The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-03

Saturday night the Double Credit period ends. What will it mean 10 you members? Will it mean that you have spent weeks in gathering in subscriptions and credits, and then have slackened your pace this late ln the race and lost? or will it mean that you have protected the good work and have not disappointed your friends by working half-heartedly St the most critical time? Your IIIeHus would not have given you thelr sup port had they not thought you were sincere in your intentions to do your very best to pull one of the cholcest plums Otherwise they Wuld nave given their support to some other more determined worker, as IL IS natural to want to be on the WlhnIns side and not to have ones Supporl thrown in the wrong direction.
 -' There is plenty of time in which to win providing you work hard. You have undoubtedly put in a lot or nara and conscientious work since the pe- ginning of the Big Campaign ana have secured the assistance or your friends. Now, do not by any means rest on your oars the last of the campaign, The race has become very close. Members are running along neck and neck" and II you are to be there with the winners at the final count, it is up to you to keep continually at it as you nave in the past But two more weeks and it will all be over but the shout ing. and you surely want to De among te shouters. If you nave been taking advantage of the Speclal Credit offers you need not worry much, but if you have not it is up to you to get in and make the remain ;ng time count AggreSsiveness ana stick -to-it-iye-ness can accomplish a whole lot within few hours.
 Fourteen Working Days.
 The race is to the swift, ito the victors belong the spoils"-What VIII vour friends who have helped you say if you get cash cofninlsSloii Ant stead of an automobile? Ihlnk It over. Only fourteen "ofhths @ th cans remain until the close or the cam naign and after that time is Will pc .ioVn for some and "glom Tor oth- CTS In which class will you bet The "ioy class?" It will be Joy rlulHS for the eight members who are sue cessful enough to win the els n1 ,'to' C@ s' and inc eight winners or these Aulo- mobiles will be in class by them
 aIvas It is so much easier to pro gress with even strokes, than to oe whirled in to a mlll-race oI tule ness and to be forced to struGsle 10 the nosition of members who relln- oI,ish their efforts and allow them selves to be surpassed in the actual number of credits secured. Ihey have literally to swim agalnst current of competition and opposition Struggling to pass the others ana all the time realizing that they are regaining lost ground of which they were formerly in possession It IS not real advancement.
 This is only little sermon on tne danger of idleness, as no member mas really given up the fight. Some may he resting but 1t is this danger or resting too long that you shoulu guard against. Probably the very 9inute that you decide you nave done enough at least for "hlie' some other member may be doing the work that will place him or her apoVe vou and may manage to defeat you, Of course there is always ceFtain alternate hope and fear that ettects the members. Always the eternal 7 question, "WilI I wins Make sure that YOU will try hard to win. snow hv vour efforts that you intend to come out a winner, and you cannot beln but impart this confluence W tu others with the result that they WI, WI, rally to your support, and you VII soon really be on your way to VIC