Show ICELAND AWAKENS PLANS PLAS PLA S FIRST RAILROAD REYKJAVIK Iceland By By The Associated Press Pres The i iThe The The little north- north northern northern has taken on ona ern em kingdom of Iceland a new nw lease of life after being In Inthe Inthe inthe the doldrums for years after the war and It has begun to formulate plans for building Its first railroad ands and for celebrating in 1930 the millenary of the claimed to tob bf b the worlds world's oldest democratic parliament Tentative plans Include the build build- building buildIng building ing of a a. national theatre In Reykjavik Rey Rey- Reykjavik the capital and the erection of a church on the as memorials to the foresightedness of the Intrepid pioneers of a thousand years ago There is a difference of opinion as asto asto asto to certain religious aspects of the event but history records that it was in that the principal peasants peas pens peasants ants and traders of the country as assembled as- as assembled assembled to determine upon a new faith as against the Pagan Wodan cult The outcome was that Christianity Chris Chris- Christianity Christianity was unanimously accepted The meaning a national or supreme thing or council re resulted rev re- resulted suited from this Seventy years afterward the Icelanders discovered the he mainland of the new world Vineland the Good Premier Elect form form- formerly formerly erly a country parson is now editor of The Reykjavik's leading newspaper In addition to consideration of the proposed railway and automo automo- automobile automobile bile roads the new government is also confronted with the task of stabilizing the currency of harnessing harnessing har har- harnessing the numerous waterfalls and the long contemplated project of utilizing for domestic and indus Indus- industrial Industrial industrial trial purposes the of Ice Ice- Iceland's Iceland's Iceland's lands land's famous hot water springs |