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BTiJ.J~LETIN JULY THE CALVERT ASSOCIATES By GeorgeN. Shuster FOUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF LIFE By Rev. John A. Ryan, D.D. THE CHURCH, PUBLIC OPINION AND INDUSTRY By Rev. Francis J. Haas, Ph.D. THE PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE AT. HONOLULU By Wm. F. Montavon PROGRESS IN CHILD HEALTH IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS By Mary E. Spencer INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN By Rev. Edward F. Garesche, S.J. I· ADDITIONAL F ' TURES Bishops Boyle, McDevitt, Howard, O'Dea and Welch address N. C. C. W. Meetings in Pittsburgh, Seattle, Omaha and Duluth-Mexico and the Federal Council oj Churches-No C. W. C.'s Me morial Day Tribute to American Overseas Dead-Subnormal Child Dom.inant Theme oj San Francisco Convention-Program oj Detroit Meeting, Catholic Conjerence on Industrial Problems -Report of Fijth Annual Commencement, National Catholic School of Social Service-An Accomplishment oj the Detroit League oj Catholic WQmen-Program of Los Angeles Meeting, National Conference oj Catholic Charities-List oj Catholic Summer Schools in 1927-In the Field oj Labor and Industry-N. C. C. M. Executive Secretary's Page-Program oj Lansing Meet- ing of Catholic Rural Life Conference . CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: XLIX. Spring Hill College, Spring Hill, Ala.; and L. St. Scholastica's College, Duluth, Minn. ~I Published Monthly by the NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE CONFERENCE 1312 Massachusetts Avenue N.W• . Washington, D. C. , 2 N. C. W. C. BULLETIN July, 1927 A Word With Our Readers Four Guiding Principles of Life Suggested in a Baccalaureate Sermon delivered at the Catholic University of America" June 12, 1927} by Very Rev. John A. Ryan, D.D. "THE SUPREME RULE OF CONDUCT is to strive to know N. C. W. c. the best that i~ to be know? and to love the best that is to be loved. The hIghest that IS knowable and loveable is God; BULLETIN next in importance come those creatures that He has made in His own image and likeness. In the terms of the Catechism, our primary end is to know, love and serve God. Fidelity to the tenets and practices of our religion and unwearied perseverance in the Published Monthly by the endeavor to keep God's commandments are indispensable if we NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE would utilize the good in our age and withstand the evil, and obtain what little measure of happiness is possible in an existence which an all-wise Providence CONFERENCE designed to be a time of preparation. not a final end. Entered as second-class matter October 6, 1921, at the post office at Washington, D. C., "THE SECOND RULE that I would recommend is that of work, hard under the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for work, unremitting work. Without it, not even the most brilliant genius mailing at special rate of postage provided for accomplishes anything worth while. Unfortunately distaste for work is not in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, author the least of the evils encouraged in the young by the false standards of our ized October ~,1921. Subscription Price: One time. Probably, not more than 10 per cent of you graduates have eXKnded as dollar per year in adyance; outside the United much as 90 per cent of your maximum energy upon your college tasks. All the States, $1.25 per year. more imperative is it that you should wholeheartedly accept the gospel of work · from the outset of your careers. N. C. w. C. Administrative Committee "THE THIRD RULE is that of simple living. Socrates thanked the gods because they had given him but few wants. Today, as in the days of the MOST REV. EDWARD ]. HANNA, D.D. great Greek thinker, man's genuine wants are few. He needs food, clothing, Archbishop of San Francisco and shelter sufficient for health, decency and elementary comfort; he does not need costliness nor elaborateness nor wastefulness in the satisfaction of these Chairman wants. Many a man postpones or avoids marriage or sinfully evades family MOST REV. AUSTIN DOWLING, D.D. responsibilities because he cannot afford an expensive domestic establishment in Archbishop of St. Paul an exclusive neighborhood. The man who has sufficient moral courage to disre gard the false and artificial standards of the world as regards his dwelling and Chairma1~ Department of Education its location and who can find an equally rational and clear-sighted partner in RT. REV. THOMAS F. LILLIS, D.D. marriage, will inevitably adopt reasonable standards in the matters of food, clothing, social intercourse, and amusements; and this couple will lead vastly Bishop of Kansas City happier and more useful lives than those who become slaves to material wants Chairman Department of Social Action and to conventions. RT. REV. JOSEPH SCHREMBS, D.D. "FINALLY, I MENTION THE RULE of noblesse oblige. From society Bishop of Cleveland and from your parents you have received educational and other advantages which are denied to the majority. If you do not sincerely endeavor to repay this Chain,.an Department of Lay debt, you will be little better than parasites. You will enroll yourselves in that Orga1~.jzations ignoble and contemptible band who are willing to get something for nothing. RT. REV. EDMUND F. GIBBONS, D.D. "THE OPPORTUNITIES of genuine service are limitless. Despite our Bishop of Albany great advances in material wealth, there are still millions of men women and children in this America of ours who habitually lack the element~ry com Chairma7~ Legal Department forts of li~e and elementary security for the future. Whether this condition RT. REV. P 'HILIP R. McDEVITT, D.D. be due to bad laws, or unjust practices or ignorance, it is a challenge to all Bishop of Harrisburg high-souled men who have capacity for thought and leadership. Despite our great advances in the field of education, there are still millions of young per Chairman Department of Publicity, Press sons who do not obtain an elementary measure of schooling. Despite our long aHd Literature experience with self-government. our political life exhibits an amount of cyni cism, mediocrity, selfishness and corruption which makes the heart sick. REV. JOHN J. BU1tKE, C.S.P. "I N THIS DAY and country, religion stands in greater need of capacities such General Secretary as yours than in any other time or place. In no other land can intelligence, social influence and capable leadership do so much to make the Catholic Church understood and respected by those without and more. prOUdly cherished by those within. Whithersoever your eyes may turn, they WIll find golden opportunities CHARLES A. McMAHON, Editor for distinguished service to your fellow men, your country and your God. Office of Publication "MAY THE INFINITE SOURCE of light and power give you the vision 1312 Massachusetts Avenue to see and the energy to grasp these opportunities, the moral strength to pass by the glittering shams of which the age is full and the Christian fortitude Washington, D. C. to pursue always the ideals of truth, justice and love!" July) 1927 N. C. W. C. BULLETIN 3 AROUND THE CONFERENCE TABLE "Corne nO'lu,·that we may ta.ke counsel together."-2 Esdras, Chapter VI:7. needs which only the generous and prompt For the benefit of Catholics who assume HE DEATH OF RIGHT REVEREND charity of our Catholic people can care for. that the Constitution protects all natural T DANIEL M. GORMAN, Bishop of With the scores of churches, chapels and rights from encroachment by Congress or Boise, Idaho, on June 9, is the fourth to schools and other properties ruined, the by the States, Dr. Ryan states: occur in the ranks of the Catholic bishops, priests and people in the "This is a complete misconception. What the Death of American Hierarchy thus Mississippi flood section face a most dis Constitution protects is certain forms of liberty, Bishop Gorman far this year-Archbishop tressing situation. It is one which should certain immunities from arbitrary interference, cer appeal to the charity of their more fortunate tain property rights. It does not pretend to safe Canevin of Pittsburgh, guard all natural rights, much less to prohibit Bishop Russell of Charleston, and Bishop co-religionists elsewhere throughout the statutory infringements of the moral law. In gen O'Connor of Newark having passed away United States. Donations should be sent eral, Catholics are too prone to trust to the Su preme Court for protection of their rights and since January 1, 1927. directly to the bishops whose names are interests instead of actively defending these in Bishop Gorman's career as priest and listed above. le-gislative bodies before the obnoxious proposals have been enacted into laws. If the decision in bishop was one of extraordinary service and * * * * the Virginia sterilization case has the effect of sacrifice. Education and the missions were N ANOTHER PAGE is announced a dissipating this excessive trust in the Court and causes for which he labored with unceasing O new N. C. W. C. pamphlet entitled arousing Catholics to the necessity of actively "Human S terilization," by Rev. John A. opposing such dangerous measures as sterildzation zeal. Before his elevation to the Hierarchy, before they have taken shape in statutes, it will he served for fourteen years as president of Ryan,. D.D., professor of prove to that extent a blessing." St. Joseph's College, now Columbia College, Human moral theology at the at Dubuque, Iowa. He was consecrated Sterilization Catholic University of It is to be hoped that Dr. Ryan's pamphlet Bishop of Boise May 1, 1918, having re': America and director of on "Human Sterilization" will have a wide ceived the previous year the honor of Pro the N.