We desire to call attention to an interesting article on
" Our Perishing Army" by Colonel A. W. A. Pollock in the January Nineteenth Century. With Colonel Pollock's criticisms of War Ministers and War Office methods we are not concerned at the moment so much as with his plea on behalf of making the Army a career leading to definite advantages after discharge. As he puts it, "the career is the foundation-atone, and until that has been well and truly laid it is idle to expect men worth enlisting to enter the Army in adequate numbers." Colonel Pollock's ideal is that every recruit on enlisting should be able to count on a certainty of civil appointment at the end of his service, subject only to his good conduct. What better advertisement, he asks, could the Navy or Army have than well-contented ex-sailors and ex-soldiers enjoying appointments earned by their warlike services ?
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