The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday January 31 1944

We realise that in such procedure the assocition of the idea of personal consumption with that of making an offering to the deity will be much closer and the real purpose of preparing the food and its real destination will be so patent as to be almost repugnant to devotional feeling. [...] We are not aware that any food offered to the deities is thrown away; nor that in any household where it is not the practice to feed guests or Brahmins regularly with the offerings the members in preparing their own food do not take into account the food prepared or to be prepared for the deity. [...] XLVIII the first instance to the deities and then to be applied to the feeding of the fixed quota of persons whether guests poor people or Brahmins. [...] We believe we have a proper sense of the conditions of emergency through which we are passing; but in spite of that sense we feel bound to say that the Government ought to make it its duty to see that the relgious institutions of no section of the people are paralysed for lack of the ordinary necesities. [...] The rule in Clayton's case that payments carried by a creditor to a current account which is communicated to the debtor are to be apprpriated to liabilities in order of date is founded on a presumption of the creditor's intention and will not be applied in a case where it is proved by the conduct of the parties that the creditor had no such itention.