NEWS ^ VIEWS 



Mrs. Leonard Killey, Warren county, speaks before the Home Bureau women's meeting 

 during the lAA annual convention in St. leuis. Mrs. Killey spoke on the Amsterdam con- 

 ference of the Associated Country Women of the World to which she was a delegate In 



September. 



J^ome dSureau IS Host 



To Women At St. Louis 



WE ARE not living in the atomic 

 age — we are merely on the 

 fringe of that era . . . only one 

 phase, the destructive, has been 

 demonstrated. 

 Such was the message brought to the 

 women's session of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association's annual meeting by 

 Dr. Carl C. Bracy, 

 president, McKen- 

 dree college, Leba- 

 non, 111. 



Dr. Bracy also 

 stressed the ideal of 

 the "world commu- 

 nity" which he said 

 will be brought 

 about only by men 

 and women with 

 great ideas and 

 ideals. 

 An overflow crowd 

 of 500 women jammed the Crystal 

 Room of the Jefferson Hotel to attend 

 the women's session with the Illinois 

 Home Bureau Federation as hostess. 



Miss Pearl Barnes, Federation presi- 

 dent, in welcoming the women to the 



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conference cited the friendship and un- 

 derstanding relationship which exists be- 

 tween the Federation and the lAA. 



Mrs. Leonard J. Killey, Monmouth, 

 Federation delegate to the meeting of 

 the Associated Country Women of the 

 World at Amsterdam, sketched the his- 



tory of that world organization from the 

 time that Mrs. Spencer Ewing, Bloom- 

 ington, was the Illinois delegate in 1930 

 until the present day. The Amsterdam 

 meeting, which was also attended by Mrs. 

 R. E. Milligan, Urbana, and Mrs. Ewing 

 as Illinois delegates, was aimed at 

 strengthening the organization in the 

 hopes of encouraging greater understand- 

 ing and peace among nations. 



Mrs. Milligan discussed the people of 

 Holland whom she lived with while at- 

 tending the Amsterdam conference and 

 of their warm feeling for the people of 

 America. Mrs. Raymond Sayre, Iowa, 

 was elected president of the Associated 

 Women at the Amsterdam conference. 



Some 300 women enjoyed a conducted 

 tour of St. Louis which Mrs. Stanly 

 Castle, immediate past president of the 

 Federation, arranged through the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce. 



St. Clair County Home Bureau pro- 

 vided special music for the women's ses- 

 sion. 



KANE GIVES SHOWER 



The Big Rock Unit of the Kane Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau, are giving a canned 

 food shower for a family in Big Rock. 

 The mother is in a sanitarium and the 

 father died of a heart attack since she 

 entered. The three children are carrying 

 on at home alone. — Mrs. Elmer Flanders. 



Mrs. Milligan 



While the men tend to business, ther wives get together during lAA annual meeting. Left 



to right: Mrs. Russell Clotfelter, Crawford county; Mrs. Carl Ackerman, Crawford; Mr*. 



C. J. Elliott, la Solle; Mrs. K. T. Smith, Greene; Mrs. B. C. Fulling, Crawford; Mrs. Charles 



•. Shumon, Moultrie; and Mr*, iarl C. Smhh, Pike. 



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