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Show FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHILD. A bulletin to the Standard from the department of the interior says the proposed tour of the country In the interest of home education by the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers associations Is arousing widespread interest, according accord-ing to information given out by tho United States Bureau of Education. While child welfare conferences are beine- held by the state branches of the Congress of Mothers in Alabama Georgia, Connecticut, Mississippi, Missouri, Mis-souri, Maryland. New Hampshire, Utah, and Wisconsin, the officers and leaders of the Congress, accompanied by representatives of the Bureau of Education, will cross the continent, holding organization meetings in many of the western states. This tour is intended to make the benefits of the annual conference felt as widely wide-ly as Dossible. As many as nine conferences will be held In the proposed tour during May. The first of these will be in Chicago, May 1, where the leaders of the Congress from the East and South wtll meet. SL Paul, Minn., is next in the schedule, where it is expected to organize a state branch. At Huron, Hu-ron, S. D., the wife of Governor Frank M. Byrne will welcome the leaders of the movement and assist in organiz ing a South Dakota branch. Governor Stewart and a thousand members of the Mothers' Congress will weicome the crusaders Into Montana, and will provide for conferences at Helena and Butte. Seattle, Wash., is next on the list for a conference, then Portland, Port-land, Ore., where the annual meeting of the organization will convene. May 12-16. The final conference will bo iheld in San Francisco. This year s work of the Congress is in close connection with the Home Education division of the United States Bureau of Education. Mrs. Frederic Schoff, president of the Na tional Mothers' Congress, is director of tho Homo Education division, which since Us organization In September, 1913, has enrolled over 20,000 women from all parts of the country Interested Inter-ested and able to co-operate in organizing organ-izing parents for study on child nurture nur-ture and home making. The plan of the home education work, as revealed In the CongTess of Mothers and in the Home Education division, Is 'The organization of tho parenthood of the world for study of cmiuuuou s ueeus anu lor tno promotion promo-tion of child welfare." in tho conferences con-ferences which the Congress proposes jto hold, some of the topics to be discussed dis-cussed are: "Peace," "Encouragement "Encourage-ment in Habits of Thrift and Indus- try." 'Spiritual Development of Children Chil-dren " and "Helping Wayward Children.' |