It is no good, however, to cry over spilt milk.
The essential thing now is to find a remedy. It can be found, and found quickly, if the Government like to take it in what we have called scientific recruiting. The essential point here is to divide the procuring of the raw material from the training and organization. Let the civilians help the military authorities, who, Heaven knows, are hard-worked enough, by relieving them of the actual getting of the men. The military side of soldier-making must, of course, remain as before absolutely in the hands of the War Office and without civilian interference. Nobody can argue that the paper-makers in the employ of a newspaper are interfering 'with its conduct and management because they look ahead,
and, anticipating a great call for extra paper, get in large supplies of raw material against such a demand. The editorial department are only too delighted to hear that such provision is being made.
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