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it was that it gives a girl the assurance of an escort when she needs one. But others said that it spoils good times in a group because the couples who go steady keep to themselves, sometimes dancing together through a whole evening. And a girl who still looked pretty young said “I went steady for three years, but not any more. It‘s like being engaged, but it’s not being engaged." Young as she was, this girl knew that an engagement is a period of preparation for marriage and there was no immediate plans for marriage in the teen years. Considering the girl who drops out of high school because she is going to have a baby; and allowing that this is a personal responsi- bility, we asked if there is anything in our customs or our attitudes that might be partly responsible. One girl said: “We don't attach enough importance to the meaning of the white wedding dress.” One who had visited in England had observed that the social ways of the young people there are pretty much like ours; but they don't have the same problems because the English boys don‘t have automo- biles. Another girl suggested that we know so much ab0ut the biological aspect of sex, we take it so for granted and discuss it so frankly that we have no reticence left. And someone followed this with the idea that our education in both the school and the family does not help young people to understand sex in its relation to the whole of life, its significance and its beauty. The girls had positive views on the pres- sures urging young people into conformity, the fear of being “different,” the high value set on popularity. They felt that the ambition to be like everyone else and to be popular could make a girl compromise with her standards of conduct, could make her ashamed of the religious faith of her people, could make her a social climber, could stop the development of any gift or talent that might set her apart from the crowd. IllLlllItK swing 1 “Meet in the Menu" exhibit, Millbnnk Club, lindu Powell, commentator. 22 Featuring Club Work One session of the conference featured 4H Homemaking Club work. Members of LTDW land Cloverleaf Club, Welland connty~Mup jorie and Eleanor Alexander, Norine Gill :lnd Carol Schwan with their leader. Mrs. j: g Kinnaird, staged a skit “Saving With Cereals]: Millbank Club in Perth county with Mrs. P. A Jack as leader set up an exhibit “Meat in mg Menu," Linda Powell giving the commeran Peel county's Terra-Cotter Club lTlCln‘ wk Lynda Leslie, Edith MacDonald and D- McKane gave a demonstration, “Separan "UT Summer." Their leader is Mrs. C. G. lil- ..\.p_ To discuss “The Role of the Senior ‘ his Member," the girls were divided inlu mil groups, each group elected its own chum .m and secretary and the secretaries pm. Ed the findings of the group to the whole c. »r. ence. Three points on which all groups. ,- ._Li were that the senior club member shnul =rto be of assistance to the leader; Shot: d5 helpful and friendly to junior membcn. ul should set a good example in both her it. and her general conduct in the club. srlt' The Challenge of Change Miss Helen McKercher, Director ' 'lle Economics Service, told the girls ho“ . .m- Terru Cottu Club members in a demenx 3n. "Separales for Summer". the Department of Agriculture is to him at at the conference and asked them ll le back a thank you to their leaders and lb sir parents for making it possible for th. to come. Miss McKercher spoke particulu of horizons in education. The fantastic dc -‘P' merit of modern machines, she said, m. H necessary to have educated people to - :Cl and control the machines; so however i-d' chines may deve10p We will still need ht um minds to guide them. We must relate :Ir- selves to many changes taking place It the mechanical world but it is more importani list we adjust ourselves to changes in educ ion, The horizons of our thinking must be \viii- ned HOME AND COUNTRY