[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I read with pleasure
the powerful recruiting article in the last issue of the Spectator. Can we not get all employers here in England to make a general declaration that they will, after the war, give promotion and preference to men who, being of military age and physically fit, have served their country in the war rather than to those who have shirked and remained at home ? There are numbers of young men in snug jobs and billets in the City who do not want to leave, and who think that somehow, by remaining at home and being on the spot, they may get chances and promotion while their fellows are away at the war. Once convince these men that it is not going to advantage them in any way to shirk military service—but rather the contrary--then they will come forward, as they have done in Canada, where all the employers have made their employees clearly understand that it will not pay
to shirk.—I am, Sir, &c., CANADIAN. P.S.—It might be well to remind the public that there is such a thing as the Ballot Act which Government can put in force at any moment.
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