The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1961-04-28
Home Demonstration
Doings In Dare
By BEULAH GAYLORD, Agt.
National Home Demonstration
Week April 30-May 6, 1861

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work provides an opportunity to
tell the people of the United States
and to great degree the people OF
the world of the contributions made
by home demonstration work in the
progress of our nation.
All groups interested in the de-
velopment and improvement of the
farm, home family and community
should take advantage of the oppor-
tunity Offered by National Home
Demonstration Week to acquaint
the general public, especially the
younger farm families, of the ed
ucational programs available
through the Home Economics
| Agents and through the Home
. Demonstration Club work.
The observance of this week
should emphasize the Importance of
wise management decisions in
home and family living, and in
crease the awareness of the influ-
ence of the home on the character
and the personality Of our youth.
While the development of new
skills and changed attitudes in the
many phases of homemaking are
i important, the broader aspects of
the problems of agriculture and
their relation to local, national, and
world economy must not be over
looked. The whole field of home
management offers an opportunity
for further release from drudgery
to enable housewives to become
even more intelligent homemakers
and mothers, thus truly building
! tomolrow's world.
The many years during which
this week has been observed has
seen significant changes in rural
living. County, State and Federal
Extension Services have joined
forces to call attention to these
changes which influence the home,
the community, the State and Nat
ion. 1t specifically points out the
contributions that home demon
3tration work makes to home
making. The contributions which
volunteer local leaders have made
to the program should never be
overlooked, as thase leaders fur
nish the real channel for getting
the practices put into operation.
The theme of National Home
Demonstration Week, "Today's
Home Builds Tomorrow's World
is more than glib phrase to the
millions of women who participate
in the educational program of the
Cooperative Extension Service
They know that today's children
are growing up in a world vastly
different from the one they knew
in their youth. To function as eff
fective citizens they must be pre-,
pared to face the world with con.
fidence and courage supported by
;trong bodies and healthy minds
1t is in the home that children first
learn to understand and apply the
concepts of freedom, of personal in.
tegrity and of respect for individ.
ual differences that are basic K
our democratic way of life.
The homemaker of today is ne
longer just keeper of the home il
the old fashioned sense. She ha!
many responsibilities that hel
grandmother or even her mother
never had. Today's mother ant
wife is concerned with the improve
ment of family life through the APP
plication of new developments il
science-social, economic and tech
biological. She realizes that Their
must be a continuing education
Where can one receive such help
Home Demonstration Club womel
know that the educational service
of home economics extension worl
can and do help them.
What is Home Demonstration
Home Demonstration is the larges
off-campus adult educational pro
gram in homemaking in the worlC
1t is carried on by volunteer lead
ers in cooperation with the EXten
sion Service of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture and the Land
leaders meet and plan their pro
gram of study that relates to HON
and family, such as child develop
ment, nutrition, interior decora
ton, better understanding of pub
lie affairs, or according to tn
! needs or interests of those belong
ing. These leaders request from tn
| county home demonstration ager
! a teacher-a home economics eXter
sion specialist-who trains then
/ Through a "show-how' and ste
how" method the latest findings b
home economics research are learr
ed and developed by the club W.
\ men.
j Does one need to belong to a
organized group to receive info
\ nation from the Extension Sc
i vice? No. Already more than
J 100000 others enroll in special il