The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-11-22
TEXAS CONGRESS OF MOTHERS
ELECT OFFICERS AND SELECT
Eft. WORTH FOR 1918 MEETING.
National President Delivers interest
ing Talk to Delesates-Mrs. G. W.
Hutchinson New President.

! Houston, TeX.-ler eyes misty WIFI
tears, Mrs. J. N. Porter of Dallas, for
! the past three years president or the
| Texas Congress Of Mothers and Par
ent Teachers Association, Friday
thrust aside the proffered election Tor
| the fourth time to the highest cltlce
| in the gift of the mothers OF TeHas.
| When it became evident that no
amount of urging could persuade the
| woman who had mOthered the now
! powerful organization through It's flrSt
pyecarious years to continue as us
| active head, her most ardent sup
| porter, Mrs. Chalmers ". Hutchinson
| Of Fort Worth, was elected to the OF
| flee by aCclamation. The hearty sup
! port Of the entire congress was
pledged the new president in rising
! vote and the mothers from all parts
Of Texas are starting On the fOufth
year of their organized existence with
a program of proposed betterments,
which they are pledged to support
until the desired reforms are accom-
pished. Fort Worth was selected as
the city in which the next annual con
YentiCn is to be held.
The other officers of the organlza'
ton elected Friday are: Mrs George
W. Heyer Of Houston, vice president
at large; Mrs. Z. A, Waters of Fort
Worth, vice president in charge o.
first district; Mrs. T. w. Wiley OF Nc
Kinney, vice president in charge OF
second district; Mrs. 7. S. Clark or
Marlin, vice president in charge OF
the third district; Mrs. Grace thinner
of Houston, vice president in charge
of the fourth district; Mrs. Susan '.
Thurston of Beeville, vice president in
charge of the fifth district; Mrs. Ma
lone Duggan of San Antonio, record
ing secretary: Mrs. w. c. Barrickman
Of Dallas, corresponding secretary;
Mrs.. Gsorge Routledge Of Ell Paso,
treasurer; Mrs j. W. Lee Of Wichita
Falls, auditor; Mrs. William Capps of
Fort Worth, honorary vice president
Mrs. Frederick Schoff Of Philadel-
phia, Pa, president of the National
Association Of Mothers Clubs for
the past ten years, and worker OF
national prominence in the Woman's
club movement throughout the Unit
ed States for sixteen years, lent all
her knowledge toward making smooth
the path for the members of the
young Texas organization.
This is my message to the women
OF Texas" said she. The three bet
tsrments to which you have particu-
larry pledged yourselves, the inau.
guration of a state child's welfare
commission, of probation commits
sion and of department devoted to
, child hygiene in all boards Of health
are to be vital factors in making
the history of the country through its
future men and women. urge above
all things that parents and teachers
organize and cooperate for child
study There are possibilities yet I'M
dreamed of in our little children. BY
a little education of mothers and faith
ers, you can decrease disease 60 pei
I cent and crime 80 per cent This is
r not theory, it has been done spe
t officially and can be done generally
y With that power in our hands, is i
not criminal to let conditions go un
improved? Our purpose is not tt
form clubs with large numbers o
members, rolls of which to boast
It is to band together earnest womel
and men who will work and get re
suits We are united in one object
and North, South, East and West w
women are one. When Texas come
before the Mothers Clubs of the ma
Il ton in Boston, next year, let it bea
= the message that has been your ir
p spiration here in this building-'th
love of childhood is the common ii
:. which should unite us in hottest pul
- pose
Clean cut and definite is the pre-
gram outlined in resolutions passe
Of unanimously with sane enthusiasm
the work is not to stop with the pas
age of these resolutions" said Mr.
" Porter, then occupying the chair a
president. 1--WE will work from a
parts of the state for the passage {
laws embodying these betterment
. that must come. Every influence wi
be brought to bear, and the campaie
now started will not end until tt
fight is won"