THE KING AND RECRUITING.
[To rill EDISON or Tor •'Srscraror."1 SrE„—Lord Kitchener in the House of Lords on January 61.11 said that recruiting was normal, whatever that may mean; but the fact remains that we want all the suitable and avail- able men in the country, and the sooner we get them the sooner it will be possible to end the war. The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee are doing work of value but slew.
We have had appeals on posters, and otherwise, such as " Kitchener Wants You," "The King's Army Wants 500,000 Nen," " Your King and Country Want You," but there bee nerer been a really personal appeal from the King himself. I venture to think that if his Majesty could be prevailed on to write a short appeal in his own words and sign it, a greater effect would be produced by its publication than we have yet seen. "The King" in the third person means to the ordinary man little if anything more than "the country" or "the Government" Two other points. Itis of the greatest importance that the amount of pension to widows and orphans should be settled quickly, and that an assurance should immediately be given by the War Office that a man who is disabled will receive an allowance sufficient to keep him from want—I am, Sir, Isc., H. L. Morsev. Croswell Howe, Bexhill-on-Sea.
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