SIR,--The real trouble with the food economy campaign is that ordinary
people, who perhaps, not unnaturally, have got into the habit of not
believing the daily papers, do not realise what their enemy and
the chief enemy of the country at this moment is--I mean the German
submarine. In order to get this fact into their intelligence I suggest
that free classes in objurgation are at once instituted, in which,
instead of the common "You beast!" "You brute!" "You blighter!" and
so forth, the necessity of saying nothing but "You (U) boat!" in every
dispute or quarrel is insisted upon. The young might also be thus
instructed.

Yours, etc.,
FAR SIGHTED.


WRIT SARCASTIC.

SIR,--I have an infallible plan for diminishing the consumption of
good food, at any rate among Members of the Government. Let them give
up all other forms of nutriment and eat their own words. The PRIME
MINISTER might begin. I am,

Yours, etc.,
ORGANISED OPPOSITION.


"FOOD HOGS" SUPERSEDED.

SIR,--I am told that there are people so lost to shame that they are
still, in spite of the KING'S Proclamation and all the other appeals