Evening journal., 1915-08-10
Mothers CONGRESS
Will Save THE RACE
Miss Schoff, President OF
Society, Urges a National
Organization
TO TEACH CHILDREN
CIVIC DUTIES

Statewide parent and teacher or
CARNATIONS it was declared by Mrs.
Frederick Schoff, special collaboration
Of the L. S. Department of Education
and president of the Congress OF
Mothers who has spoken here, VIII
soon be formed in every State in the
Union. Through them the home divi-
sion of the National Commissioner or
Education will be able to reach out
its free correspondence TO the homes
of 100000 children dependent on
home and parents alone and to 26O.-
100000 children who arc at home six
sevenths of the time and in school
only one-seventh of their time. To
do this work the Congress of Mothers
wants an endowment of 100000.
In their recent tour to the National
Congress of Mothers in Oregon. Mrs.
Schoff and other special cOllaborators
of the national commissioners Office
stopped in every state on the way
and she said that State organiza-
tons simply sprang up around them
as they passed. Next year the Con-
gress of Mothers will meet at Nash
Vile, Tenn, and will send organ
izers through every Southern State
not now equipped with a Statewide
parent and teacher organization.
1--WE are nationally awakening TO
the fact that all past generations OF
our race have just 'growed like Top
syn said Mrs Schof., laid that 1t
is practicable 10 educate parents to
rear the present and coming genera
tions with enough love, sense and
reason and science to prevent about
nineteenth of the ills that the body
polite had been heir to: to train the
whole nations children in the way
that they should go. that when they
are grown up, they will not depart
from il. Not only this nation but
the whole civilized world. n awaken
ed to the truth Of the vision II has
so far materialized as to insure that
the civilization of today will look like
The Dark Ages in comparison with
what is soon to follow.
One hundred thousand babies
lives are to be saved annually as its
first triumph. In few years we will
look back on this time as we look
on the age OF Louis the XI. who
drank babies blood
Teaching the Parents.
THE problem of saving children's
lives by education of mothers in in.
iant hygiene was effectively worked
out by DR.. Miele. Client. Belgium. in
1905-06. by a comprehensive system
Of creches. infant hospitals. milk de.
pots and schools for mothers where
girls and women we're so trained in
child care that the death rate OF
infants fell from $50 per 1000 to A
per 1000 Paris carried the help Il
mothers still further. adding to thu
teaching idea by establishing restau
rants for nursing mothers that b,
proper food they might retain tn,
power to nurse their babies. multiply
ing the child's possibilities of life
London followed in 1907 by establish
ing thirty-eight schools for mothers
with object lessons in the care o
he baby.
AT the present time educationa
work in child nurture and homo max
ing for the parents Of the Unite,
States is in its infancy. although 500.
600 parents have been brought to
gether for study. What we need allow
all things and We are aiming for IT, il
an endowment of 100000 to yiel,
about 100000 year TO be devoted t
the work of the home education di
vision through the Statewide organ
izations that will be the channel
of national teaching of the million