The Washington times., 1938-01-08
BY MARY PADGETT


Teachers gather in the Nations
Capital next Tuesday for a
series of meetings which will
last through Sunday, a program
for safety education for the
more than two million parent
teacher members will be out
lined.
This special meeting, con-
Quoted by the Traffic Safety
Education Advisory Committee
of the National Congress, will
be held Tuesday in the wash
ington Hotel, where all the ses-
Sions will be conducted.
Not only will instruction in
traffic safety be mapped out
as a result of this meeting, but
a program of instruction in the
avoidance of accidents within
the homes will be outlined. This
session will be under the leader
ship of Mrs. j. K. Pettengill,
of Detroit, national president Of
the parent-teacher organization,
and Marian L. Telford, of New
York, chairman of safety for
the National Congress and con-
Sultant on child safety and di-
rector of field activities of the
Education Division, National
Safety Council.
The safety meeting is the first
Of a series Of group conferences
which the National Congress
is holding next week for parent
teacher leaders from many sec
tions of the country who form
the executive committee. The
business sessions will be closed
and purely administrative prob
lens of the congress will be con-
Sidered. Members will plan the
program for the 1888 National
Parent-Teacher convention to be
held in Salt Lake City May Is
to 20.
/ PUBLICATION SESSION
Another special meeting will
be that Of the publication COM
mittee of the National Parent
Teacher Magazine, which will be
held next Saturday at the Ma
tional Education Association
Building on Sixteenth Street
Northwest. Mrs. Fred M. Ray
mond, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
chairman of the committee, will
conduct the meeting. Mrs. B. F.
Langworthy, of Winnetka, Ill,
junior past president of the
national congress during the
coming year, will be drafted.
The magazines board of direc-
tors will meet Saturday, with
Mrs. Frederick M. Hosmer, of
Auburn, N. Y, presiding.
Others who will attend the
executive committee meetings in
clude: MES. John E. Hayes, Twin
Falls. Idaho; DR.. Thomas w.
Gosling, Washington, D. c.;
Mrs. Warren L. Mabrey, Cape
Cirardeau, Mo-; DR.. William T.
Sanger, Richmond, Va; Mrs.
Simon S. Lapham, Providence,
R. l.; Mrs. James S. Sheehan,
Danville, KY; Mrs. James Fits
Hill, Montgomery, Ala; Mrs.
William A. Hastings, Madison,
Wis: Mrs. Chris Hirning, Nit
chell, S. D.; Mrs. L. A. Mailhes,
Shreveport, La; Mrs. William
Kletzer, Portland, Ore; Mrs. C.
H. Turner, Redondo Beach, Cal;
John w. Faust, New York city;
DR.. William Mckinley Robinson,
Kalamazoo, Mich; DR.. Ada Hart
Arlitt, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. L.
w. Hughes, Arlington, Tenn;
Mrs. Mary T. Bannerman, Wash
ington, D. c.; DR.. Edgar Dale,
Columbus. Ohio; Ben H. Dar-
Eow, Buffalo, N. Y.
Questions relating to the prob
lem of Preserving Our Inherit
ance," such as What Consti-
tutes Good citizenship" and
How May Young People Be
Educated to Become Good Citi-
zenS?" will be discussed on the
Parent-Teacher Radio Forum of
the National Congress next Wed
nesday from 4:30 to 5 p. M, over
Station WMAL.
MRS. BANNERMAN LEADS
Mrs. Mary T. Bannerman,
who is the national chairman
of the legislative committee,
will lead the discussion of rep
resentatives of three important
agencies concerned with young
people-the home, the school
and the church. Participants
in the discussion will be DR..
Thomas w. Gosling, national
director of the American Junior
Red Cross and second vice presi-
dent of the National Congress
of Parents and Teachers; DR..
Mitchell Dreese, associate pro
fessor of psychology at the
George Washington University,
and the Rev. Howard Stone
Anderson, pastor of the First
Congregational Church, here.
Mrs. Bannerman has headed
the legislative committee of the
National Congress since 1882,
during which time she has d.
rected a citizenship-education
program as an integral part of
the legislative work of the
congress.
Mrs. Pettengill, the president,
is widely known in educational
and parent-teacher circles as a
teacher, a writer, and a speaker.
AS a member of the board of