Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-12-23
NORWAY.

Says Charles b. Cheney in a recent
letter from Christiania to the Mime
apolis Journal: The prohibition
movement has grown in Norway until
II as enlisted the support OF not less
than 10000 voters, but as a separate
political organization the teetolers
have not cut much OF a figure The
one-idea parties have almost been lost
sight of this year. Norway is a long
ways from prohibition, though one of
the leading countries of the world on
the temperance question. Sentiment
Is overwhelmingly for temperance, but
against prohibition as impractical.
Norwegians point proudly 10 their
high place in the statistics of temper
ance. Based on per capita consump-
ton OF pure alcohol Finland leads all
countries, with one and nine-tentl!s
liters year for each person. and Nor.
way comes next with two and four
tenths liters. The Norwegian record
Is good, but prohibitionists deplore
the fact that IL has not been reduced
In recent years If Norway is TO make
further progress, they say, IL must be
by a policy of total prohibition. No
further gains seem possible under
high license and local option. Drink
ing places are confined almost entire
1y to cities and villages, as few coun-
try parishes now license the sale OF
liquor. but I'm the villages liquor is
accessible TO ALL"
"The fight is for or against So
cialisnl," said former Premier Michel
sen in commenting on the results OF
the recent elections in Norway and on
future political campaigns. He gave
out the following interview: I'm our
political life of late there has been a
movement towards 'HoiTe' AS fo"
me, 7 believe that this movement will
continue and that I'm a short time we
will see a similar movement towards
'Venstre. that is to say, the now ex-
listing consolidated 'Venstre' will be
compelled TO split into two factions,
one joining the existing parties and
the other going over to the socialists.
| This is the natural development In
every country. II must happen in this
country In spite OF all opposition, in
spite OF all theoretical ideas advanced
agansst 1t. It l. coming and must
come. What fact is shown already by
the recent elections"
American dispatches received in
Christiania\ lately state that Dean
owrie Of ths geological faculty of the
University on Minnesota Is planning a
walking trip Through Iceland in the
near future fcaNthe purpose of securing
original documents containing The
sagas of prehisso bards, geological
and anatomical specimens as trophies
for private collec Ions for the Mime
sofa university's museum. Norwegian
scientists are much interested in Dean
| Owrie's venture ant lpredict that be is
bound to find much pf interest in Ice
land, but that Nirway's explorers
have already traversed the field and
left but comparatively little to discov-
err along these lines.
George Brandes, Ie celebrated Dan
| fish critic, arrived III Christiania Nov.
/ rs and delivered lecture ut the Chris
tiania university THU following evening
to large and selesjt audience.
The Kjerulf and Ryberg Pulp mills
have been sold to la syndicate for the
sum of 100000 clowns. About two
hundred men are employed at present
at these mills.
DENMARK.
A Copenhagen paper states that or
ders have been ISSUED from st. Pc
tersburg for thfI immediate erection
Throughout Flriand OF Russian bar
4 racks TO accommodate the horde of
Cossacks that have poured over the
border to insure the subjugation of
Finland. The Firms have resigned
themselves to . period Of neavy op-
| preston, but throughout the entire
country there apparently Is q de-
| termination to make q fight against
| the Cossacks to the bitter end. Thou
sands Of Cossacks have been sent from
| various garrisons In Russia and the
situation In Finland r. becoming very
serious indeed. In Copenhagen the
| Finnish situation Is viewed with in
tense interest and the sympathy OF
Danes in general are with the Firms,
although the Danish royal house bears
such relations to the imperial house
IN st. Petersburg. Many people In
Copenhagen are openly expressing the
wish that the Firms would be able to
master the situation, and as for Swe-
den, had she no labor troubles on her
hands at present 1t might have been
possible that there would have been
hundreds of Swedes who would have
enlisted incognito in the Finnish ranks
and help the Firms to hold their own
against the fierce Russian Cossacks.
Rector Torp OF the University Of
Copenhagen. Chancellor Salomonsen
and Professor Ellis Stromgren have
been delegated to receive the north |
polar records Of DIR. Frederick A. |
Cook on behalf OF the university. !
These records have been brought to
Copenhagen BY DR.. Cooks secretary. |
A soon as the papers ere In the pos
session OF these men . consistory win |
Be held at which . committees Of sx-I
summation will be appointed. 1nsl
president OF this COMMITTEES VIII bel