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Show SCANDINAVIAN NEWS SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS HAP-PENINGS IN FAR OFF NORTHLAND. ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME Resume of the Most Important Events in Sweden, Norway and Denmark Of Interest to the Scandinavian in America. DENMARK. The case against Reverend Rasmus-sen Rasmus-sen caused quite a disturbance in the church of Denmark. He was sued on the ground that he does not believe in the supernatural conception and the divinity of Christ, but the courts exonerated exon-erated him. The government has appointed ap-pointed him to a charge, but the bishops bish-ops refuse to ratify his appointment according to law. But it did not take the church authorities long to hud a way out of the difficulty. The bishops bish-ops have agreed to ask the rigsdag to change the law so that it will not be necessary for them to endorse the appointment ap-pointment of a pastor who for some reason or other is not favored by them. The rigsdag is expected to comply with the wish of the bishops without much fuss. The- Aalborg Nordjyiland says that in the first year after the ending of the war a great International peacf celebration is to be held in the Raebild Hills near Aalborg. The initiative is said to have been taken by Dr. Max Henius of Chicago, president of the Association of Danisli-Americans. Representative Rep-resentative persons of all countries are to be Invited. According to this account ac-count Doctor Henius is to receive financial assistance from Henry Ford, who is to pay the expenses of 2,000 Americans whom he will invite to attend at-tend the celebration. A smart young man representing a firm in Birmingham, England, sold a new kind of writing pen in Denmark last winter. His ways were pleasant, and many firms ordered pens enough to last from five to ten years. When the goods arrived the purchasers found they got twelve times as much as they intended to order. They intended to order so many gross, but in the contracts con-tracts the expression "great gross" was used twelve times as much. Now it will take some of the purchasers about one hundred years to sell the goods. Denmark will get a tremendous hay crop this year. The grain also looks well. NORWAY. The consummation of the national strike is a great credit to the organized organ-ized laborers of Norway. Two years ago the storthing threatened to pass a law making arbitration compulsory in case of labor controversies. A national na-tional strike was ordered as a means of threatening the storthing. The strike was successful. The bill was not passed. Now a similar bill was up again. The labor uuions resorted to the same tactics as before. But this time they failed. The bill was passed. As soon as this was known the strikers strik-ers went back to work, admitting that they were defeated. Everything from first to last was done in perfect order. The laborers feel that the rich of the country are getting richer at a speed which almost takes the breath away from some of thOi, while the laborers are living from hand to mouth on account ac-count of the unexampled high cost of living. Now the laborers can point to the storthing and say: "You are responsible re-sponsible for our starvation !" The tactics tac-tics of the socialistic labor unions have made such a favorable impression upon up-on the great mass of the people that It seems not unlikely that the socialists social-ists will control the next storthing. Says the Socialdemokraten on thii subject: "It has been burnt into the annals of the history of Norway that in the critical year of 1916 the Norwegian Nor-wegian labor class was in combat not only with the employers but also with a majority of the storthing, which, taking advantage of the situation, passed a class law against the labor organizations." A letter dated Vardo, May 25, says: "Volstad's Arctic vessel Onward, arrived ar-rived this morning with a full catch, 1,800 seals. No fish is found here. Seals in large masses. Snowstorms end frost every day. There is no fuel in the city. Today the municipality received 15 barrels of coal from South Varanger." The Norwegian steamer Freda was driving ashore on Alacran reef in the Gulf of Mexico during heavy weather on the night of June 29, according to a cablegram received. Captain Wiick and the crew of 21 were taken oil. Harbor Secretary Mans L. Olsen of Christiania has walked the decks of a larger number of ships than any other oth-er Norwegian. He has held his position posi-tion for 25 years. When he started he had to visit about 3,000 ships a year, but now the number Is between 12,000 to 13,000. His reports are used as a basis for computing the harbor charges to be paid for each ship. The charges now amount to about $200,-000 $200,-000 a year. The city of Trondhjem Is going to take up a loan of $1,800,000. |