Warren sheaf., 1903-06-04
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
FINLAND.

served with an order from General
, Count BobrilSoff, governor of Fin
land, forbidding him to return to
this country.
Maxim Cork, the noted Russian
novelist, fairly fays his countrymen
on account OF their political meth
ods. Below is a part of what he
wrote to the Frankfurt Kleine
Presse: "The cultivated classes of
Russia are crowd of cowardly
slaves, ready to accept every lie to
save their ease and comfort. These
hppocrites, with the name of God
on their lips, who preach in Russian
society hatred of the Jews, Armen-
ians and Firms today heap base and
cowardly calumnies upon the corpses
of those killed thru their influence,
and they shamelessly continue their
hateful work of poisoning the mind
and feeling of the weak-willed Rus
sian society. Shame upon their
wicked heads! May the fire of con-
science consume their decayed
hearts, covetous only of lackey-like
honors and slavishly obsequious to
power"
SWEDEN
Miss Anna Nilsson of Vestervik
may justly be called foot artist.
She was born without hands. But
she can thread the needle as easily
with her toe as a dressmaker can do
it with her fingers. She can handle
scissors, put on her spectacles, make
tapestry and pearl ornaments and
write a fine, easily ligible hand.
One of her most noted efforts is an
ornament on the covers of a book.
1t took her seven weeks to perform
this WORK, and she used 36,7OO
pearls.
One of the chief aims of Rev. Ev-
ers in revising the venerable hymn
book of the church of Sweden, which
has been in use since 1919, seems
to have been to make it more ortho-
doX. The value anu desirability of
good works is praised in manifold
ways in the old book. But this is
supposed to be too ''synergistic" for
our times. Accordingly, Rev. Evers
has weeded out a number of ''syn-
ergistic' hymns, and in other cases
he has cut the word virtue" and put
something more timely and ortho-
doN in its place.
DENMARK.
A monument to Casit Etlar, the
novelist, was unveiled a few days ago
at Gentofte on block of granite.
The social democrats of Denmark
are running new risks. For years
past they have fused with the liberals
at the election of members of the
rigsdag. Now they feel strong
enough to go it alone. They held a
national convention at Aavhus, and
there were almost 200 regular del
egates representing about 125 clubs
which have a membership of about
$4,000. BY a crushing majority the
convention resolved to put up
straight candidates in IS rigsdag dis
tricts. This means that there will be
three candidates in many districts,
representing the social democrats,
the liberals and the conservatives.
The liberals will be left in an un-
enviable position, for in many local
tiles they will have to fight both
right and left The liberals have al
ready commenced to nominate candi-
dates in districts which at present
are represented by social democrats
in the rigsdag.
The Royal Board of Health of Den
~,
been in existence just one hundred
years.
NORWAY.
Bjornson depicts the possible poll.
tical predicaments of Norway in
language which no one can misun-
derstand: ''Suppose the Swedes dis
continue the negotiations. Then the
Norwegian stortling may pass bill
for the establishment of a Norwe-
gian consular service, and the gov
ernment will ask the king to ratify
the bill. But the king is king of
Sweden too, and he refuses to sign
the bill. The cabinet resigns. The
king turns to the conservatives for
new cabinet, but they do not want
to make themselves responsible for
condition which the liberals have
created. And what next? Well, then
we shall be at the mercy of the wild
est possibilities without having a
really great leader and without sim
gle power that sympathizes with us.
Some say, oh, yes, Russia But to
us, Russia would be ten times worse
than none If all this leads to war,
no one can be convinced if we shout
during the struggle, we only defend
ourselves The whole world and our
own conscience shall tell us, You
have to blame yourselves for all this
misery There was a time when
even believed that we could manage
our affairs without negotiations.
But on this point I have respectfully
bowed to The teachings of life. N A
separte consular service is good
thing, but even this may be bought
at too high a price. Besides, I am a
friend Of peace not only when 1 am
abroad and when others are con-
corno6 hit also when 7 am at homo