talking of the crime wave of to-
day, Governor Christianson expressed
himself as not favoring more laws,
but making use of what we have, say
ing we need more policemen and we
need to arm them better, 1--WE can't
expect deputy sheriff in Model T
Ford to catch bandit making a hur-
ried departure in an eight-cylinder
Packard"
The speaker also said that char
acter should be developed in men and
women and also in the boys and girls
who are to become men and women.
The World war was the most ex-
pensive in money and men of any war
in history, said the speaker, who
continued by offering a verbal de-
scription of building a belt around
the world at the equator, distance
of $4,000 miles, saying that if this
belt was made of 81 900 United States
bills laid end to end it would not
amount to quite as much as the war
Soot. liz ilSO SpohC VI OLA
lying on hospital cots since the war
and drew a mental picture of a pro-
cession of these cots, allowing ten
feet for each cot from Boring Strait,
Alaska, down through Canada, the
United States, South America, and to
Cape Horn. He said the first cot
would have reached Cape Horn on the
southern extremity of the procession
before the last cot would have cleared
Boring Strait.
The Governor expressed himself as
any method adopted to-
ward the disarmament of all nations
which would not impair the sover-
eighty of the United States. The
spirit of hostility and suspicion, said
the speaker, between nations should
be disarmed
The Governor further stated that
ultimate democracy cannot be OBJ
tanned unless every man can have
equal opportunity in making the most
OF his ability. This does not mean
that all property and material wealth
should be divided equally, but he
brought out that each person should
have the chance to expand to the
limit of his capacity.
There will always be classes of
people. said the governor, for nature
did not make the trees all with the
same kind of bark and foliage, nor
did she make the grass and other
things the same, therefore, it is not
to believe that she made
all people the same.
In closing. Governor Christianson
pleaded with the audience to carry
on and make it possible for our chill
dren to enjoy that kind OF America
Of which our fathers dreamed and our
men fought.
The governors address ended the
program and the afternoon
was given over to the separate ses-
sions of the American Legion and
units of the district and
parade.
The Afternoon Program.
The business session started at 100.
the Legion meeting in the high
school with Commander Rogers of
in charge. The Aux