Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-03-12
Of INTEREST TO
SCANDINAvIANS.
Recent Happenings IN This rs
! Country and Abroad.

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! Country and Abroad.
TO MAKE TOUR OF EUROPE
Finnish. Of Duluth and the
Iron Range Plan Extensive Trip.
Picturesque Description Of the Win
ter Sports in MISREPRESENTATION
for Defense OF Denmark Continue
Unabated.
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A concert tour Of Europe, which will
take In the Scandinavian countries
and Finland, has been decided upon
by the Finnish-Americans of Duluth
and the iron ranges. A chorus OF
thirty-six voices has been organized
under the direction Of Professor San
flrd Mustonen, which will leave Duluth
on June / and sail from New York
June S. The chorus will have as one
of its objects the advertising Of Du-
luth and the surrounding country in
the fatherland. Patriotic American
songs, says Mr.. Mustonen, will be one
of the features of the concerts to be
given abroad. Before leaving 1t is
planned to give concerts on the range,
In Duluth and the Twin Cities. The
dates for these have not been set. Be-
fore sailing for Europe the chorus will
give a concert in Chicago on June 2
and In New York on June 4. Two
concerts will be given In Norway, one
in Denmark, five in Sweden, and it Is
planned to spend month In Finland,
where about twenty concerts will be
given. Professor Mustonen states also
that he has received letters from over
300 of the older Finnish residents OF
Minnesota and the ranges announcing
that they would accompany the chorus
on the trip. The tour is said to have
been under consideration by the Fin
nish people for the past twelve years.
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College students In Europe have no
opportunity of taking things easy" az
do the undergraduates of the Ameri-
can institutions, according to Viktor
AlStermark of Stockholm, Sweden, an
underclass man of the University Of
Upsala. who Is taking year of to
study conditions in the United States
before returning to finish his course.
He has registered at the University Of
Minnesota and, will study labor prob
lens and trust finance under the Min
nesota professors. More backbone Ia
necessary with the Swedish student"
declares Mr.. Alstermark. AT Upsala
We never go to class. The professor
assigns subject at the beginning Of
the term and the student retires to the
library or his room and famiNarizes
himself with the assignment. At the
end Of stated period he reports to
the Instructor and Is given an exami-
nation In the subject. With no class
recitations TO fall back upon the
Swedish student seeks the company
Of his follow students and exchanges
ideas, 80 that he may better be pre-
pared when the examination time ar
rivss. I started work at the Univer
sity Of Minnesota, expecting to find the
students there ultra-democratic, but
on the contrary my Impressions sc
far make me think that we are more
liberal and democratic at home"
The greatest automobile contest
that has ever taken place in SwedeI
started from the stadion in Stockholm
Feb. 20. The distance covered was
from Stockholm to Gothenburg ant
back-that is 1873 miles in all. "a
Swedish mile represents seven English
m1les). Owing to the strict speet
laws those participating in the confess
were allowed to run the maximum
speed Of twenty miles an hour only
Prince Wilhelm, who owns a flns
American OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ma
chine, was among the first to start
Automobiles are very numerous IL
Stockholm and 1t IL claimed that tn,
city has the largest number Of autos
per capita Of any city in the world
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Gustav Dalen, winner Of the Nobe
prize for physics last year and VIII.
prior to receiving this singular dis
tinction was seriously injured In al
explosion while conducting chemica
experiments, Is now SO much bette
that he has been able to resume hi
duties. He has, however, become to
tally blind, but in spite Of this vii
continue his experiments. When re
assuming his work the other day b.
donated a weeks salary to each OF hi
800 employees at his laboratories AM
factory In Stockholm.
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A movement has been authorized b,
the government in Sweden to invest
gate the valuable waterfalls in tn.
country. The purpose is to devils
ways and means of getting and keer
ing under government control, 30 4
n nPnaArvA $haro IN thn an Ano,,%~, 40,