Exchanging ideas at the Rural-Urban 

 Women's Conference in Washington, D. 

 C left to right are Mrs. Sherman Ives, 

 representing the National Grange; Mrs. 



Country, City Women 



Exchange Their Views 



COUNTR'^' and city women have 

 about the same basic problems. 

 That's the ccneral conckision reached 

 at the mid-May Rural-Urban Women's 

 Conference arranged by Mrs. Charles 

 Sewell. administrative director of tlie As- 

 sociated Women of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, in Washington. 



Representatives of virtu.dly 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, C;hamp.ri;n county. 

 president of the Associated Women, who 

 presided at the conference, describe,! the 

 results of the meeting as "a lone stride 

 forward toward more friendly anJ sym- 

 pathetic understanding between country 

 women and city women." 



From the city women's viewpoint, per- 

 haps the highlit;ln of all was the dinner 

 session .at which four Farm Bureau 

 women gave their citv cousins a picture 

 of modern coimtrv living and rural in- 

 stitutions. 



Mrs. W. C. .\lcLeod. a tali, handsome 

 grandmother from Madisonv ille. Ky,, 

 told how she had learneil to drive a 

 tractor in order to hcl" take the place of 

 her son who had enlisted in the armed 

 forces. She sa'd the hired man on the 

 J6()-.icre farm is soon to be inducted. 



Nfrs. Raymond Sayre of Iowa, mid 

 west regional director of the Associated 

 >X'omen. 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. 



Nfrs. M. L. Retder of Utah told of 

 the rehabilitation progr.un of the Church 



Elsie Mies, Urbana, o{ the Associated 

 Women of 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 

 .">r commodities to help out the 

 less lortunate. Basic aim of the pro- 

 gr.un, 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 

 satisf.ictor)' community life. 



Problems of health, education, and 

 citizenship occupied the bidk of the time 

 during the two-day meeting. 



No conclusions were drawjfi and no 

 resolutions passed, hut 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 

 corrynunities, but strong insistence on a 

 large measure of local control of policies. 



Champaign County Woman 

 New Publicity Chairman 



Mrs. Ruth G. Gordon, a iiici.ibcr ot 

 the Champaign (bounty Home Bureau 

 for the last 1 ^ years, has been named 

 publicity chairman for the Illinois Home 

 Bureau Federation. 



Mrs. Gordon has served as a unit 

 chairman, i-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. Ik)th were attending the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois when they enlisted, 

 and were p.iying their college expenses 

 from money earned in their 4 H 

 projects. 



Home Bureau Women Keep 



USO Cookie 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 dc-cided 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": lij, cups 

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

 cup of so^r milk, 1 cup of raisins, 2 

 cups of oifmeal, 21, cups of flour, 1 

 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1 teas]X)on of 

 soda. It teaspoon of salt. Mix in order 

 given and drop by tcaspoonfuls on 

 lightly greased baking sheet and bake 12 

 to 15 minutes at lOO degrees. 



Home^Bureau Membership 



Shows Consistent Gains 



Recent months ha\e 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. 2,S ; Wabash, 27; 

 Stark, 22, and Lake, 21. 



Home Bureau membership in Illinois 

 on Jan. 1, 19ii showed 20,885 active 

 cooperators and 1114 associate coopera- 

 tors. 



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drive had 

 aging figure 

 Faithful an 

 bond pure 

 Rural S'out 

 goal of SI I 

 purchase of 

 first project 



Macon C 



May meet in 

 dress given 

 who had ret 

 the fighting 

 transported 

 ambulance p 

 Rural Youtl 



Tazewell ' 



ranked seco 

 year in the 

 slogan to a 

 It is "Try t( 

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 in the servie 

 bombers pre 

 planned for 

 to be held 

 Pckin. 



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Miir.yan count 

 nvnth to -10 

 worl.l .IS well 

 .croup htlil it 

 'f.incc in Apr: 

 cnt from Brow 

 S.illc, NfcDonii 



Kenneth ^'i 



county, li.ui tl! 

 Hean of f.irni 

 dcr. at tilt ci; 

 The S.inqin-t 

 Youthfrs and 

 crs. 



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 ation as speal 

 quet May 0. 

 vinturc .ind Ri 



Brown coui 



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 ine "Three 

 'iicnihers." sa 

 Hrown county 

 f -r the niohil 

 Quincy in M.t 



The Rural " 



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Kane county 



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 ^■■tple sends I 



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L A. A. RECORD 



JUNE, 1944 



