, 1923-04-04
Work $50 Days
To Buy A Ford
In SWeden
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The same baggage went from N. Y.
to Hermansville upper Michigan, 81
excess baggage and from Hermans-
vile to Cody without extra charge.
In Sweden engines and cars are
smaller, 40 people to the coach. Sleep
err and dining cars are up-to-date.
Never were we late riding on a train
there-more than we can say of any
of the 5 trains we were on in this
country.
About Prohibition:
Light wines and beer can be
bought in cafes, restaurants and
hotels. Stronger liquor can be
bought from a company which hand
les spirits said to be controlled by
the Government. Each one buying
liquors, meaning stronger than beer
or wine, must have a book( looks like
a bank book. l tried to get a book
at the liquor house by showing a
passport but the laws have changed,
SO now outsiders must write to Stock
holm, and it would take 8 months to
get it.
Citizens get theirs from the sheriff.
A man that has a book and wants
liquor goes to the liquor house, pre-
sents his book and if he has not over
drawn, (anowed I liters equal to4A
quarts a month"; can buy what he has
coming OF part thereof. II you get
drunk, or don't pay your taxes, or,
don't support your family, you will be
cut down in your allowance, if that
doesn't help, you are cut out entirely
for a time. The allowance is contral-
ed by the Temperance Committee in
the community or county.
Sweden had q chance to vote for
prohibition last August but is still
wet. Ny wife heard a lady dry talker
speak v there and this speaker
said she was ashamed of the Swedish
women for casting SO few votes for
prohibition.
Norway has light wines and beer
but not stronger liquor for sale. But
l was told you could buy it. A chief
up in Norway was caught running
IA boose cars, liquor coming from
Germany.
While over there l was asked how
prohibition worked out in America,
when l told of the condition here, the
drys said, "well it's too big a country;
it would work in Sweden alright"
Norway is smaller than Sweden
and it does not work there.
/ have written about Sweden and
conditions the way found it. Some
might say it a mighty poor country,
others that / try to run it down.
That is not true, if you read what
Sweden has, you will find she Is just
as far advanced in telephone, cleo
tricity, dairying, farming, manufact-
uring, fine roads, steel and concrete
bridges of fine architecture as any
country. Their money is up to
standard, a fact of which few %countri
es can boast. s'
The boat we came back on carried
1850 passengers. everything up to
date, LIST and End class, a floating
palace, lots Of good wine, beer and
stronger drinks. The g. mile limit
was less than ! inchlfrom dock where
/ had my last drink.
In this country prohibition is a
fake, don't think Cody is. the worst
place for moonshfners and home
brew.
Where I wasn't offered a drink in
U. 8. I was told how to make it, and
it is surprising how many do make it.
In Chicago, five saloons we're point
ed out to me in 3 blocks. l stepped
into a corner saloon and it looked like
a saloon of old. My friend ordered
a beer; I said the same. 1t vas tapp-
ed from a faucet, served out over che
bar. Well, being from Cody, / said
long time between drinks. let's have
another. l took my time, wanted tc
take in everything. The slot machine
was busy all the time and many g
drink vas served while / hung around
In Minneapolis five neighborine
houses to the friend l visited was
pointed out to me where liquor OF
some kind was made.
In upper Michigan a friend asked
me if / wanted to step into a building
in town and have a drink lit was moi
his home) meaning to buy it but
refused.
Now this sounds as if I have just
Travelled and visited moonshiners anc
booze runners, but it is not so.
never looked for any thing to drinl
except in Chicago to satisfy myself
it could be bought openly. In Swed
en- I never touched a drop.
I like the Enterprise for the stant
it takes against prohibition. Othel
papers might want to do the sam
thing but are afraid the ymight loos'
subscribers.
The Enterprise could have a it'll
more country news, which some peo
pie like to read, but both Cody paper
have more news than an upper Mich