We shall be told, no doubt, that it would be
impossible because at many places from which ships sail there are no food supplies available. Nonsense ! If you take the trouble to look for them, there are food supplies of some sort everywhere.—" How about Bilbao ?" Well, Bilbao can send us oil and chestnuts, if it can send us nothing else ; the West Coast of Africa peanuts, and other oil. producing nuts and yams ; while China can send millet and rice. But it is unnecessary to prolong the list.—Of course, if one sits down and cries over the matter it seems impossible to carry out a scheme of this kind. It could, however, be carried out perfectly well if our officials would take the trouble, and we venture to say, though we are strongly in favour of preventing gorging at restaurants and clubs, that it would do a great deal more to serve and save the State. But then, it is nobody's business, for there is no one Minister whose duty it is to victual the nation.
