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Show Now Largest Youth Group 5 Million Celebrate 4HWeek f new r l SPECIAL - Five million 4-H'ers and a half million volunteer leaders, all over the country, will' be celebrating 1972 National 4-H Week, October 1-7, with the knowledge that 4-H is now America's largest youth organization. National 4-H Week is a time for re-evaluation among 4-H'ers, their leaders and friends of 4-H. The theme of this year's National 4-H Week, "A New Day - A New Way", denoted a spirit that will help 4-H'ers "to make the best better" in new and different ways to meet the challenges of the new day of the 70's. There's a new spirit in 4-H today. A spirit of pioneering, just like the men and women who worked with 4-H, in its early days after the turn of the century. Then 4-H was centered around farm related activities, such as canning, corn growing and poultry raising, in a few Southern and Midwestern states. Today, coordinated by the Cooperative Extension Service, and aided by corporations, businesses and foundations through the National 4-H Service Committee, 4-H has spread into all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and in 85 countries around the world. 4-H is found, not just in rural areas, but in major urban centers like Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Los Angeles. 4-H members still enjoy the traditional programs like clothing food-nutrition, agriculture, livestock and crop production. But many traditional programs have been updated and new programs created so that members can deal with the new day of the 70's, in new ways - ways that appeal to them and that get them involved. Through programs like conservation of natural resources, consumer education, home environment, commodity marketing, health, safety and petroleum power, 4-H'ers get a better understanding of today's problems, and how they, as young people can help solve them. Young people also use the skills they acquire through 4-H public speaking, photography, demonstrating and leadership - to help their communities solve problems. Learning to solve problems, by doing, is what 4-H is all about. And that spirit of 4-H'ers helping to tackle the problems of the 70's is what 1972 National 4-H Week is all about. For information on the 4-H program in this area and how to participate as a member or a volunteer leader, contact the county extension office. |