Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-06-25
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENINGs IN FAR OFF
NORTHWEST.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
Resume Of the Most Important Events
In Sweden, Norway and Denmark
OF Interest to the seandinavIans
In America.
DEN MARK.

Georg Brandes, upon returning to
Europe after a two weeks stay In
America, made some tart remarks:
II think you have less liberty in
America than we have In Europe
less personal, individual liberty. In
this country you are all slaves OF the
telephone. The American telephone Is
the worst instrument of torture that
ever existed. The medieval rack and
thumbscrews we're playthings com.
pared to it. And from 1t one can
never get away. sit here talking to
you In this cool corner of the restau-
rant. Somewhere out there the tele-
phone bell rings, and a person de-
mands to speak with me. / must get
up and answer him, and II he called
at any hour OF the night It would be
just the same. Am l free7 No. An
other way In which you are not FREQ
is that you are never permitted to be
alone. How can you think? But does
any American think before he speaks?
go into a big business establishment
and there | see twenty, thirty, fifty
men working In their shirt sleeves,
and not even glass partition be-
tween them. Even on the railroad
trains, in the sleeping cars, one can
not be alone. Abroad, / buy my first
class passage, and have my compart-
ment to myself-my little travelling
home. But here you have thirty or
forty men and women sleeping In the
same car. But you have clean minds
here in America That is what saves
you. One of the features of American
life which has aroused my astonish-
ment and admiration is the public
safety accorded your women. They
can go anywhere In your streets at
any time without danger of insult"
The conservatives have succeeded
in blocking the passage in the lands
thing of the electoral reform law,
which is applicable to both houses.
This bill provides for the abolition OF
all electoral property qualifications
and for the enfranchisement Of women.
Amendments to the bill supported by
the coalition comprising the Socialist,
Radical and Moderate parties were
adopted by vote of 33 to 81. All
those who voted in the negative were
Conservatives, and the Conservative
leader then announced that they
would assume no responsibility for
the adoption of the bill, would imme-
diately leave the house and would
withdraw as ofteA as the measure
came before the house. After they
had left the amended bill was adopted
by SO votes. 80 members being absent.
The president informed the house
that no vote was valid unless more
than. half OF the Sc members of the
landsthing participateden the division.
The average egg production per hen
among the members has been raised
to $50 during the past IS years since
the Danish Cooperative Egg society
has been in operation. This society
began with a few hundred members
and now has about forty thousand.
Members are pledged to gather their
eggs every day and ship them at least
once week. The eggs that arr not
distributed TO consumers by the time
they are eight or ten days old are
picked and used to meet the demand
for cooking and lower.priced trade.
The average returns to the Danish
farmers for eggs throughout the year
is about eighteen cents dozen, but
they are sold by weight. The cost of
cooperative collecting and selling is
about one-half cent dozen. The Dan
fish hen, therefore. furnishes the farm
ers a gross income of about s2.75 per
hen. When they learn just how the
egg-laying trait is inherited II will be
1915.
The last royal Danish mail coach,
which had been used on the route
Veile- Brande, has been taken out Of
service and installed as curiosity N
the Danish post Office museum.