NINETEENTH

CAMBRIDGE,

THERE is an old maxim of military organisation that for every soldier in the field there must be a maintenance worker behind him. In these days of highly developed machinery and laboursaving appliances this can no longer be wholly true, but none the less the men and women who are on war work at home make up an industrial army of such magnitude as gravely to complicate the already serious problem of demobilisation in its effects on society. The British Empire has no fewer than 6,000,000 of her sons under arms, 5,000,000 of whom have been drawn from the United Kingdom, so we are confronted with the fact that practically one half of our able-bodied manhood has been removed from productive industry and must some time at a no very distant date be returned to civil life. It was a wonderful thing to transfer them to service in the field and war work at home; it will be an even greater achievement to restore them efficiently to those industries of peace, now abandoned, in which they previously worked.

The world has always experienced difficulty in handling her fighting men after her wars. More frequently than not they were merely left to provide for themselves, and in the Middle Ages

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