Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-14

your voice to help Theses fersaken chill
dren, think Of the good that could be
done, The greatest blessing that God
gave to wefflafi Is children,
"Wemen are receiving greater edu-
cation nowadays and IL would be 30
much better II she would turn oil this
into her own home, IN managing that
better and forming the characters Of
her children In better, truer frmer
lines.
II hope some time this will be a
parents congress instead OF a mothers
congress. Our government has a de-
partment OF agriculture and so forth,
but we have no department for chill
dren. Arc not the souls OF Our chill
dreti, the future rulers OF the nation.
more to us than what kind OF a seed
we shall grow next year or the forma-
ton OF the Ash we are eating.
"Let me leave you tonight with the
one thought, and the one foreword for
the coming decade, parents univer-
sity and 7 also hope that ten years
from now every city in the United
states will have a school as fine and as
far reaching as the Polytecnnlc hlsn
school Of Los Angeles"
Tells Early History
Mrs. Theodore w. Birney founder Of
the congress, was unable to come anc
in her place Mrs. Arthur Birney OF
Washington, D. c.. told OF the early
History of the National Congress of
Mothers" She spoke of the first con-
gress, which was held in washington,
D. c., ten years ago, and how In Few
months the idea had gained such a fast
hold upon the hearts of the American
mothers that thousands came to attend
the conference. She said:
I'VE must not only work for our chill
dren but stretch out and gather all the
children of the land into our hearts.
Most of the early work OF the congress
consisted in sending out good literature
for children, and now look at what we
are doing"
A large number of letters of cheer
and encouragement from officers of the
society and friends were read. and Mrs.
Edwin C. Grice of Philadelphia gave a
"Review of Ten Years Work" She
said:
"As a mother looks on the door and
sees the knife marks registering the
physical growth of her child so do we
look back upon the years of our or
ganization and see each mark or lts
onward progress"
"a Hymn of Motherhood" by Miss
Frances J. Dyer, and Mothers Hymn"
by Margaret E. Sangster, were read.
Mrs. John A. Logan gave few words
of greeting.
At Polytechnic
During the afternoon the congress in
spected the Polytechnic high school by
invitation of J. H. Francis, principal,
and on all sides were heard admiration
and wonder at the splendid way in
which the school was conducted and the
amount of work accomplished along
good lines. Mrs. Adam Fisher spoke on
1.-The Ethics of International Courtesy
Old Glory the World Around"
This afternoon at o'clock Mrs. Eliza
beth Snyder Roberts of Syracuse, N. Y,
will lead the discussion of "Children's
Punishments," and Mrs. George M. Brill
of Chicago, ILL.,, will preside. At 8
o'clock the Relation of Child Study to
Home, School and State" will be dis
cussed under the leadership of Miss
Emma M. Greenleaf and Mrs. L. ].
Hersey, with Mrs. w. w. Murphy in
the chair. Rev. w. H. Paden of Salt
Lake City will speak on 1.-THE Problem
of the Intermountain States" tomorrow
night, and Rev. S. Hecht, D. D., will
give the invocation.