WET CANTEENS
Sir, —Much of the correspondence about canteens is written as if a soldier in camp was' a scholar at Sunday school. The discipline of military training is what casual-minded young New Zealand wants more than anything else. That training, teaches him that immoderate beer drinking and route marching do not go well together. This war is going to bo too grim a businoM* to be fought on alcohol. Dutch courage will not get us through it. While alcohol is a pleasant stimulant, it is certainly not a recuperative. All "pukka" soldiers know that. Are there no dry canteens? Sixty-five years ago there were recreation rooms where the non-drinking soldier could spend his leisure. To end on a purely practical note, canteen beer should be heavy, medium and mild. The last is less injurious as a beverage than tea or coffee, and to many is not intoxicating. A LUX A Nll Kit FIIASEU.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23486, 25 October 1939, Page 13
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154WET CANTEENS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23486, 25 October 1939, Page 13
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