We publish in our correspondence columns a most urgent appeal
for additional workers from the Commandant-in-Chief of the V.A.D.'s. We trust that the Commandant-in-Chief will have her womanly and straightforward call for volun- teers endorsed by the best of endorsements—the volun- teering at once of a large force of women workers. But, remember, they must ho, save in certain exceptional cases, new workers. It is no good to move women already doing essential V.A.D. work at home to do V.A.D. work abroad. You must not fill one vacancy by creating another. It is the women and girls hitherto idle who must in the main answer the call, either directly or by some well-thought-out system of substitution. And here we would specially appeal to the mothers. The girls as a rule are ready enough to go. Let the mothers make the great sacrifice and refuse to hold them back. If they do make the sacrifice, they will never re- gret it. If they do not, their selfishness some day before the war ends will pierce their souls like a sword and make them ask in the silence of the heart : " Oh ! what have I done ? "
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