What they must keep before Londoners is the fact that
every trained man who does not now belong to any unit should at once send his name and address on a postcard to The Secretary, Veterans, Friar's House, New Broad Street, E.C., and ask to have himself registered in the Veteran Reserve. Another step, and one of great use, is, when the first 5,000 or 6,000 men are registered, to appeal to them to act as recruiting agents for the Force, and to bring in a couple of comrades each. When once they understand that this is part of the duty which is expected of them we have not the slightest doubt that they will do it. Once more, let us ask the members of the London Veterans' Reserve Committee to remember that men are to be got by appealing to their patriotism and sense of duty, and not by offering privileges and benefits which, by their nature, cannot be sufficiently attractive, and which, therefore, if put forward, are much more likely to act as deterrents than incen- tives. The appeal to duty will succeed; that to interest is bound to fail.
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