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THE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN Oslo University Opens Its Doors OSLOMOn Wednesday, Septem ber 1st. the University of Oslo, Norway’s largest single academic institution, opened its doors to 2,000 entering freshmen. The com ing Weeks promise to be difficult for the new arrivals, from all cor ners of the land. who must find housing, secure books and work out schedules in line with over taxed teaching facilities. Ad d re ss i n g the traditional assembly of young men and women in University Square. University President Otto Louis Mohr extolled the enlightened individual in mod ern society. “We have seen," noted the speaker. “how on a grandiose scale the appeal to this impressions] horde mentality has served the cause of lies and mass-suggestion." He reiterated the piece of the uni versity and how its respect for truth, reason and objectivity pro vided a defense against “all of these falsifying tendencies." ékfi YOU "SPKRE A ROOM ‘2 Oslo pedestrians turned around News in Brief Scientists from many countries attended the observance in Stock holm on September 20 of the hun dredth anniversary of the death of Jons Jacob Berzelius, famous Swe dish chemist. The memorial.which took place in the City Hall, was arranged by the SWedfish Academy of Science. Among those present‘ " were two former Nobel Prize win-i ners. the Finnish chemist. A. 1.1 Virtanen. and the Indian physicist} Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Ra-i . man. from Bangalore. From the; United States came Professor J.i Holmboe. meterologlst of Berkeley? University. 1‘ Twenty-three American teen-age} boys and girls have left for Den-i mark. Finland. Norway. and SWe-§ den whemfpr six weeks they will live in the‘ homes of private {am-i ilies to get an inside view of ac-‘ tual conditions in Scandinavia. The trip was sponsored by the Metro-1 politan School Study at Columbia. University and the transportation‘ was arranged by the Scandinavian} Airlines System. Some of the group were hosts last year to twenty-one young Scandinavian students who took part in an in ternational youth congress here. Electric power will again be ra tioned this winter, according to Folke Petri. of the Water Power Board. Electric radiators and wa ter heaters may not be used. and the illumination of store windows will be cut. It has not yet beet. decided whether a general ration ing will be necessary. Ulf Palme. noted young member of the repertory company of the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Sweden‘s national stage. is soon expected in the United States. where he will make a study of the American theatre. After watching the open ing of the Broadway season, he will proceed west. spending in all some two months in this country. A novel type of program will soon be inaugurated at the Royal Dra matic by Professor Ragnar Joseph son. newly appointed director. It ”I" arm Reforms Urged for Poland A PolLuh woman worker shovels npples dumped In an outdoor bin. A mission of the UN. Food and Agriculture Organisatlon (FAO) reports thst Poland's lood supply ls In a state of emergency and has ‘, recommended sweeping rotor-ms to nine food productlon. Among i the menum suggested are Improvements in the home and commer- ' ehl proceed»; of traits sud vegetable. sud s system of ntlonlng. ‘ and looked twice last week when University freshman Johan Land mark decided to take his personal housing problem to the people. Though some 800 of his fellow stu dents are in similar straits. Johan was the first one to paint up a sandwich board reading “What Can You Do to Find Me A Room?" and take out through the streets of the capital. At last report, this American-style direct action tech nique had paid off, and there was one less homeless student in Oslo. ! Others of the university's 2.000 lnew students were not faring so lwel]. however. Two of them pitch wed a tent on the campus and de 1cided to take up the hunt from fthere. Still others were quartered lin sleeping bags on the floors of [city gymnasiums. Student and uni iversity officials predict that many ‘weeks must yet pass before hous iing can be found for nut-of-town {students arriving in the crowded‘ ‘capital. ‘ consists of a series of low-priced afternoon performances at which only one-act plays will be given. They will be put on twice a. week between 4:30 and 6 p. m. The famous “Silver Bible." (“Co dex Argenteus"l. in Upsala Uni versity Library, has now been three hundred years in Swedish possession. It was toward the end of 1648, at the termination of the Thirty Years War. that it was brought from Prague to Upsala. It contains fragments of a transla tion of the Four Gospels from the Greek into Gothic by the Gothic scholar and Bishop Wult'ila. or Ul t'ilas. who lived between 311 and 383. It received its name for hav ing been written with silver ink on purple-tinted parchment. Swedish ships in foreign waters will be able to keep in better touch with their country with the open ing of a new shortwave radio tele phone and telegraph transmitter at Onsala-Vallda, on Sweden’s west coast. Experts running the new plant state that a considerable im provement in audibility will result. especially in the regions lying in the “shade" of the magnetic North Pole. such as the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. The new unit has a special shortwave antenna for transmissions to the Pacific. it is wholly automatic and oper ated through a remote control sys tem from the receiver plant. I Well in advance of the influenza .season. which in Sweden usually *begins in January, preparations *are being made for Sweden‘s par- E;ticlpatlon in a large scale inter ‘national anti-flu campaign. Svens .‘ka Dagbladet reports that regional ‘ laboratories all over the world will icooperate in handling the bacteri ‘ologieal end of the fight against 3the disease. Dr. Gunnar Lot‘strom, ‘of the Royal Board of Medicine. 'will act as special observer in Swe- Lden. He says that the. aim of this lglobal campaign is to coordinate 3the world‘s influenza research fa !cilitles. The regional laboratories twill isolate the virus as soon as ifeaaible and send them to a cen \tral laboratory in London. Reports from observers all over the world What Other Folks Say i Prof. Albert Einstein: I don't ‘know what kind of weapons will ‘be used in the third world war, iaSsuming that there will be one, but I can tell you what the fourth ‘world war will be fought with: ‘ Stone clubs. ‘ i t I 1 Judge William 0. Douglas, Sp ‘at‘tle: Disagreement among judges ; is as true to the character of de :mocracy as freedom of speech it :self. The dissenting opinion is as igenuinely American . . . as Thom . as Jefferson’s briefs for civil liber ; ties. ] t w 1- Joseph and Stewart Alsop: If national policy is ever dominated by the sort of Republicans who raided the farm cooperatives. pared down public power, and otherwise tried to revive the Harding era in the Eightieth Con gress. these Republicans in Iowa and the others like them else where in the country will react with- real violence. I! III # ‘ Gerald W. Johnson, Editor Bai-1 timore Sun: No people can pur sue a bad cause with more fright ful enthudasm than Americans: consider the immense intellectual and spiritual energy now being ex will enable scientists at the Lon don center to study how the di sease is spreading. A special vac cine will also be produced in Lon don to check the growth of the in fluenza. Courses in air raid protection will be held shortly all over the country under the auspices of the Swedish Civilian Defense Associa-i tion and its sub-organizations. The training will concentrate on home‘ protection, with special emphasis on fire fighting and first aid. It is estimated that by next year fifteen to twenty thousand persons will have attended these courses. The YMCA in Sweden will act as sponsor for those brother or-i ganizations in Germany that are‘ most in need of help. Gunnar; Jansson. YMCA secretary, recent ly ieturned from a three weeks' trip through the most distressed areas. and it is his report that has led to the decision. There are twelve associations primarily con cerned. and the intention is not only to give material aid but also to establish personal contacts. Thus German boys will have a chance to spend a part of next summer in Swedish YMCA camps. Queen Ingrid of Denmark. only daughter of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and his first late wife. Margaret. who was a daugh ter of the British Duke and Duch ess of Connaught. attracted much attention on the occasion of the recent visit to Copenhagen of King Haakon VII of Norway. because she was wearing a skirt of the old length; Danish newspapers were flooded with letters from persons who expressed their ap— ‘proval of the Queen's stand against the "new look" and the impractical dictates of fashion in times of economic need. The Swedish Theatre in Helsing fors will send a company to Stock holm this month to give two per formances of “Hamlet" at the Royal Opera House in connection with 3 “Finland Week" which will be observed at 150 places all over Sweden. The “week“ is being sponsored by the Adopted Cities Movement and the Relief Com mittee for Finnish children. The sale or German assets in Sweden. confiscated by the Swed ish Government. has so far yielded 215 million kronor. The total sum is expected to reach 370 miilion kronor. In addition to the big in dustrial concerns. which main tained offices in Sweden, German assets have been unearthed in many different guises md places. Secret safety deposit boxes. rented by Germans. have brought to light small fortunes in jewvls, bank notes. and stock centric-tea. In one was found Q0.000 Rum-n rubles dating from the anrilt re gime. which had been deposited by a German. These four basic trainees of an Infantry division are enioying "camping out" and cooking their own meals during field maneuvers which help to quality thorn as well-trained soldiers. Four topnotch Infantry divisions in tho United States now have welcome spots for veterans who chaos. to reenlist and tor young men just starting their U. 5. Army careers. pended to prevent the establish-1 ment of the Missouri Valley Au-i thority. . * at t ‘ American Veterans’ Committeefi Seattle: “The Canwell Committee, by set ting itself up as the arbitrary judge of what shall be orthodox and‘ “American;" by making it punish-, able in fact to hold unpopular so cial, political, economic, moral and religious views, has employed the very methods of totalitarianismi that it alleges to combat. ‘ The C a nw e 11 Committee has en dan g e r e d academic free dom by unjustly and recklessly injuring the reputations of inspir ing and constructive educators; by stifling free intellectual inquiry in our schools; and by jeopardizing the status of the University of Washington as an academic insti tution. The American Veterans Commit tee. whose motto is Citizens First, Veterans Second, has circularized a. stirring appeal for freedom of thought and expression and espe cially for academic freedom, and recommends the dissolution of the Canwell Committee on Un-Amer ican' Activities. Rev. C. P. Bradley. Saskatoon: Think this over: A farmer killed his neighbor. He was convicted. The judge in summing up said: “Here we have a murder, as a re sult of which, we have a widow. a family without a father. and a farm that needs a man to work Greetings from South Bend, W n. H 8: H CAFE Home Made Pies and Ice (‘ream ( lood Food 6 A. M. - 10 P. M. Water 8; Penn. South Bend ‘ l’hone 5-3-“2 JOHN B. SEMPILL PACIFIC COI'NTY'S LARGEST DRl'H STORE Lumber E\. Bldg. DR. A. G. DALINKUS PHYSICIAN AND SI'RHEON Phones: Office. 3562] - Residence. 35070 Wcrley Bldg. Trainees Take to Field it. If we hang this man, we have two widows, two families without a father. and two farms without men to work them. I sentence this man to plough his neighbor’s farm before his own, sow his neighbor's field, and reap his neighbor‘s harvests before his own. for the next seven years." Mrs. Finn Moe Has Sailed For Norway ~ Mrs. Finn Moe, wife of the Min ‘ ister Plenipotentiary and Envoy ‘Exti'aordinary and Norway‘s per ‘manent delegate to the United Na ‘ tinos, sailed for Norway via Goth , enburg. Sweden. mcently in the .:S w o d i s h American motorliner : “Stmkholm.” Washing Machines Washing Machine Repairs Wringer Rolls. l'nrts. Etc. PH. SUlTTH BEN!) 33533: H & H For. HARRY W. FISHER SOl'TH BEND l’h. 5-3737 5 South Bend