Scandinavian American. [volume], October 01, 1948, Page 9, Image 9

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THE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN
Clothing. Industry Exhibition
Reveals Rising Standards
STOOKHOLM.~Th0 fast prog
ress made by Sweden's clothing
and textile industries during the
past decades is shown at present
by an unique exhibition in Sto‘ck
holm, featured by the Junex Com
pany, one of Sweden's leading
leading manufacturers of ready
mado clothing, and the leading
Stockholm department store, the
Nordiska Kompaniet (NK !.
Next to the forestry and metal
industries. the textile and cloth
ing industry in Sweden's third lar
gest, the clothing industry alone
employing 35.000 and producing
annually wearing apparel worth
$167,000,000.
Comprehensive efforts have been
made by clothing and textile man
ufacturers to establish definite
standards for quality and tailor
ing in a manner reminiscent of the
engineering and machine tool in
dustries, at the same time as the
technical equipment of the fac
tories have been brought to a very
high state of perfection. Numer
ous simplifications in details of
tailoring have benefitted quality.
For instance, since 1933 the num
ber of buttons in a conventional
suit of clothes has been reduced
from 58 to 12, but there is still 21
pockets in a suit with vest.
Interesting sidelights are thrown
on the habits. tastes and prefer
ences of the Swedish male in the
choice of sartorial elegance at thisi
Stockholm exhibition. “A pleas-‘
ant skin climate, temperate. and}
well ventilated with the aid of}
clothes," is the professed aim;
of Sweden’s clothing industry, sci-i
entificslly spesldhg. But a “pleas-i
ant skin climate" is rarely the
decisive factor when buying a new |
suit. More than 50% of purchasers
regard cut and tailoring as the
most important, with quality of
material ranking third. As might
be expected. the ladies also have a
whole lot to say when their hus
band or male acquaintances visit
the tailor. In placing their.orders
for new suits, 64 out of every 100
men rely on the advice of femi
nine counsellors.
Pictorial and diagrammatic ma
terial illustrates the changes in
style Ind fashion since the 1890’s,
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’ OLD UNION STOCKLUIDS. SPOKANE
revealing the rapid rise in Swedish
dress standards duiing past dec
ades as well as the constantly in
creasing average stature of the
Swedish people. A Swedish skilled
laborer today works eight days to
pay for a new suit. while his Dan
ish. Norwegian or Finnish col
league must work 11. 13 and 18
days respectively. The American
laborer is best off. with only six
days, while the Spanish and Soviet
laborer has to put in 32 and 38
days respectively to accomplish the
same feat.
i In a speech on the opening day.
:the Swedish Minister of Comnu‘rce
{stressed the important contribu-
Ition made by Sweden‘s clothing
Iindustry towards the nation‘s
Idomocratizatic-n by giving all
{groups of society an opportunity
[to dress well. That the high stand
[ards of Swedish dress attract the
[attention of foreign visitors was
[recently illustrated by an English
}man who, watching a May Day
:wm‘kers demonstration, exclaimed
[in amazomvnt:
i “What are these men demon
}strating for? They all look like
cabinet ministers." ,.
Finland Seeks
To Discontinue
Secret Police
I Finland‘s Socialist Government
ihas decided to abolish the "Stapo,"
or secret police. which has been
Icriticized by all parties except the
extreme left as a potential strik
ing force of the Communists in
any coup d'etat.
It is to be incorporated into the
ordinary police force which never
has been accused of partiality.
Carl August Fagerholm, Prime
Minister, has appointed a commit
tee of civil servants to find a
means of effecting the incorpora
tion.
Civil servants have been chosen
for the committee to insure that
its work will be free from political
prejudice.
Their appointment follows the
publication of a 62—page typewrit
ten report by a committee of legal
experts. The experts had been
examining the activities of the
“Stapo” for the past 11;. years
on the instigation of Parliament.
which had failed to vote the full
sums asked for the maintenance
of the "Stapo" by the former
coalition cabinet.
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Danish Baroness Returns Home
The Danish Baroness Adana Len-he returned to hvr home in
Klampenborg. Denmark, aboard the Swedish Anwrimn line-r "Stuck
hoim” the other day. after visiting her son in California.
“Politically Inclined"
L The legal experts found that the
;“Stapo" kept a card index of more
lthan 80,000 persons. or one in 50
of the country's total population.
I Among those watched persons
whose political sympathies the ox
lperts could ascertain. only 6 per
lcent belonged to the People's
lDemocrat Party, a merger of
5Communists and left-wing Social
ists. but 55 per cent belonged to
the Conservative Party and the
remainder to other parties critical
iof communism.
For this reason. the experts
found the “Stapo” to be “politi
cally inclined."
They also found it had been
illegally listening in to telephone
calls made by non-Peoples Demo
crat members of the cabinet. In
Helsinki. the “Stapo” had ap
paratus enabling it to tap 10 calls
of private citizens at the same
time.
Personnel “Unqualified"
l Personnel in the ”Stapo" was
found to be unsatisfactory. too.
“Only 83 per cent of the staff had
the qualifications necessary for
accepting an appointment in the
,service of the state." the experts
lreported.
Just over 12 per cent of the
l“Stapomen" were found to have
criminal records. "Among others."
the experts said. “we can name a
detective with the following crim
inal record: Treason. incitement
to treason. assault against the
(ordinary) police force, unlawful
possession of firearms. theft. ar
son. and attempted murder."
For the past 15 years. Mr. Fa
‘gerholm's party has opposed in
principle a secret p0lice force, and
Mr. Fagerholm himself has pub-.
licly stated his intention of plac-i
ing the detection of crime in the}
hands of the ordinary police which ‘
has a ion):r record for observing;
constitutional procedure, ‘
unify Alleged
The People's Democrats. how-§
ever. are accusing him of luxity’
in preventing the. revival of “thosej
organizations of a fascist chi-nu;
acter" which Finland is bound'to;
suppress under its peace treaty‘
with the allied powers. I
A. the Nopie's Democrats find;
that under the present nil-Social-g
ist cabinet, not only have they‘
lost the Ministry of the Interior.€
but the “Stap0" also is to disw
appear. political troubles are ex
pected here.
I Denmark had in 1946. 208.000?
.fprms. Most of them are small. '
“I'M average 15 about 37 acres. but L
’the typicu Danish {Arm has about'
62 acres. 1
Sweden Celebrates
Sweden-America
Days In A Big Way
STOCKHOLM. — (By wireless)
—-Sunday, September 26. was set
aside as “Sweden-America Day"
‘and all over the country there
were receptions, subscribed din
ners, excursions, visits to the
national shrines. and inspections
of modern industrial establish
ments. Gothenburg beat the gun
by combining a series of festivi
ties with the arrival on September
20 of the M. S. “Gripsholm” of
the Swedish American Line from
New York. The ship got a gala
reception and was visited by mu~
nicipal and government authori
ties. consular persons. and repre
sentatives of the Sweden-America
Foundation. the Swedish Institute,
the Vasa Order. and other groups
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devoted to closer cultural I‘E‘ll‘
Itiovns between the two countries.
[The following day a meeting was
Lhold on the thaplatsen square
;where speeches were made by pro
,vincial governor Malte Jacobssrm.
United States Consul General 1.3—
‘Mar D, Mulliner, and l’rofenwr
Reuben G. Gustnwon. ehaneeiL-r
of the University of Nebraska
9 The Stockholm eelebrution on
ithe 26th centered at thb SkanL-n
ioutdoor museum. zoological gar
den. and folk park. The weleoxi
iing address was given by Ml"€>-
;ter Nils Stahlo. who used to serve,
gon the Swedish Consulate General
in New York, while Gerhard ’l‘.
Rooth. oflthe New York Sun-dish
flnnguago weekly. Nordstjerixmt.
§extcnded grecting's from the
SWOdish-Aniorieans Musie was
furnished by the Delaware Ci‘.‘ :r
and the combined hands of fine
,Royul Navy and First Infantry
Lifo Guard. Later in the .2 j\'
Premier 'l‘uge Eriander spoke on
the radio about the SWollSh
ment in the I'nited States. Thv‘
Swedish author. \Vilhelm Moherg‘.
who is now in Allit'l’lt‘n. was herrd
in a radio address from Iron M« in:-
thin. Michigan. Among other i324-
itm‘s from the l'nited States ‘.\"i‘-‘
'Dr. Ernst F. W. Alexanderson for
imany years nssoeiaied with Gr.-
eral Electric Company, in Schen
ectary. and Arvid Limdquist, pics
ident of the American Society of
Swedish Engine-hrs in New York.
l Dix Clarenco le‘nnrd, profuvnr
of surgery at the Carolinian in
stitute in Stm‘klmlm. famous Ar-r
his cardiac oporatiuns. will ile
liver the Third Martin Mvmmial
Lecture at the first evening of the
Thirty-fourth Clinical Congress of
the Amorivan Collego of Surgwns
on October 18 at the Biltmnre
Hotel in Los Angolns. The Con
gress will last until October 22.
IDr. Crafoord's subject will be
"‘Some Aspects of the Develop
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