COOK HOUSES AND COMFORTS
Sta,—I am in complete agreement with your contributcir, A.C.2, in the Spectator of February 11th. I had the good fortune to command overseas a company in a well-known county regiment during the 1914-18 war, and a specialist independent unit, also overseas, for the early part of this last war. The men in the two units were entirely different. In the first they were country men of one of our most rural English counties ; in the second a cross-section of volunteers who included amongst them barristers, a London solicitor, a Rugby scholar, an M.F.H., and several very erudite Scotsmen. One thing was common to both units. In order to get the best out of them four things required special attention. First, they must be well fed and know that the utmost is being done to secure this. Second, they must be well paid and know that promotions and musterings are kept right up to the limit of the unit's establishment. Third, they must know that their inward and outward mail is properly organised, and, fourth, they must know that they are getting their full quota of leave. Unfortunately, the terrific importance of the first two seems to be overlooked. Attention to these is worth all the bed lamps in
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