ONE WAY TO SPOIL A UNION.

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 260, 19 February 1917, Page 15

ONE WAY TO SPOIL A UNION.

(To the Editor.) Dear Sisters, —As 1 travel around many mistakes are apparent to me which are not always so clear to the local members. One thing which tells against our work is the constant appeal for money. Quite lately, in different parts of the country, 1 have met with women who have ceased to attend the meetings on this account. When canvassing for new members. 1 tell them, “It will cost you two shillings and sovenpence a year.” A woman joins us, and then something is proposed, and another member says, “We’ll give a sh lling each,’’ or “We’ll each give fid a month.” It is a mere nothing to the speaker, byt the woman sitting next her (who has joined because, though somewhat pinched, she could afford the annual membership fee) cannot afford it. She does not like to say so, *ind quietly drops out. Xobodv minds a “plate" occasionally, but even . this should, by rule, be very plain.— • Yours in the work, MARY S. POW * Dorn in 'ig.in ser.

(To the Editor.) Dear Editor, —May 1 comment on two of the notices of motion which Mrs Evans has reminded us are to be voted on at Convention? The proposal to give Dominion Superintendents of Departments seats on the Executive while Convention is in session would, I think, make for inefficiency. The present F.xecutivc consists of nine general officers and nineteen Yice-Pres dents, twentyeight in all. If to this number is to be ? »dded twenty-six Dominion Super-

intendents, we should have an Executive numbering fifty-four, practically a Convention in itself ! it is proverbial that small committers do the best work. Regarding the proposal of allowing our Unions to nominate Superintendents. This sTetns to me an excellent one. If this were carried, the Unions would be undertaking at their leisure a very important work, which Convention, for want of sufficient time, has generally scrambled through in a-very hasty and perfunctory manner. • If nominations were made in time for publication in the January number of the “White Ribbon” for these departmental officers, there would be tme to consider the appointments before Convention meets, and the Superintendents would be more likely to be deliberately and wisely c hosen —I am, etc., K. W. SHEPPARD.