Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-16
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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The petition for hearing was signed
by his wife, Mrs. Ella 1. JUL, who
alleged that her husband, now 20
years old, had caused his estate to be
dissipated and squandered.
Understanding Women"
Three to four years ago book by
Professor X. A. Wieth-Knudsen of CO.
penhagen, was published in Denmark
where it created nothing less than a
sensation because of its somewhat
ferocious attempt to describe woman
as mans inferior in all things. This
English translation by A. G. Chatter,
as Understanding Women: A Popu-
lar Study of the Question From An
cient Times to the Present Day." The
book has been somewhat harshly criti-
cized in the Eastern press; one re-
viewer says: 1.-THE book suffers in
general from the authors inability or
unwillingness to put two and two to-
gether. However triumphant as an
act of revenge, it is not great work
nor a scientific study"
Not so Good.
A few years ago Norwegian rural
municipalities began the policy of adj
vancing loans to young men who were
unable to find work at home; the. loans
were given with the understanding
that the recipients emigrate to Can
ada, and, of course, the money was to
be repaid within a reasonable time.
From several of these communities
complaints are now being received
that very little effort is being made
to pay back the money advanced. In
Hurum, for instance, 80 young men
borrowed money from the authorities,
and only one of them has made any
effort to repay. Other cases of SIM
of Norway.
RunO Berglund In U. 5.
Runo Berglund, managing director
of the Fylgia Printing Co. Of Stock
holm, Sweden, is at present in this
country where he is visiting printing
shops in a number of large cities. He
is here as the representative of the
Swedish Newspaper Publishers asso-
citation, embracing some 140 of the
16O daily papers existing in Sweden.
Mr. Berglund himself is the publisher
of more than dozen publications.
ROsenkjar Coming.
"Magister" ]. Rosenkjar, one of the
most popular public speakers of Den
mark, arrived in New York this week
and at once started his lecture tour
among organizations of The United
Danish Societies of American Young
People He will speak in Askov on
June 5, and efforts are now being
made to secure him as one of the
principal speakers for the Danish
National Festival in Minneapolis on
July IA, when Governor Theodore
Christianson will be the principal
speaker in the English language.
Want NOrwegians.
The Department of Highways of the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania has
written the Norwegian consulate gen.
eral in New York to the effect that
positions are open for civil engineers
of Norwegian birth and training.
Their services will be needed in con-
nection with extensive road construc-
tion work which will be carried out
during the next two years, and the
immediate demand is for Norwegian
engineers to fill positions in the de-
partments drafting room in Pittsburg.
1t is pointed out that a number of
unusually interesting engineering
problems await solution.
Ahrenberg Flies.
Captain Albin Nuremberg, Swedish
aviator, is now preparing to fly from
Stockholm to New York and will pos
sibly make intermediate landings in
Iceland, Greenland, and near the
mouth of the st. Lawrence river. AT
this moment he is in Dessau, Ger
many, where his plane is being tested
A committee of Swedes and Amer
lean "airminded" New Workers is now
being formed to accord the intrepid