20 FEBRUARY 1915, Page 16

THE. VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.

[To Tea Emma or 575 ..8rac555os."1

SIR,— Whatever the outcome of this Volunteer Training Corps movement, it does open one's eyes to the unexpected (one might almost say) number of good fellows there are in the world. I am thinking of some of our older members— greybeards. If the scoffers could see some of these men, drilling for two hours on stretch and night after night in a gloomy playground, and going without their meal to be on parade in time, they would hesitate before they rushed into print with the ungenerous disparagement one often reads.—