The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-24
MOTHERS CONGRESS IN WASH.
INGTON, d. c., IN MARCH.
Continued from last week.

Continued from last week
| Mrs. Frederic Schoff of Phila del
phia was reelected president of the
| National Congress of Mothers to
serve during the next three years.
The other officers chosen are as fol-
lows: Mrs. D. o. Mears, Albany, N.
", first vice president Mrs. Edwin
G. Griee, Pennsylvania, second vice
president; Mrs. r. B. McMullen of
Evanston, ILL.,, third vice president;
Mrs. J S. Bolton, New Haven, Conn,
recording secretary; Mrs Arthur A.
Birney, of Washington, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. l.. K. ellison. of
Willamette, ILL.,, treasurer, and Mrs.
w. f. Thatcher of Florence, N. j.,
auditor.
Following the election Mrs Schoff
was escorted to the stand, where she
made brief address of acceptance
of the presidency. She called the at
tention of the delegates to the fact
that the members of the congress
should at all times carry out their
work along practical lines. She told
of her early association with the late
Mrs Theodore Birney of Chevy
Chase, Md, founder of the organiza-
ton, and said as president of the
congress she desired to witness the
Relation of many of Mrs. Birney's
ideals.
"The congress is like UNIVERSE
ty" she said. Sin that it's members
have decided it wise to rarely change
their president. In carrying out the
great policies in any organization it
has been found that little can be
done If changes are made every two
or three years in the head of an or
ganization."
Duties of the Members.
Mrs. Schoff then declared that the
preparation and editing of informa-
ton for every young mother in the
country should be taken up by the
bureau of education, and she pledg-
ed her efforts in promoting such
needed legislation.
Concerning child labor, she said:
I'VE all deplore the conditions, but
1t is to great extent tolerated be-
cause the parents want the children
to labor. To solve the question we
must teach them that to allow the
young to engage in manual labor is
wronging them physically and econ
omically."
She then declared that the Nation
al Congress of Mothers should have
an Office in Washington with a paid
secretary. Mrs. Schoff said: 1T is to
me the greatest work in the world,
for 1t Is carrying out the work of the
Heavenly Father 1t is going to do
more than anything else to change
the character of the country. We
must guarantee that the boys and |
girls of the next generation shall
have correct ideas"
She expressed the hope in closing
that the next three years Of the life |
of the congress will be as harmon
ious as 1t has been in the past, and
made plea for an international con-
gress of mothers to take the place of |
the present organization. THE love
Of the child is the tie that will unite
all hearts," she said.
Grandmother of the Congress.
A motion electing Mrs. Harriet A.
Mcclellan of Georgia, mother of Mrs.
Theodore Birney, an honorary vice
president, prevailed. Mrs. Mcclellan
was then escorted to the platform
md introduced to the delegates as
he grandmother of the conven-
ion" She made short address in
which she thanked the delegates and
llso told of the early efforts of her
laughter in forming the congress.
Placing Out Work for Children"
vas the subject of an address by Ed
vim, D. Solenberger. secretary of the
Jhildren's Aid society of Pennsyl-
'ania, at the oping of the afternoon
ession. After a discussion of the
ddress the convention will hear Miss
Helen Bennett of New York talk on
"A Home for Every Child" "Delin-