REALISATION.

Otaki Mail, 8 February 1922, Page 4

REALISATION.

Chapter 12, Continued)

By F. J. Ryder.

Kow, if you could only have seen mother and Mr Jones set out with their' sandwich boards, mother in particular for she was a little short, stout old lady, and the boards were so large that she could just see over the top and keep the bottom clear of the ground. I can tell you she did look a cut, for she had a pork pie hat with a huge high feather stuck in it, and with, this head-

gear, and an old-fashioned crinolene skirt, it would have to be someone that was more dead than alive if they did not see mother. Mrs -Jones dressed as a washer-woman with bare arms and head, and with her height she was not nearly so noticeable as mother. .however, the fun of Cork came when Mr Jones secured a snap-shot of the two or them and that's one of hi?.greatest treasures to-day. To be sure, Mr and Mrs Jones, were up to time and were too delighted to find the hall very well filled indeed, considering no money had bean spent in advertising. Mother came up and ' whispered to Mr Jom-

that she had caught a few. Yes, nn ther, you have caught a lot, but ho am I going to address that audicm:

and half of them don't know what i am trying to do. Never mind that. Mi Jones, we have got them and you have got to keep them, so off you go, for you know the time goes by too quickly. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to shot, you what can be done without expense, this hall has been secured free and this owing to a couple of volunteers. You will understand, ladies and gentlemen that this is not our first meeting quite a number have been held, but Unhall got too small to hold the people that took an interest in the common sense I have been trying to get the; ( to swallow, sc we had to got a laigei hall, hence a lot of strangers are here. 1 intend telling you of a fairy union that I have in my mind’s eye, for yon all know, although, we have unions galore.. to-day, things are not going too smoothly, but you are fully aware of what all unions are out for. More money and less work of course, came front someone. That is so, said Mi Jones, but do you ever think how that state of affairs can be brought about. No, nor we don’t care so long as we cau keep the game .going. Yes, I knov. that is the tendency to-day, either spend your money as fast as you make it or want to get rich quick and five off tlio sweat of other people. If you stop and think you will soon realise that we cannot go on like this for all time, for although our workers are belter off by far than they were in thou olden days they are more discontented, and how can yu aspect us to be -ati.--fled when the greedy rich people want! the earth. Pray tell me, said Mr Jones, 1 what do the lazy ones want, something for nothing, to be sure. Yes, that is what all hands and the cook arc wanting to-day, but although we have been chasing money nearly for 2,000 years are we any better off? You know one and all arc interested in the high cost of living, and the longer and faster we j chase money the higher it must go., There are very few of us that either" have the time or ability, and less still, are to be found who are willing to do something for nothing. That is so, Mr Jones, so pray, with this state of affairs existing, how do you propose altering things. Just as simple as we | have secured this hall and advertised I this meeting free of expense. You - have already heard me speak of my fairy union. Awhile ago you almost . secured one big union which had for its , motto “down with capital,’’ nationalize j the land, and get us better conditions j to work under and above all "bigger wa- , ges must be secured. Now, if you or- | ganisers had stopped and thought first was it possible to get these conditions by force they would and could have j only come to one conclusion and that •they were striving to attain something) that was hopelessly impossible. Now, f my fairy union is to be one trig uuo'-n, j but its motto is “do unto others as you would like to be done tuito.’’ And a j real good motto too, said Harry. Yes, j I realise it’s a good motto to. follow 1 and I am sorry to say very few of us t even put it into practice continually, , not even our ministers. Now. Mr j Jones, we began to think you were t sticking up for the parsons, but you ; have always been fair, so pray toil us ‘ what is wrong with our parsons. Well, 5 I am pleased to note you still give me j credit for being fair for that’s what I I want to be above everything else. Parsons are largely like the public, they want to get a living as easily as they possibly can, and I find they are about as keen after the dollars as any other section of the community. For when they get a higher salary offered from another parish they invariably say they have a call from G-od and that they., are very sorry they must go, fori they could not very well tell them the I truth and say straight out from the ) shoulder that they are off because they are offered more money, but the latter j would be the truth and the truth is j supposed to be preached by them. Well, Mr Jones, you are hard on the parsons, but no one can deny but what you have told is the truth. Quite so, but I have ( told you that no one can do any good for the community without-treading on .someone’s corns. Let me tell you before you ever get my fairy union going. many, many sections of the public ■ have to have their corns trod on quite as hard as I have, trod on the parsons. .Now, my fairy union has to be composed of all volunteers; no one must.bepaid. How is one to live, Mr Jones, if j he or she works for nothing. How did ! mother and Mrs Jones and myself live j 1 and do what little we have done free. ‘ Just because we did it for love instead I of money, and pray tell me are we any the worse for it, or thought any less! of, for having done it if we had known ! this hall would not be filled like it is to-night. Continued).