17 FEBRUARY 1917, Page 11

" ON OUR HONOUR."

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The Food Controller has allowanced us in regard to meat, bread, and sugar. Asking my wife about our own household, 1 was at once told that she could have nothing to do with a Controller who put her "on her honour" to reduce consumption of the necessaries of life in order that people might continue to drink beer and that the Government might shirk the liquor problem. We are in this house well within the limits fixed, but can Lord Devonport be surprised if millions make the same retort? It is hardly for a Controller, evading a disagreeable bit of control, to put people on their Hoxona. Somewhere (or everywhere?) in Scotland.