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,pscial Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The star
LONDON. July q. 1915.
"A HUNDRED miles away, across
M the channel, along the River
N\ Somme, sons of Britain are
q q being shot by the thousands
From the battlefield the wounded, pick
ed up by stretcher bearers. are hastily
brought to cover. taken up communi-
cation trench to a field dressing sta
tion, then into an ambulance to
clearing station. on back to field hos
pital. and II the wound Is not too Sc
rious. still further back to a field hos
pital.
There. too, is the stopping place for
the more seriously wounded. but in
thousands of cases soldiers are put
without pause into hospital trains.
taken to the coast. embarked on hos
pitai ships and brought to England.
Here more hospital trains wait on the
quayside and with the greatest preci-
sion and speed these are filled and
steam Off to all corners of England.
y.
Lord Derby, who recently became
undersecretary of war. with Lloyd
George as his chief. said the other
day that the most wonderful thing
about the British offensive was
the medical work. 1t is true. So fine is
the system that men are even asked
where they would like to be sent. and
in most cases their wishes are complied
with. North country men are sent to
hospitals in the north. Welshmen to
Wales, and so on. SO that they may be
within reach of their friends. The ef-
nciency of the system Is remarkable;
There are cases of men who have found
themselves between comfortable white
sheets in q London hospital, wounds
dressed and ready for sleep. II there be
sleep at all. within twenty-four hours
after they stopped a German bullet.
The writer has heard that there are
more than three hundred thousand
British beds in hospitals in France
alone. All Of these could never be
used and the excessive number must
tingencies along the whole front In
one district in France the medical
corps made ready to take care of
10000 casualties a day. British casual
ties In the present big push" have not
reached that record breaking figure
for one district alone. but they have
been great Never has an army med
ical service been put to such a test as
this one: never has such splendid work
been done.
The writer has seen the turbulent
turmoil of handling the injured in
great railway wreck-clanging ambu-
lances, shouting stretcher bearers, con-
fused doctors, hectic police. Forty
were killed in that wreck. Multiply
that by twenty or fifty or hundred
and you get close to the magnitude of
the daily carnival of killing and maim-
ing. Yet caring for the wounded is
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aries for this division from the govern
ment, generous members of the con-
aries of a secretary to conduct the
new office of which Mrs. Schoff was
made director, under the supervision
of DR.. P. P. Claxton. September Is, 1914
the home education division of the
bureau of education was opened with
Miss Ellen c. Lombard as secretary.
There is also a stenographer on sal
ary and these two are the only sal
aries paid in the entire machinery of
this gigantic organization.
Great strides have been made
through this new office. which has sent
letters out to all the superintend-
ents of schools all over the land ask
ing for the names of women and or
ganizations interested in working for
promotion of child welfare in the nome
and school. This bureau sends out the
literature prepared for free distri-
button by the different departments on
subjects of value to parents, much OF
which would remain piled up on the
shelves but for the circulation it gets
through the work of the different de-
partments of the congress.
Education" continued Mrs. Schon.
does not relate merely to schools. but
begins with prenatal care and the
birth of the child and continues
throughout life for twenty-four hours
a day, 365 days year, instead of being,
as before, concerned only with child
for five hours daily for ten months:
Therefore, the cooperative work of
the congress and the bureau of edu-
cation is bound to bring forth prodi-
gfous results in improved children and
doubled baby saving-the congress
aims to save 100000 babies yearly
through improved parenthood.'
In connection with this work, read
ing courses have been prepared and
the congress has formulated plans for
a department of obstetrics. of which
DR. Mary Sherwood has accepted the
craftsmanship.
Other great measures fostered by the
congress with great success and re-
sultant in unlimited benefit to thou-
sands of children are the juvenile
courts and the mothers pension law.
To tell of the former is to tell of the
greatest work, from many standpoints,
that Mrs Schoff has wrought during
her thirty years of community service.
In 1899 Chicago had just established
its juvenile court. Judge Harvey d.
Hurd had drafted the first bill for a
Juvenile court in the world. Mrs. Schon
went to Chicago. met him and got the
benefit Of his ideas and his advice. as
selnbled her people, secured the serv-
ices of a lawyer and had bill drafted
for a juvenile court In Philadelphia.
the second city in the land to have such
court.
Its establishment caused great oppo-
sition from the various children's So
cieties, but the church organizations
became interested and aided In provid-
ing money for the salaries for the pro-
baton officers. Mrs. Schon with her
committee Of six women from the con-
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gress, six from the New Century Club
and the heads Of contributing asso-
Citations held weekly meetings to de-
eide what was to be done with the
children.
Mrs. Schoff declares that the work of
the congress is to continue promoting
the Juvenile courts until they are under
educational guidance. for the very
same children who go to the pubic
schools are the ones who commit mis-
demeanors that bring them to these
courts Philadelphia pays woman in
vestigator whose duty it is TO get the
names of the trou bleSome children
from the board of education she then
visits the child. sees the mother and
gets at the bottom of the trouble. so
effective has this arrangement become
that the court now sends 10 her lts
most difficult cases.
Another great benefcent factor in
promotion of child welfare of recent
years that owes its Introduction and
establishment in many states to the
Congress Of Mothers is the mothers
pension law.
In 1911 the congress, during the sec
ond International Congress on Child
Welfare. held in Washington. unani-
mously recommended that its state
branches make this their work for the
coming year. This form of organiza-
tion insures the support of the various
state branches, for. when measure is
brought to their attention by the ma
tional they put their united energies
into its promotion. Twenty y-seven states
now have the mothers pension law, and
it will eventually be in every state, as
its value as an economic movement is
without question. Through II lies the
reduction of child labor and child crime,
also truancy, the greatest problem be-
fore the juvenile courts and the schools.
In concluding, Mrs. Schoff said:
u want to see the congress double
the baby saving. Two hundred thou
sand baby lives saved yearly is now our
aim. This can accomplish through
educating the parents in baby care.
Next, we want to prevent children get
want to prevent the arrests of children.
Prevention is our slogan and we are
reaching forth into every avenue that
concerns childhood with this spirit.
I'VE are focusing all our efforts on a
campaign to get parent-teacher assoc
Citations in every school for the study
of child hygiene and child nurture and
to secure sympathetic cooperation be-
tween home and school, and to get
the study of character building and the
proper understanding of parental re-
sponsibility in teaching moral and spir.
itual truths to children.
I'VE are also working to get a de-
partment of child hygiene in every
board of health to safeguard baby
lives through correct instruction to
mothers in infant hygiene. through
birth registration and through pro-
lection of the milk supply. and child
welfare department in city. state ana
nation to study conditions Affecting
childhood in each school community
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7hen W0unded S0ldiersAreTake Home to EnglaTe

CTOLID London Moved to Enthusiasm.
- Crowds Meet and Cheer the Manned.
Roses Thrown Into the Passing Anbu-
lances-Medical Work Called the Finest
Thing of the "Big Push From the Firing
Line to a London Hospital in Twenty-Four
Hours-Tales Brought Home by the
Wounded.
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In other cities scenes similar to
those in London have taken place. In
Manchester the wounded were placed
in motors. AS these moved off these
soldiers turned to the train and beck
oned a farewell to a nurse who was
watching their departure from one of
the windows. When the last contin-
gent moved away she said: Poor. but
brave lads! 1 feel don't like to part
from them. I would like to nurse them
to the end"
This lady said that she could not
wish to have a finer or more jolly lot
of patients. Those who had been
manned for life and those who were
not so seriously wounded seemed to be
quite Indifferent to their injuries. On
the railway journey from Southampton
she sympathized with one of the men
seriously wounded by the bursting of
a bomb. He replied: "Oh. sister! 1t
doesn't matter that much. 1t has given
me few days rest from the trenches"
There are too many stories to tell
them all. but here is another one of in
terest:
During the early fighting opposite
Fricourt a sergeant CT a Yorkshire
regiment led his section into the fourth
row of German trenches in the 'front.'
line system. Here, under heavy fire.
they proceeded to make the most OF
such shelter as offered, and in the
course of so doing collected twenty
four prisoners. Although surrounded
and fred upon from all sides the gal
liant little party held on all day. But by
the time darkness fell the sergeant was
the only Britisher able to stand up
right. and thought 1t about time to
beat a retreat and see what help he
could get for the wounded.
Accordingly he ordered his prisoners
to fall in and march, which they did
with astonishing docility. So fierce was
the barrage that in the return journey
half of the Germans were bowled over.
and the sergeant. who seems to bear
charmed life, reported with regret
that he had not been able to bring back
more than twelve Germans"
Those of US who have been sitting on
the side-lines since August, 1914, have
seen the British public go through
good deal of adversely, and have ad-
mired their fortitude and stubborn
courage. Now there is a period of sue
cess. and their attitude is equally ad-
mirable.
Copyright, 1916. by Curtis Brown-)
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membership was never drawn on lines
Of wealth or poverty. Its work is only
educational. and education recognises
no money lines; so. you see, crude
women are not only welcome but de-
sired and sought. The crude woman
made U.S. and we want them with US.
"This work is not for social diversion.
but to open the way FOR the mother or
the child of six years and older to learn
to work with the teacher for the best
intsraAt Of her child. Any other 1deA
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teacher association gives parents the
opportunity to study the conditions of
their particular community that bear
upon the welfare of the children. and 1t
arouses their individual interest and
sense OF community responsibility to-
ward the care of the young.
Had you realized that the Congress
Of Mothers Ia the most democratic Or
ganisation in the worldT asked Mrs.
schon, impressiveIy. Its democFaoy ts
oao e Of IT, 0tsoneAst 3Aaku1as. It's
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~ the many women's organiza-
III ~ tions in existence the National
u " Congress of Mothers and Par
~ ent-Teacher Associations is one
of the most unique. progressive and
influential.
At its head is Mrs. Frederic Schoff of
Philadelphia. who has literally grown
UP with 1t. since she was the first vice
president. Today. after being elected
and trfennialIy reelected its president
for fifteen years. she leads a member
ship that goes beyond a hundred thou
sand women. scattered throughout thir-
ty-six states, while more than a score
of foreign nations have enrolled under
its standards and are following its pre-
cepts.
This progressive organization started
its career of usefulness in 1897. when
Mrs. Theodore Birney of Washington,
being convinced that for the childhood
of the nation to be conserved mothers
should be organized. sent out plea to
the mothers Of the land to meet in the
capital city and form a congress of
mothers.
A number OF mothers did respond and.
under Mrs. Birney and Mrs. Phoebe A.
Hearst of New York and California.
formed the nucleus of the present con-
gress. Mrs. Schor was nrst vice presi-
dent. and in 1902 succeeded Mrs. Birney
in the presidency. which office she has
since retained
The ofncers of the Congress of
Mothers comprise the leading women
in the states. and its advisory council
and heads of departments include the
names OF men who are famous the
world over. Col. Theodore Roosevelt
has never relaxed his interest nor his
most materially in planning and con-
Quoting the first International Congress
Of Child Welfare. held in the White
House in 1905.
Some OF the other prominent men who
serve this body In an oficial capacity
Of Wisconsin, +. P, ciaxton, Rev
Josiah Strong. G. Stanley Hall. Phi. D..
Elmer Ellsworth Brown. william T.
Bryan. Phi. D.. and DR.. William p
Wilson. Women Of such strength a.
Waller Barrett and Lady Aberdeen are
also working with the congress-
Annual conventions are neld. and
tYiennial elections. The next one OF
the latter will be held in Washington
this coming spring. This will make
, the ninth assemblage Of this body tc
b held In the capital city. includins
] GxAssas OF child UalfaEe. WAahtnGtox
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efecting OF such precautionary care III
homes instead of in Institutions IL is
working untiringly to rouse the whole
community to a sense of its collective
duty and responsibility to the blame
less, dependent and neglected children'
and there is no philanthropy when
will SO speedily reduce our taxes ana
the expenses for prisons, reformatories
and houses of correction.
That is a summing-up Of the aims
and purposes of this organization, each
department of which is an able ma
chine with which to work. What are
our departmental" She repeated the
question in surprise.
why. there are quite few and each
one has a most efficient chairman to di-
rect its work: Child hygiene. child la
Dor, education, books for mother, books
for children. child welfare circles. child
welfare legislation. child welfare maya
zine. country life. home economics.
finance, juvenile court and probation.
kindergarten extension. loan papers on
child nurture, membership promotion.
parents association In churches. par
ent-teacher associations, press and pub
licity.
Through these SplenOi0 departments
or divisions we hope to promote uni
versally a better knowledge OF child
nature and childhood needs and
a clearer understanding Of the ineffi-
cheney and real injury OF some OF the
measures designed to help children.
which will gradually bring about a
guidance and guardianship that will
make childhood happy and at the same
time prepare these chiloren 1or their
duty as adults"
How do the parent-teacher associa-
tions figure In the Congress of Mothers
program of work. the caller inquired
"As our organization started out to
help every mother and every child and
every person standing in the parental
relation to a child, a plan had to be
formed whereby they could be reached
in groups, as 1t was not possible to
reach them individually. So the con-
eress evolved the idea OF putting a
parent-teacher organization into every
school-to double the work of the school
by educating the parents as well as the
child This WAS a sort OF national uni
versity for parents on the extension
plan, whereby the opportunity is given
TO parents to better educate them
selves for intelligent home-making and
child nurture.
The scheme enables parents to learn
what the schools are doing. the meth
DDS employed and what 10 expected OF
the child. 80 that they may enter into
effective cooperation with the teacher
and the school Thea. also. AhiA oasaeA.'
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field.
The stories the wounded have brought
home are wonderful The censor has
lifted the ban to very material de-
gree and Tommy is allowed to talk. His
simple tales are better than anything
the war correspondents on the spot
write. and the finest part of it all is
their utter forgetfuiness of their own
troubles, and their CHEEKY optimism as
to what has happened and as to what
will happen
The British army waited for year
and a half for this moment and now
Tommy Atkins Is making the most of 1t.
OF the scores of stories brought home
and published in the papers few equal
one told by tall, thin private of a
north country regiment. wounded in
hand, arm and thigh. He had bombs to
throw. had he, when they started out
and this is what happened:
Aye. IL were half past 7 when we
started sir. Twas in a kind of a bit
wood, ye know, sir. The third line.
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quiet, systematic thing-efficiency top
most. emotion and confusion elm
When q man is wounded and taken
to a place back of the firing line
where the surgeon can dress his wound
and decide whether he is too badly
hit to move, he either remains in one
of the great hospitals in France or is
sent on to England. In the latter case
he becomes a piece of baggage. To his
tunic is attached a label. This gives
his name. regiment and nature of his
wound. In the case of officers, at
least, a careful inventory is made of
their belongings and these are looked
after. Then he is passed down the
line. always in the best of hands. He
may have Red Cross orderlies, men
or women nurses to take care of him.
They say that these orderlies are even
tenderer with the wounded than the
women. Probably 1t is the advantage
of strength which makes it possible
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crawl on top o. them. But l saw they
was Huns, an outside ye see the bull
lets come pretty thick. SO i crawled on
'em till 1 found l was on one of our
OWN lads. ] couldn't crawl on them,
an / got out again. an then j don't
seem to mind much, after. Twas after
dark l got in, an the NJ. O. at the
dressin station. he said. You're all
right. lad he said. like that, an he
give me a cigarette Aye, an a stretch
er bearer helped me out through the
wood. l reckon twas their machine
guns checked US, like. But them be-
hind us got through with some of ours
what was left. Our boys is all right.
ye see they're not afeard o the boche,
not at all
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derfuI work-as heroic, in It's own way,
as anything the troops have done in the
field.
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F the many women's organiza-
tions in existence the National
Congress of Mothers and Par
ent-Teacher Associations is one
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The scheme enables parents to learn
what the schools are doing. the meth
DDS employed and what 10 expected OF
the child. SO that they may enter into
effective cooperation with the teacher
ard the sehool Thea Also. AhiA oASapA.
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Wnik Out OF Plant of Southern Manu-
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Stating that they would not work on
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scale. several women employed by the
Southern manufacturing 20. walked
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tcrdaS after protesting against the
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President Il. c. Laird, OF tho South
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