THE RIGHT SPIRIT OF CONCENTRATION. [Te exo Entrea or rEN
"Brzorwroz...] have read with interest your outline of a possible echeme of compulsory service. I think your idea of a military census is sound, but it should be extended to age, say, forty- five. However, I do not think your proposal to select by ballot a proportion of those on the roll of the non-exempt is defensible. One result would be that we would have men of moderate physique, aged thirty-eight, who by industry and effort had reached positions of responsibility, drafted into the fighting forces, while irresponsible and muscular youths of twenty-one or no pursued their normal courses of life. Surely the liability to serve rests first upon the younger men, and I suggest the division of the eligibles into section. comprising ages nineteen—twenty-five, twenty-five—thirty, thirty—thirty - five, and so on. Each section would be called up se required. Would this not be a simpler and fairer plan P—I am, Sir, Am,
ANTI-POTBDIAL
[Calling out by groups of years is possibly the fairer plan. We suggested the ballot as likely to prove more popular, and as the device adopted during the war with the Republic and Napoleon.—En. 8pectafor.]
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