Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-11 | Page 4 | Mother's Day

I. I M Mothers Mother's 0 th er I s D Day ay I ONE NE OF the most fragrant acts to be credi credited ed j to Thomas Tom Tom Heflin while he was one of Alabama's congressmen was his introduction introduction introduction intro- intro of a resolution on May fay 7 1914 calling caning upon the president to designate e the second Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day in May Mayas as Mothers Mother's day dar It was adopted by bythe bythe the house the same day by tHe tHc senate the next and on the third President Wilson called upon the nation to display the American flag as a ac c public expression of our love and reverence for forthe the mothers of our country Declining to issue issueS S a 8 proclamation this year President Roosevelt S observed I prefer to think that the tribute tributeS S 1 which will be paid to mothers will come simply 2 and spontaneously from our hearts That f seems to be rather as it should be S No man or woman no boy or girl needs be beS S told why mothers earn homage They have haveS S through all the ages It is their due not only as asI asa 5 I a n gesture on the lawfully ordained second Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day in May but every day all through their theirS S lives It is eminently fit though that this special special special cial occasion be set apart for them to claim for their theil own to receive tributes of affection and gratitude and to be the focus of national atten atten- tion That it has been commercialized cannot detract from the wholesome sentiment of the theS S day This it must be admitted is a minor evil eril completely overshadowed by deeper meanings Appropriately enough Mothers Mother's day has hasS S been chosen by numerous agencies as a day on which to move in a highly practical way toward towardS S removing a great peril perilS from the lives of women women women wo wo- wo- wo I men through adequate adequate maternity care Each i year approximately women die in childS child child- S birth This is not because medical science has hasS S failed the race so much as it is because women are arc unprepared in knowledge to face the ordeal 55 or are denied the care it is vital that they have at such a time There is much lacking in effective effective tive coo coordination to forestall preventable mor mor- 1 Commendable enterprises record progress progress progress ress each year ear to this end but the attainable goal has not been reached The American Legion at its last national conS convention convention con con- S undertook to enlarge upon undertakings looking to providing needed safeguards in maS ma ma- S S This suggests that perhaps through S the large membership of t the e veterans veterans' organization tion new resources have been uncovered unco and that it ma may become the means of bringing all efforts together tog in a nationwide endeavor not only to make accouchement itself selfless it-selfless less perilous S but to go even farther along the course to na naS national national na- na S welfare The legion dedicates itself to a new service on the approaching Mothers Mother's day Judge Wilbur M. M Alter of Denver and Miss Emma C. C S ner ncr chairman and director of the legions legion's na national national national na- na child welfare activities addressing the le legion legion legion le- le gion and its auxiliary and calling upon their separate community organizations designate designate designate nate Mothers Mother's day for stimulating interest in the established objective and aiding materially in inthe inthe inthe the conservation of th the home and in helping to keep mothers with their children Judge Alter adds in his message to all department commanders commanders com corn manders Through this program we will better assure for a child that heritage which rightfully belongs to it to it-to to begin life under the loving care of its own mother S This year then Mothers Mother's day takes on this added sign significance These aims very properly are associated The day becomes more meaningful meaning meaning- ful I It is more than a day of sweet and wholesome wholesome wholesome whole whole- some sentiment a day that is enriched for mothers mothers mothers moth moth- ers by bringing together mother and child child and mother the holiest relationship in the theS S economy of Providence to rule in human affairs