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and Canadian Industries. Home Economies and Health, Citizenship and Education, Hisâ€" torical Research and Current Events. (F.W.I.C. had previously asked Ontario to change the F.W.I.O. standing committees to conform With the F,W.I.C. standing committees which arc: Agriculture, Home Economics and Social Wel- fare, Citizenship, Cultural Activities, UN and Exchange Programmes.) This resolution was tabled for further study by the Board. Resolutions asking for more thorough meas- ures in conservation and increased pensions for the blind were withdrawn because they have already been carried out. A resolution asking for an Advisory Board on Immigration and one asking that visitors or immigrants refused admission to Canada be given reasons for their rejection and an opportunity to over- come them, were tabled until the next bienâ€" nial meeting. The Board, dealing with a resolution from British Columbia concerning conventions deâ€" cided that, to keep expenses to a minimum, future conventions be held in universn possible and that the place of the Conv alternate among provinces. “'5 it t'l'ltlfln Mrs. Roylance read the resolution on Aiilgnm Power pasaed at the A.C.W.W. Confeyw‘, In July â€" a resolution that might well by» wad in every branch Institute in the Dominmi-i: “This conference recognizing that tilt is now beyond the threshold of a new , the Atomic Age â€" expresses the hop. thermonuclear weapons for destructit- poses may be forever held in check, and the peoples of the world, through that. ernments, to concentrate their research resources, their talents and treasure, .. development and peaceful use of aton‘ :md thermonuclear energy for the universu and of mankind, and urges governments to . . nize the invisible danger to mankind radioactivity is released during rose-aim, the use of atomic and thermonuclear gt; even for peaceful purposes.” ' v Hrlci lit ‘ that ,Juix 'l'ties 20‘}- Our National President By A Nova Scotian chosen to the high office of President of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada is not easy to paint; not because of inâ€" sufficiency of excellent material, but because of the inadequacy of words to do her justice. The facts and figures of her life do not tell half the story. To read that Jennie Elizabeth Magee was born on Church Street, Kings County, Nova Scotia, leaves out the interestâ€" ing fact that she lives in the same house today. To say that her ancestors back farther than she can remember were Nova Scotians, leaves out the fact that she is the fifth generation Magee to live on that soil after the first one of that name came to Nova Scotia from Magee Island off the coast of Ireland. Her mother, a pioneer worker in Women’s Institutes, was of a Scottish Covenanter family who were United Empire Loyalis-ts. Her early education, Grades One to Eight, was obtained in a oneâ€"room school at Town Plot, where she now teaches, a building easily seen from the east windows of her home. Her High School and University education were obtained in the nearby town of Wolfville, and from the front lawn of her home you see, across the Cornwallis River, the white front and tower of the Administration Building of Acadia University, Wolfville, Teaching was Mrs. Rand's first career, but not entirely satisfied with it, she added a Busi- ness Course at the Maritime Business College, and worked for a year in Halifax in the ofi‘ice of the Department of Education there. Her first move combined her talents as a teacher and a a. WORD portrait of the lady who has been 10 business woman, when she taught in thr .-i- ness Department of Horton Acaden oi Acadia University for five successive u‘s. Six years ago, when the teacher short-i. we- came acute, she returned to teaching iii: school she first attended. Mrs. Rand was married in 1941. It - a war marriage, not to a uniformed new. of. but to the neighbor's son, her childhood ,« eta heart, Keith Rand, a graduate of the \& Scotia Agricultural College, then sei‘v: m the Canadian Army at Aldershot, N.S H15 Welsh ancestors, shipbuilders and far ~r3. may have known the Magee forebez: in other times and other places. In this h up)“ home are two bonny children, Joni in twelve and Rachel, ten; both memhu 0i 4-H Clubs. A visit to the Rand home is a delightft xi perience. A large, old-fashioned farmhov m the centre of a big farm with wide lawn Hid meadows and in the distance the gleé‘ blue of Minas Basin with Blomidon kc. is watch over it. Potatoes, apples, cherrie 'nd plums are everywhere in seaSOn. Otter 01! can see the cattle being rounded up b? m children on their saddle horses with "NO Border Collies at their heels. Entering the house one pauses always :i' he door to the dining room to admire the -'319 decoration, which this wife and mother, Si root teacher, Church and Institute workerphb 31' Ways time to arrange artistically, fittmi. ‘Lhe occasion. In the living rooms are i-iner evidences of her artistic abilities combined HOME AND COUNTRY