Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
SEEK PROHIBITION
IN ALL DENMARK
Liberals Would Place Complete
Ban on Old King
Alcohol.
GIRL WILL WE'D ESKIMO
First White Woman to Take Step.
Young Carnegie Nearly
Mobbed.
GIRL WILL WE'D ESKIMO
COPENHAGEN. September u.

COPENHAGEN, September l.
I. C. Christensen, leader Of the liberal
party. has started an agitation for state
wide prohibition in Denmark. Not long
ago the liberal party successfully fathere6
bill which enforces important restric.
tons on the sale of liquor in bars, res
taurants and similar places, and the lib.
eral leader evidently intends to follow
this up with law enforcing total prohi.
bition Of the sale Of intoxicants in Den.
mark
During the past few years the Danish
people have become more and more alb
stemious in their habits. and as the
younger generation is especially temper.
ate the agitation for prohibition is not
based on any growing insobriety on the
part of the people of the country.
In explaining why the liberal party
which stands for large measure Of per.
sonal liberty, should be backing such 8
bill. Mr.. Christensen says alcohol is poi
son, and that the state should forbid ant
| regulate it's use just as 1t does In the case
of other recognized poisons.
First Government Regulation.
| Until the late temperance Legislation
went into effect Denmark had depended
upon education to fight the evils of intern
perance and this is the first time the ad
vocates of the prohibition movement have
sought government regulation Of tn
| liquor traffic.
| It is believed that the people will &C
| quiesce in the proposed legislation in spit
of the alleged attack on personal liberty
which they feel must be limited for tn
| benefit of the community. Some of thu
| leading liberal papers have protested
strongly against the bill. one pointing on
| that a person Is not educated by making
| him incapable of managing his own af
fairs, but by letting him live his life In thu
largest possible liberay under the re
| sponsibilty of himself and the commu
nifty.
| The opposition papers attack the min,
listers new policy, and 1nsinuate that ],
| lis for the purpose of catching votes.
She Will Wed Eskimo.
BY departing for Upernvik. Greenland.
to wed an Eskimo named Cemnity, Miss
Ellen Groth, pretty Danish girl, will
set a precedent by being the first known
white woman to wed an Eskimo. On
the other hand several white men have
married Eskimo women. and just re-
Gently the arctic explorer, Dr. Freucheu.
took an Eskimo woman to wife. The
Eskimo women are said to be very
pretty.
On leaving for Greenland, Miss Groth
was given an enthusiastic farewell by
her friends and on board ship her arms
were filled with flowers. The Eskimo
bridegroom is a local missionary.
Hearing that Andrew Carnegie had
telegraphed to Copenhagen from Bergen
for hotel accommodations, the city be-
came Carnegie mad, and when his
nephew, George Lauder Carnegie, turned
up instead of the steel king, he received a
reception at the railway station which
caused him to flee in dismay.
From the day that the Copenhagen
papers announced that the phianthropist
was coming to Copenhagen the American
legation was overcrowded with people
seeking introductions to the laird of
Skibo. Many of them were possessed
with a sincere desire TO make the ac
quaintance of the library donor, but most
of them had schemes for aiding him in
his phlanthropic plans. Many women
came to the American minister with most
extraordinary devices which they wanted
him to assist them in selling to Carnegie.