Good health?

Some of the beer now being consumed by the public is alleged to contain injurious chemicals. It has been noticed lately that the beer spilled on the counters in bars is having a burning action on the wood. — Daily Mail (1.11. 1921).

That, taken in conjunction with what G. H. Roberts, M.P., said at the Brewers’ Exhibition luncheon recently, explains a good deal.

He told them that when he was Food Controller during the war, the Government caused the beer to be diverted to places where industral unrest was most acute, in order to induce the workers to maintain their output.

“Although some members of the Government were staunch teetotallers, they were obliged to face the fact that if they had not had that beer at their disposal, our gallant men in various theatres of the war might have been hampered in their great task.”— Observer (30.10.1921). So we can be told now that it was a mentality induced by bad beer that won the war !

(From “Jottings”, SOCIALIST STANDARD, December 1921)