| Show SEE III AMERICA MOVEMENT mm LAUNCHED BY BI CONI bINCE see europe if you must ott bul see sec america first Is the slogan of the delegates to the salt lake salt lake CIO at 11 0 clock fri day january 20 26 the men nasem assem pled bled in n the armory in the commercial building vere more called to order by the chairman ex governor heber A M wells and the seo sea ameilia 1 arst arst convention became a reality on the platform seated in adIl addition tion to chairman wells governor george 13 of olegon governor john C cutler of utah and judge 0 W powers who mho represented mayor lara thompson and melc welcomed omed the vis via igors on behalf of salt lake city in in opening pening the conference ex governor wells set forth the alms and objects pt the see america fiirst movement in n it a brief and pleasing address the results hoped to bo be achieved bv the conference ton Lon ference might be expressed in the following language of elc ex governor lo vernor wells speaking personally I 1 have never been to europe but I 1 havo have bathed bathea jin n the buoyant waters of both the at antic and the pacific have gazed through southern mists out upon the gulf of mexico and have traversed the great lakes and the thousand Is ands of the st lawrence I 1 hava bay perd heard the great niagara roar and pave have stood spell bound upon the brink of the grand canyon of the colorado amid that death like stillness of na ture described by mark fark twain as so still you can hoar hear the microbes mic robes anaw I 1 have stalked elk in Jach jackson sons a liole hole and caught fish in the yellowstone n lver and boll d them hard by in a geyser without taking them off the hook I 1 have floated in the briny sur face of the he great salt lithe lake and shot ithe the chutes on sutro Il heights eights I 1 have looped tile the loop on coney island rind and breathed the fragrant sighs of orange groves in southern california I 1 havy perspired in the humid atmosphere of the mississippi valley and thrown snowballs at the alti altitudes of pikes pike a peak I 1 have gabed in rapt wonder at it the mighty missouri rolling down to the sea and have visited the great northwest where rolls the oregon short line yet I 1 am not ready for europe upon a trip rip to newyork new york some beirs ago I 1 became acquainted with a man from albany a young who mho had acquired a competency and was setting getting off on a vacation I 1 asked him where he was mas going and wreathed in Pea ecstatic smiles lie he blurted tho the one word europe I 1 asked him if he iad had ever visited a place called falls which lay a hundred or two miles to the west of him and he said its nothing but a lot of water I 1 now gentlemen I 1 submit that that la Is the type of fellow we me are after it I 1 wo can spread the gospel of see sec america first so that some of these easter easterners nees who now spend their good american money at monte carlo can be induced to como come up tip and take high er ground and visit some of tile the isu suburbs hurbs of their home towns I 1 feel that our ml masion silon sIon will mill not have been in III vain an addre address s of NN welcome elcome was wag made by judge 0 W powers while gov arnor chamberlain of oregon made an address in support of the I 1 see america first movement at the afternoon session the of fibers were nvere selected and the work nork for the convention outlined the of fibers selected were mere fisher harris of salt lake city as permanent chair man and pei permanent manent eni vice chairmen as follows judge T it richards boise jda J A rim runion on kan kansas kanas as city mo luo 1 L W piatt iacoma wash W F it mills denver colo II if al cake portland ore J K persons duluth minn C 13 edwards san francisco cal T 3 butte mont E J westlake of minneapolis permanent secretary james A of mis soula mont first assistant secre lary kary J A aunon of kansas cit city Y mo ala second assistant secretary george A cordon ot of rigby ida ser geant at arms |
