We desire to 'draw the attention of our readers to
the spirited and timely appeal for thirty thousand recruits a week put forward by the Labour Recruiting Committee. "If the voluntary principle is to be vindicated, at least thirty thousand recruits per week must be raised." We assure the Trade Unionists of the Labour Recruiting Committee—which we are glad to see is presided over by Mr. Bowerman, a Trade Unionist of the beat sort—that those who believe in universal service on its merits, as we do, will nevertheless work their very hardest to support the new attempt to make this final effort of the voluntary system a complete success. All concerned, however, must remember that if any good is to come ott of this last rally, the work must be done in a thorough and scientific way, and not, as hitherto, almost haphazard. There must be a personal canvass of . every man, and a personal canvass of a persuasive and attractive, not a bullying, kind. The campaign must be worked like the most thorough of election campaigns, and at the end it must be impossible to say that there is any Briton of military ago who has not had the needs of the nation brought home to him personally, and an opportunity given him to serve and save the State.
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