COUNCIL MEETING

Northern Advocate, 10 November 1934, Page 4

COUNCIL MEETING

Women’s Institute Forum

LENGTHY AGENDA A PLEA FOR PEACE. - : INSPIRING ARTICLE. The agenda for our council meeting should by this time have reached all Institutes. The list of remits is a long one, and as our time is limited, it is hoped that delegates will have given the sub-jects-serious thought beforehand, and will speak briefly and to the point. Discussion brings out new points of view and, of course, the final aim of our meeting is the well-being of our ■movement and our country. -We, are .holding a “bring and buy” stall to cover the expenses of the meeting. . Nothing will be too small to be acceptable and, needless to say, nothing will be too big. We wish to begin promptly at 11 a.m., so competition articles and donations should be‘in before then, if at all possible. With Armistice Day drawing near again, the thoughts of all thinking women turn to the cause of “Peace” in this storm-tOSsed world'. Our Dominion president, Mrs Paterson, has written a very thoughtful article for our column. All members Should Study it and perhaps take it to their next Institute meeting for cussion. : Mrs Paterson, along with women in :ail lands, is working towards the, ideal ;of Peace, and she wishes it to be cle'ar--ly understood that the sentiments expressed are personal and not necessarily that of the W.I. movement. They shall hot grOw old, as we that are left grow old, Age shall not worry them, nor the years condemn, At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them. They mingle not with their laughing • comrades again, They sit no more at familiar tables at home, They have no lot in Our labour of the daytime, They sleep beyond England’s foam, Btit where our desires are, and our hopes profound, Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from the sight, To the innermost heart of their own land they are known, As the stars are known to the night. As the stars that will be bright when we are dust, Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain, As the stars that will be starry in the time of our darkness, To the end, to the end, we remain. —An extract from “For the Fallen,” by Lawrence Binyon.