Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-15
NORWAY.

Rain has done great damage to the
rye in Ringerike.
A British vice consulate is to be
established at Bergen.
Herr Isaacson, who is planning an
expedition to Spitzbergen, has added
Mrs. Hannah Resvoll Diesel to his
crew. She will act as the official bot
anist of the expedition.
At the request of the Norwegian
consul in Tunis, the government OF
that country has caused to be sent TO
Christiania samples of Tunis goods
with a view to opening commercial re-
lations with Norway.
At the second international hygenlc
| congress that was held in London last
week Prof. Otto Grennes OF one OF
Christiania's public schools delivered
an address on the hygenic condition OF
the people of Norway at the close OF
| the nineteenth century.
| A woman of Larvik has discovered
| peculiar way to raise money Tor
missionary work. For years she has
been collecting horse shoes, picked up
in the streets, and now she has made
two words out of them, Great Luck,
and nailed them on the wall OF her
Larlor. All are welcome to call and
see them, but each must pay cents
or more for the privilege. The money
thus paid goes into the mission fund,
considerable sum having already been
contributed.
In a. speech at Minneapolis the 18th
of MAY. John w. Arctander, one of the
prominent Norwegians of America,
proposed that people of Norwegian de-
scent in the United States take steps
to raise among themselves S1,00O,OOO
to present to Mother Norway in 1914,
when she celebrates the Tooth annlver-
sary of her independence. The idea
aroused the greatest interest among
Norwegians on both sides of the At
lantic, some favoring and others op-
posing it. Mr.. Arctanders scheme was
to repay Norway in a measure for
what she has lost through the emigra-
ion to America of thousands of her
pest sons, and the princely gift, he
said, is to be expended in internal i'm
provements of the country-to drain
the marshes, to clOthe the naked hills
with forests and fertilize the fields that
are becoming barren from misuse. But
others, while favoring the idea Of
handing Norway such a gift, object to
having it used in the manner proposed
by Mr. Arctander. That, they say,
would imply, and publish to the world,
that Norway is a poverty-stricken land,
in need of help from abroad. Their
I plan is to build and endow university
for education of the sons and daugh-
tiers of the peasants.
It seems that a majority of the peO-
pie of Norway oppose Mr. Arctander's
proposition Recently the Bergen
Tidende, one of the leading Norwegian
papers, said in part:
"The plan to raise funds for the
purpose of clothing the mountains
with forests and to cultivate the mOOrs
is, to be sure, we'll meant, but it is
based on the theory that Norway is
poor country, which needs help. This
is not true, and we do not wish that
anything shall be done to strengthen
this belief, either here or abroad. If
the people of Norway were compelled
to work as vigorously as those who
emigrate to other countries, our cOun-
try would not be poor. And, on the
other hand, if our people get the idea
that the prosperity of the country de-
ponds upon the help of the state or
foreigners, then Norway would decline
in prosperity and self-respect. We
must build our country ourselves, if
any real good is to result from it, and
we must have faith in ourselves.
IF our countrymen on the other side
of the Atlantic would send over few
thousand of their best men, with sti-
ponds as itinerant teachers, then we
would accept the gift with thanks
itinerant teachers who would instruct
our people in the American rule of
life, help YOURSELF"