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"FOR HOME AND COUNTRY". The following extract is from a “10th given at an Institute meeting by Mrs. E. Turnbull on the topic 'home and Country“. "Under the guidance of Mrs. Hoodless, these women formed a group and called themselves "Women's Institutes". "The primary object of this group was the improvement of the rural home. It has been frequently said that the home must be raised to the highest possible level, Si! as a nation cannot rise higher than its homes. "Because of this idea, in 1902, the motto "For Home and Country" was choser‘ for the Women's Institute“. This paper was given by lire. Turnbull, shortly after our Branch was orgarized ir 19A7. The following extract is from a motto preâ€" pared by Mrs. \'\. Williams - ‘Heritage is from the past; our responsibility is to the future': "The historian J. t. larneo, speaking 01‘ history says 'Most of the science Which We value so in these days, has come to us in the train of all history, out of the past; and poetry, too, has some with it, and music, and the great laws of righteousness, without which we could. be little better thar beasts. "How vast an estate it is tnat we come into, as intellectual heirs of all the watchers, and searchers, and thinkers, and singers of the gen- erations that are dead. mm a heritage of stored wealth". "Many years ago Joseph hows wrote, 'A wise ration preserves its records". our country's records will be found in old books, letters, newspapers and the relics of bygone days. Let us look well before we are guilty of throwing these things away” "Without personal responsibility no re- form or better society is ever possible. "We who would see our nation grow in the future, must have eyes to behold the march of ioeas, the growth and flowering of prinâ€" ciples, the unfolhirg of laws, the network of reverer ces, hopes, dreams, the mystic ties of memory uniting past, present and future". These mottoes convey so well the high ioeals ano prirciples or the Women's Institutes of Canada. This Needsmuir History Book was under the guidance of the late ms. Chas. Kelly in its irfancy. She laid a good founda- tion, upon which subsequert members of Tweedsmuir Committees have built. Mrs. James Heoch continued the work we. belly hen started and handed on to her successors the wealth of information she had acquired. Mrs. M. Jamieson followed hrs. heocn as custodian, and in the Fall of 1959, sne attended Lhe Tweedsmuir Workshop held in Port Elgin, her assistant being hrs. Jas. howling, Wibfl the historical hesearch Branch Convener, HTS. Grart Clazie being automatically 3 member of the Tweeusmuir Committee. In OctoberJ l959 the Branch voted to enter this oook in the Needsâ€" muir Competition in 1951, so it has been prepdreu for the DistricL Annual Meeting of the Bruce Centre Jistrict, being: held in May, MOO.