LIMIT BEER.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a subscriber to the Strength of Britain Movement before your appeal was made, and a heart-whole supporter of your crusade, may I make a suggestion? You have, at the outset, stated that light beer, guiltless of food-destruction,. would not come under the greatly-to-be-desired ban. Would it not be well to reiterate this in your leading paragraph (" Food Shortage and Prohibition ") every week? It is true that the British working man despises light beer. But he would like it much better than water; and with the classes above him who are beer-drinkers it is Popular. I am glad to see on the first page of Defeat or Victory? that light beer is duly exempted from Prohibition, subject to certain limitations. And I feel sure you, Sir, will welcome any legitimate way of oiling the wheels of this movement.—I am,
[The advocates of War Prohibition have no desire to suppress light beer of the kind described—i.e., beer which has so little alcohol in it that it is not taxed, but treated by the law as a non- intoxicant—ED. Spectator.]
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