Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-12-24
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

Dr. Ocharllng, surgeon aboard
the Danish liner, Hellig Olav
plying between Copenhagen and
New York, has formulated a
special international code that
will enable ship captains to get
medical advice by radio to assist
in the treatment of persons who
are i'll at sea. The plan is being
discussed in American maritime
and medical circles with a good
deal of interest, and will be
placed before the League of Ma
tions some time in the near
future.
Very Kind-but-
Four brothers whose home is
in Tromso, Norway, and who now
live in the United States, have
sent a communication to the Nor
wegian premier suggesting that
Norwegians abroad be permitted
to subscribe an amount large
enough to pay the national debts
of Norway. Minister Mowinckel
has sent the brothers (who each
contributed $2) letter in which
he acknowledged the kindly
spirit activating the writer's, but
at the same time made it clear
that the government of Norway
prefers to take care of it's own
financial obligations which, he
pointed out, it is perfectly cap
able of doing.
Sends Students Here.
Karl O. BONNER, Stockholm
publisher, offers through the
Americans W e d is Foundation
the sum of one thousand dollars
toward the expenses of "a Swed-
ish literary mission to visit the
United States for the purpose of
studying American literature at
close range. AS the amount of
fered is insufficient for the pur-
pose, the hope is expressed that
others will show themselves
equally munifcent so that the
mission may be dispatched to this
country some time during 1926.
Book About U. s.
H. C. Vedsted, native of Den
mark who spent several years in
the United States, recently has
published volume giving his i'm
pressions of this country under
the collective title of "Amerika-
Typer". The book is being re-
ceived with some criticism ON
the ground that it is too sweep
ing in its judgments and opinions
about American life, manners and
institutions, and generalizes too
much. Another faction of critics
thinks it interesting and highly
; readable. So-there you are!!
Wants Them to Come Home.
Lars Oftedal, member of the
Norwegian cabinet, who repre-
sented the government of his
country during the Norse-Ameri-
can continual celebrations in the
Twin Cities last summer, recently
delivered lecture in Oslo, in the
course of which he expressed the
hope that goodly number of the
Norwegians who have settled in
this country, return to their
homeland where he felt certain
they would become an inspira-
ton to their countrymen. 1T
would be the greatest happiness
Norway has ever experienced, if
such group of our immigrated
compatriots would come home
he said.
A. H. Asplund Dead.
Anton H. Asplund, founder of
the Swedish Trading Co., New
York, and a prominent member
of a number of conspicuous Swed-
ish-American organizations, died
last week, aged so years. He
was born at Kalmar, educated in
Germany, was for a time sec
rotary of the International Cham
Der of Commerce in Paris and
came to the United States in
1916. He was director of the
Swedish Chamber of Commerce
in New York and also a member
of the advisory committee of the
American-Scandinavian Founda-
ton.
More Knights.
To the list of those Americans
of Danish birth who recently
have been knighted with the
order of Dannebrog by the king