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Ontario Girl's9 Conference Club girls held at the Ontario Agricul- tural College in June. was the occasion for celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of 4H Homemaking Clubs in Ontario. Opening the conference Miss Florence Eadie. Supervisor of Junior Extension work with Home Economics Service, told the girls that in going over their records from their County Home Eco- nomists she had marveiled at all the things they do, their school Work. their music and hobbies. participation in sports, community activities, Work and home reaponsibilities. "How do you crowd so much into your busy days?" asked Miss Eadie. "You must have to make many decisions as to what to leave out. It may mean giving up a party or a ball game in order to keep up that most important school work or to lend a hand at home when required," “Since it is our quarter century mark," said Miss Eadie. “your conference theme is ‘Yester- day. Today and Tomorrow.’ I hope you will take a quick look at the past. a thoughtful look at todayâ€"what you are doing, what you want to do and what you should be doingâ€"and a look ahead to the next twenty-five years with high hopes and expectations for your futuae . . . As we think of your opportunities we askâ€"and I hope you do the same: ‘Are you reaching the top of your ability? Are you using and develop- ing your greatest potentials? What is the ratio of your ability to your actual accomplishment?‘ " Miss Eadie suggested that some important fea- tures of the conference were the opportunity to make friends and to enjoy the beauty of the college campus. If the girls were fortunate “they might even see a gorgeous red cardinal.” r I WHE annual conference of 4H Homemaking A Welcome To the College Paying a tribute to 4H Homemaking Club work in its first twenty-five years, and to the foundation laid by past members, Dr. J. D. MacLachlan, President of the Ontario Agricul- tural College, said to the girls, “You‘re picking up the masonry at this stage and building for the future." “The O.A.C.," the President said, “is eighty-six years old, but it isn‘t a crotchety old man walk- ing with a cane. Eightysix is young for a college compared with those hundreds of years old in older countries." Dr. MacLachlan traced the development of the college from “a livestock farm with a stone house,” to the present set up with three colleges on the campusâ€"the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege, the Ontario Veterinary College and Mac- donald Institute. And he explained that teaching is only one of the responsibilities of the college; a great part of its programme is in the field of agricultural research and extension service. Every year from fifty to sixty thousand people come to the college on extension interests. One extension 6 project Dr. MacLachlan recommended for the u, i,‘ special attention was a demonstration in mug in. ing on the college grounds. Following a tour of Macdonald Institute, lli Margaret McCready, Principal, described I“: courses: the four»year Degree Course in Him. Economics. open to students who have COmpl -.j Grade Xlll at high school, a course “which iii only equips a girl for an interesting and cw vocation but also to be an understanding capable homemaker": and the one-year Dipl ll Course, Open to girls who have completed (,1 XI, a course to be highly recommended for young woman. Dr. McCready emphasized ., importance of education in home economic it these times of rapid change if we are to ‘ it the home on an even keel in spite of the u- fluences affecting it. Women in the Home Speaking on “Women Yesterday, Today .l Tomorrow.“ Padre W. A. Young of the Cu- said that women are the same yesterday. it and tomorow because fundamentally human lure does not change. But conditions change -l “the good old days Weren‘t always so gu " "Your grandmothers lived in the horse and h . days." said Padre Young; “the automobile . \' women mobility. Grandmother had to pump . water and thaw the pump in winter; now you i i: water on tap. Grandmother used coal-oil l; v» and did the family washing on a washbu it: now ninety per cent of rural homes have eliâ€" ; light and power. Home labor savers today 'Women spare timeâ€"they can get out to Instr c meetings. In grandmother's youth about the . vocations open to women were teaching and l' - ing; but because of the labor shortage in last world war, women worked in factories. 'i i“ felt the thrill of earning money and after is war they found it hard to go back to living at their husbands' handouts. Besides it takes u. t of money to keep up with modern home imprt * merits, so we have working wives." Mr. Young made a strong case for the vi- portance of having a mother in the home at 6 there are children. He said, “When a child co m home from school the first thing he does \‘-l "I he comes into the house is to call ‘Hi, M " And if Mom isn't there the house is empty "i bleak and drear and cold. With schools puttim in extra-curricular activities, with nursery schiv'h and cubs and scouts and brownies and 4H. it“ ~- one of the most serious dangers we’re factng day is that the home will become J'USt «"1 _P“~5 to eat and sleep; and when homes deiEFlUIleC the nation does too." ‘ “There is no place," Mr. Young said to inf girls, “where you can make a greater contributmtt to the nation than you can make in a h0lllt.l He hoped many of them would become farmt‘h’ wives because the future of the family farm MS HOME AND COUNTRY