Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1956, page 16

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every attempt to be friendly." She told of a dinner given by New York City, where Mr. Molotov, speaking through his interpreter. told her that there should be more women in the United Nations for Peace. "Among the big projects supported by the United Nations, about which too little has been said," Mrs. Houck declared, “are the great humanitarian efforts involved in the Technical Assistance Program, World Health, the Agricultural and Food Organization, the Children‘s Fund and the Educational Proâ€" gram, On these subjects, all delegates agreed that they were raising the standards of living and savang the lives of literally millions of people in under-developed countries. This wnrk may prove to be in the futurc_ more im- portant than our political policy. All peoples of the world long for peace and int:rnational policies cannot be dcveloped or prove their worth, in ten, twenty-five or even fifty years. I hl'ltcvc that the time will come when we Will truly be a Federation of State when the matters of colonialism and boundaries will hau- becn settled and when the funds now necessary for defence can be used for humani- tziririn work. "Faith Marches . . ." In an inspirational message on the conference tht-mc: "Faith marches at the head of the army of progress." Padre W. A. Young, Chap- lain of the QAC, described the control room of it modern air plane with its bewildering array of control gadgets. When he remarked to the pilot that he couldn't understand how any man could handle it all, the young man said "Most of it IS automatic. But don't even think you won't always need pilots. You have to have mcn to control the controls." “No airplane is better than the men who fly it." Mr, Young said. "No society is better than its people. We have madc- great progress in material things. These things are good in their place but they don't make a good life. we must huvo men and women of faith and Vtslon, honest, sclf disciplined, people of good will, humble before God.” With all that We hear of scientific progress in this ntomic age, there will be no progress unless faith in God marches at the head of the cavalcndc, the Padre declared. There is a Power beyond ourselves on which we can Icon when everything else fails. We may have difficult times ahead but difficult times are the times when We make progress. And re- fcrring to the power of faith "as a grain of mustard seed." the padre left his audience with the text "I can do all things through Him who strengtheneth me." Dr. C. D. Graham. Deputy Minister of Agriâ€" culture for Ontario brought greetings, thank- ing the Women's institutes for the support they haVe given to the programme introduced by the Departrncm of Agriculture_ Mr. Graham referred to the social, economic and scientific changes. taking place in these days and to our responsibility to inform and equip ourselves I. to meet these changes. He commend women on meeting in conference U. . ‘ their problems. The Deputy Minister " iioned the close link between Macdon» stitute and the Women's Institutes m Mrs. Futcher and Mrs. MacPhat‘ter . Advisory Board. Educating the Whole Child "We must teach the whole childâ€"p.» mental, emotional, social and spiritual these are balanced We cannot expect learn." said Dr. Margaret Nix, Assign, fessor of Health Education at McGill l sity, in a provocatiVe address that mi; sold the idea of parent education i. woman who heard her. Dr. Nix had given as her subject "(5 Up In An Atom-sphere." (Please n. last word isn't "atmosphere." Dr. _\' thinking of the destructive use of tin and of the need of some counteracting To counteract these tools of destruci must use tools of construction and in i have a more powarful instrument tha To cultivate love we have to begin w children. Two forces go into the shaping of .i this educationist explained: heredity both father and mother, and envmu and since heredity is only something ll grow in a cell, environment may be 1h. ger force. (Compare for example the r in results of the child brought up in i of neglect and want and fear and th- brought up in a home of love, musw, and security.) We immuniZe children . diseases. What do We do when we â€"r symptoms of bed-wetting, biting finci refusing to do home work? "There are principles needed in the 1 said Dr. NixI “three keys to creative .I affection, praise and consistency." Affection, the speaker felt was do at its best in the quotation, “Undernei. the everlasting arms." The arms were i W heath, supporting but giving freedom around or restraining. So the good ' gives her children support but freedor helps them to develop so they can Sta their own feet. Affection implies fir kindness and gentleness with opportun personal freedom. Dr. Nix used the it tion of letting a bird rest on an open with liberty to fly if it wants to; it u ' ‘ away and come back. But just onci- your hand around it and when it cSCU will never come back. Such freedOm pox-tam in marriage too. A husband ant should have extensiVe mutual interest freedom for some personal separate in' as well. Praise not only creates a feeling 0‘ , being: it also sets standards, reinforces 3'”- You want. Praise 3 child (or an adutti r A Piece Of work Well done and the natur» Tt action is to want to do it still better. H non: mo cot-Wm

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