In our opinion, it would be reasonable, in view of
the great shortage of food, to appeal to those who drink beer to give up, in the form of bread, as much foodstuffs as they use in the shape of beer. But if this be thought too violent an appeal for the present Govern- ment to make, at least some sort of appeal for voluntary rationing of beer should be made, in addition to that uttered by Sir Arthur Yapp and read by us almost by accident in the corner of a daily newspaper. As it is, the consumers of the staple foods of life are adjured to eat less, and the drinker of beer (which is a kind of destroyed food, or at all events food of which the value has been enormously reduced) is allowed to believe, for all he is told to the contrary, that there is no need for him to place any restraint upon himself whatever. The only restraint is the exhaustion of supplies in the public-houses.
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