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badge bearing the Swedish coat-of-arms at the top and below the official
exposition medal, held together with a beautiful yellow and blue ribbon.
It would take a large volume filled from cover to cover to adequately tell
of the work accomplished by the various officials and committees, their
self-sacrifices and earnest efforts put forth to make this the greatest of all Swedish
Days in the history of America. May the results of their efforts long live in
the history of California and in hearts of our Swedish population all over the
United States.
In regard to the San Diego Committee a great m&ny good things can be
said concerning their work and the large number of details they have had to
look after. A whole page could be written about each one of them without
fear of praising them too much. Our relations with them have been the most
pleasant and we know we can count on them in future as our friends. I am
very sorry they have not sent in a few biographies of themselves, as 1 would
have been very much pleased to have included them in this album, but as they
have not yet been received, the album will probably have to go to print before
they can be obtained.
The largest part of the work and responsibility in San Diego, as you
all know, rested upon the shoulders of a few men. First among these is our
untiring Vice Counsul Nils Malmberg. He is the man who from the start saved
neither time nor money to make the Swedish Day Festival a success. His
thoughts for months past have been centered entirely upon the Swedish Day.
Mr. Gottfred Anderson, Mr. Jonas Hanson, Rev. John Carlson, Rev. E. J.
Forsberg, Mr. O. W. Johnson, Mr. R. Malmberg, Mr. H. Swenson, Mr. Carl
Johnson, Mr. C. T. Engmarck, Mr. Alfred Anderson, Mr. A. Landeen, Mr.
Gustav Carlson and Mr. August Luffing are the men, as far as I know, who
have had the greatest responsibility in San Diego and who have devoted much
of their time in the interest of this day to make it a success and a pleasant
memory for all time to come.
The Swedes of Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California tender
these gentlemen their sincere thanks. The Committee for Los Angeles, its
suburbs and surrounding cities, have been doing great work all the way
through. The chairman of the committee, Consul G. Eckdahl, is* one who has
done more than his part. His business and other affairs have been set aside
in the interest of the day during all these months and he deserves a great deal
of credit for all he has done in our common interests. Nobody mentioned and
nobody forgotten, I will state that this committee as a whole has displayed
some wonderful team work, and we have also received many a helping hand
from different people not belonging to the committee.
The preliminary work for the Swedish Day and our national festivities
at San Diego has been accomplished. Work and good will have shown their
results. The success of this day is of greater importance to the
Swedish-Amer-ican population of Southern California than twenty-five years of previous
efforts to bring our countrymen together. We have this year laid a strong
and enduring foundation for greater love of our friends and on this
foundation we will hereafter build and grow strong. We believe in ourselves and if
we live and work for our common interests in the community, we will succeed
in getting what we are entitled to. We believe in love, in brotherhood, in
equality and a good understanding between ourselves. We hope that with
this Swedish Day will come a new awakening amongst our countrymen to a
higher and better interest in ourselves and interest in society. We have
accomplished this Swedish Day with the fullest harmony and friendship prevailing
between all parties interested. We ought to keep it and thereby better our
own characters, our own knowledge and our own understanding. We ought
to appreciate the knowledge we have gained in our young days at home and
in our school days. We ought to be active members in our Swedish churches
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