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As A great source of strength and 

 stability for America, the farm 

 home also can be a source of 

 strength in the world quest for 

 peace. This was the hope ex- 

 pressed by leading farm women attend- 

 ing the 13th annual convention of the 

 Associated Women of the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



The meeting was held in connection 

 with the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration convention in Chicago in Decem- 

 ber. It attracted several hundred women 

 representing 1,278,000 farm women in 

 every corner of the nation. 



Concerned with the uneasy interna- 

 tional situation, one of the resolutions 

 approved by the Associated Women 

 heads: "Our concern for the future lies 

 also in the building of a world in which 

 families can live together in peace." 



The convention urged farm women to 

 take an active part in their local elections. 

 They also were asked to keep well- 

 informed on all political issues to enable 

 them to distinguish facts from fiction. 



Also recommended was further action 

 for the establishment of health and hos- 

 pital facilities in rural areas easily avail- 

 able to farm people. 



On education, the Associated Women 

 said: "There can be no assurance of 

 peace unless all people are well-informed 

 and capable of thinking for themselves." 



On the farm home a resolution reads: 

 "It will take many things to make farm 

 homes comforta^ble." The resolution 

 went on to point out the need for kitchen 

 modernization, and the need for elec- 

 tricity and running water. 



Presiding over the Associated Wom- 

 en's convention was Mrs. Roy Weagly 

 of Maryland who said: "There is neither 

 a nation nor a generation so secure that 

 it cannot experience calamity as the re- 

 sult of its own ignoring of the funda- 

 mental laws of truth and justice." 



Speaking for the AFBF in greeting to 

 the Associated Women, AFBF Secretary 

 Wilfred Shaw said: "You render a 

 great service to the nation by sending 

 fine young farm people to the cities. You 



The resolutions committee for the 13th annual convention of the Asiociated Women of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation ore shown together during the meeting at the Hotel 

 Sherman in Chicago. Left to right: Mrs. Haven Smith, Neb., Midwest; Mrs. Charles 

 DeShozo, Va., South; Mrs. Alfred Lunn, Mass., Northeast; Mrs. Raymond Sayre, la., chair- 

 man; oimI Mrs. C. S. Stroh, Cole., Wast. 



Chosen on the basis of outstanding 4-H 

 achievement to represent 43,000 Illinois 

 club members at the National 4-H Club 

 Camp in Washington, D. C, next June are: 

 Top left, Robert G. Willrett, DeKolb county; 

 top right, Athylin Harris, Pulaski county; 

 bottom left, Meta Keller, La Salle county; 

 and bottom right, Gilbert Blankenship, Ken- 

 dall county. 



women carry the chief responsibility for 

 the social life and welfare of rural areas. 

 Farm women have a broad program of 

 work that men can never do." 



The impressive Sunday evening candle- 

 light ser\'ice which has become a custom 

 with Associated Women was conducted 

 under the direction of the Rev. Clifford 

 Newham of the Covenant Methodist 

 Church, Evanston, 111. Wilson Mount 

 of Tennessee led the singing and sang a 

 Christmas solo. 



Also presenting a Christmas program 

 of choral music was the International 

 Harvester Company men's chorus of Chi- 

 cago. 



Among the speakers appearing on the 

 Associated Women program were Glenn 

 Bunting of the Central Farmers' Fertilizer 

 Company, formerly research director for 

 the Illinois Farm Supply Company. 

 Bunting spoke on the importance of nu- 

 trition in human health and how it can 

 be balanced with proper fertilizers ap- 

 plied to our farms. 



Dr. Dorothy Chess spoke on the med- 

 ical profession as a career for women. 

 She traced the beginnings of women in 



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