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committees of the United Nations, such as the World Health Organization, the Food and Agricultural Organization, and through the Colombo Plan, the welfare of many millions of underprivileged people has been enhanced. Along with this profOUnd material advance has been developed a change in the outlook of both providers and receivers of this aid, a mutual regard and respect for each other, and the desire for friendship. None of these inter- national activities is concerned solely with a ‘handout.’ With the provision of urgent neces- sities goes the education and training of people within the countries themselves. In this manner the dignity of the individual is inspired, and dignity is an essence of true friendship. “The cruel futility of war is now being realized among the free nations of the world. But fear and greed, intolerance and mistrust cannot be dispelled solely by arms or by dis~ armament. Treaties and pacts have all failed in the past, as no problem can ever be solved purely by a negative approach. True friend- ship among nations can be only the summation of individual friendships among the individuals comprising them. These in their turn develop and mature only by personal contacts. That a conference such as this, bringing together the hearts and minds of individual women from so many countries of the world, should devote priority to the consideration of friendship, is i * * KNITTED SHAWL Margaret Widdemer She said when we asked her: "Why, nothing, clears, at all. Perhaps a large-print Bible or a little knitted shawl." W’e begged her, "Oh, remember!" Because she used to tell Of all that we should bring her when our grown world went well -â€" Gardens full of roses and trips to carry her Where lovely halls of statutes and ancient temples Were (Gay feet and restless, that never could run free, Because of our hands clinging to hand and breast and kneel) Cobweb-patterned laces and yellow, starry rings And clinking silver bracelets and silken underthings! But we who could recall her, so young and tired. and gay With long, wild, girlish longings for things she could not say â€" All that we could bring her forever now at all Was just a large-print Bible and a little knitted shawl. * ‘k t 18 t it i A PRAYER FOR EVERY DAY Lord, make me an instrument of yuur peace . . . Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light, And where there is sickness, joy. 0 Divine Master, grant that I may nor so much seek to be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. i * i one of the most heartening, encouraging a uplifting occasions of our time; and giVes 1 lie to the weight of publicity concerning I many minor and insignificant discards and d agreements that occur from time to time l tween countries, families and individuals. 1 us, therefore, be comforted that at the ct, clusion of this conference we shall return our homes ever grateful that we have bi enriched by many new friendships." Leisure Mr. Eric Westbrook, Director of Australi National Gallery spoke on “Using LelSL. Creatively.” Some of his observations were: “One of the great drives in the world IOLl has been to give peOple more time to the: selves. One result is that it means less and it work, more time off, more holidays, more 1 breaks and higher salaries. These things ha been demanded by Trade Unions and in mm cases are now being achieved. What is frightening is that in many cases no one h. attempted to find out what people do m that time. If you have a vacuum or a seriEs i vacuums they will be filled with something ill what we have to consider is the nature i what will rush in. This is not just a person problem. What people do with their leisu could alter the whole face of our civilizatiti very rapidly. There is one dreadful dangc The vacuum of the hour we have oft potentially the victim of commercial exploit. tion by Way of the mass media of the timeâ€" the radio, television, the magazine, the rim-L and so on. “Many of these things Can be pureh’ “m consuming, a way of whittling away time whe leisure hangs heavily on people’s hands an they want to avoid the problem of having Ii think. They are ready to accept the prc digested thought provided for them througC these various channels which can be destrui. tive to the mind. I would ask you to 100‘: HOME AND COUNT“