Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1916, Page 12

12—A “BE GOOD OR YOU WON'T GET LIQUOR” Sweden Hits Upon Novel and Practical Plan to Control Alcohol's Sale. Ii( ‘INTEREST OF MORALITY’ (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Stockholm, Nov. 15.—The city coun- cil has just renewed for a term of three years to the “Stockholm Sys- tem company” the monopoly in the sale of liquors which that company has held for the last three years. An- other organization contested for the franchise, but the council could see no reason for making a change. By renewing the franchise the city authorities have set the stamp of their approval on a novel plan of controlling consumption, which was first intro- duced by the Stockholm company, and in the beginning gave tHe company a unique position among thc" many “disinterested management” = com- panies that have been in existence under the so-called “Gothenburg sys- tem.” This plan, briefly stated, in- volves a system by which those con- trolling the sale of liquor are enabled to say to the consumers: 3 " “Be good, or you'll get no liquor. Dr. Ivan Bratt, a former physician, a sociologist and student of the drink question, is the father of the idea, whose outstanding feature js the reg- ulation of the retail trade hy‘mea“ns o a pass book, called in Swedish “mot- | bok.” Moral Purpose. The old method of controlling the sale of liquor, already referred to as the Gothenburg system, dates from 1855, It had as its spec:fi;allf' Swed- ish feature the monopoly in the trade In addition to this, the chief effort has' been directed to limiting con- sumption of spirits by removing all incentive to an increased sale. The Stockholm company, in addition to enjoying a monopoly of the retail trade at the “off” places, has also a monopoly of the wholesale trade to the holders of the “on” licenses. In the first year of its existence it de- termined the average amount retailed by the respective licenses in the last preceding years and established that figure as the maximum on which they would be permitted to make a profit. On _all sales above that amount the entire profits go to the company. The restaurateur, the saloon keeper, etc., have thus no incentive to increase their sales of liquor, but will rather be inclined to push the sales of beers and wines, which are not under the system’s control, It is Dr. Bratt's plan eventually to eliminate entirely all private pmofits’ on sales of distilled tiquors. The maxima estdblished three years ago wijll, instead of being increased as the city’s population increases, diminish gradually, and it is hoped that it will some day be possible to provide that no gain shall be made on liquors by the holders of “on” licenses. The Stockholm System company differs from an ordinary stock com- pany in two important respects, namely, the manner in which the directors are appointed and the limi- tation of its profits. One of the five directors is named by the state, two are chosen by the city council .of Stockholm, and the other two by the shareholders. The company’s capital is 200,000 crowns, and the profits available for dividends may not exceed S per cent on the capital, mak- ing only 10,000 crowns available for distribution to stockholders. Direc- tors’ salaries and the running ex- penses of the company—rent, pay of some 500 employes, etc.—are paid from gross receipts. State Profits, which it entrusted to quasi-private companies. The whole business in a definite area was placed in the hands of such a company,™ whose profits were limited to a small wmount, and which was, in the words of the old faw, to sell liquor “in the interests of marality.” Apart from their power to /restrict the total sales, however, these companies had no way of get- ting at the individual who used liquor 0_excess. ! Dr. Bratt, after a long study of the matter, conceived the idea of the pass book as the best method of selling liquor “in the interest of merality, a thing which, he felt; was not being chieved under the old system. So :e organized the Stockholm System iompuny-—the Stockholm ~ System int Stock company, to give it it§ |‘|,I|ln:|lme-—lnd secured the monopoly for the capital city three ycars ago. The company has authority to con- duct all retail establishments for the sale of liquor to be drunk off the premises,* but may also delegate fl:‘a thority to'private persons or com- ":niu. ySom:‘:, forty of these sorcalled ‘off" licenses are thus held by per- sons other than the system company, but ‘these will not be extended after the deaths of the present holders. ] Adults’ Passbooks. Control of sales at the “off” places is efigcted by means of the passbook referred to. A passbook is issued to an adult resident of the city upon ap- plication provided his or her record justifies it. The company maintains elaborate card index, in which are ;i:kd not only all persons to whom ks have been issued or from whom ey have been withdrawn, but all persons to wh if they apply, books will not be issued. Books: are not issued to habitual drunkards, to per- sons who have been arrested for drunkenness within a year last past, to paupers or tg persons who have figured unpleasantly in police court records. - A man who has been apar- icipant in a public brawl, for exam- Je, is pretty sure to find, urpn ape lying for a passbock, that his rec- d is contained in the index and hat he can get no book, for the sys- ‘company, co-operating with the hes the newspapers regu- larly fof criminal néws. : 3 dmviction of serious crimes or of _drunkenness results in the withdrawal f the pagsbook. Care has to be taken 0 10! I deaths in the city. Other- ise, said Dr. Pratt, in a talk with Associated Press correspondent, it as been the company's experience hat “about fifteen per cent of all tholders of books keep on drinking Hliquor until the close of the year fol- lowing their death.” Persons feeling hemselves urgrievcd' by the with- drawal or refusal of a passbook may ppeal to the state authoritics, but here have been only four or five ap- peals during the company’s existence, nd none has succeeded. Until recently the passbooks a horized the purchase of sixty liters early, of which not more than one- hird of a liter could be bought every o days. Owing to an enforcing r duction in the distillation of spirits lue to the necessity for conserving Sweden's available supply of bread- tuffs, this amount has just been re- duced to forty-eight liters yearly, and further reduction is probable. ers Sobriety. In this connection Dr. Bratt point- d out what he considers—apart from he furtherance of sobriety through he passbook system-—its economic value. There was, prior to the pass- book system, no adequate or practi- 1| method of r:fiula(ing consumption hroughout the kingdom. The state uthorities, however, were so im- pressed with “the workings of the Bratt system in the first two years of ts existence that it was put into ef- ect all over the kingdom on January , last, whenithe whole country was divided into 102 “control areas,” each ith its own company and its pass- book valid only in the district in hich it is issued. Now, when it be- omes necessary to restrict consump- ion, it can be done precisely as Ger- many, for instance, can regulate its ad consumption by increasing or ucing the amount called for by its - Ybread-cards. “# No liquor can be imported into Swe- en except through. the respective jes. A peculiar feature of the on is that the Stockholm com- ‘police, wa any cerfain brand of liquor de- ired by the Rolder of a passbook. All has to do ¥s to make due applica- “and deposit the money to cov. ts, freight £nd duty. ' The compan secures the desired brand. { ding number ot coupons course, detached from its pass- control the sale of I e of liquors at ing “ e , possible to limit the ;‘Ih;‘nd this has been done. All excess profits accrue to the state. The municipalities, which prior to 1913, received them, now receive ahnual subsidies, which diminish gradually and cease altogether in 1935. Statistics appear to establish Dr. Bratt's claim that his idea has justi- fied itself, In 1913, under the old sys- tem, 5,602,397 liters of distilled liquors ~—mainly what the Swedes call “aqua- vit,” a fiery brandy—were sold in THE OMAHA SUNDAY- BEE: DECEMBER 3, FRENCH SEIZURE ANGERS CHINESE Land Grabbing of France Causes Indignation and Crowds Storm Chamber. BOYOOTT IS THREATENED (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Tien-Tsin, Oct. 31.—France’s aggres- ‘sive action in seizing a strip of dand from the Chinese and annexing it to the French concession, has aroused the deepest indignation among the Chinese population in Tien-Tsin, and threatens to become a subject of im- portant international negotiations. The land seized is somewhat over one-half a mile square, and lies imme- diately south of the Tien-Tsin canal, which separates it from the old part of the French concession.” The strip lies between the Japanese and British concessions, Immediately following the forcible seizure cf the land by the French consul general, M. Henri Bourgeois, and a body of French troops and po- licemen on October 20, indignation meetings were held in the Chinese city and a crowd of 5,000 Chinese marched to the Chamber of Commerce and de= manded.-that influential committees be sent to wait upon various officials to protest against China’s submission to France's aggression. Talk of Boycott. Threats have been made that French goods will be boycotted and | Chinese deposits will be withdrawn | from French banks, if the French persist in retaining the land. News- papers are also advocating that addi- tional Chinese cooligs shall not be permitted to go to France for agricul- tural work unless the French govern- ment restores the land. France first began its efforts-to ob- tain an addition to its concession in Tien-Tsin fourteen years ago. A letter was written at that time by the French government asking Tang Shao, who Tien-Tsin, to grant France a strip of ground over a mile square located south ot the old French concession. Stockholm: In 1915, despite the in- creased population and the great num- ber of foreigners in the city, total sales sank to 3,422,098 liters. Cases of chronic alcoholism reported by dis- trict physicians sank from 492 in 1909, 512 in 1912 and 492 in 1913 to 318 in 1914 and 173 in 1915, There were 537 cases of delirium tremens reported in 1912 and 625 in 1913; in 1914 the num- ber fell to 459 and went down to 363 the following year. Arrests for drunk- enness fell off from some 17,000 in each 1912 and 1913 to 11,878 in 1914 and 11,323 in 1915, The number will be below 10,000 this year, according to_Dr. Bratt. Dr. Bratt himself is not.a teeto- taller, and does not strive for prohi- bition. Prohibition Sentiment. There is, however, a very strong prohibition sentiment in Sweden. Its beginning dates back to 1830, al- though the agitation begun then— which was largely due to an American crusade—abated considerably | after’ the passage of the liquor act of 1855 and did not revive until the end”of the '70s. Then again’ the impulse came from America. The Interna- tional Order of Good Templars pass- ed into Sweden in 1879, and now has nearly 2,500 senior and more than 1,000 junior lodges. In addition, lit- erally dozens of temperance societies exist, with a total membership ap- proaching 500,000. Teetotallers at- tached to dissenting religious bodies, such as the Methodists and the Sal- vation Army, swell this total. In 1909 a joint convention of tem- perance bodies arranged for a vote on the question, of prohibition. No less than 1,884,377 men and , women over 18 years old—that is, more than 55 per cent of the total inhabitants of Sweden of or above that age—voted in its favor. A royal' temperance committee was appointed in Novem- ber, 1911, to prepare a measure for local option and to deal with the question of prohibition. The com- mittee made its recommendations in 1914, but the Riksdag could not reach an agreement and the matter fell through. Indicative of the part played by Sweden in the prohibition movement is the fact that since 1905 a position of International Chief Templar has been filled by the Swede, Edward Waw- rinsky. / Roumanian Jewish Soldier Expresses Bold Opinion (Correspondence of The Assoclated Presw,) Toerzburg, Transylvania, Nov. 15. —Prisoners of war being not unwill- ing to please. their captors, their statements must be taken with a large pinch of salt. Though there be no officer of the enemy present, the prisoner of war cannot be sure that his statements do not become known to the powers into whose hands the fortunes of war has placed him. The Associated Press correspond- ent was able to interview here today two score Roumanian officens and men who had fallen into captivity near Rucar, some twenty miles south of here. No central power officer was within earshot. One of the first men questioned was a Roumanian Jew, a man of some education and standing. He served as a private, to surrender, man almost flew ‘into a rage. them all, involved the country in war. agree with their spokesman, * A ) Captured officers are non-interview- for example, is obliged to im- able, as a rule. The code, as well as tact, forbids that they be questioned a dirty business, Graff to Be Department Leader at Kansas City John D. Shoop, president of the National Educational association, has ‘on” licenses, that |selected Superintendent Graff of the liquor tq be drunk |public schools to conduct a round is not so simple. It |table discussion at a meeting of tte to be superintendents’ department held at Kansas City in February, had Unblushingly he said that he had looked for a chance Questioned why, the He could not see why a Jew should fight for a government which in times of peace gave him no vote and no part in the affairs of his country. He hoped that the central troops would get to Bucharest in a few days and hang especially Bratianu and Take Jonescu, who had so needlessly Six other Jews were a little timid in their expressions, but seemed to heartily but one of them, a tail, handsome fel- low of about 25, gave it as his opinion €r | that the war was “une sale affaire”— The request was so unreasonable i|\“ Tang Shao-yi's opinion that he never wrote a reply. Twelve years later the French government made representa- tions to the foreign office that Tang Shao-yi's silence amounted to consent, and consequently claimed title to the land which it had asked for. French Police. Meantime several French citizens had acquired land in the coveted dis- trict, or at least pretended \that they had acquired property rights there through purchase from Chinese. The French government put some police- men into the district. China pro- tested, but finally consented to per- mit four French policemen to re- main rather than have a prolongation of the controversy, China continued to maintain nine Chinese policemen there. Two years ago France became em- phatic in its demand that China grant exclusive police rights to France, and sign over the coveted territory. The negotiations became acute in June of the present year, when the French minister at Peking, M. Conty, urged the - immediate settlement ~of the claim. The Chinese foreign minister, Lu Cheng-Hsiang, temporized by say- ing that he would consider the mat- ter, but that China would not attempt to give away land without the con- sent of the people of Tien-Tsin and the affectetl property holders. There is considerable difference in the French and Chinese versions of the confer- ence between M. Conty and Mr. Lu Cheng Hsiang, The French say that the minister of foreign.affairs agreed to grant their request, but the Chinese deny this emphatically. Rely on Japan. On_October 18 the French charge d'affaires, M. Martel, delivered an ul- timatum to the foreign office, in which he said that France would take other steps to acquire the land if the Chi- was then the head of the customs in|. turn it over within forty-eight hours. | Chen Chin-tae, the acting minister of foreign affairs, replied that the Chi- nese government could not be re- sponsible_for any rioting and trouble which mikht result from the forcible | seizing of the land. The French | charge d’affaires responded that France would assume responsibility, and that Japan had plenty of troops in Tien-Tsin to check any trouble which might ensue. 7 In spite of the protest of the Chi- nese, the French consul-general at Tien-Tsin, M. Henri Bourgeois, to- gether with the French troops and po- licemen, took possession of the land on October 20 and ordered the nine Chinese policemen to leaye the prop- erty. They refused, and were taken by the French consul-general to the French municipal court. Additional French policemen were placed in the disputed district and French soldiers were posted on the opposite side of the canal. 5z Chinese newspapers are emphatic- ally demanding the recall of the French charge d’affaires and the French consul-general who were re- sponsible for the forcible action taken in this city. Germans Change Signs Left by Roumania’s Men (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Fogaras, Transylvania, Nov. 2— The legend “Roumania Mare” and paper ribbons in the Roumanian capi- tal colors, blue, yellow and red, are the only signs left in this regjon to- day which speak of occupancy by the First and Second Roumanian armies, though many a wrecked or burned house gives evidence of the recent passing of some hostile force. “Rou- mania Mare”—Greater Roumania— had been painted above the doors of nearly all houses in which some Rou- manian official had his headquarters. Those who caused them to be placed are gone, and the central powers’ troops, by transposing the letter “m" have changed the legend to “Arme Roumania”"—Poor Roumania. The paper ribbons still hang in the au- tumn-bared trees. Persistent Advertising Is the Road to Success. Pimples Getting Very Uncommon Stuart’s Calcium Wafers Have Done Wonders for Society in Ridding It of Pimiples and Other Skin Eruptions. 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