The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-11-11
n I|DIINCS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
Interesting News from Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
PLAN TO CHECK EMIGRATION

PLM III CHECk Eml6kAIlUH
Sweden Will Raise Fund from Which
Men Out of Employment Can Bor'
row Enough Money to Purchase
Small Piece of Land on Which They
Will Be Enabled to Make Living
in Their Own Country.
SWEDEN.
A national subscription has been
started throughout Sweden for the pur-
pose of checking emigration. especial
ly among the agricultural classes. The
money thus collected shall constitute
fund from which such men as are
out of employment now, can borrow
money with which to purchase small
piece of land on which they will be
enabled to make their living. 1t is al
so scheme on the part of the govern
ment to open up government lands, the
same as is done in America and thus
give the buyer period of ten years
time in which to pay for his land. The
plan may be feasible one, but in the
meantime, emigration of young men
is going on at an alarming rate, and
America is getting the most Of it. 1t
is especially noticeable that there are
unusually large numbers of young men
who leave the country. They are the
very ones that the government is
loathe to let go, because they consti.
tute the citizens on which the future
country depends.
Carl Cederstrom, member of the
Swedish nobility, who some years ago
was vaudeville artist in Chicago,
has recently returned from Paris to
Stockholm, where he has informed the
publ" hat it will only be a matter OF
a 1e " months before he will return to
the capitol and give flying exhibition
in an aeroplane, which will have all
the others beat a city block He is a
seems that Bleriot had much to teach
| him. He is willing to be taught too
and will return to Paris soon and com.
plete his aeronautic education there il
| possible. He will return to Stock
holm next year with his improved
monoplane, which he says is easier
| to run than an automobile, and it will
according to Baron Cederstrom. only
be short time before his monoplane
| will be SO popular that all Stockholm
| ians in average good circumstances
can afford to have them.
Lieutenant Shackleton, the Englisl
south polar explorer gave lecture OF
the evening of Oct IL under the aus
pieces of the Swedish Anthropologica
Society in Stockholm, in one of tn,
lecture rooms in the Grand Hotel
which was filled to it's utmost capacit,
by eager listeners He described tn,
expedition to the South pole most vi
wildly to the crownprince and prin
cess, the Swedish premier. Royal Anti
quarian Montelius and many othe
men of note in the scientific WORLD
Lieutenant Shackleton was made al
honorary member of the society an
after the lecture a dinner was give
in his honor.
Sir E. Nordenskiold, who ha
made an expedition to the interior c
J Central South America during tn
early part of 1908, has written lie
ter to D. c. Forsstrand of Stockholm
dated August Z, st. Antonio, Rio Par;
pitt. In this letter the explorer state
that his chronological and archaeolog
cal researches in that section of tn
earth, have been crowned with SUI
cess. and that his collection from til
interior of BOLIVIA and Brazil are of I'll
most unique character. The explore
: further states that he will soon retur
!; to his native land, stating that /
!. "longs for some good books and civ
/: lied people"
!. To Stockholm arrived the other d;
+ Chinese commission from the er
+ peror in China, which came to forms
T ly advise the Swedish king of IL
!. fact that here is new emperor al
z empress on the Chinese throne TT
+ commission consisted of China's ne
(, minister in Brussels, Yang Shoe, tt
+ emperor's special messenger. He W
+ accompanied by Lynn Tong-Sih, Lilo
i Sy-Tschang and the attaches Chun
!: Yun-Ho, Chang-Chung-C and Yam
i Tienchuen.
J: The university collection of pictur
+ of Swedish kings is now compile
Z from the time Of the two Carls doy
i. to King Gustaf. The new pictu
Z hangs beside that of Karl II, the gre
!. warrior king, possibly because tt
:. there was such a great contrast !
+ tween the character of these t,
+ kings. Oscar II appears in civil DIRE
+ without either military or royal e
blems, thus expressing the man
peace.
Anonymous letters are still bel
| circulated among prominent m,
stating that on such and such da
they will be blown up in the air
words to that effect. Nothing he
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