Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1926, Page 17

AS SUMMER NEARS Has Begun to Be Felt. % Manufacturers Cut. BY J. C. ROYLE. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, May 29.—The vaca- tion demand has already begun to make itself felt through the channels ot jobbing and wholesale business and the effect has been reflected on the manufacturer and producer. This type of buying promises to be a sreater factor this year than ever be- fore. The Summer rest period will be extended to a larger number of work- ers than at any time in the history of this country, and the trend in this di- rection is extending rapidly beyond the ranks of the white-collur workers. While graduation, June wedding end n buying now is in full swing. Summer recession in uring production also has hegun. Ismployers are utilizing the Decoration day holiday as a break in output which can check additions to stocks likely to become burdensome without undue hardship or alarm to the workers. This is specially marked in the silk, cotton and woolen trades. Will Utilize Holiday. The steel mills will utilize the holt duy for some needed repairs. With the exception of merchunt bars, which have strengthened: heavy plates and steel tubes, prices are showing weuker tendencies. This is credited to irregulavity of demand. But com- paratively few men are idle in the industry and only slight changes ap- pear probuble in the near future. Giains are being registered by the yion-union bituminous coul properties. lut the unionized fields and the hard cval pits ave slackening to some ex- tent, as is normal at this time of year. i3xport sales of automobiles have een at an unexpectedly high level. Competition is growing more keen in the domestic field and has caused ~mie makers to increase production and others to reduce their schedules. Used car stocks present u knotty problem, and the hargain hunters are finding their searches among the traded-in cars well worth their while. On the other hand, the Chevrolet factory is working on a basis of 70,000 curs o month, with sales well ahead of output. Building is in the midst of a de «ided spurt in some sections. contrac: tors rushing work in antieipation of advanced wages around July 1. Car loadings are fast attaining the volumo reached last Fall and new records are confidently expected when the £rain_ harvest starts in the South- West in the next 10 days. Lumber production is at a high lével, but demand is keeping stocks down and unfilled orders up. Cement conditions show an improvement and bric plants are finding ready markets for all output. 0il Advances Maintained. The advances in oil prices have heen fully maintained and the techni- cal position as shown by stocks, both of crude and gasoline, and by dally production, is practically unchanged. The Cuban suga mills are fast winding up thelr grinding season and, with the volume of raws available, little anxiety to fill more than immedial requicements is manifested by ve- finers or distributors. Hogs are strong, with a relatively small supply of feeders, while beef cattle are down to mode.ate 1 s, with a heavy supply of finished steers coming to market. The scores of na- tional forests in the West are just heginning to take in their usual list of Summer boarders in the form of cattle, horses and sheep. The tend- ency is toward smaller herds. A much improved sentiment is no- ticeable in the leather trade. This is due to the gradual reduction of shee factory capacity, which was expanded far beyond normal requirements dur- ing the war. BALTIMORE, May 29 (Special).— The general live poultry market has; heen active the past week under only moderate receipts of wanted stock and as a consequence the market con- tinues firm on practically all. lines nd values well maintained. This is especially true for Spring chickens 13, pounds /and_ over, which sell at 50 cents a pound, with smaller brini ing 40 to 45; white Leghorns, ho ever, will not bring top values and sell_mostly 35 to 40 as to size and condition. Market for old hens has shown an tmprovement during the past week and values rule a shade higher at 33 and 3¢ for large stock 3% pounds and up, while lighter stock and Leghorns sell at 80. Old roosters continue steady at 20. Market for ducks is easy owing 1o the fact that most of the current receipts show poor condition and are slow sale at 21 to 23, while small and poor stock ig neglected at 17 and 18. Some inquiry noted for voung ducks, but shipment of stock under 3 pounds each not advisable. . Season for guinea fowl is about over, but all large stock, 113 pounds and over, meet with ready sale at 75 to 85 each, but old stock and stags will not bring over 40 to 50 each. Pigeons in light receipt generally and in fair re- quest, at 40 a pair for old and 30 to 40 a pair for young as to size. The egg market has ruled steady to firmer with current receipts of native and near-by eggs running only fair and the demand good and constant in a wholesale way. The market closed today at 30%; a dozen for strictly fresh firsts in free cases. an increase of 2 cents a dozen over closing quota- 1ions lust week. ippers are advised {v ship their eggs promptly to realize best results, as most arrivals are sold on the exchange now and they must jneasure up to grade or be registered and sold at a discount. Recelp.s of white potatoes continue ample for all trade wants and as a onsequence the market ruies easy ivith movement light and centered on number 1 well graded stock at 3.50 to 4.00 per 100 pounds and 2.00 to 2.50 for number 28, while culls are not wanted. Season for sweets and yams practically over but all choice to fancy stock arriving meets with fair sale at 5.00 to 7.00 barrel for the former and 4.00 to 6.00 for the latter with culls and number 2s slow sale at 2.50 to 8.50. Market for native and nearby vege- tables shows an improvement under increased receipts and values are well sustained at the following quotatio! Asparagus, 2.00 to 4.50 dozen and 1.50 to 1.80 for culls; carrots, 6.00 to 8.00 hundred; kale, 40 and 50 busl lettuce, 1.00 75 bushel: Spring onjons, 1.50 to 2.00 hundred: peas, 1.00 10 1.50 bushel: radishes and rhubard, £.90 and 3.00 hundred, and spinach, 25 %o 50 bushel. - EMPLOY JUDGE McCHORD. Special Dispatch to The Star. ' BALTIMORE, May 29.—S8. Davies Warfield, president of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Co., announces that the board of directors have added to the legal staff of the company as one of counsel Judge C. C. McChord. Judge McChord was formerly a me; ber of the Interstate Commerce Com: misiop and resides in Washington, ahere he will maintain his office. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. T ! ADVERTISEMENT INVESTMENT MARKET ADJUSTS ITSELF TO LOW MONEY RATES| Moderate Rise in Stocks and Uncertain Fluctuations, in Commodities Characterize Week in Wall Street. Vacation Demand Already| Professionals Are Pushing,l’rices Slowly Upward. BY STEWART. P. WEST. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, May 29.—The features of th- last week in tke financial sit: uation have been the continued low rates for money, the maintenance of high prices for investment securities, % moderate upward tendeney in stocks and uncertain fluctuations in tht’uumnodily and exchange markéts. The time is past when low money {exerts a stimulating effect upon bond values, the yield on prime invest- ments has become so low that there is_no longer any active demand. Offerings of the higher grade bonds and the higher grade investment stocks are readily taken around cur- rent prices, but there is no disposition to bid them up any further. In a word, the investment market has ad- justed iteelf to the low money market and to the prospects of money con- ditions continuing indefinitely the way they are now. Investment capital has to be content with a low return unless it cares to take chances. "It is a wonderful time for the financing of new issues of unquestioned rank. But it is not the time for a futher attempt such s was made last Autumn and during the early Winter to interest new capital in the stocks of untried enter- prises. The public was badly hit in the radio exploitations and it has not forgotten the experience. It will be a long while, the prediction may be ventured. before Wall Street houses {attempt anything similar. The stock market had an extraordi September and the middle of January, It lost a good part of the ground start of May. Tremendous losses were encountered on the way down. reaction involved in many instances 1(he undoing of nearly all the previvus vise. Stocks Now in Strong Hauds. But it did have the yesult of putting stocks in stronger hands. The liquida- tion ran its course, a lurge short in- terest was built up, and the feature during the last two weeks has been that professional traders, sensing this change, have been working on the side of advance. Outside participation has been small. Pools in individual issues, recognizing that there is no further selling of importance, have become more active. Tt has been a rising market. vet a market strietly in professional hands Speculation for rising prices was overdone months ago. The sub- sequent reaction probably went tuo far, and what the markel is going through now is an interva) of read- justment. The whole Wall Street po- sition depends upon husiness develop- ments. The easy money condition has to do_with calculations. Where ditions like those favorable nary advance between the middle of | gained from the end of January to the | The | there has been only a small advance hand, raflway traffic returns have been encouraging, and the_promige of . big Full business has leu 10 owasiderable discussion over “the possibility of higher dividends. Steel Prices Low. There does not seem to be in gen- eral busines conditions any excuse for speculation in Wall Street such as there was in 1928 and again in the Autumn of 1925. The trouble is that in many lines it is difficult to get prices up sufficiently to offset costs. A good deal was made of the an- nouncement that steel bars had ad- vanced $2 a ton. This was the first time in nearly a year when there had been any rise in the price of the steel products. But as a matter of fact the composite of steel value continued low. If it is not going down any fur- ther it is not going up. Dyn's review jstates that “the downward trend of wholesale commodity quotations was slightly more pronounced this week, 41 of the 75 changes being reduc- tions.” In a price situation of this sort thereis nothing to suggest a season of large profits. Fverybudy sees that at bottom trade conditions are sound because there has been no overbuy- ing and no overspeculation such as there was two veuars ago. But it is not a situation to get enthused about, 1t stocks had not had a very ex | tensive fall they would have been out {of line with the facts of the trade sit- {uation. But having gone down as {much as they have, losing such = | large part of the results of last Au tumn speculative campaign. they may be considered to have undergone a sufficient realignment Foreign Exchanges. The rally in French and Belgian | francs did not seem to amount to any | thing except the covering in of an ex- |tensive short interest. Toward the lend of the week rates slipped off | again. There was no reason to ex- pect any chapge in the sjtuation in the paper currencies of these two countries, The problems remain acute as ever, as there is no internal balancing of the budget and no pros- pect of assistance from outside loans. French, Belgian and Italian issues have been barely holding their awn in the market of the week. There has been no change in United States Gov ernment bonds. The only activity in the bond list has been in speculative issues, which have been following the course of the stock market. “The slight rise in money toward the end of the week had no significance. It was due to the calling in of funds needed for taking care of the end-of the-month corporation requirements, It had nothing to do with the main | Wall Street position, which persistent ‘rlv rnored the fluctuation of the money market. PHONE COMPANY REPORT. | ment Issued Today. The complete report of the Chesa peake and Potomac Telephone Co. for April, as submitted to the Public Utilities Commission, including com- parisons with business during the pre- ceding month and with April of last year, follow ieis:. Wpiaken Lot 655 o 185 Total operating, 1926, Tevenues ...$541,305 $603.731 $600.644 Total operati St b suo.105 tions Operating come . . income ... Gross income..$154,181 $164. nte and mis- cellaneous de- ductions 3 $161.705 6.608 Net income...$146.584 $154.775 $155.037 { SPECIAL DIVIDEND. | PORTLAND, Me.. May 29 (P).-A |’ dpecial dividend of §1 a share on the common stock of the Maine Central Railroad Co. was declared by the di- rectors today. It is the first dividend to be paid on common stock for six years. Prior to 1920 $6 was pald an- nually on common stock. e = TRUCK PRODUCTION GAINS. NEW YORK, May 29 (#).—Pro- duction of motor trucks in 1925 in- creased 32 per cent over the output of the previous year in contrast to an increase of 18 per cent in the out- put of passenger cars, it is stated. in a review of the industry by Dom. inick & Domunick. total of 497.- 4562 trucks sold in 1925 had a retail value of about $606,000,000, of which about 76,262 were exporied, an in- crease of 79 per cent in export value over 1924. “The demand for motor trucks is not vet affected by the ap- proach to any possible saturation point,” the report said. “Its use, both independently and in conjunction with the railroads, is still comparatively undeveloped.” £ Sergeant’ DOG ‘Chesaynko and Potomac State-| COMMODITY NEWS WIRED STAR FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY HIBBING, Minn.,, May 29.—The Scranton open-pit iron mine and the Plymouth open-pit workings on the Gogebic iron range have resumed pro- duction, but owing to the low price of iron ore production on the Minnesota ranges is not running so heavy as Jast year. CLEVELAND. — Automobile sory plants here report a_continuation of big business. Sales of the Gubriel Snubber Co. last month were the largest in history COLUMBIA. — Drought severe enough to invoke praye from the pulpits of central South Carolina has retarded young cotton plants. Har- vesting in this section surely will be two or three weeks late. HIGHLANDS ONTARIO CANADA i shine lis —dsys of glorious lm} “‘mh:.o:'“ng of and balsam. ... i —trout, bass, game fish in sboundin, ‘oumbers swait your lure in pure, cool Our booklet “Your Vacation in Ontario” and our Road Map of Ontario are yours for the asking. ONTARIO GOVERNMENT PUBLICITY BUREAU 3 ‘Toronto Canada 11.703 W. Broad St. DICINES Richmond, Va. in the stocks concerned. On the other | | 1 | May 28, 1920. | HI. history of Sweden is replete | with records of those to ~whom " America owes a mighty debt of grati- {tude, and one which we cannot too |often emphasize. It is brought to us | today with special significance, as we iwelcome to our shores a gallant Swed- {ish descgndant of the great Vasa dy- inasty of libetators, the Crown Prince of Sweden, bearing the name, Gustay Adolph, which is emblazoned with | glory, through the work of the great Swedish liberator, Gustav Adolph, three | centuries ago. The Crown Prince and his gracious consort, Crown Princefs Louise. a great-granddaughter of the beloved Queen Victoria, have come to pay Sweden’s debt to a great American, John Ericsson, who is a goiden link in the indissoluble chain which binds | America and Sweden. And in naming our distinguished guest for his great ancestor, let us remember to eliminate the Latin efforts to change CGustav Adolph into “Gustavus Adolphus.” We. the friends and beneficiaries i the heroic sacrifices of Sweden’s mighty leader of Protestantism, the great G tav Adolph, should respect his right to be known by the honest. sturdy- Swed- ish name by which he was christened, Gustav Adolph. . For chronological order, let us go back a century before Gustay Adolph saved the Protestant cause in Europe, a victory which directly affected Amer- ica and her colonization. In a beauti- ful and romantic district of Sweden there is one of the oldest copper mines in the world. It is situated at Falun, in Dalecarlia. About 400 years ago a young man, inspired with love for Ged and lis country. might have been seen looking into this open mine. Hg was filled with anxiety for his beloved coun try. mingled with a holy purpose to re- deem it from the hands of a cruel ty- rant. the Danish King, Christian 11 The young man himseli. Gustav \asa by name, was being pursued and driven to seek concealment, as he was a direct descendant of the ancient kings of Sweden. [t was an hour when the Nor- spirit of liberty was aflame. The i spirit of persecution was at that mo- {ment testing. yea, in a veritable fiery | furnace, our forefathers and mothers, | who were engaged in the same battle | for liberty, not only in Britain and the Netherlands, but wherever the spiritual pioneers. who were to build America, could find refuge from religious perse- < cution and prepare themselves for their work of aiding America in the fulfill- ment of her divine destiny. Gustav Vasa suffered terribly, but as a spiritual pilgrim. divinely ordained for a mission, he never lost faith in God. | He was ever hopeful. resolute, devout. As he stood near the great copper mine he rememberéd how the miners had | fought. in days of old. for their country. He would rouse them so that they would go forth again to battle. Don- ning a peagant costume, he became one lof themselv gaining their love and [ trust. through his religious and patri |otic zeal and bright winning manner. { He told them of the horrors of the op- pressions being enacted by King Chri tian, the Nero of the North. Time aiter ! life was saved from the re- | venge of the oppressor’s agents, usually | through the divine ingenuity of patri- otic women, and it was evident that he was under the protection of God. | Once. while this ancestor of our pres- {ent visitor was concealed in a hay Y wagon, the cart was surrounded by the enemy soldiers, who thrust their sharp | pikes into the straw. Pierced in the | side, Gustav endured the pain, without ia groan or sound to betray his pres- lence. Often he was in want for food, | with no place where it was safe to | for shelter. After bitter trials and dis- ! appointments, the peasant miners at |1ast were roused to fight for the cause of God, to free their country from auto- lcra(ic and ecclesiastical despotism, un- der the leadership of Gustav Vasa. Fired by his intense enthusiasm, the | Swedes assembled arcund his banner in { formidable numbers. Their courage ‘and hardihood struck fear into the | hearts of the Danish oppressors. On {one occasion a Danish general asked ‘how a large force of Swedes could be | supported in so wild a country. A | Swede. hearing the remark, said that | the Dalecarlians were content to drink | water and, if need be, eat bread made | of the bark of a tree. Whereupon the Dane said, “A people who can cat wood and drink water the devil himself can- I not subdue.” | 1t is well for us today to ponder the spiritual endurance which animated and sustained these Protestant pioneers, for from this stock have sprung men and women who have enriched our national life and helped mightily in keeping American ideals pure and undefiled. { There is no doubt but that William Tyndale, whose first installment of his incomparable gift to the English-speak- ing world—his translation of the New Testament, published in 1525—there is 'no doubt that Tyndaie was: strength- {ened to persevere iin his emancipating | message of Protestantism by the sub- ilime struggles of the Swedes, under | Gustav Vasa, whose triumphant entry (into Stackholm was accomplished on Midsummer Eve, June 23, 1523. “Stand | fast, therefore, in the liberty where- |vgith Christ hath made us free” (Gala- tians, v.1) was the battle cry of ’Eu- C, ADVERTISEMENT MAY 30, 1926+-PART 1. ADVERTISEMENT Cheatham From WHAP, New York, May 28, 1926). rope's great fighters jor “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” at that hour as it is with Ghrist’s army today. In his scholarly and remarkable book, *The Story of the Walloons,” the American historian, Dr. William Elliot Griffis, reminds ‘us that “before the Spanish invasion of 1567, even as early as 1560, Walloons had come into Sweden by invitation of Gustav Vasa to help in shipbuilding and other industries. One hecame the private tutor of the young Prince lric XIV. In fact, it was through these Belgic Walloons that the printes and rulers of Sweden hecame so deeply interested in the ‘Reformed Religion.” Charles 1X, the father of the great Gustav Adolph, was espe- cially*earnest in his inquiries and studies of the Calvanistic side of the Reforma- tion.” i Let us pass through the interveng period and come to the reign of the namesake of our present guest, Gustav Adolph (1611-1632), the God-anointed leader of a holy cause, which was the preservation of Protestantism in Fu- rope. the bulwark of Norse Anglo- Saxon liberty. This great pioneer and pilgrim of spirit and truth was fighter and martyr ior the same id which today constitute Americanism, pure and undetiled. His great Norse racial brother, Leii Lricsson, had dis- covered America in the vear 1000, and throughout history the spiritual ass ciation oi the Norse peoples and the new land of promise has been strik- ingly marked. It was during the time of the great Gustav Adblph, 1611-1632. that the inspired Puritan Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock in 1620, with the open Bible in their hands, to found the new nation spiritual. as a little band of Protestants, brothers in spirit to Gustay Adolph and his fighters for the same cause. It was at this time also that the Virginia colonists established the first Legislative Assembly at Jamestown, a new departure in government “of the people. by the people, for the people.” It is signiticant that the tercentenary of the events of this momentous period and its hero, Gustav Adolph, occurs as the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden arrive on our shores. And how is America debtor to Gustav Adolph? How does it concern us that Gustav and his Swedes, to the strains of Luther’s hymn, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” attacked and crushed the impe- rialistic Pappenheim on a foggy morn- ing in November, 1632, at Lutzen, an obscure town in Saxony? Did it not affect America when Gustav Adolph laid down his temporal life in defense of the same civil liberty and Protestant faith fer swhich the Pilgrims were struggling? “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John, xv.13.) These historical events of 300 years ago have a direct spiritual association with the fundamentals of Americanism, and their relationship is as simple, when understood, as our Declaration of In- dependence and embody a principle as vital as our Monroe Doctrine. \When we recall the events of that turmoil, between the years 10181648, known as the “Thirty Years' War.” then we recognize the battle of Lutzen as its critical moment and Gustav Adolph as its commanding genius. In Gustav Adolph and his heroic Swedes we are reminded of Cromwell and his “Ironsides,” Washington and the “Minute Men.” Other Protestant princes in Europe had lost heart, but Gustav and his men prepared for every military engagement with worship of God. To Luther’s great hymn they added Gustav Adolph’s own song of de- votion, “Fear Not, Little Flock.,” as the warrior King mounted his horse to lead his men forward for the cause. Let us recall that before the events of Lutzen the Protestant movement had bheen crushed by Cardinal Richelieu, in France, through the siege and capitula- tion of Rochelle, the last stronghold of the Huguenots. The Emperor and Wallenstein were sweeping Pomerania and throttling the liberties of Stralsund, when, like a new David, Gustav Adolph arose to challenge this Goliath of op- pression. 1t is plain to the student who reads history understandingly that here was a spiritually prepared people. Scem- irigly the forces of the enemy, led by Wallenstein. were far too powerful for the Swedes to attack with any hope of success, but Gustav Adolph refused to be intimidated by a show of material force. He declared to his ministers and to the nation that if Sweden did not rescue the Reformation in Germany they would have to defend it on the soil of Sweden. Let Americans thank God that the ancestor of our distinguished guest to- day, Gustav Adolph, was faithtul to his call, Had it not been for his heroic valor the English Protestant revolution under Cromwell against the Stuarts might have failed, and the budding American States might not have found their quiet period of growth, which en- abled them at the qrdained time—in 1776—to rise against the despotism of Parliament and Crown. For there is a harmonius_spiritual law and order in ‘history. [Every age and period has its. task and lesson and its influence upon succeeding ages. The Swedes under Gustav played their part gloriously. . They gave impetus to the faith and hope of Nordic Anglo-Saxon Protest- ants at the moment when it was most needed. e There is a poweriul bond uniting these peoples, the Swedes and Amer- icans, and we owe a great debt to Gus- tav Adolph. Under the reign of his daughter, Christina, Sweden contrib- uted an important element to the foun- dation of the American Commonwealth by dispatching the “Kalmar Nyktel” (the Key of Kalmar) to establish the Swedish Colony on the Delaware. A descendant af these colonists was a de- fender of Fort Sunday. They were among the first settlements of Protest- ant and literate people from northern Europe, who in 1627 settled the Dela- ware Valley, in what is now Delaware and Pennsylvania. In a more recent and vastly larger Swedish contingent of immigrants, who lhelped to settle our great Northwest, their record of illiteracy is the smallest of all those who seek America’s shores. It is difficult to appraise accurately the share of the colonial Swedes and their descendants in the growth of America. 17 Bancroft's estimates are correct, 0 per cent of the population of the United States are descendants «f the earlier Swedes of the Delaware Valley. In the fifth canto of his poem, ange- Ine.” Longfellow refers to one oi the old Swedish churches in Philadelphia which churches always bore the inscrip- tian, “Glory to God.” In the adoption cf the Constitution in 1787 Delaware was in the yan. The sentiment of the Swedish descendants there was unani- mous n favor of a more periect Union The Nev: York Herald Tribune, on May %. published an nforming editorial, headed ew Sweden,” recording the forming of the Swedish West India Company, at the suggestion of William Ullenix. who gave the initiative to the Netherlands West India Company, which founded New Amsterdam. which is now New York. Gustav Adolph’s great chaucellor. Oxenstierna, seug the ex- pedition in 1637-1638 which founded the col ony at the head oi Declaware Bay. This same great Swedish statesman and man of God. Oxcustierna. was a pioneer in educa- tion. who brought the great Moravian scholar, Commgnius, to Sweden for the pur- pose of reorgan¥zing the school system. The result was the school ordinance oi 1648, with a system oi instruction to which no other country should show a parallel. Tt is interesting to recall that Commenius (in 1658) composed his celebrated “The Visible World,” the first picture book ever printed for children. Peter Minuit, the Walloon, who had led the expedition which had purchased Man- hattan Island from the Indians, built Fort Amsterdam and was the first governor of this colony. He had entered the Swedish service after disagreements with the direc- tors of the Dutch Netherlands. The ter- centenary of Peter Minuit's purchase was celebrated this week at Battery Park by the Greenwich Village Historical Society, headed by Mrs. Catherine Parker Clivette. These pioneer settlements were founda- tion stonts of America, as they established, three centuries ago, the granite, enduring. V'iking qualities and demonstmited that what is true of the Swedes is equally true of the American composite. As if led by their pathfinder, America’s discoverer, Lief Erics- son, they took theiy rightful place in the establishment of spiritual America. To the Swedes we must give large credit for the Commonwealth named after William Penn. They laid the basis for the civil and religious structure of Delaware, New Jersey and 5 ia and made carly settlements in Maryland hey crected the first temples of worship in these colonies. They estab- lished the first schools, translated Luther's catechism in the Indian langwage and were the first to begin missionary work among the Lenapes Indians. The Indians referred to them as brothers. hey built the first church organs south of Boston. drew the first detailed maps oi their section, wrote the first geography of the Fastern States. They made the first astronomical and weathers observations; they wrote the first philological treatises of the Lenape dialect and made the first botanical study of the region. They established the first law courts and first trials by jury. They laid the foun- dation for a fair and humane treatment of the Indians and thus saved Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware from the bloody i of New England, New Amsterdam ginia. They were the first (ol;ppme slavery. No plan for colonizing America (save only that of the Puritan Pilgrims) was conceived in nobler thought or dedicated to a higher purpose than that of Gustav Adolph and his chancellor, Oxenstierna, both among the great men of all time. In the height oi his victories over the armies oi absolutism, in church and state. this great-minded ruler drew up at Nuremberg. in northern Ger- many, in 1632. a recommendation of this col- ony the jewel of his kingdom.” Oxen- stierna, far-seeing statesman, Protestant and man of God, declared that the results of the colonization of America men_of the North would be “favorable to all Christen- dom, to Europe and to the whole world.” Sweden was the first country to offer us aid after the Revolution. In the arts we are greatly her debtor. Sweden produced American the first . painter of note, Gustav Hesselius, whose son. John, was the teacher of Charles Wil- liam~ Peale, father of Rembrandt Peale. John Hesselius was probably largely respon- sible for directing the elder Peale in his career as an artist. The musical de_\'elopmen}s through the various singing societies and educational centers founded by Swedes are a vital con- tribution to America. One of the most notable instances is Lindsborg. No city of its size in America can be compared to, this little Kansas town in its musical activity. Here has developed a unique organization, a chorus founded in 1882 for the purpose of singing Handel's “Messiah.” 1In 1900 it at- tracted Nation-wide attention. Nothing in America can be compared to this achieve- ment, except perhaps the Bach Festival at Bethlehem, Pa. Bethany College is today, perhaps, the most important musical center in the great Southwest. Not only the Swedes, in Kansas and neighboring States, go to Lindsborg and enjoy “The Messiah,” but Anglo-Americans and others in increas- ing-numbers. Of the student body nearly 60 per cent in the musical: department are now of non-Swedish origin. The effect of Sweden's lovely folk music is healthy and American, as it seldom deals with sensuous elements, concerning itself mentally with the beauty of nature. Swed- ish names always reflect in their form the mountains, trees and flowers of their native land. So long ago as 1631 Gustav Adolph took measures to preserve Swedish folk America Acknowledges Spiritual Debt to Sweden, in Honoring -Crown Prince Gustav Adolph and Crown Princess Louise {Sweden’s Heroic Protestant Pioneers and Early Settlers Recalled as Our Government Yesterday Dedicated Monument to John | Ericsson, Namesake of America’s Discoverer, the Norseman, Leif Ericsson (Reprint of Address Delivered by Kitty i | music. and no foreign erement in Americz, except the Germsas, has accomplished more for the betterment of music. Sweden’s great gift to the world of art, and to humanity at large, is Jenny Lind. Tt has been my privileged work to study in minute detail every footstep in the liie of this great artist and woman—the exquisite, crystalline purity of her mentality; the struggles which were hers through the iu- evitable conflict with the materialism which warred with her highly developed spiritual nature. To her art was God’s instrument by which she could reach her fellow man. As she so simply puts it in a letter to my kinsman, Prof. Blackie of Edinboro, "My un- cegsing prayer is that what I give to my iellows may continue to live on through cternity, and that the Giver of my gift, and not just the creature to whom He lent it may be acknowledged.” The Bible was to her the book of books She gave up her great career at its highest moment that she might ponder in quiet and seclusion its mighty truths. One does not wonder that she suggests the nightingale. which in shy retirement pours out from the fragrant” woods its lovely melodies io uplift and bless. No wonder that those who heard her declared that such tone was never heard before. It was the tone defined by the great leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. when she said, * is more than sound in unison. I want not only quality. quantity tion in tone, but the unction of love. is divine. Mind, not matter. makes music: and if the divine tone be lacking, the human tone has no melody for me.” (Message for 1900, p. 11.) Jenuy Lind's tone poured out from the great heart of love, and we can imagine wh) little children vere soothed by its life-giving tenderness, why kings and queens bowed before the royal sovereignty oi her sway why Daniel Webster rose when the Swedish nightingale sang “Home, Sweet Home.” and turned. with tears in his eyes, to John How- ard Payne. the shy author oi the song speechless with awe at the divine revelation of home which she gave. Other great women who bind us in spirit ual comradeship with Sweden are Fredericke Bremer and Selma Lagerlof (Lagerlof mean- ing laurel wreath). The American-Scandi navian Foundation has published the letters “redericke in book form, under the title i i iti and from this feminist we gain a keener i insight into the greatness of our Nation than is possessed by many Amer- icans. To Selma lagerlof. who won_ the Nobel prize for literature and whose “Christ Legends” it was my honor to adapt and first make known iram the platiorm in Amer ica—to her we owe the iruitage of a rare mentality, which has stimulated and made interesting and lovely education for chil- dren throughout the world. Her great love for and knowledge of animals and birds. as well as her deeper works, have given her a master's touch, springing frem God and ex- pressing the soul of Sweden. Let us also briefly mention the American citizen of Swedish parentage, Capt. George Fried of the U. S. S. President Roosevelt whose recent heroic rescue of the crew of the British steamer Antihoe, accomplished with spiritual modesty, has mads him be- loved and honored throughout the world. And finally we touch upon the name of John Ericsson. As Lincoln wrote of Wasl:- mgton, ct us pronounce the name, and in deathless splendor leave it shining on.” God gave John Fricsson to us from Sweden in the hour oi our greatest need. Today our distinguished Swedish guests, Crown Prince Gustav Adolph and Crown Princess Louise, with the President and representatives of our Government, pay John Ericsson tribute at the dedication of the plaster model of the memorial erected to him by the Amer- ican Government and designed and executed by James Fraser. who was born in the midst of Swedish colonists of the Northwest. The memorial stands en the banks of the Po- tomac. in sweet sanctuary with the memo- rials to the Father of Our Country, George Washington, to whom I have the honor to be related. and the preserver of our Union, Abraham Lincoln, both oi Norse ancestry John ssom, a true spiritual Pilgrim, was blessed from childhood with great inventive genius, which constantly uniolded under his sturdy Protestant spirit of endurance. He was the inventor oi the propeller which is today used by steamships. In the letter and spirit he lives eternally as an apostle of true Americanism. “Without money and with- out price” he gave to America the conse- crated efforts of his life of research and in- vention, as expressed in the ironclad Moni- tor. at a great crisis in American history. On August 29. 1861, John Ericsson wrote to President Lincoln, in reply to_the call requesting proposals for the building of ironclad steam vessels: “I seek no private advantage or emolument of any kind. At- tachment to the Union alone impels me to offer my services at this fearful crisis—my life, if need be—in the great cause which Providence has called_you to defend.” So speaks the child of Gad. In conversation with an humble mechanic. who was Erics son’s aid in his workshop for many years. T iearned what | had intuitively ~felt—the simple rugged greatness of the man whose deathless reality brings America and Sweden in even closer relationship at this hour. In paying national honors to John Erics- son and in welcoming to our shores our dis- tinguished guests, Crown Prince Gustav Adolph and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden, we recall with gratitude and affec- tion the great contributions which our brother country and Protestant nation has made to America. We extend to Sweden and her honored envoys our hands and our hearts and look forward with confidence and expectancy to the day when all Nordic Protestant nations shall icel and acknowl- edge the closeness of their kinship, under God and His Christ. SWEDEN'S FLAG / Flame on high, beloved symbol, Warm us when the blasts blow cold ! Give, from out thy folds of azure, Love, that stronger is than all! Sweden’s banner, Sweden’s honor! Olden treasure, promise new! God is ‘with us; He shall sirongly - Guard our free, our Sweaish falk. *{° K. G. &ssiannsisson. OUR AMERICA America, .our. God of Love, Whose name is every name above, Is thy defense. k *Tis Christ must lead the longing world From phantom fears to Love’s unfurled Omnipotence. I Alice Morgan Hervisen,