Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-24
NEWS OF SCANDINAVIA
Recent Occurrences of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
VIEWS OF HJALMAR BRANTING
What the Socialist Leader Has TO
Say About the Norway-Swe-
den Dissolution.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

Stock holm.
Hjalmar Branting. member of the
riksdag and leader of the Socialist
party In Sweden, which now has TO-
900 members, made <Le following
statement in recent interview with
an American newspaper correspondent:
1--WE absolutely decline to associate
ourselves with that dominant element
Of the Swedish people that regards
Norway's disruption of the union as
an effrontery to Swedish honor. There
fore we shall withhold our support
Of any program that has for its motive
the vindication of national honor As
workingmea, daily engaged in the full
fillment Of bilateral contracts with en-
ployers, we do not sanction without
protest the annulment Of an agree.
ment, be it commercial orpolitical. But
the Swedish Norwegian union was
voluntary union on the part of either
constituent, which In our opinion
lapses automatically the moment one
or both Of the contracting partners
signify desire to give II up. We are
in complete unity with our brother
Socialists Of Norway. not only in their
adhesion to the storthings disruption
Of the union. but in the desire to avoid
at all costs its becoming casus belli
between the long allied nations Of the
Scandinavian peninsula. The Soci-
alists OF Norway are prepared to bring
the same pressure to bear to make i'm
possible Norwegian aggression against
Sweden as we are to curb the am
billions Of our military chauvinists,
who are now prating about the out
ragged honor Of their king and coun-
try"
Stockholm has justly been called the
''city Of donations" Some time ago
Gothenburg, the second largest city in
Sweden, claimed the distinction Of
being Sweden's greatest donation city,
but upon investigation it is learned
that this distinction belongs in the
first place to the capital. The total
amount Of Stockholm's various dona-
ton funds amounts at present to not
less than 100000 crowns. In this is
not included the Forsgren fund of q
100000 crowns, the Nobel fund of 27,-
974, ZOO crowns, nor the riksdag funds,
which aggregate 5,934. 900 crowns. The
aforementioned 100000 crowns are
classified as follows: For general pur-
poses, 2,6OS,OO0 crowns; funds for
| poorhouses and orphan asyIums, a.
957 900 crowns; fund for Door children,
1,2S6,O0O crowns; hospital funds, 1854
| coo crowns: for commerce and trade
stipendiates, 5,S6O,OO0 crowns; science
and instruction, 5.471. 900 crowns; deaf,
dumb and blind, 1,70S0OO crowns;
fund for art and art stipendiates. L.
100000 crowns; fund for widows, $751;
600 crowns: military fund, 100000
crowns; medicine. 657 900 crowns gen.
eral charities, 3,32S,OOO crowns.
Christian Lundberg. the new Swed-
ish premier, whose official title is min
lister of state. and who will direct
Sweden's course with regard to the
secession Of Norway, is the conserva-
tive leader, but has recently favored
moderate reforms. He is a wealthy
manufacturer, and has been men,
Der Of the upper house of the riksdag
since 1885. Mr.. Lundberg was until
his accession to the cabinet, chairman
of the committee on state affairs, the
most influential parliamentary post in
Sweden. He Is a shrewd and cautious
man, is possessed of great energy, and
while not brilliant orator is extreme
ly effective I'm debate and as q public
speaker. He was born July IA. 1912.
Ten beautiful all paintings have now
been added to the collection Of paint
ings, which adorn the halls of the first
chamber in the new riksdags building
The most attractive one is by Ollie
Hjortzberg. entitled "Birjer JarI, the
Founder of Stockholm"
August Anderson has received per-
mission TO publish a Mormon paper in
Stockholm called Nordstjernan. 1t
will Of course. be published in the in
terests of Latter Day Saints.
Clara Zimmerman has donated TO-
coo crowns TO the Gefie mission soci-
ETY.. Madame Zimmerman has previ-
ously donated thousands of crowns to
charity institutions I'm Gefie.
Sweden has been invited to send
representatives to the Olympian games,
which will be held I'm Athens, Greece
In the early spring of next year.
MIDWAY