Scandinavian American. [volume], September 01, 1948, Page 3, Image 3

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THE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN
News in Brief
The harvest prospects in Skane,
or Scania. Sweden's southernmost
province. known as her granary,
look promising. A spokesman of
the Scanian Farmers Central As
sociation states: "If we continue
to havo favorable weather, there
is every prospect of a normal har
vest of wheat in the greater part
of the province, and other grains
also look hopeful. ’Ihe sowing is
finished under good conditions. A
decidedly better bread-grain harv—
est may be expected this autumn
than was gathered last year, when
we were a great deal below the
average. The sugar beet area is
somewhat smaller than last year's,
owing mainly to the difficulty of
procuring labor."
The Swedish submarine, “Dra
ken.” has completed a journey
from Karlskrona. main naval base
in southeasternmost Sweden, to
Stockholm, a distance of 1,134
miles. traveling the entire time
submerged. The trip took four
teen days. This is the first test
in the Swedish Navy with a so-
Called “Snorkel,” a machine used
by the Germans in the Second
World War and later adopted by
other navies. It consists of a
breathing apparatus which enables
a submarine to use its Diesel
engines even when submerged. It
will now become standard equip
ment on all Swedish submarines.
The majority of Swedes consider
Communism undemocratic and be
lieve that Communists are nation
ally unreliable, according to 3, Gal
lup poll published in Dagens Ny
hemr. Communism in Sweden was
regarded as undemocratic by sixty
one per cent of those questioned
and as democratic by ten per cent.
while twenty-nine per cent had no
opinion about the subject. Another
question ran: “If Sweden were to
become involved in a conflict with
Russia. do you think that the
Swedish Communists would then
side with Sweden or with Russia ?"
“With Sweden." answered seven
teen per cent; “with Russia; an
swered fifty-five per cent. while
twenty-eight per cent did not ex
press any view.
A common Scandinavian parua
ment was suggested recently by
Jorgensen proposed that the legis
lature respective countries to form
a common parliament for ques
tions of vital importance to the
Scandinavian peoples.
Elections to the council have
been held in Sweden's biggest
trade union. the Stockholm Metal
Workers Union. The Social-Demo
crats 'won. thus recovering the
majority which they lost to the
Communists in the 1944 elections.
It was a narrow victory. however.
by only some 600 votes out of a
American consul
Goes To Sweden
(‘onnul (‘arl Blrlu-Iand and Mrs.
Birkeland n-turnml In tho- Amvrl
can Embassy In Stm-kholm, Swa
dt'n. after a shurt \Nt t0 the l‘nlt
ed States. aboard the motorllner
"Stockholm" of the mwdlsh Amer
k‘an Lllw. which aalh-d tnr Gothrn
burg last Saturday. carrying 87.3
passengers. The) an- shown with
thelr daughter. who ranw to New
York to see her parents 0".
total of 18,700.
A sixty-seven year old blind
workingman in Stockholm. Rich
ard Sto-ltz, has invented a new kind
of Braille script machine which is
said to be ingeniously simple and
to surpass in efficiency the Ger—
man-made machines formerly used
but no longer available. Some
time ago Mr. Stoltz's German
apparatus broke down beyond re
pair and could not be replaced.
Undaunted. he went to work and
in six months produced his inven
tion, which has been highly com
mended by tho Swedish Inventors’
Association. Swedish and foreign
patent rights have been applied
for.
The surplus of women in Sweden
is rapidly disappearing, and nowa—
days it is only in the ages above
fifty that there‘are more women
than men. The reason for this
is that the higher mortality among
men has gradually declined. There
is still a surplus of women in the
cities, 'whlle among the agricul
tural population the women are‘
in the minority in all age groups ;
Scandinavia is well linked with“
the rest of Europe through the}
routes of the Scandinavian Airlines}
System. There are now SAS regu
lar—in most cases daily—connec
tions with cities such as London,
Glasgow, Paris, Amsterdam, Brus
sels, Rome, Geneva, Nice, Zurich,
Marseilles, Lyons. Frankfurt, War
saw, Istanbul, and, by arrange
ment with the Russian airline,
Aerofloa, with Moscow. Outside
Europe, in addition to its routes
to New York (operated daily) and
to Buenos Aires (twice weekly).
SAS has connections with Teheran
and Nariobi, in Africa. In all, it op
erates six Swedish domestic lines:
three Danish, and seven Nor
wegian: ten inter-Scandinavian
lines; sixteen European. and four
inter-Continental.
The Swedish Department of Dia
lect Archives at the University of
Upsala, now owns books and
gramophone records covering 2,000
ancient. as well as contemporary
dialects, in addition to tunes and
historical accounts of parishes
all over the country. The number
will be increased by several hun
dred discs when new recordings
have been made during the sum
mer. The Lapp material alone com
prises about 800 records.
New school buildings costing
over one billion kronor are needed
in Sweden. The dearth of suit
able school houses is being felt
more and more keenly due to the
increased nativity. and the Board
of Education has offered a comp
rehensive building program, both
for the cities and the rural dis
trict.
Sweden’s Vice Consul in Jack-
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