The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-09-29
important Events In Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
BRIEFS FROM OLD COUNTRY
Interesting Items From the Three
Great Kingdoms Of the North. &C.
leeted for ScandInavIans and
Their Descendants.
BY MARTIN w. oDLAND.
Sweden.


of substitutes for kerosene are loudly
proclaimed almost daily. but prove to
be failures when put to public test.
The government announces that there
IN not enough kerosene available to
make rationIng ID worth while. The
authorities have taken over the candle
manufactures and will ration candles
nj cheaper rates before winter sets In.
Carbide seems to be the solution OF
the lighting problem. Numerous plants
are working night and day to perfect
and produce carbide lamps for home
lighting. but AZ yet such lamps IRE not
on The market. Motor boats have dis
appeared aud the number OF taxls has
been reduced. II Is u familiar feature
Of street life now to see porters stag
gerfng along carrying big trunks on
their backs. Today the government nm
nounces that there will be n national
shoe inventory In September with
view TO deciding whether footwear
should be ratloned
have frequently called attention to
the agreement entered into by the Scan
dinavian statesmen at the outbreak OF
the war to counsel together from time
TO time on problems incident to the
war. In accordance with this under
standing representatives Of Sweden,
Norway and Denmark have met ut in
trrvals and have discussed the sub
marine question and other dangers con-
Fronting small neutral nations. But
.falmstjerna Of Sweden is out with a
public statement I'm the Social Demo
rrat of Stockholm In which he pleads
for n much closer union and co-opera-
zion among the three Scandinavian
countries, both politically and indus
trially. With reference to the deter
nlnntion of the United States to hold
back food supplies, he urges that the
three governments ought to take Joint
action Mt Washington. instead OF hav-
Ing separate commissions chasing from
one department TO the other.
Hjalmar Lundbohm has been mp
pointed to undertake'a special mission
10 the United States. This step is re-
rnrded as significant. indicating
change In Sweden's commercial policy.
says Stockholm dispatch. Before the
war Swedish iron ore was to consd-
cradle extent exported to the United
States. and Lundbohm's mission will,
it Is understood. undertake to reopen
this traffic. which will cause n de-
crease in the quantity Of iron ore sent
20 Germany. Not only the general stu
alton. the result OF the commercial
policy Of the entente nations toward
Sweden, causts her to seek relief. but
Germany is no longer able to export
sufficient coal for Sweden's demands
and forces Sweden to try to compen-
safe her iron ore against American
coal. This step, IL Is believed, will add
10 her independence of commercial re-
Nations with Germany.
The following story illustrates the
difficulties under which the dining car
service Of Swedish railroads are labor
ing: Recently n man hurried on board
n north-bound passenger trim at Van
mas in Vesterbotten and. being hungry,
ordered n meal in the dining car. When
he had eaten one of the slices Of bread
placed before him the waiter came and
demanded his bread card. The passen-
ger produced one. but the waiter de-
clned TO accept II for the reason that
II had been issued I'm VesterbOtten
while the bread was bought In Aanger-
mainland Hence the bread could be
dispensed only to persons producing
al MI hrauH h
standing the fact That the train was
then in Vestcrbotten.
The lack Of houses and tenements
in Gotcborg continues to be n problem
which the city council cannot solve. At
the present 1877 families are houseless
and It Is feared that the situation Will
De still worse later in the fall. To re-
lleve the house famine In Stockholm
the city council proposes an cxpendi-
turc by the community of S,O00,OOO
crowns toward the building of tene-
,Inents for the houseless, with the I'M
1erstanding that the national govern
ment will furnish 100000 crowns.
Municipal shoe repair shops have
been established In Stockholm, Sweden.
4 shoemaker Is In charge OF each place
and gives people instruction In repair
ing their own footwear. The use of
the shop is free. but a charge Is made
9or leather used.
The bread ration In Sweden has been
reduced still further by the government
on account Of the shortage I'm the grain
crop caused by the drought. The au-
thorities advise the people to eat more
potatoes and other vegetables II is
claimed that Swedea's bread ration is
less than that OF Germany.
Comprehensive experiments are be-
Ing made at the Stockholm gas works
for the purpose OF finding some paying
method OF producing gas from wood.
The results are not known at this writ |
gtns.