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Show BREWERS ASKED 10 EdOMH IN SRI Proposal Is That Beer Drinkers Get Smaller Allowance of Bread. BERLIN, Oct. 21. The German lodges of the Good Templars, a temperance society so-ciety with more than SO. 000 members, have addressed the following open letter written by Privy Medical Councillor Dr. Bonne, a prominent physician of Klain-Flottbeck, Klain-Flottbeck, to Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg: Tour excellency's government haa reduced the production of beer 52 per cent since the beginning of the war, but 2100 tons of grain are still used dally for brewing purposes. This quantity of grain would be sufficient to feed ten million people. Undoubtedly your excellency knows that for the production of one quart of beer eight and a half ounces of barley bar-ley are used and that the dally bread ! ration per head is only eight and one-tenth one-tenth ounces. Barley is a bread grain, like rye and wheat, and must be saved as much as possible. If the government considers It neceEsary to keep the breweries in operation, op-eration, social justice demands that beer Bhall only be sold to holders of bread cards and that the consumers of this beverage shall receive correspondingly cor-respondingly smaller quantities of bread. Such a measure,- however, would bt insufficient. In our opinion all danger dan-ger of a shortage of bread grain and hunger can easily be removed by closing the breweries and distilleries until peace returns. The Frankfurter Zeitung says In an editorial comment on the demand of the Good Templars: ' The proposition made in the letter to the chancellor is logical and deserves de-serves serious consideration. Against the demand that beer shall be classed with bread .no valid ohjection can be made. An absolutely equal distribution distribu-tion of the bread grain is essential for the welfare of the nation, but under un-der the present system the consumers of beer actually not only receive double rations of breadstuffs, but in many cases much more. If a man. for instance, drinks three quarts of heer dally he consumes 25.5 ounces of barley, bar-ley, or more than the bread rations of three persons. It is only logical that those who must have beer or rye whisky shall have the quantities of these beverages bever-ages used by them charged against their bread "cards. People who do not drink ber or whisky will then be able to receive larger bread rations. . Under the plan of the Good Templars Tem-plars every person would simply have ' the choice to buy his or her share of bread stuffs In liquid or holid form. The demand of t h e Good Templars Is also supported by the Socialist newspaper Vorwaerts. the Catholic Cologne Volks-zeltung Volks-zeltung and many other influential I paper j |