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h ' ' Guest of the dinner given to the delegates at 1 Agriculture and Foodâ€"Left to rightâ€" _ Minister of the Ontario Department of Agricu Department of Agriculture; Miss Helen McKerche the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food. he F.W.l.C. convention by the Ontario Depurlrnenl at Dr, Ethel Chapman, Mrs. W. A. Stewart,- Mr. W. A. Stewart, llure and Food; Mrs. J. J. Greene, Minister of the Federal r Director of the Home Economics Brunch. Photo courtesy ""1 1' r A The Honourable J. J. Greene Addresses The F. W. I. C. Convention world have a substandard diet, insufâ€" ficient food to maintain normality and health. yet thew same people spend almost 100% of their income on food, They see each night their children go to bed hungry. They know that each day through inadequate diet the bodies of their young ones are deteriorat- ing, their various organs becoming weaker. At the very best. if their young ones survive at all. their future is heclouded through malnutri- tion in their youth. The fondcst. wildest and must hopeless dream of the majority of our fellow human beings is that tomorrow they may have enough to eat." The foregoing paragraph is quoted from the speech by the Honourable J. l. Greene. Min- ister of Agriculture in the Canadian Govern- ment at the closing evening dinner of the l5.W_l.(". convention. The sentence used as a title for this story is tllxt‘l from Mr. Greene‘s speech. He said that he couldn‘t vouch for its authenticity but some experts had made the statement. The Minister continued. “1 am very certain that we cannot long sit on this island of rich- ness and plenty unless we do fulfill our responâ€" \llilllh to the rest of mankind. in this world of instant communications, even the poor. the humble. the needy in our least developed lands are fully aware today of our affluence. our waste. of otir indifference. They can but c0m~ pare it to their \\‘t'L‘lCl’iL‘LlnC\\. their hunger, their famine The pendulum of history is on their side. In the not too distant future. 80 or 90 per cent of thc worlth people will be the coloured or yellov. people. Today. for the most part. they an: the underdeveloped nations. You may rest tl\\llrt.‘tl they will not forget. Misery. squalor, degradation and human indignity live long in the memory of man." 5 .\1r (.irccnc referred to a part of the theme "OVER HALF OF the people in the 10 of the convention, “Opportunities and Rc~ -i. sibilities." Then he asked, “Have Cana it fulfilled their responsibilities? As a in tr power, Canada has a tremendous opporti - “Organizations such as the Women's tutes which care about our land, must our voices heard, make our strength felt. see to it that we do assume our responsir . as well as we enjoy our opportunities," w. J Mr, Greene. In Closing, Mr. Greene paraphrased I; i~ of the late President Kennedy. He said. i what I can do for the human family ant ‘ fellowman.” * * * TWEEDSMUIR COMPETITIONS 1964-19' Cultural Project â€" A Centennial Poem Honourable Mention PIONEERS By Mrs. H. L. Case, Beebe, Quebec A hundred years is but a step in time, Our country looks back in its prime To all the people, from different parts That came, with nothing but their hearts. To work and breathe once more, The air of Freedom lost in some far short To a humble village and quiet farm, Where man could live without fear or her And the people knew this land, Canada. And always there the threads of steel, Drawing like magnets, the turning wheel Taking them onward and ever west, To their place of dreams, and with the be Of wheat, turned the prairie land to gold. lntermingling forever the new and old Mountains and rivers were all surpassed. Linking the East and West at last And the people knew this land, Canada. it * it Next Convention The next National Convention will be i in late August, 1970 at the University Manitoba, Winnipeg. In that year Manil- Women‘s Institutes will be celebrating ll 60th anniversary and the province its 10 birthday. HOME AND coum ’ l l l