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The Oflicers’ Conference Relations Officers this yearâ€"attended the twelfth annual Ontario Women‘s Institute Officers" Conference at the Ontario Agricultural College. Guelph, on May S and 6. In previous years only half of the Institutes of the provmce were allowed to send representatives each year. This year the conference covered the whole prov- ince. It made rather heavy duty for the Con- ference Secretary, Mrs. E. V. Thompson and for some members of the College staff, but it proâ€" vided a stimulating assembly of women. N EARLY EIGHT hundred delegatesâ€"Public The Institutes and the College Welcoming the visitors to the College Mr. I. A. Eccles, Director of Public Relations mentioned some of the services of his Department to the Institutes. such as setting up exhibits for the Royal Winter Fair and other events. taking pho- tographs, “duplicating” manuals, making tape re- cordings of talks by home economics person- nel. At the close of the conference the F.W.I.O. President, Mrs. L. G. Lymburner thanked the College staff especially for their hospitality to Women's Institute gatherings. She said, “If they wouldn't have us, Where would we go?” A part of this hospitality particularly appreciated by the Women who Cook for their families the year round. Mrs. Lymburner said, was the good meals provided by the dietitian Miss Beck and her staff. Outlining the College programme Dr. I, D. Mucthchlan, President, explained that it was three-fold, dealing with education, research and extension and that seventy per cent of the budget is spent in research on the farmer‘s problems and on extension work. Dr. MacLachlan’s referâ€" ence to the educational programme of the GAO had this point of special interest concerning the two»year or Diploma Course in Agriculture. He said that many boys who take this course and whose fathers are still young enough to operate the home farm for some years without their help, take a job in the meantimc~a job for which the course has prepared them. Students who grad- uate from the degree course in agriculture have a Wide variety of specialtieSâ€"as scientists, teach- ers, extension workers. With an extra year at Toronto University they can graduate as engiâ€" neers. Dr. MacLachlan stressed the need of eduâ€" cation in these times to enable young people to adapt themselves to change, to think beyond their own experience. Dr. Margaret MacCrcady. Principal of Mac» donald Institute also emphasized the importance of education in home economics if We are to keep the home on an even keel in spite of the influâ€" ences affecting it. The research being done in agriculture is not enough, Dr. McCrcady said. In home economics we must study not only science but the social sciences and the humanities and the applied fields of food, clothing and shelter; and Home Economics Service deserves credit for 12 digging into the problems of rural living 11; mg Survey of Farm Homes and Homemakers. Dr. l\lc. Cready told of the introduction of a Nu In School at Macdonald Institute last ya”. nil stressed the importance of child study for .tr‘n young men and young women. Describing the courses at Macdonald ink Dr. McCready said that the Diploma (t~ open to girls who haVe completed Grade .' high school, could be highly recommended _,r any young woman. The Degree Course, op students who have completed Grade XIII, Ilui equips a girl for an interESting and excitin cation. It provides an education needed to - late her faculties for creative living and It her to be an understanding, capable homcmut Dr. McCready thanked the institutes its support by way of scholarships, and expresxt appreciation of having the F.W.I.O. pl'filti'. the Macdonald Institute Advisory Commute spoke of the need of expansion and salt: want your support in our progress. We nu- allow our young women to slump in th‘lt cation." The President Speaks “No operator of a business today, whetlu-i large or small, can afford to be unaware v new trends within his industry or of tht developments outside his industry which affect it seriously,” said the Ontario Wt Institutes’ president, Mrs. L. G. Lymburnc‘ an organization we must accept the flit. times do change and that We must gent activities to the needs of the people, not no ing ideals but providing stimulation of t? and action." Observing that in the process of earn living the future will demand from almost one more intellectual skills, Mrs. Lymburm this would be especially true in the field or munications, the ability to convey one‘s tit and ideas effectively and to grasp the tin and ideas of others; and that this would creasineg important for intergroup conm tions of all kinds. This art of communication includes Itiu skills (in our case the English languug French language or both), the ability to L ideas both orally and in writing. concisely. ally and if neceSSary compellingly. It mli- ‘ background knowledge of the world and it -- Pies. And neither of these is acquired t} l effort. It also requires the courage to thin - dependently, to be “different” if necessar} Lymburner made special reference to the W “ youth has to face under the popular PTCW “ conform. She said: “Thus many persons of potential value ill. _ ‘ atcly lose their identity by submerging it 2: 4 mass of people with whom they live. The Mi ignore human problems. Our generation hit 'i' eluded it is unwise to ‘stick our necks out it‘ HOME AND COUNTRY