Collecting the Cash
Sir,—-Communist lecturers preaching equality for all seem as keen on the bawbees as any of the travelling evangelists whom they have supplanted. I read that on Sunday night Mr. McGillick counted the 2-13 threepences. - On Tuesday night he showed even greater keenness. I saw him walking up to a group of respectablelooking young men, flourish the collection box in their faces, and on their refusing the demand dismissing them post haste from the hall, preferring the cash to the opportunity of making additional converts to his cause. One can imagine what is going to happen if he and his friends ever get the say here, as in Russia.
One sees now on all sides this keenness of tire erstwhile Socialist to col-
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 4 November 1939, Page 14
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