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."
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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.
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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
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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.”
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