1930 - Annual Convention Report

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Let us use our influence to regulate this when necessary and to plant trees
and shelter belts. We are told that for every tree cut down there should
be one planted.
The commission referred to above have enacted regulations regarding
the erection of advertising signboards. I am sure our Institutes will be glad
to help in the enforcement of them and to use their efforts in helping to
make Alberta beautiful.
I think we should also give more attention to the study of world peace.
Jn some parts of the province this is being done but it is not general yet in
• our Institutes.
We have now completed our second year of self management and financ­ing.
We are still feeling our way and blazing new trails. You authorized
your Council last year to carry on as heretofore. Is this still your wish
after hearing this morning's reports? In the discussion to follow it is our
wish that you discuss the matter freely so that what is best for the organiza­tion
may be carried out.
In closing I wish to thank the Secretaries for their reports and to urge
them to be both regular and prompt in sending them.
Three Institutes mourn the loss of efficient and much loved officers :
Mrs. Carruthers. President of V u l c a n ; Mrs. Joe Jones, Secretary of West­ward
Ho, and Mrs. Welbourn, Secretary of Winterburn. Their Institutes
and relatives have our deepest sympathy in their bereavement.
When in Peace River. Mrs. and Mr. Roberts drove me to the highest
point on the bluff overlooking the town to see the grave of Mr. Davis, a
pioneer prospector. It was neatly kept and fenced with a white picket fence.
The inscription on the monument of British Columbia granite, said: " He
was every man's friend and never locked his cabin door." Times are pro­gressing
in this new country and many of the old customs are fast fading
from sight, but since reading the paragraph on the aims of the Women's
Institutes, in the front of the Handbook compiled by Mrs. Rogers, I am
filled with the thought that when the time comes for us to throw the torch
for other hands to carry high, what better epitaph can we hope to merit than
the sentence, " To be a good neighbor in a new country."
PUBLICITY SECRETARY'S REPORT
Mrs. J. F. Price, 2118 Hope Street, Calgary.
It is my pleasure to report that 1930 has been an outstanding one for the
p u b l i c i t y department of the Alberta Women's Institutes. You responded
nobly to my S. O. S. call for special and photographic stories of many W. I.
ventures, thus helping me to realize an ambition I have had, ever since I
took on this work. It is true that the most of these came too late for the
special convention number of the Alberta Farmer, but the date of that story
was put a week ahead and I had used up most of the allotted space in a
general history of the Institutes.
This may seem at first disappointing, ' but let me assure you it is better
as it is. Now I can give full space for a detailed story and you have supplied
me with " leaders" for fourteen issues.
This means, from a newspaper standpoint, we have l i t e r a l l y taken on a
new lease of life. For years I have outlined in detail and asked for these