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summary Issue 1950-51 CONVENTION REPORT [Continual from page 4, col, 4.) Ontario gave Dr. Ralph Bunche an honorary degree", said Mrs. Edmund Huiisuld, London Area Chairman addressing the delegates at the open- mL session of the Area Convention. ,\ Hansuld declared the University hm blazed a path clear through race lirtjudice. , I l'uinciding With the fifth birthday of Unitad Nations the three day Cun- \t‘lltlUn theme was “Grow, Grow, Gum- and Climb to World Understand- mu," Enlarging on the theme it was [minted out that the kind of maturity ,‘mch is the aim of the Institute is ‘l’d the development in its mom- of alert keen-minded women who r a contribution to their day and not those who see nothing, do ing and consequently make no kes. Until we are able to solve .o l issuesâ€"within ourselves, around :2 table, with our neighborâ€"in what lonlliol’lyfll‘e we to solve anything truly L."7ll? We pride ourselves that our young H1112 are physically strong; we have , u glad to provide for their intell- .,inal training. Have we given any ~ ite leadership in their social atti- " What have we done to develop ‘1 m spiritually? Mrs. Hansuld u}:- i‘SEd the belief that when people , nc more socially conscious, more .uitually awakened we will have yer adjusted people, emotionally. ul‘t‘ is a thing that begins in the lit. It is something we want to ,Hl: so much that we will put other mus aside to pursue it. Hansuld introduced Mrs. Mrs. , wincial president and is known to nibers as “mother” of many Insti- vs in Western Ontario. llr. Frank McLachlan, representing o advisory committee of the War ‘lumurizil Children’s Hospital thanked li‘ Institute members for their con- lrutions to the new wing at the t t nital. Collection at the afternoon wlCIll was donated to the hospital, I'ribute was paid to four people im have been active in Women's litute work and have died (luring past year: Miss Esther Slicter, ‘.-s Edith Hopkins, Miss Viola Powell ml Mr. W. D. Tolton. The Junior Girls’ Session was very bly directed by Miss Jean M. Scott, ‘uune Economist. The Button Ladies’ Quartette pro- ,ulvd delightful music and North 02(â€" I-d Women’s Institutes gave an his- v'ical pageant “Women in History”. Mrs. J. E. Houck, Brampton, ‘liiZBnShlp Convener for Federated \‘uuien’s Institutes of Canada was 1 t speaker at the dinner meeting, making as an authority on what the ‘tllladlfln women have done in this mid of personal and national interest n "Citizenship". She lead her aud- :r>uce in her forceful and persuasive -.anner to see something of the great- er 'horizons in national and inter- national thinking. Mrs, Houck referred to the food problems as they exist in various European countries and added that in England there is still need for boxes of food from Canada. She paid tribute to the courage and fortitude 1‘f the British people as they worked to remove the scars left by five years of war. Although highly praising the Scan- dinavian Countries, Mrs. Houck said she was convinced that Canada was the land of the future. “This is the land of great opportunity and much responsibility rests with you, the women of Canada in the development gt this great nation”. She concluded, We must accept this respon5ibilltl’"- BARRIE AREA 5 Districts, 38 ‘Erlncllol. 2.228 Membus Attendance 330 A total of 800 delegates attended the Twenty-Fifth Annual and Four- teenth Area Convention at Barrie. This Conventiontis unique as it is the “"13’ one where all the delegates come HOME AND COUNTRY en “A CANDID CAMERA AT DISTRICT ANNUALS - - 1950” (ll \Vcsl Nonluunbcrlund ('clcbrulcs Its Fiillelh Anniverss ihumbcrland Ls! Meet at ('mlrinclau; (4) Storinunl County , Anniversary and (6) Dimst ('ouul) ()lliu-rs illld Visitors at South Mounl from one county uhich has eighty- fivc Institutes and n nicuibership of 2,228. The theme of the Cunw-ntion, “Citizenship nnd Education,” was tbc keynote of several of the addresses given during the two days. Mr, W. Ilavison, Agricultural Adviser to the National Employment Service told the delegates the story of the l'cfuL'ce movement from Europe to the New World follouing the war. Thcre “ere eight million ll. ' u nlL-riu): home- lcss and hopeless ll British, Ame ' n and Russian occupied Europc on E. Day. Those people were the victims of a mass tragedy and constituted an economic problem and a grave politi» cal menace threatening subversive activity and revolution, The problem was first handled by U.N.R,R.A. and later by I,R:O International Refugee Organizationr supported by seventeen countries of the United Nations. Since 1947, 820,000 people had left Europe for rehabilitation in other countries. Canada has taken 9o.000 of these and the remainder have been absorbed into Australia, _Braz.il, Bel- gium, France, Israel, United States, United Kingdom and Veiiezeula. There are still 400,000 D.P.’s on the rolls of I.R.0. ‘ I Mr. Davison cleared an interesting point regarding the terms "Refugees and “Dins”. The D.P.'s had to prove that they had taken no part against the Allies during the war, Mr. W. M. Haughan,lDepartment of Citizenship and Immigration spoke on "Citizenship and the New Can- adian” He emphasized the problem Canadian unity with the addition 3; new national groups which can only be solved with understanding. The problem with the newcomer'is one of interpreting Canada to l'llnL Canada was one of the first choices DI displaced persons for re-settlcnient. The desire of the people to become citizens of the country was best shown in the splendid attendance records at English clas 3. One half of the ll.P 5 coming- to Canada settled in Ontario. Almost 11,500 went into the woods to work: 2,500 worked on hydro construction: 1,600 bccume railway maintenance men; 3.300 become urbun domesticw and 470 rural domcstic': 1,150 went into industry and 3,400 were placed on forms. Another outstanding address wns given by Mr. J. ll, McCarthy, Inspcm tor of Public Schools in Toronto. His topic was “Curriculum Revision in the Schools of Ontario”. Mr. Mc- Carthy stated the aim of education was to provide citizens who are “pub- licly useful and privately hupp ”. The curriculum changes hall been in- troduced into Ontario Normal Schools last year and three curriculum work- shops had been held in the summer. Through the new system it was hoped that both the backward and the advanced pupils would be helped to find their level. The activities of the Women's In- stitute in Simcoe County are many and varied and comprise a list that might be the envy of many service clubs. A large number of Institutes us- sisted their local schools by improv- ing grounds; giving magazine sub- scriptions and library books to schools. They also assisted in Red Cross projects, sponsoring first aid courses, swimming classes and cour- se: in handicrafts, day ammo and vocational classes for girls, They contributed to hospitals. the Cancer . Society. Salvation Army, V.0.N. Red Cross. TB. I'linirs and Save the Chil- dren Fuml. illnny branches reported that they were making good uso of the County Health Unit which wns opresenlcd at the “invention by Nursing Super- visor, Miss Margin-ct Maclmblen. 'l‘hc .lunloi' Work Convener, Mrs, llziles, gave a my mooning I'I'purt of tho lhrci- Junior Institutes Il| thv (‘ounly and Miss Ruth Shaver, l'uunty Home Econmuist, pressed her thnnks to the \Vnniens Institute for their great nssisluncc in helping 160 girls to cuniplclc units of club work during the Near. Miss Louise ('olb- (‘ounty Recreation 5 luv and Miss Elsie Dunn of the ('nunly Libra j (‘ii-rnpcralii'e spoke briefly on their work in the county, making special reference to the projects chi-rim] on with Institute ussistilncc, TORONTO AREA in Districts, 251 Brnncbos, 8,006 Mambo” â€"Attcndnncc 1,000 of Sinicoc outing more thun 8,000 womcn in _ 1 Branches of the Women’s lilstitules of Central 0n- tario Area Convention were given n civic welcome by Mayor H. McCalluin, who stressed the in rdepciulence of city and rural districts. He invited the delegates while in the City to visit Lambcth Lodge and llogcnt Park to see what Toronto was doing on two vital problemsâ€"the aged and housing, The theme of the convention was “What Horizons” and Mrs. Norman White of Brooklin in her chairman's address, said the founders of the Wo- men’s Institute were women of broad vision and far horizons, which is the reason the organization now is such (Continued on Page 5. col. 1) Delegates repr