This I am afraid is rather a dry as well
as a very egotistical record. It may, however, prove of use to Sheriffs of other counties who are burning for a job, and, indeed, to all men who are too old to join the ranks, but who keenly realize that the essential thing is to get half a million men without a moment's unnecessary delay. No man is too good to serve his country and, no man is too old to be a recruiting sergeant. If every man over thirty years of age could be made to feel that he must not rest until he personally had brought at least one recruit to Lord Kitchener's Second Army, we should soon get what we require. Remember that what Lord Kitchener asks for is relatively a very small thing —roughly, not much more than one per cent. of the popula- tion. Other nations are giving a. vastly greater proportion of their manhood. Think of what little Belgium and still smaller Servia have done. Z.
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