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Show uu TOBACCO FOR ARMY DECLARED NECESSITY LONDON, Dec. 11. Tobacco is a necessity, ne-cessity, not a luxury, declares Lord Rhondda, the food controller. In a statement published here. "We must have tobacco," he says. "I believe that Its loss would be a national misfortune. misfor-tune. It means much, both to the manual man-ual laborer and to 'him who works 1 with his brains. Men would eat a, great deal more if they did not havd tobacco. 1 hold that the deprivation of it would work great discomfort " Some system of "rationing" tobacco tobac-co is forecast by the newspapers. |