Wendy GaMs To Her Sunshine Army

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)

Wendy GaMs To Her Sunshine Army

Dear Sunbeams— I know that in these worried days you are.all thinking one thing: What can we do to help? In the last fortnight even the smallest of you has grown up a little and is noticing that there t so many smiles about the house as there were before. Last week your club captain, Peter Pan, told you mat that was your foremost duty . . ..you must be the one who similes and who keeps others smiling, too. Remember, that in this, prompt obedience will help tremendously. In tins way you can take much of "the burden of responsibility, which in these anxious days weighs so heavily upon die shoulders of aIL Now, what are the Sunshine Clubs going to do? For the moment .1 cannot tell you anything further than: Yes They are most decidedly going to do something! We do not know at the time of writing just what part New Zealand is going to play in the service of the Empire, and so, until a definite statement is made, we cannot announce the commencement of our campaign. Several plans are under consideration and you will probably be tolS of our decision next week. In the past. Sunbeams, you have done marvellous work. Remember the inter Campaigns? .. . the thousands of quilts, the case after case of clothes and' baby woollies and provisions that have gone out of Sunshine House since the idea was first launched! And the Northern children to whom you gave the most wonderful holidays of their lives . . . remember working like Trojans for weeks and weeks to raise the necessary funds . . . coming into Sunshine House with tins of pennies, boxes of jingling silver and crisp crackling notes? And then, remember entertaining the holiday children—the parties, the picnics, the excursions? Why, Sunbeams, I think there is no end to the brightness of the sunshine you have scattered where it has most been needed. Yet, here is something very much greater than any campaign we have ever conducted before ... it is for a much graver cause, and we will need much harder work, much greater endeavour. Yet Peter Pan and myself know that will never dishearten you. You will rally round as you have always done, your only cry being: "What else can we do?" Till next week. Sunbeams, when perhaps we can "let you in" to the big secret, | i for which plans and plots are being hatched in Sunshine House. Until then ... **** ** don't forget—keep smiling!