Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-11-05
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are employed by upward of 400 Amer
lean universities and colleges, and
that 23O of them have taken the de-
gree of Doctor of Philosophy; $50 have
been members or fellows of learned
societies, and they have written,
edited or translated between 900 and
1 900 books and bulletins in English,
French, German, Norwegian, Russian
and even Chinese, many of these
works having been. in turn, translated
into other languages. These statistics
do not include faculty members at
Norwegian-American schools.
Railroad Rubber Tires.
E. F. Mas, a graduate of the Tech
nical College, Stockholm, Sweden,
and now a chemist in the Goodyear
factories at Akron, Ohio, has perfected
an invention for equipping railroad
wheels with rubber tires. The inven-
ton has been thoroughly tested in
the shops and laboratories of the
Goodyear firm and is said to be revo-
lutionary in its potential effects.
Plans Indefinite.
Last year the regular Danish-Amer-
lean Independence day celebration in
the Rebild National Park, Denmark,
was cancelled, ostensibly on account
of the general depression in America
and Europe. Now word comes from
Copenhagen that plans for a celebra-
ton in 1882 are very indefinite owing
to the fact that litigation between two
competing committees is still in pro-
gress. Usually, these celebrations
have attracted between 10000 and 49,
900 people on the Fourth of July every
year and were considered the largest
outside the United States.
"Den signede Dag"
o. E. Rolvaag's new novel, Den
signede Dag" Literally, "The Blessed
Day., was published in Oslo, Nor
way, last week; at the same time an
Fathers God" was issued in this
country. The book is the fourth
and probably final-volume of the Sc
quel which began with Giants in the
Earth" and was continued with
"Peder Victorious" In this latest
book the author describes the con-
flict ensuing when a scion of an old
Norwegian Lutheran pioneer family
marries an Irish Roman-Catholic
woman. Reviewers in Norway and the
United States agree in praising Den
signede Dag" as a highly convincing
and dramatic work. The American
version has been prepared by Trygve
Ager of Eau Claire, Wis.
"Sigyn" Dead.
Ludwig Lundgreen, widely known as
a regular and diligent contributor to
the Swedish-A m e r an press as
"Sigyn," died a few days ago in
Youngstown, Ohio. He was born near
Stockholm in 1859, studied at a col
lege in his native country, and came
to the United States in 1892. Since
then he had made living of Journal
istic free lancing, and enjoyed large
measure of popularity.
Mormon Representative.
Gustaf w. Forsberg, for several
years a member of the executive
council of the Church of the Latter
Day Saints, has been appointed head
of the Mormon church in Sweden,
succeeding the later Gideon N. Huler-
stroem. MIR. Forsberg was born in
Sweden, and came to Salt Lake City
in 1891, at the age of II.
''The Gynga Chief"
Many years ago Carl Emil Brosboll
("Carit Etlar") wrote a Danish histor-
ical observation-disclosures des-
tined to become one of the most pop
ular books ever written in Denmark.
Now an American version, entitled,
"The Gynga Chief,"+ has been pub