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ganization, the Associated Conntry Women of the World, Mrs. Rand said: “We must organize our resources to fight the enemies of peace. We must organize on the principle of interdependence. We as mem- bers of F.W.I.C., 90,000 homemakers of Canâ€" ada must organize our thinking and our lives beginning with the problems of everyday and working up the ladder. “Behind everything we do there should be a purpose â€" an everâ€"increasing one _ to excel in those things for which we seem best suited and into which we can put the most of ourselves. Otherwise we are apt just to exist and to be but lockersâ€"on giving no hand in the betterment of the world about us. There is a necessary limit to our achieve- ment but none to our attempt.” Entertainment The conference was not lacking in outer- tainment. As usual at these conferences every. one enjoyed the community singing led by Padre Young and Mrs. Ralph Kidd. and Illl‘ organ recital by Mr. Kidd. The soloists, Mrs. R. S. McKercher. Mrs. Kathleen Graham and Mr. F. G. E. De Carrol added greatly to thr- programme. A happy idea this year was to have Waterloo county Junior Farmers pro- vide the Wednesday night entertainment u a one act play “Storm in a Loving Cup” by the Woolwich Township Juniors and a quar- tette from the county Junior Farmer's Choir .led by David Barrie. The Goshen Women's institute Orchestra had the warm reception it gets wherever it goes. Perhaps it may he the inspiration for the start of other Institute orchestras. NANCY ADAMS HONOURED On May 9 Mrs. Nancy Adams, immudiatv Past President of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada, received the Honorary Degree'of Doctor of Law from the University of Saskatchewan. Mrs. Adams considers this an “honour to the rural Women of Canada." But Mrs. Keith Rand, President F,W.I.C. ex- pressed the general feeling of Canadian Wom- en’s Institute members when she said: "Thu conferring of this degree is more than an honour to the rural women of Canada. It is an honour to an individual who has made an invaluable contribution. not only to rural life in Saskatchewan but all across our Dominion." Congratulations were wired to Mrs. Adams from the Ontario Officers‘ Conference. AN INSTITUTE HISTORY F.W.l.0. still has some copies of the book "Fifty Years of Achievement." a history of the Ontario Women's Institutes published in 1948 in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary 0f the Women's Institute movement. It is doubtful if a better history of the first half century of the Ontario Institutes will ever be written. The authors, the late Mrs. Annie SUMMER 1958 E. Walker of Stoney Creek. MissEdith Collins i'llld l\‘lclnt_vi'e Hood spared no ellol‘t in their search for material, and the book is as inter- esting as it is accurate. There are pictures and records of institute personalities whose conâ€" tribution to the movement will be as signifiâ€" cant fifty years from now as it is today. There 15 a foreword by the first Institute lecturer and organizer. Laura Rose Stephen. There is the story of how the movement spread to the other provinces of Canada and later in Eng- land, Scotland and \Viilos and on into an iii- Icrnational body. the Associated Country Women of the World. Perhaps when the Womcii's Institutes cclca lirate their hundredth anniversary. unotlicr history will be written but it will not be a record by womco who livcd almost. within sound ol‘ the first gavcl. who know intimately the founder and the charter iiiemliors of the first Women's liislituti- at Stomyv Crock. In [art there won't be another hook likc "Fifty Years of Acliici'cnicnl." ll would seem a provident idea for any ln‘uovli to gm a copy and to kccp it along will] the 'l‘wL-crlsmuil' History to use for reform-own 01‘. we can imagine some clever woman making :1 study of the book and roming up with no :muixing paper of "Do You Know's‘!” tuluin from its pages. Copies of "Fifty Yours of Achievement." ('nn llt.‘ purchased from Mrs. Gordon Maynard. F.W.l.tl, Sccrctary-'I‘rcnsun~r, Ell Sliiiiliiia Road. Tin-(min 4. The price is liitv routs. INVITATION TU A MUSEI'M Miss Rulli Home. "Ft-clinical Ailvisvi' on tho Jordan Historical Must-um mnkc‘s tlw followâ€" ing suggestion for 11 Women's Institute hos trip or UlIll‘l' i-xi-iirsioii this summer: Tl'u- JORDAN llIS'l‘OHIL'Ali MUSEUNI “I” THE TWENTY llpt'lll‘d for Illl‘ sviison of lllfiH on Milt ll). Tllr' Dii'i-rlors unil llll'llllu'l": wquil lilu- lo issui- a r-orrliol invlliilinn lo ihc- int-minors of the Womcn's Institutes to Visit. our Museum. To those who have ru'vci' [wt-ii we should like lo say that We ltllnw you will t‘lljtfly a visit; to our old Il'lt.'lld,\‘. that We liavi- ur- i‘nngi-(l for :i spi-r'iul display of gins-w -- old and now. There are picnic letiilus am! Iill'llll.lt.':; for making tea. Arrangcmonts may he made by Wt'lilflu the Custodian, Jordan Historical Museum of the Twenty, Jordan. Ontario; or by telephoning Vineland HQ. The Museum is reached by tlw Queen Elizabeth Way. or Highway #8, [t is open from It am. to 5 pm. daily. but special arâ€" rangements can he made. The Museum is free. Do come. We are proud of our Museum and would like to show it to you. 11