Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-22

career as lieutenant IN the MOI
wegian army.
Swedes at the Delaware.
A recent contribution to colonial
American history is christopher
Wards "Dutchmen and Swedes at the
Delaware River" in which he bestows
fulsome praise upon the early Swe-
dish-Americans; they are described as
a peaceful group, right-minded and
just in all they undertake; they never
INDUCED in such terrible massacres OF
Indians as did, for instance, the
Dutchmen at Pavonia or the English
men during the Pequot war" The
Swedish settlements at the Delaware
were founded in about 1925.
Denmark as a Market.
An official report, filed with the De-
partment of Commerce in Washington
by the American commercial attache
in Copenhagen, calls attention to Den
mark as a market for American pro-
duets, and contains this paragraph:
Few countries, if any, enjoy STAN
dard of living as high as Denmark,
and no European country has as high
a general prosperity and purchasing
power as Denmark" The value of
Danish imports for 1929 is given as
$240,000,000.
Comparing Impressions.
Professor Halvdan Koht of Oslo,
Norway, who at the present time is
a guest professor at Harvard univer-
sity, was asked for his impressions
of American university students the
other day when Boston newspaper
was interviewing him. He said: "As
a whole l believe-judging from my
somewhat limited personal experience
that the American university stu
dent is more intellectually alert than
his Norwegian confrere; on the other
hand, when a young Norwegian en-
tiers a university, he is usually better
prepared for systematic study than is
the young American"
Who Wouldn't stays
1t has been rumored time and again
that Greta Carlo, famous Swedish
American movie primadonna, was
about to retire from the silver screen
and would settle in her native land.
Now a Hollywood message announces
that she has signed a five-year con-
tract with the Metro-Goldwyn COM
pany for $4,000 per week or $780,
600 per year during the five-year
period.
N. c. Aaberg Dead.
The Rev. Niels c.. Aaberg, Chicago,
died a few days ago of pneumonia.
He was born in Nyborg, Denmark, in
1877, came to the United States in
1896, studied at the Augustana semi
nary, Minneapolis, and was ordained
a minister in the Danish Lutheran
church of America in 1906. Having
held charges at Blair, Neb., Elk Horn
Iowa, Minneapolis, Boston and Wor-
cester, Mass, Mr.. Aaberg retired from
active ministerial work in 1916. Since
1925 he had been manager of the
Danish Young Peoples Home, Hum
boldt avenue, Chicago.
The Land Of the Midnight Sun.
Available digests of the official Nor
wegian tourist report disclose an es-
timated increase of so per cent in
the number of American tourists who
visited 1.-THE Land of the Midnight
Sun" during 1880, as compared with
the preceding year. Efforts are be-
ing made to persuade the Norwegian
government to appropriate increasing
amounts of money for tourist adver.
Using in American newspapers and
periodicals. Much work of this ma
ture has been done by the information
bureau which the Norwegian State
Railways maintain in New York City
Swedish Butter.
Sweden, never particularly known
as an exporter of butter, is now max.
ing strong bid for the Canadian
market where the most serious COM
petitor of recent date is Australia
Swedish butter manufacturers are
planning the establishment of a Swe-
dish-Canadian butter exchange in To
ronto or Quebec, and reports are tc
the effect that prospects are very en-
couraging. How the Canadian authori-
ties will look at butter offense" in
direct competition with a sister do
minion-that's something that has not
yet been determined.
Making Headway.
Gunnar Joergensen is a young pia-
mist who not very long ago arrived
from Denmark in the United States
to secure fame and fortune. He is
getting good start, for on February
he will give a recital at the Scot
fish Rite auditorium in San Fracisco;
few days before, he appears as q
soloist with the Los Angeles SYM
phony orchestra, and every Sunday
evening he gives a half-hour concert
from the San Francisco radio station
KGO, under the auspices of the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co.
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