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Spring, 1959 THE FEDERATION JOURNAL Page 7 zation. Much of the strentgh of the present is rooted in the past. Yesterday—today—tomorrow. If you are wise, you will scan the skies as a sailor does to see what is the promise of tomorrow. The clouds that have passed over tell little; the clouds on the horizon have a significance. What will come of these clouds remain to be seen. A sailor who sees a cloud in the sky may predict; he cannot control. You are in a different po sition; we believe that you are able to control; we believe that you have a strong enough case in your past history of helping others that your future efforts will meet suc cess. You should have enough faith in your program, cause, and motto “Lifting As We Climb” to believe that whatever you undertake to do your efforts will meet success. You have been able to use the past to build the present. The people of this state are convinced that your present program and philosophy can be used to build better com munities all over the state. Finally, as you move into the second 50 years of existence, there is a need to appraise, evaluate, and analyze your activities and pro gram, in order to determine wheth er it is keeping pace with the so cial and economic changes of to day. The techniques and methods that you used in the past and are currently using to achieve your goals are tried and proven. What of your present and future goals? There is a need for an organization such as the Federation to continue to pioneer and strike out for new frontiers in services for children, the handicapped and aged. There is an acute and pressing need for more day nurseries, foster homes, homes for the aged, expansion and improvement of facilities at the correctional schools. The health, educational, recreation and social welfare facilities are far from ade quate in the communities repre sented by the members of the Fed eration. As you move into your sec ond fifty year period, you are con fronted by many problems of liv ing and faced with a great chal lenge. As in the past, you will rise to the occasion and meet the chal lenge. The people of North Caro lina are indebted to you. When the Muse of Time shall be asked to name those who have made the most effective and worth while contributions to the cause of human betterment, she will dip her pen in the golden sunlight and write in flaming letters across the blue skies the names of the pio neers, founders, and members of this great organization. Just for Today JUST FOR TODAY I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for 12 hours that would appal me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a life time. JUST FOR TODAY I will be happy. This assumes to be true what Abraham Lincoln said that, Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. JUST FOR TODAY I will strengthen my mind. I wiU study. I will learn something useful. I will not be a mental loafer. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration. JUST FOR TODAY I will adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own de sires. I will take my luck as it comes and fit myself to it. JUST FOR TODAY I will exer cise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn, and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do — just for exercise. I wiU not show Basic Needs of a Group CONVENTION Continued from Page 5 Let us join hands and hearts in unified efforts to meet this chal lenge. The planning committee and the sponsoring organization, the Beth- ume Civic Club of Wilson have the cooperation of the following wom en’s clubs: The Book and Garden, the Merry Matrons, the Modernettes, the Del ta Sigma Thetas, the Quettes, the Alpha Kappa Alphas, the Lamp lighters, the Cliques, the Links, the After-Six-Bridge, the Les Elites. In addition to the women’s clubs, the Men’s Civic Club and the Fra ternal organizations of the city are contributing. Wilson is centrally located, is easily reached by bus or train with highways 301 and 264 going through. The convention will be held in the new addition to the Darden High School with its beautiful, spacious and modern auditorium and cafeteria. The convention opens Thursday evening with the Fiftieth Anniver sary banquet at 8 o’clock. The ban quet speaker will be Mrs. Vivian Carter Mason, recognized national ly and internationally as an out standing personality. The registration booth will be open from four to six on Thursday, May 14, and from 8:30 a.m. Fri day, May 15, throughout the day. Friday will be devoted to busi ness sessions and committee meet ings. The public program will be at 7:45 in the evening followed by a reception. Saturday morning wiU be taken anyone that my feelings are hurt; they may be hurt, but today I will not show it. JUST FOR TODAY I will bo agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress becomingly, talk low, act courteously, criticize not one bit, not find fault with anything and not try to improve or regulate anybody except myself. JUST FOR TODAY I will have a program. I may not follow it exact ly, but I will have it. I will save myself from two pests: hurry and indecision. JUST FOR TODAY I will have a quiet half hour all by myself and relax. During this half hour, some time, I will try to get a better per spective of my life. JUST FOR TODAY I will be un afraid. Especially, I will not be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful, and to believe that as I give to the world, so the world will give to me. From Region Eleven NOR’WESTERN THERE'S A WILL Continued from Page 8 ten in the sort of clear and simple language a layman can under stand, introduces a badly needed element of common sense into North Carolina intestacy law. The proposed law is directly in line with the best—and the most— of modern legal thinking. It does not, as some attorneys may fear, rewrite the law of intestate succes sion in a manner that "repeals a lawyer’s education.” Instead, it merely cuts out of our present law those decadent portions which con tinue to hang over from the Mid dle Ages to plague us today. The solid portions of the law remain untouched. While this change in North Car olina’s intestacy law is important to all of us — primarily because most of us are going to die without a will—it is of particular interest to the women. The ladies are right fully indignant when the law, most often for historical reasons, rele gates them into a position of sec ond-class citizenship. Yet the women—and the women’s groups— have been curiously myopic when it comes to this law which deter mines just what, and how much, they will receive from their hus band in the event he dies without a win. That determination presently is made by laws which took their shape in an ancient time when women were considered to be creatures of the kitchen and the over by the Junior Federation. The convention will close Saturday afternoon. More detailed information will be sent from the president’s office. “Leader! If you want my loyalty, interest and best efforts as a group member, you must take into ac count that . . . 1. I need a SENSE OF BELONG ING. a. A feeling that no one objects to my presence. b. A feeling that I am sincere ly welcome. c. A feeling that I am honestly needed for my total self, not just for my hands, my money, etc. 2. I need to have a share in plan ning the group goals. (My need will be satisfied only when I feel that my ideas have had a fair hearing.) 3. I need to feel that the GOALS ARE WITHIN REACH and that they make SENSE TO ME. 4. I need to feel that what I’m doing contributes to HUMAN WELFARE—that its value ex tends beyond the group itself. 5. I need to share in MAKING THE RULES OF THE GROUP —the rules which together we shall live and work toward our goals. 6. I need to know in some clear detail just what is EXPECTED OF ME so that I can work con fidently. 7. I need to have RESPONSIBIL ITIES THAT CHALLENGE, that are within range of my abilities, and that contribute toward reaching our goals. 8. I need to see that progress is being made toward the goal WE have set. 9. I need to be kept informed. What i’m not UP on, I may be DOWN on. 10. I need to have confidence in our leader — confidence based upon ASSURANCE OF CON SISTENT FAIR TREATMENT OF RECOGNITION WHEN IT IS DUE AND TRUST THAT LOYALTY WILL BRING IN CREASED SECURITY. In brief—the situation in which I find myself must make sense to me regardless of how much sense it makes to the leader.” By Fred Freeman of Michigan. bedroom and little else. How strange it is that the ladies, who constitute more than half the popu lation and about 40 per cent of our industrial work force, continue to tolerate laws which, in the words of a commission which studied this problem many years ago, "... mock the widow with a mere polite phrase and without any substantial benefit to her.” The other half of our population —the men—fare better under the present law. But not much better. That’s why so many of them con tinue to spin in their graves like high speed lathes.
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