As we write on Thursday, it is understood that the
Lord Mayor's Banquet will be held as usual. Although the dinner will doubtless be a comparatively simple meal for the City fathers and their guests, we cannot help regretting the lack of imagination shown in the decision to give the dinner as usual. Sir Arthur Yapp, on behalf of the Food Controller, is going up and down the had to impress an inattentive public with the very urgent need for economy in food. The new Lord Mayor had a magnificent oppor- tunity of helping the Food Controller. A Lonl Mayor's Day without the banquet, like a wedding with a missing bride or bridegroom, would have impressed the dullest mind. Every man or woman would have begun to wonder whether over-eating could be justified if there was not food enough to spare for a Guildhall feast.. If the Lonl Mayor had subjected his guests to incon- venience by cancelling the dinnerat the last moment and paying for it, the moral effect would have been immense. But the opportunity is, we fear, to be wasted.
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