Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1923, Page 74

e HE SUNDAY ST WASHINGTO. 'EBRUARY 18, 1933—PART Denmark Emerges as Sane Nation in the Madhouse of Europe O SO TSSO O T T O D S T O O O AD AT < BY FRANK G. CARPENTER. COPENHAGEN, Denmark. HAVE come from Hoiland to Den- mark by way of Germany. I stay- ed a week in Berlin in o eea of paper marks that rose to my eyes, with feet on a volcano that bade fair overy moment to burst into erup- tion. The sea of inflation rolled back end forth in terrible billows and huge clouds of despair covered the siles, So, for the time, 1 decided to leave Germany, Wwith the hope that the sun of resurrection may rise end the troubled waters be smoothed before 1 return, With this view I have climbed to the surface of the money sea, and swum, as it acrosa the Baltic to Copenhagen, this lotter is written. The difference s astonich! 18 2 city of gloom, Copeshagen one of bright sunshine. Be: seems sick nigh unto death. Copenhagen s full of red blood and the vigor of Youth. The very atmosphere 15 different. The people on the streets go about with a smile. "They are well dressed and prospero: I have been here for a week and have | rot vet Been a beggar. Thers are no Litnd men the corners peddiing matches and notions, and no haggard ©!d women selling newspapers. ‘Che stor:s are different. In Beriln the window dispt are lean and the elves uro still leaner. The people are uying, but the merchants ate afrald taike money that changes In value hour, and the clerks look worn out d. They are sometimes in- French and Amer- customers. Just before leaving 1 visited the largest ind ri on b t eac oked like one of our Tig esteblishments shen a prosp ous Christmas has left it a3 bare &3 @ bone. TI ps of Copenhag nc goods, @nd their dressing compsres with that of principal cities. Walking through 1he chief business centers is wis'ting an exposition, and, moreover, figures, , Th where this after; aep: E me those Detrolt, Cleveland ond n towns of the eame abundance of every- the finest wares from ail la are displaved. It has 11an. tn- . Aconomites and i Berlin [ made soveral recent volumes ting to Germany and via, and tock it to @ ectalty of oon them only upon order advance. ile satd not siford to account cof , and that importing them tons. orted books on te comld risk nder present cend! ment etore here in Copenhagen und every book in my list, and that at little ro than the prices ot New York or Londo: The wealth of Copenhagen s | essive after visiting Par!s, Bru 1 Berlin. This city s larger t els. It is about one-fourth the o of Paris and a little more than {xth that of Berlin. Nevertie-| s, it seems to have more busines han any of the three. Its goods come | grom all parts of the world, and all the people are buying. Paris is less acell supplied with forelgn importa- ns, and the poverty of many who i especlally in evidence &t the counters outside on th Brussels appears less pros- serous than Paris, and as for Berlin, mercantils entity, sing to the fall of_the mark, the Je eurrounding Germany have ed in across the frontiers to ex- ange their meney for paper marks a4 buy goods much cheaper than could get them at home. Some worn their old clothes into Ber- and returned with new ones, 2nd ail have carried away as much &3 they poseibly could. The Germans have tried to prevent this by puttin, » w rzain on an export duty of several hundred | per cent confiscating all goods not declared, They have fined those o attempted to smuggle and con- cated the waures being taken away. 1 have heard of having their shoe seet and thelr hats from their heads the frontier 5o that they had to 5o barcheaded and baretooted back to their homes. Mlere everything usual. The money to normal and the prices are just ut the same as tn the United The harbor is full of ship- bing, and the free port, which is rapidly gining in size, promises to make this the great shipping center for the lands surrounding the Baltle. People are spending, although mot as s the rich profiteers of rything is on a hard- one scems business as is almost back very Indeed. the Danes sre among the ganc peoples in the great mad- house of Furope. The Russians are stark o and the Germsans but Jittle better. The Austrians and Flungarians are eating the husks of despair, the English have new the French and Belgians, in their financlal Junacy, are secretly whisper- ing repudiation. Here in Denmark the people are buying and seliing and getting galn trom their farm- ing, manufacturing, shipping and merchandleing as they have in the pust. They are taxed a bit more, and have had to ralse thelr wage level to meet the high cost of living. They are paying thelr debts In good golden uronen, and, though aflicted now by the business depression throughout the world, are thrifty and cheerful 4 expect to continue upon the won- dertul course of prosperity they hava had during the past two generations. &% % 3 HE story' of this country’s rise| from the ashes should bring hope 10 every nation of Europe now in the Sumps of despalr. At the close of our \il war the condition of Denmark 28 8o desperate that no nation in Jurope was poor enough to do her veverence. Like the Germany of to- day, she had long since fallen from ker place as one of the richest and ’ lke | hop that , the | At the de- | 1t is naked.| instances of men! taken from their; the-! ories about the payment of debts, and | most powerful nations of the world. More than one hundred years before Columbus discovered America Den- mark had swallowed Norway, which she kept until she sided with Napo- leon and tae battle of Waterloo sound- ed what seemed to be her death kpell. In the revolution that followed, Nor- way was taken from her and given to Sweden. The wars had ruined Her people were lalf slaves, as then were the peasants all over Europe, and the king and nobility ruled. her trade and her debt was enormous® Story of the Success of the Danes in Bringing Their Country Out of Poverty and Confguion Nearly as Bad as That of the Austria of Today, and Making It a Nation of Prosperous Farm Specialists and World Traders, Reads Like a Romance—One of the Happiest Peoples on Earth—How Butter and Egg: Accémpliéhed a Great Change—Copenhnden Versus Berlin. Life and Business of Great 'Baltic port——Dfficrent Kinds of Department Stores. | ()l 0 9l NN Y DTV T DA < DA DA DA AT A < OF THE VIK BESIDES A ¥ THE WEALTH OF PRESENT-DAY DENMARK. WHOSE PEOPLE ARE CCESSORS S _SHIPPING BUSIN ING THE 500 ISLANDS AND TKE LO f NECK Ol- LAND OF WHiCH THE COUNTRY l\ FORMED.” time on matters grew nd in 1864 Prussia, that glut- Iton of kingdcms. zoLbled Schleswig- 18, which, by the treaty of Ver- |eailies, ehe has Lad to disgorge. The srew poorer and poo of the Fr. seemed hope suited -Prussian bankrupt. to n; out | protective aroughts « leattte. The | then was that of Indeea, | tries resoure: All ¢t years a { of today. healthtest, an people of the stand high in educ Danish exports tariff, and there floods and diseases o condition of Denmark really almost »s bad Aus aad Hungary now woree, for these coun- n good soll and o ther was less than fifty-three Now look at are one of the richest, ole world. They on and culture. BY ER SHELLEY. LEFT New York for East Africa with the Rainey bear pack of hounds and fighting dogs, firs having to go to England and get the dogs passed by a veterinarlan. The Britlsh government has a regu- lation which any dog |from entering England until it had |been kept in quarantine | monthe. By 5o doing the gover: Kept the country free from rabi more than fitty vears Dogs entering Dritish East Africa also must he guarantined for six | montha hefora being admit Dogs from Lngland, however, are exemp |from quarantine, and arrangements were made so that our dogs could enter the country after belng first passed by the government veteri- narian in Engiand. | London agents instructed me ito say the dogs came from England | when the quarantine officer at Mom- basa, came from, and T went all the way to England so that this questlon could be answered in this way. England I took the TUnion Castle steamer Dunvegan Castle first to | Marsetile, | Among the passengers who joined us there were Sir Percy Girouard, the governor of Eritlsh East Africa, his family and certain members of his staff. . Many of the passengers lived in the country and owned places there others were on their way to fill gov- ornment positions, while still others were going thero to hunt, and there were those that had done much hunt- ing mot only in Africa, but Indla as well. One man, ing to Afri t to New signment of Atrican game Which had previously been sold to Barnum & Balley. Some of these animals he had captured, others he had bought. w o ¥ HEY all seemed interested fn the dogs, and when asked what T was going to do with them, more than a Mr. Jordan, was return- 1 after having made a > H Y eye the old-timers winking and smiling at each other when I told them that we were going to hunt ltons and leopards with them. Some of the old hunters told me confldentlally that it was not prac- ticable; that the llons would soon wipe out all the dogs we had. This seemed to be the general opinion. Very few, If any, expected that this hunt would be euccessful. Mr. Ralney inquired of many men that had had experience in the coun- try, but all of the Information that he could secure was discouragins. Therefore much credit is due Mr. Rainey, who went into the country with a pack of dogs, contraary to the 'ld\'lcs of those who are supposed to i know, and succeeded. 1 arrived in Nalrobi about two months in advance of the remainder of the party and spent my time in conditioning the dogs and buying the horses for the hunt. I also bought & few alredales and other dogs, and in b were | - country the Danes | Africa, asked me whers they, From | < avith a large con- ! once 1 saw out of the corner of my | !Thm women have equal right with |the men. They hold a place in jevery profession and they are a part lof every university. Their king has {1ost his power and become a figure- |head and the people have Iracy as free as that of !although their co! | compared to our: 'hundred Dea United i lands of half . the more than twiee 1usetts. 1t exceeds Belgium iland by only {as Rhode Island, and has less |available ood soil than either. The is low and flat. It floats, {1z were, o | the entrance to the Baltic. ’ Denmark naturally belongs to Nor. wa3. Nino or ten thousand years ago, at the time of the glacial perlod. It would take s to equal Including the two the ad Hol- large |great reef of chali and lime lwhich now stands the kingd e & % § & ¢ ¢ a box trap caught some 1o feed at night | Allen Black was cngaged as the head white hunter and was probably the best in the country, but I soon decided that he was not overenth astic about hunting lons with dogs. T rather think h as risky business and seemed afraid that some one was going to get hurt. I also think that he | the 1dea of avolding any accidents. | Carrying out this plan, | was the cause of getting me Into a very tight place, or rather of allow | ing me to get myself into close quar- {ters with a lion, the very first one hunted with the dogs. It came about in this way: We had !left Nairobi with one of the largest safaris that ever left the place. There were more than 200 porters and three of provisions each. We took the train to Kajabe station and started from thet place, travellnz south. The ! white men of the party were Mr. | Rainey, Dr. Johnson, Mr. Heller of the Smithsonian Institution at Wash- ington, Mr. Hemment, the moving pt: ture operator; Black ‘and George { Outram, white hunters, and myself. { We had crossed the southern Guaso i { i where Buffalo Jones and his two men, rhino and tied it up to a tree. * % k% TE intended crossing the plains the next day to Hot Springs, a place ) the sea, almost blocking | the | 1£-wild ! ones that came to tae slaughter house | however, ! | large ox wagons that carried five tons | Nyiro and were camped on the edge| of tae Lighter plains near the spot . Lovelace and Mears, once lassoed a | | Denmark. Then the {lay under the sea, but the h sheets, as thick as those the Greenland of today, mo from OFWAY, carrying were whole co ice do and ropped the jana and th {land. Toda w ! the furrow is]the bed | trom jmotor travels acro Jlooked down | waters of ma {the original | mighty reef of the past ! A or formed |nol h very good s not for the fertilization ¢ cultivation adopted | Danes, many of their farms producing as 1 by ould be worst of our Rocky Mountaln high- | or a long time the cow ry e the marshes between N w RARRAR looked upon this | decided it would | ,be the best plan to lay much stress | upon the danger and try to hold every ! one back as much as possible, with | INCLOSURE WHERE ORIGINAL ) WAS jcelebrated for lioms, but all night long we heard llons roaring nearby, |50 declded to stay at this place for a | couple of days’ hunt. There was a large, stony hill cov- \ered with bushes on our right and one on our left. The white hunters bota decided that we would find lions on one or | both of these hills, and also decided | he best plan would be to drive the hills with porters and not use tie doge. Early the next morning we went to the nearcst hill. Black took AMr. { Rainey and Dr. Johnson to a position where they would be Iikely to get a shot, should any llons leave the hill. | while, Qutram and I went with the | porters, 150 strong. who were to drive | the nill. T led a couple of the best L dogs along with me. Outram put ‘the porters in line, hat cover| CORK GROWN GEST MOTOR ( PLANT HERE. City and about the wors: crow farms | Much of | grow tree. {one-twelt and it was the starve- al Europe. poor to rk, of an £ the Danes, of the Vikings, vears the » to the sea the | Take yo wiere De map of ¥ mark lies, tongue he Balti ea of tip the up to 1 thi Brea North, and {gulf int | Christiania, steams Old Timer in African Sport, Skeptical of Canine Ability, Is Responsible for Trap in Which One of His Associates Is Caught—Dogs Draw Attention of Wild Animal at Critical Moment. Another Lion Is Run Directly Into Midst of Porters. and Peril for Members of Party—Twenty-seven Lions Bagged During Initial Trip. With Resultant PACK OF LION-HUNTING DOGS KEPT. There were So many of them that thelr shoulders almost touched. They went up the hill shouting and beat- ing the bushes with their sticks. Outram and I followed along behind them. As we veached the summit two huge lions left a small patch of cover, swinging their tails in circles and growling as they went on down the hill to the left. Three more jumped {a litile farther on and went down on i the right side of the hill | Presently ecveral shote were heatd. Mr. Rainey and the doctor killed the two that went down oh the left, while the three others escaped. 1 laid the dogs on the trail of the two that had gone down on the leit and they | went down in full ery stralght to the one that Mr. Rainey had killed Thie was the first opportunity any of {the dogs had had to run a lon's trall the T i In addition to this tongue, the coun- {try conslsts of about five hundred| Islands, on one of the larger of which | | Zee! nds the capital, Copen- gen, where almost one-fourth of all aits around the tongue in entering the Baltie ust go except the few that | oug! Wilhelm ! ns thr a, TPoland Copenhagen and northern is &y {port of call and i o & goode. It has to and trom the ed I have scén ship after' from New York discharging pa which are he ps for the lan cast. Denmark itmel! four thousand vesscls owns steamships that go reguiarly to ! anip e loaded upon oth | farthest 1 | | Promiscuous Shooting AR AARAAARACAARRY and Mr. Ratney was much pleased. The next day we took the entire pack and went to a hill to the west of us. ;Two large male lions came down the {hill near Mr. Rainey, but as he wanted |5 to try the doge he did not shoot at| them. One lon wur 20 cxceedingly |large and heavy could not travel | fast and soon came down to a trot, When | t0 Where the others were and dismount- | |about two miles from the hill, he lay | | down facing the hunters, swinging his | ! tatl from side to side, and loudly growl- | ing. He had decided that rather than | run farther he would fight it out. but! Black saw to it that all remained at a | safe distance. | In the meantime a boy ‘brought me word to bring on the dogs. I had most | lof them coupled together and they | trotted along leisurely behind me. Two or three times large herds of impalla | crossed just in front of me, but none[ lof the dogs paid any attention. Presently I saw Black, Mr. Rainey and Dr. Johnson about half a mile ghead of me. They were sitting on thelr saddles, their horses standing mo- tionless, €0 I rode towards them. L JOW the mistake in Black's calcu- 1L\ lation was that they had taken their stand across the other side of the trail the lions had made in crossing, and in going to them it was neccssary for me to croes the lion's tracks. What Black should have done was to have worked around, so that 1 could come to the hunters without striking the lion's trail. As T passed where the lions had crossed, Ben and Buck, dogs that had been in the hunt the day before, recog- nized the scent and began to open. The others got the scent also and all of them wanted to run it. Of course, at the time 1 was mot laware of what had happened and at once began trying to keep the dogs quiet. 1 was not sure but that they had decided to run the last herd of impalla that had crossed about this place. i The dogs, however, were deter- ! mined to run the trail and some of them succeeded in passing me. This caused me to run my horse to cut them off. All three of the huntegs frantically | shouted and waved to me, but I thought they were telling me not to let the dogs {get away after the impalla, so I rode and whipped the harder. Little did I think that I was rapidly |approaching a huge lion, Iying under a bush only a few yards from me. Some- times I would almost succeed in getting the dogs stopped when some of them would break past me again. Presently Dr. Johnson rode up to where he could make himaelf heard and told me it was a lion the dogs were trying to run and that he lay under a Bush ahcad of me. T did not realize | | | | * | teet from ‘and drew his | that the dogs drew h North and South America, Asis and Africa, and to most of the ports of this continent. Last year more than twenty-three thousand vessels from foreign countries came here and more than twenty-four thousand went out. I drove for several hours along the quays yesterday and saw everywhere | quantities of United States goods. The ships were unloading grain, cotton- ()| sced oil, raw matertals of many kinds, | farming machinery, automobiles, au- | tomobile parts and, in fact, all kinds of goods. PORTUGAL TO TONS OF AUTOMOBILE PARTS MADE IN AMERICA'S BIG- R FACTORY AND SENT ACROSS THE OCEAN FOR ASSEMBLY IN A BRANCH More than a thousand tons of aue tomobile parts come from New York to Copenhagen each week. They aro sent by a com: them here befor the lands of the bagen fact every thro T transshipment to Itic gether one car and ing duty hopes to compete elling without pay ieh Copenhagen geods w great as tnternational Tt tnctudes almost 130 acres eighty-three acres of inchoruge and has scores of electric o for There are grain clevators which cover acres and factories making gcods for both home and forelgn con- sumption. Dut the great success of t as come from the land. They and Danes are a Two Close Calls on First Day of Lion Hunting Wlth Dogs | how close I was and figured that, as it | was a lion the dogs were after, 1 would uncouple and let them go. I dismounted !and was in the act of uncoupling a pair | when the infuriated beast rose up, | growling in tones which sounded louder than the beilowing of a bull. He was not more than thirt me and as I or forty looked over my choulder I saw him. His eyes were upon me and he was in the act of charging when the dogs encircled him | attention from My first impulse was to grab from my scabbard and as T reached my ho shoot him. but 1 saw the lion’s so T nounted and rode quic It was a close call Iy away. Only attention at the | critical moment saved me. T rode over 2d, and we walked up tn line and s him. shot S we were passing the hill some of the boys informed us that during the drive one lon went off the hill in a | Qifferent direction, so we took the dogs around to that side. This lon had been gone over two hours, but the dogs picked up his trail, which led toward camp. We galloped along bekind the dogs and rode especially close to them, not !only to encourage them, but to bo in & position where I might cut them off quickly should they leave the lion's trail to run any of the bucks that were very numerous, The dogs were passing to the right of a small thickdt and I started to go around on the left. While I was oppo- site the thicket the lion jumped in the middle of it and as he did o let out a hoarse growl. I had to swerve my horse sharply to the left to keep from being run over by him. After this experience I made it a point not to ride 8o close to the dogs while they were trailing. The lion did not get more than two hundred yards until we heard several shots, all of the bullets whizzing close by us. The shooting kept up for a long time and the bullets came so fast that everyone took to cover. Several of our party got behind ant hills, but near me there were no cover, s0 T got behind my horse. After the shooting ceased we rode over and found that the dogs had run the lion directly in the midst of the porters, who were returning from the hill, and that three Somali gun bearers had killed the lion. They must have fired several shots after he was down. It was rather a strange coincidence that 1 should have had two close calls on the very first day of lion hunting with dogs. When we retired that night it was with a gratified feeling, and especially s0 to Mr. Rainey and I, that our lon- hunting with dogs was sure to prove successful. ‘We bagged twenty-seven lions on this trip of six weeks and in about ten days from this time. It was soon after that we equalled, this bag on a hunt we were requested by the government to make. I described it ih a previous article. Coprright, 1929, which assembles | The Copen- | and warehoure, as well | merchandlsing | and other modarn equipment | loading and unloading goods. | y gun | the faet | +! socleties, nation of intensive farmers, like the good servants in the plnble of the talents, havo taken what the Master has given them and, by brains, fndustry and business ef- clency, have multiplied it many fola They have thrown off the shackles of the nobles, reduced the great es- tates to small holdings and, by scien- tific farming and stock raising, have made every one of their 250,000 farms produce exports which equal $50 a month all the year thraugh. This is o, although more than haif of the farms average only thirteer acres aplece. The land not only sup- ports tho farmers themselves and gives the couitry its food, but it yields also exports equal to $17 per annum for every farm acre. This the Danes have done by tean:- work, in which the whole nation has gone into the harness and labored together. They have studied the: land and the markets and ralsed only the things they could produce ata profit. When Denmark found that her soll and limited area were such that she could not compete with the United States and other lands in the production of cats, wheat, rye, barley and such crope, she did not mit down and whine and ask other countries to help her. but only buckied in her waist belt to make her stomach the smaller, counted her assets and fig- ured out what she rould do. She dtd not even ask her government to hein her by protective tariffs, but every one dtd part, and all worked gether. § 2 ers amon in time & agricultur, made the her people, and w aned out a scteme o production that has hole coun ri sh looked at her location. It was just across the h sea from Londor, | the biggest city on earth, and from { Great Britain, full of factory work- | ers who for vears have been poon- fed by outside: It was just over the border f Germany, with ts vast standin that needec horsos, and it al lab ors, who were oonsu far m meat and other frodstuffs than Gorman farms could supply m ENMARK studied these nefghbors. | the sotl with the g {17 the heads of her cided she could supp! and butter and eggs and Germany withh cattle and horses. She at onee sent commissions to those ana other countrles to etudy tha markets ¢ methcde of raising these ar- time began country on the The commisstons rcport- nd was getting these ¥ from TIreland. They product and hods, with the re ¥ in a short time the Danes producing better bacom, better and better oggs than the It was the same with the German and other markets all over the world. The result is that Den- k. in proport!; to her size and populat ling more and | better bacon, butter and eggs than any other country. Within less than a generation ehe has i sed her annual ¢xporis of furm products from a value of ab 000,000 to one | of mere than $380,000.000, and in 1920 | she shipped to Enzland alone $58.- 000.700 worth of butte $34,000,000 warth of baacon and $36,0 worth of cggs. The proof of the ex- cellence of any article is in the se ing, and these figures show the char acter cf the products of Denm: I bave mnot yet tried the bacon although I have visited the piggeries |and slaughter where 1t is {killed, but T eat great gobs of the butter for first breakfast cach morning, and the two eggs I order a |50 big they make & full meal. The; lare almost as big around as te balls and warranted fresh f pedigreed hens. This s the 6 country I have visited in my tou: where 1 have been given enough but- {ter to supply the appetite of the dafntiest American girl. Here i: Europe the hotels serve one's first | meal in his bedroom. This consi the wants of She enriched brain matter rmers and de- make a i { to reorganize the basis. o houses | attention had been diverted to the dogs, |of a little pot of coffee and some |bread ona butter, with eggs upon order for an extra charge. In Paris my Dbutter consistad of three four shavings bigger than the | corkserew curls with which some of our belles adorn their foreheads; or instead as many* balls of butter, each | a8 big as the end of my middle finger. |t was the same In Brussels, and in Berlin, the butter balls were limited to three. This, it must be remember- ed, was at the high-priced hotels where one’s room and meals cost as much as in the first-class hotels of New York. They do it far better in Denmark How Denmark has accomplished th wonders, by means of co-operative in which all the farmers take part, I shall deseribe in my letter that follows. (Carpenter's World Travels, by Frask Copyrighted, ‘vss. Carpenter.) The Biggest Snake. TTHERE is printed much interes information about the length of snakes, a subject which “intelligent witnesses, as well as imaginative pictures, have treated with much ex- agzerated testimony. There aro states of mind in which things look many times bigger than they are. So much is known to all who have ever been serlously frightened. The python, twenty feet In lehgth that dled {n the reptile house of the London Zoological Soclety not so long ago wae the largest reptile ever con- fined there. There Is a general im- pression that pythons reach a length of forty feet or more, an sbsurdity made manifest when the authorities assort that the female Indian python still In the gardens and but a trifle over eightcen feet long, is the longest snake in captivity of which there is any record. General impressions as to the length of these great reptiles are due to tho absurd pictures that formerly deco- rated geographles and other text books, showing & picture of a python In the act of crushing and swallow- ing an Indian buffalo. The London python, which was a real instead of a fabulous reptile, wae obtained in Malacca and was present- ed to the society by a naturalist and lived In England for a period rather more than twenty years. It sometimes swallowed four or five ducks at one meal. Its food was oftered to it once a week, but it sometimes refuzed to eat for a month { together.