[TO THE EDITOR OF THZ "Brzorsaox.'l Sin, — In your issue of
last Saturday you rightly urge the necessity for men, men, and more men. If the call for another million was urgent last week, it has become more so now, when the magnitude of our task has been increased by the entrance of Turkey into the conflict. The perusal of your "leader" leaves behind the sense of impatience and dissatisfaction at the failure of the nation to grasp the gravity of the situation. If the present methods of recruiting have failed, as you admit they have, to produce a rush to the colours in defence of the Empire, how, Sir, do you hope that further appeals "on the old flag-wagging lines" will be more successful? Has the time not come for the Prime Minister and the Cabinet to shake the people out of their lethargy by boldly adopting some scheme of obligatory service for the duration of this war ? Better a thousand times to have the "panic and awful outcry" now than to wait for a calamity to awaken the nation when it may be too late ! Is it not a sorry spectacle for the greatest Empire the world has ever seen to have any difficulty in raising two million men for its preservation P With a Liberal Government in power, and a War Minister who enjoys the entire confidence of the nation, could a more opportune time exist for a demand for obligatory service for the present campaign ? Such a demand would, in a flash, show the nation its true position, would meet with the appro- bation of every patriotic man in the Empire, and would ensure the speedy termination of the war, which you show to be an imperative necessity if our national welfare is to be Glasgow.
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