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The P res idem ’3 Corner Mrs, Leonard Trivers, President F.W.l.0. once more and we are caught up in the busy whirl of the season. There is such a feeling of urgency when planting time comes, even the birds are in a frenzy as they rush back and forth with twigs and bits of string. This feeling of haste and excitement affects Women‘s Institute members, too, espe- cially this year with the National Convention following on the heels of our Officers’ Con- ference and District Annual meetings. “THE YEAR‘S AT THE SPRING” For me the National Convention will be an- other in the series of “great adventures” I have enjoyed in the past eighteen months, for I have never attended one. I am finding the experi- ence of meeting the members at conferences and conventions an adventure in many ways, in learning and understanding Institute work better. in seeing how you live in your parts of the province and, most of all, in forming new friendships. A few nights ago I was looking through a number of old Home and Country magazines. dating front I946 to 1958. l rea- lized as I read that people who a year ago would have been only names and pictures are now very real, and thus the magazine articles meant so much more. One of the greatest values in Women‘s In- stitute membership in my opinion is this op- portunity to develop friendships. We stress the fact that ours is an educational organization, and what is more vital in education than learn- ing to live in harmony with others? All of Us know women who seem to have the instinc- tive ability to say or do the right thing to make others happy. in a quiet. self-effacing manner. Many of them have little formal education yet they possess what is more important, an “edu- cated heart." It is this education of the heart that all of us need. One of our past presidents often says that as Women‘s Institute members we have the power to be a "peace corps" in our own right. This is certainly a possibility. All of the outward signs of the “educated heart“ are set out for us in 4 our Mary Stewart Collect, if we are willing to go beyond merely repeating them and 'nnne try to live by them. When as brancht- we in_ vite new neighbours to meet with us, am we make the change easier for New Canatwim ht welcoming them to our midst, when \" see it need among persons in our commur: v and take steps to help. these are signs of [it "cilu. cared heart." stly But as the Collect says, “It is the hill. taingt that create differences" and it is h the troubles may arise to hinder the grt v. m- friendship. We need to examine our pl in“ and practices carefully to be on guard and these little things. May I give an exam ;» or two? Let us for instance avoid the ml tendency to draw comparisons amo our members and the ways in which they on nut their duties. If each doas her task to l ‘th of her ability, who is to say which is Icr'.’ Every human being needs appreciation ills efforts. Let us avoid any project which coult lsL’ competition or self-seeking among our m- bers. Even so fine a thing as sending a y la to a national convention can be harm! ' ll causes jealousy or hurt feelings amon. M‘ eligible for the honour. A district t run where such problems arise might be be at vised to put its funds to another purpo till some amicable way of choice of deleg: .m be decided. Let us remember, too, that friendship ? m hindered by the things we fail to do or s. \s the Scripture says, “We leave undnnt Isc things we ought to have done." So of ac have such good intentions of sending a n Hg? or speaking a word of appreciation, bu my. with our problems and the demands up its. we fail to satisfy the needs of others. l‘ tit is in greater need of this reminder i | Here our Collect speaks again: “Let t ‘m time for all things", and “Teach us to P W action our better impulses." If we can feel that Women‘s Institutt m- bership is making us more aware of the Lb of others in our homes, in our land and t ul- if we are growing more tolerant and LI- standing, and showing it in our actions M‘ are developing the ability to be better I ~l‘~ then the third and fourth aims of our CD ll“ tion are well on the way to fulfillment. ' W a friend one should recognize that the friendship is a lifetime study, that m J“ knows all the answers, and that he shoué JL' each day to his knowledge of how to II 'lle friendly way."â€"Wilfred A. Peterson in '"t‘ Art of Friendship.“ Mary 1 fl‘ HOME AND cor wt"