When what was the North
Carolina Cotton Grower was converted into the Carolina Co-operator five years ago this month, one of the first
things our program was to ask the most widely beloved woman in North Carolina
to serve as editor of our Home Department. Finding such a person was easy
inasmuch as for more than a quarter of a century Dr. Jane S. McKimmon had
labored long and untiringly as a pioneer in home demonstration work. “Miss
Janie” was a practical leader and she knew that it would take money to make
needed farm home improvements, so she set about organizing canning clubs and
curb markets and other projects to help farm women have money of their own to
spend as they pleased. Her program has been felt from the highest to the
humblest farm home in the State and today as a result of her great work stand
thousands of painted and well-furnished homes, more livable and enjoyable
because of her vision.
Busy though she was, “Miss Janie” consented to add to her
many responsibilities that of preparing copy for our Home Department each
month. For the past five years her section has appeared regularly in the
Co-operator as one of the most consistently read and one of the most valuable
in this publication.
A short while ago, however, Dr. McKimmon was asked to draw
upon her wealth of information (she was the pioneer in home demonstration work
in North Carolina) to prepare for those to come later a history of the
extension service from its early days on down to today. The work of assembling
this information for publication in book form in the time allotted her has
placed a heavy burden upon her and, therefore, she has asked that we
temporarily relieve her of the responsibility of editing the Home Department.
Taking over as acting editor of the Home Department,
effective with this issue, is Pauline Monroe, who has been an assistant editor
of the Carolina Co-operator for the
past five years.
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