The Book of Ideas

              surrounding community life, and linking women's responsibilities as homemakers and citizens. Today, interests, friendships and neighborly helpfulness continue and extend worldwide. Ontario Women's Institutes said in 1953, "Our women find that women from other countries have their own crafts. and music, and their own ideals, all of which make valuable contribution to Institute progranis and that taking part in a program or any community activity is one of the surest ways of making a newcomer feel at home. Let us encourage the continuance of their great cultural traditions. From the culture and folkways of new arrivals, Canada could adopt those worthwhile, and in so doing enrich our own way of life." "Education, if it is to be a vital force of our democracy, must be a lifelong and continuing process. We members of W.1. must continue our education as long as we live and strive to bring it to others." "Life is one long process of learning. It covers every field of human interest, from the simple things that are vital to human living, up to the more cultural and refining activities that make life whole and complete." From the Federated News, January 1954. The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but to support one's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Knowledge without action is as futile as action without knowledge. The work of the world is done by few; God asks that a part be done by you. Be careful in the spending of public money. Do not immediately vote "Yes" to every motion. Nothing is easier than the spending of public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody and the temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. Emily Murphy (our own Janey Canuck) ''The great lesson of modem science is that nothing really happens. There is no such thing as chance, for every act in your life has a causative force." Nellie McClung said, "Education, they believed, could wait, but in all human history nothing waits. The stream runs fast. We can not help the past, but we must not repeat its mistakes." "No one wants bare facts; no one is satisfied with bare facts; we want to light candles of imagination in the minds of our people." "No one must put pen to paper unless he or she has something to say that would amuse, entertain, instruct, inform, comfort, or guide a reader." "We cannot draw from empty wells, nor warm ourselves at painted fires." Mrs. E. E. Morton-"Look up, not down, reach out not down. Press on to your goals for the betterment of Home and Country." "Our W.1. requires the everlasting teamwork of every blooming soul." Nancy Adams said, ''There is not enough darkness in all the world to blowout the light of one small candle." Alice Berry said, "Throw open your window-let the world come in." Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "What a man does for himself dies with him; what he does for his community lives on." The Governor of Ceylon at the A.C.W.W. Conference said, "I believe firmly that women are the chief custodians of human happiness. Look clearly to the future, for you are the mothers of the next generation. Build boldly on love and labor, despair never." Guerda Van Beekhoff said, ''No man is an island to himself. We all belong to each other, sharing experiences and sharing help when necessary." Mrs. John Bell, General Secretary of A.C.W.W. said, "Fnendship can overcome the barriers of time and space, and small neighborly acts of 69