15 AUGUST 1908, Page 3

All this would be cured by the adoption of universal

training. In the first place, the whole youth of the country would get the benefits and advantages, moral and physical, now enjoyed only by a few. At the same time, the patriotic employer would not be penalised. It is most unsatisfactory, nay, humiliating, for the State to have to wheedle, cajole, and beg employers to allow their men to join the Territorial Force, for that is what it has come to. That the country will ultimately see how much more business-like, as well as how much for the good of the nation, it would be to adopt the proposals for universal training made by the National Service League, we cannot doubt.