Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
P.-T, A. PLEA ASKS
LEADERS TO BACK
LAW FORCEMENT
Appeal to Stand Behind
Hoover Made in Message of
Legislative Chairman.
NOTHING SENSATIONAL
IN RESOLUTIONS LIKELY
One of Most Important Expected
to Deal With Advocated
Education Department.

Coupled with plea to exchange
buggy mentality for the dry and inter-
national mind" State presidents at
tending the thirty-third annual conven-
ton of the National Congress of Par
entS and Teachers were urged today to
stand behind President Hoover in his
efforts to maintain law enforcement.
The message of Mrs. William Tilton
legislative chairman of the national
group, to each State president stressed
that prohibition is simply one Of the
new controls needed for the new day.
Old Dobbin and the saloon cannot be
made to At into day when the en-
gines have taken to the broad highway
and will soon crowd the air.
Other problems, such as those en-
tailed in home service, education, public
health and like activities of parent
teacher associations were outlined to
the congress in the reports of officers
and by speakers at various section meet
ings during the day. DR.. Randall j.
Condor, superintendent of Cincinnati.
Ohio, schools and fifth vice president Of
the congress, and George r. Farnum,
assistant attorney general were speak.
ers at the Humane Education luncheon
conference.
State Leaders Aid Asked.
Mrs. Tilton called upon the State
presidents to respond to President
Hoover's law enforcement message" by
distributing among the civic groups
of your community our law enforcement
leaflet, prepared with the aid Of Ros-
coe Pound, dean of the Harvard Law
School"
Prohibition is one Of the six points in
a program Endorsed by the Congress In
1924 which officers of the group said
today probably would be reasserted IN
resolutions adopted at this convention.
Of1cerS said that resolutions coming
before the body would contain moth
ing sensational but would look toward
a program of constructive educational
activities. One of the most important
of these unquestionably will deal with
the advocated Department of Education,
with a secretary IL the Presidents cab
met.
Referring to this legislative proposal
in his talk at the Founders dinner, j.
W. Crabtree. general secretary OF the
1T is most encouraging to note the
fact that the new Secretary OF the De-
partment of the Interior advocates the
enlargement Of the Bureau OF Educa-
ton. Other Secretaries have not real
lied the importance of this particular
bureau. Your work and ours has I'M
doubtedly helped to awaken this new
interest, and the bureau itself has be-
gun to take on new Importance. What
atoY re
bureau will be due to the feeling over
the United States that the Government
owes as much attention to education as
to either commerce, labor or agricul-
ture."
Reports en- Activities Made.
Reports on various phases of parent
teacher activities were rendered this
morning by the general officers, includ-
ing Mrs. S. M. N. Mars, and the fol-
lowing vice presidents: Mrs. Bruce
Carr Jones, Mrs. Herbert F. Chafee, DR..
Randall J. Condor, Mrs. Louis T. de
VALERIE, Mrs. Hugh Bradford, DR.. j. E.
Butterworth and Mrs. c. E. Mason.
Mrs. c. H. Remington reported on
the Child Welfare Magazine and Mrs.
Mason on the national congress en-
dowment fund to continue and extend
its activities. 1.-The Parent-Teacher
Movement Among the Colored People"
was the topic of a report by Mrs. Fred
Vessels. Work in the churches was dis
cussed by Dr. Valera H. Parker, while
Mrs. Mars and Mrs. Fred M. Raymond
told about preliminary plans for the
congress birthday celebration this year.
Hold Founders Dinner.
Founders dinner last night was at
tended by practically all the delegates
and large number of visitors. A chair
and desk for use of the national presi-
dent at the national headquarters, on
Sixteenth street, were presented at the
dinner by the New York branch in
memory of Mrs. Dora c. Tutle, a
founder. The presentation was made
by Mrs. w. A. Stafford, acting presi-
dent of the New York branch.
Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president of
the District branch, welcomed the guests
and delegates and greetings from the
District of Columbia were extended by
Commissioner Proctor l.. Dougherty
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent of
schools, was POSTMASTER and Rev. Dr.
James Shera Montgomery chaplain of
the House of Representatives, pro-
nounced the invocation.
The addresses stressed the relation of
home and school and the speakers were
Dr. William John Cooper, United States
commissioner of education and Mrs. A.
H. Reeve, president of the International
Federation of Home and School.
DR.. Cooper, whose topic was "Educa-
ton for Parenthood," said that Though
social controls in the home have been
relaxed. we would not go back to the
days when families were large and in
FAINT mortality high
Problem Is Stated.
"Our problem" he said, "has been
formed by Kathleen Norris when she
wrote under the caption, The American
Home-If There Is Such a Thing like
Mrs. Norris brief presentation of pres
ent-day conditions because she does not
condemn the 5000, 600 women gainfully
employed outside the home-not even
the millions of them who are married.
'She does not rant about the good
old days when woman, economically
helpless, was little more than a house,
hold slave. Nor would she restore child
labor.
1.-The economic necessity for a hus-
band is gone. Whether you follow
those who blame all their pet social ills
to this fact, or those who are thrilled
with womans chances for a career, you
must be impressed with the fact that all
agree that women enjoy status differ
ent from any heretofore prevailing in
history.
1.-The urbanization of our population
has released the home from social con-
trolls that were formerly important in
regulating the conduct of its members.
In the village neighborhood, where
every one knew every one else, the So