RECRUITING IN SCOTLAND.
[To THB EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With reference to Sir EL Shaw Stewart's letter to the Spectator (November 21st), it may be of some slight assistance to send you the enclosed cuttings from the Glasgow papers. These could quite easily be greatly multiplied. Your corre- spondent apparently speaks for the neighbouring county of Renfrew only. Of course his plea that so many workers on the Clyde are engaged in the manufacture of armaments and war material is a very forcible one, and should most carefully be considered in any relative computations of recruits should the necessity arise for such comparisons. But the rest of his
letter is only calculated to do harm in this time of extreme national danger and necessity, because after taking his plea into consideration there is undoubtedly truth in the statement that the Scottish industrial centres have not yet put forth their strength as they ought to have done. The Glasgow figures that from time to time have been given out are no cause for congratulations, and are fallacious for the reasons I have tried to point out in a letter to the Glasgow News. One only has to walk in the busier streets of Glasgow to be alive to this truth. I trust that such letters will not deter you from giving us all necessary home-truths or from helping us to read facts, however deadly, as they really are. When the house is on fire and there is so much to save, it behoves those of us who may have pet corns to keep them well cased and to binder firemen as little as
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