Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-19
BIC CONGRESS
MEETS IN CITY
BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF IOWA
WILL BE IN SESSION HERE
OCTOBER 8, 9 AND 1o.S
PARENTS INTERESTED
The Aims Of the Congress and Parent
Teacher Associations Is to Con-
vey Mother Love to
All Homes.

In consideration of the fact that the
Iowa Congress of Mothers Biennial
Conference will meet in session in
Ottumwa October 8, 9 and 10, a few
words explanatory in regard TO the
"aims, methods, materials, results"
and what prominent educators think
of the movement will be OF interest to
all mothers and friends.
An officer Of the congress writes as
follows:
The biennial is expected to be the
greatest and best conference OF the
kind ever held in the state, and for
that reason every mother in Ottumwa
and surrounding country should be
familiar with the workings of the as.
sociation.
The aims Of the congress and parent
teacher associations is to carry the
mother love and mother thought into
all that touches or concerns childhood
In home, school, church or state; to
raise the standards Of home life; to
develop wiser, better trained parent
hood; to bring into closer relation the
home and the school, that parent and
teacher may cooperate intelligently
in the education of the child, using
systematic, earnest effort to this end
through the formation of mothers
clubs and parent teacher associations
IN connection with public schools and
elsewhere.
LEGISLATION Wanted.
Also to promote the establishment
Of kindergartens and of laws which
VIII adequately care for neglected and
dependent children; to secure such
legislation as will insure that children
Of tender years may not be tried in
ordinary courts: but that each town
shall establish juvenile court and
special officers whose duty it shall be
10 care for the child that he shall be
rescued from rather than confined in
evil ways. -
The congress is to work for such
probationary care in Individual homes
rather than institutions; to give young
people. ignorant of the proper care
and training Of children opportunities
to learn that which will enable them
"a better perform the duties of parent
hood: to promote high ideals of mar
riage and the maintenance of its
sacredness and permanence and to in
terest men and women to cooperate
4 in the work for purer, trues homes, In
the belief that to accomplish the best
results men and women must work
together.
Membership Is $4,000.
There were $4,000 members in 1910,
and the organizations are just begin
ming to feel their power. The results
thus far are wonderful and most en-
couraging. The national officers are:
President - Mrs. Frederic Schoff,
Philadelphia.
Secretary-Mrs. James s. Bolton,
New Haven, Conn.
Treasurer w. B. Ferguson,
Washington, D. G. 49,.
Corresponding secretary - Mrs.
Arthur A. Birney, Washington, D. G..
The Iowa state officers are:
President-Mrs. B. F. Carroll, Des
Moines.
Secretary-Mrs. Charles Brenton,
Dallas Center.
Treasurer-Mrs. w. O. McElroy,
Newton.
Corresponding secretary-Mrs. J. G..
Bennett, Des Moines.
Mrs. Nettie Travis after a three
weeks visit with her mother-in-law
Mrs. William Travis west of Ottumwa
left for her home in Ashtown, Ark,
Yesterday. She was accompanied
lowe hv her brother William Travis