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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1939
THE NEWBERRY SUN
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Of Peace, Good Will to Men
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FINNS mystical
Nobody who knows the Finnish
people can fail to admire their racial
qualities of honor, high moral stand
ards and industry. There are half a
dozen Finnish clubs and societies in
New York where I have frequently
been a guest at parties of various
kinds. The more I see of Finns the
more I like them.
When I was a boy in a New Eng
land seaport town I used to hear
seafaring men express great respect
for the Finns as sailors, but they
often stood somewhat in awe of
their supposed ability to work magic.
It ,is an old superstition that a Finn
can raise a gale by calling on the
ancient gods of his people, and ship
masters used to be wary of offending
a Finnish seaman.
To tnany people there seems to
be something mystical in the Finnish
character. They really are unlike
any other people except their ra
cial cousins of the eastern Baltic
shores and the other members of
the Finno-Ugraic race of northern
Asia. The Finns came out of Asia
into Finland about 1.200 years ago.
Ever since then Russia and Sweden
have been fighting to gam control
of their country, and the Finns have
fought many wars with both.
CHRISTIANS . . . independence
The Finns brought with them to
Europe an ancient religion much
like that of the American Indians.
When the Swedes invaded and con
quered Finland in 1157 they brought
an English bishop with their army.
Bishop Henry remained and began
a mission which resulted in the gen
eral conversion of the Finns to
Christianity. He was killed on one
of his trips to a lonely region, was
afterwards declared a saint by the
church, and today Saint Henry is
the patron saint of Finland.
Many Finns relapsed into pagan
ism after St. Henry’s death, and in
1209 another English missionary,
Bishop Thomas, took up Henry’s
work and not only brought the
whole people into the Christian fold i
but encouraged them to fight for
their independence against Sweden.
There has been a great revival of
the spirit of Christianity in recent
years in Finland, and in Sweden.
The long-time dislike of the two
peoples for each other has given
place to mutual tolerance and re
spect. Sweden was the first of many
nations to offer aid to Finland when
the Russians invaded the country a
few weeks ago.
HIAWATHA folk-lore
The Finns brought from Asia the
folk-lore of their ancestors handed
down from generation to generation
by word of mouth, and taking the
form of poetical narrative in a
rhythm peculiarly their own.
Just about a hundred years ago
lar installments on the money our
Government lent for war and rehabi
litation purposes. The Finns borrow
ed no money from us for war, but
after the war we supplied them with
about 44 million dollars worth of
food. They paid 36 millions in cash
and gave us notes for the remaining
eight millions.
There is talk in Washington of
either cancelling the remaining Fin
nish debt, or in some other way
showing our national sympathy for
them, as England, Sweden, Norway,
Denmark and other nations are do
ing. The Finns’ high sense of honor
has won them the respect of the
whole world.
Not since the invasion of Belgium
by the Germans in 1914 has a small
nation’s plight aroused such a uni
versal wave ot genuine sympathy.
And, like the Belgians, the Finns
have proved their courage and their
fighting qualities in resisting the in
vaders.
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The most difficult and at the same
time the most dangerous organ to
treat surgically is the human heart.
Surgeons formerly looked upon it
as a sort of terra incognito into
which they dared not venture, and
one famous authority, as recently as
1883, said that “the surgeon who
would attempt to suture a human
heart would lose the respect of his
collegues.”
Despite his high standing in the
profession, there was those who did
not accept his belief, and felt that
nothing could be gained if no at
tempt was made in this special field
of work.
In 1895 Dr. Cappelan sutured a
stab wound of the heart. Deftly he
took several stitches in that perpet
ually moving organ, but the patient
died in two days. The first step had
been taken.
Dr. Farina made the second effort
with the same result in 1896. Then
came Dr. Rehn in 1897, and after
several stitches were taken in the
heart of a man he recovered.
.During the followinig years 124
cases of stabs in the heart were re
ported sutured, and the net result
was that 48 of the victims recovered
and suffered no inconveniences in
later life from the injury or opera
tion.
From that time up until 1920
medical literature reports 305 cases
of stab, bullet and other heart wounds
which were sewn by surgeons, and
of these 154 recovered and were able
to resume their former occupations,
showing no signs of discomfiture.
Up to 1923 about 66 per cent of
the cases thus treated survived, and
surgery is one of the outstanding
triumphs of the medical, world.
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this rate of increasing recoveries
a Finnish writer went all over the l will undoubtedly continue, so that
country getting the old people to re- on e may definitely say that cardie
cite the fragments of the ancient
myths and legends. The 12,000 lines
of verse which Dr. Elias Lonnrot col
lected he wrote in the form of a
great national epic poem, called the
“Kalevala.”
A young American poet, Henry
Wadsworth Longefellow, read the
Kalevala saga, and got the idea of
a similar collection of folk-tales of
the American Indians. He wrote
them in poetical form, in the iden
tical rythm of the Kalevala, and call
ed the poem “Hiawatha.” It was
the first poem in the English lan
guage written in the ancient Finnish
meter.
The publication of the Kalevala
was the beginning of modem Fin
nish literature. The nation has pro
duced many great writers since then,
and one of the greatest musical com
posers in the world, Dr. Jan Sibelius.
CHAMPIONS k ports
One of. the roads by which the
Finns have come into world-wide
fame in recent years is through their
skill in athletics. The world’s re
cords for three-mile, four, five, and
six mile runs are held by Finns, and
Paavo Nurmi, who has run many
races in America, holds the world
record for an hour’s run.
Looking over the list of world
champions in the Olympic games
for the past forty years I found the
names of Finns like Nurmi and
Kohlemianen as winners in almost
every year, with Finnish discus
throwers, javelin throwers and par
ticipants in other sports figuring
often as winners against the athletes
of the whole world.
Finland had high hopes of getting
the Olympic games for 1940, which
had been scheduled for Japan.
Japan is out, and now it looks as
if Finland might be out, unless the
rest of the world comes to her res
cue and succeeds in driving the
Russians out of the country. The
World War of 1914-18 caused the
cancellation of the Olympic games
for 1916. It looks now as if the
present war might make it necces-
sary to drop another four-year sport
ing event.
CfUIIUHU
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sW. CHARLES E. DUNN
The first part of the lesson tells
of the nativity of Jesus and gives
incidents familiar to Bible readers.
Christmas Eve is a goood time to re
view these. As we think of all that
the Babe of Bethlehem has meant to
the world we should readily agree
that the Golden Text has been ful
filled: “A little child shall lead them.”
Then we read how Jesus as a man
exalted childhood and taught the
disciples a lesson of faith and hum
ility. And as he set a child in the
midst of the disciples, let us set a
child in the midst of all our con
cerns. And let us instill the thought
of all the good we desire in our
churches, in society and in the nation
in the hearts of children.
When Hector went forth to fight
his last battles before the walls of
Troy, he would hasten back, during
the breathing spells of the conflict,
to the gate where his wife awaited
him and inquire: “Is the child safe?”
This question should be asked in
every community and city in the land.
Do present conditions assure the safe
ty of the child and give him the safe
ty of the child and give him the op
portunity to unfold in beauty and
truth as the flowers unwold theid
petals to the sun?
How beautiful it was that Jesus
took children into his arms and
blessed them! Whom Jesus has bless
ed let no man in any wise hurt!
And if on Christmas Eve fond mem
ories 0 f our childhood come to us and
the blest relation we sustained of
HONOR courage children to a farther, may we re-
Finland has endeared itself to. joice anew that in that relation Je-
America because it is the only Euro- sus taught us :o look up and say,
pean nation which has paid its regu- “Our Father.”
May you be Blessed at this season
with all the Happiness that
Christmas brings
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Our Christmas Message Is Best
Expressed
By our Sincere Wish that You
May Have a very Merry Christmas
And a very Successful Hew Year.
Frank R. Hunter
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