Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-16
MANY SPEAKERS
ON PLATFORM At
FINAL MEETING
Annual Mothers Con-
gress at an End
Paper Prepared by Mrs. cass Before
Her Death Causes Hearers to
Shed Tears-Meet in
Washington

Love, all powerful and all inclusive,
was declared to be the keynote of the
National Mothers congress by Mrs.
Frederick Schoff, president of the or
ganlzation, last evening in the Ebell
club house at the last session of the
convention. She said, in part:
I'VE have accomplished what we in
tended by this congress If we have
made you think more deeply on the
obligations of fatherhood and mother
hood. We hope soon to be able to give
all mothers chance to learn how to
do better by their children and we
extend to you all a hearty invitation
to come to our congress next year,
which will be held in Washington, d.
c., and to which mothers from all over
the world will come"
Prof. James A. Foshay spoke on
Moral Training in Public Schools,
and he said:
Moral training should form the
basis of every school curriculum. /
think probably we are a little too easy
on the children nowadays and do not
make them do things they do not want
TO do. 1t is far more important to
make boy good man than good
scholar. The highest mental develop
ment requires the man to be occupied
with elevating thoughts. Unless moral
ity ever pervades the atmosphere the
best results cannot be obtained. The
board of education is asking not so
much for scholars as noble men and
women.
Music should be learned by every
child. 1t is an important part of the
school government and does a great
deal toward uplifting the child from
any degrading thoughts he might have.
THE school should not degenerate
into mere macine. Nature study is
the best kind of moral training and
absolute truthfulness must be insisted
upon.
I'm a teacher it is not so much her
great learning that counts as it is per-
sonality If she is loving and kind with
strong principles behind her she will
uplift the child to her own standard.
Love is the strongest force of the
teacher. Children even in the primary
grades are not too young to under
stand their moral obligations.
Critical Period of Life
1.-THE most critical period in a child's
moral education is when he passes
from the control of home and school
into the liberty and freedom of life.
We all should have tender consciences,
but they should not make towards of
us dS IIleY uO. iuhCllOoo
and extravaganza are doing great
deal to destroy our race.
1.-The school should be place where
the children shall grow to pure-minded
manhood and womanhood."
Several persons in the audience gave
their opinions on the same subject,
some of them saying that the mother
alone had influence over the child, but
most of them agreeing that the teacher
and imnnrt1nt factor
in the moral upbringing of a young
man or woman.
Rev. Warren F. Day rendered the
invocation and the Pupils Glee club
sang several selections. Mrs. Arthur
r. Birney of Washington read the re-
port of the committee on resolutions,
telling of the sincere appreciation of
every delegate to the congress of the
charming hospitality of the California
Mothers Congress, giving their heart
felt sympathy to the bereaved family
of Mrs. B. A. Cass, whose sudden
death came just at the opening of the
congress; thanking the press for the
aid it had given them; thanking the
school officers, the pupils. the singers
and the others who have entertained
them so delightfully."- during their ses-
sion here; telling of their great appre-
citation of the invitation of DR.. Robert
]. Burdette to his church last Sunday
and of their sympathy for the accident
to his wife, and thanking the Ebell club
for it's courtesy in placing its house at
their disposal.
The tenth annual session of the Ma
tional Mothers congress closed with the
singing of America" by the audience.
Mrs. Cass' Paper Touching
There was hardly dry eye in the
audience at yesterday afternoons ses-
sion when the paper on "The Mother"
prcpared by Mrs. A. B. Cass and which |
she was to have delivered before the
congress- was read by Mrs. Jefferson
d. Gibbs. Mrs. Cass ended her life
work last week, and the listeners re-
ceived the message as one from ABOVE.
The paper read:
''From the midst of the battlefield it |
is hard to formulate theories about
what you are doing. That must be left
to the one from afar who looks down
upon the work from a position where
causes and effects can be judged and |
their consequences seen. A mother
who has her children around her can
give no fixed method of rearing the little
ones. There are so many circum-
stances to change things and each day |
new ideas are formulated and others
discarded as useless. |
"a firmly fixed plan Will often do
more harm than good in relation to
children, as they are all so different.
There are three things that | believe
are absolutely ecessary-educatlon,
nutrition and moderation.
"A mothers emotions are always con-
dicting. She wants her children to be
everything they should, and yet she
does not want to have them away from
her She is afraid for her boy on the
athletic field, although she wants MIN
to be there in order to get a strong
healthy body ...,,4.
lone mother cannot always do rlght;
she needs the assistance of others, and
the Mothers congress- which in its
working clothes is the Child STUDY
circle. gives the means of exchanging
helpful ideas. ,,,.,
"A mother to care for her children
the hest must understand and surround
herself with the same conditions ana
circumstances that come to the chill
dren. She must not fall behind but
must keep up with the events of the
dav and be able to help and advise her
children in everything they may meet.
DR.. Dorothea Moore spoke on the
child's three best allies from the stand