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We Learn Together A condensation of a paper written by Mrs. Aroti Dutt, past president of the Associated Country Women of the World. Mrs, Aroti Dutt, immediate Past President of A.C.W.W. and now Chairman of the Ad Hoc NutritOnal Deficiency Committee, tells of a talk with a young Bengali mother who lost her first child from starvation. She had, as is the custom. unquestioningly followed the ad- vice given by her mother-in-law on how to feed the child. Now, with two other children, this young mother. eager to learn “all about food" attended an open air meeting to find the answers to her problems. In the failing gentle light of an Indian eveâ€" ning, as the meeting sat in the open air to see a film on “Nutrition and Blindness,” a little blind girl in the audience turned to her mother and asked "Is it night yet? When is the film going to start?" The mother, face to the glory of the setting sun, answers “Not yet. but the film will soon start.” As the blind child, to whom the film can mean nothing, turns her blank unseeing eyes towards the sound of children playing in the courtyard, the film starts, drowning her plaintive plea “When shall I see the film?" The film ends. The meeting is over and the women begin their journeys home either by bullock cart or walking along the narrow paths back to their villages in the heavy Indian night. They go with new knowledge â€" that their children can live to see the light, not grow up in a world of darkness, 3 world in which a film is but a sound of “voices.” This new knowledge, as the Indian mother said, “all about food," could preserve the sight of tiny children all over the developing world. SIX MISTAKES OF MAN 1. The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others. 2, The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. 5. Insisling that a. thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it. 4. Refusing to set aside trivial differences. 5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind. 6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as We do. i it it 16 With The Federated Womeni’s Institutes of Canada The Federated Women‘s Institutes of Can ada gives full support to Young Canada‘s Bool Week, November 15 - 22 and urges its mem bers acrOSs the country to publicize it well, Mrs, E. R. James, F.W.I.C. Convener or Cultural Activities. suggests a visit to your lo. cal library or mobile unit and promotion at good reading material for children. Every year libraries across Canada set asirii a week in which special attention is turned [- children and their relationship with books The importance of that relationship cannot hi over-stressed. The most demanding task thx. sooiety as a whole has to fulfill is the realizi tion of the potential which lies in its childrer One of the best means of deVeloping that p. tential is through the use of books, Books. 1* use an old cliché, hold the key to the past, in present and the future. In the past, YOUNG CANADA‘S BOO}. WEEK has tended to be promoted almost e3; clusively by libraries and librarians This yes we want everybody who in any way enter into the relationship between a child and I? book ~ librarians, booksellers, publishers. par ents, teachers â€" to join in the celebration. This year is also INTERNATIONA BOOK YEAR and the double event will b marked by the mass distribution of red ant white YCBW/IBY buttons in addition to th regular publicity material. Please help make YCBW ’72 a truly rut tional and international celebration. Learn Home Nursing, Child Care, First Aid Is your Women’s Institute Branch looking for a project to sponsor that will be of benefit to your community, your members, and per- haps get you new members? Why not sponsor a St. John Ambulance Course (Preliminary and Senior) in Child Care (Baby Sitter’s Responsiâ€" bilities) and First Aid (Emergency and Stand ard). These courses are available throughout 0n» tario. For information contact; Mrs. J. Roy Colville, Provincial Nursing Officer, St. John Ambulance, 46 Wellesley Street East, Toronto 5, Ontario. HOME AND COUNTRY