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EDITORIAL ET'S NOT LO_SE OUR HUMAN APPEAL: [n the year's reports from \V'omen‘s Institutes over the provtnce. there were repeated comments such as: "Our organization is getting my big!" "The busmess 15. becoming so complicated!" "So much of the mon‘cv “2 misc goes out of the community!" "It IS hard to get our women interested in world proim’ls when then.- is so much to be done at home." But when the world project had the human appeal of (ill: Save the Children crusade, 349 of the 1465 Institutes in the province each tool; on [he sponmring of a Chili. 313d When the year was up. most of them continued their support. because their hearts were In It. It may not be so easy to see the significance of the Freedom from Hunger campaign, provid- ing scholarships to teach people in the starvin countries in product- fund and preserve it, how to feed children so that most of them will not ie in their second year. Yet aucll tduration could help more children than we could possibly reach individually. ' We know, too, that hunger leads to war, but when the threat of war cases a little we forget. Some of us remember hearin Mrs. Raymond Sayre say: "\V'hcn the second world war “as declared, I was busy and I difn't pay much attention. I didn't know that it would take my son from his farm home to light in the South Pacific and my sunâ€"in-law to he killed at (inndulcamtl. Now I am resolved to do whatever I can to prevent another war." . , . \Vouldn't m.- lusit- some of our pride in our organization, some of our faith in it if it evaded this responsibility? lm't the human appeal 0‘ work for peace as close to us as our families? In the community. too, it is the human need that is primarily the ll'hlilulc's mmurn. Not many branches provide street lights or school pianos any- more. They t'nlhtlll with tl'lu touu council or the school board and the cost is borne by all the taxpayers as it should be. \V'hcrc voluntary lunds are needed. as for a library or a recreation centre. Inuitqu .m- lm'nmint: wry adept at working with other groups instead of trying to do everything Ihrnhelves. lint there are personal needs that only a group like the \Vumcn's lnstilutt: can meet. So we lind them tak- ing a motherly interest in a boy's training school, paying lor medical lfll'L' for someone who can‘t afford it, providing an outfit of clothes for a high sthnul girl in“ releaqu from a mini- tarium, getting glasses or a hearing aid for a pensioner with no other inn-me. arranging lillll: social affairs as a step in the rehabilitation of patients lrom a mental hospital. [lemmi- of its human appeal women do not lind such work a burden. Some eople feel that the \Vomen'a Institute has outgmun the main putpmu [or “limit it was foun ed -â€" good homemaking. They remind us that food protcmng and nit-tlmnital appli- ances have taken over much of the work of our hands. Hut not of our headx or out lit-arts. W’ho hasn't something yet to learn about how to make the best use of radio and telc-t'i‘ion.J How to withstand commercial pressures in managing our money? \Vhat about human relations in (In: family? What about ohjecrionnhle social (mlnnn among teenagers! Sn “t' have institutes limit"; a survey of radio and television programs; bringing in their school tulltl'll‘fs‘llll' panels on Lllllcl guidance, and lawyers to speak on wills at a lamin night when they cniurlfllll lllL‘Ir hut-hands. Secretaries reported that prolonged business sessions. mint-times crowd the program right out of a meeting. There's little human appeal in a business session. and Ill oflnurupamt their organization to last, they will have to find someway of lice-ping hustncw wolnn tl'lt: llllN.‘ allotted to it. Then, how good is the program? I believe that right now, more than good presidents or good secretaries, we need program ulmmluccv who not only ltnutv what I\ mould and pro- gresslve in Institute work, but who have the imagination and originality and human undcntarul- ing to produce programs so good that no woman Will mm an Institute Int-cling ii sht- (an help it: a committee who will work night after night if net-canary to plan a year of monthly awnings that are not only educational bu! stimulating and rtirt'shlng. And when we're looking for something to send memlwrs hunu- rclrus‘lwd and h; pi, let's try singing. One of the special events at_the last A.(..W:W. conference you a thorns o Izu women from the CDuntry Women's Associations oi Australia. Liv-Jag 'm Widely \Utlicrul lefh‘ til the country, each woman learned the songs in her own 3|?HIL’Iillllll'l‘. then at lllcallnlt'rt'ntL-I (lit- leader had only to put them through rehearsals in one big Ll'lulr. (.ould \tlmt'llllnfl llkL‘ ll"! he tried in Ontario? ‘ Unquestionably, if Women's institutes arc- to ‘mL‘ct the challenge of the lll'l'lcsltl'lt')‘. nlusl work for human welfare the world over; but It I'| inst as (fun; that unless :1_w¢nman finds in lit-r own local Institute something to enjoy, something to think about, stlnlc wrote to give. a1 {gent-ml lift she is likely to leave it for something L'I‘st'. In the Int-ginning tho was pn pro) cm â€"A Insiitute Day was a red letter day; institute work was fresh and intriguing. Tut fly the rcnuwnl of this appeal â€" or maintaining it # may be the most urgent thing In lllc' Institute movement. WW 1963