Evening star., 1923-10-14
Parent-Teacher Activities.

This column is conducted under
the auspices of the District of CO.
lumbia branch of the National Con-
gress Of Mothers and Parent Teacher
Associations.
The first meeting of the season Of the
District of Columbia Congress of
Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associa-
| tions will be held In the Ebbitt Hotel
Tuesday, October 16, at o'clock. DR..
F. w. Ballou. superintendent of schools,
will be the speaker for the afternoon.
Miss Lily Kanely of the District of CO.
lumbia Chapter of the American Red
Cross will also speak on the subject of
Home Hygiene and the Care of the
Sick" Miss Mary Frances Glenn will
sing. These meetings are always open
to the public and every one interested in
child welfare and our public schools is
cordially invited to attend.
The executive board Of the District of
Columbia Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teacher Associations held the
first meeting on Tuesday afternoon in
the home of the second vice president.
Mrs. Virginia White Speel. Many i'm
portant matters were discussed, among
them the matter Of establishing a de-
partment of Education and legislation
| to cover all matters pertaining to both
subjects and to meet at least once q
month. The board decided to recon-
mend to the organization that an ex-
perienced teacher be engaged to give a
| short parliamentary drilr' Immediately
before each monthly meeting Of the or
ganization.
The program chairman. Mrs. William
Wolf Smith, is busy arranging a pro-
gram for the meetings OF the organiza-
tion for the coming year, which will
include addresses pertaining to their
work by the heads of the various de-
partments in our public school system.
This program will be published at an
early date.
With the coming of cold weather
the demand for clothing and shoes
of school children is growing greater
and greater and the necessity for
some permanent headquarters for the
work of supplying them and all the
i, other activities Of the organization
is becoming more urgent. 1t is i'm
possible for Mrs. G. S. Fraser, the
, chairman of the clothes conservation
work to answer the many calls for
clothing until she has some central
room in which to do her work. Every
effort will be made by the organiza-
tfon this winter to obtain a perma-
nent headquarters. The Christmas sale,
to be held early in December. is to
provide for building fund and every
parent-teacher association in the city
| is expected to take an active part.
Mrs A. M. Baggs, the general chair
man, wants a representative from
each school association on her COM
| mittee and has prepared letter to
be sent to the president of each school
! club asking that a christmas sale chair
man" be appointed Immediately. Mrs.
a
and place of the sale at the meeting
on Tuesday,
The members of the John Bur-
have worked all summer for the
building fund and they are to give
a masquerade dance on October 26
| in the Masonic Hall, on Mills and
| Rhode Island avenues northeast, for
| this fund. The building fund COM
Thomas Mallon. This parent-teacher
association Is the first school asso-
citation which has started to work for
a building for the Congress OF
| Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associa-
| tions.
Mrs. j. H. Newton, the chairman Of
c1lildren's literature. announces that
Children's Book week will be Novem-
Der 18th to 18th. Mrs. Newton will be
this subject to anyone who is in
4 terested.
| There was a meeting of the execu-
| tive board of the National Congress
Of Mothers and Parerlt-Teacher Asso-
| citation recently in Cleveland, Ohio
The date and place for the next ma
tional convention was fixed for st
/ Paul, next May, from the 5th till
| the 10th. The board decided to stress
| this winter a plan to develop bet
l ter American child by developing q
J better parent. Az part of a hygiene