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at the Ontario School for the Blind, found it hard to get along with no piano for prac- tice at home, the Athlone \Vomen's Institute gave her a piano. The Institute was already heavily involved in scholarships from county to international level; but here was a girl right in their own community who needed help with her education. the 501'! of help that could not be provided by a schoal board or civic body. \Vomen's Institutes show tremendous imagination and understanding and judgment in meeting such needs. C ARING ABOUT PEOPLEâ€"When the blind girl Janet Heinbuch, taking piano lessons In another community a girl who had spent three years in a tuberculosis sanitarfum was discharged in good health and ready to enter high school. Her difficulty was that during the years in the san she had outgrown her school clothes and her family did not have funds to provide even the minimum things a high school girl needs. Who else but women who know how a girl feels abOut wearing the wrong clothes and who care how she feels, would have thought to provide this girl with a wardrobe just right for high school? In Hatvie Settlement’s report for the year we read: "In our community we have a mother with an incurable illness. The thirteen-year-old girl of the family has been mother to three younger children for the past two years, as well as attending school. Each week one of our members took in baking to help ease the burden of this girl. We also have a boy who lost a leg in an accident and we try to help him with things to work with." And Donn Blair says, "We are regularly and systematically helping a motherless large family with food and laundry help." Members of an Institute close to the Boys' Training School at Brampton take a motherly interest in the boys, visiting exhibitions of their work, providing prizes for their field days and turning out in good numbers to watch their games. \Vith the blessing of the warden they make personal friends of the boys, helping to meet a serious need of anyone segregated in an institution. Jarvis "assisted a New Canadian family with food, cash and clothing while the head of the family was ill." And from Highland Creek we hear: "We did not have an international meeting this year but we made a Christmas gift and a welcome for a family who had just come to our country from behind the Iron Curtain." We could go on endlessly with stories of what Institutes do because they care about people â€" from friendly, local neighboring to raising funds for an international scholarship to speed up the world's Freedom from Hunger campaign. And a big international cause never seems to suffer because people take on smaller causes nearer home. Indeed it scents that compassion translated into action anywhere releases more compassion for use in other places. Another thought must occur to us here: While we will continue to help people who suffer misfortune, shouldn‘t we try, too, to do what we can to prevent the misfortune? We are familiar with the old story of the choice given a town "to put a fence at the top of a cliff or an ambulance down in the valley." The Institute supplying clothes for a girl who had spent three years in a tuberculosis sanitarium would no doubt try to get people out to the next X-ray survey to catch the disease at a stage when it could be cured quickly, The women associating with boys in a Training School would see the need of constructive interests for all young people -â€" recreation under good leaders, public panels with school teachers, perhaps some education for parents in child guidance and discipline and encouragement. There is a vast field for service in building "a more abundant life" in our own communities if we care about people. ZZZ/W SUMMER 1964