Though there has been considerable response to Mr. Strachey's appeal
through the Press in regard to the National Reserve, we regret to say that it has not been any- thing like as large as we had hoped. Still, we do not doubt that the amount of attention bestowed upon the Reserve in the Press and in the country generally will continue to have very sound indirect results. The great difficulty is to hunt up the men who are eligible and to make them understand (1) that they are eligible, and (2) that they are wanted, nay, that it is their duty to register their names with their County Asso- ciations as members of the National Reserve. We venture to say that even now not half the men who are eligible have both beard of the existence of the Reserve and realized that they have a duty to perform in joining it. Still the existence of the Reserve has had during the past fortnight a great advertisement, and it is a commonplace amongst all who have to study the phenomena of advertising that full results are never felt at once.
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