The Washington times., 1917-06-25
Leading American Editors Decry the Turning
Of the War Food Bill Into a National
Prohibition Measure.
From TodGy's N. Y. Tribune
PATRIOTISM AND BEER


The deprivation of beer writes the Tepressbe Horao Bot
payne prices for stuff dnguishabls from swpes will
serious and caamous trouble unless the Prime Minister has the
and courage turn deaf bgo and concede
the who works the right food and drink good quail
iV and reasonable in price"
Mr. Arthur Draper the of inquiry the
of the industrial Great Britain seems have found some
evidence justify Mr. Botomeys apprehension He tells US in
dispatch The Tribune of conversation he had with the
of munitions plant the north In his opinion
Mr. Draper the greatest short
age and restrictions and his judgment worth something for he
employer people Nor be that the gov
conscious of the danger of precpng
question of beer for only the other day admitted officially that
the reduction in the annual output deeed last February had
proved be drastic Accordingly the baeaee
has been authorized but with reduction the specific gravity Of
draft beers.
If difficult persuade the British workingman that beer
of the necessities of life Objection prohibition any
radical aiming prohibition confined munon
workers Quite recently strong protest against campaign of the
eetotaes made by Welsh collier chuhwarden Of Rhondda
letter The Times of London " he wrote you
supply of liquid vitality necessary you viii coroary
lessen the supply of coal available for the allied know the
fact and if the armchair critics of the Principally will please note
they doing their prevent the continuation of present
inadequate supply"
may be answered that proposed to cut down the
miners Supply of liquid and that he finds plain unpaabe
ginger barley water with dash of lemon juice might perhaps
his But the miner would not accept such inpd substitutes
as adequate his belief that beer indispensable beverage
and that his webeing largely depends When he up
of the coery pint of beer what he wants and nothing else viii do
Strange say medical men back the miners their belief
One whom 1.-THE Times" describes "a well known Welsh doctor
with an extensive practice in the mining areas insists the 'u
questionable physiological virtues of beer and holds it to be he
best possible thing for wokngmen drink An Official of the York
shire Miners Association less certain of its value h great
majority them want heer he says, and what more they will
have or trouble will result Good beer good work. old saying
and know it is true"
Here and there found who hold modern views
GOLFERS doctor Sheffield admitted that drink essential but
would by no allow that must be beer indeed any other
drink containing alcohol He had fact persuaded number of
one pit take nonacohoc drink and the results obtained
working says were better than when beer the beverage
TAKEN that the opinion of the average MINER of the
average worker the munon factory He indeed nothing
in the recent toward enforced abstinence conspiracy to
deprive him of physiological necessity and he prepared fight
with might and main. 1t this traditional state of mind that the
government found il impossible to contend with