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funds. It will enable voluntary and qualified leaders in the field of Home Economtcs and Rural Community Welfare to study in other counâ€" tries where societies and members will give them all possible help in getting insight into the work. Another resolution was: “Considering that the Frec-the-World-from-Hunger Campaign will be launched this year by the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization and that it re- flects precisely the humanitarian aims of the organizations associated with A.C.W.W., be it requested that all members pledge themselves to study this problem and to co-operate with FAQ and to take practical action in their own terriâ€" tories and with their own Governments and to report progress at the next triennial conference." Pennies for Friendship The financing of a scholarship and the provi- sion of funds for the business of A.C.W.W. in general. led to a discussion of “Pennies for Friend- ship." Mrs. Berry had introduced this in her opening address. She said: “The financing of A.C.W.W. is perhaps unique in the world. Mem- bership fees to societies is purposely kept low so that no one will be precluded from membership: the balance of finance necessary to carry on the work of this great international organization comes through the fund known as ‘Pennies for Friendship‘. individual members making their per- sonal contribution of a penny or its equivalent which gives them a feeling of personally belong- tng. At the request of the executive. Mrs. W. Meier of Switzerland appealed to the delegates to make their societies aware of the need and the im- portance of this fund. Some groups preferred to raise their contribution through a sale of work or some other special event; others had collection boxes at regular meetings; a considerable number tool; a special Pennies for Friendship collection at their international meeting. Mrs. Meier paid a warm tribute to Mrs. Dradge, now a Member of Honour of A.C.W.W.. who had first thought of this way of raising funds. Mrs. Dradge was pres- ent at the conference and very helpful in the meetings of the finance committee. We have a special message from her in this issue. Suspension of Nuclear Tests The conference passed a resolmion. proposed by the All Pakistan Women's Association asking for the suspension of all nuclear tests for military purposes. The resolution expressed alarm at the armament race “going on between nations and nations," fear at the “potential dangers of total it * * U N I C E F GREETING CARDS U N I C E F Christmas Greeting Cards are now on sale to raise money for the United Nations Children‘s fund. One dollar, the sale price of a box of cards, will provide: a week's supply of milk for 50 children I) DAT to safeguard 4 children against malaria vaccrne to tmmunize 50 children against tuber- culosrs. Cards are available from United Nations Associ- ation in Canada, 340 McLeod 5L, Ottawa, Ont. B annihilation to which the world today age that nuclear tests have already do” peaceful population of the places nun such tests are being carried out.“ In vi. facts the resolution read “the A.C,w\t in all humility with the great poxvers 0t - . . . to suspend voluntarily all nuclear u, doing so earn the gratitude of an ailing revitalized with hopes of a possible slit Most Worthwhile Projects One of the highlights of the conform. Symposium in which women from Ghana. Malaya. the Netherlands. Scu the United States each spoke on “the m. while project” of her organization. Mrs. Norman Kennedy of the Scottish Rural Institutes told what had been div. travelling van. This was first used in l‘ about the country demonstrating the so ting and sewing wanted by the Red Cl the Housewives‘ Guild used it to sprcali tion on nutrition, a dietitian and a cool- with kitchen equipment to explain an strate healthful meals and how to pre; When the Department of Agriculture 1. “Eat More Salads" drive the women \\ll demonstrated salad making. At one st. dener was added to the staff. After tlr Housewives' Guild equipped the van \H stration material on house planning an. ing and this was circulated among the Next it was used in the same way by t‘ craft Guild. At all times the van wa by the Scottish Institutes with some it the government. Mrs. Douglas Lee of Malaya reporttv‘ tion project. In the seven years since were started in Malaya they have orgm branches with 10,000 members. With the grant from the government they have est. headquarters with a hall and dormitoriex month local leaders from the villages :u in for a four-day course â€" different it. each course so that the greatest possible be served. Malaya takes a very impress]. teaching the importance of good nutriti Lee said “Although Malaya is an it}. country we have a lot of malnutrition our classes to the orthopedic ward of pita] to let them see how children are through lack of the right food; and to centre to learn about blindness caused l' trition. We try to make the women feel are the backbone of the country and that to them to prevent diseases that come 1 nutrition.” Mrs. W. D. Walker spoke on .‘. “Branches of the Air." She explained 1* Australia is approximately the same sit United States it has a population of onll lion and three fourths of the people live i and cities, so some of the rural women large Sheep and cattle “stations” or run so isolated that they could not possibl) w meetings as women do in other countl Years they had no telephones and no doom _ , “l-lnds posed.“ and concern about “the Jncalculmu A.” In!- lt) ll'l: Witch of my Picadx \tnrld tfltl in inanm ,1 All it Jaih night It)! Mud » at \ll: .‘nrttl i ii: hoi- .IiiEll l‘illltl .lll'lU' they :\ up ma!- :llaii thilc . thr l mile hidniv; the us are It Oil For ‘.\ illtll'l HOME AND COUNTRY