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The President’s Corner Mrs. Austin 5. Zoel- ler, President, the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario. Man has been around the moon and back. What a complex world! For as 1 Sit looking out our window I cannot go to the road and back. We‘ve just had a winter blow. Beautiful, white. billowy banks are piled high around our house and over the driveway. It seems that all the snow that the northwest wind could accu- mulate is blocking our lane. With today’s modern snow blowers and plows we‘ll be on the go again but only when the winds cease, for it would be useless to bat- tle the elements. Perhaps we need a “blow” once in a while to reflect, to appreciate, to let us take time to consider our way of life. We have entered a new year. A year not like other years for me. A year of expectation and excitement and hard work as your provin- cial president; and with this honour comes deep humility, a sense of pride and a feeling of usefulness, as well as more hours away from home than I have ever known. This is the season to pause and to reflect â€" to resolve to do better to achieve greater goals; and. perhaps most important of all, to trust â€" trust one another. Let us take time to know where we are going and why and what we can contribute as women and mothers and citizens of our community. It has been said hundreds of times that Mr. Lee was the man with the idea and that Mrs. Hoodless was the woman with a vision. It is our hepe that we, as thinking women, will pro- ject their idea and vision with great energy and more knowledgeable attitudes in 1969, being constant in our thinking that it is not the torch bearer who is important. but the torch; that as women we have learned that to have a friend is to be a friend. What are your plans? Would you like to be a friend? Have you given any thought to the number of newcomers in your community? There are probably women who would be pleased to participate in our Women’s Insti- tute meetings. Take a few minutes to survey this situation. Did you really ever ask those women who are not attending, or did you take it for granted they weren't able to attend? Have 4 you encouraged the young married wont.” either to join your Women‘s Institute bl'tlh. or if there are enough, to assist them in t... ing a Junior Women‘s Institute? Our world is much smaller than the when our Women‘s Institutes were organi. Membership in Women‘s Institutes links With women of many races and modes at ing. Thus we are discovering our com». problems. We all hope for a world when people can be born with equal opportunl. We claim the human right to give, the righ. learn. and an obligation to the words in H. let, “This above all, unto thine own sclJ true." Then as Women‘s Institute member. can be better prepared to carry out our ol'» tives and become stronger citizens in our communities. I i l ONE STEP MORE. A bill is not too hard to climb, Taken one step at a time. One step is not too much to take, One try is not too much to make. One step, one try, one song, one smile Will shortly stretch into a mile. And everything worthwhile was done By small steps taken one by one. To reach the goal you started for, Take one step more . . . take one step a â€" James Dillet Free: Margaret Zoeller * * ir TO THE THAWING WIND Come with rain, 0 loud Southwester! Bring the singer, bring the nester; Give the buried flower a dream: Make the settled snow-bank steam; Find the brown beneath the white; Bur whate'er you do to-night, Bathe my window, make it flow, Melt it as the ice will go; Melt the glass and leave the sticks Like a hermit's crucifix; Burst into my narrow stall; Swing the picture on the wall; Run the rattling pages o'er; Scatter poems on the floor; Turn the poet out of door. Robert Frost * * it ALL THE WORLD’S A. STAGE All the world's a stag: And all the men and women merely player They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many PM“ William Shakespeare * * * HOME AND COLIN .=1Y