Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-21 | Page 18 | Swedes Get Their Liquor in Moderate Quantity

I Swedes Get Their Liquor LiquorI I In Moderate 9 Quantity I. I ITS OPERATION t I Sweden's alcohol control contro law lawI provides A monopoly In the sale ale of ul ull all I spirits and wines stronger thann 36 per cent distribution being through the Stockholm met a a. government agency Restriction of of or purely s Jurch s of 01 I spirits to a maximum of or four liters or approximately one galI galIon gallon gal gal- Ion lon a month to heads of ot house house- holds I Limitation of ot purchases to holders of ot the book serving as a permit and identification identification cation and for tor keeping a a. record I of ot purchases I Reasonably liberal sale of ot I light wines and beer In cafes eares and restricted sale of liquors Ii i with h meals in r restaurants ur tl I I IN By GEORGE BRITT BRITTNEA BRITTNEA N NEA EA Service Writer CHICAGO Dec 21 It If If one takes takeR I Ia a high power thirst to Sweden hed he'd best go as a member of oC the diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic corps Otherwise the thirst may be unquenched Liquors may be sold only in limited limited limited lim lim- quantities and those who drink on a heroic scale cant can't buy any at all sa says s 's Ira Nelson Morris for tor ten years ambassador f to Sweden Swe Swe- den who resigned recently and has returned here to his home city on a visit The system seems nearly ideal at least for tor Sweden It does not apply to foreign diplomats so my opinion Is purely academic My Iy knowledge of 01 the la law 1 came nio mf from countr countrymen countrymen coun coun- tr men who beset the chancellery with vain appeals for help in finding findIng find find- Ing a n. leak LITTLE DRUNKENNESS But the present Swedish system of ot liquor control is a success There was determined effort to change it to bone dry prohibition last year but the vote sustained it The law now seems a well established part of ot national policy How that system would work Inthe in inthe the tho United States is a different question I dont don't know I have been away so much I cannot even say how the present system is working here hert I Conditions of 01 life lIte are different In Sweden of course and it seems to me the p people ar are I les less s inclined n. n I j. j Ff r A IRA NELSON MORRIS I than the average to alcoholic ex ex- I ex-I cess One may mav see drunkenness occa occa- It is unusual howe however howe er Statistics show that consumption of or alcohol was reduced more than 26 25 per cent during the first seven years year after the tho law became effective Arrests Arrests Arrests Ar Ar- drunkenness rests for drunk drunkenness were reduced 49 per cent Te primary primary- objectives of ot the system ac according to the former ambassador are to reduce the Individual in individual individual In- In alcohol ration to deny al alcohol alcohol alcohol al- al cohol altogether to those known to abuse it and to eliminate private interests In Interests Interests In- In from the traffic The plan was devised by Dr Ivan Bratt and put into oper operation in 1914 GOVERNMENT PROFITS The government makes a considerable considerable considerable consid consid- erable profit legitimately from sales of ot liquor Morris says Prices arc are rather high A quart of ot whisky costs nearly 4 The revenue has been used to purchase and maintain several se-eral government hotels and restaurants as well as for Cor the general welfare Clergymen men cooperate p with t the p public authorities in many parishes in the Issuance of oC or per per- permits permits mits to purchase liquor The applicant applicant applicant ap ap- ap- ap must st be registered In a parish b before tore he gets a book and andin andin in many instances his pastor certifies certifies certifies fies that he Is all right and should receive it countries have ha varying forms of liquor laws none exactly like Uke There is some smuggling but ver very little