Evening star., 1911-01-15
INlE

"7INIE was when did not know how dcfec-
tive the parent really was. We had
M1F@ not as yet traced back to him and
RN3&N recognized as his handiwork most of
N@NNN the i'll health large number of the
IANSOAM crimes, and almost all the mistakes
INZZA committed by the generation for
kYZl0INVS which he is Immediately responsible.
MLGGlMI But he-or she; for it is mostly
WS6jW through women's organizations that
wGW it is being done-is becoming
wv of his limitations in performance,
"a N<A O. and all over the countrya determined
S - war IS being waged upon the Slothful
>@ parent.
Qk9 Seeing that it is as yet impracti-
cable to commit even the worst
of stupidity in parenthood to proper institutions for
their improvement clubs are springlng up all over the
land for the express purpose OF cOrnenng and edu
eating parents with without their consent. Many
parents 60 willingly instruction. Witness the number
of Mothers Clubs, Congresses of Mothers, Fathers
institution for child study at Worcester, of the
forces that turned almost directly on the parent
through the specialists it trains and the teachers sends
out Our literature Salted with this impetus to put
few grains of imagination and into the tired parent
Nearly all stories written about children that appear in
grown up peoples magazines are intended to throw
few sideghts these clever little beings whom have
brought into the world and half the time regard
through glass darky.
AS member of one of these organizations have
been interested what forces have, and what
tremendous battery of science good sense, information,
and philosophy we have at disposal, to turn
when we see the whites Of their eyes-on the parents
q parent myselO and for their backwardness in
the worlds progress.
Every year there is great conference for child wei
fare under the auspices of President Hall of Clark Uni
versty. For the last two years it has at Worcester
This year it is planning, believe to meet in Chicago.
At these conferences is where you hear the truth about
the parent-and not much good of him, to be
In fact this last year has been remarkable for the
number of conferences child welfare in different parts
of the world: The National Congress of Mothers in
Denver, in June; the Child Welfare Conference at
Worcester, later in the month"; the Home Educa-
tion Congress in Brussels in August the Child Welfare
Exhibit in New York, perhaps the largest exhibit Of
the forces being brought to bear that has yet been
shown in any country.
1.-The influences which at work upon the vast mul-
tudes Of the city children, to quote from their pro-
gram, the opportunities and handicap through which
they gain miss health recreation vocational adjust
nent, civic training, preparation for home making,
moral and spiritual development, all these things
now being considered and in generation
shall it, the face of the world being changed from
pinched to gay. The Playground Congress the Ameri
Health Association the International kindergarten
Association these organizations that under
name other aiming at the heart of the parent;
for the child is his most vulnerable spot
From the parent who locks her child out at night
corrective, to the less but equally faacious
mother who her chds every and footstep