The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-05-20
cH|lO WELFARE IS
SUBJECT MEETING.
MOTHERS CLUBS ANNUAL CON-
FERENCE AT HIGH SCHOOL
BREAKS RECORD.
MAYOR AINSLIE SPEAKS
REVENUE BROUGHT TO
ORGANIZATION BY RECENT SALE.
CLUB HIGHLY ELATED OVER
PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE.

ganization, which has been consider
ably in the public eye Of late on ac-
count of Mayor Ainslie's defense OF its
annual Child Welfare Sale from the
attack of the Mothers Day Tnterna-
tional association, Of Philadelphia
was held yesterday afternoon at 4
o'clock in the auditorium of the Ad-
minstration building. sos East Mar
shall street
The Mothers Room" which Is the
exclusive possession of the federation,
by grace of the school authorities, was
too small to hold the audience which
assembled to hear the reports of the
sale, the individual club work, and of
the president OF the executive board,
Mrs. w. A Burrows, and Mrs. j. b.
Spiers,- delegate to-tf,e recent third
international congress on the Welfare
Of the Child. at Washington.
The financial success Of the sale this
year was matter of congratulation,
and prospects for increased revenue
for child welfare work from this
source in future were felt to be excel
lent. No business was taken up at
this meeting, as all the time was need /
ed for the various reports and ad-
dresses. In her annual report. Mrs.
Burrows noted the fact that labor had
chiefly been directed toward obtaining
free dental hygiene in the schools, OBJ
tanning State aid for the higher educa-
ton of women and State laws raising
the age of consent, and commence
ment of u campaign for compulsory
education in Richmond, which she
pointed out as not being one of the
three cities in the State which had
taken advantage of local option in this
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be wiped out, she declared. that all
nine States which have not compulsory
education are In the South, and Rich
mond must set a better example, as
the State capital is expected to lead
the way-in public betterment
The president then introduced Mayor
Aiuslie who had come by special re-
quest to explain how he felt at being
asked by the Philadelphia Information
al Mothers Day association To protect
the citizens of Richmond from the
federation
The individual clubs then presented
oral or written reports OF work done,
which included purchase Of MOVING
picture machines, victrolas, school,
and athletic equipment, spec
tacles and SUPPLIES for needy children,
educational lectures, flowers for sick, |
social center work and Il school gar
den. contributions 10 Bethany home,
festivals and entertainments, care of
fresh air children. parents rallrs,
and library extension and school pins
for graduates.
DIR. Chandler spoke briefly IN com
rnendation of past work and future
plans, and pledged his cordial support
| in the future as. in the past He said
that 1t would never be known how
deeply the city. was in debt TO the
mothers clubs.
Mr. Waiford addressed the mothers
in favor Of the plans under way for
establishing a public library in the old
Jeter Memorial hall on Richmond
college grounds,
In reporting on the congress on
Child welfare, Mrs. ]. b. spiers said
that between eighty and ninety gov
ernors delegates had been appointed
OF whom about thirty-three had been
In attendance. besides representatives
Of Ave foreign countries, and about
ninety authorized voting delegates
from the different State branches Of
the congress. 1t had been her priv
ilege as governors delegate from Viz
ginia, to submit resolution to the
congress for adoption, on learning
which she had hastily prepared the
following resolution for the protection
Of the home from abuse of the copy
right privilege by song writer's and
purveyors:
which strengthen ideals. exxalt. sus-
tain end purify the mind and con-
tribute to health, sanity and hap
piness. music mas always been recog~
nized TO be among the first and
Whereaa in proportion to its power
for good its perversion and misuse
Is mighty for evil; and
Whereas In many of the popular
songs of the day the power Of music
is indisputably and flagrantly mis-
used. and 1t Is made the vehicle of
irroverence for God. the church, mar
rage and the home, both openly and
by suggestion: and
Whereas. the erotic tendency Of
much of our popular music has
probably done more than any other
single agency to tear down the bar
riers of proper reserve between the
sexes, destroy modesty and the ideals
upon which all progress and even the
very preservation of the nation de-
pends and I
Whereas for it's ability 10 exert
such cvir influence upon the hearts
and minds and homes of the people,
such music depends upon the copy
right. or national guarantee of pro- !
lection: be il. therefore,
Resolved, by the Third Information
al Congress on the welfare OF the
hid, that organized motherhood de-
mands from the congress of the
United States protection for the
home by restriction of the copyright,
through appointment of a song com
mission empowered to examine and
pass upon all songs presented for
copyright at the patent Office. And
be 1t further
Resolved, that this Mothers Con-