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" in the forums; “CBC. are offering various organizationsâ€"Fed- %SUMMER 1961 Provincial Board Members, Federated Women's Institute: at Ontario. there transferred to the Save thc Children Fund. The organization acting as “tester parent" would be put in touch with the child selected for their adoption and letters would be ex- changed. The letters from the child befriended are often quite a reward in themselves. Here is one of them: “My Dear Benefactor: I received your money with great pleasure. You cannot realize how happy I was. my mamma and whole family. We were much pleased because I was going barefoot and mamma shall buy immediately a pair ot‘ shoes and stockings. Now that the winter is corn- ing I shall be able to protect myself from cold and with the rest of that money mammu shall make woollen underwear.â€"Moscato Benedetto" It was agreed that Board Members should present this project at District Annual meeting» as something that might be undertaken either by individual branches or by a District. Also the President will write to Branches. Districts and Convention Areas. Work with Farm Radio Forum Mrs. Edith Storr and Mr. Frank Nicholson of Ontario and National Farm Radio Forum come to the Board Meeting to present a new idea for the winter program. A survey had shown that the forums should involve more people and that many listeners would like to make a more inten- sive study of some of the problems introduced so the Forum Executives and erations of Agriculture. commodity group-ii Wom- en‘s Institutes. Junior Farmers. 4-H Clubs. each a program on a special night when they will hold . a meeting after the Farm Radio Forum pattern. listening to a broadcast, having a discussion and Submitting their views or recommendations. Mr. i, Nicholson has met with groups in the different ‘ provinces and it has been decided that the Wom- en's Institutes program will deal with some phase of education, Mrs. Lymburner was appointed by the Board to meet with rcprcxentalivcs from other provinces at Banff to make further plans for this program. It was decided that the date for the meeting should come not before the beginning of the New Year. Our Literature Goes North It was reported at the Board meeting that a request had come from the Department of Nor» lhern Affairs for literature to be sent to Womv en‘s Institutes in the Northwest Territories. The literature sent included Fifty Years of Achieve- ment, the bulletin announcing Home Economics Services. the Women‘s Institute Brochure. book- lets on Junior work and some copies of Home and Country. The Department of North Affairs will select parts from these. have them translated into Eskimo and send them to the Institutes in the Territories. Resolutions Mrs. James Haggerty, Past President and Reso- lutions Convener, presented fifty-two resolutions that had come from branches through districts and convention areas and three emergency reso- lutions. ()nly \ixtccn resolutions were sustained ()f the others. some had already been imple- mented. in a few cases duplicate resolutions were combined in onci some had to he returned for further study or because they could be dealt with locally. Board members felt that sometimes Institutes presented unimportant resolutions be- cause they felt they should “rcsoIVe” something. It was recommended that resolutions should be more carefully screened at branch level. 'Ihese are some of the resolutions passed by the Board: A resolution asking that since ()ntario people carrying Hospital Insurance pay six months in advance and since hospital insurance is automa- tically deducted from pay cheques and the sea- son'dl worker may be paying insurance twice, 7