We print elsewhere a letter from a correspondent who calls
attention to the deplorable and unhygienic state of the London and Windsor barracks. We fanoy that be might with truth say the same thing about some other barracks. Is it not amazing how completely our affairs are guided by loud and sectional clamour and not by a general sense of justice Increase after increase in wages, dole after dole, are handed out by the Govern- ment to workers who make a noise, but the soldiers who saved the country and made it possible for their civilian fellows to live at home in security and enjoy the higher wages of to-day are allowed to live in depressing and insanitary barracks. Worse than that, many of the trade union leaders will not allow the soldiers to earn their living as skilled members of the Unions. We sincerely hope that our correspondent's letter will be brought to the attention of the Government, for he has a definite, very oogent, and, in our opinion, quite unanswerable point to make. He wants to know why 0,000,000 should be spent on red uni- forms for reolothing the Army when the money might be spent on the insanitary barracks. Surely every sensible person must agree with him.
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