The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-05

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special problem.
If this be not enough, she Their
attends an evening meeting at q
remote scoolhouse OR community
center and should the program
prove not SO attra ctive, she must
be the life of the party and lead
the group in recreational events.
These home agents have an al.
most sacrificial zeal for their jobs
This is revealed in the reports
which the club women make al
their district meetings. Not only dc
the reports tell of food produced
and saved, of homes rearrangec
and beautified, of clothes made On
remodeled, and good things to ear
prepared and sold at the curt
market; but, they likewise tell OIL
things done for the community ano
the county.
Home demonstration clubs have
about taken over the Red Cross
work out in the country districts;
War Bond drives are centered
about their local clubs; fats, metal
and paper are saved and delivered
largely through the influence of the
home demonstration club; ana
many of the boys in nearby Army
hospitals have beene cherred
through the work of the home dem.
onstration club women.
The farm agent and his associ-
ates deal with the hard, cold facts
of production and marketing; the
home agent and her club women
deal with the human aspects Of
rural life, and, because these wom-
en- are progressive, they often
GAUGE their hardheaded husbands
to continue to make progress over
and above what they had originally
intended. I do not hesitate to say
that much of North Carolina farm
ing progress in recent years has
been due to the work of the home
demonstration club women.
Ruth Current inherited from DR..
Jane S. McKimmon a great or.
ganization imbued with an ideal
for service. That organization has
kept its ideals and has added much
technical knowledge. Right now
the club women have an overall
blanket or unified plan of work for
the entire State.
The plan for this year was made,
Tor instance, when Is agents repre-
senting the various sections of
North Carolina were called to Miss
Currents office to meet with the
trained specialists and design a
plan for 1914.
Before coming to the College,
however, the agents talked over
the whole matter with their local
club women, their neighborhood
leaders, and with all who might
be interested. Then when the plan
was finally agreed upon in the
State office, it was carried back
to the county and adopted there.
AS aresult of this careful. under.
standing, one agent may be trans
ferred to another county and still
be able to pick up the details oil
the organization in that new county
and 60 right to work. AS matter
of fact, the trained leaders in the
several counties are helping the
agent with her demonstrations SC
that this worker is free to contac1
other women not yet within the
club membership.
Miss Current and her home
agents have at least 10000 woner
now who aid the home agents a.
project leaders. One woman ma,
have charge of all the garden work
in her club while another is the
nutrition leader in an ADJOINING
club. These project leaders are
holding at least four of the Il
monthly club meetings scheduled
for the year which means that the
nome agent can greatly enlarge
her work. The women say that 49,.
488 farm families were reached TO,
the first time in home demonstra
ton work this past year.
1t is interesting to note that there
is now home agent in each county
OF the State. In these counties arc
1923 organized clubs with an &C
tive membership of 37,579 women
However, it is not the main pur
pose of home demonstration worl
to reach only these women but t.
build the entire program arount
the farm family as a unit. Mucl
Of the work being done now is no
aimed at the farm woman alon