Exchanging idea* at the Rural-Urban 

 Women's Conference in Washington, D. 

 C, left to right are Mrs. Sherman Ives, 

 representing the National Grange: Mrs. 



Conntry, City Women 



Exchange Their Views 



COUNTRY and city women have 

 about the same basic problems. 

 That's the general conclusion reached 

 at the mid-May Rural-Urban Women's 

 Conference arranged by Mrs. Charles 

 Sewell, administrative director of the As- 

 sociated Women of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, in Washington. 



Representatives of virtually all of the 

 leading women's organizations attended 

 the conference. Few formal speeches 

 were made, the bulk of the program 

 being devoted to panel discussions and 

 informal, unrehearsed statements by any- 

 one who had anything on her mind. 



Mrs. Elsie Mies, Champaign county, 

 president of the Associated Women, who 

 presided at the conference, described the 

 results of the meeting as "a long stride 

 forward toward more friendly and sym- 

 pathetic understanding between country 

 women and city women." 



From the city women's viewpoint, per- 

 haps the highlight of all was the dinner 

 session at which four Farm Bureau 

 women gave their city cousins a picture 

 of modern country living and rural in- 

 stitutions. 



Mrs. W. C. McLeod, a tall, handsome 

 grandmother from Madisonville, Ky., 

 told how she had learned to drive a 

 tractor in order to help take the place of 

 her son who had enlisted in the armed 

 forces. She said the hired man on the 

 260-acre farm is soon to be inducted. 



Mrs. Raymond Sayre of Iowa, mid- 

 west regional director of the Associated 

 Women, described a country kitchen and 

 what goes on there. The talk was largely 

 of overshoes and mud, chilled pigs be- 

 hind the stove, cream separators and 

 baby chicks. 



Mrs. M. L. Reeder of Utah told of 

 the rehabilitation program of the Church 



Elsie Mies, Urbana, oi the Associated 

 Women oi the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation, and Mrs. Oswald B. Lord, 

 New York, representing the lunior League. 



of the Latter Day Saints, with its store- 

 house of more than 300,000 bushels of 

 wheat contributed by members, all of 

 whom contribute something in the way 

 3r commodities to help out the 

 less tonunate. Basic aim of the pro- 

 gram, she said, "is to help people help 

 themselves." 



Mrs. Paul Palmer of Missouri told of 

 the country church in her own com- 

 munity in which six generations of her 

 own family have worshipped, and of the 

 profound influence that the institution 

 has had in shaping and maintaining a 

 satisfactory community life. 



Problems of health, education, and 

 citizenship occupied the bulk of the time 

 during the two-day meeting. 



No conclusions were drawn and no 

 resolutions passed, but the panel on 

 "America's schools" revealed general 

 agreement that the quality of education 

 in any community usually reflects the 

 economic condition of the citizens. 

 There was tacit acceptance of the neces- 

 sity for state and federal aid for poorer 

 convnunities, but strong insistence on a 

 large measure of local control of f)olicies. 



Champaign County Woman 

 New Publicity Chairman 



Mrs. Ruth G. Gordon, a member of 

 the Champaign County Home Bureau 

 for the last 15 years, has been named 

 publicity chairman for the Illinois Home 

 Bureau Federation. 



Mrs. Gordon has served as a unit 

 chairman, 4-H club chairman, and from 

 1925 to 1937 served as president of the 

 Champaign County Home Bureau. Her 

 husband, Glenn Gordon, has been secre- 

 tary of the Champaign County Farm 

 Bureau for a number of years. 



Mrs. Gordon has two sons in the serv- 

 ice, Lt. (j.g.) Glenn, Jr., a Navy pilot 

 who has been on coastal patrol duty and 

 who will soon be piloting a bomber, and 

 Donald, a sergeant who is training to be- 

 come a bombardier in the Army Air 

 Corps. Both were attending the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois when they enlisted, 

 and were paying their college expenses 

 from money earned in their 4-H 

 projects. 



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Home Bureau Women Keep 



USO Coolcie Jar Filled 



Finding that the cookie jar at the " 

 Urbana USO center is nearly always 

 empty on Mondays, the Mayview unit 

 of the Champaign County Home Bureau 

 has decided to supply six dozen cookies 

 on the first and third Mondays of each 

 month. 



Three women are selected to bake 

 six dozen cookies for each of the two 

 Mondays of the month, and as she de- 

 livers her cookies she files her recipe 

 with the unit chairman so that members 

 looking for new recipes will have a list 

 from which to make a selection. 



Here's one listed as the "Boys' Fa- 

 vorite Oatmeal Cookie Recipe" ; II/2 cups 

 of sugar, 1 cup of shortening, 3 eggs, 1 

 cup of sour milk, 1 cup of raisins, 2 

 cups of oatmeal, 21^ cups of flour, 1 

 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon of 

 soda, y^ teaspoon of salt. Mix in order 

 given and drop by teaspoonfuls on 

 lightly greased baking sheet and bake 12 

 to 15 minutes at 400 degrees. 



Home Bureau Membership 



Shows Consistent Gains 



Recent months have seen gains in 

 Home Bureau membership in a number 

 of counties of the state. 



High county gains for a period of 

 one month reported recently include: 

 Cook, 35; Moultrie, 28; Wabash, 27; 

 Stark, 22, and Lake, 21. 



Home Bureau membership in Illinois 

 on Jan. 1, 1944 showed 20,885 active 

 cooperators and 1114 associate coopera- 



tors. 



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JUNE. 1944 



