Milford chronicle., 1913-09-26
cHT.p wELFARE MAeAzINE

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vice which has been given by the above
named Board, you will realize that there
! has been real devotion to the ends fol
which the magazine was established.
DIR. O'Shea, our generous Chairman Of
Education, has secured articles of great
value for the magazine, and many oi
these will be used for programmes in
parents associations for years to come.
The Editorial Board hope to make con-
tinuous improvement in the magazine
and will be able to do much when it is
yielding an income. This day is APP
( preaching, as the report of our indefati-
gable magazine chairman will show.
Your president believes that the hard
est work has been done, that by united
effort before another year the magazine
should show profit instead of loss.
PRINTING.
During the last year, the Congress has
printed a new edition of Children's S Book
LISTS, 900 copies.
A new edition of How to Organize
10000 copies
Care of the Baby in Hot Weather.
Aims, Methods and Results.
What Prominent Educators say.
Circulars for meeting of Department of
Superintendent.
Certificates for State Branches of the
Congress.
Membership cards for receipt of dues.
Through special arrangement with the
J. B. Lippincott Company, the Book Lists
! for Children were published without ex-
pense to the Congress.
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON
CHILD WELFARE.
The preparations for the Third Inter.
national Congress on Child Welfare have
proceeded steadily. An International
Committee has been appointed and invi-
tation cards engraved and sent by U. S.
Department of State to every Nation.
Responses accepting invitations are be-
ing received.
Every State should make an important
feature of work for the coming year the
creating of widespread interest in the
Third international Congress on Child
Welfare, which will meet in Washington
in April, 1914.
The efforts of the National Congress of
Mothers for over seventeen years Ito ar
rouse the whole community to a sense of
its responsibility to the, children" have
bourn fruit in every quarter.
Everywhere Child Welfare is talked of, |
and the name has become so popular it !
is even used to exploit commercial scenes |
and movements which do not commend |
themselves to the mothers view point of |
child welfare
Never has there been greater need of
than now i'll working for |
child welfare.
The fundamental need Isl better under
a.. n 4 4. L.. L.
to do with them.
The Congress of Mothers must ever
hold as its primary work the giving of
in child nurture. 1t is TO reach
every home that it has established Parent
Teacher associations in schools and
churches. Unless the wears work gives
help in home-making problems to the
members they have not accomplished
their greatest use.
General lecture courses and entertain
ments for every citizen may be given in
addition but should not take the place of
the home education courses which every
parent needs.
The proper treatment of juvenile Of
tenders, the placing of probation work
)n a required standard of experience in
developing child nature are yet to be ac-
The Juvenile Court and Probation De |
Dartment of the Congress should be one 1
IF its most active departments. The Con-
yress should work for Probation Com
mission in every State, under educational '
direction, utterly distinct from Depart
nent of Charities and Correction s
It should work to establish fixed stan |
lards for probation work and for its di- {
ection distinct from the Judicial part Of t
he work.
The influence of the Congress in pro- \
noting measures has never been more q
learly proved than in the enactment in
line States of some form of pension to {
nable mothers to keep their children to- {
rether- rather than to seperate them, i
ending them to different institutions. :
This was first presented to the Con-
-ress only two years ago. Oregon and I
dahO mothers have the law through
heir active, earnest efforts. Other
tates have had help from others. The a
My opposition has seemed to come from =
charity workers.
The benefit from this new law can
ardly be estimated when it comes into
areful conscientious administration.
The extension of birth registration
nth Health Boards giving dehnate in
t-uction to expectant mothers as well as 3
ctual mothers should be pushed in every
In surveying the work of the Congress I
or the past year, your president is graft s
ed at the marked progress in the Pa c
ific Coast States. P
California in point of numbers still o.
olds the lead. Oregon has the honor
+ having the first Child Welfare Com
lission appointed by the Governor.
here are several active circles in Mon =
ina, and eager pleas to send them some =. y
ne to help organize. 6S S
New Mexico has shown marked inter y
st and claims already large enough p
membership to warrant the organization ~
state branch.
Arizona is steadily at work and grow tr
e, but eagerly looking forward to a Of
sit from National Officer Idaho is 81
aking steady progress aud the work is IL
a more secure foundation than it ever
IS been. North and South Dakota, pl
evada and Arkansas are still almost w
itouched except in a few scattering tr,