Show Mother's Day 1972 Though Julia Ward Howe suggested such a day in the observance of Mother's Day was not to become a national one until about resulting from the inspiration of Miss Anna M. Jarvis of Miss Jarvis began the custom of wearing flowers to church on the day and by 1911 the observance was common in all parts of the IN 1912 a Mother's Day International Association was formed and the next year a resolution was passed in Congress calling upon federal officials to observe the Today most of the countries of the world observe such a Its observance this year in America is especially in that the traditional values and virtues of motherhood are currently so widely assailed by women's lib militants and other THOUGH the attack on the traditional role of motherhood will pass as others in other periods have unfortunately too many American girls and women will have been misled in the History proves a nation's strength is to be found in the strength of its homes and so much the work and inspiration of the THE ROLE of homemaker and wife is still the cornerstone of healthy races and and perhaps the highest calling of all the pursuits in As we witness daily the tragic results of girls being misled into attempts to be to reject the normal and traditional role of the values and virtues of unselfish motherhood are doubly impressed on |