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An enthusiastic supporter of 4-H Club workâ€" and very knowledgeable about it since his four daughters have all been members of home- making clubs. Mr. Stewart expressEd his pride in the fact that last year there were 2208 girls’ homemaking clubs in the province with a membership of 21,457. “Youth today. as in every generation, has a great desire to make the world a better place.” the Minister said; “and it would be unfortunate if you didn‘t want to make it over to your specifications." He spoke of the opâ€" portunities ahead. Oneâ€"third of the people of Canada today are under fifteen years old. In a few years they will be in the professions. They will have to be educated for these pro- feSSions and many of them will have to con- tinue to take retraining periodically to keep up with the progress in their fields. It means carrying responsibility. At the same time youth is capturing the headlines in another direction. "This is a time for all of us to reassess our standard of values," Mr. Stewart said. "The standards of adults have some- times let our youth down," and he mentioned such things as a father telling a boy to watch for the cop while he drives his car beyond the speed limit. a mother having her children tell an unpleasant visitor that she is not at home. He spoke of the need of home dis- cipline that is not too strict or too lax or inconsistent. and what is still more important the need of self discipline for youth. On the point of “the new morality.“ the speaker said: “You young ladies should estab- lish standardsâ€"standards based not only on morality but on a sympathetic understanding of others. There is a great lack of this in our society today. We let wrongs go unâ€" checked because we don‘t want to get in~ volved. He added that it was interesting to see that as keen a business man as Donald Gordon, had said in his Chamber of Com- merce letter, that the essential requirement in a youth applying for employment is not in- telligence but character. lJlSlltE leerznil r: Club exhibit lfrom "The Cereal Shelf" Lambtun County, Minnie Scholten, commentator. 10 Perhaps the Minister had it in mind that his audience, girls of sixteen to twenty, would be thinking of homes of their own as Well as careers and education, for he left a ihOllgl. on the rights of a child: the right to pareh' who love him and love each other; the t’lgl to learn to discipline himself; the right :0 family that is all for one and one for ;= Marilyn Meadows of Perth county thank Mr. Stewart and Linda Cosler of Middch thanked the University for the use of its i cilities and the assistance of staff mean». with the conference program. A special entertainment feature at I: banquet was choral singing by the girls uni- the leadership of Dr. Glen C. Kruspe, organ and choirmaster of the Evangelical Uni. Brethren Church at Kitchener and a torn director of the Kitchener Waterloo Symphi- Orchestra, accompaniEd by Mrs. Ralph Kn The chairman, Miss Jean Scott, reminded ' audience that these leaders are also compos One of the numbers was the Ontario 4-H So with words and music by Edith Kidd: in i other “As a Bird at Dawning Singeth." music was by Dr. Kruspe. International Contacts On another evening the entertainment provided by students and visitors from An. A demonstration from the proiect, "Accent on A series", Peel County, countriesâ€"a program of Filipino danCES an international fashion show. Three interesting visitors throughout conference were Malaysian girls, M Horsiah Nordin, Aminah Ahmad and Shin Ali. Miss Nordin had been on the stat. the Rural Development Department at Malaysian Government, teaching home i nomics and came to Canada on a Fell ship. This included a diploma coursu ' Kemptville Agricultural School, some l with the Nutrition Division of the Deparlrw of Health and with Wellington County Ht ‘_ Unit. Miss Nordin will also see something "l the County Home Economists’ work in 4 I- HOME AND COUI‘:Tn Y