VOTING CONTEST

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7016, 3 January 1910, Page 8

VOTING CONTEST

Learn tho true value of votes. j liarn tho value of systematic work. Learn tho power of thorough organisation. Learn to know that others will value /our worth as an effective worker at just tho same value as you x> laco upon yourself. ; | Learn to appreciate your confidence of winning before yuu can expect others to rato you as a winner. Learn that nothing succeeds like success. When tho voters svo your total mount up they make tho tusk easier for you to mount still higher and higher. Learn tho value of a few thousand votes, which will easily place you among the twenty leaders. Tho value of votes in subscriptions is small, but their value us the means of promoting for you a winner is great. Learn the true value of one small free vote coupon, or a month’s subscription, Ono of both may mean the world’s tour. Learn these lessons now—to-day, for It will bo too late after March 19th. If the ono vote or subscription hues you the prize you seek• then you will surely appreciate the uses of adversity. Learn these lines:— Heights by great men reached and kept. Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night. Learn while yet there is time that one vote may win that world’s tour—"toil upward m tho night,” and get it. The toiler commands respect—votes, too. The working world is kept moving by toilers. Don’t, for the want of a little toil, miss seeing how it moves. Wq have toiled night and day to make the Con-

teat tho great success, and, as 3'ou can sec, to some purpose. It isn’t the first time —nor will it bo the last by a tew. But on this particular occasion it must bo co-operative toil. We have toiled to give you the opportunity of touring tho world, and now we’ro waiting to present that tour to tho successful toiler, and also tho nineteen prizes to tho other successful toilers.

Learn, finally, to appreciate the true .significance of tho New Year. Twelve months hcnco it -will bo tho Old Year, ami its joys and sorrows, its Triumphs and failures, will bo memories of the past. But to-day—now—you, and you alone, are the solo arbiter of your own fortune. Tho fame that will come to Uio winner of the first priz-e in this Contest will live, and it may prove a stepping-stone to future greatness. Don’t stop to think over these truths —accept them, get busy, and bo a winner 1

And now comes the distressing news that the canals of Mars are an optical illusion. But we are consoled by the lact that our world’s tour is no optical illusion, though it will be a delusion to tho non-worker.

The recent downpour of rain in Wellington amounted to nearly an inch and a half, but no ono will risk an opinion as to Uu. depth of the shower of votes March 19th.

Our local department declares 'There was nothing particularly exciting about tho conduct of tho numerous people who celebrated New Year’s Eve.” Of course not. The people are reserving their enthusiasm and energy for the night of March 19th, when tho Great Voting Contest closes.

Any real live workers, with a little surplus energy, can soon pile up enough votes to boost themselves into tho list of leaders. Nominations are still in order, nnd do not close until the 31st inst.