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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21300, 2 April 1931, Page 16

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THE FEBRUARY JOURNAL (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, February 19. Like all other popular institutions, Toe H requires the sinews of war—money—and the first article in the February number of the Toe H Journal deals with this all-absorbing question. If Toe H is to progress (says the writer of the article), it is essential that all units which possibly can should bear their share i the burden of money raising. We left that burden on Tubby’s shoulders much too long. It was largely the cause of Hs breaking down last year. The burden is now too great for any man. We must depend more and more on the pennies and shillings of individual members collected in their units, and to the subscriptions of Toe H builders attracted by the work of branches and groups. And in particular if Toe H is to be built rightly overseas, Toe H in England, which has been given a very full share of the endowments, must raise the balance of the cost of its own staffs. If they do not, we shall have to reverse, instead of going ahead. We learn also from the journal that the plan to have both a Toe H mark and a whole-time padre in Liverpool is now well within sight of accomplishment. A most historic house, the birthplace of Gladstone in 1809, has been graciously presented to Toe H by his grandson, Mr H. N. Gladstone, and of the sum required to recondition the house and endow a whole-time position almost the half has already been given, includ-

ing a munificent donation of £IOOO from Lord Leverhulme. ON THE JOB. “ A New Zealand Member ” writes on a few tilings discovered about jobs. These are interesting, and the editor suggests that a profitable discussion might well arise from the comparison of the points with the views expressed in a letter, “Jobs—A Means or'an End?” in the December journal. The things the New Zealand member has discovered are:— 1. The worker is more important to us than the job. 2. The job is more important to the worker than himself. 3. Two men on a job are not just two men—but a whole heap more. 4. Round pegs in square holes are much better than idle pegs and empty boles—but you must aim at avoiding waste of talent if it is there. 5. The motive is the main thing to attend to. A humble job done from a high motive counts more than an imposing mass of scrap work. 6. A mixture of permanent and individual jobs with corporate and occasional jobs is best for developing the right spirit. 7. A man’s first duty is to his profession or trade, and his dependents, but if that remains his first and last duty, lie is less than a full-sized man. 8. Toe H aims not at merely occasional jobs of service, but at a life lit up with the Toe H spirit. 0. Volunteers are better than pressed men, but when a man has enlisted as a volunteer don’t hesitate to take him at his word, but give him his orders. Other articles in the journal dealt with “ A Job for Older Toe H Men,” and the Prince’s voyage; and Barclay Baron gives the legend of “The Holy Thorn.”