The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-01-14
The Necessity Of Cooperation In
Home and School
Children Have More Need OF Models Than OF Critics
By Mrs. j. E. Andrews


infinite possibilities for good and that know develop
them is to render earth and Heaven the highest
AS chairman of the Mothers Aid Committee glad to have the
opportunity bring before you the National Congress of
and severed connection Pres Of Mothers Mont
Aa and Vice Pres of the Ala congress- came
to Fitzgerald to make my home.
1t the 18th the first National Con-
of mothers in Washington D. by of its CO.
founders Mrs Theodore H. Bny and Mrs Hearst
worked together for months in preparation for the Congress which
bring together the mothers consider the welfare
of the children and how to promote it,
Mrs Brney native of Georgia. prominent
lawyer of Washington and the mother of three little girls
Her desire be mother highest sense her deep
sympathy and love for all children led most deeply the
wrongs OF childhood often committed by those really
to chidren but who had comprehension of their needs
She felt that mothers should take in keeping the children
OF the world that they should raise the standards of parenood
their responsibility with intelligence we'll as love- 1t
inspire them with that that the mothers
organize.
She knew of Mrs Phoebe deep love for children and
she found kindred spirit when she laid plans for
mothers congress.
Today the Congress of mothers places these two women toget
its honored and clearly loved seed planted then
has throughout Six years ago had the pleasure
attending an international Congress of mothers Washington D.
and the ten days spent there education ITSELF Six foreign
countries and leading every section
of our states, unng universal individual effort for the
welfare of the children of the world.
1t has been truly said To voice the pst to pre-
vent, the divine whisper of today"
Through the manifold theories and schemes for human
the idea had been growing to the crowdng
problem of the lay the conditions possible DEVELOPMENT
the childhood of the every organization and every institution
had begun give its share to the of the
child Yet remained for the mothers congress the child
and set him the midst making him already the center
love- the center of strong endeav the our
highest progress.
1t is the mothers that has it's self the
cd growth phnthropc movements the vigorous grip now be-
ing felt upon the problems of poverty and paupem in the loving
sympathy with sickness and suffering its recognition the
starving and bunted aesthetic tastes of the Masses spirit
which answering the of the of Other lands bv
thousands of tender voices and myrads helping hands,
And DO ask when has already made women the foster
mothers of every moral time In consden
tons that touch the welfare of the the naturally ws up
on those that emenate from the spirit of men, the nyid
looks to manhood for the destruction of the salvation and
development of its good behind the everlasting principles of ob
BUSINESS with which life stands the living
behind the man. the environment the history tradition the cir
the educaon the comradesnp and experience of youth
behind all these the influences childhood motherhood and tho
home Here the and of humanity at the b
ginning of manhood, and womanhood
Mental scientists tell us that mind receives rnoro
in the first few years childhood in all the after wears f M
During the earliest period the her bow soon
world WI" take him. butt is her voice and her eye her touch
n are upon his mind and heart during these formative stages
being in after may hold destiny of nation in bs
but the mother holds the destiny of the man
To know her chld's real fe his inherited tand
tastes habits temperament temptations aspirations as She no
the outward Of of his existence not only the mothers
privilege, but her high Obligation know her self in order to
her child; and the her self KNOWLEDGE n tho
her sense of responsibility.
You may find among mothers lack experience no adecro+
OF true conoons OF need and supply mistaken views
as to method of work. misguided mpuve i'll considered
but rarely ever will find resistance to sincere conv;
withdrawal from manifest ris hts
When mother feels that her temper her shirt be
OF cultivation of mind and her thoughts her will in
fuence her chd she then has the strongest incentive to
her character All things that and lovely and o
report what surer death to malice vanity manness %
ness and all the hord brood of passions nest out of b
womans life than to know that whole black rood
will make its home in the white her child The cb1dh
the land in the hands of the mothers The fathers own f
observing to allow much training principles practice during the