Morris tribune., 1911-12-22
OF INTEREST TO
SCkND|NAv|ANS
Recent Happenings in This
Country and Abroad.
AMERICANS GET few PRIZES

AMERlCANS It'll FEW PMLES
Awarded Only Two Since the Founda
ton OF the Nobel Fund-Norway and
Sweden Ask Same Treatment as
Canada Regarding Admission oi
Wood Pulp to the United States
Opium Scandal at Copenhagen In
wolves Prominent Citizens.
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The Nobel prize awards for the
present year are calculated to give
little ground for self complacency to
Americans. Though the formal an
nouncement of the awards were not
made until Dec. 10, which was the
anniversary of the founders death,
the prospective recipients were known
beforehand The prize for chemistry
went to Nine. Curie, chief professor
Of science in the University of Paris,
who, with her husband, discovered
radium The prize for physics, which
it was believed some time ago would
be awarded to Thomas A. Edison, the
American inventor, went instead to
Professor Wilhelm Wien of Wuerz-
berg university. Maurice Materlinck,
the well known Belgian author and
playwright. will receive the literary
prize, while the prize in medicine will
be eYawarded-:to. ProfessorGAIlvar Gull
strand Of the faculty of medicine at
Upsala university, for research work
in connection with his study of the
eye. In the eleven years of the Nobel
foundation prizes have been awarded to
sixty individuals and to two peace So
eieties Only two Of the sixty have
been Americans. A prize in physics
was awarded to A. A. Nicholson Of the
University of Chicago, German by
birth, and one Of the peace prizes
went to President Roosevelt for his
services in promoting peace between
Russia and Japan. So far no other
American has been recognized as
worthy of the distinguished honor.
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A German writer who recently
visited Sweden gives the following
reason why Swedish people smigrate
In such large numbers to other coun-
tries Says the writer in question:
"One need only note with what enthu-
stasm the Swedish people celebrate
their great holiday, May 4, even If
they have to wrap themselves in blan7
kets. as they do st HasselbacHen and
at the larger inns and restaurants
through the country in the early
spring Or watch them around mid
summer and note how afraid they are
to miss a single day or hour of the
beautiful spring air Little wonder
that the Swedes enjoy the short sum-
mer months, when they have such
long, cold winters. These long winter
nights, with their cold and snow,
makes the Swedish people long for
milder and SUMMER climes and new
scenes and this, to my way of think
irg, is perhaps the greatest reason
why they leave their beautiful coun-
try in such large numbers"
OF all the rules submitted by the
Swedish Olympic committee to the
United States in order that the ath
letes who will represent this country
In the games in Sweden next summer
may go abroad fully conversant with
what they are to expect the one which
is causing the most discussion among
the runners in the United States is
that governing the starting of the
races. The rule states that all the
races will be started by the report of
a pistol, and that no runner shall
touch the ground in front Of the
scratch line with any part OF his body.
There is no stipulation made regard
ing false starts. It is certain that the
New York committee will question
this rule. At the Olympic games in
London there was some discussion
about just such ruling. The authori-
ties in this country are anxious to
avoid any repetition of this kind. In
other respects the rules governing the
races are identical with those
in the United States.
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An exchange says: Women played
q considerable part In the recent cleo
lions in Sweden. They have not got
the vote, Of course. like the women of
Norway, but they have been carrying
On an active campaign for suffrage for
several years. and they seem at last
10 have made an impression ON the
governing powers. For the Conserva-
lives, against whom they threw all
their energies, have been beaten. To
assist their allies, the Liberals and
Social Democrats, the suffragettes es-
tabiishsd, committee in every con
stitRsnGy I. and held BIT meetings dir-l
ing the election. One Of their. leaders
made fkfrty-fiYm aneAchAa hut their |