Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-06
HOME IS MENACED,
DELEGATES HEAR
PIT. A. President Declares
Women Face New Task in
Educational Work.

With the warning that powerful in
f1uences are at work to break down the
home" the National Congress of Par
entS and Teachers was admoniShed to-
day to devote itself during the coming
year to adapting the home to the
changing conditions of life.
IF the home fails, the Nation fails,
said Mrs. S. M. N. MarrS of Austin,
Tex, the national president, in formally
conVening the weeks sessions in the
Washington Hotel.
While Mrs. Marrs pictured gloomy
outlook for home life, she nevertheless
gave hope to the parents and teachers
gathered from all parts of the country
when she asserted that the home to-
day is once more coming into its own as
an educational institution"
From many authorities in their re-
spective fields of activities the congress
heard the work of parent-teacher asso-
Citations discussed from as many differ
ent angles.
One highly important note of warn
ing was sounded by DR.. Julian E. But
terWorth of Cornell University and vice
president of the congress, who stressed
that lit would be very dangerous
thing" for a Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton to attempt to pass upon the needs
and problems of schools as a whole.
l1OIne races new
Mrs. Marrs, who devoted her address
to the general session of the congress
to Education for Worthy Home Mem
berShip," pointed out that the pendulum
is swinging back in the transition from
entire home education to full curricular
school education and warned that the
foundation of the home has been shaken
by this change.
Educational institutions as we'll as
students of social conditions" she said,
recognize now that the home must
again assume its part of the RESPONSE
| bility in education" 1t is one of the
encouraging signs of the future, she de-
clared to see how rapidly this idea is
taking root and how seriously parents
themselves are recognizing their respon-
slbility.
Pleads for Law Respect.
A plea for law enforcement and law
observance was made at the opening
of the sessions last night by Repre-
sentative Louis c. Cramton of Michigan.
Mr.. Cramton warned the delegates
that when the time comes that the
people of this country will not obey
the laws they themselves have made
the worlds greatest democracy" will
go upon the rocks. He urged them to
develop in the children under their care
law obedience.
The younger generation he praised
for its rapid adjustment to what he
termed the most radical social revolu
ton in history which has taken place
in this country in the past 20 years"
Il have no fear of America in the
hands of the next generation" Mr..
Cramton said. Getting by with this
generation is the real issue"
Representative John M Robson of
Kentucky another speaker, urged the
! congress to give its support to the bill
| to create a separate department of
education with a secretary in the Presi-
dents cabinet The ParentTeacher
Congress, having previously indorsed
the measure, he pleaded with the dele
gates to do their utmost to secure its
| passage at this time
One of the greatest needs, he con-
tended. is an enlightened citizenship,
and department of education, he sug-
/ gester would wipe out illiteracy.
investigations by great business con-
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