What has become of the Reception Committee inaugurated by the Ammanford Urban Council?
Soldiers come and soldiers go, but up to the present the committee seems to have relapsed into a slumberous stat so characteristic of bodies that are lacking an active head.
Whoever is the appointed leader should make an effort to get the committee into working order. This week there have been three or four smoking concerts, spontaneously got up by friends of the departing soldiers, and the gifts made have been supplied out of money collected among those attending.
This does not give everyone the same recognition, and a central fund would be much fairer. In Cwmamman, the workers have voluntarily agreed to contribute so much per head to a fund, and if that were done, and consistently maintained, in Ammanford there should be an adequate sum available to give those returning to the Front a token of the appreciation felt at their services, and something left over to provide handsomely for those who are fortunate enough to come home at the close of the war.
The committee was supposed to be representative of all sections of the community as well as of the collieries, but no public step appears yet to have been made.
