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members‘ help with the conference program. Best of all were the choral sessions With Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kidd. At each conference for years back, Mr. Kidd has had regular periods directing the girls as a choral group and providing music for the closing banquet. This year they sang three numbers from Briggadoon: “The Heather on the Hm: “Down in McConnachie Square" and “Almam Like Being in Love.” It was a creditable pyr. formance. What is perhaps more important, it was plain that the girls themseIVes (hm. oughly enjoyed it. Information For Consumers By Ruth Moyle about the content of the Workshop on Management and Consumer Problems, we felt an explanation might be of general interest. It would seem only fair to go back a number of years and give some credit at least, for today’s trend in the management area of homemaking, to a poet! Rudyard Kipling it was who wrote: BECAUSE we have had several inquiries “I keep six honest serving men, They taught me all I know, Their names are WHY and WHAT and WHEN, And WHERE and HOW and WHO.” But it took Dr. Lillian Gilbreth, famous Efficiency and Management Engineer and even more famous Mother of the “Cheaper by the Dozen” family, to bring these words into the home and relate them, in a very practical way, to our modern home manageâ€" ment problems. That word “management” has, I notice, many definitions. Some call it the “housekeep- ing” or the “maintenance” part of home- making. To others it means “using what you have to get what you want.” I much prefer another definition to this last one â€" “using family resources to reach family goals.” As a matter of fact, a combination of the first and the last gives an excellent over-all picture of this area now known as “management.” As you can see, “management” covers a great many interests and a great many activi- ties and tasks. And although the full morning of the Workshop is given over to a discussion of the many phases of management, luncheon break arrives long before the field has been fully explored. Questions and discussion range from how to eliminate unnecessary expendi- ture of time, energy and steps, through the re- arrangement of kitchen equipment and ap- pliances, to the height and arrangement of storage and work space, to an analysis of an actual kitchen set-up,_ with a “before” and “after” kitchen plan to study. Many of the questions that arise are based on Kipling’s and Dr. Gilbreth's six serving 24 men. Why do I do this particular job? 15 at an part of this job essential? Who does the i 1.? What would happen if I didn’t do it? (r IL] someone else in the family learn to do I A well, or even better? When and How is the \t time and way to do it? At first, these questions might appear Vii u: and trivial. By the end of the morning, h. ever, they have resolved themselves into < V practical terms as, “l have found the . ~. way to clean blueberries" and “I find I t! mind cleaning the refrigerator quite so nl - h if I do it so", to mention only two of m . Immediately after lunch, for the first . rt of the afternoon an Agricultural Engi r discusses electricity in the home as relate- in safety and efficient and economical use. N 1 questions arise regarding the correct use uJ size of fuses, how to read a meter, hor o reckon the cost of an electric light bill. Ie running costs of some of our modern elect ll appliances, the care and maintenance of s: and so on. Instruction and help is also given to tl who bring electric cords and plugs to be paired, and by the end of this session this ll have been accomplished in a most effic t and quite professional manner. A short discussion of the consumer p sures facing today’s young housewife hr: :3 the Worksh0p to its close promptly at t o’clock. What can we do to help the yo 'Ll consumer when it comes to the pressures it installment and credit buying? How can we ll what the true interest rates really are? W pressures of advertising make wise and 6 ~ nomical choices difficult for even the eXP‘ enced housewife? What should we look .nf when buying appliances? What about contra ‘5 and guarantees? These are only a few of = 6 questions that are raised. From this it will be quite apparent that 0!" l’ the very Surface of the many, many probler s of management can be touched upon in such a short period of time. Unfortunately, that's all an introductory workshop is able to e). Future workshops, however, will be planned to deal in greater detail with more speCIiIC problems as may be requested from time to time by interested and concerned gI'OUPS‘ Firm: 1‘ h- :, ; HOME AND COUNTRY