19 MAY 1917, Page 3

Monday's Times contains the following very interesting item of

news:--

" For tho purpose of economizing the food supply, the United States Senate has adopted an amendment to the Espionage Bill for- bidding the use of grain in the production of intoxicating liquors during the war."

It does not, of course, necessarily follow from this that the amend. meat will get through Congress, but when, we wonder, will the House of Commons or the House of Lords adopt such a resolution ? The only element in the National Government which has set such an example is, curiously enough, the one which we are now told is self-centred and undemocratic. The King over two years ago refused, as far as he could, to let grain be turned into intoxicants and instituted War Prohibition throughout the Royal Palaces.