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Significance. Interest promptly centered upon whether the new regime would attempt to enact strong arm prohibition in place of the highly successful "Stockholm system" of liquor control inaugurated in 1916 by Dr. Ivan Bratt, which was extended throughout Sweden in 1919 as the "Bratt system...
...Bratt, a practicing physician and an authority on social hygiene, secured the establishment of a liquor monopoly financed by private capital, empowered to dispense all alcoholic fluids except light beers, and permitted to dispose of such fluids only under a permit system based upon the status of each purchaser-the head of a family to be sold not more than a gallon of "hard liquors" a month, single women not more than a gallon a year, restaurants an amount proportionate to their proven sales of food. To the Swede who dines in restaurants there may be brought unlimited "hard liquors...
...present the "Bratt Monopoly" pays a fixed return of 5% to shareholders, and to the Government all surplus profits-totaling some 112,000,000 kroner ($30,000,000) annually. Because of the easygoing temper of the people, the "Bratt system" has occasioned little friction, has reduced the consumption of alcohol 50% in such cities as Stockholm, and appears to ration out alcohol in just sufficient quantities to make smuggling unprofitable. This "golden mean" of Swedish "regulation" contrasts sharply with Norwegian "prohibition" of all liquors of more than 45% alcoholic content. In Norway, though wines and beers are at everyone...
Score--Harvard Seconds, 22; St. Johns, 0. Touchdowns--Victor, Braden, Tilt. Goals--Braden, 2. Safety--Ford. Referee--T. S. McCabe. Umpire--J. S. Hallahan. Linesman, A. V. Bratt. Time Two eight minute quarters and two ten-minute quarters...
Score, Harvard 1928 3, Dartmouth 1928 1. Goals, Crawford, Chase, Garrison, Lane. Referees, Bratt and Stewart. Time, three 20-minute periods...