Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-14
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Nc. josephsson Back From
Sweden and Norway.
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
President Roosevelt Nay Receive the
Award.
NEXT DECEMBER THE DATE
It Will Amount to About s40, 600 In
aoid-Rspresentative Kahn
Back From California.

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Mr Axsl Josephsson Of the District Of
Columbia har has just returned to WASH
i in8ton from an extended European trim.
He spent very interesting time III Sweden
ana Norway, arriving there Just after the
| Norwegian revolution had taken place.
! During his stay at Stockholm Mr.. Josephs-
son was received in private audience, by
ootn King Oscar and Crown Price Gustaf.
ana when he was ready to leave he was
| calied to the palace and was PRESENTED by
potn the king and crown prince with theii,
photograpifs with their autographs on.
MI. Josephsson called on President Roose-
welt today
| Whilesat .Christiania Mr.. Josephsson saw
all the leading statesmen Of Norway.
Among others. he had q hong conversation
1 with Ms. Loveland, the present minister
OF foreign affairs of Norway, and who is
| also the chairman of the committee of the
| norwegian storthing which is selected to
| award the Nobel peace prize. Mr.. Josephs-
son INQUIRED whether 1t would be awarded
| 70 PRESIDENT Roosevelt This was In August
| OF last year. Mr. Loyeiana answered that
he did not know II the Presidents name
had been proposed within the prescribed
| time-February 1-but that II 1t had been
proposed he did not see how anybody else
| could aspire to it.
| He said however, that If the Presidents
name mad not been proposed before the LIST
| OF February, 1905, it certainly would be
proposed before the same date of the pres
ent year. and that II SO proposed 1t was an
| almost certain thing that 1t would be
| awarded to the President Mr. Josephsson
states that this year the Presidents name
mas been proposed by. more than six diff
| ferent persons, some from this country,
| some from Germany and some from other
countries. and that under those circum-
stances there can be little doubt that this
| country will, for the first time, be honored
| by receiving one of the coveted Nobel
| prizes.
These prizes were Instituted by the late
| Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
| Mr.. Nobel was a Swedish civil engineer,
who at his DEATH six years ago. left con-
| siderable fortune. BY his will almost the
entire fortune was devised to form a fund,
the annual income from which was to be
divided up in five prizes, to be awarded to
the persons who during the past year had
| made the most epoch-making discovery in
the sciences of physics, chemistry and
medicine; to the foremost in the field of lit
erature and to the person who had during
the past year done the most to promote
| universal peace. The first four prizes were
| to be awarded by the different Swedish
academies while the peace prize was left
| to be awarded by the Norwegian storthing.
OF course, Mr.. Nobel did not at the time of
making his will foresee that the union be-
| tween Sweden and Norway would be dis
solved thereby leaving it to the, Norwegian
storthing to award a Swedish prize of such
an importance as the Nobel prize
Awards Already Made.
The Nobel prizes have now been awarded
about five years In succession but up to
| the present time no American has been the
recipient of any of them. The Germans
have received the majority of the prizes,
while some Frenchmen, Englishmen, Bel
gians and Swiss have been honored with
others. Only one Swede has received a
prize. and he received only one-hak of the
chemistry prize, thus showing, great i'm
the great chemist Arhenius, who last year
came to this country to give some lectures
at leading American universities. The Nor
wegfan writer Bjornstjerne BJornson one
year received the literature price and the
Danish doctor Finsen one year received the
medical prize. Thus each one of the Scan
dtnavtan countries has received one prize
The prizes have varied somewhat in amount
| on account Of the setting aside of certain
amounts for building purposes but this
year yea, they VIII amount to about $4,000 swe-
The prizes are awarded each year on the
10th of December, the anniversary of
Nobels death. The first four are awarded
by the King of Sweden at Stockholm, while
| the peace prize is awarded in Christiania
The persons to whom they are awarded are
supposed to be present and receive them in
person; and shall thereafter give a lecture
over the subject for which the prize was
awarded II they are not able to be pres
emit the prize Is handed to the minister rep
resenting the country of the prize winners.
| The winner Is expected, however, to come
to Sweden and Norway, respectively, at
| later date and deliver his or her lecture.
Mr. Josephsson states as his opinion that
this year there are only two persons who
would be entitled to the peace prize. and
| that they are President Roosevelt and
King Oscar of Sweden. During his CONVEX
sations with the venerable king he was
very much impressed with the fact that the
yyn midi win 1frfa had To
thank for the fact OF them not going to
war last year. There was in Sweden quite
a party who wanted to compel Norway to
stay in the union by force of arms The
huence against this party, and the last
time he saw Mr.. Josephsson he expressed
| to him the belief that history would judge
him rightly for preventing bloodshed be-
tween two so nearly related peoples
King OSCAR, however, would naturally
not receive this prize from the hands of
naIly came from Sweden. and this would
leave as the only person who, under the
will Of Nobel, would be entitled to the
distinction President Theodore Roosevelt
and Mr.. Josephsson consider 1t almost GER
tain that he will receive It in December.
| During his stay in Sweden Mr.. Josephsson
also had the honor to hand to Princess
Margaret of Sweden. who was Princess
Margaret OF Connaught, a copy OF the auto
graph edition Of his English version Of
Victor Rydbergs famous Swedish romance.
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York some time ago. and autograph copies
OF which previously had been accepted by
President Roosevelt, King Oscar and Queen
Alexandra of England.
II the Nobel peace prize comes to the
| President, as it now expected 1t will mean
| check for $4,000 for him just before
| Christmas.
Mr.. Kahn Back From California.
| Representative Kahn Of California, who
has Just returned from San Francisco, had
conference with the President this morn
| ing about conditions In the ruined city.
Mr.. Kahn's wife and two children were In
San Francisco during the earthquake. His
youngest child was but three days old The
family were forced to leave their home
and camp out In the Preside In a tent.
They experienced no Ill effects from their
outdoor life.
while the entire business section. four
square miles of buildings, were absolutely
destroyed. = said Mr.. Kahn. about 66 per
cent OF the residential section remained In
tact. This has been OF incalculabIe assist
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