Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-30
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

Yesterday "wednesday Prince Will
helm of Sweden, second son of King
Gustaf, sailed from Cherbourg for a
lecture tour of the United States.
On the eve of his departure he said to
reporters: 81 have no pretensions to
being considered a scientist. My lee
lures and films will be descriptive of
my experiences and adventures in
the black continent of Africa from a
sporting viewpoint, and of the life OF
the dwarf peoples, gorillas and the
wild game as seen with the camera.
For the rest, my visit will be that of
a private gentleman studying the
daily life of the American people and
avoiding as much as possible official
receptions. My brother, the crown
prince, has done that for me, 1 think"
Rasmussen Goes Home.
DR.. Knud Rasmussen, Danish
Greenland explorer and member of
the Putnam expedition to North
Greenland last summer, sailed last
week for Denmark to spend the holt
days. He will then go to southern
France and northern Spain to study
the caves occupied by the Cromagnons
that is, the men of the prehistoric
stone age. DIR. Rasmussen feels that
he will be able to prove that the Es-
kimo of North Greenland is the mod
ern equivalent of the race which
made the Aurignacean paintings, and
who lived $4,000 years ago.
To Meet January A.
The annual meeting of the Norwe-
gian-American Historical society will
be held. in a Minneapolis hotel on
January 4, and number of important
subjects are to be discussed by the
members, chief among them being
plans for the continuation of the pub
LEGATIONS issued by the society. The
NorWegian-American Historical So
ciety was organized February 4, 1926,
with 425 members. 1t now has more
than 500. Rev. D. G. Ristad at Man
itowoc, Wis, is the president, and o.
E. Relvaag of Northfield, Mimi, Sec
rotary. Announcement is made that
material is now being gathered for
a work concerning the life of Norwe-
gian sailors on the American Great
Lakes, and that a volume dealing
with this subject will be Forthcoming
some time during the year.
He Likes Sweden.
Clinton L. Brook, an American
chemist, who has spent some time in
Sweden, was a speaker at one of the
Swedish Society's meetings in Mime
apolis last week, and referred in most
enthusiastic terms to his impressions
and experiences in Sweden. He was
sufficiently interested in the country
and its people to learn the Swedish
language, and although he had spent
less than three years in country
that had always been strange to him.
he was able to give his lecture in
Minneapolis in fluent Swedish. Part
of his time in Sweden Mr.. Brook had
spent as a chemical analyser at one
of the Uppsala factories, and he also
established contacts with the student
circles of the university in that city.
Recent Danish Opera.
Julius Mouritzen, Danish-American
free-lance writer, has contributed to
the current issue of the monthly.
Singing, an article dealing with re-
cent tendencies within the world OF
Danish opera. He points out some
of the reasons for Danish operate
works not becoming generally known
to the world at large, and finds that
because of their particularly Scandin-
avian tendency and appeal they have
not been able to arouse interest abroad
One exception from this rule is the
Greenland opera, 'Kaddara", which in
recent years has won international
fame.
SteenStrup on Visit.
Rev. ]. v. Steenstrup. formerly pas
tor of Danish Lutheran congregations
in this country. especially in Perth
Amboy, n. J.. and Minneapolis. is at
present visiting friends here. He is
now pastor of congregation near
Sakskobing in Observation-Disclosures
ment has been made that Rev. M. Fl.
Blichfeld, now pastor of Copenhagen
congregation, is planning to visit the
United States this year. He has been
a pastor of congregations in Boston,
Grand Rapids. Mich, Racine, Wis.
and Chicago, and returned to DEN
mark in 1916.
Case Dismissed.
Some time ago a complaint against
Norwegian Consul General Hans Fay
i'm New York who was charged with
having libeled resident of that city,
was thrown out of court for lack of ev-
idence. A second suit, started on
somewhat similar grounds, came be-
fore a New York court last week, and
was promptly dismissed; the court
even exonerated the consul general
who was considered victim OF mali
cious prosecution
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