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WITH many County Home Bureaus 

 carrying on organized membership 

 campaigns, substantial numbers of 

 new members are being enrolled in Illi- 

 nois, according to the latest progress 

 reports. 



July 1 membership stood at 23,706 as 

 compared with 21,231 a year ago. Net 

 gains since July 1, 1943, reported by 

 districts at the eighth Citizenship and 

 Home Bureau Organization Conference 

 at Jacksonville, according to Mrs. John 

 Clifton, Milford, membership chair- 

 man, are : northwest, 332 ; west central, 

 572; southwest, 138; northeast, 769; 

 east central, 399, and southeast, 130. 



Membership figures also have been 

 given a boost by the formation of new 

 county units. Bond County Home Bu- 

 reau organized with 307 members, and 

 Lawrence County Home Bureau or- 

 ganized with more than 308. 



An interesting sidelight on member- 

 ship reported recently by the McLean 

 County Home Bureau was that 260 

 were charter members with 126 having 

 continuous membership since the or- 

 ganization was formed 26 years ago. 



The Citizenship and Home Bureau 

 Organization Conference drew an at- 

 tendance of 150 women and was termed 

 successful by Home Bureau leaders. 



One of the interesting panels at the 

 conference, "Air Your Prejudices," 

 brought up these questions and points: 



1 . The war situation looks encouraging. 

 What are we doing about getting ready 

 for peace.' 



2. Who sits at the peace table? Who 

 decides who shall sit there? Will terms 

 be made that can endure and who will 

 ratify them? 



3. What is to be done about material 

 furnished liberated countries for re- 

 building. Do we rebuild and make the 

 countries gifts of such construction? 

 In other words where do obligations 

 of these countries begin? 



4. Are we going to disarm again ? Or is 

 there to be a real disarmament agree- 

 ment between all nations? Who will 

 say what becomes of the huge steel mills 

 in Germany? 



5. Education — can German youth 

 be educated in such a way to counter- 

 act the education they have been given ? 



6. Do we not all need much education 

 to take care of the racial problems 

 here in our own country as well as else- 

 where? Can we expect to accomplish 



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much in less than 30 years or a genera- 

 tion ? 



Carl A. Taeusch, head of the division 

 of program study and discussion, 

 USDA, charged Home Bureau members 

 with their responsibility as citizens in 

 planning and working for a just peace. 

 He urged that delegates on their re- 

 turn to their communities discuss these 

 problems. 



Taeusch pointed out that rural wom- 

 en through their organizations can 

 have a voice at the peace table, if they 

 are willing to do their part. He also 

 cited the individual's responsibility in 

 helping returning servicemen in ad- 

 justing themselves to civilian life and 

 finding jobs for them. Robert B. 

 Browne, professor of education and di- 

 rector of extension. University of Illi- 

 nois, discussed "Some Pros and Cons 

 of Federal Aid to Education," and 

 stated that many fear federal aid be- 

 cause they are afraid it will mean loss 

 of local control of school programs. 

 He added, however, that there are 

 some special educational problems 

 which cannot be met by state and local 

 units. 



Home Bureau members also heard 

 the plea of Mrs. Florence Fifer Bohrer, 

 president of the Illinois League of 

 Women Voters, for revision of the Illi- 

 nois state constitution. 



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ILLINOIS Home Bureau members 

 have contributed $1130.35 toward the 

 Red Cross Clubmobile fund of the As- 

 sociated Women of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, according to the 

 latest tabulated reports. This places Illi- 

 nois in fourth place among the state 

 Home Bureau organizations. 



Total funds collected for the Club- 

 mobile fund amount to $16,800. Out of 

 these funds, $3500 has been used to 

 purchase the Clubmobile which is now 

 in operation in Italy, leaving $13,300 

 to apply on the operating cost of 

 $21,000 for one year. This means that 

 $7700 for operational funds must be 

 collected between now and the end of 

 November. 



"Through the generous efforts which 



have been put forth on this project for 

 the past six months, the Associated 

 Women now has its own Clubmobile 

 actually in operation on the battle- 

 fronts of Italy," said Mrs. Charles W. 

 Sewell, administrative director of the 

 organization. "Now that we have 

 achieved this initial part of our pur- 

 pose, I am sure that every unit of our 

 nation-wide group will put forth still 

 greater effort to assure the complete 

 maintenance of the Clubmobile." 



Missouri sent in a check for $2,663.45 

 for the Clubmobile project, $2,264.34 

 of which was donated by one county. 

 An Army private from this Missouri 

 county in expressing his appreciation 

 for the Clubmobile wrote from Italy: 



"Today has sure been a red letter 

 day for us around here. I have read 

 about the Clubmobiles driven by the 

 Red Cross girls that serve doughnuts 

 and coffee to units like ours, but to- 

 day was the first time I had ever seen 

 one. We had a movie and all the dough- 

 nuts and coffee we could hold and more 

 too." 



Contributions for the Clubmobile 

 fund may be sent to Mrs. R. W. Stamey 

 of the Illinois Home Bureau Federation 

 whose address is rural route No. 1, 

 Urbana, III. 



Plan District Meetings 



on Nntrition Pioblems 



New developments in nutrition will 

 be discussed at eight district conferences 

 sponsored by the state nutrition com- 

 mittee in various sections of the state 

 during September, according to Mrs. 

 Kathryn Van Aken Burns, state chair- 

 man, U. of I. College of Agriculture. 



The conference series opens Sept. 19 

 in Bloomington and continues with 

 meetings in Galesburg, Sept. 20; Ster- 

 ling, Sept. 21 ; Geneva, Sept. 22, Effing- 

 ham, Sept. 25; Harrisburg, Sept. 26; 

 Belleville, Sept. 27, and Jacksonville, 

 Sept. 28. Eighty-seven Illinois counties 

 will send representatives of their nutri- 

 tion committees to the one-day session. 



There are 87 Illinois counties that 

 now have active nutrition committees 

 and organization work is under way in 

 several other sections. 



Mrs. Edith Huffman, home adviser 



in Will county since the establishment 

 of the Home Bureau there six years ago, 

 has resigned to accept a similar posi- 

 tion in Fulton county. 



Miss Christine Schroy, home adviser in 



Washington, N. C, for the past two years, 

 has taken over the duties of home adviser 

 in Winnebago county. She started work 

 Sept. 1. 



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