OUR RECRUITING SYSTEM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 81, 4 August 1915, Page 6

OUR RECRUITING SYSTEM.

[To Thk Editor Stbatvohd Post,} : Sir; —Milch may be said for and against onr present system of recruiting, arid being personally concerned, I am going to say' something against it even at the- risk, of appearing disloyal. Seven weeks ago I put in my application'and passing the doctor, etc.,, was accepted. I have not been chosen for the reiiiforcements at present under orders’ to proceed to camp, and writing personally to an officer whom T knew could let me.know when I was likely to be called upon, 1 received the information that at the earliest it would bo in October next. This makes in all (even if called on then) 15 weeks waiting, which' J contend is far too Torig, an ad is detrimental to’ the' recruiting movement. One. not only gets weary of waiting’; but it assuredly affects one from a business point'of view. I have lost tny situation through it, and instead of being it) good eriiploymerit receiving good money (which I would have been had t not enlisted), 1 a nil now doing nothing. and little prospect in , view. I reckon a month or six weeks should only elapse between the time a man is accepted and his going into crimp.— I am, etc., NO. 1357.