Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1928 — Page 8

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LIVE RIGHT AND YOU GET YOUR RUMINSWEDEN Liquor Control Is Real in Scandinavian Country Under Bratt Plan. Sweden tried prohibition. It failed. Now a rigid system of State control Is being tried, successfully. William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor, has made an intensive study of the plan, and herewith presents the third of a series on the workings of the system. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS ' Foreign Editor, Scripps-Howard Newspapers. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 7.—lt is much easier to get'drunk in prohibition America, stay drunk, and eventually die of the D. T.’s than it is here in Sweden, where liquor is under control. In America your bootlegger will sell you all you want. He doesn’t give a rap how drunk you get or how long you stay drunk. All he want* is your money. In Sweden as long as you live the life of a decent, sober, father of a family, pay your bills, take care of your dependents, and don’t get drunk, you may have a strictly limited quantity of excellent wine or liquor. Misbehave and your supply will be reduced or cut off pronto. It’s the Bratt system that does it and it is making the former harddrinking Sweden a far more temperate nation than the United States. Here is the way it works: First, there is a semi-official concern, the National Wine and Spirits

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venting even the government being financially interested in sales. To buy a bottle of wine or liquor at one of the system stores, you must have a passbook. You must specify exactly what you want and sign your name, a copy of your signature being on file at the particular store. To obtain such passbook, you must file formal application several pages long. You must state age, whether married or single, how many children, correct home address, the kind of job you have and a whole lot more. All this is verified by the system. And inasmuch as nobody is going to make money out of selling liquor, the verification will be real. If you’ve lied, you get no passbook.

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and then if it hurts no one. including yourself, you will be allowed a limited ration of alcohol, you may legally claim it. Otherwise not. And that—in Sweden—is that, very decidedly. Nf xt: Drinking in Public.

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