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5. Training rural sanitary inspectors, mic]â€" wives and public health nurses to lighten the tasks of the two doctors. Unesco also came in to help with education under Dr. Hatch. The children are well enough educated. It is the adults whom they wish to teach to read. These adults are very anxious to learn and, in spite of long hours in their fields, they average six hours a week in study centres. In some villages they have built their own schools without waiting for Government assistance. Mr. Rao. who works finder Dr. Hatch, has written six books for the adult who has just learned to read 7 one on rice production, others on history. folk songs, religion and health. These are more simply written than the newspapers and ordinary books. The first lesson is always about rice. They estimate that each adult reads about six books a month by the light of kerosene lanterns. This is a very brief outline of the work being done in Ceylon. The United Nations Specialized Agencies hope to lay a sound ecoi nomic foundation to enable people to live their own lives. The information in this paper has been taken from the book “They Can‘t Afford to Wait" written by Daniel Behrman, a Unesco :taff member in 1952. Equally thrilling stories could be told of Thailand, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. Tweedsmuir History Workshops By Mrs. R. C. Walker Past Provincial Convener of Historical Research NEW venture this year. at the suggesâ€" A tion of Mrs. W. D. Mack of Crediton. for ~ the Provincial Historical Research Conâ€" vener. was District Tweedsmuir History Workâ€" hops. These groups consist of the Historical Reâ€" vcarch and Current Events Conveners and the Fweedsmuir History Committees of the Iranches and district. It is desirable that at cast two members from each branch attend he session from 10 am. to 4 p.m. Each branch 5 asked to bring its Tweedsmuir History - .vhether just gathered material in a box or ssembled in book form. The “Suggestions for Compiling Tweeds- nuir History Books" are fully studied and any :‘iifl'iculties that might arise are discussed. The .nain point being emphasized is just what =hould be incorporated in these famous “hisâ€" iories of local interest.” Discussion of suitable sizes of books, type of 0313813 desirable mounting, indexing, quesâ€" tionnaire for comprehensive farm histories, other basic sections of the Books, and last of all the screening of Current Events, comprise the agenda of the busy day. On view is a winning Book in a Dominion Competition as well as the second volume of WINTER 1958 the F.W.I.O. Tweedsmuir History. These an: samples to assist the group in foreseeing what might be accomplished. All books and material present are con- structively discussed with the aim of im- proving the calibre of the Ontario Tweedsmuir History Books. A box lunch. with the hostess branch serv- ing tea. is enjoyed and little time is wasted from the enticing study. Three district Workshops were held this summer and fall. Any district desiring this service is asked to contact Miss McKercher for particulars. Health Week and Your Community From Health League of Canada EBRUARY 2nd to 8th, 1958 will see the 14th annual observance of National Health Week, sponsored by the Health League of Canada in co-operation with health and edu- cation departments from Vaiicouver to Haliâ€" fax. During the fourteen years Nalional Health Week has been in existence. many other "weeks" have been dreamed up by imaginative advertisers to sell their client’s wares, National Health Week is not a publicity stunt. and stands alone in having nothing to sell to Canadiansâ€"except their own good health. Health is of individual concern, and when each family takes care of their own health. that health is reflected in the wellâ€"being” of the entire nation. For a telling example of this. note that last year. Canadian workers lost a total of 154.381 years of time through being absent from work through preventable illness. A great deal of illness can be prevented. Through education. some of that vast cloud of apathy and ignorance which bzclouds the Vision and minds of the population can be disâ€" pelled. and a better life and higher standards created for all Canadians. In a democratic country. every citizen holds as an unalienable right a duty to act on the behalf of his or her neighbours for the good of all. National Health Week is designed to give all Canadians the opportunity to help themselves and their community to better health. Women's groups can play an extremely im- portant part in raising the standards of health all across the country. Health, as it has been stated, begins in the home. and the heart of the homes in Canada are the women. By using National Health Week as a springboard, com~ munity organizations can eliminate health problems in that community. not only during National Health Week. but all through the year. "Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, Time past, The neglected opportunity.” 31