neral question of
personal responsibility shall be reserved until the end of
the War."--_Mr. Balfour in the House._

Let sentence wait. The apportionment of blame
To those who compassed each inhuman wrong
Can bide till Justice bares her sword of flame;
But let your memories be long!

And, lest they fail you, wearied into sleep,
Bring out your tablets wrought of molten steel;
There let the record be charactered deep
In biting acid, past repeal.

And not their names alone, of high estate,
Drunk with desire of power, at whose mere nod
The slaves that execute their lust of hate
Laugh at the laws of man and God;

But also theirs who shame their English breed,
Who go their ways and eat and drink and play,
Or find in England's bitter hour of need
Their chance of pouching heavier pay;

And theirs, the little talkers, who delight
To beard their betters, on great tasks intent,
Cheapening our statecraft in the alien's sight
For joy of self-advertisement.

Today, with hands to weightier business set,
Silent contempt is all you can afford;
But put them on your list and they shall get,
When you are free, their full reward.

New Recruiting in Britain

By Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, Secretary of State for War

State registration of all persons, male and female, between
the ages of fifteen and sixty-five, the particulars to
include each person's age, work, and employers, and his
registering to be accompanied by an invitation that he
volunteer for work for which he may have special fitness,
was the provision introduced in the House of Commons on June
29, 1915, and passed by that body on July 8. In explaining
the bill's intent its introducer, Mr. Walter Long, who is
President of the Local Government Board, replied on July 9
to the objection of critics who saw in it the first steps to
compulsory service. He said that the National Register stood
or fell by itself. So far as the use of it went, so far as
the adoption of compulsion went, he declared frankly that
the Prime Minister would be the last man in England to say,
in the face of the situation in which Britons found
themselves, anything which would prevent the Government
adopting compulsory service tomorrow if the