The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-23
MONTGOMERY ENTHUSIASTIC OVER
 PLANS FOR COMMUNITY CHORUS

| organization we'll within the bounds ot certainty, and is now an accepted fact. In connection with the Sunday after noon community sings, the chorus plays an important role. as it not only furnishes background for the singing. but is in itself feature of the programme
 The community sing is gradually devel. oping into the community chorus, and ths oVo which was originally set as goal is well within reach. Nor is this all; ths war camp community service is extend ing it's programme further. In all the surrounding towns within a radius oi 50 miles there are being organized sim lar ehoruses, which are working on the same compositions, and are under the personal direction of Captain Krake an'i q local assistant director and organizer, but the entire expense in each case is porne by the war camp community serv- ice.
 At the spring music festival, which is planned for Montgomery and surround ing municipalities, each of the neigh boring communities are pledged to come as body to Montgomery and participate in the largest chorus ever assembled Tn the south.
 It is self-evdent that an undertaking so far reaching in it's purpose, so cosmo-
 membership, so democratic : in it's ideals and elevating in it's pro- gramme, cannot fail in it's mission: name ly, the holding and strengthening of the morale of citizens and soldiers The war camp community service in Montgomery has adopted the slogan: "A Singing Com munity to Greet Returning Soldiers
 An occasion of much interest to the Mothers circles throughout the state is Founders Day or Child Welfare Day, oc i- nati i,,,ex ne1 U,, ahr of each year, a meeting is held to do honor tu the founders of this great work for children, better homes and better parents.
 On February 17, 1897, the first National Congress of Mothers and Parent Teach CTS association met in Washington, D.. C., by invitation of it's co-founders, Mrs. Theodore W. Birney and Mrs Phoebe w. Hearst, who had spent months in plan ming for this meeting, to bring together the mothers of the nation to consider the welfare of its children and how to promote it in a systematic and scien- tiflc way Mrs Birney was a native of our sister state, Georgia, and wife of prominent Washington attorney. Mrs. Hearst was the wife of California 8 leading senator; a woman devoted to chil : dren, who had endowed many kindergar- ter. classes for poor children and work ing girls clubs, both in Washington and California.
 Today after P years of organized ef- fort the congress has spread throughout America and to many foreign lands, reaching Japan and China and other distant countries. So we now have an congress of world wide scope and influence The department of state sent out invitations to every nation to participate in the first international con ference on the welfare of the child, under the auspices of the National Congress of Mothers and the Parent-Teachers associa- tion The congress is now domiciled in it's own building, 1914 Massachusetts avenue, Washington, D. c. This mansion has been equipped with cafeteria, beds, pool rooms and much other necessary equipment. and is being used a United Service club for enlisted men, the con- gTess reserving only office space for it's management and for the business of the or ganization. It represents the outlay of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and