Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-01
OF INTEREST TO
SCi.NDINAVIANS
Recent E~a7I91ings in This
Country aai Abroad,
OBSERVED ALL OVER SWEDEN

OBSERVED ALL OVER SWEDEN
of August ~Strindbers. famous Au-
thor-Norweeian Women to Have
Same Right in Church as Men-Rus-
sian Fugitive at Copenhagen Tells
Shocking Story of Conditions Among
His Countrymen.
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Stockholm papers recently devoted
columns Of space to the famous au-
thor, August Strindberg, whose sixty
third birthday anniversary was OBJ
served on Jan. % throughout the en-
tire country. In FIVE of Stockholm's
theaters plays Of which he is the au-
thor were given. In the evening there
was a parade with banners, torches
and music, the marchers passing in
review in front of his residence. The
author, vino has just recovered from a
long and serious illness, watched the
parade from his balcony. 1t is esti-
mated that more than $4,000 persons
were gathered in the vicinity. AS a
protest against the judges who award
al tho Nnhnl nrizn For lfaratura and
who are regarded as too old fashioned
and conventional to acknowledge his
genius, a national fund is to be raised
for Herr Strindberg, II is well known
that one of the disappointments in the
authors life has been the fact that
hitherto he has not been awarded the
Nobel prize for literature. The au-
thor has also of recent years en-
countered much financial difficulty and
the national fund, which is now be-
ing raised in his behalf, will certainly
be welcomed by him and his many
friends.
That the United States will occupy
a very prominent part in the Olympian
games at Stockholm next summer is
very certain. Recently influential men,
bers of the American Olympian game
committee have been negotiating with
the government at Washington to Sc
cure an American man-of-war TO visit
Stockholm on that occasion. The
committee has also requested that the
American %schoolship Newport, which
is at present cruising In European
waters, also be permitted to anchor
in Stockholm harbor during the fort
night when the great games are to be
In progress. 1t is believed that in the
event that the government will decide
to send a warship to Stockholm for
this occasion that all the American
participants in the games will make
the journey across the Atlantic in this
vessel. Stockholm papers state that
hitherto there is no country which has
evinced so much interest In the COM
ing Olympian games al the United
States. Sportsmen and athletes gen.
orally predict that the Americans will
capture some Of the leading prizes.
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In a letter to the London Times the
prominent British author and critic,
Edmund Gosse, states that new prin
ciples should be placed In vogue here
after relative to the distribution of the
Nobel prizes by the Swedish academy
The criticism submitted amounts to
practically the same as that which
came from France and may not have
been imbued on the basis of prejudice,
for both England and France have
had their great men literally remem.
bered by the Swedish academy. There
appears to be no criticism from the
pen of Edmund Gosse relative to the
awarding Of the Nobel prize to Maurice
! Maeterlinck, the famous Austrian au-
thor and playwright. At a recent meet.
ing of the British committee of the
British Academy OF Sciences, however,
1t was unanimously declared that now
is the time for the Swedish academy
to apply the principles which were
adopted by resolution In January, 1902.
The international Authors associa-
ton has been advised of the decision.
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The National AnttEmigration socie-
ty has been busily engaged the last
few weeks in seeking to learn the di-
rect causes for emigration. A commit
tee has been appointed for the purpose
Of making a thorough study OF the con-
ditions of the laboring men Of the
country, with a view of determining
the real cause as to why so many hun
dreds of people are continually seek
Ing their fortunes In the Western
countries, preferably America. A num-
Der of the members hold that one rea-
son why SO many laborers leave the
country is owing at first hand to the
comparatively small wages that are
being paid them. Secondly, during the
past few years the work of the Social
lists has been stirring Swedish labor
from one end of the country to the 9TH
or, and while 1t may be claimed that
the Socialists have succeeded in organ
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