The Washington times., 1911-04-23
CHILD WELFARE TO
ENGAGE MOTHERS
Beerment of Condition of Children to Be Chief Topic
of Discussion When Congress Opens Here
Tuesday.

Every phase Of child life Will be
covered by the second international
congress on child welfare which opens
here this week in connection with the
fifteenth annual meeting of the Ma
tional Congress of Mothers.
Delegates from each State congress
of mothers will attend, as well as DEL
egates appointed by the governors of
the various States and by mayors of
the leading municipalities. Several
foreign nations also have appointed
representatives.
The program in detail follows:
Tuesday, April rs, evening-Recep-
ton at Arlington Hotel given by Of
flcers of National Mothers Congress to
delegates and visitors.
Wednesday, April 26, morning-Roll
call followed by reports of officers and
various departments. Afternoon-Sight-
seeing automobile tour and luncheon
at Congressional Library. Evening
Annual address by the president, Mrs.
Frederic Schoff, of Philadelphia, and
addresses by Ambassador Bryce, Paul
Hagermans, consul general for Bel
gium, and Mrs. Berri Hart, of Edin-
borough. Scotland. delegate appoint
ed by Parents National Educational
Union of Great Britain.
List of Speakers.
Thursday, April 81. morning-Dis-
cussion of relation of home to child
welfare by the following speakers:
DR.. Tom A Williams, Washington. D.
c., "The homes responsibility for dis
honesty an dcorruption in business
and politics and for immortality and
low standards of citizenship" Mrs.
George K. Johnson, Langhorne, Pa.
(Philadelphia) president Of Pennsyl-
Fathers need of Instruction in child
welfare" Edith Kingman Kern, THE
purity of the press" Mrs. ]. r. Little,
president Georgia State Congress,
What child study means to a moth
err"
Mrs. George B. Carroll, wife of Gov
ernor Carroll of Iowa. THE homes
responsibility OF preventing immoral
Afternoon-Trip to Mount Vernon in
Of morning discussion by following
speakers: DR.. Theodore Smith, Child
Study Institute, Worcester. Mass, Re
lation OF child study to child welfare"
J. George Becht, Normal School. Clar-
discipline" Mrs. Orville r. Bright, Chi
cago, chairman department of education.
mothers congress, and secretary de-
partment Of school patrons Of national
educational association. Parents re-
sponsibility for the life, health and
character of the nation"
Country Children.
Friday, April observation-disclosures
of relation Of State to child welfare by
following speakers: Mrs. Frank De
Crane, st. Louis, chairman mothers
congress department rural child welfare
and special agent Of United States De-
partment Agriculture in same work.
welfare Of the country child" Mrs.
Martha S. GieIew, Washington, D. c.,
The children Of the mountains" Mrs.
Robert Park. Wollaston, Mass. THE
Mrs. George H. Robertson. PRESIDENT
Tennessee State congress mothers, The
States duty to widowed mothers"
James Eberling, head of Potter Junior
republic, Pennsylyania. The States
duty to erring children" James z.
West, THE States duty to orphans"
Mrs. Mary S. Garrett, Philadelphia, and
E. K. Johnston, Vineland, n. j., "The
States duty to defective children"
Observation-Disclosures based On the
vent one generation Of children from
developing into criminals, the crime
problem OF the future would be solved"
by delegates appointed by governors and
mayors. Delegates will be rendered a
tea by Mrs. ]. R Mclean.
Evening-Stereopticon exhibition and
talk by Logan w. Page. of United
States department good roads on EFF
feet Of Good Roads on Child Welfare"
DR.. Charles F. Langworthy, United
States department nutrition, and Judge
William H. De Lacy, Washington Juve-
nile Court.
School Relation.
Saturday morning-Discussion Of rela-
ton of school to child welfare by Mrs.
Walter Leroy Smith, Pennsylvania, and
Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter. Washington,
D. c. "Organizing Parent-Teacher AS
sociations,'' Mrs. William S. Hefferan,
Chicago, chairman Mothers Congress,
parent-teacher department school teach
er course of study in child welfare.
Mrs. A L. Hamilton, Pasadena, presi-
dent California State Congress Mothers,
The Educational Function and Oppor-
tunities Of Parent-Teacher Associa-
tions." DR.. Willard S. Small. Washing
ton, D. c., School Hygiene" w. E.
Watt, Chicago, "Open Air for the Well
Child" w. D. Lewis, principal William
Penn High School for Girls, Philadel-