Morris tribune., 1912-06-14
OF INTEREST TO
SCAND|NAv|ANS
Recent Happenings in This
Country and Abroad.
BRANDS STORY PURE FICTION

Professor Arrhenius, Swedish Scientist,
Denies Making Electrical Expert
ments on School ChiIdren-Anti-
Emigration Agitation to the Front
In Norway-United States Minister
Egan Pays Tribute to Danish Thrift
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Professor Svante Arrhenius, now
one of the foremost Swedish scientists,
would like to punish the man who re-
Gently started a yarn to the effect that
he had produced extraordinary devel-
opments, both physical and mental, In
school children by means OF electricity.
According to this tale, which apparent
" had it's birth in the Paris Matin and
since then has been published the
world over, DR.. Arrhenius had taken
two groups of school children, rough
ly corresponding in age, health and
Intelligence, and set one group to work
in a room that was filled with an cleo
trio installation which passed high
currents into the atmosphere. Inc
other group of children was put to
work in an ordinary class room and
at the end of six months, so the story
declared, the electrified kids left the
nonelectrifed ones far behind, not
only in physical growth, but in quick
ness of wits and capacity for passing
examinations. It was beautiful
story, but there is Professor Arrhe-
MUS word for it that it was an In
vention from beginning to end. The
tale, by the way, excited the Sunday
editor of a New York newspaper so
much that he cabled Professor Ar
rhenius Offering him $500 If he would
write a column about electricity as
tonic for youngsters, but the PROBES
sor says by the time the telegram
came he was so wrought up over the
worldwide publicity the canard had
received that he didn't even answer
it. Professor Arrhenius never has
tried the effect of electricity on school
children A good many years ago,
however, at the children's hospital in
Stockholm, he did experiment with
high electrical currents on new born
babes, but, he declared, got no no
ticeabIe results.
The Swedish-American society o.
Stockholm, during the Olympiar
games in Stockholm, will have theil
headquarters at the Hotel Kronprin
sen, where a temporary club has beer
arranged, giving the American visitors
a place to go to meet English anC
American people, read American news
papers and get American cooking
There will also be persons on hant
who will furnish all desired infOrma
ton regarding Sweden, Stockholm ant
the Swedes. In addition there will b.
American quarters at the Stadion res
taurant, where visitors from the grea
republic can be properly entertained
and extended any favors they may b.
seeking. Every effort will be mad
by the Swedish Olympiad committe
to make things pleasant for all fol
eign visitors and the Americans ca
feel certain that they will not
overlooked.
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DR.. Sven Hedin's Warning of Ru!
sian Aggression" has been publishe
in an edition exceeding, it is reported
over 100000 copies. The book
selling at rapid rate, is we'll illus
trated and we'll written and the prc
ceeds are donated to Swedish FORTH
cations. DR.. Hedin has hitherto bee
severely criticised by certain peopl
who declare there exists no intentio
on the part of the Russian governmer
to make any aggressive movement o
Sweden, but now that they hav
learned that DR.. Hedin will donate tn
proceeds Of the sale of his book t
Swedish Notifications they are takin
kindlier to his work, and it is possibl
that the entire edition will be sol
out in the not distant future.
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