Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-03-17
News Gathered IN the Father.
land and Elsewhere.
WIDELY READ IN UNITED STATES
Books Of Miss Ellen Key, Swedish
Woman Writer, Eagerly Awaited
On This Side Of Water.
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The Younger Generation" is the
name Of the new book, the latest from
the pen of Miss Ellen Key, the promi-
nent Swedish woman writer, which
lately has been in much popular de-
mand by Swedish readers. The book
also has been published in English
and the translation was done by Ar
thur G. Chatter. The American Scan.
dinavian Review says regarding Miss
Keys work: Another volume Of FL
len Keys work, the seventh in that
uniform set which G.. P. Putnam's
Sons is issuing, bears witness to the
eagerness with which her books are
awaited on this side of tho water. It
is dedicated to Hjalmar Branting and
Carl Lindhagen, two prominent So
cialists of Sweden, and it states for
the first time Miss Keys attitude to-
ward the Socialist party. She has al
ways been distrustfur of the modern
tendency to organize every thought
and impulse, and, in fact, believes
with 1bsen that the greatest value OF
women to modern public life is the
fact that their individuality has not
been stitled In any party machine. Nor
does she advise any one to join the
Social Democratic party, although she
has arrived at the conviction that at
present 1t contains the most earnest,
even though fumbllng, efforts to as
sert an ideal in the face Of dominant
capitalism and militarism. She be-
lieves that the watchword Of tho So
cial movement must be solidarity, and
that this solidarity must begin with
the class which is now deprived OF
It's right to culture and happiness.
The class war, though an evil in itself,
she believes to be a phase through
which modern society must pass be-
fore new structure can be raised on
broad foundation of justice. The
leveling tendency of Socialism does
not appeal to her when it would ham,
per the growth of the individual, but
at present believes the greatest need
of humanity to be tho fertilizing OF
the vast desert of the proletariat; the
stronger and more fortunate individ-
uals, whom she compares with the
trees, are in no danger of being stifed
by that lower growth which must
transform the desert into a meadow"
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That former Scandinavian sailors
will be glad to defend their country
can be cleaned from the following
item which appeared in q recent is
sue Of the Minneapolis Journal: That
the proposed American Legion, to be
composed of former members of the
army, navy and marines, with an esti-
mated strength of 100000, might at
tract to it. thousands of Scandina-
! VANS In this state who had seen sea
| service abroad was the statement of
| o. P. b. Jacobson, a member of the
railroad and warehouse commission.
Mr.. Jacobson put in twenty years be-
fore the mast and expressed his readi-
ness to join the legion. The plan of
organizing the legion, which is to
serve as a defensive body, was recent
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by Captain Gordon Johnston, aide-de-
camp to Major General Leonard
Wood, on behalf of group Of officers
and civilians who are developing de.
tails. There are in Minnesota thou
sands of Scandinavians who formerly
followed the sea-" said Mr.. Jacobson.
MANY Of them undoubtedly would be
willing to pledge themselves as Sec
ond line of reserves. They might not
have the time to enlist in a first line
naval reserve, but they would be
available in tho event of war;"
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| Until tho government built It's large
plant at Trollhatten all the hydro
electric plants In Sweden were owned
IS private enterprises. The govern.
ment has two other large plants I'M
der construction at Daleff and Porjus
in Lapland, which as soon as complet.
ed will furnish the power for the state
railways In Northern Sweden. The
water falls of Sweden have been cal.
culated to contain 100000 horsepow'
FER. About 16 per cent is utilized at
present.
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| The Augustana Book Concern OF
Rock Island, ILL.,, has undertaken q
praiseworthy task in publishing Sc
ries Of the works of Swedish-Ameri
can authors. The first volume IL q
collection OF stories and verse by the
popular writer, Oliver A. Linder, edl
tor of the Svenska Amerikanaren OF
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