We have been favoured with a copy of the “Times” Recruiting Supplement, and find it a most interesting publication, which reflects credit on the enterprise of the management.
The King’s Letter to his people in given as the frontispiece, and among the contents are “Lord Derby on his Scheme,”
“Messages from Overseas Premiers,”
“The Recruiting Campaign,”
“Brutality in German Warfare,” and a large number of other interesting and informative articles.
Knowing as we do that the management of the “Times” is now in the hands of Mr. Howard Corbett, who some few years ago was general manager of the “Cambria Daily Leader” and showed remarkable initiative and thoroughness in the publication of a Swansea trade supplement, we are not surprised at the excellence of the production nor the effective way in which it has been presented.
In spite of the Censor, a good deal of information is revealed which probably a less powerful journal would hesitate to present to the public. The issuing of the supplement, we are told, is inspired by one idea only, that is, to make Lord Derby’s scheme of voluntary recruiting a success, notwithstanding the opinion, never concealed, and which has been confirmed as the war goes on, that the fairest system of raising men, the soundest economically and the most effective from the point of view of military requirements, would be some form of compulsory service.
The “Times” is not alone in this opinion, for even those men of recruitable age who say they will not go until they are fetched, believe that under a system of compulsion everyone eligible would be secured, and none of the slackers would be able to hide themselves away until an opportunity came along for them to snatch the jobs of more patriotic persons.
We commend this Recruiting Supplement to the perusal of all who have an opportunity to secure a copy.
