For ourselves, we cannot help thinking that the awaken- ing
process would be greatly quickened if the League could make people understand by some concrete example how the system of universal training would be carried out. For pro- paganda purposes there is nothing like a working model. People will believe things through their eyes which they will not believe through their ears. If the present writer may quote his own experience, he has had personal proof of this fact. The endeavours of the Spectator to get the country to understand the need for keeping in touch with the trained men and to form a National Reserve fell absolutely on deaf ears until its editor was able to put twelve hundred men of the National Reserve upon the Horse Guards Parade, and thus to show a small working model of the Reserve to his fellow- countrymen. From that moment people seemed to understand what was aimed at in the National Reserve, and the move- ment went ahead with strong and rapid strides.
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