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SWEDEN UNDER SOCIALISM.

IMPRESSIONS OF A RESIDENT.

THE WHOLE RACE BEÏNG STANDARDISED.

A DULL UTOPIA.

[BY DOUGLAS GOLDRING.)

The Cult Of Education,

It is the aim of the

SURVEYING B.N. BORNEO.

SCHEME IN CHARTERED TERRITORY.

A BIG ADVENTURE IN WILD COUNTRY.

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An interesting account of" a scheme for a complete survey of British North Borneo was given in

The rapid strides which Sweden beans on Thursday, "Why must the B.N.R. Herald, which states has made since the beginning of the you?" "Why, because you must." that last year the Court of Direc present century, not only in wealth Rightly or wrongly came to attritors decided to carry out during and prosperity but also in the bute this flattering out of the in- the years 1929-39 a major trigono- general estimation of her European dividuality" to Swedish methods of metrics! survey of North Borneo, neighbours, have had the effect of education.

This is interesting in that Borneo focussing attention on a country of

is, we think we are correct in stat- which curiously little was heard in

The Swedes have for generations ing one of the few countries of England before the war.

made a fetish of education. Fast which no such survey exists and In the past few years, however,

sums of public, money are annually of which therefore no really ac thanks partly to the activities of the Anglo-Swedish society

spent on it, and prodigious private curate map is extant. Our neigh and partly to the action of the Socialist benefactions have multiplied edu.bour, Sarawak, during 1996 Was Government which has been in cational institutions throughout the surveyed by serial photography, which is now becoming an increas power for about a decade, there country.

ingly popular method, especially has been quite a boom in Sweden, present Government to raise the in tropical countries, which are so far, as England is concerned. The Swedish people, en masse, by means covered to a great extent by heavy country has come, more than ever of intensive education, ta the forest. The survey, we understand, before, into the journalistic lime highest level attained by any nation was a complete success the sources light. Much has appeared in the in the world. But education, in of rivers as yet unexplored, and

large tracks of unknown territory: English "Press" about Swedish their view, must be strictly con being accurately mapped architecture, Swedish sculpture, trolled, standardised, and utilitar-Negotiations were carried out with Swedish education, the Bratt Jan. Private schools, if no similar survey of North Borneo, but the company in question for a System." Swedish gymnastics, mas pressed, are not encouraged; and it the expense proved too great and sage, matches,

is said to be the desire of the the project was shelved. There is milk-separators, hard-bread, ball-bearings, and even, Socialists to force all Swedish child- no doubt that an accurate triangu thanks to Strindberg and Mr. G.

ren, of all classes, to receive their lation of the country is badly nesded; minor triangulations B. Shaw, Swedish literature. The primary teaching at the State covering about 500 square miles tourist traffic between the two coun- schools, where, of course, they are have been carried oat on this cost tries, despite the difficulties in the all shaped in the same mould. The and at other places in the State to enable estates and roads, etc., way, has lately shown a consider most striking result of Sweden's to he surveyed and connected up able increase; and Stockholm at efforts in public education has been and accurate locality plans made feast is now generally recognised to an enormous "levelling-up" of the but it is a well-known axiom in surveying never to work from the be one of the sights of Europe, maeses

lower middle-class part to the whole, but always from which no one who can afford to visit standard. Simultaneously there has the whole to the para it should miss.

gone on A insufficiently-noted... levelling down of the classes to the same standard. The whole Swedish race, in a word, is in danger of becoming standardised.

Stockholm is indeed an enchant ing city, but just as New York is not America", so Stockholm is not Sweden. In the "Venice of the North" is collected most of the art and culture and the best of the social and intellectual life of Sweden, and it is there, and in some of the unspoiled country districts, that she shows to the foreign visitor all the most attractive aspects of her national character. But there is all the difference in the world between the capital, with its com- parative ease and gaiety and its aristocratic and artistic leven, and

to

Triangles 20-50 Miles Long"" A main net-work of triangles, miles in length must first be run whose legs may vary from .90-50 over the whole country and major trigonometrical stations accurately fixed, after which secondary tran gulation and the use of the plane. table will enable topographical de- tails to be filled in. The only mapa of North Borneo now to be had are

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Position Of The Middle Class, This extraordinary inflation of the Swedish middle-class, which has taken place in recent years, hae pro- to a great extent based, except in duced a state of things which can the coastal regions, on the efforts hardly satisfy anyone but the statis. of District Officers, who have com- pleted during their travela "rough ticians. While the professions in maps of their districts by means Sweden are hopelessly ovekirowded, of a compass and highly-skilled engineers, doc will be a suitable base of sufficient The Arst essential for this survey tors, gymnasts, and even clerks and length, which will have to be of stenographers find it increasingly several miles probably about 3 or difficult to earn a bare living in. We understand that Mr. T. J

H. Speedy, the Chief Surveyor, "the industrial towns of the pro has grown by comparison more and of flat laud in the neighbourhood their own country, the artisan class has been looking for such a stretch vinces, with their old-fashioned, petit-bourgeois outlook, and their more privileged. The workinen atmosphere of strenuous and formal have powerful unions, and are pro- gloom.

tected by laws which ensure them decent housing accommodation, sick- pay, and provision for old age. Their hours of work and rates of pay are regulated, and are in most

Cleanliness And Dulness.

It was not in Stockholm, bat in a large industrial town and seaport

of Tenom, but has not yet, heen successful. We would have thought that somewhere in the region of Keningau, or the Sook valley, would have provided a sufficiently long stretch of the requisite fat. land, but no doubt technical con. siderations have entered into the This base for the existing triangu- choice of Tenom for the base-site.

Hills And Jungles

many

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THE LAWRENCE SCIENCE BUILDING. OPENED.

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in the South of Sweden, that for cases better than those of the unlation on this coat is at Papar over two years I had the interesting fortunate middle-class employees, sad is 2 miles long. experience of watching Swedish whose ranks the "levelling-up" pro- Socialism in action. When I first cess is continuously swelling. The the man, who is about to take the No light undertaking confronta arrived there, in, February, 1925, clerk, the shop-assistant, the steno task of mapping Borneo's hills and to take up my duties as English grapher, and the young professional jungles It will mean Lektor in a newly-founded" Uni- men and women must get along as

months of jungle work ix" al versity College of Commerce best they can. They have no pro houses, or in leaf shelters or tents, weathers, camping in patite (Handelshögskola), I was struck at tection, and owing to the extreme as the survey proceeds further in- once by the remarkable cleanliness difficulty of finding employment climbing, the highest hills to erect to the forests of the far interior; and orderliness of the place. There they are generally thankful to work beacons and take theodolite angles;

At the famous -School, for-Girle was no siga either of poverty or like slaves for a mere pittance. cutting rentines and clearing the of ostentatious wealth. Everybody, Sweating, of a kind which in Eng- Neither will the cost be light. opened last month a new science trees around to obtain clear views at Roedean, Brighton, there was the working classes especially, look land would cause an outburst of Surveys of this nature are always building which has been erected to "ed well-fed, well-dressed and pros- public indignation, is all too expensive to carry out, but doubly perous. The whole town was in common where the highly-trained communications are difficult, and the Founders, the Misses Lawrence. so in a country such as this, where commemorate the great work of deed so trim, so formal, so well-middle-class workers are concerned, where the billy forest clad nature run as to be scarcely human. And and appears to arouse no protest of the terrain will necessitate big.

Sir Charles Sargaat (formerly if the truth must be owned, I soon An Interesting Experiment.

gangs of coolies for rentising and Lord Justice Sargant), who pre- clearing.

We have no doubt eided, said that the Misses Low- found it dull to desperation. Once, Today Sweden is in the midst of though that the Survey Depart rence, by their sagacity, their pro- to a Swedish lady of my acquaint a highly-interesting experiment, the ment will carry the work through vision, and their strenuous indivi- ance, I bewailed the fact that no results of which will not be known and that the means wi

with thoroughness and efficiency dual work, had brought the school one seemed to keep a cat. Sho for at least a generation. Can a ed by the results, which will be ap- which it had now reached. looked at me gravely for a while, whole people be levelled-up" by parent in more accurate plans and and then observed: "Oh, but, you legislation, by control," by inten- which local surveys will be able to naps and the greater ease with 'see, we haven't any mice."

sive utilitarian "education, and by be carried out. After a time I came almost to the stern application of Pure Rea believe that the Socialists had on And is it practicable or succeeded in establishing in Sweden

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the rule of Pure Reason, so easy desirable that they should be so was it to divine, behind each lovelled? It remains to be seen. regulation, the solid, brass-bound Certainly the country has made Theory out of which it sprang. The amazing progress, in material worst of Pure Beason, however, things, in a very short period. The when applied to the government of Swedes are a splendid race, am- human beings, is that it tends to bitious and determined, full of multiply restrictions on liberty and courage and tenacity, and there is necessitates endless control. As no knowing what, in time, they may Swedish friend remarked to me, not accomplish. Perhaps, with the

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I can hardly imagine a better res sult of their life's work than this.", Sir William Bragg, President- Elect of the British Association, opened the building, and spoke on the place of science in human life, Science and humanity, he said, | MODERN AND ECCENTRIC were companions, Continued scien tific discovery had affected the habite and industries of men, to such an extent that if all scienti Sic discoveries were withdrawn to

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The mystery disease which at tacked 50 Bow Street police officers has spread to the Paddington die-morrow the greater part of the trict, says a Home paper. the trouble with this country, growth of prosperity, they may have

English population would perich Three young officers from Notting miserably. He trusted that in the under the prezent Government, is more leisure to give of the human Hill section of this area were sud Science School, which he admired that everybody is busy "controlling itics, to the arts and graces of denly taken ill. They were sent as an instance of the affection of spected by the large company, everyone else." A kind of baffling, social life, and may even learn to to St. Thomas's Hospital, where old students for the school and for unseizable "control" seemed even indulge such pleasant follies as the resident Furgoon came to the those who made it limona, they portrait, was unveiled in the school to be exercised over the very mids, keeping eats for their own amuse- conclusion that one at least was would realise that they were dere hall of Miss Dorothy Lawrence, of most of the young men and ment instead of for the extinction suffering from a form of food poi-loping their part of the spirit which painted by Mr. Hugh Riviere, and women with whom I came in con- of mice. At present, to a Western eoning

made England what it was to-day.....

tact. One got to feel that all their European, the industrial towns in At that time 40 of the Bow Street likes and dislikes, all their opinions the Swedish Provinces seem in a officers were still ill. and ideas, had been dictated to rather cheerless transition state, After analysis of the food eup them from some standardised, book over-much dominated by Professor plied in the station canteen it was of rules, and accepted without quem No-doy and the ghost of Jeanet rated or we suspected of tron. You must have pork and Sintics,

causing the alekuem,"

After the building had been in-

Subsequently a tablet of compresented by old girls and ether memoration Wa unveiled in the friends of No. 1 Bouss. entrance hall by the Hon. Mrs. Among those present were the Home Peel, President of the Old two surviving Misses Lawrence and Bordeimar Assistio litir brother, Zora Justice (Continued

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