Show SWEDISH AT THE unless you are a student or 0 history or have a better memory than most of us a stroll tn rutho hall ot of farno in the swedish building will bo be a revelation to you the hall lie lies directly before you as 05 you enter and consists of a double row of glided gilded busts mounted on imposing pedestals some are there who can call lay small claim to fame but note this list and you will know why sweden is proud to call the attention of the world to the lives and deeds of hin her sons and daughters johns jacob berzelius elius chemist and writer of text books on chemistry emanuel who dreamed great dreams of an ideal faith and founded a new church in sweden anders celsius not satisfied with the clumsy scale ot of fahrenheit invented the centigrade thermometer used in all cht chemical mical work jenny lind singer who delighted the heart of our fathers and grandfathers carl von linne linneaus the botanist and geologist who named and classified most of our medicinal plants carl wilhelm von chemist it is likely that some of those old text test books you struggled thru so many years ago had his name on the cover john ericsson inventor builder of 0 the famous monitor and inventor of the screw propeller gustav de laval who invented the modern turbine engine others are there poets explorers and kings an and d we do not condit wandw that sweden chose thus to honor her own occupying the entire space at tile the upper end of the hall of fame is a statue of alfred nobel and a record of ills his works in liga nobel invented dynamite and durinzi durin ghis his life accumulated an immense fortune from froin the manufacturing and sale of this explosive perhaps more tame fame has come to nobel thru the so called nobel prizes tho the than thru ills his invention in 1866 these prizes are for the encouragement coura gement of the men arid and women of the entire world who are working for the advancement of humanity when nobel died in 1896 lie he left practically its his entire fortune to establish these prizes given yearly to the person or persons who during that year have produced the most important work in these subjects chemistry physics medicine or physiology idealistic sit literature and service in the advancement van cement of peace the prize in lach each subject amounts to so that tile the receiving of a nobel prize is much more than an empty honor the first distribution took place in 1901 and in the list of prize winners we find such notables as M curie and his wife who have received prizes in both chemistry and physics arrhenius in chemistry bjornson witz and kipling in literature and marconi in physics pictures of all the prize winners are there and the familiar faces ot ol roosevelt and root indicate that the united states is doing her share in the worlds work in another part of the building is display of the european telephone i lafit 1 I w we I 1 0 se see e so orien in tae the movies but nver nearer v i in reality here it Is and it seems a convenient instrument the balance alance of tile the building is a display of the industries of sweden 4 CLYDE L E EDDY |