THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CADETS.
[TO TM EDITOR or THE " lieversroa."3
Sin,—I am sure you will interested in the following letter which I have just received from France.—I am, Sir, lie.,
Prater A. HARRIS, Hon. Secretary C.A.V.R.
Central Association Volunteer Regiments, Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice.
" November 18th, 1917.
Dent Ste,—It so happens that one all but started a Volunteer movement with Headquarters at the Crystal Palfice at the outset of the war, and then, your movement flourishing and matters opening out, enabled me to join ' Iiitchenere '—hence my present address as Private 59127 R.A.M.C. 93 A.T. B.E.F.—and save for an occasional notice, the Volunteer idea has had a secondary con- sideration for obvious reasons. But I see in the Spectator the pro- posal to catch the youngsters' interest and counter the cinemas, Ac., and perhaps one may express regret that no such scheme got hold of me as a boy. I'm enclosing ten days' pay towards any necessary expenses in working the proposed scheme, at the same time hoping to see some National support—Government sublaidy- that will enable the scheme to develop to its rightful purpose as a means of rearing a more healthy generation,• both in mind and body, imbued with all those attributes of manliness that make a man a White Man. After all, it's up to as to see that we rear a race of ' Great Britons' irrespective of creed, dogma, or religion, upholding the common ethics of ' doing unto others,' Ac., accord- ing to the teaching of the Founder of our nominally national Faith. as witnessed by the Established Church. In future it is to be hoped that the pitiable failures due to retiring proud poverty —the National crime of seeing men wasted because National interests were so little wrapped in the manhood—will disappear. By manhood, one includes both sexes, and how much fineness, stoicism, and splendid suffering or daring attainment the war has shown f Truly, the war has proven man to be made in God's own image, if only by season of Ms frightful doings and the generally splendid silent suffering of friend and foe alike. Altogether one hails this development with enthusiasm. Good Luck, Sir—Carry
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