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We know the story, how our sires came out across the sea, And grappled with the dangers of bog, and stream and tree, How their untiring labors made this ' land so free, Where homes and field and plenty and happiness might be. them and say "This country owes to them a debt, it never can repay," And if they could revisit this land of ours to-day, The wonders they made possible, would take their speech away. l 3 The pioneers of our nation, we honor 3 i To-night we meet to honor the pioneers of a plan (It's five and twenty years ago since first this thing began.) In Baltfleet Township, Stoney Creek, some women said "We can Begin to talk about the Home, the greatest gift to man," fIf men can have an Institute and talk of barns and grain, shy can't we study house and home, our ‘ duty it is plain. For is it not within the home, where women folks do reign, That it is doubly needful to have an active brain?" We want a better neighbourhood and this can only be By having better home life and v-‘ sociability, ' uflhich makes a better people, 7 intelligent and free, Homo-making is a science, all surely . must agree." They little racked when first they met, that they had lit a flame, But from this humble meeting, the . Institute became A power for good throughout our land, V an organ known to fame, And with it we associate good Mrs. Headless' name. "PIONEERS" â€" A POEM WRITTEN TO CELEBRATE THE SILVER ANNIVERSARX W,I V{« The Institute received support first from the O.A.C. And later from the Government, which made a trinity. And so there was evolved the first Department e’er to be Set up by any Government for Home- making, you see. Thus was the vision carried out, till we have come to see No dream, but rather in our time, a grand reality. That Home-making is not alone a women's task to be But that ot-men and women both and Government decree. "For Home and Country" is the phrase, our Institute refrain And "It you know a goodly thing Just pass it on againfl 'Twould make the world a happier place if all would only deign To carry out this little rule, so simple and so plain. Far beyond Ontario, the work to-day extends, flbmwhere Atlantic billows roll, . to where Pacific sends It's breezes o'er the western shore and farther still it trends i â€" To England, Scotland, Belgium, . « Wales, not even there it ends.‘ ‘ this Anniversary, And turn with eager races still to , greater things to be. J What shall the second quarter bring? A Ontarians! we see In this our forward glancing, Responsibility. > To-night we celebrate with Joy, % “I, . Our work in nation-building, demands an insight clear, ‘ 3. True feelings of the patriot and ‘e vision of the sear. l i l A better type of citizen, our province still may rear And this shall be our slogan- E. this Anniversary Year.