CRIPPLED SOLDIERS ART UNION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3181, 4 September 1917, Page 3

CRIPPLED SOLDIERS ART UNION

TO BE DRAWN ON THURSDAY. Tho timo is very closo now for tlio drawing in. connection with the Crippled Soldiers' Art Union, and tho big event will "(afc'o placo on Thursday next as advertised. We aro informed • that thero. will bo absolutely no postponement, and people who are careless enough to retain books after AVednesdav next will havo to bear the -consequence of their neglect. A visit to tho long room in which Air. Sutherland, the organiser, is busy with a. small army of men and women checking and tearing out sold tickets, and making ready each day for tho different representations to placo all in tho lingo octagonal "bin" is an object lesson for the unpatriotic or unthinking person. Threo long months of incessant work in placing hooks, renewing orders, attending to mail orders, fixing 'up advertisements, coaxing printers for concessions, and, abo\c all, the dailv banking. This was the everyday work in connection with- this or any other of tlio seven art unions Mr. Sutherland lias conducted, but tho pressure which approaches during tlio last fortiiHit necessitates slaying up all night sometimes, and in every case very late hours--until some ten days after. , ■ After the drawing all books and unsold tickets havo to be entered up, and. with tho accounts, presented to the Government Audit" Department, and all this Mr Sutherland ami his wife do as their "bit" ill the patriotic, life of our Dominion. Tliev "carry on" their own. work in conjunction with their p'atnoiic "worJc.