Show fl 1 Q h M Ml l c I s t tip a J Jt t t tr r A nw A I p j 1 r v c cyr x r yr r i a I A Lock In the tho Gota Canal Per Prepared arp by br NatIonal eo l Washington toD D U C C T HIS Is La Sweden says the TIllS I peasant of Dale Dale- carlin as he looks out up up- upon upon on the rolling pastures and aDd birch birch- clad hills bills of the province dear to t thim him as life Our ways are chang chang- changIng changIng lag Ing of course The good old days das ue gyre no DO more But nut you may still lIDd a handful of ot us who icho ho go on living JIving as ns our fathers I lived U tilling the same soil Boll hewing Umber timber In tn the forests for tor our houses spinning pinning wool and Has flax for tor our Clothes hammering out copper and andiron on rOD iron from our mines for tor utensils end tools With quiet dl dignity he be towers In Inthe inthe the doorway of ot his home Into which his gracious Ommen bids strangers enter The wind Ind brim that gives give plays with the wide I his black hat a quaintly solemn Puritan air But nut a against the th weathered gray of ot log walls hell he'll heise I e vivid vl figure In his long u single single- lc- lc I I I breasted blue coat skin breeches wool red-wool stockings stocking tasseled at ot the knee handmade shoes adorned with gleaming steel buckles Overhead slender blades of ot grass eras ot of green apple lightness shoot up Dp from the sod of his thatched roof framing the scene stand sliver trunks of stately stately birches the th graceful p white ladles ladies ot of o the for tor- forests forests ests of central Sweden Wo We are ore a proud and independent ent people he continues Swe den as you know has hns never sub sub- submitted to alien aUen rule Only on once e for a brief century and a quarter den deD joined Denmark and Norway In experimenting with a n Joint sovereignty But we do not like the theIron theiron theIron Iron hand of ot our Danish kinsmen Blood mood Bath In the Stockholm ot of 1520 F King ing Christian II n of or Den Den- Denmark Denmark mark beheaded more than SO 80 SwedIsh Swed Swed- SwedIsh Swedish ish nobles therewith sealing scaling his own destiny It was that act of tyranny which led young youn Gustavus Vasa later king for 37 31 years to rouse the strong stron men of ot to the country's defense So one of the most Illustrious chapters of Swedish history has been written here The blue eyes v gO glow with the fer- fer fervor fer fervor vor of ot conviction There Is a chal challenging ring In ID the sure sort soft spoken soft spoken words Know 1 and you yon will know the very fery heart beut of Sweden But nut the landowner ner of goes oes a step further Within view flew of ot 1 t A surviving lyl crumbling fortress or splendor of medieval chateau lazy swans swan swim forgetfully In ID the tho encircling moat ho he halts In the shade hade of ot the wide-spreading wide beeches that line his fields of or sugar beets or grain Traces of Ancient CivilizatIon The Ice sheet slipped sUpped oft off on this southern tip of the Scandinavian peninsula ten or fifteen thousand years ego alto he begins Our ad scientists scientists find traces of a civilization not unlike our own running back through seventy centuries and more rune stones are not Dot ell all deciphered some of ot our Viking mounds are still unexplored Not long ago ao we unearthed a grave from the Bronze rone age Here hero In lovingly lovingly he slurs slue lura the tong long longo tongo o sound of the vowel rowel a OWe a we turn up op old year old traditions with our very ury plo plowshares I Were It not for his bis Imperturbable poIse he might be oT off at nt a signal to search for the tho cradle or one ot of the cradles of the human race But ut Quietly he turns Instead to historical ical fact fad as he would like to read It Once Sicone wa was an Independent eat ent kingdom lom In Itself tie lie checks his nO flow of words and chuckling adds Know and you really do not need Deed to know knots the rest of ot Sweden 1 I In Stockholm the dweller city city born Into an atmosphere of old world leisure and acquiring by bl I choice the ultra modern conven conten conveniences I lences that mechanical genius CUD con contrives i trives trl to our Il age e wand wanders wandera out to enJoy the lustrous tranquility ot of otone one of the white bite nights of the northern summer t I I He lip I passes the magnificent of Kings King's gardens and halts on Norr orr i I I Ibro bro Ero north bridge to listen to the singing foamy waters under onder Its span It forms torms a link between theold the theold old city between the bridges with Its medieval quaintness of nar nar- nar- nar narrow narrow row v lanes Innes and the newer Dewer Stock Stock- Stockholm Stockholm holm with Its many maDY public bund build buildIngs Ings Impressively modern modem In de- de design sign which Bu suggest est something or of orthe the splendor that legend and his his- history hl tory have cast over the age of the Renaissance Before him rises the facade ot of othe I the house of ot parliament With the Socialists In the majority things are In ID a bad way for our country country he I he be reflects gloomily But ut he catches the Incongruity In his fears too ns as ashe asbe he faces the commanding simplicity ty of the massive e royal palace With With- In ID Its walls for tor more than a n ecu cen century tory tury rulers of the Bernadotte line Une have held the reins of ot a limited monarchy untouched by the terrors of revolution or the tumult of war The quivering beauty of the ame ame- amethyst ame- ame amethyst twilight t which before longwill lon long longwill will begin to throb with the glow v of a ruby dawn possesses his soul love for his capital en pit at city of slivery silvery waterways and emerald islands conquers doubts Coura Courage e to experiment with Ith new forms torms of the changing social order ranging ran widely from statecraft to architecture he reflects and wis wis- wisdom wisdom dom to direct these experiments rooted root ell firmly In past experience exp to toward to- to toward ward evolutionary e progress some progress some something thing of that courage coura e and that wis wis- wisdom wisdom wisdom dom Is the spirit of ot Stockholm ot of Sweden today In the Forest Land In the solitudes of the Norrland forests the tho frontiersman has swung his ax during the brief dusk that thatIs thatis thatIs Is high noon of the winter day Throwing the logs on OD the locked Ice Ice rivers natural floating channels for tor forthe forthe the timber Industry of the Far lar North he be waits walts for the release that comes with the thaws of ot spring Under his hand the primeval for tor forest est eat has hns almost vanished hut but the re- re growth re-growth growth of ot spruce and fir and pine Is straight and tall For several dec dee decades I ales ades the Swedish state stepping In Into into Into to check Indiscriminate waste of virgin forest has hns been a n zealous guardian of this Its most Important source of ot wealth By ny midsummer the rivers will have carried their cargo of logs I I numbered 1 by the millions well ell down to sorting boom near the mills on OD the eastern coas coast where the freighters lie In port lope sings In the lumberman's heart as aa as fascinated he watches that silent trek of or the logs o toward the sea I It Is the season of light On the upper reaches of the Nor land riv- riv rivers riv rivers ers era the midnight sun fun blazes onra- onra unrelentingly unrelentingly on glaciers and snow v snow capped capped peaks peals converting them Into rushing torrents and swift surging swift rapids Modern Industry steps In inand Inand and In turn converts that tremendous dous dons natural natum force Into white coal for tor the country Electricity Is U conquering the wil- wil wilderness wil wI wilderness of ot the North White coal conI not black feeds teeds tho the trains that la In InI unending procession haul ore to sea sen seaports I ports porn from tho the huge mountains ot of Iron In ID the be e Arctic regions The tempo of life lite quickens In ID the Far North The frontiersman catches the rhythm of ot the whir of 01 wheels In ID sawmill the roar of 01 tur turbines bines In power plant the click ot of steel teel rails In mountain tunnel Ours Oura are the riches of the fu tu future fu- fu future ture ture he exults Here Here are ore Iron Iron- ore Iron ore fields amon among the lar largest st In all I Europe Outside of ot Finland probably ably no other European country has hns such a It high forest wealth our ours approximates 1001 1000 acres per ller In Inhabitants habitants Excluding Norway what European power Is so blessed by nature with bounteous reserves of latent Intent white cual coal TIlls This Is Sweden tJI the Sweden S of tomor tomor- tomorrow tomorrow row 1 t Stockholm the capital turns away awny rota the lie West Sweden faces the Orient The winds of ot industrialism coming from the West germ tn to have hn-e been en tempered b by the be r restless th-ss th bat battling fling of the North orth sea sera and the luff v sno snow capped fields nelds It Is as If Swo SWI den had hod looked beyond Ih the turbulence turbulence lence of ot Russia and caught and nn l preS served the spirit o ot of the UD Y ua f Past rast |