Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1914-11-27


Scandinavia, Finland, Russia, Ger
many, Southern Europe and Asia. A
large transit trade is being built up
by Norway along the same route and
the government, in order to facilitate
the extension of shipping, has assum-
ed 80 per cent of the insurance on the
sea-
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Until the government built it's large
plant at Trollhattan all the hydro
electric plants in Sweden we're owned
as private enterprises. The govern
ment has two other large plants I'M
der construction at Daleff and Porjus.
in LapIand, which as soon as COM
pleted will furnish power for the state
railways in Northern Sweden. The
waterfalls of Sweden are estimated to
contain 100000 horsepower About
Is per cent is utilized at present.
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Arvid Paulson has adapted into
English Gustaf Geijerstams dramatiza-
ton of Hans Christian Andersen's
"Store Claus och Lille Claus" This
adaptation will be read on the Pa
cifc coast by Lillian Quinn Stark
known for her interpretations of
Strindberg's plays.
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The year book of the Swedish His
toricaI society for 1911-13 has been
published and contains numerous ar
ticles in Swedish and English, as we'll
as list of valuable accessions to the
library of the society,
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A once we'll known opera singer,
Maria Strandberg -Sorhling, died the
other day in Stockholm, She made her
debut in the Royal Opera in Stock
holm in 1857 as Jeanatte in "Joconde. 4"
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Henry Holt will publish as an illus
trated Christmas booklet The Legend
of the Sacred Image" translated by
Velma swanston Howard from the
Swedish of Selma Lagerlof.
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:. NORWAY. ),
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"The proper place for a statue to
Liberty, with all the world to choose
from, would be on one of these bleak
promontories on the west coast OF
Norway, jutting out into the sea TO-
nd -
Price Collier in the first installment
of his Norway and the NorWegians
from the American Point of VieW," in
| Scribner's Magazine for October. The
late Price Collier was visiting the
/ Northern countries and preparing 9
work to parallel his Germany and the
Germans" The West and the East,
! and England and the English Wher
his career was cut short by his sud
den death in Denmark last year. He
had then completed only the two
! chapters that appear in the October
and November issues of Scribner's
Magazine. Mr.. Collier was most ia
vorably impressed with the democratic
+. institutions Of Norway and the gen
eraI health Of the people. "Probabl!
there are no communities anywhere
else in the world SO self-efficient, 81
Independent and so comfortable
Indeed, their size and wholesome
aspect prove this, for they are thu
fairest, tallest, broadest-chested, AM
longest-Iived people in the world to
day The average lifetime in Norwa,
was 1894 years for. both sexes to
gether; or, separately for men 48.7
and for women 5121 in 1880; bu
for the decade from 1891-1900 Their
was a further improvement, for me-
1921, for women 54.14 With the ez
ception Of Sweden there is nothin
comparable to this elsewhere in tn
world Even more startling are tn
exact figures of longevity. In 100
the total deaths were 31,7O8; of thes
3,125 were under one year, and 1888
were over seventy years of age, Will
5,673 lived to be over eighty" MI
Collier found that this vigorous cond
ton was not the result of over-bathin
and an artificial program of health
but was due to the fundamental sci
reliance engendered by owning prof.
erty.
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In a general way it may be sal
that the trade and industry of No
way is thriving in spite of the Ell
ropean war, or, in some cases, poss
bly, because of the war. But there ar
executions. The manufacture of SAT