20 OCTOBER 1917, Page 15

(To THE Moron or THE " fiercriroa."1 Sia,—The fallacy of

your argument under the above heading is this: (I) " Ordinary " persons do not eat the same amount of meat, bread, and sugar, &c., &c. (2) A beer-drinker eats less of the above than he would if he could not obtain his beer.-1 am,

Sir, &c., J. H. E. REID, Colonel.

East Sussex Club, St. Leonards-on-Sea.

[Our point remains unless it can be proved that the beer- drinker's consumption of beer plus food is no greater than the son-beer-drinker's consumption of food. But of course that cannot be proved.—Es. Spectator.]