We are glad to be able to announce that the
subscriptions to the Fund which the Spectator is raising to help the Home Guards movement have reached the sum of £1,820 lls. As the Christmas holidays are the worst possible time for raising subscriptions we ought not, we suppose, to feel disappointed with the ammmt. At the same time, we are bound to point out that the need of the Central Fund is very great. The Central Association of Volunteer Training Corps, to give the body its full name—" Home Guards" is, of course, merely shorthand for this somewhat cumbrous title—is, at the bidding V the War Ojfice, doing admirable work in seeing to it that the defence corps which are springing up like mushrooms throughout the country shall give the nation good value, and that the splendid enthusiasm and patriotic self- eacrifice which inspire them shall not run to waste. To prevent this it is essential that every corps should be affiliated to the Central Association. But such affiliation is bound to mean a very great deal of expense for the supervising body. Unfortunately also supervision is not the kind of work which attracts publics help. Hundreds of men will give to the Blankshire or Blanktown Home Guards or Town Guards, or whatever the title may be, while only one will think of the needs of the Central Association. How and where to send subscriptions to our Fund—i.e., for the Central Association of Volunteer Training Corps—is explained on p. 18.
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