With The Home Bureau 



By NELL FLATT GOODMAN 



( ('vT^^ECAUSE it gives me the 

 ^-/J most practical information 

 _Jj about my daily work, I be- 

 long to Home Burcui" said Mrs. Paul 

 Krows of Douglas county. "In this 

 organization, we discuss things 1 can 

 convert and use every day." 



"We study some of the same mate 

 rial in other groups to which I belong, 

 but in Home Bureau, I find the infor 

 mation more detailed and more usable." 

 The capable, petite, young chairman 

 of the Atwood unit continued with her 

 direction of the luncheon being served 

 at the annual meeting of the Douglas- 

 Piatt organization. Unperturbed by the 

 confusion usually resulting at a meal 

 for something over l'>0, she Jioted the 

 needs of the tables as she talked. 



Mrs. Krows has been a member of 

 the county organization since its in- 

 auguration. As leader of her local unit, 

 she was awarded a prize during the day 

 for having completed the year in an 

 efficient manner. 



"I have found Home Bureau to be 

 an organization for all homemakers," 

 Mrs. Krows emphasized. "Whether 

 we live on a farm or in a small town or 

 elsewhere, we always may learn about 

 homemaking. With my t^o children, 

 a boy 8. and a girl 4, and my husband 

 a teacher of vocational agriculture in 

 the High School I have reason to want 

 to know more about efficiency in home- 

 making." 



"Perhaps the lesson on cake baking 

 helped me as much as anything fn the 

 housekeeping line ' she confessed. "Be- 

 fore that lesson. I never would take the 

 time to make a white cake. I always 

 thought I was too busy. From that 

 lesson, however. I have a good recipe, 

 instruction on how to do it. and now. 

 I can make a good white cake.* 



"And how often I have used the les- 

 sons on entertaining for my family! 

 Did you know our group won a fifteen 

 dollar prize for a table, sef for a chil- 

 dren's party? We showed the proper 

 food to serve, appropriate decorations, 

 and had an attendant to explain it to 

 all visitors." 



It was time for the helpers to eat and 

 the conversation had to be continued 

 after things w,ere all tidied up in the 

 kitchen. The luncheon was so delicious 

 we were enthusiastic in our praise. 



"You noticed, didn't you." she an 

 swered. "we used the lesson on bal- 

 anced meals and menu planning.-' An- 

 other example that Home Bureau gives 

 us something wc can use. 



"The sewinc machine clinic was 



worth the price of a good overhauling 

 for my machine" she said in comment- 

 ing on other lines than food. "1 make 

 many of the children's clothes. My 

 trouble was th.it when the sewing les- 

 sons were given, I didn't pay as much. 

 attention as I would since I have a 

 little girl of my own! 



"Membeis of my grouji never do 

 stop talking about those lessons on 

 laundering. Women who always have 

 washed say they learned so much." 



Mrs. Krows graduated from the 

 Champaign High School and very soon 

 had a position in an otTice. Perhaps 

 because of her otfice training she trys 

 to incorporate office efficiency in her 

 home work. 



"Many girls fresh from school or ot- 

 fice find the need for homemaking 

 helps" she said. "I would recommend, 

 from my own experience the organiza- 

 tion of Home Bureau to them." 



Mrs. Krows takes an active part in 

 school and community affairs. She is a 

 member of the program planning com- 

 mittee of Douglas county, while her 

 husband is a member of the same com- 

 mittee for Piatt county. They believe, 

 talk, and practice co-operation. 



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Security Is Goal of 



Farm Bureau Women 



"World P^ace" was the keynote of the 

 second annual convention of the Asso- 

 ciated Women of the American F'arm 

 Bureau in Pasadena. California. Decem- 

 ber 7 and 8. To accomplish world peace, 

 the result of domestic peace, emphasis 

 was placed on citizenship, service, and 

 health. 



Stressing citizenship. Miss Charl Or- 

 mond Williams, presiilent. National Fed- 

 eration of Business and Professional 

 Women tokl the convention that we arc 

 rapidly coming to realize that citizenship 

 is no empty possession but, that it is an 

 instrument with which we can prote<.t our 

 homes, ccimmunities and nation. Sound 

 minds in sound bodies is the need of 

 democracy, she continued, and it is the 

 duty of farm women to use their citizen- 

 ship to advance this side of rural living. 



Mrs. Elsie Mies, delegate from Illinois, 

 described the good citizenship school held 

 in Springfield. August. 1936. 



MRS. PAUL KROWS 

 "Now I can' make a good white cake." 



In an eloqtient plea for the conserva- 

 tion of educational resources. Dr. Rut us 

 von KleinSmid, president of the Univer- 

 sity of Southern California and former 

 DeKalb county, 111., farm boy, urged 

 adults to give youth an opportimity to 

 do the things for which they show an 

 aptitude. "Let even our secondary schools 

 become trade schools, " he said. 



"Can't we cultivate a psychology that 

 it is honest to earn ones livine.''" Dr. 

 von KleinSmid asked. "Practically every 

 organized intlustry is now considered a 

 profession. Let us think of industry as 

 a life expression rather than a drudgery 

 experience." 



Women should have a part in making 

 their homes secure just as they did in the 

 past, Miss Julia O. Newton, chief, of 

 the 1-amily ( redit Section of the Farm 

 Oedit Administration, pointed out. l-arm 

 women have the right to know the 

 A.B.C.s of credit because, as is too often 

 the case, the farmer's widow knows more 

 about his business than did his wife. 



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