BEER FOR TROOPS.

Evening Star, Issue 23833, 13 March 1941, Page 11

BEER FOR TROOPS.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sir, —“ Commonsenso ” proves fully that ho has none, common or otherwise. I wonder if ho has any sons at the war. I am afraid not; for, if he had ho would never bo callous enough to deliberately subject them to the daily temptation of becoming confirmed drunkards. Has ho not sense enough to realise the difficulty young men have in refusing what they k now _and all with a grain of sense know is to be a slow poison that, taken regularly even in small doses, poisons one s whole system, and is a poison that is almost impossible to eradicate from the blood? Is it common sense to subject our bravo boys to a life-long struggle in trying to break the habit when the war is over? With most it will bo impossible, and where possible the fight will be terrific; a fight against a raging appetite, an appetite that will give them no peace. What parent with a particle of common sense would subject his son or the sons of other parents to such an ordeal? I am wondering if hy any chance this person has any interest in one of our breweries. I don’t know who first suggested filling our badly-needed ship or ships with liquor that, in that climate, will cause the <leath of hundreds, probably thousands, of our bravo boys, but who ever it was will live to regret it. He must have known that there was plenty of beer to be got there; beer suited to the climate, much lighter than ours and infinitely less dangerous. The Government,. being in »powor, are the" greatest culprits. - They should have safeguarded our soldiers; for, however they may plead ignorance, they surely had read enough to know, that in warfare the one who keeps his brain clear is the one most likely to escape death. In war one must bo alert, and .it is proved that even one glass of beer that is strong enough to make its makers boast of it, will, by numbing the brain, endanger the life of the drinker.—l am, etc., Parent. March 12.