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Planning Committee embers chat with Mrs. Hugh . Vice-President A.C.W.W. Eff to right: Miss Anna F. Lewis, irecior Women's institute Brunch; rs. Gordon MucPholier, F.W.I.O. resident: Mrs. Hugh Summers; rs, loren Guild, Conference Sec- elury; Mrs. G. Gordon Maynard, F.W.|.O. Secretory. an have in building this nation, at the same ime blending their own cultures with the ulture of Canada. “We should never be asked 0 forget our past,” Mrs. Schippers said, “Cut~ ting one’s roots can never be good. We would likely lose our balance . . . and it is the ill- balanced minds that have always been the greatest danger to the world.” Miss Ferguson spoke of the gratitude the Scottish Rural Women’s Institutes feel for their organizers from Canada, Mrs. Alfred Watt and Miss Emily Guest. The Scottish Institutes have no extension service of their own as the Institutes of Canada have; each :Institute arranges for its own help from the Department of Education. One Scottish project that seemed entirely new to the Ontario women was that in Scotland, just as they hold a drama festival, they have a competition in features for “a social half hour" at an 1 Institute meeting. Entertainment that added greatly to the HIS seems to be an ideal time to read about UNICEF, as A.C.W.W. has just been granted consultative status with UNI- CEF’s Executive Board and is a member of the Non-Governmental Organizations Ad- visory Committee. UNICEF, the United Na- tions International Children’s Emergency Fund, was started in December, 1946 by the United Nations, when the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration was wound up. UNICEF was primarily intended asan emergency body to meet the needs of children who were hungry, homeless and ill as a result of the war, and incidentally to raise the level of child health, but it later shifted Its emphasis to long-range programs. _The problems facing UNICEF were and are gigantic. The first is malnutrition. Two; thirds of the World’s children are underfed. and this leaves them without vitality and reSIStance, ready victims of tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases. UNICEF has pro- vided millions of children with daily milk and SUMMER 1954 enjoyment of the conference began with the Get Acquainted Party on the first evening. The community singing led by Padre Young, and accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. R. Kidd, also of the college. gate a lift to every session. There was an organ and piano recital by Mr. and Mrs. Kiddâ€"very much appreciated: a musical skit by West End Institute: an Interâ€" national Pageant by Beaverton Branch, and a skit “The Regular Meeting of . . written by Mrs. Loren Guild and acted by a number of well known women in the Guelph urea. Copies of the International Pageant and “The Regular Meeting of . . ." can be borrowed from the Loan Library in the Institute Branch. Closing the conference, Mrs. MacPhatter reminded the delegates that the conference next year would be for other branch presir dents. And again she thanked the women for the support their Institutes are giving to the fund for sewing machines for Korean widows. UNICEF fish liver capsules to provide missng vita- mins. One small Italian boy, on being asked what UNICEF meant. replied that it was the American word for cow. Teachers in El Salvador were at first €X< asperated by the extra work entailed in mixing the powdered milk with boiling water, and complained that it tasted odd in any case. Later, they were astonished to find that their once listless pupils were now wide-awake and interested, and their opposition ceased. Thirtyaeight new infant nutrition clinics were started, and the farmers began to wonder whether they could not produce more milk to meet the rising demand, In other countries the dairy industry has been stimulated in the same way. The improvement is permanent, for the Govarnment takes over when UNICEF aid stops. UNICEF not only provides milk but in some countries has supplied plants for bottling, refrigerating, pasteurizing and drying milk. I9