Show 1 5 IB I 1 O A 0 A 44 A S IM f d A lock in the gota canal prepared by the Natio nationiel niLl society washington D C Q service i I 1 UIS ilis ls is sweden says the tearlia Tc peasant of dalar dalanna n a dalef j cn rISa arlia as lie he looks out upon JS the rolling past fires and birch clad hills of the pro province Nince dear I 1 to him as life our ways are chang S ing of course the good old days are w no more cut but you may still find a handful of us who go on living as our fathers lived tilling the tame same soil hewing timber to in the for i ests for our houses spinning wool and if flax for our clothes hammering out copper and iron from our mines tor for utensils and tools with quiet dignity lie he towers in the doorway of his home into which his i gracious Talk Valk ommen bids strangers enter the wind plays with the wide brim that gives his black hat a quaintly solemn puritan air cut but against the i ao weathered gray of log walls he Is a rl vivid figure in his long iong single breasted blue coat his yellow buckskin breeches red wool stockings tassel tasse led cd at the knee low handmade hand made shoes adorned with gleaming steel buckles overhead slender blades of f crass of applegreen apple green aig lightness en shoot up from the sod of his thatched hed roof behind framing the scene stand silver trunks of stately birches the graceful white ladles ladies of the forests of central sweden we are a proud and independent i P people he continues sweden as ir you know has never submitted to alien rule only once for a brief century I 1 and a quarter sweden joined denmark and norway in experimenting with a joint sovereignty cut but we did inot not like the iron hand of our danish kinsmen 0 in the stockholm glood blood cath bath of 1520 king christian 11 II of denmark be headed more than SO 80 swedish nobles therewith sealing his own destiny it awas as that act of tyranny which led young gustavus vasa later king for p 37 years to rouse the strong men of Dale dalecarlia carlia to the count rys defense I 1 so one of the most illustrious chapters of swedish history has been written here the blue eyes glow with the fervor of conviction there Is a challenging ring in the sure soft spoken words know Dale carlin and you will know t the very heart of sweden cut but the landowner of goes a step further within view of crumpling fortress or surviving splendor of medieval chateau where lazy swans gwim wim forgetfully in the encircling moat lie be halts in the shade of 0 the wide spreading beeches beaches that line his fields of su sugar ar beets or grain N P traces of ancient civilization j F the lee ice sheet slipped off this south ern tip of the scandinavian peninsula H ten or fifteen thousand years ago he logins begins our scientists find traces of a civilization not unlike our own run ding ing back through seventy centuries nd dd more our rune stories stones are arc not 11 deciphered some of our viking mounds are still on unexplored explored not long iong ago go we unearthed a grave from the bronze ronze age here in loving i ly IY he slurs the long 0 sound of the j towel a we turn up thousand year old id traditions with our very plow phares hares i were it not for his imperturbable poise he be might be off at a signal to bearch for the cradle or one of the cradles adles of the human race rut but quietly 11 he turns instead to historical fact is 8 lie he won would like to read it once kane was an independent king kingdom doin in palf ile he checks his flow of and chuckling adds know kone and you really do not need to dynow now the he rest of sweden p i in stockholm the city dweller born into din an atmosphere of old world leis laire re find and requiring acquiring by blinke the ultra adern conveniences that mechanical I 1 genius ealus contributes so 10 our age wanders ut to enjoy the lustrous wt f one of the white nights of the corthern summer rie lle passes the magnificent willows f kings king s gardens and halts halt 4 on norr ro north bridge to listen to the af pf fl nging foremy waters water under its sp in I 1 forms a link between the old bilty letteen etu cen the bridges with its medieval triPas of narrow lanes and the hie ewer ver stockholm with its many p pich C boll buildings lings impressively modern in sign lien which suggest something 0 of v the splendor that legend and history have cast over the age of the renaissance sa D ce before him rises the facade of the house of parliament with the socialists cia lists in the majority things are in a bad way for oar nor country lie r reflects gloomily ent but lie he catches the incongruity in his fears too as he faces the commanding commin dins simplicity of the massive royal palace within its walls for more than a century rulers of the bernadotte Cern adotte line have bave held the lehns of a limited monarchy untouched by the terrors of revolution or tho tha tumult of war the quivering beauty of the amethyst twill twilight lit which before bearre long iong will begin to throb with the glow low of a ruby lawn dawn possesses his soul and love for his capital city of slivery silvery waterways and emerald islands conquers doubts courage to experiment with new forms of the changing social order ran ranging ing widely aroi from statecraft to architecture he be reflects and wisdom to direct these experiments rooted firmly in past experience toward evolutionary progress something thing of that courage nad that wisdom Is the spirit of stockholm of sweden today in the forest land in the solitudes of the norrland Nor for ests the frontiersman has swung his ax during the brief dusk thal tha is blab noon of the winter day throwing the logs loge on the ice locked rivers natural floating channels for the timber industry of the far north lie he waits for tho tha release that the thaws of spring under his hand the primeval forest has almost vanished but the of spruce and fir and pine Is straight and tall for several decades the swedish state stepping in to check indiscriminate waste of virgin forest has been a zealous guardian of this its most important source of wealth by midsummer the rivers will have carried their cargo of 0 logs numbered number eil by the millions wall down to sorting boom near the mills on the eastern coast where the freighters lie ile in port it Is the season of light on the upper tipper reaches of the Nor norrland rivers the midnight sun blazes on glaciers and snow capped peaks converting them into rushing torrents and swift surging rapids modern industry steps in and to in turn converts that tremendous natural force into white coal for the country electricity Is conquering the wilderness of the north white coal not black feeds the trains that hat in unending procession haul baul ore to seaports from the hudd mountains of iron in the arctic reg regions lons for year the ore lias has been quarried down their hides but still the mountains tower with hundreds of millions of tons of potential wealth black against distant ranges of snowy peaks thi the tempo of life quickens in the th far north the frontiersman catches the rhythm of the whir of wheels in sawmill the roar of turbines in power plant the click of steel rails in mountain tunnel ours are the riches of the future he exults here anre iron ore fields among the largest in all europe out side of finland probably no other european country has such a highter high per capita wealth ours approximates 1001 acres per inhabitants excluding norway what european power la Is so si lavishly blessed by nature with boun leous reserves of latent intent white coall this Is sweden the sweden of tomorrow 1 abent about an eighth of the total area of sweden Is water in addition the he long iong indented coastline brings tin an increasing number of the inhabitants inhabitant ran range ge of the open seas or theli theft briny inlets in july the summer sea son Is at its hel glit lit every rocky or sandy beach Is gay with bithers when there Is wind the seaside resorts around Go td find stockholm suggest baggest continuous regattas one get the hie impression that every Siv swedish edish fini fam lly ily an possesses it a rowboat motor launch or yacht enjoyment of life fire Is nn an virtue the swedish people are nol ni boisterous or volatile they live quiet 1 ly and suggest procip 1111 and they will you I 1 nr nil nil that n elm in nil all europe it Is the standard of living su so hagli |