WHAT DO YOU WANT?

White Ribbon, Volume 30, Issue 364, 18 October 1925, Page 9

WHAT DO YOU WANT?

If you are afraid of winning this election, and don’t want your Branch of the I'nion to make itself prominent -some seem so apt to push thf inselvecs forward <lo try to In. v»* a few mootings I»os:'i|nhi<*<l. That Li really one of the l**st and simplest ways of discouraging entliUfCASts and keeping newcomers from joining. Of onurf«*, it is useful to delay pa yin ? your subscription. Never pay it without txsng asked. When the Treasurer has asked you two or thr** 1 times, sometimes really pressing you, and over such a trifling sum, too, not worth her fuswing over, however much she wants to get her accounts mode up by the end of the financial year why, then, you have a right to feed a grievance. R«*ally it must seem as if she enjoyed asking for money. Be o» refill not to attend too often, or if you come, don’t be too punctual. Blit, best and simplest, get the meetings |>o«tponed. Remember a well-organised I’nion. however small, keeps the flag flying, ant serves a" a ne icleus to all kinds of Tempenuu e worker* and is so apt to bring all kinds of strangers, people you don’t knee*" at all. into its schemes. This election even a few votes may win the day. and the AV.CVT.r. seems on the look-out for every’ one it can entcih. IVobabh most of the members of your Branch, certainly some of them, continually are. Hut you can is* a splen did drag on it if you will just adhere to t hese f‘*w rules. Rente mb r, you may decide It he issue of the election. Think if the Prohibitionists loot heir expected majority by lwi?-c dozer votes, and your I’nion might have gained these if you ha/1 hol|M-d it enthusiastically! Wouldn’* you feel proud? Want to boa«t of it. oh? KATHERTNF. MERFRR