Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-10-21
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News Gathered in the Father:
land and Elsewhere.

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land and Elsewhere.
WARMLY WELCOMED At HOME
Ten Thousand Norwee ian-Ameriean
Visited the Fatherland During the
Past Statistics Concern.
ing Growth Of the Swedish Angus
tana synod-European War Causing
Considerable Suffering in Denmark.
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Aftenposten's correspondent in Chi
cago, DR.. Anders Doe, who, together
with Mrs. Cecilia Gerner, represented
Chicago and the state OF Illinois at
the recent jubilee festivities in Chris
tiania, returned to Chicago last week,
making the journey across on the
Kristianfjord of the Norwegian-Amer-
lean line. DR.. Doe spent three months
in Norway, staying most of the time
at Lifjeld, in Telemarken, where he
owns beautiful villa up among the
mountains and where he spends his
summers every fourth year. During
the thirty-four years that DR.. Doe has
spent in America he has made six
teen visits to Norway. DR.. Doe was
very we'll received in Christiania last
summer and states that all home visit
ceived wherever they went. When in
terviewed the other day by a repre-
sentative for the Scandal (Chicago)
DR.. Doe stated that there were about
10000 Norwegian-Americans in Nor.
way last summer, which is consider
ably fewer than the fabulous 100000
home returning Norwegian-Ameri-
cans" that we read so much about in
the daily papers. But even so, it was
DR.. Does opinion that it was an un-
usual thing for Norway to see so
large a number of her sons and daugh-
tiers from America paying her a visit.
The "mindegave," according to DR..
Doe, amounted to about 100000,
which, although far from the $4,000
900 mark, was beautiful testimony
of the esteem and love in which Nor
way and Norwegian people are held
in by their sons and daughters in
America. Norwegians on the other
side have come to estimate the work
their children are doing in the great
republic and the hands that are be-
ing clasped across the sea will do
much towards creating a better un-
derstanding between Norwegian-Amer.
leans and the people of the home coun-
try.
DR.. Frithjof> Nansen gave a very In.
teresting lecture on the war before
the student body of the Christiania
university the other evening. His
subject was 1.-The War and the Les
sons 1t Will Teach" DR.. hansen said
in part: "The days we are living
through in Europe at present. seem
only to be one horrible dream. Our
conception of Europetn culture and
civilization has received an awful jolt
and it is clear that after all is said
and done it is still the brutal power
and force that rules, and it may be
the case for many years to come. The
present war shows how necessary it
is for even US Norwegians to be pre-.
pared to help and defend ourselves
What our army needs first of all is a
whole years training and we are
sorely In need Of an improved navy
The expenditures will be heavy, but
We must be prepared to meet them
When it has been stated that the
present war Is fight between cul-
ture on one side and barbarism on the
other, it is not true. 1t is the heads
and diplomats of governments that de-
eide in war matters and militarism
has followed close after as the real
cause of all the trouble" The lee
ture made a deep impression on the
students and DR.. hansen was given
the closest attention and greeted with
much applause.
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Another 10000 crowns has been an.
propriated by the ecclesiastical au-
thorities of Norway for further resto-
ration and repairs on the old cathe-
dral church in Trondjhem, to which
purpose Emperor William of Germany
has made personal donations on sew
eral occasions. A portion of the
church has been used as a sort of
work shop for number of years, but
had been cleaned up for the jubilee
service during the early summer.
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The Norwegian steamer Vestfos
was recently held up by a British
cruiser and later on taken to Kirk
wall, in the Orkney islands. The Nor.
wegian-American line officials mott.
fed the Norwegian legation in Lon.
don, which Immediately made repre-
sensations to the British government
for the release of the ship, which was
on peaceful mission with foodstufrs,
chartered for various points In Nor.