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Juvenile delinquency is high. Officials blame it largely on the fact that jobs are easy to get. A 17-year-old is likely to make 500 kroner a month ($96.50) and has money to burn on drink and excitement. Most of the juvenile crimes are thefts of cars and motorcycles, done for the hell of it.
Said a clergyman of Sweden's Lutheran State Church: "Our churches are empty. We do not seem to be able to interest the young. But nobody else seems able to interest them either."
Invisible Wall. Are these Swedes happy? They usually say yes. But the panorama of Swedish life seems to say no. An invisible wall seems to divide them from each other and from the world. Each sits in his own little cellar, inattentive to the riven world and determined to enjoy his own Golden Peace which—he feels—hard work, right thinking, progressive sewage disposal and a little luck have earned him.
Sweden would be an asset to Western defense, but nothing will get the Swedes out of their cellar except a war on Sweden.