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‘ com- 9. Do you think the people of your munity can see in you any beneflt from your experience in club work? the uestions of why they are members 013113111 Hdinemaking Clubs, some of the girls said that in addition to wanting to learn to cook and sew and garden and be good hostesses and good homemakers. they jomed the club to overcome shyness, to meet new people, to learn something about leadership. Others had found that when they applied for work pref- erence was given to girls with club ekperlence. One group reported: “Some of us Jomed the club because others did but we stuck because the programme interested us.” Out of their club work they want to learn “how to get along with others and be better citizens," how to make their clothes and be well groomed, how to be a benefit to the com- munity, new ideas in cooking, and how to speak and demonstrate. And from the report on what club work ‘had meant to them, it ap- peared that most of these objectives had been reached. One of their first responsibilities as club members, the girls felt, was to keep the 4‘H Pledge: “I pledge My Head to Clearer thinking, My Heart to greater loyalty, My Hands to larger service, My Health to better living for my club, my community and my country.” Other responsibilities, in addition to com- pleting all club assignments were to welcome new members, and one secretary reported: “Since the Women’s Institutes have done so much for us, we should help them in any way we can,” The question, “How can you work together for the benefit of all in your club?” had answers like these: Try to work younger memâ€" bers into discussion groups. Don’t make any girl feel she can't do something as well as any- one else. Don’t gossip a-t meetings. Be friend- ly, not cliquey or clannish. Give the County Home Economist a warm welcome when she comes to the meetings. One group had the school teacher for their leader, so they hold their meetings at the school, after four o'clock, have supper together and finish the meeting early in the evening. There were some interesting answers to the question “Has club work made a difference in the methods of doing things in your home?” The girls reported better meals from the standâ€" point of nutrition, more vegetables as a result of garden clubs, vegetables cooked in less water. potatoes cooked in their skins, new ways of canning vegetables, new vegetables introduced in the garden. One girl said she had four brothers and she couldn’t get them to eat certain vegetables; now she puts these vegetables in salads and the brothers don't know they’re getting them. Cereal Shelf Clubs have started better breakfasts in some homes. At a result of “The Milky Way” proj- ect more sanitary ways of handling milk have 12 been practised. Members of “The Club Gm Stands on Guard” unit have introduced some safety measures in their homes. A girl uhme mother is 'busy in the store they keep. iaid that she and her sister always prepare scum, and the family are now having dishes tlr girl:- learned to make in their club. Some Ir. flier: are using recipes brought from the clulz ‘- “ ter storage of all the family’s clothing he» arranged in a home where the girls 1,. club unit “Clothes Closets Up to Date ing club girls help mothers by doing m. mending and sewing for their younger Evidently most girls’ families are thetic to club work. It was reported ti. encourage the girls to join clubs, til me mothers let the girls have clu'b met-a their homes, that many of the moth. club leaders, that fathers and brothe- with the heavy Work of gardening , ploughing the ground, that they coâ€"op; getting the girls to Achievement Day.- Do the people of the community 3 .m' benefit in a girl as the result of club ilk,“ The girls believe that they do. They Illi- community can see that club work has in: them better posture, better grooming, [U make their own clothes, “how to be hel or» haved." School teachers say that cluE' .,1-‘,-_ makes a girl a better student. The W w‘: Institute can see that they are more 9 ml in Institute work, and the communl‘ as» something of What they learn in their or exhibits at fairs. One group secretar :o‘. “If the family and the community dic‘ «‘1 some benefit in club work, Women’s Ir 1-, wouldn’t encourage their children to j Youth and Citizenship Mr. Alex Sim, Chief Liaison Division. dian Citizenship Branch, Ottawa, first 51. ml 3. picture of what it was like to be a gt a farm sixty years ago, when few girls " ‘H high school and a girl, when she grew l .nl nothing to plan for except marriage nit- helped with the Work at home or she :l'nl keep house for a brother on a nearb‘ 'lh until he married. Her outside interest t‘t‘ mostly centred in the church. Her VlE lm politics, if she had any, were likely thi: m- as her father's. About this time the ; 1r gettes started campaigning for vote or women. They thought that if women 3; ‘lie vote and got into Parliament all social \‘ =95 would be set right, but it hasn‘t workl N" that way. A little later people thought ‘ Could just get organized they could ha. mt lunches in schools and other such benefi did that would solve the community’s prc‘ 17>? but that hadn’t proved to be the answer - ET The girls were divided into groups to co. tier such questions as “Is citizenship somethi owe to the government or is it more?" harder to be a good citizen now than in ll [‘3 One question the girls asked was wl. “LT b03’s should not be allowed to vote at eig ' “1' since in time of war they could be cal. {10 military service at that age. Mr. Sim rt “Ed HOME AND COIJ ‘ JTRY