Torsdagen den 11 febr. 1043
THB SWEDISH PRESS
Sidan 3
HERREN SÄGER
1’4 den tiden skall Mikael träda upp, den store fursten, •om står såsom försvarare för dina landsmän, och då kommer en tid av nöd, vars likt icke har funnits, allt ifrån den dag då människor blevo till och ända til! den tiden. Men på den tiden skola av ditt folk alla de varda frälsta, som finnas skrivna i boken.
Och många av dem, som sova i mullen, skola uppvakna, somliga till evigt liv, och somliga till smälek och evig blygd. . De förståndiga skola då lysa, såsom fästet lyser, och de som hava fört många till rättfärdighet såsom stjärnor, alltid och evinnerligen.
Men du. Daniel, må gömma dessa ord och försegla denna skrift intill ändens tid; många komma att rannsaka den, och insikten skall så växa till.
Daniel 12:1-4.
(Infört av Edgar Sjödin)
SWEDISH LUTHERAN CHURCH
Princess and Pender Sts.
Nels H. N or beck, Pastor.
2616 cyPress Street
Tel. Bayv.iew 4094
Stfnday Feb. 14
10 A.M. Sunday School and Adtdt Blble Class.
3 P.M. Service in the Masonic iHall Haney.
5 P.M. The Seinor and Junior League Valentine Supper Rev. L. Ilobden speaker.
7:30 Evening Service. Special singing by the chdir and the 1-adies Chorus Rev. Norbeck preachlng. '
Tuesday 8 P. M. Choir re-hearsaL
W e d n e a day 8 P. M. The Young Women’s Missionary Society will meet with Mrs. Harold Swanson.
Thursday 4:30 Junior Choir rehearsal.
F r i d a y 6:30 Confirmation Class and Bible Study Class for Hlgh School Students.
7:30 Junior Luther League.
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN ’ CHURCH.
I I th and St. Andrews Sts.
NEW WESTM1NSTER NELS II. NORBECK. Pastor.
Sunday Feb. 14
10:30 Sunday School.
11:30 Morning Service. Rev. Norbeck preachlng, Mrs. Runar Nylund soloist.
SKANDINAVISKA
BAPTIST MISSIONEN.
259 E. Cordova St.
David W. Larson, pastor.
Bostad: 261 E. Cordova St.
Telefon: PAcific 4004.
Våra väckelsemöten med Evangelist Otcar R. Gunner-feldt från Cadillac, Michigan som talare och sångare, fortsätta varje kväll med undantag av måndag, tills den 21sta. Pastor Gunuerfeldt är en man som har varit med om litet av varje, rest i många olika länder och vid flera tillfällen varit gäst 1 t. o. m. kungliga hem. Han är en man med framstående förmåga att skildra saker och ting, och också på samma gång glad livad, varför han är värd att höra. Han reser sedan flera år tillbaka för Svenska Baptisternas General Konferens I Amerika. Svenska språket användes vid alla mötena utom torsdagar, då pastor Gunnerfeldt talar på landets språk. Han sjunger och cnelar också. Dessutom del-
THE DIAMOND
SWEDEN IN THE PAST
Bear Boys and Girls:-
Sister Ingrid will be with us again next week to tell you more about king Gustaf Vasa, the Liberator of Sweden. In the meantime perhaps I could fill in with a couple of episodes from Gustaf Vasa s adventures wrhile he was still just a com-mon man, working under-ground for the overthrow of Danish rule over Sweden.
He had many narrow escapes from the Danish gendarmes in villages of Dalecarlia where he was known to be trying to rally the population for an uprising. But loyal Da-lecarlians did all they could to protect him. Once he was in the kitchen of a peasant’s house getting a meal to still his hunger, when suddenly in walked Danish soldiers. Gustaf Vasa did not give himself away, and the brave peasant woman of the house played her part very cleverly too. She had a big wooden ladle in her hand and hitting Gustaf Vasa across the shoulder with it. she said something like this: “Don’t sit here and stare at strangers - get out and do your thrashing!” The soldiers, of course, took Vasa to be the woman’s husband and he es-caped being captured.
Another time Vasa was con-cealed in a load of hay and thus transported by a peasant from one ,village to anotjher. On the road the peasant was met by soldiers, who question-ed him, and being suspicious, thrust their swords through his load of hay, whereupon he was allowed to proceed. After a while he noticed blood drip-ping from his sleigh. Quickly he took his knife - and made a cut in one foot of his horse. so that the next patrol could see the blood coloring on the snow coming from the horse‘s foot.
Yet another time a “quisling’’ of those days betrayed Gustaf Vasa who was staying over-night at his inn, and notified the gendarmes. But the man’s wife heard it, and being loyal to the cause of freedom she ordered one of the hired men quickly to turn the shoes a-round on one of the horses and harness up immediately. Then she let Gustaf Vasa down from a window in his room. By the time the soldiers came he was gone - and no tracks led away from the place, the only recent track being of someone that had arrived.
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But as Sister Ingrid told you last; week, the Dalecarlians finally rallied around Gustaf Vasa in such numbers and strength as to enable them to free the country of foreign rule. Although, as Sister Ingrid also mentioned. before they finally did so, Gustaf Vasa, discouraged and broken in spirit, had actually given up hope and had decided to flee the country. On skis he was
tager Sträng Bandet under ledning av pastor David W. Larson, som nu är tillbaka igen efter två veckors möten i Seattle, Wash.
Söndag hålles möte i “The Log Cabin Church,” Brown Rd, Langley Prairie, kl. 12:30. Radio möte kl. 4: 30, samt möte på Missionen kl. 7:30. e. m. Alla och envar hjärtligt välkommen.
BETHEL EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH
449 East I I th Avenue.
Rev. O. Urang, Pastor Residence 1128 East I I th Ave.
Telephone FAirmont 2477R Services:
Sunday—Worship (Norwegian)
Wednesday Prayer Meeting 8 p.m.
■ Thursday Radio Program 9:30 to I 0 p.m.
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on his way to Norway, where he aimed to seek refuge, when the Dalecarlians awoke to the importance of the moment and the things at stake. They sum-moned their fastest ski run-ners to set out in pursuit of Gustaf Vasa and plead with him to retum and lead them in an uprising that would liberale the country. Near the Norwegian border these mes-sengers caught up with the fleeing Gustaf Vasa, and he returned with them.
To commemorate this fam-ous ski run of more than 300 years ago, Sweden some years ago instituted an annual ski competition over the same course that Gustaf Vasa went, which competition is called the Vasa Run, or in Swedish “Vasaloppet.”
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BIRTHDAYS
Happy birthday to
Johnny Lillbeck, 10 on Feb. 13; June Tyfting, 9 on Feb.. 13; Joan Tyfting, 9 on Feb. 13; Effie Sand, 9 on Feb. 14;
Raymond Nordland, 14 Feb.17; Roy Hallgren, 15 on Feb. 18;
Oss
SVENSKAMERIKANER
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Av Albin Widen
Swedish Informatioin Bureau Minneapolis, Minn.
MINNS NI “SUR VÄLLING, SALT SILL?”
I Sverige förbereder man för närvarande ett kulturhistoriskt storverk— det är “Arbetarklas sens historia”. Som ' ett led i materalinsamlingen för densamma har Nbrdiska museet i samarbete med tidningen Lantarbetaren anordnat en pristävling för att rädda åt eftervärlden de ramsor som förr brukade tillskrivas vällingklockorna. Ni kanske minns hemifrån, att man på större gårdar hade en 'sähskild ringklocka, som kallade arbetsfolket samman, och den ansågs sjunga “sur välling, salt sill1’’ eller något dyligt.
Uppteckningar till tävlingen inströmmade från hela landet och första pris gick till Herbert Gustafson. Runhällen, för denna ramsa;
Ringer väl och länge väl och länge så du hinner på brädets ände brädets ände.
Den tämligen obegripliga texten får sin förklaring av att det i oxstallet fanns en bräda, där torparna brukade slå sig ned efter framkomsten. Ett extra pris tilldelades fru Judit Johanson. Djursnäs. för en ramsa från Ösmo i Sörmland: Käre oxe gå sakta jag fick välling och inge brö du fick halm och inge hö, käre oxe gå sakta.
Om det är någon av läsarna, som från sin barndom i det gamla landet minns någon sådan ramsa, så skicka den till mig. skall jag se till att den kommer Nordiska museet till handa. Kanske vi på den här sidan kan erinra oss någon “vällingklockans sång”, som är lika intressant, som de här anförda. Att den svenska arbetarklassens historia kommer att bli en intressant lektyr, då man samlar material- på det sättet, är emellertid säkert. Jag önskar bara att vi kunde samla material till svenskamerikanernas historia på samma sätt.
FÖRENINGSNOTISER
Vasalogen Nornan har årsfest nästa tisdag den 16 jan. kl. 8 till vilket möte alla medlemmar böra komma. Medtag för medlemskap eventuellt intresserade bekanta.
Svenska Klubben möter nästa onsdag den 17 ft h. å Olym-i nic Cafe, 720 W. Pender St. ! Mötet börjar ned middag kl. 7.
Nornans Systrar möter den °5 febr. kl. I hos Mrs. Axel Lindmark. 283’ Pandora St.
SCANDINAVIA AND THE WAR
(Continued from page 1) strife and economid unrest, these northern lands had quiet-ly undertaken a startling experiment aimed at solving the social and econoimc problems of their society. Sweden started in 1932; Denmark, already well on the road of the same deve-lopment, intensified her efforts; Norway and Finland followed. The results, especially in Sweden, were astonishing. Unem-ployment, a problem seemingly insoluble in the great democra-<t'es. had veijy largely disap-pered. Further, by means of careful planning, democratic-understanding och co-operation these northern countries had begun to rebuild their society for the benefit of the great masses of their people. In spite of the moderation of the methods employed and .the deliberate limitation in immediate goals. heir palpable success gave new hope for millions of people all over the world who saw them-selves helplessly driven in the m^elstrom leading towards the rocks of the modern Scylla or Charybdis—Bolshevism or Nazism. No wonder that a verit-able pilgrimage of economist and social reformers set in towards the new Mecca of a social democracy!
Though the world had be-come suddenly .aware of the significance of the Scandinav-ian experiments, the soil for those experiments had been carefully prepared over a long time.
It must be remembered that Vh e Scandinavian countries were not by nature rich. More-over. Sweden and Denmark had played the roles of great powers and in ever-recurring wars had paid bitterly for the ambitions of their rulers with the loss of the verv life-blood of their people, with repeated famine and with severe fatigue. Until the middle of the last century. the three more pro-perly d e f i n e d Scandinavian countries—'Sweden, N o r wav and Denmark—were among the most miserable lands in Euro-ne. unfertile as they were for the most part and backward in economlc development.
DENMARK
iD e n m a r k, paradox,icajly enough, had to thank a lost war against Prussia and Aus-tria in 1864 for the opportun-ity of lifring its people from the depths to which they had sunk. The cession of the prov-inces of Schleswig» iHolstein and Lauenbrug to P r u s s i a brought with it the weakening of the feudal powers of the holders of large estates who had until then governed the country with practically abso-lute power, and the rise of liberalism introduced the prin-ciples of modern democracy More than this. the loss of the fruitful South made necessary the colonization of parts of the country which had hitherto been regarded as unfertile.
Adopting the methods of Chemical fertilization of the soil, then recentlv discovered, a new class of small farmers not only developed modern technique of agriculture, but new social techniques as well. Ont of the necessity of new colonization ori^inated the farmer cooperative movement of Denmark, which supervised and guided the work of their members. promoted methods of argricultural industry and beeame an outstanding exam-ple of the whole world. At the same time. industrialization made its appearance, and m-dustrial workers and co-onera-tive farmers beeame the back-bone of Danish ec.onomic and political democracy.
SWEDEN
In Sweden, poverty-stricken after its unhappy efforts for centuries to build an empire in the Baltie, the reyitalization of the country came only with the advent of industrializa-Uon. Up to the beginning of ' the 20th century, .this country I was, like Norway, too poor to
feed even the population which remained after the heavy losses sustained during several generations on the battlefields of Germany, Poland and Russ-ia. If the Scandinavian people had acquired a horror of war and militarism—a faet which caused superficial onservers to call them “soft” and ,,peace-ät-any-pricers’’—the reason. wras not the hundred years of peace during the last century but the recurrent and devas-tating wars which had prece-ded that peace. A stream of settlers crossed the Atlanic to the new world to get away form it.
Sweden’s chance came when suddenly its extensive forests and unfertile rocks beeame sources for raw materials much desired by Germany and Great Britain. and a basis for the development of Industries of its own. A new class of industrial workers came into exis-tence which, in the first and second generations, retained contacts with the old freedom-loving and politically conscious peasantVyj These industrial workers soon formed a forceful democratic labour movement. In a few decades. Sweden he-came, in the world econoi av of the 20th centure. what it had been in the political world of the 18th century—a Great Power. In the twenties. the Swede, Ivan Kreuger. bnilt his industrial and financial emnire in Europé. It broke down dnr-ing the world crisis of 1929-30, and the shock of the Kreu-trer erash roleased the forres -of industrial democracy in Sweden.
NORWAY
Norway, on the other hand, is a country very young from the point of view of national sovereignty. In mediaval times, it came, after a stormy his-tory, under the Danish crown. As the country was poor and thinly settled, not much coidd be extraeted from it, and the Danish rule was therefore easy-going. But in 1814-15 the victorious alliance of the Great Powers against Napoleon handed Norway over to Sweden as compensation for the loss of Finland to Russia. The new era o f world-wide markets brought a chance for political ■evival to the Norwegians. With its long coast open to the Atlantic ocean, its excellent harbours and seafarlng people, Norway was ereated by nna-ture to play an intensive role in the development of world trade.
Since the second half of the ’ last century, the young Norwegian bourgeoisie, the tim-bermerchants. sh!ipowers, in-tellectuals and also the workers. rebelled against the nar-rowmindedness of Swedish To-rvlsm. Finally in 1905, the par-tition between the two countries was peacefully effeeted although not without some bit-terness on hoth sides of the border. The First World War
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brought Norway an vnbeliev-able boom in s h i p p i n g and frading and. when the great crisis slonped this development. the Norwegian merchan marine had advanced to br. come the fourth greatest in the world. Even todnv it is nDr-ine- an imnortant role in the Battle of the Atlantic.
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