The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-10-08
Hoover Greetings
Brought By Curtis

movies, the talking pictures, the air.
plane, and none ever thought Of the
great improvement in the machinery
used on the farm and in the many
factories of our country-none knew
of our great mineral deposits, Of the
value Of irrigation or the amount of
fertile soil ready for the plow and
cultivator.
I'VE made great strides in the last
so years in the field Of invention. We
have the telegraph, inysteriously
flashing its message under the sea
and over mountain tops, as then,
but in addition we have the wireless
sending the news, leaping through
space; the telephone, whose mes
sages vibrate along the subtle paths
Of nature; the airplane with its
wondrous speed, which gave us the
lone eagle of the sky, the idol of all
aviation, Colonel Charles Lindbergh;
Post and Gatty who set record for
encircling the world, and that brave
little woman, Amelia Earheart, who
by her daring accomplishment won
the plaudits and admiration of the
world: the radio which carries the
sounds of all kinds through space
and enables those who are interest
ed in doing so instantly to hear the
unseen in various parts of the world;
the movies and the talking pictures
which gave to the people an oppor-
tunity TO see and hear. These are
but few of the inventions and dis
coverics indicating the swift and far
reaching strides which our enterpris-
ing citizens are making in the king
dom of comparable mysteries.
The radio is for me continuing
source of wonder and pleasure. The
radio knows no distance. State lines
are meaningless to it; borders be-
tween nations no longer exist; the
seas no longer separate continents.
The radio is bringing the people of
our great nation closer to each other;
promoting better understanding be-
tween the people of the United States
and foreign nations, out of which a
permanent and abiding peace must
eventually come
Was Born in Kansas
Having been born and reared in
Kansas, I know something of the
times you have passed through in
North Dakota. We had the log
cabins along the creek banks. the
sod houses on the prairie lands.
These have nearly all disappeared.
We had the old OK teams, the horses
and mules, and We have seen the
automobile and the tractor come and
replace them. We of Kansas and
you of North Dakota have kept step
with the music of the times.
Our states have suffered alike from
droughts, grasshoppers, plaques and
low prices, but our people have car
ried on. We have seen our nation go
through times of stress and come out
stronger than ever before, until to-
Gay it is the strongest and most pow
erful nation in the world. Your peo-
pie of North Dakota and the people
of other states, men and women alike
by their united states, regardless OF
politics. regardless Of race, and re-
CARELESS of religious beliefs, by work
ing together are going to bring our
nation out of this period OF depres-
sion. We are the last nation to feel
the effect of the worldwide depres-
sion and the united effort of all our
people working for the common good,
we will be the first to recover.
In conclusion, ladies and gentle
men, I bring to you the greetings Of
the president of the United States,
Herbert Hoover.