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L‘ItltlurItJ What Can You Buy for Two Cents? _ There-was a time when a child could go to a store with two (CHIS and tome .tuay “till a fairly_ satisfactory supply of candy. Those days are gone and it in “option to expert to [un- anything thh two cents. There is, however. Something that am Canadian “moan can get tor two cents and that every \Vnnten’s Institute member does get and that is membership in an all woman organization which has members in countries around the uorld L TI - .-\ ’. > Country Women of the World. n Wm [Ml Many Women's Institute members do not give much thought to the but that they are members of this large organization and when it is brought to their attention the\ l1l.l\ say. "\Vell, well, two cents!‘ ‘ ' What does this membership mean to you? It links you will] tuuntry “omen .tll met the world and that means six million women and homemaken in two hundred dint-rent writ-ties in fifty-six countries. If you will think seriously and examine the illl]‘l|t‘.llllll1\ of this tltt‘mlwrsltil‘ it will widen your horizons. It can widen your circle of friends. It can gin: you opportunities to assist women in developing countries who do not have the tippnrlunilim Ill.” t .tn.u|i.ut “omen have.fln this respect the old cliche is true, "The more you put into it. the more too uill get out o it. The first aim of A.C.W.W. is to promote international gomluill. lt'it-utldttp and under- standing between country women and hontemakers of the \wrld'. in other north. All \\' \\‘. helps you to get to know each other. When Mrs. Aroti Dutt of Calcutta. India, was elected a~ president ol .\.( _\\,\\.. at the Dublin Conference in 1965 she said, “True internationalixm tut-am knouledee ol other people. their ways of life, traditions, culture and civilization." Then Mrs. Unit toutludetl her first address as president by saying that r\.C.\‘Z’.W. is tryng to create .1 type of unto “huh n iruh international, rising above the prejudices of rate, colour and politital tlilft-reiue». A second aim of A.C.W.W. is to help to raise the standard of living ol rural women .1” over the world. As Marshall McLuhan says, we are now a global village. \V't' rl1.I\ think that What hap ens to a young person in a remote African village is not going to .tlIt-tt us in our smug an comfortable homes in Ontario, but that young person may sometime, Ill this uurhl of rapid movement, face a young person of our family. 1nd his. attitude, horn oi his living conditions and the thinking of his parents and friends may inlluente hoth oi ll'lt'sc young lives. It may be selfish forethought on our part to be concerned with unsatislattury living touditiom in other parts of the world. Through A.C.\V.W. a door is open to us to do our part in lltis restless, troubled world. Many Ontario members have gone a step further and have llL'lUnlL‘ wntrihutine memeo in the Associated Country Women of the World. (For this they have paid three dollars.) And this membership brings them The Contriryu'amun, the line liltlt' magazine \yhith ptthliti/es activities of the member societies all around the world. The three dollan tllsn brings eligibility to attend the International Conferences. Don‘t take the attitude that you “ill uewr 1;“, \\'Im knows, in this era of rapid change, what changes may come into our lives in it. leu‘ years. Those going to the A.C.\V.W. Conference in Oslo [his year will not only hate the oppor- tunity to visit another part of our world but a precious chance to meet and mingle “ith the delegates from all over the world. You may eat breakfast with a wnumn from South Afrita. lunch with women from Finland, and dinner with delegates from Indonesia. Think of the exciting potential nf these contacts. Welcome these once in a lift-time oppor- tunities. Don‘t be hampered by problems of rate, language or religion. (.orne hatk to Ontario with your mind bursting and whirling with new thoughts and ideas. And think of it! It all started with two cents. SUMMER 'l 971