[To THU EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Being one of the
millions throughout the country who are asking "How can I help ?" I have read your article of last week under this title with great interest in the hope that I might find some satisfactory suggestion for the class to which I belong—viz., men between forty and fifty-five who have never had any military training. Is it not possible for these to acquire some more satisfactory military training than would he gained by merely joining a Rifle Club P As a matter of fact, I am told that at the commencement of this crisis all rifles were taken away from the clubs. What I should like to see would be centres established where men of the class I have mentioned might be drilled by ex-Army officers in the evenings, and gradually be fitted to be drafted into the National Reserve. I believe it was thus that the Ulster Volunteer Force was started, and if such a scheme served no other good purpose it could not fail to have an excellent moral effect on the nation.—I am, Sir, Jo., A SOLICITOR..
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