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Show SCANDINAVIAN POET IS TO BE BANQUETED Tho Danish poot Johan Skjoldborg, who will lecturo noxt Tuesday at tho Nlbloy hall, Is one of Scandinavia's most lovod writers ot the present time, especially so umong the common people, ns ho himself Is one of them. All his life he hns lived among tho peoplo which ,1ms given him nn opportunity oppor-tunity to bettor understand them and their wants. 1 Ills writings do not criticise or envy the higher classes, but points out to them tho better wny ot improving tho social and intcllectutW llfo of tho lower classes; as his peasant song, "My Shovol, My Hoe, and My Spado," which at onco becamo the popular and fnvorlto song among tho working classes In tho farming communities. Children would sing it at their plays, the young people sing It at their dan-1 dan-1 ccs, and the old man, whllo booing In ' his garden, would sing It with a fooling fool-ing as It It wero tho first tlmo that ho j understood his station In life, that 1 his work waii ns honorablo and need ful for tho common good, as others. I Mr. Skjoldborg is now visiting nmong his countrymen In different parts of 1 America, In jjrder to seo with his own eyes under what conditions they aro living ami what part hey are I taking In tho llfo nnd affairs of their adopted country. ' It Is tho deslro ot tho committee which has arranged to havo Mr. Skjoldborg como to Logan, that as many as can understand tho language I w 111 bo present. Tho lecture will bo Tuesday, March tho 7th, 7 p. m., at tho Nlbloy hall. j A banquet will bo given In his honor hon-or nftor tho lecture Tickets for tho I banquet can bo secured nt tho Fon- ' neBbeck Knitting works on North Main. w 0 1 |
