16 MARCH 1918, Page 3

They are rather like Mr. Riley, the auctioneer in The

Mill on the Floss, who had a general sense of understanding Latin, but whose understanding of any particular Latin was not very clear. Well, here is a case in which the " general sense " of the importance of National Service may be made perfectly clear. Let every one who has a piece of land, however small, at his disposal, in decent air, set to work to clean thaI land—remembering that the deeper you dig, the greater will be the productiveness of the soil—and then grow as many potatoes as it will conveniently carry. If a man does no other kind of National Service but this, he will have done something towards feeding the nation, and thus winning the war.