WHAT HAVE YOU GOT?

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 379, 18 February 1927, Page 8

WHAT HAVE YOU GOT?

“Use what you have and you’ll never go short,” was a favourite saying of a famous Missionary. It occurs to me that some of our smaller branches might often think of it, when they say what 1 have heard repeated too frequently: “It's not worth going to the meetings when there is so little to Is there so little? Have you done all the little jobs there is room for in your neighbourhood? Has your Local School the Temperance Wall Sheets, well-attended to? (I heard of one Union whose members made '.he ‘nothing doing’ plaint when their Public School had not even got the wall-sheets no one seemed to have asked if the Convent School had, or used them.) Have you got keen workers on their School Committees, and all the other Local bodies? What about the Plunket Society is the Badge well in evidence there? Do your Local Boy Scouts and Girl Guides associate our Bow with their ideas of civic workers? Your Local Flower Shows, Sports Competitions, are the Union members backing them up, and showing our colours at their meetings? If not, why not? The Pelman people used to ram i‘ into their students that “a great achievement is only a succession of small ones.” We can’t very reasonably hopi for our great achievement, which is rot mere)" to win prohibition, but to train our boys and girls to understand the common-sense of total abstinence, unless we, (>ve, the- rank and file, you and I. not just our leaders) achieve the great success of doing the small jobs waiting near us. So. what job have you got, just nice and handy, waiting for yon to sort it up? I asked a Junior member lately if she had asked a new-comer to join. “Why. I never thought of it,” she said. Have you any new-comers you havr not asked? KATHERINE MERCER.