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THE AM ERI CAN-SCAN DIN AVI AN REVIEW 
Sweden 
Cj[ The auditors appointed by the Riksdag to examine into the admin¬ 
istration of the various departments and bureaus of the State have 
now completed their work and presented their report. Usually this 
report does not attract much attention, but this year it has made a 
tremendous stir by its revelations of abuses. It was found that public 
funds had been squandered in many ways, notably by committees 
which had been especially wasteful in their ordering of printed mat¬ 
ter. Criticism was directed especially at the office of the State account¬ 
ant, an office created for the express purpose of promoting economy 
in administration, and its head, Director Tenow, has been forced to 
ask for a leave of absence. In fact, newspapers have demanded his 
resignation. Among the abuses uncovered is that of public employees 
handing in expense accounts for longer journej^s than they have 
actually taken, and in some departments there has been lack of con¬ 
trol of the work of the staff. €J On the whole, the report of the 
auditors has revealed a deplorable moral laxity which crept in during 
the general demoralization at the time of the war. On the other 
hand, the manner in which it has been received indicates that t e 
Swedes are determined to cleanse their country of all political and 
departmental rottenness. ^Dr. Bitter, Roman Catholic bishop of 
Sweden, has made a formal protest to the educational depaitmen 
against certain passages in Swedish school-books which he says are 
misleading and tend to give the children a false conception of the 
Catholic church. He demands that they be either stricken out or 
revised. This protest is connected in the public mind with the propa¬ 
ganda for the advancement of Catholicism which has been noticeable 
lately" The department of education has taken the stand that the 
passages in question, which deal with the conditions encountered by 
Luther at the time of the Reformation, are in accordance with truth, 
and in this they are supported by historical and pedagogical authori¬ 
ties in Sweden, tj The commission appointed by the State to deal 
with the problem of unemployment reports that during the late 
autumn the number of persons out of work rose to 105,000, ol whom 
only 22,700 received cash subsidies. The famous open ail museum 
Skansen in Stockholm has just received a magnificent donation from 
Countess von ITallwyl, who has bought and presented to the museum 
the studio of the recently deceased artist Julius Kronberg with all 
its furnishings, finished and unfinished paintings, and works of art 
by other artists besides the late owner. The museum has formerly 
acquired similar mementos of Victor Rydberg August Strindberg, 
and of its own founder, Arthur Hazelius. <JTo the list of great 
Swedes who have died recently must be added the name of the singer 
Kristina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, horn in a small crofter s 
hut in Smaland 78 years ago. 
