Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1910-10-14
MOTHERS MEETING
will Hold Congress in Des Moines
November ! and 2
LIVING IN CHILDREN,s AGE
cn''dhood 10 Estimated at Near It's
True Value in the Economy Of
Nations, Says Mary E. Mott
State Press Agent.

Shoo, a., oCt' To- MS is I'M
doubtedly Childrens' Age in which
we are living; an age when childhood
Is estimated at somewhere near it's
true value in the economy of nations.
The world is at least cognizant of
the fact that youth is the material
from which citizens are moulded,
and that the strength and endurance
OF a national government must de.
pend largely upon the mental, moral
and physical training and strength of
Its children, writes Mary L. Mott,
State Press Superintendent of the
Mothers Congress.
More parents each year are con-
sidering the conditions that should
accompany the launching of a new
barque upon the sea of humanity.
Educators are giving more time and
more thought to the relation of mind
and body, and the natural steps in
the development of child-life. Labor
atory experiments are constantly in.
Producing new methods for the de-
velopment of defective children enab-
ling them to take their places in life
successfully.
Legislators are wording out child
labor laws and carefully tested edu-
cational measures, and judicial au-
thorities are advocating and estab.
fishing the Juvenile Court and de.
linquent Boy" experiments. Munich.
palities are learning that it is cheap
er and pleasanter to make gymnasi-
ums and lagoons and swimming pools
and domestic science halls than to
increase police forces and to prose-
cute criminals, and behold! beautiful
ly equipped park-play- are
springing up in the crowded districts
/. OF our great cities, which means a
new lease of life to thousands. Be-
hind all these movements for the
betterment of conditions surrounding
childhood, stands the Mothers Con.
gress Of the world agitating, planning,
executing, directing, continually max
ing sentiment for the better care,
training and development of the
worlds children.
Mrs. Schoff, the president of the
National Congress Of Mothers, will
be In attendance at the Fifth Bien.
NAL of the Iowa State Congress. and
will speak of this great movement
from the viewpoint of her wider ex.
perience. Mrs. Helen j. Hafferan OF
Chicago, chairman of the National
Parent Teacher Association; Lura
Hubbell Phillips of Ames, chairman
Of the Agricultural Extension Board
Of the Iowa State Congress. and DR.
Margaret Clarke of Waterloo will al
SO be among the speakers at the
Fifth Biennial. The Des Moines I'm
ion of Mothers Clubs will entertain
all delegates to the Congress and
Mrs. B. F. Carroll will give a recep
ton to the members at her home on
the evening of Nov. 2, where all may
meet and become acquainted with
each other. Id.
The Fifth Biennial bids fair to be
the most interesting and helpful that
the Iowa Congress has ever held. All
Mothers Clubs and Parent-Teacher
Associations of Iowa are cordially in
vited to send delegates, one for every
ten members enrolled.
The officers of the Iowa Congress
of Mothers which will meet in Des
Moines, Nov. and 2, are as follows:
President Mrs. F. S. Watts, Audubon
Vice Presidents, Mrs. Chas. McCan'
dies, Davenport; Mrs. B. F. Carroll,
Des Moines; Mrs. G. H. Beckett,
Northwood Treasurer, Mrs. A. O.
Rustic, Charles City; Recording Sec.
rotary, Mrs. Chas. Brenton, Dallas
Center; Corresponding Secretary,
Miss Mary Davis, Audubon; Extens'
ion Secretary. Mrs. Walter Brown,
Des Moines; Directors. Mesdames
John Weighton, Audubon; Mary E.
Mott, Marengo; Nellie Fl. Miles, Ma.
son City; w. r. Edwards, Des
Moines; VIM. Bailey, Des Moines;
John F. Riggs, Des Moines; Gardner
Cowles, Des Moines;. A. E. shipley,
Des Moines; A. l.. Haas. Des Moines;
Misses Edith Charlton, Ames; Abbie
Abbott, Cedar Rapids; Florence
Ward, Cedar Falls. New officers will
be elected at this meeting to serve
for two years.