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News The conveners were: Home Economics, Mrs. W. E. McKinnon, Uigg, P.E.I.; Citizenship, Mrs. George Bennett, Simmie, Sask.; Cultural Activities, Mrs. R. Partington, Francois Lake, B,C.; United Nations, Mrs. Grant LeBaron, North Hatley, Que; Agriculture and Canadian Industries. Mrs. Henry Moonen, Millet, Alta; Public Relations, Mrs. Philip Douglas, Whale- town, B.C.; Peace Garden, Mrs. G. Catley, Sanford, Mans, Life Memberships, Mrs. W. A. Thompson, Pense, Sask.; Editor, Federated News, Mrs. Harold Laird, Kensington, P.E.I. Mrs. George Ridley, Caledonia, Ont. reported past recommendations and resolutions relating to the work of the standing committees. Problems and Projects Representatives of various groups whose work is of interest to the Institutes addressed the convention. Mr. James D. Moore, Secretary of the Canaâ€" dian Council on 4-H Clubs, thanked the Instiâ€" tutes for the support they give to boys’ and girls’ club work. He said that this year, for the first time in Canada, girls outâ€"number boys and perhaps the women‘s encouragement and support to girls‘ homemaking clubs had some- thing to do with this. Perhaps the greatest thing the Institutes can do for club work is to find local leaders for girl’s homemaking clubs. “The future of club work is promising but challenging,” said Mr. Moore. “Mechaâ€" nized farming and rural depopulation will have their hearing on all of rural life and we will have to revise our programmes as this is necessary to meet the needs of rural youth.” Dr. John E. Robbins, bringing greetings from the Canadian Association for Adult Edu- cation, said that C.A.A.E. had expressed its appreciation of the Women’s Institutes of Canada two years ago by giving them the Marshall Tory Award for their work in adult education. Dr. Robbins announced that through the Princess Alice Fund administered by the Canada Foundation, 56 Sparks St, Ottawa, scholarships, bursaries and grantsâ€"in- aid are being offered to qualified persons to develop skills in leadership as it is related to young people. Applicants must be over twenty. Institute members might be able to recom- mend promising candidates. Following Dr. Robbins’ address the Presi- dent said that in view of the Institutes’ work _ in cultural projects they should have a place on the Canada Council. The had been invited to apply for nomination to the national com- mittee on UNESCO. Incidentally they had contributed $1,447.50 to a UNESCO project in Ceylon. Miss Elizabeth Morton, Executive Secretary of the Canadian Library Association expressed her appreciation of what Women’s Institutes have done to establish, support and maintain libraries. Conditions vary in different provâ€" inces â€" and in various parts of each province, but 33 per cent of rural Canadians are without library service of any kind. The greatest need in the extension of library service M.“ Morton said, is the desire for it on tlil. .155 of the people. Women‘s Institutes can do Pam cational work here. And some members in”: suggest to a son or daughter that they him-:1} gate library work as a possible carecm My: Morton stressed the importance of l'i‘fjmn: libararies or some other form of DOOh-ri WT. chase so that small libraries would not (1.: prived of good books through lack of mark Miss Marian Sherman of CKBI. 1mm, Albert. reported a most successful 1w-,.,n.,] library service in North Central Bast-rent. wan, with a blue bookmobile carrying ‘ to a city, three rural municipalitie§ towns and five villages. The decision area to join the region rests with the i and Miss Sherman urged the Instih. make their desire for library service ! to their councils so that the time max ,.,,,,. when the provision of a library will i ' many votes as a few miles of road 1, Miss Sherman concluded her address l\‘ “Over one hundred years ago in a «h at the opening of the London library, 'i M,- Carlyle said: ‘The founding of a library it, of the greatest things we can do with M to results. It is one of the quietest thin; at! there is nothing that I know of at bottom it important.’ ” Speaking on Canadian Highway Safer [til W. Arch Bryce told the convention H in accidents on Canadian highways, “in is killed 2600 people; in 1955 we killer] ‘ilfIH people and in 1956 we killed 3200. Durii ‘m‘ same years, 59,000 people were injum in 1954; 65,000 were injured in 1955 and WE! in 1956. A man drives as he lives,” Col. ‘- am said. The strongest influence in a his actions is whether he is still infant, adolv - ml or adult. So the first factor contribuli- to unsafe acts is an improper attitude. Othw il'i‘ lack of knowledge or skill, physical 1.111 'n- bility, improper mechanical or physics rt vironment. Dr. Gordon Bates of the Health Leas of Canada reviewed the progress in public 1 ii: in the last few decades. He told the CH‘ ur tion that the Health League was orgh r'ci following the First World War to m m venereal disease. At that time 13 per Cw at the patients in the Toronto General Ho ml were affected, 26% in the Hospitals of .7- il- real. Today the rate in Toronto has deer “[1 to less than 1/2 per cent and insanity from u~ ereal disease has been practically wiper:i iii. Diphtheria has been made absolutely pre‘ Iiiv able and comparable progress has been : (It- in maternal and child health, alcoholism. -1'- ontology, and the prevention of bone tub 'U- losis through the pasteurization of milk "Mt Bates hoped the Institutes would make It ilii Week, February 2 to 3 the occasion for MC form of health education in their common «is. “mks Zit'm» any uiril - it) own ilri I'ilti. Entertainment The convention was well supplied "111‘ entertainment. HOME AND cou'ritRY