REVEILLE.*
LORD CHARNWOOD'S quarterly, Recalled to Life, dealing with the problems of the di abled sailor and soldier, has after three numbers suffered a sea-change, to reappear as Reveille under the editorship of Mr. Galsworthy, with the imprint of the Stationery Office. The aim is the same—to concentrate public attention on the nation's duty towards our disabled heroes, and to show how they may best be trained and fitted for permanent situations in civil life. The editor's method is, however, very different. We might say that, while Lord Charnwood offered a pill, Mr. Galsworthy administers the pill with a large spoonful of jam. Recalled to Life was solely in- formative ; Reveille is informing too, but it opens with a whimsical caricature by Mr. Max Beerbohm of Sir William Orpen sketching at the front, and follows it with a poem by Mr. Kipling, a little play by Sir J. M. Barrie, and articles by Mr. E. V. Lucas and Mr. Conrad. Having read these admirable literary contributions, with the war as a common motive, we are prepared for the articles by Mr. Hodge, Sir John Collie, Major Mitchell, ex-King Manoel, and others, that deal with various aspects of the real business In hand. Mr. Galsworthy in an excellent article entitled "The Gist of It" puts the case for generous, well-considered, and immediate action on behalf of the disabled. It is false kindness, he urges, to encourage a maimed man to take the first job that offers. In the present scarcity of labour, an employer will engage almost any man, however unfit, but it does not and cannot follow that he will keep the man when peace returns. We must not let the disabled men drift ; we must encourage them to believe in themselves, and we must help them to become skilled workers whose services will always be required. "At present," says Mr. Galsworthy, "possibly not one in three of our dis- charged soldiers who needed further physical treatment has taken it ; and perhaps not one in ten who really require to be re-educated to special work is being trained for it. The System is helpless without a great awakening of the Public, and through the Public of the disabled man." Reveille will help the public to realize the nature and urgency of the problem, and it should render much direct and indirect help to a movement in which every one may play a part, however small. We may call attention to the lists of occupations suitable for disabled men, based on actual cases, and of the very numerous courses of training now available in all districts.
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