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A POWERFUL plea for world 

 peace keynoted the annual meet- 

 ing ot the Illinois Home Bu- 

 reau Federation held last month 

 during Farm and Home Week 

 at the College of Agriculture in Cham- 

 paign. 



The message was delivered by Mrs. 

 Raymond Sayre, a trim Iowa farm 

 woman and mother of four children, 

 who is president of the Associated 

 Country Women of the World. 



"Farmers and farm women must be 

 prepared to make sacrifices to insure 

 the peace for our children," Mrs. Sayre 

 said. "This means sending fertilizer 

 and farm machinery to Europe. It 

 means lowering taritf walls where it 

 hurts — on farm commodities. 



"To insure peace we must increase 

 our knowledge of the world beyond 

 our borders," she said. "We must 

 learn that we can not longer ignore the 

 effect on peace of people in want and 

 hunger." 



She urged women to take a part in 

 politics. "In politics lies the peace of 

 the world," she said. She also felt 

 we are too impatient with the United 

 Nations. "It is still functioning," she 

 reminded her audience, "and Russia is 

 still a part of it." 



During the business session Miss 

 Myra Robinson, Kansas, Edgar county, 

 was elected president of the Federation. 

 She succeeds Miss Pearl Barnes, Pre- 

 emption, Mercer county. 



Miss Robinson was graduated from 

 the University of Illinois in chemistry 

 and worked for various home appliance 

 manufacturers in Ohio before going to 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., as 

 assistant professor of home economics. 

 For the past 15 years she has lived 

 on the 3iO-acre family homestead op- 

 erated by a brother. She has been in 

 Home Bureau work for about 10 years 

 and has served as a county Home Bu- 

 reau chairman and treasurer for the 

 state organization. 



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During the business meeting mem- 

 bers heard reports from all standing 

 committees. Mrs. Dale Huffman from 

 Chandlersville, Mason county, state or- 

 ganization director, reported that mem- 

 bership now stands at -il,759, highest 

 in the organization's history. 



She said that six counties have al- 

 ready exceeded this year's tjuota of a 

 20 per cent increase in membership. 

 They are: Effingham, Perry, Wayne, 

 Jo Daviess, Schuyler, and Brown. 



The resolutions passed by the Home 

 Bureau expressed appreciation for the 

 favorable attitude that exists between 

 that group and the Extension Service, 

 and thanked the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association for its counsel and coopera- 

 tion. 



The rural women pledged their sup- 

 port to the larger organizations of 

 which they are a part, the Associated 

 Women of the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation, the National Home Demon- 



More colorful than tha flower It depicts, 

 this sunflower pattern has petals of gay 

 cotton prints. Each flower Is set In a 

 white square bordered by strips of dark 

 cotton. Newcomers to patchwork or old 

 hands at the craft will like this fine ex- 

 ample of American needlework. For free 

 Instructions send a self-addressed stamped 

 envelope to Women's Editor, Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association Record, 43 East Ohio 

 Street, Chicago 11, III. 



stration Council, and the Associated 

 Country Women of the World. 



Deploring the spread of juvenile de- 

 lincjuency in rural areas and the wide 



Officers and directors of the Illinois Home Bureau Federation are shown after their elec- 

 tion during Farm and Home Week. Left to right: Mrs. Harold Joy, Morgan, director, 

 west central district; Mrs. Cecil Smittkamp, Edgar, secretary; Mrs. A. W. Deckey, DeWItt, 

 east central; Miss Myra Robinson, Edgar County, president; Mrs. Ada McWilliam, Stark, 

 north west; Mrs. Earl Kenniston, Will, treasurer; and Mrs. George Esgar, Grundy, north east. 



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