The Book of Ideas

              veloped for each other a rare devotion that has enriched the life of every Member. "Second, if a Club is to endure, its objective must be to meet the real needs of people where they are. I have seen highly successful Clubs in South America, where women are learning to raise rabbits to meet a basic need-protein for their children. In other Clubs in the same part of the world, women are learning to make furniture, stoves of cement, beds and chairs of native grass. I think nowhere in my travels have I seen women more enthusiastic than these women, about what they were doing for themselves through Club work. Fundamental needs are so varied, companionship, legal rights, culture, knowledge and improved homemaking. "Third, wherever we are, whatever be our local or our immediate goal, we must keep our horizon wide. Our spirit of friendship must extend across the world. We must remember that our own basic needs can never be fully met until people throughout the world live in human dignity. One thing to remember is that a smD.eis the same the world over. It has saved many a friendship, kept many a Club going and spurred on many a weary soul. As we peruse all the valuable 'Ideas' found in this book, I hope we remember that each will be even better presented with a smile." From Mrs. Barbara Cullen, A.C.W.W. Deputy President 1962-68 A.C.W.W. Vice-President 1959-62 "Looking at the world through AC.W.W. glasses, what kind of glasses do we need? Not dark glasses which cloud out vision, obscuring the truth and limiting our perception. Not rose-colored spectacles which give the illusion that all is perfect. No, we need the very latest in eye wear, trifocal glasses for our work in AC.W.W. must be at three distances. "Close by is our own district organizations where we learn to live with our neighbors and become aware of community problems and our part in helping to solve them. In the middle distance, we have our National Organization where our village, town or district is part of a greater whole. Here we learn to lift our eyes toa National level and through new and wider contacts find that there is much to be done beyond our home environment. This is where we first learn to care about people whom we never meet but to whom we are closely bound in ties of unity, of interest and friendship. "Once this National interest was all that we thought we needed, but our eyes are lifted to include the far distances of other lands. Here we see women in many stages of development, many bearing intolerable burdens of toil and ignorance and who so desperately need the assistance, friendship and understanding which comes through AC.W.W. "Often a real sacrifice is necessary to give help where it is needed, but true giving must always. involve a sacrifice, a truth I saw exemplified in a refugee village in India, where those who did not know what it was to have enough to eat, gave daily a few handfuls of rice to be sold to

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"Through AC.W.W. the world can be drawn closer together by sharing, by knowledge and experience, by breaking down barriers of intolerance and ignorance and by showing that people are more important than politics." From Mrs. Keith Rand, A.C.W.W. Area Vice-President 1962-68 "The strength of an organization is in its Membership. This has been said many times of different groups. A.C.W.W. is no exception. Its 25