Show NORSE 0 R Sl ITO Tn COME CUME TO AMERICAS AMERICA'S f r FARMS ARMS f Northwestern States Envoy r to Christiana Fair Pros Prosperity I ty o of Immigrants I Is p Noted Special SpecIa to The Telegram gram h. h SEW YORK March 28 North North Daas Daa's Da- Da te as ambassador to too Norway o ay flAiled for fox Wisconsin's ambassador r and ancS Minnesota's Inn ambassador will wUI toll follow ow a litI little lit lIt- tle I lat later r. r Collectively t they e represent a 0 ew w departure Jn ln diplomacy cy tr trade de rela- rela on one on and the Immigration problem problem- In- In they ho hope they can keep from tram bragging The very utmost we shall ban do said Mid Alfred of at Fargo who Is le I. I orth Dakotas Dakota's commissioner is f to state the ihei truth as modestly as possible r Norway is fa to celebrate this summer the one ne hun hundredth anniversary of the lion of orus its constitution Steamship agents aay t that t no f than people will lUTe leave the United Elates io to o visit the ex- ex lUon at No doubt racial prompted the three tates named f to lend send end c commissioners to it for tor they hold more Norwegians than all the rest of or the country put together torether Buta keen appetite appetite appe appe- tite fAte for more Norwegians was the tho chief 3 incentive Norwegians have ve b been n an an immense spectacular solid saUd success In the North North- west beet They have e been so prosperous that r iOU you OU wouldn't b believe It It if the fads facts were Vera Inot not ot coldly net et forth in tn government reports But of late Canada has lias been heen wiping the were eye ere of at the Northwestern states In win win- Norwegian Immigrants Therefore they have entered actively Into the for ifor more men from Norway Never be- be fere tore toreO so O tar far Laras as now comes to m memory memory memory- hATe states accredited ft agents to a foreign country on any similar mission To 10 Show Their Progress No doubt the railroad and s steamship tea rush lp rand and land and warehouse companies and ithe banks and merchants and others who I would profit proM by such sturdy settlers would gladly have sent agents on this getting mission but mission but the they were not permitted Norway doesn't want to lose Its sturdy citizens Corporations and private vale vate persons who vho try to to do recruiting of ot sort are gently and hastily chased out cut But as the three great Teat Norwegian stat states atM of the United States North Dakota Da- Da Dakota kota and Minnesota and Wisconsin were welcomed as as' exhibitors c at th tho centennial exposition Their commissioners ers will do the rest 4 4 All AU we will do said Mid Mr rr Gabrielson trying to suppress a 8 look o of pride Is ls just to show what Norwegians have hac been table rable able to do since they be began an to come to si the otlie the Northwest that's all an Norway wouldn't permit Gabrielsen tomake to tomake make an exhibition of at the fruits t of ot the North Dakota earth for tor obvious reasons But Norway didn't object to his decorating the North Dakota booth with Ith wheat and apples and potatoes and the like He to will confer upon ever e every public library In Norway and Norway and the kingdom I is Ie full lull of ot t libraries libraries libraries-a a a neatly J printed book telling all about the Northwest t with e es- es reference to North Dakota Dalot and the Norwegians He goes oes with a a. moving picture plo PlC- J ture machine to show show- harvesting har scenes ln tn In the West and with 1100 other views of farm operations He hopes hope that by next Winter every farmer In Norway will have va 3 map man o of North Dakota before him The Tha two wo other states tates will Ill follow tollow about the same ame plan I Race i-Bace of OT Farmers Meanwhile hes he's full of ot facts that ought to b be Interesting whether facts ever are or not Norve Norwegians lans own almost f s acres in North orth Dakota alone for tor example land Is Is' valued for taxation at and the owners owner have forty forty- two two to of the members member of the legislature legisla- legisla t ture and one of the two to United States senators natora and one of the threw three lives es In congress not to speak of ot three elective state officials Incidentally perhaps perhaps per per- haps the state is the most mot prosperous per perr F r capita In th the union The average wealth per citizen Is 2000 The United States census figures may account for tor this in I f part b by the revelation re that 43 49 3 per c cent nt of all Norwegians of the first generation of o of bread brUd winners are farmers and 63 per cent of ot the men of ot the second genera genera- tion The They not on only 1 i stick to the land Jand said Bald Mr Gabrielsen but the tho land lan sticks to them The report of at the commissioner of Immigration shows that 37 per cent of tho 1 first generation of men own their farms J s f It isn't often oCten that the Norwegian g gets get te away from the tho land The state Bank Dank of Chicago with In deposits Is i controlled by Norwegians and th there re fa a a i bl big bis electric supply house in Boston and a type foundry In New York headed by men from Norway oa These Those are the which prove the rule To Show a Model aModel Farm Hes a modern farmer too said ald Ga Ca- Theres Theras nothing too good for him One motor car agent In a. a town of ot 1200 people has people has ordered machInes ma ma- chines of ot one makers maker's 1914 1314 model Thero There are six seventy motors owned in Hatton the next town north which has but people I will win show a model farm arm at the exposition The original Is owned by John Isan who began fifteen years yean ago with with- t ot t a nickel at Rugby Today he owns acres free tree of or debt and his farm pays pan 7 per par cent on W 00 1 Ive I've VC examined the books As a second line lino of attack upon Nor Nor- way ay Gov L L. B. B Hanna will sail flaB from tram I New New York Tork on June 12 with members of ot his hla staff all In their prettiest prettiest est est golf leaf Ipat On the tho Fourth of at July a statue of ot Lincoln done b by Sculptor FJelde jelde a 8 pupil of Lorado Tar Tatt of or Chi Chicago cabO and presented by North Dakota to Norway Nora Nor Nor- or- or way a f will be HC unveiled Wisconsin Nor Not will march In the parade carry carry- Ini the battle battlo fia flag of at the old wl Wisconsin v Fifteenth Fifteenth Every man in It was a Nor Nor- or a Dane or a Tho The orders were spoken or written In Norwegian en S 'S T died under that flag on the fi field ld of alone Norway Talk about i telling It ll to th the J W of |