[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTAT0R:1 have read your appeal
to the clergy of the Church of England (Spectator, November 21st) urging us to form a decision only after considering "the claims of the very poor." In trying to follow out this advice, I have come to the conclu- sion that the price of bread is not the only point to be con- sidered. From what is being said and written, it appears that many think that man can live on bread alone, or bread plus
dried fish, and few take into account the fact that milk is rapidly becoming an unknown article of food to the very, or even moderately, poor. In the interests of this section I am at present asking myself how "the question of the hour" affects this point. We seem at last to have realised how important to the nation is the children's education ; perhaps we may soon begin to think about the children's milk.—I am,
[The importance of milk cannot be exaggerated ; but is Mr. Chamberlain's proposal to tax foreign dairy produce likely to make milk cheaper for the children of the poor? ED. Spectator.]
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