The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-11-11
14olMARY or IMPORTANT HAP
PENlNGs IN FAR OFF
NORTHWEST,
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
Uesume Of the Most Important Events
In Sweden, Norway and Denmark
OF interest to the Scandinavian
n America.
SWEDEN.

VIOnAOAllOu measures OF RUSSIA mas
been attempted in Sweden, there has
beeh, since the beginning OF the war,
q steady and systematic curtailment In
the sale Of liquor, which is approx
ingly regarded by temperance advo-
Gates as decided step toward abso-
lutte prohibition. The 'Stockholm sys-
tenn" of allowing each citizen only a
dxed quantity of spfrituous drink,
which was inaugurated just after the
war started, has been extended to 81
Of the 100 districts in Sweden, and &C
cording to government order recent.
~ issued, will, after the first of Janu-
AIRY, 1916, apply to the whole Of Swe-
den. The stockholm SYSTEM which
allows every citizen in good standing
in the city to become a moderate
drinker, while effectively preventing
him from becoming drunkard, was
ingeniously devised by DR.. Ivan Bratt,
present director of the system, after
all other expedients had failed. Doc
tor Bratt has been lauded, condemned,
fdolfzed and ridiculed, and his work
has become the theme of almost daily
discussion in the newspapers of Swe-
den, some Of which criticize him for
being too moderate and others too ex-
IRENE in his reforms. But on one
point all are agreed. The system
works. In the first place, the liquor
companies, while directed by private
individuals, were practically made gov
eminent concerns, for all profits were
to 60 to the government. This re-
moved any incentive on the part of
the directors to overproduction. It was
followed by careful supervision of
the supply of liquor furnished to no.
tells, restaurants aud public bars.
These places still had a right to AS
much liquor as they required, but they
were only allowed profit on reason
able amount of trade. If they did bust
ness in excess of that amount fixed by
the government, they had to purchase
this additional supply at retail price
and were forced to sell at the same
prices. This, 1t would seem, would
have removed the Jealous effort of no.
tel proprietors to make their liquor
trade as large as possible.
All conscripts of the A class in the
navy have petitioned the minister of
marine for increased allowances on &C
count Of the high cost Of living.
The health department is in favor of
appropriating 100000 for the estab-
lfshment of hospital at Strangnas in
1917.
It is reput ted from Teheran that in
asmuch as no pay has been forthcom-
ing for several months the gendar-
merle of Persia has been discontinued
by its commander, Major Edvall.
The king has ratified proposition
from the state food commission to i'm
port $4,000 tons of breadstuffs from
abroad.
Over 100000 money orders have
been issued at the Malmo post office
to captives of war in Germany and
Russia. Only one-tenth of the number
went to Russia.
The government has spent $500, 900
on the Is fish harbors in Sweden, and
by the time they are completed they
will cost about 100000.
Among those who have signed a Pc
tition for the temporary prohibition of
the liquor traffic are Prince and Prin-
cess Bernadotte.
Mrs. M. Lundqvist, widow in
Stockholm. has donated $4,000 to the
medical society of Stockholm and
$4,000 to the jubilee fund of King o.
car II. The latter amount goes to the
support of three sanatoria for con-
sumptives which were built from the
original jubilee fund, given to King Os-
car II on the occasion of his twenty.
five-year jubilee as king of Sweden,
and which amounted to about $500 900.
A new farmers rally" may take
place at Stockholm. The object of It
would be to protest against the high
prices of the necessaries of life, or
rather the high charges made hy those
who handle the goods while they pass
from the producer to the consumer.
The Germans are exporting coal
from Belgium to Sweden. This puts
to naught the talk that Germany is in
a pinch for coal.
The newspaper, Dagens Nyheter,
says that German naval convoy ia
expected to arrive in the north Baltic
Immediately to escort German steam.
ers on their home journey from Swed.
ish ports. At least thirty steamers are
believed to have been held up at these
ports.
The cabinet is said to look with fa.
vor upon proposition to loan $27, 600
TO certain parties who. propose to es.
saolish potato'drying plants on large
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