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r ‘ fthe United We can try to make people a“ ale 0 Nations by celebrating UN. Day on Octobgfl? and we can work for UNESCO and UNI . Mrs. Adams felt that Institutes all over Canada should take a greater Interest in Conservation, in the preservatlonlof the soil. She said, “Even in Alberta, great oil producing province that it is, seventyjthree per cent of the income comes from agriculture. Adult Education Something of the work of the Canadian Association for Adult Education was presented by the Director, Dr. Roby Kidd. Referring to Lincoln’s question as to whether a nation halt slave and half free could live, Dr. Kidd asked if a world half starved and half fed, could exist. In this fear-fraught, worry-ridden world we need education. Dr. Kidd said, and we can‘t wait for the children to grow up. We must educate the adults. We must use educaâ€" tion not as magic, not as an escape, but to fit us to deal with realities. And it must be an education based on a belief in people, an edu- cation to help people to be masters of their own destinies. The CAAE, the Director explained, dis- tributes a great deal of literature including the periodical, "Food for Thought.” It answers a great many letters from people who want to know how to deal with children, how to use television, letters from people who want to take correspondence courses. The Association holds national and regional conferences. Dr. Kidd said he would like to see the Women’s Institutes taking a larger part in these con- ferences and sharing their experience with others. He would like to see the Women’s Institutes having a larger national voice on such questions as education, school systems, how to have radio and television made more helpful and on how Canada can best help the people of other nations. Overseas Visitors at the Conference: Mrs Cumberland County, England; Mrs. Schippers. Dutch Hutchinson, Canadian, Scar-bore. OHl-i Miss M. K. Ferguson, recenlly retired executive secretary, Scollish Women's Rural lnslilules. “This is not a time for teary Dr. Kldd Q" and quoted “Thank God our time is now iivilld. Wrong comes up to face us evewmmefi en Civil Defence “If the need for civil defence amps, ,, x 1 be women who will have most to do with said R. B. Currie, Chief of Welfare Planni' and Civil Defence in the Department of ND tionai Health and Welfare. “And if i‘li sitar: comes, while rural communities may not h under direct attack, they will be‘ gimme; indirectly because people from bomb»: mm injured, frightened people will flow 10 1h} country. Civil defence also applies peace time disasters such as flood, fire am does.” Mr, Currie explained that one wml n mi} defence would be to feed thousands .. maple under emergency conditions, to fill' :llEller lrirna_ for them and distribute clothing. To in at such emergencies kind hearts and Willing i ii. are not enough. People must be trained The work. A successful course had just bi, man at Arnprior, and Mr. Currie hoped it ‘ inanr more courses would be held and that inure members would give them their moral «pm A Happy Conference Mr. C. D. Graham, Deputy Minister Agn- culture for Ontario, brought greetings ,n the Ontario Government. Mr. Graham ‘ 1 that in the Department of Agriculture‘s clan of teaching, research and extension rld lo the Department's men in the field. - Wo- men’s Institutes are a tower of strer i He complimented the Institutes on their - .graril, fundamental to the home and the cor lnlty, and commenting on their growing fr lslllDS with women of other countries he -rred to the interchange of farm young p: ‘v be- tween Ontario and the British Isles ,‘lease read “Ontario’s Youth Delegation" i This issue.) “This interchange of young Gilli and their interchange of thoughts oi Ideas will have much to do with world ' liltin- ships,” Mr. Graham said. A very happy event of the confers“ “'35 the F.W.I.O. Board’s presentation of . $11190 brooch to Miss Edith Collins, who ' u'nlll' retired from the Institute Branch afir Off)" one years of service. At this presentai: *: and throughout the conference there wel 'Ilani' tributes to Miss Collins' ability as a . infer- a teacher of Clothing and later of i rural Act1v1ties, and to the personal cha" the humor and Sympathy that have won 5 ‘ilafll' friends for her all over the province Three visitors from overseas atteni i the conference: Mrs. Hutchinson of Cum i‘lE-nd County, England; Mrs. Schippers, Dutci. Cana- dian, Scarboro, who with her husban. Grill} a Paper for Dutch Canadians; and Mis: M. It. Ferguson recently retired executive se "Piaf? of the Scottish Women’s Rural Institutes Mrs. Schippers discussed the integraon of New Canadians “on the highest level,” seem the Possibilities of Canada and the part the" HOME AND couNTRY