lull LACK OF RECRUITING FACILITIES IN CANADA.
Ma nil EMT. ON TIM ..E.C.T.Olt...]
• read with great satisfaction the letter of your corm-
'pendent from Winnipeg, with your appended note in approvaL There must surely be some defect in the organiza- tion for recruiting in Western Canada and British Columbia by which we are losing large numbers of men who would furnish the best material for the addition so much needed to our present forces. The facts concerning lack of employ- ment cited by your correspondent are nowhere more appalling than in Vancouver, where, as a private letter (from my son- in-law) informs me, there are at present some fifteen thousand men in enforced idleness. I feel confident that if sufficient facilities were offered, the urgency of the need properly put before them, and recruiting seriously pressed, a very large proportion of these would gladly offer themselves to serve. If, as it would appear, the fault of slackness rests with the Canadian Government, cannot the initiative come from the Home Government P It is not to be thought that considerations of expense of transcontinental transport can possibly stand in the way, in view of our national need.—I
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