The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-20

| the commence or the CrOWns | Copenhagen, Sept. 2O.-I. c. Chris | jensen, leader of the Liberal Party, has started an agitation for statewide | prohibition in Denmark. Not long ago | the Liberal Party successfully father ed bill which enforces important re- l strictions on the sale of liquor in bars, | restaurants and similar places, and the Liberal leader evidently intends to follow this up with a law enforcing 1 total prohibition of the sale of intox- 1 icants in Denmark.
 i During the past few years the Dan ish people have become more and more abstenaious in their habits, and as the younger generation is especial | ly temperate, the agitation for prohi- bition is not based on any growing in sobrietY on the part of the people of the country.
 l In explaining why the Liberal Par | ty, which stands for a. large measure l of personal liberty, should be backing such a bill, MT Christensen says alco- l ho1 is a poison and that the state should forbid and regulate it's use just as it does in the case of other recog- nized poiSonS.
 Until the late temperance legislation went into effect Denmark had depend l ed upon education to fight the evils of intemperance, and this is the first | time the advocates of the prohibition l movement have sought government | regulation of the liquor traffic It is believed that the people will 1 acquiesce in the proposed legislation in spite of the alleged attack on per sonal liberty, which they feel must be limited for the benefit of the com munity Some of the leading Liberal papers have protested strongly against the bill, one pointing out that a per son is not educated by making him in capable of managing his own affairs, but by letting him live his life in the largest possible liberty under the res possibility of himself and the com munity
 The opposition papers attack the minister's new policy, and insinuate that it is for the purpose Of catching votes
 By departing for Upernvik, Green land, to wed an Eskimo named Gem nifty, Miss Ellen Groth, a pretty Dan ish girl, will set a precedent by being the first known white woman to wed an Eskimo On the other hand sew eral white men have married Eskimo women, and just recently the Arctic explorer; Dr. Freuchen took an Eski- mo woman to wife. The Eskimo wo- men are said to be very pretty
 On leaving for Greenland Miss Groth was given an enthusiastic fare well by her friends and on board ship
  Eskimo bridegroom is a local mis- sionary.
 Hearing that Andrew Carnegie had telegraphed to Copenhagen from Ser gen for hotel accommodations, the city became Carnegie mad, and when his nephew, George Lauder Carnegie, turned up instead of the steel king, he received 8 reception at the rail- way station which caused him to flee in dismay
 From the day that the Copenhagen papers announced that the phiIan- thropist was coming to Copenhagen the American legation was over crowded with people seeking introduc- lions to the laird of Skibo Many of them were possessed with a sincere desire to make the acquaintance of the library donor, but most of them had schemes for aiding him in his phflanthropic plans Many women came to the American minister with most extraordinary devices which they wanted him to assist them in selling to Carnegie. One wanted him to buy what she said was a lock of Abraham Iincoln's hair, and another wanted to sell the ironmaster a DOT trait of John Kelly at Saratoga. Peo- pie came from as far as Norway and