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' ational President’s Word to Ontario Mr. J. W. Adams AST FALL there was ample demonstraâ€" tion to your sisters all over the world of just how big the Institute movement . felt to be in your province. When I read 3‘ the development of the Institute idea in "lalaya, it fills me with pride and with a emulous sense of responsibility as I realize at this great movement spreads to Malaya '2. our British sisters from Stoney Creek, in ntario, in Canada. It is easy to be big among big things but . Institute member must be big in little i ings, in little places. Many of the members mong the local branches will never exâ€" erience at first hand, association with the rger membership, and it is harder to keep ne’s thinking and one’s doing BIG. We de- elop skills, we work to improve our homes, - e study and consider the welfare of others, without selfâ€"pity and without prejudice,” not nly for personal gain but because, as the Big isters of the Institute family, we must set he standard in aims and achievement, for the ctivities of women. The accumulation of this ffort all over the world will raise the stand» rd of rural living and improve the stature f the world community. Homes are the foundation upon which the ommunity is built; branches are the foun- ation upon which we are building our na« ional and international organization. No club 111 suffer the pangs of pettiness and per- onalities, nor suffer from lack of leadership, f each one of us looks far, thinks far, and -. orks hard, always conscious of the goal to r rhich we all are working together. Editor's Note: We feel that Ontario Institute i omen would be interested in these personal otes about our national president. Mrs. J. W, dams, better known to Institute Women as ‘Nancy Adams,” President of the Federated omen‘s Institutes of Canada, was born in I ngland, came with her parents to settle in ’ algary and later moved to a small rural com; : unity in Saskatchewan. When the children *ere ready for high school they had to go to rince Albert, but in spite of this inconve- i ience Nancy graduated at the age of fifteen, inning the Governor General’s medal en ' g the small rural school in her home i ommunityâ€"incidentally she met young J. W. ' dams bereâ€"â€"going to Normal School, teach- ng a city public school, leaving this for Uni- ‘ ersity and later teaching English and French n high schools. She was married in 1935, right 11 the worst of the drought and depression hich had forced her husband to leave his an established farm and settle in the Carrot iver Valley at Ethelton, Saskatchewan. * UMMER 'I 9.54 Mrs. J. den! of Ihe Federated Women's Institutes at Canada. W. Adams at Elhelion, Saskatchewan. Presid- Here Nancy was introduced to farm living in an old log house which had been put up by the first homesteader. forty years before. She experienced all the homesteading woman’s trials with cold, inconvenience and hard work, and she was lonesome for the stimulation and contacts of her professional life. In the sum- mer of 1937 a small group of women in the small community organized a branch of the Saskatchewan Honiemakcrs' Clubs, the Ethel- ton Club which has since Won the Tweeds- muir cup for their community history. and first place in a kitchen remodelling competitionâ€" using the Adams kitchen in the home they bought when extending their farming. Mrs, Adams has two fair-haired, blue-eyed daughters, eleven and seven years old. While their mother is busy with her work with the Women‘s Institutes and the Saskatchewan Royal Commission on Agriculturi- and Rural Life, of which she is the only Woman member, her family is cared for by a “borrowed grand- mother," Mrs, Barbara Traill Morrow, a Sas- katchewan pioneer in her own right, great niece of Susanna Moudic, the author of “Roughing It In the Bush," and great grand- daughter of Catherine Parr Trail], known for her children's stories and her book on Cana- dian Wilclfli'iwers. So Mrs. Adams feels that her children are having the happy experiean of “livmg with history.” In her Institute work Mrs. Adams sci‘ved as presulcnt of hcr local club, and through district and provincial officcs to President of Saskatchewan Homemakers" Clubs. Last year she was elected President of F.W.I.C. Though at one time very active in church, school and political groups, she has had to curtail these interests. In her own words, she “now devotes most of her spare time working ‘for home and country' through the group which in its work knows no bounds of country, of race, creed or sectâ€"the Federated Women’s Institute of Can- ada."