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Show mi'iit troubles of the country. Ijiat winter several thmiaand Jobless were given Instruction In almost any branch of learn in hi which they wvro Interested. Inter-ested. Largo appropriations were act aa.de for doles and for puhlio worka at which tho otherwise unemployed would be al'lo to earn n living wage, and It wan hoped lh.it conditions would soon liccomc Jitter. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, unemployment la still the maot acrlotia problem of Sweden, despite a alltrht decreaae In tho number of bile. The. JuhlcHt still number more than UiO.pOn. nf whom about CVOttti receive nid. This number Is higher than waa j expected and In order to keep within I the budget, tho unemployment commission com-mission ami tho government have had to cancel durlnw thn summer unemployment unem-ployment aid to unmarried men and women, all fnrm workers and fishermen. fisher-men. It la believed lhat these classes can shift for themselves during the summer and pick bp enough wmk to keep them going. Married men with families still draw stipend, while relief re-lief work of all kinds Is belr.g planned. The unemployment com in lesion I laying plans for extensive forest work In cooperation with the forestry hoai-d, and the stale domains department. Furthermore , about l-'OO.OOO has been diverted from the unemployment fund for buying paving stones to be placed at the dleposal, free of cost, of certain town and highway hoards for th Improvement Im-provement of street ami roads, thus affording employment to considerable numbers. SWEDEN TO AID UNEMPLOYED ONRfS Government to Provide Tracts of Land, Livestock and Improvements STOCKHOLM. May ,80 Before long the Hwedtah unemployed may have a chance to become Independent farm-I farm-I era. When they recently expressed I the desire to obtain email farms of their own where they might work till old age without lielng auh)erted to enforced en-forced Idleness, their request sounded at first like wlahlntr for the moon. Hut not so to the minister of agriculture. agri-culture. ho Immediately ordered an Investigation Into the possibilities nf forming a farm colony In the province of Hoedcrmanland. f the plan la found feaaibie the government may purchase land to be parceled among its unemployed. unem-ployed. The project would, of course. Involves more than acquiring the land. The government will have to build cottages cot-tages on the farms and supply Ha Indigent In-digent cltlxens with livestock, farm Implements and living expenses for the first year. The farm project Is one of the moat Important and Interesting of many attempts at-tempts for relieving tho unemploy- |