benefit of this project. Without regard for nationality background, anyone who asked was free to line up and receive a meal once a day, and family heads were given meat and eggs to take home.

The Knights and Ladies of Kaleva: If the end of the last century was a transition period for Finnish-American immigrants, a time when the measure of a man was often his capacity to drink and brawl; a time of party struggle, squabbles, upstart faiths and a contempt for the old; it could also be said that this picture

Members of Duluth's Knights of Kaleva "Vuoksen Maja" about 1930. Seated:
Alex Kyyhkynen, Matt Jackson, John A. Harpet, A. W. Havela. Standing: Heik
ki Karhu, Ero Rasanen, Dr. K. V. Arminen, Arne H. Karhu, Gust Warren,
Gust Miller, Herman Pera, Gustave Lahti.

disregarded basic values inherent in the Finns. One attempt to prove that the Finns did cherish other ethical values resulted in the birth of an organization often labelled as the most conservative group among the Finnish-Americans.

It got its start in the mining town of Belt, Montana, on the initiative of one John Stone. He had come to the United States in 1887, and he was one who had found a livelihood for himself

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