22 JANUARY 1916, Page 2

We agree. It would be wrong to tempt men to

pretend that they had conscientious objections to taking human life by letting them feel that they would thus escape the disagree- ableness of national service. We want to respect true Quaker feeling, but not to provide a feather-bed for slackers. We are sorry to see that Mr. Harvey, a Quaker, declared that the amendment to limit the conscientious objector tonon-cambatan$ work would not meet the views of himself and his friends. At the end of his speech he sugges tad that work might be found for conscientious objectors in dangerous and disagreeable duties which since the war had been carried on by women. In that way they would liberate conscientious objectors from the feeling that they were freeing men for military service.