Evening star., 1914-04-19
Delegates From Many States
and Foreign Countries Meet
Here This Week.
LOCAL WOMEN PLANNING
TO ENTERTAIN CONGRESS
Representatives From Abroad Are
Coming Upon Invitation of Sec
retary of State.

Leaders from all parts of the world
in the movement for better environ
ment, care, training and education OF
children assembling in Washing
ton. and next Wednesday will attend
the third International Congress on the
| Welfare of the Child. This congress
remains in session here until the fol-
| lowing Tuesday, April 2S.
| Governors of thirty-six states in the
Union and rulers of many countries
have named delegates to this confer
ence under the auspices of the Ma
| tional Congress of Mothers and Par
nt-Tea cher associations.
| In addition to these official delegates
who are coming here on the invita- ton
of the Department of State, a large
number of officers and members of the
National Congress of Mothers and Par
ent-Teacher Associations in cities and
be in attendance.
president of the National Congress of
Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associa-
tions. who will preside at the sessions
| of the international congress, Is ex-
row afternoon. Other officers who have
| taken an active part in making ar
rangements for the international con-
gress are: Mrs. Arthur A Birney.
Mrs. j. B. Ferguson. Washington,
treasurer; Mrs. James S. Bolton. New
Haven. Conn. recording secretary
Mrs: David Q. Mears. New York; Mrs.
orville T. Bright. Chicago; Mrs. Fred.
T. Dubois. Blackfoot. Idaho: Mrs. Ed.
win r. Weeks. Kansas City. Mo-, and
Mrs. J. N. Porter. Dallas, Tex. vice
presidents; Mrs. William F. Thacher,
Washington. auditor. and Mrs. E. A.
Tuttle, New York, historian.
Committee on Arrangements.
women has now practically completed
local arrangements for the international
congress--Mrs. W. B. Ferguson in charge
of credentials; Mrs. w. r. Rowe and
Mrs Harold Walker, convention man
Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, information:
| Miss Ellen c. Lombard, ushers; Mrs.
| Edward B. Olney. hotels and boarding
houses; Mrs. William F. Thacher. deco
rations; Mrs. Fred T. Dubois. publicity.
and Mrs. Frank P. Wilcox music.
| The opening session of the congress
will be held Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock. when Mrs. Frederic Schoff, pres
ident. will deliver her address, and the
delegates will be welcomed.
| The program for the six days is divid-
ed into four general sections. Thursday
and Friday. April % and a. the relation
| of the home to child welfare will be the
subject of discussion and addresses. Sat
urday child welfare problems related
to the school will occupy the attention
of the congress. The relation of the
| child to the church will be the subject
| of afternoon aud evening sessions Sun
day. and Monday the state and child
welfare will be considered.
/ %l,
| Among the speakers will be Miss Julia
{. L.athrop. chief of the children's s
bureau; DIR. Helen G. Putnam Of Provi-
dence. former president of the Ameri-
can Association for Prevention of In
Groszmann. Piainfield, n. j. specialist
on exceptional children: Mrs Robert
II. Tate. Portland. Ore. president of the
first state child welfare commission;
Mass Miss Mary S. Garrett. founder
and trustee of the Pennsylvania Home
for Teaching Speech to Deaf Children:
Miss Ellen g Lombard, secretary of the
Philadelphia; Mrs. Edwin r. Weeks,
Mrs. Walter Leroy Smith, Maiden, Mass.
Teachers Association: Mrs. c. c. Noble,
national chairman of membership Los
Angeles Cal; Mrs. Orville r. Bright,
Chicago; DR.: ]. Robert Becht, secre-
tary of the Pennsylvania board of edu-
| cation, Mrs. Henry o. Holland Buffalo,
\. y: Mrs. Fred Dick. Denver, Col :
| Mrs. r. P. Alexander. organizer of the
| National Council of Mothers of Japan:
Mrs. Zoritza D. D. Furnajieff Sofia. tiuI-
! garia; Miss Pringsa Hu, delegate of the
! Chinese government: Prof. +. r. Kirk
| patrick, FitchburS. Mass: James E.
| West chief Boy Scout executive; DR..
| N. V. O'Shea Wisconsin University:
| Mrs. David o. Mears. Mrs. Milton p.
| Higgins. Worcester. Mass. wife of the
| father of grade schools in Massachu-
setts: Miss Alice n. Parker Judge Ben
B. Lindsay, Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis.
| for seventeen years superintendent Of
! legislation for the w. c. T. e and
| Bernard ]. Newman Philadelphia, sec
retary of the housing commission