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and societies, and in that way endeavor to be a benefit and help to our fellow
citizens. “United we stand* divided we fall.” The Swedish-American
population of Southern California is great and strong enough to be a powerful
working force, but to expend and use our strength in the interest of good, we must
become filled with zeal and enthusiasm and this enthusiasm should be the
motive power in all our actions. We must come to understand that our
interests are mutual and common. We must meet on a basis of equality and
brotherly friendliness, and if we so do, then we are strong enough to take care of
our own troubles easily and carry them to a successful end. Swedish churches,
Swedish societies, Swedish business enterprises, both employers and employees
from beginning to the end are more or less dependent upon one another, one
enterprise often depending on the success and helping hand of some other
enterprise. We are all working for the advancement and success of the
Swedish population in the United States of America. We should be loyal in every
way to our own adopted land—America—but once more let me remind you
that we should never forget that we are also children of our fathers and
mothers and ought to be proud of our antecedence and of our dear Fatherland, the
land of the midnight sun and the beautiful land of the always free and civilized
Sweden.
LILLIAN J. BACKSTRAND,
Teacher of Voice
College of Music
University of Southern California
400 Mason Opera House Bldg.
Los Angeles, Cal.
ALEX. OLSON,
Editor and Publisher
San Francisco, Cal.
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