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said. "We must seek to develolj a sense 0t responsibility that is 'no less than global: maybe one which strides even to the nu er reaches of the universe. Women must be mo- tivated to develop a sympathetic understand- ing of complex foreign affairs. What can home economics do? How essential is the skill or the subject matter of this or that to a woman as she actually lives her lite today? What should be the pattern of Home Economi- ics Extension Services?" The Director stressed the importance of ex- tension services helping people to become more self-reliant and self-directing, as in mak- ing their own designs in handicraft; of en- couraging the individual to try new experiâ€" cnccs and accept new responsibilities, to think lor herself; of breaking down prejudices about race. religion. politics, of leading people to want more learning. (Miss McKercher ex- pressed her disappointment at the small nuni» her of applicants for the Summer School in literature. music and art to he held at the ('ollege for rural women. At that date only 36 women had registered while the School could accommodate 100.) “With the increasing regard for science, the prestige of the expert has grown rapidly and there is a tendency to turn major problems over to him." Miss McKercher said. “We are apt to forget that the democratic process re- quires the participation of all in the decision of the group. We in extension are concerned with more than the conveyance of occupation- al techniques to homemakers We are also concerned with developing the understanding and reasoning ability of those we serve. “Success will not come from resisting change. An extension service that is vital is meeting current needs by solving current prob. 1mm. a service that is not only developing skills but that helps to create attitudes, to stir an interest and a thirst for more knowledge and to create good feelingâ€"in short, to he an effective force for better living.” The Institutes and Agriculture Mr. Everett Biggs, Ontario Deputy Minister of Agriculture, spoke of the importance of the work Women‘s lnstitutcs are doing in creating a better understanding of people the world Overâ€"sponsoring children in the Save the Chil- dren crusade, setting up an International scholarship to help with the Freedom from Hunger campaign. (Miss Pearl Isaacksz of Ceylon. who had just completed a course at Macdonald Institute with help from this F.W.I.O. scholarship fund was a guest at this session). Mr. Biggs also commended the home economists doing extension work in Ontario under the Department of Agriculture and said the Department would try to keep the budget ‘IO so that their salaries would hold them in [hlg work. The conference was particularly il'lRl-gaicd in Mr. Biggs’ vieWS on the future of the ii,” ily farm. He said “We have heard a we,” deal, lately, about corporate farming J, pm. only farming of the future; We feel that policy the Department Of Agriculture motes should be planned to retain the la air farm, changed in some ways, perhaps, it. _.‘1 changing conditions.” He felt that one i .v why the family farm is important is th, . wife and mother in the farm home is u it more concerned than the men in hw community is faring morally and Spll’l‘ Another value of the family farm is tt ., executive positions in all lines of vror well as in Parliament, we find men farm background who, because of the? . bringing are sympathetic to agriculture .; agriculture needs the support of all pee As one very practical means of maini the family farm Mr. Biggs referred to t r Farmer Establishment Act introduced i Ontario Legislature by the Hon. W. A. art, Minister of Agriculture. “Credit is . essary to agriculture as agricultural . chinery,” said Mr. Biggs “and we founi ll farmers were paying 12, 19 and even ' - cent interest on loans. The farmer i . does not carefully look into the timer «t interest he pays when he buys machint ii credit. Now, under the new Act a g farmer of 21 to 35 years of age can in .i loan up to 80 per cent of the appraised a. of his farm up to, but not exceeding $3 I And a bank guarantee for operation a: velopment expenses of an amount in ceeding $10,000 will be available throw ‘:l the period of the loan. The rate of inter H a loan is 5 per cent and on a bank gut .t the current bank rate. (For further der ‘t the Act as given by Mr. Biggs, plean .e Home and Country, Summer 1963. ‘t Loans for Junior Farmers." Ed.) The Deputy Minister, explaining the vi Council said: “There’s a feeling on thi "I of some people that only farmers can i ic their own business; but agriculture won vive long on pressures, only on undei l- ing. 80 the Minister and others conceiu ‘ie idea of setting up a Food Council repi l- ing bOth producers and consumers in ill with all sorts of consumer problems st HS packaging, stamps and others. It was I“ In- mended to the Ministerâ€"and from 3 >5 apart from the Women’s Institutesâ€"tit "L’- cause of the prestige of the Institute W." should appoint half of the representatii "n the Council. “The Women‘s Institute is one of the w ill-‘- HOME AND cou iI‘RY