Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 May 1939, p. 30

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I ein rt, Screta rial. Writing. Swimi. Riding. Attractive sociaIl lUe. Part of May',at Ocean City. Actve North Shore Alumn<Le Assn. Catalog: B' .. MXagil, LL.D., Box EB, Cbambersburg, Fa. FI1 I in its application of the principle of mutual understanding and coop- eration that the boundary limes 'be- tween the counitries seemn practically eliminated and the rest of the' world bias corne to look upon it as consti- tuting one nation and as being one homogeneous -people. It is with a definite sense, of. surprise. therefore, that one realizes, when flrst visiting Sweden,- that: it is a complêtely sep- arate, country, an integral -part of Scandinavia as -a whole, but posess- ing its own government, traditions, and national characteristies. Difters from Norway Scenically, Sweden, is mfarkedly, iferent from .Norway, resemnbling it- only in its northern part, the Lap-. Thind g'goinrv. uih i4fne nr sttng rain in poetry ana iegend partie- ularly distinguished ýas the home of Selmar Lagerlof, anci as the birth-. Place of John Ericsson, the înventor oifthe historie Monitor.: On an island in the Baltic, is the mediaeval city of Visby, romantic and lovely, with its rose, covered ruins of magnifi- cent churches and its ancient broken walls. Very OId Country Sweden, we learn,,is a very old, country, having been inhabited by the same race for thousands of, years, with its traditions in con- sequence, deeply rooted and firmly, fied.. Stockholm, its capital city,1 traces its beglnning back 700 years . to the time when, as a primitive Il Duting onIe hundred successive years of p e a c e Scandinavians have .been able to experiment and bring to a successful application ad- vanced ideas in politics and econom- ics, resulting in a mode of govern- ment and a.rational.'and agreeable manner of living that places them in the vanguard of civilization, to- day. So successful have they been in -adapting themselves to the difi- cult conditions of the 2th century and so advanced are they in their, social 'ideas that illiteracy and ex- treme po-Verty have been completely wiped out, budgets are:balanced, un- employment. no longer exists,, and there is a complete freedom from the elsewhere common a nd devas- tating poli ticaL upheavals.- A radi- ant sense of physical well being f signa In&

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