THIS ELECTION DAY IS PAST.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 402, 18 January 1929, Page 13

THIS ELECTION DAY IS PAST.

Election Day results are out This year’s Election Day is j*ast, and surely its figures should act as a spur to us all in the work ahead, getting ready for the coming ot \ Wo need it. We all see that. Perhaps some of us may find encouragement again, as often before, in two texts. They are old favourites both, too wellknown to need verse. First: “Come over and help us.” Not “send your thoughts and money, to enable other workers to attack the work, hut come yourself.'* Second: “Whosoever will may come.” (If any meeting cares to use this to read, may I suggest with it the use of a hymn opening with that line. We all know it. and its truth). The»e is a way marked out to make sure of winning next election. Come yourself, and make sure you bring with you one more voter on our side, and one more made sure of for the election following the ne\t. Double our number this next election, and we can never be beaten again. And the one sure way to do it is, not to leave the job to our leaders, hut for us. the rank and file, to hack them up by doing our share, doubling our number by each one bringing in a recruit. Don’t keep to our own people. Go

out into No Man's Land, among the neutrals and our friends the enemy, (and remember how much it matters to l>e friendly with them). You know one hoy or girl who will vote for the first time in 1031. Probably you know two. Concentrate on that one, from to-day, but not to the extent of ignoring the other. If you have none, make some, and cultivate the friendly relation those common interests bring. If you don't catch that vote (though it will be hard to fail, if you concentrate on any human being for three years) you will have increased your own working value b> increased experience and enthusiasm, and have much more chance of winning the other vote you have thought of as the second string to your bow\ The hoy you try to win may shift somewhere, looking for another job. Can you make sure there is someone else there on the look-out for him. Ixodes the local publican? If so, vour work will not he wasted, for the friend whose welcome to him you have arranged will carry it on, as some other friend may want you to help raise seed she has planted. The girl you have tried to make friends with may live somewhere else when she marries. Can you send word ahead to the nearest hranch of the I’nion, if you have no personal acquaintance where she is going? A cordial welcome makes such an important. and lasting, first impression. If she goes to a place so lonely that she has no neighbours near, she will ho the more eager for the mail hag, won’t you have your chance there to interest her?

However your chance comes to interest boy or girl, neutral or enemy, don't let it slip. Don’t stick too closely to religion, the kind practised by “Mary’s Sons”: “They cast their burden on the Lord, and the Lord. He gives it to Martha's Sons.” Which family are we going to join up with for the next fight? That is. you and I, the rank and file. We know' which claims our leaders. But, for us, if w r e decide to come over and help, if we haven't as much experience yet as we will have before the fight is won. at least we have the definite promise: “Whoever will may come.” And if we come, ourselves, and double our voting power, “there will be none that can stand against as.” KATHERINE MERCER.