Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-01-21
Club. Notes

course at the University Of Arizona
last week, Mrs. Henry ID. Ross, past I
president of the state federation of !
clubs and an active member of a num-
Der of federated clubs of Phoenix and /
Mrs. John c. Norton, president of the |
Arizona Congress of Mothers and |
child welfare worker of note. Both |
women had the honor of attracting !
the largest and most interested gath !,
erings during the entire session. Their |
lectures were of an hours duration, !
Mrs. Ross dealing with "Children's
Stories" and Mrs. Norton discussing at
length Cooperation of Home and
School," Both speakers were enter
tanned delightfully."- during their stay
in Tucson by club women and Mrs.
Nortons address in part follows: !
THE great need is for trained
motherhood. Too long have we taken
it for granted that instinct will guide
the mother, bringing on us the terrible
waste of infant life, as well as failure
in forming character. Birds and ami
mails are taught by instinct to care for
their young, but we must use the mind
God has given us to study the prob
lens that come to us in doing His
work, that of caring for and training
His little ones.
THE mother who fails to cooperate
with her childs' teacher is the mother
with no preparation for her work, with
no conception of the importance of that
work or hindered by circumstances
from doing her utmost for the right
development of her child. The mother
with no preparation will not have a
high ideal of the Importance of her
undertaking, but when she gets this
Ill
stances to overwhelm her so as to pre-
vent her carrying out her ideals
To-day there are many good books
and magazines to help the mother. the
pitiful part being that just at the time
when she most needs these helps, her
time and strength are taken up with
the care of her children. 1t is diff
cult for a mother. worn and tired with
her daily duties to use her mind to hold
ideas or ideals. This is strong argu-
ment for preparedness for training
our girls for the duties of wifehood
and motherhood instead of allowing
| them to enter them blindly There
will be no false modesty about it if
there is the right conception.
A most earnest and effective child
study circle was formed in connection
with Colorado college. of mothers
who We're college graduates but who
/ felt the lack of training in their new
profession. A professor from the COL
lege taught them once a fortnight, and
| they took notes, studied text books
copied outlines and when possible did
| some original research work. At the
end of two years each mother wrote
her thesis which was passed on by the
faculty. and the college had a mothers
certificate engraved and presented TO
! the members, testifying of the work
| done. Few mothers have such an OBJ
portunity but earnest effort is always
/ worth while. The department of edu-
! cation is conducting home educa
/ tional division for mothers who de-
sire just such help.
The mother who brings up her
children by book may be ridiculed. but
so have the book farmers been
! laughed at for years, yet where would
! agriculture be today without the book
farmers? In the same old rut of
fifty years ago Why should mothers
stay in the same old ruts?
Not all women are called to he
natural mothers, but the real mother
I love may be in their hearts and will
be expended on the many children who
stand in such need of it, II is the real
men as Lucy Wheelock and Elizabeth
Harrison that enables them to be of
assistance in advising mothers. This
ii is that compels women to foster
movements against child labor for in
! venlie courts. play grounds. libraries.
better schools kindersartens, district
nurses baby clinics. etc. Many Of our
teachers have this love so that they
are glad and capable of sharing the
parents responsibility How are we
mothers dividing that responsibility ?
DO we virtually say "You may train the
| mental nature of nv child, | will take
care of the physical, and perhaps the
spiritual is left to develop as it may.
or is turned over to the Sabbath
school teacher one hour week. Can
you call that cooperation?
DR. Claxton. national commissioner
or education is a promoter Of parent
teacher. associations. He saws. we
have not yet begun to measure even
the tremendous economic waste in the
lack of intelligent cooperation between
home and school, while it is evident
that the waste of child energy due Ia
this on" weakness alone has never
| been truly measured for if it had the
supineness OF school authorities and
school patrons. as well as of govern
ment forces would have long since dis
, appeared.
Mrs. Norton then discussed the
!, practical ways of cooperating ant
, what has been and may be accom-
plished through parent teacher asso-
Citations.
The motion picture is a problem
, which needs the cooperation of HON,
5 and school" continued the speaker. II
, is with us to stay and it has its place
| 1t is like the little girl with a curl
t When it's good, it's very good. ant
= when it's bad it's horrd' There ar,
5 many good and worth while pictures
: but it will take long pull and a stron:
4 pull. and pull altogether to have onl,
J what we desire for our children no
only the smaller ones but the adde's
!. cents The problem is not only VIVA
, pictures are seen but how often shall
|, they attend. 1t is surprising HOY
many parents will allow their childre,
to waste time. money, strength an,
energy in evening entertainments an,
social affairs Moreover it is giyin;
al..