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terested in the reports brought back from the conference in Australia by Miss McKe’rcher, Mrs. Lymburner and Mrs. Haggerty, the minister said. “And we recognize the con; tribution the Women’s Institutes are making. He assured the Institutes of Ontario that they would have the continued support of the gov- ernment. Mrs. Haggctty reviewed her program of the last few weeks as national president of the Women’s Institutes of Canada: a visit to the Emily Murphy Park in Edmonton, named after the first national president; a vistt to the International Peace Garden on the border between Manitoba and the United States. (She said, “Manitoba takes a special responsibility in maintaining the Peace Garden just as On- tario does for Hoodless House.) She had seen some outstanding demonstrations in safety at a * ir * THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER By E. O. Laughlin [do not understand . . . They bring 50 many. many flowers to me â€" Rainbows of roses, wreaths from every land; And hosts of solemn strangers come to see My tomb here on these quiet wooded heights. My tomb here seems to be One of the sights. The [ow-voiced men, who speak Of me quite fondly. call me "The Unknown”: But now and then at dusk, Madonna-meek, Bent, mournful mothers come to me alone And whisper down â€" the flowers and grasses through â€" Such names as "Jim" and "John" . . . I wish they knew. And once my sweetheart came. She did notâ€"nay, of course she enuld notâ€"know, But thought of me and cronned to me the name She called me by â€" how many years ago? A very precious name. Her eyes were wet, Yet glowing, flaming so . . . She won't forget. * ‘k * 4-H Club rally in Manitoba and several good displays of samplers for the Tweedsmuir Com- petitions. Mrs. Haggerty flew from Winnipeg to the Food Congress in Washington where she heard enthusiastic reports of a paper given earlier in the conference by Dr. Margaret McCready, Dean of Macdonald Institute. The paper had been translated into French and Spanish but there were no copies left when Mrs. Haggerty arrived. She heard Mrs. van Beekhoff’s paper on feeding people in other lands and recalled the stories told by women at the A.C.W.W. conference. such as the Afri- can women’s problems with illiteracy and the Witch doctor. “We have to be educated our- selves to understand these people." Mrs. Hag- gerty said. “Then we have to educate them. Institutes may help with this by conll'll‘mtlniz to the Lady Aberdeen International Scholar: ship." When Mrs. van Beekhoff spoke she mime close to her audience first by telling it: that some people in her home community won. dered if her travelling about the world mam that "there was something wrong at hm... “There’s nothing wrong,” she assured Li, Shu had accepted the office of A,C.W.W. «5i. dent with the approval of her family at! on the condition stipulated by her husband mm she should not be away for more than - “we months at a time. Her triâ€"weekly lett: to him serve also as the day-byâ€"day repel the needs for her records. Mrs. van Beekhoff said that wheret- he goes, in telling the story of the ASSI‘ m] Country Women of the World she aluu t'rc. gins with Canadaâ€"with Mrs. Hoodle he founder of the Women‘s Institutes anti in, Alfred Watt the founder of A.C.WV\‘, .113 said: “As Mrs. Watt travelled about L‘ in work as a civil servant, she saw \w in groups each of which could not do oh alone, and she felt that they should be :cd together. She was responsible for a n ng being held in 1929 where women fro lit. ferent countries found it stimulating to ‘SEI together and decided it would be Well all filiate. In 1933 they met again in Stot ilm and formed the A.C.W.W. with Mrs. V as the first president. To finance the n. ur- ganization each constituent society paid re, Then Mrs. Drage of Wales suggested . ha in which each individual member could . .- a part. This was the “Pennies for Frieni .ip" scheme, the idea being to name a coin ihe country’s lowest denomination so th no woman would be too poor to con! ile. (There is no limit to the value of tin win that may be contributed, of course.) “\‘l .nw have six million members in A.C.W.W.. its. van Beekhoff said. “If every woman c lib uted a penny a year we would have : lit- ficulty in financing our work." It was decided to hold a conference If three years, meeting each time on a d. tent continent. Meetings were held in Wash JOB in 1936 and London in 1939â€";1 VEI Jif- fieult conference with a world war onl} '6‘“ weeks away. “During the war our or; ura- tion in Europe went underground," 'IFSv Beekhoff said, “because our countrie‘ ‘Cre occupied and those in authority woul» have wanted to dictate our program. But th and office was kept alive in Britain and . the close of the war in 1945 we ‘start: Up‘ again." The next conference met in h “and at Amsterdam in 1947; the next at ' ‘PW hagen in 1950; then in Toronto in I95 The HOME AND COUNTRY