The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-20
.SHOULDMAKE HIM
WORK FOR FAM|L Y
DIR. Buchanan Tells Mothers
That Husbands Should
Work in Prison
URGE cH!L0's WELFARE
Conference on Home and School
Ends Successful Con-
ference.
URGE cHlLD's WELFARE

| In the mothers room in the John
Smith School, which had been turned
into a bower of bloom with palms and
! wonderful roses the conference OH
home and school and rotated subjects
was resumed at 1880 yesterday morn
| Ing. DR.. Maclachlan, of the Seventh
Street Christian Church. pronouncing
| the invocation. The president, Mrs. IA.
l.. Whitlock. in her opening remarks.
! declared that mothers must come to be
| interested, for the sake of their own
children, in all that affects childhood
everywhere. The aims OF the Con
gress of Mothers, which are now the
aims of the State Federation. could
| not be accomplished without close CO.
| operation of every agency in the city
and State working for child welfare.
1t is the aim of the conference to Sc
cure this and to offer the federation as
q clearing house for this work. fur
nishing the crystallizins touch needed
in all efforts for betterment.
Miss Lucy Coleman was then intro
duced and gave a brief history of the
beginning and work OF kindergartens
here, and made a strong plea for their
establishment in every public school
Duty of Parents.
DR.. Buchanan, of the Juvenile Pro-
tectivc Association, then gave ar out
line OF the Legislation needed in Nir-
ginia to incorporate the principles of
the juvenile courts in the legal ma
chinery for the handling of Juvenile
| delinquency. He also explained the
methods advocated for compelling de-
linquent parents, almost always behind
the delinquent child to protect and
provide for their families where pos
sible When parents refuse to be
parents. where is parenthoodT' asked
DIR. Buchanan. Every child has a
right to food, shelter and proper train
ing. 1t Is the duty of the State to see
that they get 1t, so far as Is possible,
in the normal manner We have a
Juvenile delinquency law two years
old, which covers the point of adult
responsibility for Juvenile delinquency
to some extent, but no law is worth
anything without public sentiment back
OF 1t. 1t should be possible to imprison
a man and make him work for his
family, neither working TO reduce
taxes for the community nor remaining
idle in Jail"
Miss Maccorkle, of the Young Wo-
mems Christian Association, then
spoke on the problems of protection
for working girls, housing and recrea
ton shorter hours and sanitary con-
ditions.
! Ut. SndnuleT Ineu spoke DTleuy on
| cooperation between the home and
the school and the use of the schools as
| social centres, and for vacation and
evening schools. the former for back
ward pupils and the latter for girls.
| therefore not conflicting with any
other educational agency. All were
! deeply interested In the account which
DR.. Chandler gave of the past and
present accomplish and future
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| make instruction in domestic science
available to parents. even the fathers
II they desired 1t. This excited laugh
ter as being appropriate indeed for the
suftraGettc husbands, as we'll as for
| those with wives who i'll. Re-
strictions preventing movable seats in
auditoriums was hindrance to max
ing the schools recreation centres--a
free party in a schoolhouse as an
Italian termed 1t. lie said that the
vacation schools had cost this summer
about $500. and had saved 30 pupils
six months work. which would have
cost for teachers $4,000. so that 1t had
been paying investment for the city.
He hoped to see Ruifuer School used
all summer a regular graded school
He hoped that taste for a lyceum
course of lectures eight OF which could
be provided for 81 by use OF the schools.
might be used for clubs and debating
societies. though politics was at pres
ent debarred. He did not wish to be
radical. but to progress conservatively.
Mrs. SchoT Speaks.
Mrs. Schom then supplemented Mr..
Chambers remarks In enthusiastic
agreement with and admiration for his
plans and hopes She would no. debar
political societies. but encourage them
moi, a arip iol
| velopmcnt of the civic spirit which is
the crying need OF the time At the
same time Mrs. Schof warned against
carrying the social centre idea so far
as TO wean the children altogether
from the real social centre--that is, the
/ home. Restrict their use to certain
evenings. Every good thing can he
/ overdone. ana the parental element
! must enter in TO safeguard the .ihil-
/ dren In the use of the schools as social
centres. Mrs. SchoT spoke of moving
picture films of an educational nature
! being prepared by Thomas Edison, and
/ predicted their adoption In all schools
/ as cducative aids. Effort should be
/ made to get the girls from the depa rt-
mcnt stores and from the factories to
/ attend the domestic science departments
/ of the evening schools. Employers
/ should he approached TO engage their
/ operation 20 this end
Mrs. Schon gave "A most interes tin Z
! account OF the State college for girls
/ in Columbus, Miss, WHO'RE tuition Is
/ free and board only slO1 per year;
I where all wear uniforms, no disttnc-
/ ton between rich and poor Is possible,
| ana where every girl learns how to
| plan and care for "a modern. sanitary
home, as part of the curriculum. The
/ accomplishments are not neglected. bu,
J the whole trend of the course is to-
ward domestic training.
! The conference adjourned at l o'clock.
after q most interesting and Instructive
1 session. and reconvcned in The beau
tiful auditorium OF the new Villa nj
F.. Fox School at o'clock. At the after
noon session more than 100 of the
tcchcrs of the city schools were pres
ent TO enjoy the address OF Mrs. Schoff
to the teachers and mothers on the