Show Guest Editorial MOTHERS DAY Sixty-one Sixty years ago a Pennsylvania Sunday School superintendent dent asked Miss Anna Jarvis to plan a Memorial Service for her mother a former Sunday School teacher who had always longed to see a day dedicated to mothers Soon the whole state was keeping such a day Next Texas took it up and ere long in hi answer to petitions concerning the day and a Congressional Resolution in regard to it President Wilson set aside the second Sunday in May to be dedicated to the best mother Inthe in inthe inthe the world your mother and mine The day is now observed in fifty nations Miss Jarvis said she chose the carnation as the symbol of the day because of the old-fashioned old pinks which grew in profusion in her mothers mother's southern garden Its whiteness symbolizes purity its green calyx life its fragrance the incense of a mothers mother's prayers and its wide field of growth the boundless charity of mother love The crowning touch of symbolism she said is the carnations carnation's habit of folding in hi its faded petals instead of dropping them like other flowers thus illustrating the undying quality of mother love Anna Jarvis caught the vision of her mothers mother's love and through her wandering sons and daughters have been saved families have been reunited and hearts already glad made happier CLIFFORD H H. SONDRUP |