28 DECEMBER 1907, Page 15

THE PROBLEM OF THE UNEMPLOYED.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—" G. C. B.'s " suggestion in last week's Spectator that the unemployed in Britain should be converted during the winter months into trained soldiers reminds one of the story of the King of Spain who issued an order that all the beggars in his kingdom (which swarmed with them) should be compelled to join the Army. All the beggars disappeared.—