Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-12-30
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interesting News from Swe"'
Norway and Denmark
COST OF LIVING IS vER'd'GH
Repre-
Crown in Sweden No Lone. o.u,.
sents the Buying Power .o-Food
IN America as II Useded. Rent.
stuns Are Largely imp4ly-Man,
Have Gone Up Enorme Live i,
Workinsmen and Famir
. One Room and kitehe,

"S Live ~
Workinsmen and Famir
~. One Room and kitche,
SWEDEN.
away from
SWedes who have Dor more years
their native land fifteK that a crown
are accustomed to this much in buy
IN Sweden representa- in America.
ing power as dole. II was true
fhat is no longer Is the main reii
when agricultural VI Farming used
ance OF the counts of the people OF
TO engage four-fiff now less than hall
the population, bSweden make Their
"a the people ofand Foodstuffs are
iNing from thad and pay customs
iageIy impcR Workingmen have OBJ
suites oesid!ses, and roughly speaking
famed inGate that wages have been
.uey sin fifteen years, but that the
aouoley living has increased in about
cost anne scale. Since the big indus
tne growth, there has been real es
TIE boom i'm Stockholm and othel
cities, and rents have gone up enor-
mously. Now In Stockholm the great
mass of workingmen with families live
in one room and kitchen. For this
they pay at the least 800 crowns, OF
ss1 a year. Most OF them have to pay
324 crowns and In parts OF Stockholm
nothing can be had for less than 400
crowns. Many families pay more than
one-fourth of their income for two
rooms without heat or any modern
convenience. The cost of bread is one
Of the main complaints In Stockholm
and indeed II has gone so far that II
became the subject of special in.
vestigation by the Stockholm city
government recently. The cost for the
present year has been an average of
cents pound for plain white bread
q the cheaper sort and there Is ot
course a general complaint that this
is too high.
Says Charles B. Cheney, the Mime.
apolis Journals Honolulu correspond
ent: Zone OF the lessons of the great
strike last summer was that the PEG.
pie Of Sweden can get along without
strong liquor. The success of partial
prohibition during the labor troubles,
which were devoid OF riots and scenes
of disorder, has given a big impetus
10 the temperance cause. The prohibi.
tionists are asking the nation this
question: IL it was good for Sweden
to give up liquor for a month why
would II not be better to give 1t up for
all time? Taking advantage of the
temperance wave that is on, the pro
hibitionists have started big enter.
prise. They call it 'plebiscite' on
the liquor question. It is what Ameri.
can politicians would call a straw vote.
and like all such votes, Is being taken
by partisans. All who are engaged In
the work are friends of temperance
and of ultimate prohibition. Many en-.
gagged In It are not eager to try prohi.
bition at once, but are ready to help
agitation and progress along that line
The, work has been organized by a
joint committee of all temperance
bodies. aided by numerous citizens out.
side. Volunteers are working in every
parish and ward. and In the mex.
month will see every person in Swe.
den over the age of eighteen. The pro-
hibitionists hope that the majority will
express themselves for prohibition.
Even IL they fail. the agitators will
have lost nothing. They have been
tainted with representing mere
handful of people, and they expect 10
show by this vote that they are backed
by the sentiment of millions"
Selma Lagerlof has by the Nobel
committee been awarded the literary
prize, which amounts to about $40 /.
900. Miss Lageriof is at present re-
garded as Sweden's greatest living
woman writer. Her books have been
extensively read I'm foreign countries.
and have been translated into not less
than six different languages. 'Jeru-
salem," which brought her into the
hmellght Of fame. has been read out.
side OF the Scandinavian countries.
very extensively in Germany and Eng
land. Signor Marconi and Professor
Karl Braun of Strassburg university
m Germany, have been awarded the
prize for physics which will be divided
between them. The honor has come
70 5ignor Marconi. who 10 equally we'll
known on both sides of the Atlantic. in
recognition of his achievements with
wireless telegraphy. Professor Braun
WIN share the honor. II is said, because
u his invention Of various improve
nents In the Marconi system of wire
hess telegraphy. The Nobel prizes as
- known number Ave, OF tie average
value OF $4,000 each. and are given an
nually to those who have done the
most useful work of the year In litera-
ture, physical science. chemistry, ply
aology or medicine and for the pro.
paganda of peace.
ocean monsters has been added to It's
navy at cost OF 100000 crowns
NORWAY.
A publishing house has issued IN
four volumes complete collection OF
the posthumous writings OF Henrik ID
sen. The volumes contain a great
deal OF verse. biographical material.