DRAB Sin on MADAM, —Will it be your pleasure to endow
this Society, marking half your endowment for Men's Rifle Clubs, and half for School Rifle Clubs, or, alternatively, the whole of it for
the last named ?
There is much to be said in favour of it, if in your case it be possible, and, writing as Chairman of its Executive Committee, I may say that we shall be prepared to place our knowledge and experience at your disposal for working out the details of a scheme of expenditure with proper safeguards.
It is a big National thing, and at this juncture, a very urgent one, but we may wait far too long before the Government takes
action.
The malady of apathy and culpable indifference to the future of this country with which so many people are afflicted is, on broad grounds, worse than any other form of disease.
Judging from the contents of so many popular newspapers, the time has certainly arrived for reminding you about the flannelled fools at the wicket and the muddied oafs at the goal,' and, as an old cricketer, I have no hesitation in doing so.
I am. dear Sir or Madam, yours faithfully, C. E. Lusa')."
[The teaching of the use of the rifle to all citizens of the British Empire is, in the opinion of the Spectator, a matter of prime importance, and we therefore gladly publish General Luard's communication, and trust that his appeal will meet with a generous response. Subscriptions should be sent to Major-General Luard, 20 Bucklersbury, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C. The formation of school rifle clubs is, in our view, a matter of special importance.—ED. Spectator.]
A CORRECTION.
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