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F arm Radio F orum’ 3 Program GAIN, as last year, the Women‘s Insti- A tutes of Canada will sponsor a SPECIBl farm radio forum program. This year the topic will be “Canada’s World Obligations" â€" as women see them. The date is February 4, 1963 and the hour for all broadcasts will be 9 to 9.30 pm. The method for setting up groups will be the same as last year. For the Women‘s Institute night, any Institute wishing to sponsor a group meeting should register with Mrs. Gordon Bothwell, RR. #1, Owen Sound â€" that is, the Institute should let Mrs. Bothwell know that it will arrange to have a group meet to hear and discuss the broad- cast and questions arising from it; and that following the meeting a report of the group’s findings or recommendations will be sent to the Farm Radio Forum Office. Mrs. Bothwell will send to the Radio Forum Office the ad- dresses of groups registered with her and about two weeks before the broadcast the office will mail to each group a kit containing a study guide, report forms and other litera- ture. Topics for the Season Following are the Farm Radio Forum topics for 1962-63. October 22nd New Horizons for Farmers 29th Property Taxation November 5th 12th 19th 26th December 3rd 10th 17th January 7th 14th 215i 28th February 4th 11th 18th 25th March 4th 1 1th 18th 25th Vertical Integration Organized Action by Farmers Fourth Night Canada’s Dairy Policy The Common Market Regional Broadcast Fourth Night Taxation A World of Opportunity Organized Action by Farmers Fourth Night Canada's World Obligations Arda and the Community Prospects for Farmers in Can- ada's Economy Fourth Night The Rural Church The Co-operative Idea Co-operatives in the Economy Fourth Night Farm Forums and U.N.E.S.C.0. Several years ago, Canada‘s Forum move- ment was the subject of a major U.N.E.S.C.O. report. As a result of that report, India de~ cided to try to use Farm Forums. There are over 500,000 rural Indian villages, each with under 1,000 persons. There is need for basic 26 education, for health training, for new Lilo-.15 for farming, sanitation, pest control and m those less tangible but very important am“, of life: citizenship and democracy. The min.“ government decided that small farm [mum would help the villagers learn quickh .ij easily and would give them a Chance to wk out their own destiny through group it... Accordingly, some 4,000 Farm F,. have been organized. Over 25,000 will in. existence by the end of the next Five 1 Plan, if resources can be found. There great need for radios to help make ; ,m Radio Forums possible in India. Car. Farm Forum's decided to help. Monu H, over 77 radios has been collected so i If the Farm Forums, the co-operatives. Ft tions of Agriculture, Farm Unions and J organizations continue to contribute (Is at have, the fund should be able to providz ii over 100 radios by the end of the projg, The U.N.E.S.C.O. study of Farm 1 n has had other effects. In December, :1 t, shop on mass communications and m Forum will be held in Ibadan, Niger »Canadian Broadcasting Corporation v. rr will be there to assist. Major emphasis \- as on National Farm Radio Forum in C. ii 14 West African nations want to set a similar service to aid in the developmv a; rural villagers. Adaptations of Farm Forum are at rk in Puerto Rico, France, Japan, 1h Africa, Australia, India. There is great 7r- est in other nations. The first requireni [9 a radio network which may be used on . iii of the peeple. The second requirement v we radio sets for use by the people. Cr C: Farm Forum movement has provided the .l. the C.B.C. provides a model of national iv: the Radios for India project has set a p "!e pattern for providing radio receivers. * 'k ‘A.’ SONG OF THE UNSUCCESSFUI By Richard Burton We are the toilers whom God hath barred The gifts that are good to hold. We meant full well and we tried fuil hard And our failures were manifold. ‘ D. l‘lh And we are clan of those whose kin Were a miletone dragging them down: Yea, we had to sweat for our brother‘s sin And lose the Victor's crown. The seeming able who all but scored, From their teeming tribe we come; What was there wrong with us, 0 Lord That our lives were dark and dumb? We are the hard-luck folk, who strove Zealously, but in vain; We lost and 105! while our comrades throve And still we are lost again. it * a HOME AND COUNTRY