Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-02
HONOR MRS. SCHOFF
Reelected President of
Mothers Congress.
BALLOT is UNANIMOUS
Statement Home Circle Has Disap-
peared Is Contradicted.
RIGHTS OF BABY DISCUSSED
Delegates Spend Afternoon at An
napolis and in Seeing Sights
of the Capital

was TINS morning unanimously rejected
president Of the National Congress of
Mothers. the fifteenth annual convention
Of which has been in session in Washing
ton for the last week. in conjunction with
the Second International Congress ON
Child Welfare
Balloting took up the first two hours
OF the meeting this morning, and the
result of the voting Is regarded Il
high tribute to the ability and worth
of Mrs. Schoff, whose administration
of the affairs of the congress mas so
gratitied the members that not single
delegate was to be found
among the go assembled In the ball
room of the Arlington Hotel.
Mrs. David Q. Mears # Albany, " y.
vice president, also was unani-
mously renamed, while the other officers
chosen to serve with her as vice presi..
dents were Mrs. Fred T. Du Bots Ok
Idaho, Mrs. e. X. Weeks of Kansas City
Mo; Mrs. Ray Rushton of Montgomery,
Ala, and Mrs. Orville 7. Bright o. Chi
cagO.
OF the other officers Mrs James s Bal
ton Of New Haven. Conn.,, was elected
recording SECRETARY: Mrs. Arthur A. B!r-
ney of this city, corresponding secretary,
Mrs. w. b. Ferguson Of Connecticut.
treasurer; Mrs. William T. Thatcher of
Florence, n. J.. auditor. and Mrs. c. n.
futile Of New York city. historian.
Prevention Of Mortality.
Mrs Walter s. Brown, chairman of
the national department of child hy-
giene and organization, presided over
the affairs Of the congress this morn
ing and headed the program with an
on 1.-THE Parents Duty in Pre-
vention of Infant Mortality" Mrs.
Brown contradicted the statements of
speakers at the sessions yesterday that
the home circle has almost disappeared
from American life and is fast becom-
ing obsolete.
Home has not lost its meaning in the
United States" declared Mrs. Brown,
lit has only undergone change.
Mothers are no longer mere drudgeS,
no longer simply menials about the
but have come to be regarded
more guardians Of their children.
When again we meet in Washington,
three years hence, l expect astonishing
progress in the work of saving the lives
of babies and children will be reported
because of just this change that Is rap
idly coming to pass in the American
home
we have for ages heard much of the
duty of the child to its parents said DR..
Jennette Bolles of Denver Col. in her
address on The Rights of the Baby,
but it has taken twenty centuries to
learn thSt the writing also should read
Honor thy sons and thy daughters.
DR.. Boiles designated the rights Of the
baby d follows:
l. The right to be we'll born-meaning
healthy parents and knowledge by the
mother of how to care for herself and OF
pure food, pure air and pure thought.
. The right to live more than one
year-entailins II knowledge on the part
of parents Of the causes of infant NOR
tally and the means OF combating them.
- The right to good environments-in-
Guiding cheerful and pleasant home
and care in the selection of playthinSs
and playmateS.
T. The right to good training-embrac-
ing education and discipline.
Securing of Child Hygiene.
Before closing DR.. BoIles detailed meth
DDS employed in Denver in the attain
ment of child hygiene. including lectures
to mothers and prospective mothers by
eminent physicians and scientists.
Miss Reba Hurn, manager OF the Ma
than Straus milk laboratory of this city,
told of the work this institution is doing
in decreasing the rate of infant mortality
in the District of Columbia and appealed
to the mothers at the congress to urge
their congressman to support the bill
now pending in Congress providing for
the taking over Of the milk laboratory by
the ONlleu states puDHc neditn
under the Treasury Department
Should this be done the government
could determine upon the best methods
of conducting the hundreds of milk de-
pots throughout the country, Miss Hurn
declared.
peal to the government for information
should his crops fail or his live stock be-
come sick, but that at present mothers
have recourse to none of the Invaluable
information that could be given them
should highly qualified government eX-
perts investigate the problems that con-
front them In the raising of babies.
statistics were brought to bear by
DR.. Greasy l.. Wilbur of the division of
vital statistics of the Department of
portance Of Birth Registration for
Baby Saving and Child Welfare
Work. declaring that primarily regis
tration If births alone can show the
gravity of the need for life-saving
work among infants.
Illness prevented DIR. J. S. Neff, director
of the department of health and charities
of Philadelphia, from giving his address
on "A municipalities Duty to the Chill
dren," DR.. Lindsay-Wynekoope of Chi
the arousing OF public sentiment con-
corning parental responsibility was most
needed in this country. also that
a low birth rate was not thing to be
and that for many stocks race
suicide would be the best thing that could
happen.
Gives "The Blue Bird"
At 8 o'clock this afternoon THE Blue
Bird" by Maeterlinck. was given by Miss
Edith kunz Of New York, and was heart
lily applauded by the delegates, many of
whom later enjoyed ride to Annapolis
over the electric line, carrying box
lunches. Others took in the public build
ings and other sights of the capital.
This evening at 7.45 o'clock, following
the invocation by Rev. ]. ]. Muir. d. D..
the relation OF the home to child well
son of the Kindergarten College. Chi
cago, will make an address on The Hill
.ops and Valleys of Humanity After
a talk on the use of artists records IN
nigh school music by Miss Alys Bentley
Of this city the report Of the resolution
will be made by Mrs. Milton
2. Higgins of Worcester. Mass, cha~-
man, and the congress will practically
close with an Invitation to Texas by
Mrs. ]. NJ Porter, president Of the
Texas Congress of Mothers.
A final meeting OF the board of man
ayers will be held in the Arlington Hotel
tomorrow morning at $50 o'clock.
Home the Primeval School.
That the home is the primeval school
and the parent, especially the mother, is
the first, the most influential. and the
most cherished of all teachers, was the
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