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equipped with exhaust pipes that will carry fumes above the top level of passenger cars. Asking that parents automatically receive a child’s birth certificate when birth is regis- tered in acknowledgment of the registration. Asking that the Provincial Government conâ€" sider favourably the placing of a University somewhere in the Welland County area, where there are now enrolled 8,800 pupils in high school, and where there will be a greater enrollment during the next few years. Requesting that the Provincial Government uphold and strengthen the Lord’s Day Act, Asking that the base exemption for income tax be raised from $1,000 per person to $1,500 per person due to the great increase in the cost of living. Asking for luminous signs to be placed on approaches to railway crossings designating the angle of the track in relation to the road. The F.W,I.O. agreed to go on record as being opposed to the sale of alcoholic beverages in grocery stores; and to support the Canadian Association of Consumers in their efforts to prevent the sale of trading stamps in stores; and in their request to clothing manufacturers to provide more substantial seams and better thread and elastic and to replace paper linings in belts with more substantial material. A Resolution was passed that returns from Income Tax sent in by any farmer, individual or business man with a net income of $10,000 or less and to which no action has been taken by the Income Tax Department over a three year period, become final and complete and that no further action can be taken. Because industry has an unwritten regula- tion that may deprive women of employment, and therefore of income at the age of 60, a Resolution requested that every consideration be given to providing security benefits to all women in industry, in office and in the home at the age of 60; and that copies of this Reso- xfir * * MY CITY FRIEND By Grace Noll Crowcll My City friend was openly pityng me, ‘ She said: "You are so far away from things, _ Aren't you lonely with nothing to hear and see . . .3" And I, who can daily catch the sweep of .wings High in the sky, the exquisite running trills 0f joy-mad larks, the sunset's glorious glow, I The endless changes of light and shade on the hills I \Vith nothing [0 shut them from me, answered, "No. ’ "I would be," she said, and she went back home C‘7”311'Jl:iv:ently to her house on a city street, Out of Sight of the good earth's furrowed loam, 01‘ a glittering streamâ€"or a field of wavmg wheatâ€" And I ran out in the wind and the sweet wild weather, Joyous and glad that We were again together. :1! a: * WINTER I 958 * a s A HEALTHY PRAYER (Prayer On a \‘(Jall in Chester Cathedral) Give me a. good digestion Lord And also something [0 digcsl. Give me a healthy body. Lord And sense to keep it at its best; Give me a healthy mind, 0 Lord, To keep the pure and good in sight, \Vhich, seeing sin, is not appalled, But finds a way [0 set it right. Give me a mind that is not bored, That does not whimpcr, whine or sigh; Don't let me worry overmuch About that fussy thing called "I". Give me a sense of humor, Lord, Give the grace to see a joke, To get some happiness from life And pass it on to other folk. 4; it a lution be sent. to the Department of National Health and Welfare, to the Minister of Fin- ance, and the Honourable Leslie Frost. Prem- ier of Ontario. The following Resolution was passed and referred to the Hand Book Committee; that only members who hold 25 years or more of active membership in Women‘s Institutes shall be eligible for life memberships and that no Institute branch shall be permitted to recom- mend, designate and approve more than twa members annually for life membership status: and that the fee set shall revert to $5.00 and that the membership shall be transferable by payment of $2.50 in the same manner as preVu ious to May lst, 1946. As the result of a request from the Cana- dian Federation of University Women, the F.W.I.O. will study the problem of the Ontario Succession Duty Act affecting widows, from the rural woman's point of View. Canada is supposed to have the highest liv- ing standard in the world, yet we rate only thirteenth in our fight against infant mortality. with a death rate of 32.1 per thousand live births. We are charged with failing in cor obligations as mothers and mothers-tdbei We are called careless, self-indulgent and wilfully ignorant, by people deeply concerned with our infant mortality. people who are not making charges idly. Our own organization was found ed on the heartbreak of a mother who blamed herself for the loss of her child, and for sixty years we have fought for the betterment of our children and our homes, but we have not done enough. There must be a way we can do more. The chain that will keep our infant mortality within acceptable bounds must be forged by medical and hospital services, com- munity action and the co-operation of the in- dividual Canadian woman. The Women’s In- stituie could become a very strong link in that chain. A Resolution asks that the F.W,I.O. 19