We say with a full sense of responsibility that if
the Central Association can get sufficient money for its work it may be able to do what, though it seems in one sense a humble thing, may yet prove most important. If it fails to get these funds, then a movement which promises much is doomed to
failure. This is why we ask our readers to help the central fund by generous donations. Our readers once gave us very quickly and readily some k4,000 in order to drill only one hundred men —the men of the Spectator Experimental Company—and we believe they were satisfied with the result of their generosity. The new project, of course, is a much bigger job, and we fear will require a great deal more money. What our readers are asked to do now is to find what we may call a central organization for a citizen Home Guards army—an army which, if properly directed, may provide a force of a million and a half of useful men, or even more. We say "useful" advisedly. We believe this voluntary Landsturm, if properly organized and directed, may, in case of invasion, help the Regular Army in innumerable ways.
