Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1962, p. 22

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Hon. W. A, Sfeworl, Onlnrio Minister of Agriculture, addressing the Officers' Conference. successor. The same book will do for several years. To give district and branch conveners an Opporttinit) to discuss their work. some dis- tricts combine their district director‘s meeting with an afternoon workshop for conveners. Presidents “ere urged to keep before the members the importance of their provincial paper Home and Country and their national paper. Federated News. A member of the panel suggested. "Put each member‘s name on her copy of Home and Country and if she is not at the meeting mail it to her. If you have extra copies. make good use of them. The secretary should keep a file of copies for the Institute. Every secretary receives a copy of Federated News but additional copies must be subscribed for at the price of 25 cents to individuals or 15 cents each to a group of ten or more, The address is to the editor. Mrs. Harold Laird. Kensignton. P.E.I. . . . The A.C.W.\’\’. paper. The Countrywoman, is published every two months. The address is Associated Country Women of the World. 78 Kensington High Street. London, W. 8, Eng- land. As something practical in citizenship educa- tion and action. a one-act play on municipal affairs was suggested or a visit to a. council meeting: and getting informed. capable. inter- ested women elected to councils and school boards. Since the Ontario Women‘s Institutes last year gave $l34.000 to other organizations, the Provincial Board had asked that in this 65th Anniversary year they give half that amount to set up an international SCholarship. The interest from the fund will provide salary and ex- penses to send someone from Ontario or Can- ada to work for home and community better~ ment in a developing country and so help to spread peace around the world. Mrs. Lymburner expreSsed her appreciation of what the Institutes have done in support 21 of the various provincial projects lHCllltllniv their enthusiastic response to the latest pity; ‘ "to Save the Children." \.\| Canada and the World Community Mr. Lewis Perinbam of the Canadian tional Commission for UNESCO, spcukm. "Canada and the World Community“ said “There are ugly. dangerous facts abut: It'lth century, which so often has been hers. a as the Age of Progress, Already the particularly Canada and the United 8. have responded spontaneously and sub» i. ally to the world's needs. and this is \\.i appreciated. And yet. in spite of its in. aid programmes. the West still faces the _ danger of being isolated from. and so ii: i encd by. the two-thirds of humanity Iiii. conditions of poverty and despair. ln its cern for the military defence of political dom. the west may fail to realize [has vast majority of mankind is far more cerned to raise living standards." Dr. Perinbam said “People dOn't want . ‘worked amongst': they want to be ‘u, with'"; and he recommended the Cat. University Service Overseas plan of set carefully selected young Canadians to up teachers. engineers. doctors and in other in countries where there is a need for help. His final word was: “I believe that the genius of Canada he devoted not to the erection of run behind which we can hide. but to the bui of a platform of faith and of action Dr. W. A. (Padre) Young, Leader of Community Sin; ing, and Mrs. Ralph Kidd, Pianist. HOME AND COUNTRY

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