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CORRECTION & COMMENDATION!

         1. THE QUICKER YOU LEADERS LEARN TO CONFESS YOUR MISTAKES, the more others will trust & love you--& the more the Lord will use you!
         2. THERE'S AN OLD GREEK SAYING WHICH WE DON'T WANT TO LIVE UP TO: "FOLKS ALWAYS APPLAUD WHEN YOU MAKE A MISTAKE, BUT SELDOM WHEN YOU'RE RIGHT!" We can't ignore your mistakes & it's my job to help you correct them, with the Lord's help, but we don't want to forget to applaud when you do well! GBY!

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES--CORRECTION & SHARING

         3. WHEN PEOPLE SAY THEY SAW YOU IN THE PAPER, WHY DON'T YOU ASK THEM WHAT PAPER, WHAT CITY, WHICH ISSUE & approximately what page or section or location on the page, so you can write that newspaper for copies, as it's important to know what they're saying about us & to protest if they lie! Slight & unimportant errors in their facts are not necessary to correct; only if they malign, slander, libel or defame. These are legal offenses, which they should be happy to correct, if you write them a nice letter.

MINISTRY OF LITERATURE

         4. YOU SHOULD BY ALL MEANS BE GETTING WRITTEN TESTIMONIES FROM PARENTS & FRIENDS COMMENDING OUR WORK, particularly authorities if possible, for use with the same. You'll find this a great help & so would we, in dealing with the System, particularly in opening new Homes, & road teams should be well-supplied with these to use for good impressions.
         5. ONE THING WE DON'T WANNA SHARE, HOWEVER, IS COPIES OF SOME OF OUR CLASSES WITH ANTAGONISTIC PARENTS! They could only be getting them from us, so who's doing it? Better find out & put a stop to it NOW! Also, leaders should not be so careless with their notebooks as to leave them lying around where babes can get ahold of them. The damage may be irretrievable!

PERSONNEL CHANGES

         6. IF YOU HAVE TOO MANY PERSONALITY CLASHES WITH SOME OF YOUR PERSONNEL & you just can't get along with them & it's bringing too much friction & it drags everybody down, why not transfer them to some other Home where they'd like to go, with whom they could work better, or maybe YOU oughta move! I think all of our folks should have experience in different Homes.

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