Show and 2 in Surest les in flanders field fie in belgium tire 29 S in brookwood rookwood Il in england are CO 30 this number Is g gradually r being bell cut down but b there will always alwn bo be unknown got BO adlers in tho the cen cem e t e r I 1 e s 0 o ove v 0 r there so thero ni are many mothers to t whom the thought though it may be that my son sloops s 1 e 0 p here comes natu X rally and by right 1 I 7 4 A mtv ed 0 o is zi IA YV gep na SIN 11 iro MOR PM gag sa s1 by JOHN SHERMAN OTHERS day this year la Is may 11 this year and every year it falls on the second sunday lu in may and by no less lesa authority than the congress of the united states un cle sam also says odys fly your ling flag I 1 custom says wear a carnation 1 miss annn jarvis of philadelphia was the originator of mothers Mother 8 day which was wag observed in several cities jn in 1910 now it has become ft day of nationwide observance following an act of congress con gresa tit in 1014 1914 it la Is set apart for special observance in honor of the home and motherhood its purpose Is 13 to recall tho the memories of mothers who have gono gone to brighten tho the lives of those who remain to stimulate men women and children to honor homo home and parents it la Is to bo be observed by act of kindness to mother and father by service in churches chur clies of all creeds and by wearing a carnation emblem of tile purity beauty fidelity anti strength of mother another lovo love j tile photographs herewith reproduced tell in themselves a story of mothers Mot liers day even it they do 10 not tell the whole story like a song without words it Is it a story without text put into tho pictures what you know of life and mothers loye love and you have a story of your own i 1 put yourself so far as you can inthe panco of the mother in black nt at vint that national shrine alie stately resting place of the unknown soldier in arlington national cemetery at washington I 1 i Is she there because she cannot bo beside the grave of her son in F franco annee it would be a natural thing for it a fallen heros mother to do for tho the nation has raised this memorial to show its appreciation of tho the american lighting fighting man so what more fitting place fo for r it gold star mother on mothers day dut but this Is not enough sixteen gold star mothers mado made a pilgrimage to this national shrine tho the other day there they paid silent tribute with wreaths and prayer then they went to the white alouse where president coolidge expressed ills hs sympathy with their purpose they were in washington representing bereaved Wine american rican women who want to visit the graves of their sons overseas representative samuel dickstein of new byork tins lias introduced a bill setting forth their wishes it authorizes the secretary tary of war to arrange trips to U europe drope and back on government owned vessels with proper military escort and for incidental expenses of each mother said tile the gold star mothers to tho the house military committee many rn mothers others their sons in the world war otter after they had given twenty years of 0 service to rear them A journey to the shrine of their lires lifes work la Is email compensation for these desolated women yet it Is all they ask aak many of them are so poor that they will never be ablo able to make the journey at their own cost coat 1 f tho the Nat national lonal war mothers assolin j tion decided at its last annual con mention to move its headquarters from indianapolis to washington tho the present officers are mrs 11 II 13 11 mccluer kansas city portrait herewith pres dent ident mrs carrie 14 root hoot gardiner itil HI first vice president mrs blanche A bellak second vice president mrs spence kenosha wis third ficq j raco pr z s ildene mrs rose sargeant Sarge anta I 1 t N V V sacramento cal fourth vice president mrs william D oldham Old haca lex ington ky secretary mrs lynn boyd now castle ind treasurer mrs mra curry carry avery washington D a 0 custodian of records mrs W A wilcox Oni onealia alia auditor mrs frank dekay blackfoot idaho historian imagine if you can the pride ol of mrs dolly wilson of pilot mountain N 0 site she Is tile the champion war mother of the united states by award of tho the association she say saw ten sons rally to the colors americana with one swift delighted glance dut yeal we always know therol smiled marle madame Mai lame their look so BO proud has taught us howl swinging along the sunlit roads in F prance rance I 1 dut but marie you would loarn learn what pride can be if you could see their mothers faces aces bowl or Is this gold star mother paying tribute nt at this nati national orial shrine because she lunowa not dot where her hero Is laid inid only that lie he went and has not come back uncle sam did his best for tits hla fighting men most ol of them sleep in known and identified graves but there are still many unknown sol diers alera in the american military beine cemeteries in Fril france rice in fit meuse ar gonne in st middel in somme in olse oise ainne aisne in ainne aisne murno marne THE VOICE OF A FLOWER FLOWE ny hodann I 1 am the carnation this Is my day of days today I 1 speak to all the moth era living near or living far mothers never die some are called away but always they leave behind a part of fhern solves selves and that living part builds for or insaf a home in the hearts of mothers children today my address to living mothers la Is th in the passion tone of red today my address to mothers who have been called away Is in the worshipful tone of white living mothers will read my address to them in my passion color on the breasts of living sons and daughters and who shall say to me that my worshipful address in white softly and prayerfully rising may not also be heard by mothers no lunger in the earth zone 0 0 I 1 do not surely know but often I 1 halfway half way believe that the mothers who live up there beyond the starline starl lne may bo be listening in at some angol angel wireless station and happily hearing the message of love I 1 am speaking this mothers day in tones of white from the breasts of multitudes of cf kemem berlof sons eona and daugh daughters teris J i god grant that there Is comfort in that thought 11 ll buggea blow proud the homage we show while tears teara flow dut but oh oh if ills his mother could know in her wool tho the mother instinct stinett In 1 what good american does docs not thrill at the I 1 familiar sight here pictured it la Is one of the things that keeps alive faith in the race and our destiny it Is this same mother instinct that gives tile the nation its devoted wives and mothers its trained nurses and its faithful teachers incidentally it adds interest to the pretty little potential moth 1 er pictured to know that she Is mary walker leo of new york the only grandchild of that gentleman scholar and soldier robert E lee the two contrasting types of savage mothers shown aro are proof positive that there Is no color line in mothers motherhood Is tile the same whether in british east E ast africa or in the arctic incidentally we shall say which la is the happler happier the savage woman who mates early and knows tile the joys of wifehood and motherhood 0 or the woman of civilization who devotes liar youth to a preparation for a career and dies an old maid the r oster foster mother I 1 tills this Is a portrait of mrs anna ma ala smith directing the music lesson of vivian kite one of the seventeen foster children site she has mothered fed clothed anu ani educated mr arild and mrs newton J smith have been father and mother to orphans and unfortunates for the lost last twenty years on their acre farm near hoopeston Hoo peston ill the old house tins hns stood there for forty years and has gradually been enlarged to ton ten rooms ples like mother used to make la is a famous saying but not lot every r y mother can make good ples plea five prominent american women have therefore appealed to the housewives of the nation to promote the study of chemistry in the interest of better housekeeping better food healthier children and happler happier homes mother love Is a passion na as old as the race circumstances and environ ment may cause it to act serenely but on occasion it flares forth in its pristine elemental strength mrs john P williams of aurora carried three of tier her children to safety from a fire and fought madly to rush back to tain death for the fourth mrs itose of chicago shot her nineteen year old son to save ills hid and keep him from a life of crime mrs james morris of chicago exposed her past in court in on an effort to get badr back wr daughter from foster parents |