Arizona republican., 1916-04-09

the National Congress of Mothers and Parent Teachers associs,t tions.
 The first meeting for such an or @aniza ton was held in the City of Washington ill February 1897. This was made possible through the ear nestness and generosity of two great hearted mothers who thought that the , system of mutual aid should be de Yelpode among mothers
 They believed that humanity demanded | medium for the mutual development If mothers 1nd the primary object was i to awaken public opinion to the recog- ! hilton of the responsibilities of par ents and to their need of training in ! order to properly discharge it's re- | responsibilities.
 i From the first meeting which in the | beginning Was great meeting, has aris- ] en q great national organization made up of 4 state organizations The ad- ViSorE council of the educational com mittee contained the names of many , lea;iiEg educators and prominent men i and women in the United States. i The thirG international congress on i the welfare of the child under the aus ! pices of the National Congress of /, Mothers and Parent Teachers Associ- ation was held in Washington last April. Representatives from China Ja apan, Bavaria. Persia, Great Britain and south America including Panama were present
 The Phoenix Congress. as a body.
 
 i izatiors. to raise the standards of home life: to give young people oppor- tunities to learn how to care for children so that when they assume duties of parenthood they may have some conception of the methods which i will best develop the physical. intel lectua and spiritual nature of the [ child: to bring into close relation the home and the school that parents and teachers may cooperate intelliSentY ! in the education of the child; to sur round tha childhood of the whole world with that wise, loving care in the inn questionable years of life that will de- velop good citizens; to use systematic and earnest effort to this end through the formation of parent teachers as i sociations in every public school and elsewhere, and through distribution of literature which will be of practical use tC parents in the problems of home life, to secure more adequate laws for ! the care Of hlameless and dependent children and to carry mother love and mother thought into all that concerns childhood. The congress believes that , with the aid of divine power, these objects will be accomplished.
 ! It is the Congress- great desire t. ! see an organization in every school, ward or district through the West. IL ] is also through it's tireless efforts that 1 the National Congress has now oStab- | lisheG study, course for mothers i through the recent publication of a most valuable series of books consist { ing of eight volumes called Parents i and Their Problems The aim of i his set of books is to bring the best i though in brief. the terse articles from ! the pen of the leading educators, sci entists. and thinkers 10 the attention of the average man and woman who have neither time nor training for readpg eXhaustlcss articles The cir cdlations are admirably adapted tt cover just the problems mothers and , fathers are meeting every day in the rearing of their children. The con tributors rank from President Wood ! TOW Wilson to several California cit izens and from q list of college pres
 idents, professors, teachers and moth CTS to Theodore Roosevelt.
 It appointed a competent and author
 tatiNe committee to prepare this sci of books to cover the problems Q
 parents and how to handle them. The
 committee spent two years preparins
 eight volumes which they now puhlisl