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The President’s Corner Mrs. Gordon MncPhutter, President F.W.|.O. will appear at the head of the President's Corner and my signature at the clase. it seems that I should use the space to particu- larly good advantage. As an openingâ€"let me express my very best wishes to our new provincial president, who- eVer she may be. She will have a rewarding work for the next few years. A task which will afford her a tremendous satisfaction, In order, however, to really reach her peak of accomplishment, she will need the complete coâ€"operation of each and every Women‘s In- stitute member in Ontario, and that includes the retiring president. In the last issue of Home and Country, at the close of an article written by Mrs. A. E. Leckie. entitled "Let Officers Circulate". appears the following, paragraph: SINCE this is the last time that my picture "The retiring president can do a great deal to help her successor by really retiring and taking her place as an ordinary member. There is nothing more nerveâ€"wracking to a newly elected president, than to have the immediate past-president draw up as close to the table as possible with a pencil and paper in hand and make copious notes. nodding her head at each item of business or shaking it it there is any departure from the way of claim: things established by herself. This is enough to make any new executive wonder why she ever took office." This paragraph shall present a particular hallenge to me, Every time I find myself caching for my notebook, nodding and shak- rrange baby clinics for the Children of their wn communities. The women have a concern for the educa- ion of country children. Most of the elemenâ€" ry education is given by correspondence nurses from the government. the mothers upervising the children’s school work in the omes. Mrs. Berry’s own daughters got their lementary education in this way. When the ime comes for high school. parents who can flord it may send their children to boarding 11001; others have to find boarding places in he towns where the high schools are located. 0 help with this problem, the country women 1‘8 previding “educational hostels," with a ualifled house mother in charge. These hos- ls are so well approved that the Government ubsidizes them by fifty per cent. All l95‘ ing my head. I shall very severely reprimand myself. For no one knows better than I, the task of a provincial presidentâ€"and if a means of assisting is the withholding of unsolicited adviceâ€"Ave”, that's for me. Retiring Presidents of the past have set a pattern for helpful and co-operative assistance. With their performance, as well as Mrs. Leckie's advice. to guide me, I hope that I can give to our new President the type of co- operation that will benefit her most I wish to include in this message something on a cheerful note, and that is a very easy thing to do. when I know that my readers will be mainly interested members of our organiza- tion. Next year the world will wish to cele- brate with Ontario, I am sure. the tifllh Anni- versary of the becoming of our work. As We contemplate this really outstanding milcstonc. we cannot fail to be thrilled with the progress made by our organization over this pcriod or years. Women all over lhc world havo looked upon it. found in it something of bunt-lit for them, and have gwcn [u n or their abilities, To-day, we can look back over the years and find the results to be a \l‘l‘ll-llll'lllt‘d organiza- tion, which provides unity \\'llhlll. nations and around the world It has opcncd up for thou. sands of \t‘omcn an opportunity to show their talents wnh others; and {or many thousands of us ll has providi-d .‘I wonderful lllt'l'lllllll of .idult t‘Illlt'HllUn. So much llic past has given us; and us or can- forward we naturally ask what the luturi- llillkl.‘ for lllt‘ Wunu-n's Instr [llIL',\'. We rcali/o that .ull promo-:5 will dept-ml on tln- mdivulual acccplanci- of a challcnpc to make our orpanimllon l.u'o.uicr and morc lar- rcachum as llu- ycars pass, In arm-plum thr- challenge thrown us by the truly tun-a1 uomcn who have gin-n us lht' Wommn's lllhlllllll', our very best individual cllorls Wlll bi» put forth. The best work of 45,000 wou‘icn in Ontario cannot but brim: results. llu- MIL-ct» of which u'lll bc {ch in our lloim-s and in Countries all around the world Edith A, Marl’hattcr Another prim-rt of tlic Australian ('oimll'y Women's ASSOt'lllllllnS is to provu'lc rnalcrnity hostels in towns wbcri- Worm-n room from hundreds of miles out in llw country to how- their babies. Before thcrc wvrt- hosli-ls Womi-n often stayed at home too long lll'IUl'l' soiling nut to [to to the hospital in town. To provide medical sm‘vlcv in a sparsely settled country is alwa, a problem. Austra- lia‘s “Flying Doctor Service" camc from the dream of a Prcsbytcrian minister who saw the graves of wwcs and tho dreary homes or bachelors who would not bring a woman to the inland country because there was no medi» cal service there. The minister's idea was to have doctors fly in, but the trouble was to got word to the doctor when someone was ill. So _________