Morris tribune., 1911-11-24
OF INTEREST TO
SCANDINAvIANS
Recent Happenings in This
Country and Abroad.
LIKELY TO SUPPORT LIBERALS

Socialists In Sweden Expected te
Unite With Premier Staff in Re
form LegisIation-Abei EIIasen, Agec
115, Norways Oldest Inhabitant, Be
comes Resident of Poor Farm-Gen
uine Rembrandt Discovered in Co
penhagen.
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ALTHOUGH the Socialists" says the
Review of Reviews, refused to join
the new ministry in Sweden, they will
probably support Premier Staff in
ihe reforms to which the ministry is
pledged. Foremost among these must
be counted various measures designed
to make the entire administrative sys
tenn more truly democratic. The pro
gram of the Liberal party has much in
common with that of the correspond.
ing political group In England, and In
many features it is not only progress
sive, but largely socialistic. 1t is In.
teresting to note that, at one of its
first meetings, the ministry was asked
to consider the advisability of extend,
ing government support to the new
steamship line which intends to run
IL M
Francisco for the purpose of carrying
California fruit instead of Italian to
supply Swedish and Norwegian mar
kets' Whether the change Of govern
ment will tend to abate the labor dis
turbances so characteristic Of Sweden
during the last decade remains an
open question. The rehabilitation of
the Swedish masses has been progress
ing with startling speed and the pro-
cess gains added Importance from the
fact that popular education is older in
Sweden than in any part of the world
outside of the United States. Many
persons familiar with conditions in
Sweden believe that its monarchial
form of government is doomed, and
that the coming form of government
will be not only republican but social
istic. Even moderate men have ex-
pressed the opinion that only some
such change, giving the mass of peo-
pie chance at the soil, can save the
Swedish nation from the anemia
caused by the constant emigration of
it's vital elements to America"
The death of former Premier Lunde
berg marks the passing of one of the
most prominent Swedish statesmen
during the past ten years. It was
Lundeberg who conducted the Swe-
dish side of the controversy at Karl
stad and he was one of the foremost
trainers of the. now historic treaty,
which was directly, responsible. for
evading a war between the brother
kingdoms" In early life he took an
exceedingly active interest in politics
and when he had reached a mature
age he held one prominent and impor-
tant position after another and no
matter what capacity comprised his
field of endeavors, he was always re-
garded a painstaking and conscien-
tious officeholder. When he became
a member of the First chamber of the
Swedish riksdag he vigorously opposed
the proposition to give Norway free
sway in regard to consular positions,
yet when it came to the dissolution
time at Karlstad, Lundeberg proved to
be one of the most fairminded and at.
the same time one of the shrewdest
representatives that Sweden had at
that conference. This man will be
missed in Sweden, where his influence
has been felt in a direction for the
general good of the country for many
! years.
| The Nobel prize for literature this
year has been awarded to the Belgian
author, Maurice Maeterlinck. The
latter Is regarded as one of the great
est literary men of Europe. He be.
gan writing books in 1889 and since
that time has also written a series OF
dramas and plays within the realm
Of the mystic, which eminent Euro
pean critics have declared to be
&kAOuA LuS "Oilu ulrtSLCl pl0CSO. AltCl
Maeterlinck's marriage-he married
| Georgette Leblanc, an actress-he'
abandoned the field of mysticism and
has since devoted his literary efforts
to natural science and the great Ques-
! tons of the day.
| Judging from statistics the Salvation
Army is doing a magnificent piece of
work in Sweden. The army now COM
prises eighty different institutions,
$40 corps and outposts, has in the
course of only one year fed and aided
6,718 homeless men, women and
children, extended financial aid to H.
446 and secured employment for g.
/ 357 women. In Stockholm the army
has thirty-one slum stations where
unfortunates are cared for and in
avery large city Of Sweden the army
is busy doing deeds OF kindness.
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