Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 26 | Measures Reduce Swedish Drinking

I MEASURES REDUCE SWEDISH DRINKING DRINKIN STOCKHOLM I Kov ov 2 24 A P A- A AThe AI I The total lies o 0 hird liquor In IS Sw Sn eden now no average only one gal gal- gallion galIon pal Ion lion Ion a oar ear for e every ery man woman i and child In the and the tarl sales sates of ot wine Ine win amount to less than on ony pint per r capita ac- ac nc COI ding to the tha official statistics I made public l bv LIV v the tho Liquor Con Con- Control Con administration con I The report states that the tho sales sails of spirituous us liquors In b Sn eden I hate o deci eased 42 2 per cent since 1913 1313 and that the quantity sold In 1022 as as 3 32 11 1 per lr cent less than thanIn thanin thanIn In the In last t two t o 0 yera ye I the tho salo sale of ot vines Ines fell it oft off by 42 61 per cent These Theto figures how that the tir I Bratt Bratt System of ot liquor control I iIII In III b Sweden Sneden edEn is r the tir of drinking In the country AcI Ac- Ac I to this any respectable respectable respect- respect I able able adult who I supporting self pas 5 his taxes and Is not addicted I I to may obtain a II pass hook hool which when presented presented at a lore enables him to buy a certain quantity of spirituous liquor for tor home homo con con- consumption con consumption Not more mor than about a gallon a month can be obtained 01 o this book Tho The d of at the al j Is kept and it If It ft is found i that hi hl privilege results In drunkenness drunk drunk- drunkenness enness the tho maximum may be re- re reduced reduced r or his book withdrawn Six ty three per cent c nt of ot all tho the males In Sc 5 Sweden eden ovel oset the th ago aco of ot 24 U holds such bools bool's bool