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Show a "Mother and Child" Sunday to Emphasize Need of Maternity Bill i . , - - i SJkjrJJK O I wit raiii.iii- mill lii r- Mi Willi. mi M bi an I lor t.. i lill.lron. Mn. itofftJall .luf.-l.l and lu-r il.nurh- irr I'iitrii iii Mtev uxm aKHbon ini i ibi,-" n the mwinlisg d tin- Bteppard '"'irr Mil. W VSIII.';T 'N. i. - Iec. 2. fwothar-and-Chlld" Sunday will be haai tad ii tha Dlatrtcl of Columbia I ." "lergyriien of all denomlna-llona denomlna-llona will i reach on the need Of the he Shepj.ard-Towner hill, which la to om- before. Tiingress when It coti-i iei.-a on Urr. g, i oun try wide obaorvouca Of Mothar- iiJ Sundu. b..t been plannerl b he National l.re;':e ' Women Voters i n noana of awaking the countrya onsclencr to the "Slaughter of lh In-' lorenfa ' i.i. in niimin mos tppoala ara bolng r -nt to rjenrymon ml bjahopa of all di-noinlunt lona. urg-l ing them to Suund from the pulpit the message of the grest w.xslagc In child life. More thin I'.i "on .-bil lre- l. rveis month In the year, according to official offi-cial atattstles from the Children's Buru, and moat of this mortality ! preventable- N VTION I ORG M TIOX8 The Heneral I'cderntion of Women's t'luba. the National Congress of Morh-era. Morh-era. tha Association of Collegiate Mumnae, the Women'' ' hrlatinu Temperance Tem-perance I'nlon. the Young Women's t'hrlstlan Association, the National r-ganlKAtlnn r-ganlKAtlnn of Public Health Nursing, tbe National Women's Trade L'nlon I League. IagentTea.chors' Aaaoc lat Ions, and other national oranlzutlona are hehlnd this inovcuionL Xhe National Catholic Welfare Council and t'ar-llnnl t'ar-llnnl Gibbons are being appealed to. "If members of the American Lefglon were dying at tho rate of 20.000 a month. It 0Uld he 9 different mat-ti mat-ti r. for tlie American I .,:.. la organized organ-ized and would take the matter up al once." ald Mrs. Florence Kelly, executive exec-utive secretiw of the National Consumers' Con-sumers' league who la supporting thr Sheppird-To-.v ner hill. ' The bahlei nre not organized and lannnt help themselvea We will have to do the work fur them." |