14 JULY 1917, Page 10

MORE BEER, BUT NOT MORE BREAD. [To THE EDITOR OP

THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I gather from a communication just received from the Hampstead Food Control Committee that the Government cons templates the issue of a command to the Churches that the Royal

Proclamation be read at Church services during one Sunday in each month. Should action be taken on these lines, some of us are determined to set our faces against it. We shall refuse to countenance any command or request which would have the effect of turning the House of Gad into a home of hypocrisy. To make impassioned appeals to our congregations to be content with less sugar and eat less bread when still more food is to be destroyed ins the manufacture of beer is illogical, immoral, and altogether too idiotic for words.—I am, Sir, Re.. J. NAPIER Mries,

I Radon Crescent, Hampstead, N.11'. Weskyan Minister.