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EDITORIAL OMEN'S INSTITUTES AND HOME ECONOMICS: The \Vomen's Institute is the of”? ()‘ganllafllm I knnw that was founded for the betterment of the home and famin hie; and S‘Jmedmes I Hm ilmazed at the sound and imaginative ways Institutes have found to h“? "P ‘0 Ibis PUIPUsE. Homemakers have shared their views and demonstrated their 5133‘“?11 Skills 10 help each other. They have brought prnfessional help to the community in courses and training schools. They have given a magnificent serVice in leading girls' humemakiniz Ell-lbs: ha“: had Panels 0n chiltl guidance with teachers and psychologists, Even the organization‘s “'Orld‘Wld‘: iUWWWS 553171 I“ hm'c the welfare til the family at heartâ€"sewing machines for Korea: home demonfitfalion equipment for Ceylon, adult education for lntlian and Eskimo Women in the NUI'IlL SChfilarships for “orkers in the Freedom from Hunger Crusade; "adoptinm" in the saw the Children campaign All of these projects have a basis at home ecunnmits: and practically EIII involve the “'nrk uf him“: ecgnumisnr But the profession of home etnnomiCi has its detractors here and there. There are ctluta- tionists who wnuld relegate it in technical schtmls or limit it to food science. taking away the humanities Concerned with human thought and human relations. There are [he Betty Fritdans who w0ulCI pour it down the drain mmpletely because they think an interest in the home is just a woman's escape from competition “iLh men in the world outside. And there may he women who believe that nith modern equipment and pmt‘t‘ssed fund. a home can pretty “ell run itself. I believe hnme etnnomics is more needed today than eyer before. If anyone thinks “e have outgrown the practical skills of homemaking, I submit that good meals and a comfortahle home do :1 lot [U create .1 good family life. Home ECUFIUmlCS deals with Limin financing. \V'ith modern high pressure selling and the pOPUlal' appeal Uf status symbols. surely there was never a time “hen women needed to knnw so much about managing money. Home economics includes chiltl study and hnw a child's family lift- gives direCtion (u the whale of his life \Vith so many groups no“ competing for a child's time and intereu. part-nu seem to have an added responsihility in make the family mean what it should mean to children In these days of the changing role of women from homemaker to lmth homemaker antl‘ ur. income earner, snunti home etonnmits “ill see that the famin does nut suffer from the Change â€" indeed that under tight conditions it may bent-fit from it. As a profession, home et’onomit’s is steadily hm-‘ldc‘nint.’ it‘i field. If We helieve with Dorothy Canfield that Hhome €(Dnth‘llit8 is the \tud)‘ of the art of living", we may he ready to agree that some homes of the future might be happier. that some forms of delinquenq' might he pr6vented, if every (hild in the puhlit school years. hoys its well as girls. (oultl have some home economics training in human relations and in the use of mnney Only last month “e had this statement from the Canadian \V'elfare Council: "0116 of these days social Welfare is going to It“ the hospitals and high schools to I'I'IlI\'L‘ over. It is going to start competing fur hnme ewnnmhl‘n "Social welfare is becoming it business under responsible management with a sharp eye on {he results “f i“ im-tstmcâ€"m‘, \V'hdt is the good of new low-(mt housing if the familim uhn move in have nn idea how to keep l1l1u\c:‘ W’hai is [IIL‘ good of iuh training int a youth if he and his young wife are clueless t‘onsutners? What is the gmvd Hf all the Clinics. camps and Lluhs if boys and girls are badly fed at home? Nobody sees more clearly than the home economist that poor nutrition means poor health and poor job performance \\'l".IL‘[Itt:l’ the job is at the pldnt or at home or schnnl. ' _ "This is why Home Ewnunmu are needed. out in the community on the health and ith doctors, nurses. tnwn planners. sntial workers and [he [ESL This ix why it is \‘itallt important that far larzer numbers of Home Economists he [rained in “mm. to plav their part in this era of Cuntidi‘s great Mutational and industrial expansion." Why do we Put a” [hie hcforu members of \Vomcn's Institutes? Betrtuse the “elimi- lit the home it; one nf their own field-t; because they are interested in useful, interesting guru.” for gitIS' and because if they hCIit’VC “1 him": CC“"""‘i(5 Edumll‘m “103’ may find way" of supporting and prumotina it in their lncal SCht‘Il')l<. in ("immunity Cchnsion work, or. if the nppnrtunity offers, at the level of the 3 welfare team alnng w university. WINTER 1967