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learned to respect one another, to be loyal to 

 one another, to set aside trivial annoyances, to 

 be considerate of each other's opinions, and to 

 give as well as take. Every year brings an 

 increase in our membership, proving that 

 through our activities our women are awakening 

 to the necessity of doing something for the im- 

 provement of rural conditions, and to the success 

 that can be attained through co-operative effort." 



By the time that the second annual convention 

 was held in December, 1919, most encouraging 

 progress had been made. In contrast with the 

 three clubs reported in affiliation with Head 

 Office at the meeting in December the year 

 before, the secretary could now show a member- 

 ship of about 2,000 grouped in seventy clubs. If 

 anyone doubted the strength of their organiza- 

 tion by this time, his doubts must have been dis- 

 pelled through the splendid showing made by 

 the woman delegates as they occupied seats on 

 the platform of Massey Hall behind the newly 

 elected farmer members of the Provincial 

 Government on the evening of December the 

 nineteenth. 



Many excellent discussions took place at this 

 convention, but the most vital to the movement 

 was that which turned on the young people of 

 the farms. The women were the first to see the 

 importance of work amongst the young people 



