ANNUAL STOCKTAKING

White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 10, 1 November 1947, Page 10

ANNUAL STOCKTAKING

As the annual meetings are looming up, Dominion Superintendents are making their yearly play for REPORTS, Secretaries are hunting feverishly through Minute Books, UnDn Superintendents are trying to retail what has happened in their departments; the question is often heard, “Why do we have to do all this rejiorting?” The answer is that this is the only way in which we can do our stocktaking, and everyone knows that stocktaking is necessary in the very smallest as well as the greatest concerns. Here we are, a band of women, forming part in turn, of a world-wide association, all working in the same channels, and for the same ends, and it is of extreme importance that correct records of work done should be kept, and, at the proper time (NOW to be correct) presented for Dominion Superintendents to make up the “accounts” for publication in the Rejort Book handed to each delegate at Dominion Convention. There is no other wa\ in whicli we can assess the work done.

Does it matter if a Union only sends a general statement of its work to the District Secretary? Is it really needful for the work in each department to be separately reported? W ell, consider what this omission will mean, and what is involved if only a general report is sent to the District Secretary. The last-named will have to select, from your rejiort, and perhaps several others, the special bits and pieces, and put them all together to send tc the Dominion Superintendent. Fully to appreciate the delight of doing this for perhaps a dozen departments, from many reports containing all kinds ot items, one needs to do it a time or two. Theu perhaps the humane seme will triumph, and each Union will see to it that a separate report for each department is sent to the District Secretary if there are no District Superintendents, and to the said Superintendents if they nave been appointed. One Dominion Superintendent wrote the following: “At Convention this year there were quite a few complaints that I had not reported what different Unions had done for . . . It was hard for me to report if 1 had not received a report from them, so I am hoping that they will send it this time.”

Let no piece of even so small as sending flowers to a sick member, remain unrifiorted. Our statements at the end of the year are unreliable unless every Union sees to this. And remember it is NOT enough to put it a! into the district report. The special reports should also be sent without fail.