22 JULY 1916, Page 3

Yet none of our high official instructors ever dares to

mention the word " intoxicants," or to ask people to remember that, even if they take what we may call the most genial view of the uses of alcohol, it cannot be regarded as necessary to national salvation, and %tat its disuse is the most obvious, easiest, and most effectual form of saving. War saving is no good unless it affects the masses of the population. Now let any one try to imagine a consultation between a working man and his wife as to how they are to save in the national cause. They cannot save in rent, they cannot save in food, they cannot save in clothes. Where they can save, however, and save without injury to the family, is in beer and spirits.