LIQUOR AND THE FOOD SHORTAGE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3192, 17 September 1917, Page 6

LIQUOR AND THE FOOD SHORTAGE

AMERICA ASKS A QUESTION.

Are Americans to go short of food that we may go on drinking? This is the 'question, asked by the 'NorthWestern Miller," of Minneapoljs, U.S.A. "Americans (says the "Miller") are now asked to deny themselves that Britain may have sufficient. /This injects a moral right into a business transaction, thereby justifying inquiry into Britain's use of the food already received and still being sent there. Sinco 1915, w'hnn the King of England set the example of strict (prohibition, there have beon shipped'to Great Britain from this country considerable nuantities of barley and rye. Both of theso. are food products, and coino next to wheat in nutritive value and wholesomenessl They are admirably adapted to supplement wl eat as providing food for the people. Britain has. not seen fit to prohibit the use of cereals in the manufacture of drink, notwithstanding that the world's s 'pply ■was' obviously short, and bound to grow shorter as tlie war was prolonged. Are Americans required to forego a part of their accustomed ration of bread, as they are informed may be exp.wted of them, in order that their British Allies can continue to have a plentiful si:r.ply of beer and whisky? Tf not, then, concludes the "North-Western Miller, "Britain should lose no time in Hitting its bouse in order, quitting drink thereby to add to the common store ot fowl lipon which the safety of all the Allies depends."