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FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE The Ind ustrial Problem and the Way Ou t....--I. Social Unrest (The first of a series of three articles) By REV. JOHN A. RYAN, D.D. Scouting As an Aid to Religion By REV. JOHN CAVANAUGH, C.S.C., D.D.

. The Women's Industrial Conference a~ Washington, By MARIE M. REILLY The Pastor and the Working Men of His Parish By REV. EDWIN V. ' O'HARA, PH.D., LL.D. ------AND ------Report of Chicago Meeting of N.'C. W. C. Administrative . Committee United Catholic Adion Against Oregon School Law Pledged by Bishops r

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"A Most Timely and Useful Booklet" IS THE UNANIMOUS OPINION OF THOUSA DS OF THE CLERGY AND LAITY "THO HAVE ORDERED THE CATECHISM OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION DURING THE PAST TWO J\10NTHS VERYWHERE, pastors, parents, teachers and organizations of Catholic men and women E are dajly enlisting in the Welfare Counci1's nation-wide campaign of enlightenment con­ cerning the aims and purposes of the Catholic school system. This campaign is necessary to combat the forces of bigotry and religious prejudice which are working to destroy the Catholic school system in America. RE we Catholics to remain idle and indifferent while the forces of commercia]ized bigotry A and un-Americanism are attempting to deprive us of our natural rights to educate our children? Catholic n1,en and women, the salvation of the Catholic school system in the United States is plainly up to you. If every Catholic did his duty by spreading correct information about our schools, there would remain littJe ground for the professional agitator to stand on. What Must We Catholics Do to Save Our Schools? First we must educate OURSELVES as to what the Catholic school stands for and what it is doing for our children. HOW l\fANY OF THESE QUESTIONS for America and for Almighty God. To aid in doing this Can YOU Answer to the Satisfaction 01 the National Catholic Welfare Council has issued Your Inquiring Non-Catholic Friends? ?-Why has the Catholic Church established a separate A Catechism of Catholic Education . system of schools? a l08-page booklet of facts concerning the history, organiza­ ?-Are Catholics opposed to public education? ?-Who has the primary duty in the education of the tion and management of the Catholic schools in the United child-the parent or the state? States. ?-Do Protestant educators believe that the Catholic Order this booklet immediately. It will assist you in schools exaggerate the importance of religious educa­ answering the inquiries of your non-Catholic friends. tion? ?-Why is the Catholic school American? First lmow your schools; then try to enlighten your non­ ?-What amount do Catholics spend yearly on Catholic Catholic friends about them. education in the U. S.? ?-What would it cost the state to take over the work Every Catholi:c parent should have a copy of this Cate­ of the Catholic educational system? chism. Read it, and then give copy to your non-Catho ic ?-What is the official attitude of the Church in regard to neighbor. attendance of Catholic children at public schools? It will break down ignorance, misunderstanding and ?-Are the teachers, curricula and standards of the prejudice. Catholic school equivalent to those of the public school? ?-Why should Catholic parents send their children to Catholic organizations should distribute copies among Catholic schools? their members.

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FEBR UAR Y, 1923 CONTENTS VOL. IV, NO.9 PAGE PLANS FOR NATIONAL CATHOLIC PRESS MONTH...... 4 N. C. W. C. News Service Increases Prestige of Catholic Press at Home and Abroad. ADMINISTRATIVE BISHOPS OF N. C. W. C. HOLD IMPORTANT MEETING ...... 5 Vote to Aid Archbishop Christie in Testing Validity of Oregon School Law. "For God and Country" LEGISLATION AND THE PEOPLE ...... 7 AROUND THE COUNCIL TABLE...... 9 NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE Christianity and Failure ...... :...... 9

COUNCIL Stamp Out the Demagogues ...... o. 0 •• 00.0 ••• 00. 000 ••••• 000.000 •• 00.0.. 9

Administrative Committee Shocking Increase in Divorce .... 0 •••• 0 •• 0 0 0 •••• 0 0 0 •••••••• 0 • 0 •••• 0 •• 0 • • 9

Public Demands Decency in Films ...... 0 0 •• 0 ••• 0 •• 0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10 MOST REV. EDWARD J. HANNA, D.D. Vigilance Price of Liberty ...... 00' • 0 • 0 •••• 00 ••••••••••••• 00. 0 •••• 0 • • • •• 10 "Why the Hi-Y?" ...... , . , .. . 0 •• 0 •••••••••••• 0 • 10 Archbishop of San Francisco Chairman THE INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM AND THE WAY OUT ...... 11 1. Social Unrest, By Rev. John A. Ryan, D.D. MOST REV. AUSTIN DOWUNG, D.D. CATHOLIC CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS ESTAB- Archbishop of St. Paul LISHED ...... 14 Chairman Departmmt of Education THE PASTOR AND THE WORKING MEN OF HIS PARISH ..... ,. 15 By Rev. Eduin V. O'Hara, Ph.D., LL.D . . RT. REV. P. J. MULDOON, D.D. IN THE FIELD OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY ...... 17 Bishop of Rockford ORGANIZATION OF CATHOLIC LAITY PLANNED BY TEXAS Chair11'UJn Department of Social Action BISHOPS ...... 0...... 18 . State-wide Campaign of Education on Catholic Subjects Object of RT. REV. JOSEPH SCHREMBS, D.D. Association. Bishop of Cleveland PASTORS PERFECT MEN'S COUNCIL ORGANIZATION IN Chairman Department of Lay PROVIDENCE DIOCESE ...... ;...... 19 Organizations Crisis in Church and School Life Requires Organization, Says Bishop . Hickey. .

RT. REV. EDMUND F. GIBBONS, D.D. SCOUTING AS AN AID TO RELIGION ...... 0 0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 21 Bishop of Albany By Rev. John Cavanaugh, CoS. C., D.D. Chairman Department of Laws an.d WHAT LIVE COUNCILS OF THE N. C. C. M. ARE DOING ...... 22 Legislation WHAT ONE PARISH DID FOR ITS BOyS ..... 0...... 0.... 24 RT. REV. LOUIS S. WALSH, D.D. Record-breaking Achievement of St. Joseph's Parish, Willimantic, Conn. Bishop of Portland A CAMPAIGN IN BEHALF OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION...... 25 Chairman Department of Publicity, N. C. W. C. Department of Education Prepares Series of Timely Press and Literature Pamphlets. PENNSYLVANIA CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION RT. REV. THOMAS E. MOLLOY, D.D. HOLDS SUCCESSFUL MEETING ...... 26 Bishop of Brooklyn ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN

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REV. JOHN J. BURKE, C.S.P. IN THE FIELD OF CA THOLIC EDUCATION ...... 0 • • • •• 28 General Secretary N. C. C. W. REPRESENTED AT WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL CON- FERENCE ...... 29 Delegates of Sixty - National Organizations Discuss Improved Con­ ditions for Women in Industry, By Marie M. Reilly. CHARLES A. McMAHON. Editor WHAT CATHOLIC WOMEN ARE DOING AT HOME ...... 31 Office of Publication WHA T CATHOLIC WOMEN ARE DOING IN FOREIGN LANDS... 33 1312 Massachusetts Avenue LIST OF N. C. C. W. AFFILIATIONS FOR 1923...... 34

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3 4 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN Plans for National Catholic Press Month N. c. w. C. News Service Increases Prestige of Catholic Press at Home and Abroad I , HE 1923 CAMPAIGN in behalf of the Catholic formerly Assistant Director of the N. C. W. C. New::, press development will start on Sexagesima Sunday, Service. Catholics have long desired a theatrical review T February 4th, and continue until ~he end of the which would deal with the moral phase of new theatrical Lenten season. productions. Mr. Williams' review supplies this want, as The suggestion that the whole of Lent be devoted by well as giving the readers of Catholic papers throughout Catholic papers to increasing their circulation was made the country an adequate idea of the theatrical values of the at the convention of the Catholic Press Association by Mon­ new plays brought out in N ew York. signor John F. Noll of "Our Sunday Visitor." At a meet­ An arrangement was entered into with NIr. Hilaire Belloc, ing of the Executive Board of the Association, held subse­ the noted war correspondent and author, to write a weekly quently, a resolution was adopted declaring that the Press review on the situation of greatest- Catholic interest in Association "would be grateful to the members of the Hier­ Europe. After this arrangement had been made, Mr. Belloc archy if they would continue their efforts in behalf of the found that it would not be possible for him to write a Catholic press," and naming Sexagesima Sunday as the weekly review . and, at his suggestion, a new arrangement beginning of the campaign which would continue during was made whereby Mr. Belloc will write occasionally for Lent. The Bishops were requested to urge pastors to use the N. C. W. C. News Service whenever he feels that there such existing parish organizations as advisable to promote is a development in Europe that would have a vital interest the production and circulation of Catholic publications. for American Ca..tholics. As Mr. Belloc arrives in the The year 1922 marked important progress in the develop­ United States in February for a lecture tour, his services ment of the Catholic press throughout the United States. for the N. C. W. C. abroad will not be resumed for several It is estimated that during the year various Catholic papers months. in the country had circulation gains that would total more The success 0 f the N. C. W. C. Service has resulted in than one hundred thousand. Unprecedented increases were a great deal of attention being given to it abroad. Many leported ~} ::,\.; . '-- ~ 1 :''1np ... ,.,rl new Catholic papers were articles on the service have appeared in foreign Catholic established in sections which heretofore haC! been witi10UL papers. It n-:lC: a c a result of vile of these articles, written a Catholic journal. by the Rev. T. A. Murphy, C.SS.R., in the Irish Ecclesias­ Recognition of the value of the N. C. W. C. News Service tical Record, that the attention of Rev. Michael P. Curran was given by the Catholic Press Association at its annual of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, was first called to convention in Oeveland last July in the adoption of a the service, which resulted in the fir t Australian subscrip­ resolution suggesting the raising of the price of the N. C. tion to the service. It is planned by Father Curran and W. C. News Sheet from $2.00 to $5.00 a week and the his associates to publish a paper similar in scope to "Our price of the special cable service from $5.00 to $7.00 a Sunday Visitor." week. These increases were put into effect by the Adminis­ N early all the leading Catholic papers of Canada are now trative Committee. Few subscribers were lost by reason of subscribing to the N. C. W. C. News Service. Not only in . the increased rates. As a result, there will be an increase Canada, but in European countries, the N. C. W. C. Press in the revenue from the service which will substantially Service is now favorably known. Some of the most dis­ reduce the subsidy granted by the Bishops. tinguished Catholic journalists of Europe are regular NEW FEATURES AnDED DURING 1922 contributors to the N. C. W. C. foreign correspondence. Several new and distinctive featnres were inaugurated Regular staff writers are employed in Dublin, London, by the Press Department during the year. In September Louvain, Berlin, Prague, Cologne, Paris, Vienna, Madrid, the first issue of the pictorial, "The Catholic World Throngh Rome, Toron~o and l\1exico City. Home correspondent the Camera," appeared. About seventeen Catholic papers are located in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago and subscribed for this illustrated service, and the revenue St. Louis. The N. C. W. C. News Bureau serves eighty derived from these subscriptions about covers the expense Catholic pUblications, sixty-nine published in the United of the service. This picture page is sent out from Chicago, States and eleven subscribers located outside the United that city being a better distributing center for the service States in the Philippine Islands, South Africa, England, than Washington. The editor of the picture page is Mr. Canada and Australia. George Barnard, formerly connected with the Extension The July convention of the Catholic Press Association Magazine. passed a resolution recording its appreciation of the Another new feature that. has attracted favorable atten­ splendid work accomplished by the News Service of the tion is the weekly review of the most recent New York N. C. W. C. and petitioned the hierarchy to continue the theatrical productions, written by Mr. Michael Williams, ervice and extend their fullest support to it. 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AdministrativeBishopsofN.C.W.C.HoldImportantMeeting Vote to Aid Archbishop Christie in Testing Validity of Oregon School_Law

EETING IN Chicago at Loyola University on Jan­ It was the firm conviction of all present that the Oregon - uary 11 and 12, the Administrative Bishops of the law, drawn up and passed under: 'conditions and by methods M National Catholic Welfare Council voted to sup­ almost unbelieveable, is a direct and vicious attack upon port the Catholic Church authorities and Catholic people the fundamental liberty in state and natian, upon liberty of Oregon in defending their constitutional rights and of education-, parental rights, and rights of children, and liberties, recently jeopardized through the enactment of an property rights. It was al~o their firm conviction that it amendment to the Oregon State law requiring the attend­ is contl'ary to the constitution of the United States and the ance at the public schools of all children of the stat~ be­ spirit and traditions of the country from the Declaration tween the ages of 8 and 16 years. Unless overturned by of Independence down to the present time. Furthermore, the courts, this law will mean the closing of the elementary the opinion was unanimous that true patriotism and public parochial schools in Oregon and will set a legislative pre­ welfare are seriously injured by all legislation begotten of cedent ' which many other states are likely to follow. The the 'spirit behind this law. Administrative Committee of the N. C. W. C., following a The Administrative Committee voted Qnanimously that thorough review of the Oregon situation by Most Rev. this legislation directly affected the freedom and vital in­ Alexander Christie, Archbishop of Oregon City, and his terests of all education in private schools al1d academies all, attorney, Judge' John P. Kavanaugh of Oregon, voted to over the country, especially in the schools where religion extend all the moral, spiritual and financial aid necessary is taught as a basic principle or fundamental study. to test the validity of the law in the state and federal courts The special form of test or repeal, it was agreed, was to and to use every legitimate means to bring about its repeal. be fixed by the authorities in Or.egon. The Administrative Committee of the National Catholic Welfare Council is THOSE PRESENT AT THE MEETING to have the' chief part in formulating the ways and means All of the members of the Administrative Committee to carry out the measures agre-ed upon. were present, namely: Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna, D.D., All present felt that the sense of justice-and conscience Archbishop of San Francisco; Most Rev. Austin Dowling, of the American people would , neve~ approve nor tolerate D.D., Archbishop of St. Paul; Rt. Rev. P. J. Muldoon, such legislation. D.D., Bishop of Rockford; Rt. Rev. Louis S. Walsh, D.D., Bishop of Portland, Maine; Rt. Rev. Joseph Schrembs, OTHER MATTERS ACTED UPON D.D., Bishop of Cleveland; Rt. Rev. Edmund F. Gibbons, Other important matters were -taken up and discussed D.D., Bishop of Albany; Rt. Rev. Thomas E. Molloy, D.D., durinK the meeting. They were: Bishop of Brooklyn. 1. How far there should ' be any kind of affiliation There were present by special invitation lV10 st Rev. Alex­ with the various movements for peace and for military ander Christie, D.D., Archbishop of Oregon City; Rt. Rev. expansion in our country. John P. Cartoll, D.D., of Helena; and Rt. Rev. Michael 2. The question of amendments to the Federal or State J. Gallagher, D.D., Bishop of Detroit. Rev. John J. Burke, Constitutions on child and other welfare work and the C.S.P., General Secretary of the N. C. W. c., Rev. John F. various legislative proposals affectirrg' the interests of Fenlon~ S.S., Secretary of the Administrative Committee, liberty, educati6n and charity. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward A. Pace, D.D., of the Catholic 3. The preparation of pamphlets or leaflets on the great University, and Rev. James Ryan of the Educational De­ questions of education and social welfare, now debated partment of the N. C. W. C. by' all classes and clubs, sO that all may know just what the Catholic Church teaches and does not teach on such HOLD LAW CONTRARY TO U . S. CONSTiTUTION matters and how truly and fully the Catholic teaching Archbishop Christie and Judge John P. Kavanaugh of is in harmony with the right American principles of gov­ Oregon gave all the facts about the adoption of the law, ernment and sociology, and demonstrating how far away the methods by which it was imposed, its meaning, and the from right Christian principles and spirit much of our effects immediate and remote upon the whole system of modern' teaching and legislation is drifting. - education, property, and public welfare in Oregon, and in- 4. The readjustment of the National Catholic Welfare . directly, 'upon other states, especially where similar Jaws Council and its various Departments in harmony with the have been, or are likely to be, proposed. Decree and Instructions of the Holy See, and for greater The presentation of facts was admirably made by Judge simplicity and efficiency; to fix the- true and specific Kavanaugh and ably discussed by Judge O'Brien of St. spheres of influence in which the Administrative Com­ Paul and Judge Halley of Detroit. mittee of the N. C. W. 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ized to speak and act in the name of the ArchbIshops or broaden its system of elementary education so as to and Bishops, who formed and now constitute the vol­ provide Christian religious instruction and training in ..untary Association, called by themselves and now known harmony with the right and duty of parents towards "as the National Catholic Welfare Council, this last word their children, as England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, being distinctly understood in the canonical sense of Holland, Germany, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and "conference," and in no way to be considered as sy­ the Province of Quebec have so well done, the church nonymous or identical with the canonical word Council, authorities and people feel bound in conscience to pro­ which is an assembly of all the Bishops, called by the vide such education in their own schools and in such Holy See, and having legisla.tive power. Indeed it was schools maintain, in all fundamental branches of knowl­ thought most probable that the term "conference" would edge, civics and patriotism standards equal at least to be finally chosen by the Bishops as preferable to the those of the best public schools of the country. That word Council. this, in fact, has been done, is testified to by the best S. The question of placing before the American public the true position of the Catholic Church on education judges in the more important cities and towns of the and emphasizing among other points that the Catholic United States. Church does not oppose and never has opposed a "Public 6. Several minor matters, affecting the Departments School System" of education as within the right and of Education, Legislation, and Publicity, and the con­ duty of the Civil Government, and indeed worthy of ducting of the various bureaus at Washington were dis­ praise from all classes of citizens and beneficiaries. But cussed and definite directions given thereon by the Ad­ since the Civil Government does not see its way to widen ministrative Committee of the N. C. W. C.

Holy Father Grateful for N. C. W. C. Contribution to Papal European Relief Fund

The following letter from Cardinal Gasparri, the Papal the generous people of the United States of America Secretary of State, elicited by a c-ontribution to the Papal towards various needy nations of Europe, puts before Relief in Russia Fund made in advance of the Appeal of them the picture of Russia's appalling calamity and the Holy Father, has been. received by the Rev. John J . the pressing need of its claim on Christian Charity. Burke, C.S.P., General Secretary of the National Catholic The Holy Father feels confident that the dire neces­ Welfare Council: sity of these myriads of famishing children, when made known by efficient agencies, such as the Ordi­ DAL V ATICANO, naries, the Rectors of the different Churches, the Segreteria di Stato di Sua Santita. several Catholic Associations and the Press of the No. 10971. Country, in the name of the Vicar of Christ, will have Da Citarsi Nella Risposta. such a record response as will enable the Pontifical Rev. John]. Burke, C.S.P., Mission in Russia to carry out the most meritorious General Secretary, work they have so nobly undertaken of devoting National Catholic Welfare Council, themselves to saving Christ's poor little ones from Washington, D. C. pestilence and starvation. Dear Rev. Father: Knowing the great influence your Organization exer­ I cabled you acknowledgment, some time ago, of the cises in the United States, the Holy Father is grateful check for a thousand dollars which you so kindly for your whole-hearted offer of assistance and most forwarded for the Papal Relief in Russia Fund on gladly accepts it, feeling confident that your efforts behalf of some generous anonymous donor. will go far to making His Appeal a success. Reports to hand from the members of the Pontifical His Holiness desires me to thank you for forwarding Mission to Russia, coming, as they do, from different the N. C. W. C. News Sheet of October 16, 1922, in regions of that vast country, show how appalling is which so much prominence is given to His Appeal, the state of things prevailing and how great the urgent and while expressing His appreciation for entering so need of the charity of generous hearts to aid in cordially and so generously into His plans, urges you supplying the means to save the starving children. to continue in your efforts to keep this noble under­ Owing to the lamentable economic and financial taking before the minds of your ever charitable conditions prevailing in most. European countries, very fellow-countrymen. little aid can be expected from them towards helping With the assurance of my personal esteem, I am, -the afflicted in Russia during the dread Winter Season Dear Rev. Father, .already upon them. His Holiness, therefore, well Yours very sincerely in Christ, :aware of the most admirable charity already shown by P. CARD. GASPARRI. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 7

Legislation and the People . ·1 'HE CONCERN of government is the immediate concern of every citizen. The only sure foundation of a democracy is ~ personal intelligent interest on the ~a~t. of .ever~ ci~izen in hi~ right ~nd in his exercise of the franchis~, .both l natzonal and state. The sense of responszbihty zn thzs mtal matter zs becomzng less and less a personal respons;bility, and therein we see the drifting of the nation away from her safe anchorage and out upon the seas 'of bureaucracy, paternal­ ism and tyranny. The tendency today when the public faces a social or political evil is to shift the responsibility from off one's own shoulders on to somebody or something else. The process becomes common and then we pile obligation after obligation upon the state, forgetting that the state is ourselves or, if we have allowed it to becomu other than ourselves, a tyrant, a dictator, an irresponsible category of political bureaus, lacking the moral responsibility of justice and of law which our moral and lawful interest alone can give it. The purpose of this department is to keep you in touch with the more important matters oj national political concern. Our notes upon state activities are given that you may estimate the importance of certain movements as they show themselves in different states. Thus manifested they are the movements that will become national.

THEODORE H. PRICE, editor of Commerce and THE CONTROL of immigration is still a matter of Ffnance, a leading financial weekly of N ew York, in a much legislative activity. Senator Reed of Pennsylva­ recent lecture before the City Club of Washington deplored nia recently introduced a bill in Congress amending the the fact that there are 1,022,000 laws in the United States present immigration act so as to limit the immigration of and that in many instances laws and regulations of the vital aliens into the United States by admitting 5 per cent in­ affairs of life, such as marriage and divon:e, differ widely stead of 3 per cent as now provided by law and basing the in various jurisdictions. calculations upon the census of 1890 instead of the census Mr. Price evidently did not take into consideration the of 1910 as now provided. many city ordinances and other regulations which to a On January 15, Senator Sterling, from the Committee on degree have the force of law. Immigration, reported with an amendment Senate Bill 4092, Inasmuch as 42 state legislatures and the Congress of which provided for the admission of certain refugees from the United States will be in session busily grinding out new countries of the Near East. This bill as originally introduced laws during the coming year, the average citizen may well provided for the admission of refugees fleeing from certain wonder what the 1923 bills, added to Mr. Price's total, territories of the Near East occupied by the Turkish Army. will be. As amended it applies only to refugees of the Armenian race. Immigration from nations of Southern and Southeastern CONSTITUTIONAL amendments at Washington are Europe would be very much lessened if not practically becoming quite the order of the day. During the last eliminated by the provisions of the bill introduced by Repre­ month -a constitutional amendment amending the method _ sentative Box, of Texas, which provide~ for the admission of amending the Constitution was introduced by Senator of immigrants not exceeding 2 per cent of the number of Wadsworth, of New York. A measure that affects the legal foreign-born persons of any nationality resident in the way to change our organic law ought to be very fully United States, as determined by the census of 1890. This studied by every citizen. The amendment requires as bill also eliminates the provisions exempting from the opera­ heretofore the favorable vote first of two-thirds of both tion of the restrictive law priests, ministers of the gospel, Houses of Congress, but subsequent to this it requires the etc., contained in the present act restricting immigration. submission of any proposed amendment to a referendum Psychological or intelligence tests such as were used in the of 'the people of each state or to a legislature of each state U. S. Army during the World War would be the method of elected after the particular amendment has been offered to determining the mental fitness of immigrants applying for the state for acceptance or rejection, and any state may admission to the United States if the bill introduced by require that such ratification by its legislature be subject Representative Cable, of Ohio, should become law. to confirmation by popular vote. A subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee is T HE INFAMOUS and organized attempt of those pro­ holding hearings considering the various resolutions fot moting birth control to be heard in Congress has at last constitutional amendment giving to Congress the power to succeeded. Those promoting this iniquitous propaganda regulate child labor. have long been eager to secure a change in the present THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC 'WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN criminal code which prohibits the sending of indecent mat­ tions by any bishop, priest, minister, or elder or other ter through the U. S. mails. Postmaster General Work religious worker, and providing punishment therefor. emphatically declared himself against any change in the penal code. However, Senator Cummins of Iowa and Rep­ A SS E1\tIB LYMAN GRAY introduced in the New York resentative Kissel of Brooklyn, N. Y., introduced in their Legislature a bill amending Section 2151 of the Penal respective Houses a bill providing for an amendment to Code permitting the playing of music in processions con­ the penal code that will permit the sending of contracep­ ducted by religious organizations, in connection with relig­ tive information through the U. S. mails. ious services, after twelve o'clock noon on Sunday.

A BILL giving illegitimate children the same inheritance A SSEMBLYMAN HAMILL of the New York State rights as now enjoyed by legitimate children was in­ Legislature introduced a bill amending a law establish­ troduced by the four women members of the Minnesota­ ing a minimum wage board making it mandatory upon House of Representatives. the Governor to appoint at least one woman as a member of the board. DURING THE consideration of the Interior Department Appropriation bill the House of Representatives re­ GOVERNOR COX of Massachusetts in his annual mes- jected an amendment submitted by Representative Lowrey sage to the General Court (legislature) recommended of Mississippi prohibiting the Bureau of Indian Affairs an appropriation of $100,000 to inaugurate a fund to pro­ from using any of its appropriation for the aid of secta­ vide for old-age pensions, this fund to be administered by rian institutions except in cases where such institutions a non-salaried commission. were acting under the provisions of treatie previously entered mto between the Indians and the United States A CCORDING TO newspaper reports, an attempt will Government. be made during the present session of the Oregon Leg­ islature to amend the initiatory statute enacted on Novem­ SENATOR FRANCE of Maryland introduced in the ber 7, last, which compels the attendance at the public U. S. Senate a bill authorizing an appropriation to aid schools of children between the ages of 8 and 16, thus in States In combating the drug evil and the traffic In nar­ effect abolishing the parochial schools, so as to make the cotics. same effective next September instead of September, 1926.

A DELEGATION of Pueblo Indians, headed by Pablo THE OUTBREAK of bigoted fanaticism in Oregon Abeita and the Rev. Fredolin Schuster, O.F.M., ap­ shows no sign of abating a far as activity in the peared before a subcommittee of the U. S. Senate Com­ present State Legislature goes. During the past weeks mittee on Public Lands in opposition to the Bursum bill that legislature has witnessed the introduction of bills that which they claim infringes upon the rights of the Pueblo would make impossible the securing of wine for sacra­ Indians who have occupied for upwards of two centuries mental purposes, that would tax all church property and certain lands in New Mexico. the property of all religious institutions, that would remove all chaplains from the public institutions, prisons, re­ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL of the United States has formatories, home for the aged, etc., of the State of Oregon. filed in the U. S. Supreme Court a motion to dismiss a bill of the State of Massachusetts attacking the constitu­ A B ILL providing for the attendance of children between tionality of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy the ages of 8 and 15 either at the public or accredited Act. private and parochial schools and placing the private and parochial schools under the supervision of the State Su­ ON J ANUAR Y 26, the U. S. Supreme Court heard ar- perintendent of Public Instruction was recently introduced guments of counsel in the case in'\Tolving the validity in the Washington State Legislature. of the Nebraska law requiring that English be the sole A similar bill has been introduced in the Texas Legisla­ medium of instruction in all subjects taught in the ele­ tUre by Representative Baker. mentary schools of that State. A case from Ohio involving a similar statute is also B ILLS FOR taxing property of churches and religious pending before this Court. institutions have appeared in the Legislature of Ohio.

SENATOR CONDON recently introduced in the Michi- I N MASSACHUSETTS the House of Representatives gan Legislature a bill to prohibit the wilful disturbance adopted a resolution condemning the activities of the of any religious assembly of worshippers of God, or the Ku Klux Klan. A similar resolution is now pending in exhibition in any public hall or theater of pictures in the Senate of that State. derision or mockery of the dress, garb, or ceremonial ac- -J. R. R. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 9

AROUND THE COUNCIL TABLE ftCome now, that we may take counsel together."-2 Esdras, Chapter VI-7_

A QUESTION widely debated during be moved except by the spectacle of a tional gales that swing them . hi~er and and immediately after the World War Christ dying in dereliction or a Roland yon. was: "Is Christianity a Failure?" It is overborne by his foes. . .. Our wars must "When we cease to pull together toward still frequently asked. Varied are the an­ be hopeless before they can acquire the the definite ends of life, liberty and the swers, innumerable the dignity of crusades." pursuit of happiness, we are open to the Christianity and explanations. Christian- The life of the Catholic Church, which attack of every demagogue who chooses Failure ity has lost, with many, alone is Christianity, is the life of Christ. to assume the attitude of leadership. New all definiteness, all real To them who saw with the eyes of faith, theories, untried and revolutionary, spring personal obligation. It oftentimes signi­ to Mary and to John, Christ condemned up and find their following among this fies nothing more than the meaningless and dying, was not a failure but a triumph. seething mass. Prejudice, class hatreds, religion of the spirtt of Christ and is eas­ To those who can see with other than even religious differences, are deliberately ily reconciled with divorce, adultery, pre­ material eyes, the Catholic Church, hailed being used to increase our confusion. The vention of conception, unethical business now with welcome hosannas and with normal uneasiness of a people recovering deals: oppression of the poor: denial of palms, again denied and persecuted, lives from a great war is - being fomented into Christ's divinity: of the Virgin Birth: of as the one triumphant institution among bitterness and discontent. The dangerous the historicity of the Resurrection: of the all the ·institutions of the world. And since theory that change is progress is abroad necessity of public worship: or of 4efinite he lives, Christ and His' doctrine are not in the land. Christian education. a failure, even though many refuse to ac­ "The mass of the people have two The Catholic Church alone has preserved cept it and many who do, fail in fidelity. courses open to them: one, to submit Christianity and with her alone has Christ A failure the Church and Christ will al­ blindly to the leadership of small unor­ today a definite meaning, a definite mes­ ways be to those who seek personal suc­ ganized minorities; the other, to make its sage and a definite responsibility. Christ cess and personal well-being. One must decision for itself; to go back to its Con­ Crucified is through the Mass the life -of fail himself-one must humble his intellect stitution under· which we have lived and the Church as it is the life of everyone and lose self and then will he find the prospered for almost one hundred and of her children. The Mass is Calvary. truth that conquers and in Christ, the real fifty years; to arouse itself from its hys­ Judged by all human evidences, by the self that endures. teria or .its lethargy and think for itself; tests applied by ' moderns to the question The Mass is our sacrifice. Priest and to suspect all demagogues and all untried "Is Christianity a Failure?" Calvary was people offer it together. In its power, theories; to fear all attacks' on its Con­ a failure. And the Mass is the death of which is the testimony of our own weak­ stitution and its organized forces of law Christ until He come. Christ is neither ness and our own failure, we must believe and order; and to realize the difference sought, nor, when heard, listened to, as He ere we triumph. We are conquerors, as between the leadership of the demagogue should be in the modern world. The Mass St. Paul says, only in Him Who loves us. and that of the statesman, remembering is His liviq.g history. Every spiritual ef­ * * * * that it is easier to tear down than to build fort entered upon and sustained by man pOINTING OUT the danger to the up." bears its likeness-failure. No different country from insidious propagandists All of which is sane and timely advice. success is to be met with by the apostles and urging the people to think for them­ It is high time that the' American people than was met by their Master. selves and to return to the safe anchorage began to think for themselves, to stamp In two notable recent books, far differ­ of their Constitution, out the demagogue and his insidious teach- ent in theme, this fundamental truth of Stamp Out The Mar y Roberts Rine- . ings, and to refuse longer to remain inert, Christian and Catholic faith receives ex­ Demagogues hart, in a .letter ad- unthinking pawns in the pernicious game pression. dressed to President of propaganda. Compton Mackenzie in "The Altar Steps" Haviland Lund of the Institute for Gov­ * * * * thus states it: "Jesus Christ, conscious at ernment, issues a timely warning against T HE STATEMENT of Judge Lindsey the moment of what He must shortly suf­ the untried theories now being so widely of Denver that "marriage in the fer at the hands of mankind, must have agitated, mainly by demagogues. In her United States is a failure" adds nothing been equally conscious of the failure of letter Mrs. Rinehart says in part: new to a widely debated question. He but Christianity two thousand years beyond "In examining the semi-hysterical con­ brings before us once His Agony and Bloody Sweat and Cru­ dition in which we find ourselves, the Shocking Increase again, through local cifixion." effect of the recent war looms very large. In Divorce statistics, the shocking And Theodore Maynard in "Our Best We have not yet gone back to sanity and increase in divorce Poets" opens with the following sentence ~ calmness . .. It is a time to sit down cases. His remedy of laxer divorce laws "The profounder philosophies agree with calmly and do a little straight think­ to rehabilitate marriage in public esteem popu1ar instincts in being far more inter­ ing. . .. The obligation of steering this seems self-contradicting. ested in failure than success. Defeat is nation's course lies, in the main, in the Judge Sabath of Chicago, who has tried the centre of religion just as it is the cen­ hands of its people, and at this moment over 6,500 divorce cases and has a wide tre of romance: and noble minds cannot its people are still being swayed by emo- and more varied experience than Judge 10' THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BL'LLETIN

Lindsey, has also I recently stressed the tistie standards in motion picture production Senator Capper, providing for a federal growing evil of divorce. One of his rem­ and develop the educational as well as the law governing marriage and divorce. The entertainment value and general usefulness of edies is similar divorce laws for all the motion pictures." Amendment confers on Congress an entirely states of the Union; also, a public notice The committee, therefore, recommended to new power-the power of regulating legally of thirty dais. This last is, of course, a Mr. Hays that he advise the motion picture every marriage and divorce in the United following ot the mind of the Catholic industry to refrain from exhibiting pictures States. Nor does this proposed amend­ in which Mr. Arbuckle appears, and that any Church in insisting upon the publi'cation of consideration shown him, as an individual, ment limit the power to be conferred banns. But the most important paragraph should be along lines not involving his appear­ within these extraordinary bounds; it fur­ in this judge's statement is one that sup­ ance before the public as a motion picture ther confers on the Congress the power to ports, from the natural desire of the hu­ actor. make laws governing the care and custody man heart, the Catholic teaching on the The New York World, in an editorial of children when affected by annulment of indissolubility of marriage. referring to the action of the Hays' Ad­ marriage or by divorce. It does not oblige "The masses of the people" he says, visory Committee, has the following com­ Congress to commit the care of the chil­ "still want and still need a lasting union ment to make: dren to either one of the parents. with one person of the other sex, with Is anything left of a democracy when whom they may work out all the problems Mr. Arbuckle will not come back. The ef­ the rights of marriage: of parenthood: the fort to resuscitate his earning power has of life together and instinctively feel that failed and Mr. Hays has been overruled by care of children are taken away from the the two should become one." the public. citizens? It is certainly the hour to awake Thus do nature and experi~nce add their from sleep. Vigilance is still the price of N otwi thstanding the World' s assurance testimony to the worth of Catholic teach­ liberty. that Arbuckle's career is ended, independent ing. * * * * * * * * producers on the coast are already organ­ izing a company to finance the production "FOR the benefit of those who m~y not pRACTICAL unanimity of opinion in of films in which the discredited comedian have heard of the Hi-Y, we may agreement with the N. C. w. C. Bu­ will attempt to appear before the public. mention that it is an educational adjunct reau of Motion Pictures' protest against Arbuckle's former employer, Joseph which is reported as the reappearance of Ros­ Schenck, who is a member of the Hays "Why the flourishing mightily in Public Demands coe Arbuckle on the organization, has apparently passed Ar­ Hi-Y"? Mississippi, a s tate Decency in Films screen and the exhibi- buckle along to an independent company which, according to the tion of his films, has which will be beyond the jurisdiction of 1910 census report, had 290,235 illiterates. been voiced by representatives of the the N ationa! Association of the Motion In a word, the Hi-Y is a branch of the 'leading oivic, religious, educational and Picture Producers and Distributors. Y. M. C. A. established in the public welfare organizations of the country. The Catholics should join with other organ­ high schools. Bureau's statement was given widespread izations in immediate protest to any exhib­ "That these clubs should have been publicity in the secular, Catholic and mo­ itor who contracts with this new company started at this time and in a State where tion picture trade papers, and was quoted to show A~buckle films in their localities. feeling against the Catholic Church is in­ in many of the statements of other organ­ In view of the nation-wide protest against tense, is suspiciously sinister. Their es­ izations protesting against Arbuckle's re­ Arbuckle, it might seem inconceivable that tablishment and the propaganda for their employment as an active exponent of the any exhibitor would attempt to exhibit extension which already has begun, syn­ screen. Many letters of commendation Arbuckle films. There will, however, be chronize with a drive in several States to from non-Catholics were received at Na­ some exhibitors who for box office reasons compel the attendance at the public schools tional Headquarters: will attempt to override the demands of of all children of school age. Fifty members of the General Advisory public decency. Such should be made to "Evidently there is intention on the part Committee on Public Relations, on which feel the strong criticism and disapproval of some of the opponents of the parochial the N. C. W. C. has membership, meeting of every local force for public morality. schools to grind the Catholic child between in the office of Will H. Hays in N ew York * * * * the upper and the nether millstones of City on January 4, took the following unan­ bigotry. To the campaign to compel him imou~ action in protest against the effort FROM CORRESPONDENCE received, to spend his formative years in a primary to rehabilitate Arbuckle as a motion pic­ some seem to think that reports on school from which all religious teaching ture actor: present legislative tendencies given in the is rigidly excluded, is now added a means The Committee on Public Relations, having BULLETIN are unjusti­ of inculcating non-Catholic religious tenets received from Mr. Hays a report of the Ar­ Vigilance Price fiedly alarming in their as soon as he shall have passed from gram­ buckle matter, is impresed with the sincerity Of Liberty warnings about the mar school to public high school. The and genuineness of his motives in showing a willingness to allow everyone a chance "to growth of paternalism Catholic youth is barred from membership go to work and make good if he can." The and the encroachment of the Federal gov­ -unless he is prepared to sacrifice his committee, however, does not believe that there ernment on inalienable rights and liberties. • Catholicity. In that case, he may perhaps should be any action taken which would result No more serious political obligation ex­ aspire to participation in the many high in bringing Roscoe Arbuckle again before the public as a motion picture actor. In the judg­ ists in America than this-that the Ameri­ school activities which the Hi-Y controls. ment of the committee it would be extremely can people ought to be far more alive, "This appears to be the only why of the detrimental to the youth of America for Ar­ more interested, more conversant with the Hi-Y, and it is sufficient to give one to buckle's pictures to be released for circulation, . movements in State and Federal legisla­ think furiously concerning the program of since it is highly desirable that reminders which would naturally come with his reap­ tures and with the positive menace now those who are eager to keep religion from pearance on the screen should not be thus threatening our democracy by the tendency the pupils of tender years, but apparently placed before the public. Such releases would to hand over every power to the Federal anxious to invite them to religion of full also, in the opinion of the committee, tend to government. evangelical flavor when they have been destroy public confidence in the purpose of the motion picture industry "to establish and The latest example is the proposed Con­ prepared to absorb it."-N. C. W. c. maintain the highest possible moral :ond ar- stitutional Amendment to be introduced by Editorial Sheet. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 11

Ie .. .. It .. " .. "==11 .. " .. · • " .. "] [ N. C. W'. C.Ch~~:~!.~E~.~~~~~~.?epartInent ] EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ] Rev. Wm J. Kerby. Pb.D., Washington, D. C.; Rt. Rev. Msgr. M. J. Splaine. BqstoD. Mas•• , Dr. C. P. Neill. WUhiaatOll. D. C.; [ Mr. George Gillespie, New York City; Rev. Wm. A. Bolger. C.S.C•• Notre Dame., Indiana; Prof. J. E. HagertT. Columbua. Ohio; Mr. Fred. Kenkel. St. Louis, Mo.; Rev. Edwin V. O'Hara. Eugene, Ore.; Rev. Frederick Siedenburg, 8.J., Ch~o, ID. . ]

DIRECTORS [ REV. JOHN A. RYAN. D.D.• Washington, D. C. " JOHN A. LAPP. LL.D•• Chicago. Ill. i Rural Life Bureau, REV. EDWIN V. O'HARA. Ph.D.• LL.D .• Director. Eugene, Oregon ] K.~t==~~'IE'~~~'~E~~~,~c~~~'nc~~~'nE~~~'nE~~~j~Cz~~'~E~~~j~E~~~'~c~~~~'C~~~~jC~~~r,c~~~i'it==~=i,J The Industrial Problem and the Way Out I. Social U nres t By Rev. John A. Ryan, D. D. Director N. C. W. C. Social Action Department

The accompanying article is the first of an important series of t}wee .by Dr. Ryan dealing with the industrial problem. In this installment ~ Dr. Ryan deals with the causes of social and ind'ustrial ~tnrest in the United States. In a second installment to appear in the March BULLETIN, Dr. Ryan 'Wilt set forth the ((The Effects of Social Unrest." This u:iU be followed by a third installment in which Dr. Ryan will prescribe "The Catholic Remedy." No more important articles dealing with the industrial problem have yet appeared, and it is certain that Dr. Ryan's important and timely series will receive a careful reading by BULLETIN readers and their friends. Dr. Ryan is author of the following books: "Living Wage" (JI!Jacmillan Co.); "Alleged Socialism and the Church Fathers," (Herder Co.); "Distributive Justice" (Macmillan Co.); "Social Reconstruction" (Macmillan Co.); "Socialism and Labor and Other Essays" (University Press); "Socialism, Promise or Menace," Ryan-Hillquit (Macmillan Co.y'; "Church and Labor," Ryan-Husslein (Macmillan Co.), and "The St,ate and the Church," Ryan-Millar (Macmillan CO.)-THE EDITOR.

WENTY years ago, Mr. John Graham Brooks pub­ tinue to demand higher wages and shorter hours in­ lished an illuminati.ng "v~lume,. "The Social U~rest." definitely. Both these employers thought that working­ T It "had a very WIde clrculatlOn, and exercIsed a men ought to be content with "reasonable" wages; yet very considerable influence upon social <:Lnd industrial both" admitted that they would set no upper limit to their thinking in the United States. Nevertheless, it has not own profits. · lessened social unrest. A person who reads it now will be In the opinion of Mr. Brooks, both employers and em­ struck with the disturbing reflection that none of the great .ployes are impelled by the same fundamental human desire causes of social discontent enumerated by Mr. Brooks has to get more, and ever more, of the "good things" of life. been either removed or appreciably diminished. To the laborer as well as to the capitalist, he applies the "Labor's Challenge to the Social Order" was published qt!otation from a certain American humorist: "The trouble by the same author two years ago. One of its most in­ with satisfying a new want is that it begets triplets." As teresting chapters is entitled, "What Does Labor Want, an extreme statement of the human capacity to seek un­ Anyhow?" This caption is quoted from a puzzled and limited income and goods, Mr. Brooks cites the appeal of disgusted employer. In this chapter the author tells the aNew York woman to the court for an annual allowance story of a Sicilian workingman in Boston whose economic of $27,000 in order to provide for the necessary wants of conditions had become so improved that he was able to her four-year-old child. She maintained that she was un­ live as well as men who were counted rich in the place of able to' support him properly on the existing allowance his birth. Yet he railed against American capitalism, and of $2Q,OOO. was a member of the 1. W. W. Mr. Brooks also recounts Undoubtedly, Mr. Brooks is right in attributing this the complaints of a Brockton shoe manufacturer whose sort of social unrest to certain fundamental elements of life was made continuously miserable because his em­ human nature. In other words, it is of a general character. ployees "were always trying for mo~e, always for more." It would exist to some extent in any form of industrial There was also a Cambridge employer who regarded as society, in any set of economic conditions. Much of the supremely diverting and ridiculous the claim of a trade existing unrest springs from a certain philosophy of life,. union speaker to the effect that the workers should con- a "certain conception of welfare. All classes of our popula- 12 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN tion have adopted in varying degrees At the present time, no man can main­ the theory that the 'happy life, the life tain himself, his wife, and three or worth while, is to be attained through four small children in health and the indefinite expansion of wants, elementary comfort upon less than and their increased and varied satis­ $1,200 or $1,300 per year in any faction. The'" current conception of American city. That is, the equiv­ the good life is mainly quantitative, alent of at least $4 per day. Yet, the only feebly qualitative. All seek available statistics indicate that the wider and ftiller life, but wider and majority of adult male wage-earners fuller life is understood as indefinite receive less than these respective rates increase of goods and satisfactions, per year and per day. Nor is this a with little regard to their comparative temporary or a transitory condition. maral worth. "Bettering one's condi­ For the last 30 years as least, the tion" means indefinitely increasing ' majority of male adults have failed one's expenditure for residence, food, to receive a decent family living clothing, amusement, and social in­ wage. The majority of women wage- , tercourse. More stress is laid upon earners have never been paid the these material and emotional satisfac­ equivalent of decent individual sub­ tions than upon intellectual or moral REV. JOHN A. RYAN, D.D. .- istence. Nor is this the wor t of the improvement, or the service of one's Director, N. C. W. C. Social Action Department, situation. All the economic experts who begins in this issue of the BULLETIN a series fellows. The pursuit of the higher of three articles dealing with the Industrial Problem and Its Solution. who have given systematic study to goods' is subordinated to the pursuit the subiect believe that real wages are of those goods which minister to the senses. 'There only slightly, if any, higher than they were 25 years ago. is almost universal ignorance or disregard of the fact That is to say, the purchasing power of the average wage that an abundance of material goods interferes with has not appreciably increased. During the same period the development of the spiritual, moral, and intellectual the per capita production of the country increased more faculties. For there is an upper as well as a lower limit of than 30 per cent. In other words. labor does not get nearly material possessions which are compatible with a reason­ a large a share of the national product today as it received able degree of devotion to the higher things of life. When a quarter of a century ago. the upper limit is passed, the pursuit of the higher good The foregoing statements are, indeed, contrary to the is hindered, rather than promoted. common impression that prevails out ide the laboring It is not merely the very rich who are deluded by this classes. Nevertheless, they are the conclusions of com­ false conception of welfare. All classes, except those that petent investigators, and they have never been refuted. are below the level of decent existence, are in greater or .. nother economic cause of social unrest is unemploy­ less degree affected. A certain family lives in a house ment. In the opinion of the great English manufacturer which suffices for health, elementary comfort, and mod­ and economic authority, Mr. B. Seebohm Rountree, this erate refinement. When the family income undergoes a condition "probably, more than any other, contributes to considerable increase, the first effective desire is for a industrial unrest." About a year ago, the unemployed in larger and more costly house, and for increased expendi­ this country numbered some five or six millions. In 1914 tures on account of all the other material and emotional conditions were almost as bad. Another severe experience comforts and luxuries. This family responds to the same of the same kind occurred in 1908. Even in the most pros­ philosophy of welfare a the rich man whose increase of perous years, the number of partially employed workers is income provokes himself or his family to dissatisfaction far from negligible. Among large sections of the laboring with their fifty thousand d Har house. class, the fear of losing their jobs is so great and so con­ Evidently a change in the economic system or in indus­ stant as to constitute a cause of unrest which is only second trial relations would not seriously diminish this kind of to that of actual unemployment. social unrest. What is needed here is the right kind of A third cause is the opposition of numerous and power­ moral education, rather than any program of industrial ful employers. to labor union. For many years, some of reform. the largest employers have refused to deal with the unions, and their number is greatly augmented during and follow· CA USES OF SOCIAL UNREST lng every industrial depression. A pertinent illustration is Let us turn now to that kind of social unrest which the so-called "open shop" campaign, carried on for the pur­ most persons have in mind when they use the phrase. It pose of crippling the labor unions, since the beginning of is that which is due to bad economic conditions or to condi­ the year 1920. tions which are so regarded by large sections of the indus­ The conviction among wage-earners that the Govern­ trial popUlation. We take up first the question of wages. ment, both State and Federal, is dominated by capital, by THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 13 the employing class, is a constant and increasing cause of Our sketch of social unrest would be incompl~te without social unrest. While the magnitude of this evil is Ulf­ at least a passing reference to the employers' viewpoint. doubtedly exaggerated by the laboring class, its influence There is a rather general complaint among employers that in producing industrial unrest is not thereby lessened. In the workers care only for short hours, easy work, and high any case, an examination of the economic affiliations of pay, and are not at all concerned about the amount of work those who have dominated legislative halls and shaped that they perform or the prosperity of the enterprise which legislation during the greater part of the last 50 years employs them. Most of the blame is placed upon the will convince any unprej udiced student that the wage­ "trade unions. As now conducted, these organizations are earners have a rather substantial ground for this particular accused of undue interference with the employers' Qusiness, complaint. holding down the output "of all workers to the level of the

SOCIAL U N REST A ND THE GOVERNMENT slowest and least efficient, preventing the trajning of ap­ prentices, breaking employment contracts, and continually Even more provocative of social unrest than the conduct " stirring up strife and increasing class friction. These and of legislatures is the attitude of the courts. This is ex­ other grievances of the employers contribute, both directly emplified mainly in the extensive use of the process of an and indirectly, to the sum total of social unrest: directly by injunction. Last summer, the writer listened to an address affecting the employers themselves; indirectly by reacting on American trade unions delivered by a professor of upon the workers, and thus increasing class antagonism. Columbia University before the Workingmen's Summer School at Oxford. The speaker's account of the injunction process in labor disputes came as an astounding revelation French-American Welfare Center E~tablished By to the great majority of his hearers. Such a use of the in­ N. C. W. C. Reports Many Activities junction has been practically unknown in Great Britain The reports of the French-American Welfare Centre at for more than 50 years.. In the United States, it is so Paris, which is under the auspices of the National Catholic employed with considerable frequency, not only against Welfare Council, show increased activity. The students' physical violence, but to prevent other actions which are club of the Centre was lately re-organized. Mr. Hagnet, a essential to the conduct of the strike, and to which the young Catholic American student, was elected president and workers believe they have a moral and legal right. The Mlle. Baudrillard, formerly a student at Trinity College, extent to which the process .may be carried was strikingly Washington, D. C., and the niece of Mgr. Baudrillard, was shown in the terms of the injunction issued last fall by Judge elected vice-president. The student body is constantly in­ Wilkerson. The officers of certain railway unions were en­ creasing. Sixty-five students attended the dinner on joined from inducing men to quit the employ of the rail­ Thanksgiving Day, and on Christmas Day, they had as roads, from paying out union funds in support of the strik­ their guests forty Russian students. The collection taken ers, and from performing many other peaceable actions up at that time for the Papal Relief 111 Russia ne.tted the " essential to the success of the strike. This grievance is sum of one hundred fifty francs. especially deplorable because it implies a lack of faith in a The Welfare Centre . entertained, during the Christmas legal institution which should be above criticism. holidays, the Catholic students who came in from the Probably the most fundamental and enduring cause of Provinces; and their headquarters is the one place where social unrest is the dependent status of the wage-earner. such Catholic students receive board and lodgit}g. Even if all the other economic grievances ceased to exist, The supplementary work of the Welfare Centre at the this condition would remain. In all industries outside of house on Rue Ferou is succeeding admirably. It has fifteen agriculture a small minority does all the owning and operat­ Americans there this winter. ing, while the great majority merely carry out orders, having The Welfare Centre initiated last fall a series of lectures no share in management, profits, or owriership. This con­ and concerts. The first of these was by the well-known Dr. dition is particularly disturbing in the United States, owing Ford, Professor of History at Princeton, who spoke on the to our tradition that every man can hope to become his own American Constitution. During the month of January, the economic boss before he dies. For the great majority of following "lectures were given: "Pope Leo XIII," by M. wage-earners this hope can no longer be realized. And the Fernand Laudet; "The Scientific Spirit in Medicine," by workers are quite well aware of this fact. They are rapidly Dr. Pasteur Vallery-Radot; and "The Empress Josephine becoming impressed with what they regard as the"anomaly at Malmaison," by M. Louis Madelin. of a political democracy supporting an industrial autocracy. Solemn Mass was offered at the Church of the Trinite on A striking illustration of the separation between the owners Thanksgiving Day, by order of His Eminence, the Cardinal of capital and the users of capital is seen in the fact that Archbishop of Paris, and," through the invitation of the "the income of the lower two-thirds of the population is French American Welfare Centre, there were present almost exclusively an income for physical and mental effort. representatives of the American Ambassador, the Consul They receive virtually no income for: owning, for they own General and the American Legion. virtually nothing." (Edie, page 184.) The New Economics, ~~~ . 14 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

Catholic Conference on Industrial Problem.s Established

N D.ECEMBER 29, 1922, a meeting of about 100 Bishop of Rockford. The meeting was called by the Social Catholics was held in Chicago at which there was Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Coun­ O started the Catholic Conference on Industrial Prob­ cil, but it was made clear in the letter of invitation. and at lems. The purpose of the new org~nization is to prom.ote the start of the meeting itself that the new organization the study and understanding of industrial problems, and should be entirely separate from the Social Action Depart­ the method it follows is the calling of national and local ment and should be responsi Ie for its own actions.

conferences of Catholics. Strict provision is made in the No VOTE To BE TAKEN ON INDUSTRIAL ISSUES constitution that no vote shall be taken at the conferences The Chicago meeting succeeded during the day in adopt­ on any question of industrial policy. Except for this pro­ ing a constitution and electing officers. The chief provisions vision, the local conferences are completely free from any of the constitution are as follows: regulation by the national body. Membership dues are one dollar per year. Its object shall be to discuss and promote the study and understanding of industrial problems. Nearly every European country has such an organization, Its membership shall be open to aU Catholics. and for several years the need of our having such a body It shall hold annual meetings for the discussion of at work within the changing structure of American indus­ industrial problems. No vote shall be taken on any trial life has been keenly felt by a great many persons over question of industrial policy. the country. Industry is sick, and many of those who It shall encourage the formation of local conferen~es and other organizations for industrial study and dIs­ appreciate the value of Catholic social teaching h~LVe come cussion. Each local group shall enjoy autonomy, but to think that the best way to develop its principles and shall observe the provision of this constitution that no spread broadcast a knowledge of what justice and charity vote shall be taken on questions of industrial policy. call for in industrial life is for Catholics to join together Prof. David A. McCabe of Princeton University was for that precise purpose. chosen president of the new organization. Vice-presidents CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING MUST GET TO PEOPLE are Col. P. H. Callahan, president of the Louisville Varnish Co.; Mr. Ellis Searles, editor of the United Mine Workers' They have said that if Catholic social teaching is the Journal and head of the miners' committee before the touchstone, Catholics should organize to apply' the touch­ President's Coal Commission; Rev. Joseph Husslein, S.]., stone. They have said that it is impossible to expect a associate editor of America; Mr. Frederick P. Kenkel, great deal from the work of isolated individuals. They director of the Central Bureau of the Central Verein; and have more recently said that the Catholic bureaus dealing Miss Linna Bresette, formerly secretary of the Kansas with industrial relations are not enough, and that it is Industrial Commission and now with the Social Action necessary for the large number of Department of the National Catholic Catholics, who have already come to Welfare Council. know and appreciate the importance The secretary-treasurer, to whom 'of Catholic social teaching, to join membership dues and requests for together and work together to increase further information about the or­ their number and give greater definite­ ganization should be sent, is Rev. R. ness to Catholic social principles. A. McGowan, 1312 Massachusetts They say that unless this is accom­ Avenue, Washington, D. C. plished, very little will be done, and The new organization intends to that little will be interminably slow in further the knowledge and practice accomplishment. They say that Cath­ of Catholic social teaching throughout olic social teaching must -get to the the United States. It intends to ac­ people, and that it cannot do so until complish this not by resolutions and the Catholics who are especially inter­ votes, but by national and local con­ ested in the matter will organize. ferences where the facts will be pre­ The Chicago meeting was held in sented and Catholic social teaching, the rooms of the Loyola University by weight of its truth, will be accepted School of Sociology, and lasted all as the guide of action. It intends to day. Rev. John A. Ryan, D.D., pre­ reach all classes and to point out the sided after a word of welcome from PROF. DAVID A. McCABE road to a stable solution of the in­ of Princeton, Elected President of the Catholic Con- Rt. R ev. P e t er J . M u ldoon, D ..,D ference on Industrial Problems dustrial problem. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 15 The Pastor and the Working Men of His Parish By Reverend Edwin V. O'Hara, Ph.D., LL.D. Director, Rural Life Bureau, N.C.W.C. Social Action Department

HE article published herewith is taken from the "Industrial Relati01ls" number T of ((The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Scimces." This issue of "The Annals," which was editea by Rev. John A. Ryan, Director of the N. C. W. C. Social Action Department, and Rev. F. Ernest Johnson, Director and Organizer of the Federal Council of the Churches of Chr'ist in America, presents a thorough consideration of the relation of the churches to' industry. "The Problem of Industrial Conflict," ((The Social Function of Industry," "The Church's Duty in Relation to Industry," and ({Industrial Programs of the Churches and Christian Organizations'" are treated in the Ulndustrial Relations'" number by some of the cO'ttntry's foremost churchmen, employers of labor, labor leaders and experts in the field of economics. Other Catholic contributors to the tllndustrial Relations" number of ~tThe Annals" and the titles of their papers are as follows: "The Moral Diagnosis" by Rev. William J. Kerby, Ph.D., Professor of Soci(Jlogy, Catholic University of America; "Property from a Christian Standpoint" by Richmond Dean, Vice-President, The Pullman Company, Chicago, Illinois; "Labor's Responsibility to the Community" by Rev. Joseph Husslein, S.1., Ph.D., Associate Editor, "America"; "The Teaching of the Catholic Church" by Rev. John A. Ryan, n.D., Director, Department of Social Action, National Catholic Welfare Cou11,cil, Washington, D. C.; "An Employer's View of the Church's Function in Industry,' by P. H. Callahan. President, Louisville· Varnish Company; tlLabor's View of the Church's Function With Regard to Industrial Relations" by John A. Voll, President, Glass Bottle Blowers' Association; "The Program and Activities ~v. EDWIN ~ V. O'HARA, PH.D., LL.D. of the National Catholic Welfare Council" by Rev. R. A. McGowan, Assistant Director, Social Action Department, National Catholic Welfare Council. Author of the accompanying article, is pastor at Eugene, Oregon, and was for­ Bound copies of the "Industrial Relations and the Ch'ttrches" number of "The mer chairman of the Oregon Industrial Welfare Commission. He has long been Annals" (160 pp.) are available at the National Catholic Welfare Council Headquarters known as a leader in the application of 1312 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C., at the rate of so cents per copy. ' Catholic social teaching and was one of the chief pioneers of minimum wage legislation -THE EDITOR. for women.

HE relationship of the pastor to his peopl~ is such as It will be the duty of the pastor in industrial centers to to warrant particular interest on his part m the wel­ explain to his people clearly and frequently the Christian T fare of the workingmen of his parish. Few Catholic laws of justice and of charity as they affect employer and parishes will be found in industrial centers in which the employee. He will point out with Leo XIII that a great laboring men do not constitute a very large percentage of error in the discussion of industrial problems is to possess the congregation. The obvious duty of entering into the one's self of the idea that class is naturally hostile to class; problems of his laboring men, incumbent on the Catholic that rich and poor are intended by nature to live at war with I priest, 'has, moreover, been more than once enforced by one another. On the contrary, each requires the other; specific instructions from the Sovereign Pontiff. In his capital cannot thrive without labor, nor labor without capital. famous. encyclical on the "Condition of the Working He will go on to teach that religion requires the laboring Classes," Pope Leo XIII, after setting forth the social pro­ man to carry out honestly and well all equitable agreements gram of the Church, concludes by explicitly placin~ on the fairly made; never to injure capital, nor to outrage the per­ clergy, in union with their bishops, the task of persistent and son of an employer; never to emptoy violence in representing energetic action in behalf of the laboring class. He writes: his own cause, nor to engage in riot and disorder. Religion, "Every minister of holy religion must throw into the con­ he will {:ontinue, teaches the employer that his working flict (in behalf of social justice and charity) all the energy people are not his slaves; that he must respect in every man of his mind and all the strength of his endurance." Similar his dignity as a Christian; that labor is nothing to be injunctions have been addressed to the clergy by Pius X and ashamed of, but that it is shameful and inhuman to treat Benedict XV. men like chattels in order to make money, or to look upon them as merely so much muscle or physical power; that the EDUCATION employer must see that his workmen have time for their In fulfilling these injunctions the pa'stor will find that his duties of piety and the obligations of their family life; that activities in behalf of his workingmen will fall into three they must not be taxeq beyond their strength or employed in general channels, the currents of which flow largely in the work unsuited to their sex or age; that the workmen are same direction and frequently converge. These channels entitled to a living wage, and that to exercise pressure for .are education, organization, and legislation. the sake of gain upon the indigent and destitute, and to make 16 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN one's profit out of the need of another, is condemned by all maintained store which have proven a boon to their mem­ la ws, human and divine. These principles will be the staple bers. One form of cooperation deserves specIal attention: of instruction by which the pastor . will seek to educate his namely, the establishment of a cooperative credit association people to a Christian conscience in regard to the relations of in a parish which will free the laboring man from the employers asd workmen; for, "were these precepts carefully clutches of the loan shark, and will enable him to secure· obeyed and tollowed out," asks Leo XIII, "would not strife necessary advances of money on reasonable terms and with­ die out and cease?" out placing him in the power of the lender. Finally, the . But the pastor cannot be satisfied with mere instruction establishment of parish study groups among laboring men and exhortation. This was thoroughly understood by will be found of great service as a means of inculcating Bishop Ketteler, when he put into the mouths of the infidel Christian principles in regard to the 'e economic issues. workmen of his day the following words: "Of what use are LEGISLATION your fine teachings to me? What is the good of your referring me by way of consolation to the next world, if in The utility of organization cannot be questioned. N ever­ this world you let me and my wife perish with hunger; you theless, there are limits to its succe.;sful activity. There are are not seeking my welfare, you are looking for something great groups of working people whom it is difficult to or­ else." ganize, and up to the present only a . comparatively small percentage of workers are actually organized. It is the duty ORGANIZATION of the state to prevent any class of the population from It will devolve on the pastor to undertake to assist his becoming submerged, and consequently the pastor will, in his workingmen by organization and legislation. Most of the solicitude for his people, urge the necessary legislation to progress made by the working classes in recent time has been protect them. The problem of the inadequacy of women's due to organization, and it will be the duty of the clergy to wages is present in most American cities, and the program encourage every form of workmen's association which for minimum wage legislation should secure the hearty legitimately promotes the workmen's interests. Much has cooperation of the clergy. been written concerning freegom of contract and the impor­ Experience has shown that such legislation is not attended tance of allowing each man to bargain for himself. After by the disadvantages which are commonly urged against it . .a long and painful struggle the workingman has realized A word of caution, however, should be uttered in regard to that there is no equality of bargaining power when the in­ the arguments which should be used in urging minimum dividual workman is pitted against the large employer. For wage legislation. There is a temptation to make a sensa­ freedom of contract it is necessary that the workingmen tional appeal setting forth the moral dangers which surround -combine and bargain collectively with their employers, so inadequately paid young women in industry. The difficulty that there may be some semblance of equality between the with this line of argument is that it is largely an insult to two contracting parties. The so-called American plan, the workers who e status is to be improved, and it leads to whereby the employer refuses to deal with his employees a neglect of the substantial fact that these underpaid workers collectively is, under a _specious pretense of liberality, merely are living on insufficient food, are badly housed and poorly a hollow sham. The power of the employer to withhold clothed. bread is a vastly greater advantage than the ,power of the A similar interest will be manifested by the pastor in the individual employee to refuse labor. To speak of freedom limitation of hours of labor, both of women and of men, of contract between the individual employee, whose family especially in the prohibiting, as far as possible, of Sunday may be on the verge-of starvation, and the modern accumula­ work and of late night work. I recall that when the Indus­ tion of capital that seeks to employ labor, is simply grotesque trial Welfare Commission of Oregon fir t entered a ruling humor. The importance of workmen's associations is set prohibiting work for women after six p. m. in the depart­ forth by Leo XIII and the encouragement of labor unions ment stores, many young women had for the first time in will properly claim the interest of the parish priest. months a reasonable opportunity to go to church Sunday It will, however, not be sufficient to encourage the organi­ morning. zation of labor associations, and to promote an increase of Workmen's compensation legislation has now come in their membership, but it will be necessary for the pastor to most of our states, and with it the abolition of the common impress upon the members of the unions who belong to his law pleas of contributory negligence and assumption of risk, own congregation the importance of electing good men to which enabled the liability insurance companies to prevent leadership, and of recognizing that the union is not merely the injured workman from receiving compensation; but the an economic instit~tion but has moral aspects as welL principle of compensation needs to be maintained and ex­ Perhaps the grayest injury done to the -cause of labor in our tended, the importance of safety devices on machinery time has been through unprincipled leaders and a disregard insisted upon, and many occupational diseases should be 'of the moral prinCiples w~ich must prov~d~ the basis of brought under the operation of compensation. permanent association. The pastor will be concerned, also, ' with the living condi- In the field of. ~oope~ation labo~ing men ha~e successfully eContinued oh page 17) . THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 17

743,700 or an average of $1,093 per person. The average daily wage I.·' In the Field of Labor and Industry .•• ~ was $8.10 and the average working time 135 days a year.

THE CONFERENCE OF WOMEN IN INDUSTRY included AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN '1;HE NATIONAL WINDOW representatives of the negro as well as the white race. The negro GLASS WORKERS' ASSOCIATION AND THE NATIONAL representatives addressed from the floor their white sister delegates ASSOCIATION OF WINDOW GLASS MANUFACTURERS pro­ not as fellow workers but as employers, and made a strong plea vides for a 13 per cent wage increase ove.r that granted last not for higher wages, but for better working conditions for _ September to run from January 29, to June 11, 1923. It also domestic workers. provides for an advance in wages with any advance in price of glass.

ON THE MATERNAL MORTALITY LIST of seventeen THE SECRETARY OF LABOR, ~ith the approval of the Presi­ civilized nations Canada and the United States stand at the foot. dent, has appointed a commission to study labor conditions in the The United States is sixteenth in a class of seventeen. Hawaiian Islands. On the commission are four labor representa­ ti yes and the Commissioner of Conciliation, representing the U. S. THE U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL has ruled that agreements Department of Labor. The Territorial Government requested the and contracts having for their purpose maintenance of "open shop" investigation and will meet all expenses involved. labor policy are in contravention with the Conspiracy clause of the Clayton Act. A .NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF RAILWAY WORKERS has just been held at Chicago to discuss the questIon of amalgama­ A "RIGHT TO WORK BILL" will be introduced in the Indiana tion. Plans were made for a campaign of education and a general Legislature. The bill is designed "to protect a person in his right convention of railway unions to work out a form of united to work for the support of himself or his family," and it is expected industrial organization. by its framers to prevent strikes in all fot:ms. THE ALL-AMERICAN COOPERATIVE COMMISSION THE HEARINGS OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON IM­ reports that within the last three years, twenty-six cooperative MIGRATION indicated serious labor shortages in the steel, tin societies have been organized in Egypt to provide food supplies. plate, copper mining, tailoring and farming industries. Their syste~ is that followed by the British. They report a total capital of $2,500,000 and a membership of more than 345,000. THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF PROPERTY, a new pam­ phlet by Rev. John A. Ryan, D.D., Director of the Social Action HENRY FORD CONSISTENTLY REFUSES TO GIVE TO Department, is now on the press. CHARITY because he does not believe in) it; but is interested rather in making the physically handicapped person productive. ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS OF 1920, one out of every It is a Ford employment policy that no man should be turned down twelve children between the ages of 10 and 15 years in the United or discharged on account of physical defect. In his plant there are States is gainfully employed. 9,563 "sub-standard" men at work on jobs suitable to their abilities and strength. . THE BOARD OF TRADE AT SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, has announced that it fixes the Jiving wage figure at 13.18 pounds per "THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF PROPERTY" is the title week, applicable to the whole state from November 8, 1922. of a new pamphlet by Rev. John A. Ryan, D.D., soon to be issued by the N. C. W. C. Social Action Department. It consists of "WOMEN IN MARYLAND INDUSTRIES" is the subject of a three papers-the first under the same title as the general subject; recent study of hours and working conditions made by the Women's the second is titled "A Suggested Limitation of Capitalist Prop­ Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor. erty," and the last paper answers the three questions raised by the exposition of the theories and doctrines in the pamphlet, which AN ITALIAN EDITION OF THE CATECHISM OF THE will be reviewed in the March BULLETIN. SOCIAL QUESTION has been issued by the Paulist Press as a Social Action Department pamphlet. The translation was made by The Pastor and the Working Men of His Parish Dr. Rinaudo De Ville. (Continued fron~ page 16) THE INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS' tions o.f his working people, and will feel it his duty to promote UNION, according to the press, is making preparations for the an adequate housing code, which will require the homes of his calling of two general strikes ih February. The purpose of one people to be furnished with sufficient sunlight and fresh air, and strike is the unionization of all shops and of the other is the open spaces for children's recreation. It will be necessary to substitution ' of the week work for the piece work system. The resist the wild and unscrupulous advertising of city commercial strikes, if called, would involve from 40,000 to 50,000 workers. clubs, which lead multitudes of unskilled laborers to congregate in congested centers, flooding the labor market and overcrowding A TENTATIVE PLAN FOR THE NATIONALIZATION OF the tenements. I have attended dying men in workingmen's hotels THE U. S. COAL INDUSTRY prepared by the United States in rooms where no light but that cast by the flickering flame of the Mine Workers of America for the consideration of the U. S. Coal gas jet ever penetrated. Such conditions will be found wherever Commission, proposes Government purchase of the nation's there-is a lack of adequate housing legislation, or a neglect of its anthracite and bituminous mines at a total cost of $4,500,000,000. en fore em ent. The pastor, too, will be interested in the promotion of legislation ACCORDING TO THE "BLACK DIAMOND," OFFICIAL regulating employment bureaus, preventing the exploitation of men PUBLICATION OF THE COAL INDUSTRY, of the 174,489 who pay for their jobs. The old story of the three groups of men persons engaged itt the bituminous coal mining industry in Pennsyl­ on a job, the one going, the one one coming, and the one working, vania, 102,204 were foreigners. The total wage in 1921 was $190,- is a grim commentary on unregulated employment offices. 18 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN [- Na~io~al Co~n~ii' Ca~'h~iic" Men ] - [ C),au-man: RT. REV. JOSEPH SCHREMBS. D.D. ] OFHCERS ] Admiral William S. B8DSOn. Washington, D. C., President; Thomas P. Flynn, Chicago, III., Vice-President; Judge P. J. M. Hally, Devoit, Mich .. Secretary; Charles I. Denechaud, New Orleans, La., Treasurer. [ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Admiral William S. BensOD, Washington, Chairman; Richmond Dean, Chicago; W. P. Horan, Denver; Walter T. Johnson, Kenton, 0.; ] Judge Jamea E. Deery, Indianapolis; Joseph M. Tally, Providence; C. A. Beeby, Hays, Kansas; Charles I. Denechaud, New OrlellDll; [ Thomas P. Flynn, Chicago; Michael B. Hurley, St. Paul; Jamea J. Sullivan, Philadelphia; ludge P. 1. M. Hally. Devoit; Martin J. Conboy, New Y()I"k; T. J. Cahill. Cheyenne; and Francis R. Lowther. St. Louis. ('~~~~~~~'~C~~~)~C~~~~~E~x~e~CU~b~.~:~:~s~ec~r~e~:~~~Y~:~~~~~~~~~~~L~~J~.~S~,~~A~T~T~E~~EY~.~L~L~·])~'EE·~~~)EE~~~'~'~~~)~'~~~,] Organization of Catholic Laity Planned by Texas Bishops State-Wide Campaign of Education on Catholic Subjects Object of Association

OLLOWING A MEETING in San Antonio, Texas, not to be questioned, and you must abide by his decision, on January 21,. representatives of the five bishops of under the penalty of the law. F the Catholic dioceses located in the State of Texas "What qualification does the Texas law require for such recommended to the bishops the im~ediate organization of an absolute judge? For what purpose does a tax- upported men's and women's councils throughout the state and the State Bureau of Education exist if it is to surrender its union of these councils in a state-wide organization having prerogative to an often unqualified petty official? Will this for its purpose the conduct of a state-wide campaign of local superintendent, when he finds the children of the public education on Catholic subjects. school unable to meet his test, order them sent to the The San Antonio Conference was called 'for the purpose superior private school? No, this law is vindictive. It is of considering the menace to Catholic education likely to openly aimed against only our children."

result from the activities of anti-Catholic organizations ADMIRAL BENSON PROMISES COOPERATION which are sponsoring in the Texas Legislature bills inimical When the recommendation of the Texas conference was to Catholic interests. A bill requiring the teaching of the ~al1ed to the attention of Admiral William S. Benson, Bible for fifteen !llinutes each day in the public schools of President of the National Council of Catholic Men, the Texas and a bill whicq provides that the Connty School cooperation of the national office was promised to the Texas Superintendent shall have the power to examine the pupils laity in the work of effecting a state-wide organization. In in private and parochial schools and demand their attendance a formal statement, Admiral Benson said: in the public schools if the private curriculum is different from that of the public school are two measnres which are I heartily endorse the action of the Conference of laymen from the respective dioceses in the State of Texas at their meet­ being opposed by the Catholics of Texas. ing in San Antonio, Sunday, January 21, where a resolution was At the conference at which the N. C. W. C. was repre­ adopted recommending to the Bishops the immediate organiza­ sented by Dr. John A. Lapp, Director of its Social Action tion of men's and women's councils throughout the state. The Department, warnings were sounded to the effect that the National Council of Catholic Men, through its Executive Com­ Catholics must take example by what has happened in mittee and headquarters staff, is eager to render such assistance Oregon. as it can to organize the N. C. C. M. in the dioceses of San Antonio, Dallas, Galveston, and Corpus Christi. Organization Although Representative Baker declares he has incor­ in the diocese of EI Paso was undertaken some time ago and porated into his bill provisions which some opponents of the the work has been carried forward under the leadership of Mr. Oregon bill said would be acceptable to them, there is little A. W. Norcop, president of the EI Paso diocesan council, who question of the menace it holds for parochial and private is Right Reverend Bishop Schuler's representative. school pupils. I am sure if the Bishops of San Antonio, Dallas, Corpus Christi, and Galveston appoint an active lay representative to "The real poison of the bill," according to the Southern direct the work of organization in their respective dioceses, that Messenger of San Antonio, the official Catholic organ, "is much will be accomplished. The National Office of the N. C. found in section 4. Herein the county superintendent or C. M. will gladly assume the obligation of informing every local superintendent is given the arbitrary and infallible pastor in the diocese of our plan of organization, sending to each a copy of the N. C. C. M. constitution and other literature power to decide whether or not your children may continue containing full information on the subject. in a parochial school. His decision is absolute, his motive is THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 19

Pastors Perfect Men's Council Orgap.ization in Providence Diocese Crisis in Church and School Life Requires Organization, Says Bishop Hickey

RGANIZATION plans in behalf of the National appeals to you, are inspired by zeal for the welfare and good Council 'of Catholic Men have received a splendid repute of our beloved Church, and are animated by a most O impetus as a result of a letter sent on January 12 by admirable ardor in the cause and defense and development of our Catholic School System. They represent me at my request. Right Reverend William A. Hickey, D.D., Bishop of Provi­ I wish it to be understood by every Pastor that we are at a dence, to every pastor and priest in his diocese, requesting critical point in our Church and School life, and I cannot hold immediate organization of the N. C. C. M. in every parish. him blameless, nor consider him equal to the exigencies of Bishop Hickey's. letter to the clergy was accompanied ' this crisis who neglects this correspondence and allows his parish to remain unorganized. by an equally strong appeal signed by Joseph M. Tally, Therefore, let us get down to work, however hard the task. president of the National Council of Catholic Men in the Answer this appeal at once, and give me the assurance of your Providence Diocese, who is also a member of the National personal active cooperation. Executive Board of the N. C .. C. M. Addr~ss your reply to the President, Bishop Hickey points out to his Mr. Tally, or to the Secretary, Mr. pastors and priests the crisis in church McManus, care of Chancery Office, 34 Fenner Street, Providence, R. 1. and schoo) life as a result of anti­ Do this today 1 Catholic activity throughout the United States and, in urging every pastor to 114 WM. A. HICKEY, Bishop of Providence. take immediately the proper measures P. S.-You will please read this for organization, states: "I cannot letter and the others to all your assis­ hold him blameless, nor consider him tants, and, after due deliberation, take equal to the exigencies of this crisis, the proper measures for organization. who neglects this correspondence 114 WM. A. HICKEY, . Bishop of Providence. and allows his parish to remain unorganized. " Two supplementary letters, signed While the Providence Diocese, by President Tally, were enclosed with through its ecclesiastical and lay lead­ Bishop Hickey's communication,-one ers, has shown more than ordinary addressed to the presidents of the interest in the Men's Council from parish councils of the National Coun­ the beginning, being the first diocese cil of Catholic Men, and the other to take up the movement, Bishop addressed to the pastors of the diocese. RIGHT RJtv. WU,I.,IAK A. HICKEY, D.D. Hickey's letter and the activities of Bish-op of Providence, under whose leadership Both letters, aside from making practi­ the N. C. C. M. movement is being perfected in the Diocesan Officers of the N. C. every parish of the Providence Diocese cal suggestions for furthering the or­ C. M., leave no doubt as to the de- ganization of the N. C. C. M., point termination of the Providence Diocese to be classed among out the menace to the Catholic school system and urge the the leaders in the Men's Council organization. circulation of the N. C. W. C.'s timely publication, "The Catechism of Catholic Education." President Tally, through BISHOP HICKEy'S LETTER his diocesan office, has already distributed several hundred The letter of Bishop Hickey is written upon the official copies of the Catechism. Because of the very 'practical sug­ diocesan letterhead of the N. C. C. M., upon which the gestions contained in both letters, reproduction it\ full is following names appear: I Rt. Rev. William A. Hickey, D.D., given herewith. Honorary President; Rev. M. F. O'Brien, Spiritual Director; PRESIDENT TALLY S LETTERS Joseph M. Tally, President ; James R. Cannon, Vice­ President; Francis D. McManus, Secretary; and James A. To the Presidents of Parish Councils, National Council of Catholic Men: N orton, Treasurer. The letter reads as follows: GENTLEMEN: PROVIDENCE, R. 1., The Executive Committee elected by the delegates at the last January I2, 1923. general meeting has organized and has instructed us to com­ REvEREND AND DEAR FATHER: municate with you at once relative to the several matters of I take pains to make it clear to every Pastor and Assistant, immediate concern. as well as to all the people, that each of the letters here They are desirous that an active parish council be formed in enclosed has not only my approval, but also my official your parish, with a president, vice-president, secretary and insistence. The gentlemen whose names appear upon these treasurer, at the earliest possible moment. Our Rt. Rev. Bishop 20 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

desires every parish to organize, and the Diocesan Officers are without the payment of any dues as an individual. Your parish acting under the Bishop's- personal direction. There is work organization when formed may collect this payment as it sees not now being done by any existing organization which our fit, by collection, assessment on members or entertainment. The National Convention has laid out to be taken up by parish money is not to come from the parish treasury. For instance councils. A list is enclosed. for a parish of 250 families the dues would be $12.50 and every The new plan for dues outlined by the Hierarchy is now in man in the parish would be enrolled. effect in this diocese, a.s of January 1, 1923. The basis for these We are assured that the time is now, and the necessity dues is $S for each 100 families. Every man in the parish is great for the organization of these parish councils. To quote enrolled in the parish council under thi~ scheme without the the words of our National President, Admiral W. S. Benson, payment of individual dues. Your parish organization may "What must we Catholic Men of the country do to defend the coilect its dues in any way you see fit-by collection, assessment Catholic School system against the increasing attack of its or entertainment. But they must not come from the parish enemies? First we must educate ourselves." treasury. Your $5 per 100 families is now due and payable, and Please cooperate with your Parish Chairman and arrange so we are asking that the money be remitted to Treasurer James that the council in Jour parish may function in the near future. A. Norton, 144 We'stminster Street, Providence, R. I. Very sincerely yours, If any man desires to receive the National Bulletin regularly, JOSEPH M. TALLY) he may send separately $1.25 for contributing membership, and F. D. McMANUS, Secretary. President. the Bulletin will be mailed to him. We are sending under separate mail sampli copy of the President Tally points out that there is work not being Catechism of Catholic Education which may be secured from done in the Providence Diocese by any existing organiza­ National Headquarters for $18 per 100. tion which the National Convention of the Men's Council The Executive Committee (in addition to the officers) is as has laid out to be taken up by parish councils, and en­ follows: Wm. J. Keenan, Edmund Lyons of Peacedale, Jos. closes for the guidance of pastors a list of such activities, P. Morrissey, Dr. J. B. McKenna of East Providence, John C. Lythgoe of Pawtucket, James E. Hall, John F. Mahoney, Fred as follows: L. Owen, Francis M. Lally of Woonsocket and Dr. Antonio G. Fidanza, anyone of whom will be pleased to attend a meeting PROGRAM-N ATIONAL of your parish council and explain the work. Request for 1. Cooperate with Educational Department of National members of this committee should be sent t~ the President in order that a schedule of visits may be arranged for the Council. convenience of all. - 2. Publicity Department-Anti-Catholic Propaganda. In conclusion we ask you to take up again with your pastor 3. Social Action Department-Immigration Department the matter of the immediate formation of an active council in your parish. You need have no doubt of our Bishop's approval broadened and extended. of the immediate formation of active parish councils. 4. To educate ourselves to know our schools, parochial The time is now, the necessity great; and to quote the and public. words of our National President, Admiral W. S. Benson, "What must we Catholic men of the country do to defend the PROGRAM-PARISH COUNCILS Catholic School system against the increasing attacks of it-5 enemies? First, we must educate ourselves." 1. Facts and arguments to be obtained and distributed. We hope for your earnest and prompt cooperation. 2. Catechism prepared on the Catholic School. Very sincerely yours, 3. Study Clubs: (a) Religious study clubs. (b) Social JOSEPH M. TALLY) F. D. McMANUS, Secretary. President. subjects. (c) Civic study clubs. 4. Training and development of Catholic leaders. LETTER TO PASTORS 5. Citi~enship-particular fields for in tructing ourselves We are enclosing copy of a letter sent to your Parish as well as Catholic aliens. Chairman. In addition to the diocesan officers this committee consists 6. Social Justice. Incidentally giving support to Cardinal of such men as William J. Keenan, Joseph P. Morrissey, James Gibbons' Institute for Negroes. E. Hall, John F. Mahoney, Fred L. Owen, and Dr. Antonio G. 7. Development of boys and girl under Catholic leader­ Fidanza, all of Providence; John C. Lythgoe of Pawtucket, and ship. Francis M. Lally of Woonsocket; Dr. John B. McKenna, East Providence, Edmund Lyons, Peacedale. It has been suggested that the aliens who enjoy our They are desirous that your Parish Council be made country with its schools and other advantages should be permanent and that a president, vice-president, secretary and instructed as to their duty to become citizens. Those who treasurer be selected. There is work not being done by any have the right to vote should be informed as to the neces ity existing organization which our National Convention has laid of exercising the right, and finally those who do vote should out to be taken up by parish councils. A list is enclosed with suggestions. We are asked by this committee to make it plain be properly in tructed so that the vote will count and not in this letter that we are acting under the Bishop's personal be thrown out marked "void." We can help those who direction and that you need have no doubt of our Bishop'S should become citizens; we can impress the duty to vote approval of the formation of a parish council at once. upon those who neglect the privilege; we can instruct those The plan for dues has been amended to make it easy for even who do vote but who so mark their ballots that thousands of the smallest parish. The dues are $5 for each 100 families, and every man in the parish is enrolled under this scheme them must be thrown out by counting boards. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 21 Scouting As an Aid to Religion By Rev. John Cavanaugh, C.S.C., n:D. Former President of Notre Dame University

HE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT is not religion and that boy will walk through the world upright, with his face can never take the place of religion. But I do be­ to the stars, like a man, or whether he will wallow through T lieve that, after religion, Scouting is the next best the world like a beast, with his face to the filth. Scouting thing that enters into our public or private life. Anyone takes hold of the boy through the mystic, wonderful period who studies the tW'elve principles of the Scout Law, em­ of which I speak, with sublime beautiful ideals, a reverence bodying trustworthiness, loyalty, helpfulness, friendliness, for God and love of humanity, that WIll take the place politeness, kindness, obedience, cheerfulness and thrift, of evil influence and give them the consecration that a bravery, cleanliness and reverence, will feel that they come good man can give. very close to the spirit and power of religion. A Scout must do at least one good turn each day. I think INFLUENCE OF SCOUTMASTER it is a wonderful thing for a boy to be awakened to his day The boy comes to admire his scoutmaster for the high with the thought in his mind that he must find somewhere things that he is able to do that the boy understands, all a beautiful and helpful thing to do. That has a consecra­ sorts ,of outdoor activities, activities of scoutcraf~. making tion that is almost religion. I think it is a fine thing indeed, knots, fire by friction, camping, bird study, nature study. for a boy to be haunted through the day by the admonition These are things the boys are able to 'understand, and it in bis conscience that it is a part of that day's living to find is a blessed thing for the. boy at this critical period to a helpful service to render unselfishly to some human need. come under the influence of a strong character who can I think it is a beautiful thing, the next most beautiful hold him by means of these activities. thing after religion, to cultivate in the hearts of our boys The best political economy, as the wise man once said, from day to day, a tender affection for the Flag that has is the care and culture of man. That is why this move­ been foremost among all the flags that have ever assembled ment must appeal ·to the men who love God and the men humanity under them; to live for the Flag; to die for the who love humanity. All that it needs is to be understood. Flag that has always been dedicated to human happiness I first saw Boy Scouts in a Catholic Church in and human liberty. Barcelona, Spain, at a High Mass at 10 o'clock, nine Therefore, I say that the Boy Scout movement is the next years ago. A troop of youngsters marched in, under the best thing to ·religion, coming particularly at a time psychol­ guidance of their commanders, with rhythmic reverence ogists understand well to be the perilous time, the wonderful, and knelt for their little offices of piety. Nine years ago mystic, beautiful was almost at period t hat w e the very Bethle­ call adolescence; hem 0 f t his that period when movement. Almighty God is Upon the ideals making over · the that have devel­ body of the boy oped it into the and c han gin g world-wide force him into the man, that it is today that wonderful upon the funda­ period when Al­ mental principles mighty God i s of conduct, the laying up in the actual living day­ bosom of a man by-day virtues the energies that that inspire the are to make him youngest boy s a home builder u n d e r its in­ in the future; a fluence, rest the period that psy­ b est argument chologists under­ for the Boy stand perfectly Scout movement, ADMINISTERING THE SCOUT OATH and the surest a s determining Before he becomes a scout a boy must promise: On my honor I will do my best: largely the ques­ 1. To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout Law; promise for its 2. To help other people at all times; tion of whether 3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. success. 22 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

bigots have secured an entering wedge in Oregon. We had an effective organization here when we resisted the effort to abolish What Councils of the our schools in Michigan two years ago, and we will carry-on dur­ N. C. C. M. Are Doing ing the winter in preparation for the next attack. which will soon be upon us. We would appreciate your keeping us advised from time to time as to what the National Council is doing along this. Launch Program of Rel~gious lnstruction line." ROCKFORD, ILL.-In an interesting report received at N. C. C. M. Headquarters from the Executive Secretary of the Rockford Spread Catholic Literature Among Non-Catholic Families Diocesan Council, announcement is made of the formation of a District Council made up of parish councils in the city of Rock­ BALTIMORE, MD.-Reporting for the Baltimore District ford. This District Council is particularly interested in catechetical Council of the N. C. C. M., President Mark O. Shriver, Jr., states work. A committee consisting of four from each parish council that a surprising vigor and renewed functioning of the N. C. C. M. was named to conduct a general survey in the outlying districts to movement are being ... hown in many parishes throughout the dis­ learn if there 'were any children not attending Sunday School or trict. Support of a Speaker's Bureau, cooperation with the Lay­ the parochial schools. As a result of their work seven centers were men's League for Retreats, and the spread of Catholic literature established in which two hundred children, who otherwise would among non-Catholics are some of the principal activities of the probably receive no Catholic training, are receiving religious Baltimore District organization. instructions. "Perhaps the most interesting work now being done," writes Mr. St. Peter's parish council has purchased a bus for the purpose of Shriver, "is the direction of the Speakers' Bureau, carried on at bringing children from the outlying districts in to school each day Loyola High School, Calvert and Madison Streets, Baltimore. and back home in the evening, and in to Mass every Sunday when under the direction of Rev. Henry B. White, S.J. they stay for Sunday School. One of the ladies in the parish "Within the next few weeks there will be a committee charged kindly offered her home for an instruction center, and four to with the spreading of Catholic literature among non-Catholic six teachers conduct the class there each Sunday afternoon. The families. A large portion of the reading matter to be distributed secretary's report states further: will be made up from files of our magazines and newspapers, but "We have been very fortunate in securing places in which to we may perhaps spread broadcast some of the post card sermons teach in other parts, as several have very generously offered their printed by The Catholic Laymen's Association of Missouri. homes for this work. Investigators are constantly looking for new "The District Council will support the Laymen's League for recruits, and more are brought in each day. We find there is Retreats of Baltimore, which is now in its tenth year, and with the much work to be done along these lines, and the results have been encouragement of numbers the retreats next summer will be held very gratifying." more often and will be better attended than before. Publicity given the retreats through the monthly letter issued by the District Presi­ Archbishop Curley Addresses Meeting Baltimore District Council dent resulted last year in a very considerable increase in the ranks of the retreatants. BALTIMORE, MD.: "Among the local councils, that at Loyola College, under the His Grace, Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, addressed presidency of Dr. Charles O'Donovan, is doing excellent work a large and enthusiastic meeting of the Catholic men of Baltimore among non-Catholics, and among Catholics too, by arousing a on the evening of January 24 at St. James Hall. The occasion was strong feeling of general interest in all the parish activities. They the quarterly meeting of the Baltimore District Council of the have taken upon themselves the task of a special effort to encourage National Council of Catholic Men. Quite a number of the clergy Catholic parents to pass their children through the high schools were present and more than 600 laymen. and to aid and assist in the erection and maintenance of these His Grace reviewed the history and work of the National high schools. Welfare Council and each of its departments, urging those present "Early in the year we will be able to present reports from St. to increase their interest in the work with their councils, and Bridget's, St. Michael's, St. Luke's, St. Dominic's, Holy Cross, St. particularly to get other men not now enrolled into active Benedict's, St. Martin's and St. James' and those other councils membership. . which have been active in the past." Mr. A. C. Monahan, Director of the Bureau of Education, National Catholic Welfare Council, also spoke. "Wl1at Can a Parish Council of the N. C. C. M. Do?"

Prepare to Defend Schools in Hudson, Michigan KANSAS CITY, KANSA.$.-In answer to this oft-repeated ques­ tion we publish the following report from Stanley P. Gapa,. HUDSON, MICH.-Joseph M. Mulvenna, recording secretary of secretary, St. Thomas Parish Unit, National Council of Catholic Sacred Heart Parish, of Hudson, Michigan, in an interesting letter Men: received in Washington, expresses the gratification of the members "St. Thomas Council was organized May 15, 1921. The or-· of hiS parish in being a part of the Men's Council movement and ganizers were Reverend P. ]. McKenna, our pastor; the chancellor states their willingness to assist in any work that is for the of the diocese of Leavenworth, Very Reverend Francis M. Orr, and' advancement of God and Church. Mr. Mulvenna's letter reads in Mr. E. S. McAnany. part as -follows: "Our activities during the first six months were confined chiefly "Our branch is progressing steadily. We hold regular monthly to recruiting new members, and during this time a thorough study meetings, besides which our Club Rooms are open every evening, of the movement was undertaken by the council through com­ and the members are evincing a growing interest in the organiza­ munications and pamphlets received from diocesan and national' tion, realizing that it was for their welfare that the National headquarters. A splendid hall in the basement of the church was Council of Catholic Men was effected. At our monthly meetings redecorated by Father McKenna and set aside for the use of our matters of religious, social and political interest are discussed. council. "Our members appre.ciate the necessity for organization to "In January, 1922, the St. Thomas Social Club, the Holy Name­ combat the attacks on our schools, and especially so now that the Society and the National Council of Catholic Men were con- THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 23

'Solidated, forming one organization known as St. Thomas Unit of Kansas, makes the following editorial reference to the event: the N. C. C. M. Following the reorganization our new hall was "Over JOO were present and without any exception all expressed equipped with a splendid pool table, library, boxing gloves and a their deep appre~iation of what the N. C. C. M. of the Cathedral 'punching bag. We then turneCl our attention to the boys, and a Parish is accomplishing. We might say in passing that we extend juvenile band was started. The youngsters are doing splendid our sympathy to those who were unfortunate enough to be absent. work, and we expect a great deal from them in the near future. They missed something worth while.... The boys are practising once a week; they number forty-one at the "On the whole we may safely say that the Cathedral Council of present time. N. C. C. M. is accomplishing 'big ·things,' and we hope that the "Another feature which met with great success was the public example set by its energetic members will be an incentive to urge speaking class. Within the short period of its existence it has other councils throughout the diocese to go and do likewise." become very popular. About the middle of spring a baseball team Council Sends $150 to Archbishop Christie was orgartized. This, too, is a big feature and has contributed greatly to our prestige in this community. BALTIMORE, MD.-Mr. Joseph A. Buser, president, St. Mar­ "In addition to the aforesaid activities the Council endeavors to tin's Council, N. 0 C. M., Baltimore, Md., sent us a report con­ keep informed on all community problems. taining the following information: "This is a brief outline of the work of our council to date. "At the meeting on Sunday, November 26, 1922, the Oregon Should you have any suggestions to offer to further the prosperity school question was brought up, and a resolution was adopted that and success of our council, I assure you they will be appreciated." we assure Archbishop Christie of not only our moral but financial aid. A letter to this effect was sent to Archbishop Christie and a Archbishop Moeller's ~etter Encourages Cincinnati Members check enclosed for $150, which was the amount collected from the CINCINNATI, OHIO.-At the last meeting of the Cincinnati members at the meeting:" Archdiocesan Council, N. C. C. M., held at Knights of Columbus Reports from Various Councils Hall, Piqua, Ohio, President Walter T. Johnson called attention to the splendid results which followed the letter recently issued TOLEDO, OHIO.-Good Shepherd Council, through Secretary by His Grace Archbishop Moeller to the pastors of his Arch­ Frank Dwyer, reports a membership of 125 with fifty new members diocese. As a result of the meeting it was decided to publish to be enrolled at the next meeting. General Communion Sundays, monthly an N. C. C. M. Diocesan News Letter containing reports of parish activities and accomplishments. Special binders for filing followed by a breakfast, are held every three or four months. These the News Sheets and other diocesan records will be furnished by are always well attended and have helped materially to add to the the Diocesan headquarters. Each binder will contain a copy of membership as all of the men of the parish are included. the By-Laws of the Council. A special department of the News Letter will be devoted to the Boys' Brigade and the Boy Scouts, AUGUSTA, MONTANA.-St. Mathias Council, from this both of which organizations have been approved by Archbishop sparsely settled part of Montana, where there are few Catholics Moeller. and where it is very hard to support a priest, have taken it upon A plan was adopted by which the annual archdiocesan conven­ tion will be attended by delegates from the various units of the themselves to see that a regular monthly collection of a specific organization as follows: All officers of the deanery councils, and amount is made up for the pastor. two delegates from each parish in the archdiocese. One parish deputy from each parish council as well as one general committee­ BALTIMORE, MD.-Immaculate Conception Council of the N. man for each group of five parish councils will also be permitted C. C. M., through Secretary Strauch, reports the organization of an to attend. This will give the annual archdiocesan convention a Athletic Club for young men to be known as The Catholic Athletic voting strength of approximately 450 delegates. Association. The club quarters include a large hall which may be During the convention a special conference of parish council utilized for dances, dramatics, basket ball games, etc., an assembly presidents will be called to discuss local problems and new activi­ ties engaging the attention of parish councils throughout the arch­ room, a lyceum room and a gymnasium. In addition to these a large -diocese. Recent reports indicate that many councils are mapping tract of ground situated alongside of the Church will be converted out their own program of activities rather than seek aid in this into a tennis court around which a running track will be laid. direction from the diocesan council. This is a very encouraging The Association solicits the membership of young men over sign, and it is hoped that all councils will make an effort to do likewise. fifteen years of age who agree, when joining the Association, to Mr. Frank Kloeb, M. J. Gibbons, Jr., and C. J. Dolle were en~ol1 in their parish council of the N. C. C. M. when they reach appointed to serve as members of the newly created Legislative the age of eighteen. The members are planning the production of Committee. a play shortly after the Lenten Season. President Johnson reported that 10 per cent of dues which are now being received for 1923 will be returned to the treasurer of CINCINN'A TI, OHIO.-St. Augustine's Council held a ~ery large each deanery to finance district activities. meeting recently, which was addressed by John J. Donovan, of The following deanery officers were present: Sidney Deanery, Louis J. George, Henry J. Reichert, and John M. Kramer; Dayton Ludlow, Ky, vice-president of the Covington Diocesan Council. Deanery, M. J. Gibbons, Jr., S. E. Connair; Cincinnati Deanery, Mr. Donovan delivered a very interesting address which was very C. F. Dolle, J. B. Hardig, C. A. Schnieders. much enjoyed by all members present. Reverend J. Schopp, pastor, 300 N. C. C. M. Members Attend Annual Banquet presided. WICHITA, KANSAS.-The members of Cathedral Council of WASHINGTON, D. C.-Andrew 1. Hickey was elected president the National Council of Catholic Men held their annual banquet of St. Paul's Council at an organization meeting Friday evening, and first monthly meeting of the New Year on Tuesday evening, January 19, in the school hall, 15th and V Streets. Other officers January 9, in the Community House. elected were: William J. Lynch, vice-president, Harry W. Schmits, Aside from Rt. Rev. Augustus J. Schwertner, D.D., Bishop of secretary, and J. D. Leonard, treasurer. Msgr. James F. Mackin is Wichita, who was present and delivered a short address, the honorary president of the council. speaker of the evening was Charles B. Driscoll, who is editor of The council will give particular attention to the work of Catholic the Wichita Eagle. In an address on "The Citizen and the World," education by aiding in the construction and maintenance of the new among other things Mr. Driscoll deplored the fact that the school to be built by the parish. magazines and periodicals of today which give food for thought The meetings will be held monthly and a program of activities are not in demand, but, on the other hand, light and in many cases will be inaugurated at the next meeting. Hon. W. Bourke Cockran morally degrading literature is largely patronized. will address St. Paul's Council on "Catholic Education" on the In its issue of January 13, the Catholic Advance, of Wichita, evening of February 22.

eel 00 C~ 24 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN What One Parish Did for Its Boys Record-breaking Achievement of St. Joseph's Parish, Willimantic, Conn.

T. JOSEPH'S Pari h, Willimantic, Conn., has every and both greatly encouraged the boys and their friends in the right to be proud of its Boy Scout Troops. Begin­ Boy Scout program. S ning with absolutely nothing on June 12, 1921, when Participation in the Armistice and Decoration Day cere­ the project was announced to the people of the parish, the monies and all military funerals, and assistance in traffic work developed to such an extent that the parish . now regulation during school dismissal hours are only a few has three full scout troops, a scout choir of forty boys and of the many opportunities the Boy Scouts of St. Joseph's a Boy Scout brass band of sixty pieces. had to demon trate their worth, ability and patriotism. Work was begun by clearing out the spaciou basement The play side of the scout life has not been missing in of the church and fitting it up with lockers, chairs and Willimantic either and the boys enjoyed hikes and "frank­ stage and adding a kitchen with complete outfit at an ex­ furter" roasts, skating, tournaments, basketball, sleigh rid­ pense of $1,000. From the voltlntary contributions of the ing, all sorts of games and sports in and out of doors, parishioners and interested outsiders $1,500 was realized lectures, entertainments and the like. Some s6rt of activity and each boy was provided with a uniform and all. es en­ aside from the regular weekly meeting was provided for tials for scout work. The first public rally of the troops to nearly every week. take place in their newly equipped hall was attended by a FORMATION OF Boy SCOUT CHOIR capacity audience. Rev. John F. White and Mr. A. 1. At the beginning of the year 1922 a Boy Scout Choir Hirsh, representatives of the N. C. C. M. at National Boy was formed, consisting of forty boys whom Father Beau­ Scout Headquarters, New York, were the invited speaker , eC ontiwued on page 27)

FAMOUS BOY SCOUT BAND OF ST. JOSEPH'S PARISH, WILLIMANTIC, CONN. ~n on~ and one·h~lf years' time S.t. Joseph's Parish organized !hre~ full Boy Scout Troops.. a Boy Scout Choir of forty members.. and a Boy Sc0!lt Band of sixty pieces, and !alsed $5,000 to equip a Boy Scout Camp. Appeanng 10 the front r.ow of the picture are (in biretta), Father Beaum15ter hwhlo organized the troops, Rev. John E. Clarke, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Mr. John F. Carr, committeeman, and at the extreme right, Mr. Charles C. N. w ee er, bandmaster. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 25 r N. c. w. c. De~a;~e~t~f 'Ed~c~ti~'n ] l Chairman: MOST REV. AUSTIN DOWLING. D.D. ~ Executive 'Secretary: REV. JAMES H. RYAN. D.D .• Ph.D. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ] [ Rt. Rev. Magr. Edward A. Pace; Very Rev. J. A. Burns, C.S.C.; Rt. Rev. Msgr. John P. Chidwick; Rev. Dr. John A. Dillon; Very Rev. John F. Fenlon; Rev. Albert C. Fox, S.J.; Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis W. Howard; Rev. Dr. Francis T. Moran; Rt. Rev. Magr. John B. Peterson; Rev. Brother G. Philip; Rev. R. H. Tierney. S.J.; Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Shahan; Rt. Rev. Magr. Joseph F. Smith; Brother ] John A. Waldron; Rev. Dr. Francis Walsh; Rev. John J. Wynne. S.J.

[ BUREAU OF EDUCATION A. C. MONAHAN. Director DIVISIONS: Statistics and Information. Teachers' Registration Section, Elementary Education, Research Catholic Education; Library n [ ii====~'l'====~'l'====~'~'====~'~'====~'~E====~'~c====~'~'==~'~'~==~'~'~==~'~E~===='~E~===='~e~====~'E~====~,c~====i'.~ A Campaign in Behalf of Catholic Education N. c. W. C. Department of Education Prepares Series of Timely Pamphlets

NE OF the by-product of the organized campaign its destruction. Every individual Catholic man, woman of bigotry directed against the Catholic Church and child must be reached with this information. In this ~ O and her institutions, particularly the parish school, spreading of knowledge about the Catholic system of has been a quickened interest on the part of Catholics them­ schools lie our only hope of the future. When every selves in the school question. During the last quarter of individual is informed there will arise, by its own force, a century the majority of Catholics have taken their group action on the part of Catholics. If Catholics know schools a.s a matter of course. They have generously con­ their schools and what these schools are doing, no fear tributed huge sums to their upkeep and maintenance. They need be had of. their not rising, when called upon, to their have given their children a sound Christian education. defense. This was done mostly as a matter of loyalty. Persecution, A brief description is here given of the pamphlets which however, has made nece sary a knowledge of the reasons are now ready for distribution: why we Catholic maintain schools. Criticism of our in­ "OFFICIAL ATTITUDE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH stitutions has begotten the desire on the part of Catholics ON EDUCATION" (12 PAGES): of knowing exactly what the school is doing and how far, An excerpt from the Pastoral Letter of the Archbishops and if at all, this criticism is just. Bishops of the United States, 1919. Gives an authoritative statement of the Church on the question of religious education, In response to this demand which has arisen in practi­ the public school, and state rights with reference to education. cally every part of the country, the Department of Educa­ "A CATECHISM OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION" (98 tion, National Catholic Welfare CounciJ, has prepared the PAGES) ; following pamphlets. Each pamphlet of this series is com­ This booklet, in twelve chapters, reviews by the question and plete in itself. All have been written with the idea of in­ answer method, the whole field of Catholic education. The forming our people fully on the various questions which history, statistics, organization, teachers, curriculum, Ameri­ have arisen as a result of the passage of the .so-called canism, cost of Catholic schools are some of the subjects dealt with. It is invaluable for every peaker and should be dis­ Oregon Compulsory Education Law. This law, though tributed broadcast. local in scope, is national in its consequences in as far as "THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SO-CALLED COMPUL­ it raises a grave national problem. The educational ques­ SORY EDUCATION BILL" (16 PAGES); tions underlying it are of supreme moment for the Church, An exhaustive and critical examination of the Oregon School not only in Oregon but in every state in the Union. Be­ Law. Parental authority, religious liberty and freedom in sides tl].e pamphlets here reviewed, others of a similar char­ education are admirably treated. It also contains the text of acter are in the course of preparation. the so-called Oregon Compulsory Education Bill. To dispel the false ideas current in many circles about "SIXTEEN REASONS WHY EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD OPPOSE A STATE MONOPOLY OF Catholic education, its principles and its purposes, the EDUCATION" (4 PAGES): first and most necessary thing is to acquaint Catholics A leaflet which states in concise terms sixteen objections to themselves with their schools, so that they will not only such bills as the Oregon School Law. appreciate the many good points of our system of educa­ "PUBLIC OPINION AND THE ORGEON SCHOOL LAW" tion, but will be prepared to defend it in every legitimate (24 PAGES): way whenever its existence is menaced by forces bent on Contains editorial expressions from both the secular and 26 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

, Catholic press on the Oregon School Law. Also gives state­ It not only reviews the purposes, aims, and methods of spread­ ments of individual leaders in American life or different relig­ ing educational information, but contains concrete suggestions ious groups. This pamphlet not only explains the enlightened both as to available literature which may be consulted and to American point of view, but contains at the same time valuable speeches which may be given. Four model speeches are arguments against a state monopoly of education. outlined.

"PUBLIC OPINION AND THE NEED OF RELIGIOUS "FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION" (4 EDUCATION" (24 PAGES): PAGES) : This timely pamphlet quotes the views of statesmen, educators, A bibliography of recent articles, speeches and books on the clergymen and others on the necessity of religious education, if federal government and its relations to education. America and her institutions are to endure. A chapter entitled The above-described pamphlets will be ready for sale "Presidents and Religious Bigotry" will be of great assistance early in February and at cost price. They are suitable not to speakers, containing as it does a number of statements of our Presidents on the question of religious bigotry. only for Catholic readers, but for non-Catholics as well, particularly" A Catechism of Catholic Education;" "Pub­ "EDUCATION IN A DEMOCRACY" (16 PAGES): lic Opinion and the Oregon School Law," and "The Truth An examination of the philosophy which would "nationalize" About the So-Called Compulsory Education Bil1." The the school by doing away with all private initiative in education. Catechism particularly has met with a well-merited suc­ A reply to an article by Dr. Dallas Lore Sharp in the October cess. Thirty-five thousand copies have already been dis­ Harper's entitled "The National Schoo1." tributed. Governors, legislators, professors, clergymen "THE OREGON SCHOOL LAW AND THE PUBLIC and many others have expressed great appreciation of this SCHOOL" (16 PAGES) : booklet. We bespeak for the other literature here reviewed A public school teacher shows conclusively how a state a similar reception. It is timely. It is not written in a monopoly of education would result in educational stagnation. controversial spirit. It states the facts concerning Cath­ He proves that the Oregon School Law is a blow at the public olic education, and nothing but the facts. Priests and school no less than the private school. Jaymen, both individually and as organizations) can do no "HANDBOOK FOR SPEAKERS" (24 PAGES) : better service to the Church at this time than to distribute 0 A necessary booklet for all speakers on Catholic education. far and wide the N. C. W ,. C. education literature. Pennsylvania Catholic Educational Association Holds Successful Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the Catholic Educational Associa­ education for practical life to the exclusion of morality and tion of Pennsylvania was held in the Charles M. Schwab high religious and spiritual ideals and declared that educa­ Memorial Hall at Mt. Aloysius' Academy, Cresson, Pa., on tion that did not rest upon a sound philosophical and December 27 and 28. The meeting was attended by Right religious basis was no more than a make-shift and could not Rev. John J. McCort, D.D., Bishop of Altoona; Right Rev . . endure. Philip R. McDevitt, D.D., Bishop of Harrisburg; and Right Rev. John M. O'Hara, superintendent of Catholic Schools, Rev. Hugh C. Boyle, D.D., Bishop of Pittsburgh. The Right Philadelphia, spoke on "Factors that make for Efficiency in Rev. Aurelius Stehle, D.D., O.S.B., Archabbot of St. Teaching," and Rev. Brother Dorotheus Louis, F.S.C., of Vincent's Archabby, Beatty, and President of the Benedic­ Philadelphia, delivered an interesting address on "Mental tine College there, and many other distinguished educators Arithmetic-A Lost Art." attended the convention sessions. The following officers were elected by the Convention: Resolutions protesting against attempts to de-Americanize Cardinal Dougherty, Honorary President; Rev. Joseph G. American history textbooks and calling on all Catholic Wehrle, D.D., of Erie, President; Rev. Joseph A. O'Hara, educational institutions to cooperate in the standardization of Philadelphia, Vice-President; Rev. M. A. Hehir, C.S.Sp., movement were adopted by the conference. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Second Vice-President; The following papers were read at the Convention: "Need Rev. Ralph L. Hayes, D.D., Superintendent of Schoob, of an Endowment for Catholic Colleges," by Rev. Joseph J. Hickey, O.S.A., Villanova College; "A Practical High Pittsburgh, Third Vice-President; Rev. Brother Lucian, School Curriculum," by Rev. P. Nally of the Catholic High F.S.C., President, La Salle College, Philadelphia, Secretary; School, Philadelphia; "Teaching History in the Grades," by Rev. John L. Ott, S.M., Philadelphia, Treasurer. Executive Sister M. Adele, I.H.M.; "Standardization of Catholic Committee Members: Rt. Rev. Aurelius Stehle. D.D., Colleges," by Rev. Daniel R: Sullivan, Seton Hill College, "' O.S.B, Beatty; Rev. Joseph A. Boyle, Scranton; Rev. Peter Greensburg; "System .of Marking," by Prof. C. T. M. Stieff, Harrisburg; Rev. Urban J. Peters, Portage; Rev. Humphreys of Villanova College. Damian J. Segourn, T. O. R., Loretto; Rev. William P. Rev. Phoenix M. Kirsch, O.M.Cap., of St. Fidelis' College, McN ally, Philadelphia; Rev. Patrick Harkins, Altoona; Herman, Pa., delivered a scholarly address to the conference Rev. Felix M. Kirsch, O.M.Cap., Herman; Rev. Francis A. on the "Science of Education." Father Kirsch derided Driscoll, O.S.A., Villanova. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 27

Annual Meeting of the Association of Committee on Archit~cture reported the publication Df a American Colleges book on college architecture and the fine arts in colleges which is intended to be helpful both to administrative "DELIGIOUS EDUCATION in American Colleges officers, boards of trustees, etc., in selecting the architecture l,and Universities" will probably be the suhject of dis- of the buil~ings to be erected and as a ~tudent textbook cussion at the opening sessions of each of the future in college classes. The book was prepared under the meetings of the Association of American Colleges. That general direction of the Committee 011 Education of the this is desirable seemed to be the consensus of opinion of American Institute of Architects, . of which Mr. C. C. the presidents, deans., and other administrative officers from Zantzinger, a well-known architect of Philadelphia, is chair­ 150 colleges in the association who attended the annual man. It is a collaboration by four well-known architects meeting held in Chicago, January 11-13. The opening and by six men in the allied arts-sculpture, painting, session was selected as the particular time for the teligious landscape designing, city planning, industrial arts, and education discussion because it is customary for many of music. The book is entitled "The Significance of the Fine the Church Boards of Education to hold their annual Arts." The ten essays by the ten collaborators are illus­ meetings just prior to the meeting of the Association of trated with approximately 300 photographs. The publisher . American Colleges and at the same place. It was thought is the Marshall jones Company, of Boston. All royalties that many of the men on these boards would remain for accruing to the committee in charge from the sale of the this religious education discussion. book are to be devoted to the cause of art education. The Association of American Colleges is made up of A. C. M. standard colleges of Liberal Arts and Science, including principally the denominational colleges and the small sepa- What One Parish Did for Its Boys . rate colleges. There are approximately 150 institutions (Continued from page 24) in the association, including 14 or 15 Catholic colleges. It mister, the pastor, trained personally for the purpose of exists primarily for the promotion of the interests of choir work in church and at religious functions on different general courses of college grade in the Liberal Arts and occasions. This boys' choir is thriving and has proved a Sciences; however, the greater number of institutions in marked success. its membership are interested directly in religious education. Father Beaumister, however, had dreams of a real Boy The subject with which they seem most concerned in reli­ Scout Brass Band, and in Ja~uary of 1922 started to gious education is the general methods of instruction in make these dreams a reality. Forty boys volunteered as required and elective courses in religion and the like members of the band and were furnished with the best subjects. of instruments, ranging from $35 to $225 each. These A survey of religious education in all types of cotleges instruments were paid for with money borrowed by Father and universities in the United States is to' be undertaken Beaumister on his personal note, and within six months during the year by the "Committee of Social and Religious the note was redeemed with money earned by the boys Surveys" of New York, acting in cooperation with the themselves. The band, now sixty strong, is a great success Association of American Colleges, the two organizations and is in demand for all festivitjes and ce1ebrations~ Scout­ being absolutely distinct. Dr. E. D. Burton, Secretary of master Charles C. N. Wheeler, leader of the band, is the CDmmittee on Social and Religious Surveys, speaking founder and leader of the American Band of Willimantic. on the subject I'Religious Education in Colleges," reported The boys also have enjoyed several weeks at camp to the association plans for this religious study as far a.s and look forward to their own tamp next year. This was already formed. The study will be made in cooperation made possible by the realization of nearly $5,000 from a with the individual colleges, and only in such institutions carnival given under the auspices of the Scout Organiza­ as invite the survey. In general, it will be undex: the tion by the friends of the scouts in St. Joseph's parish. charge of an Advisory Committee representing the various Equipment for the camp has been provided and the ex­ groups of colleges. The Catholic institutions will be rep­ penses of all the boys paid, and it is hoped that enough resented by Right Rev. Monsignor Edward A. Pace, Ph.D., remains to secure a permanent camp. of the Catholic University of America and of the ,Depart­ Marvelous as has been the success of the troops thus far, ment of Education of the National Catholic Welfare Coun­ the boys are ambitious for further progress and will apply cil; Rev. John A. Dillon, of Paterson, N. J., and also of themselves during the coming year in preparation for higher the N. C. W. C. Department of Education; and the grades of scoutship. Director of the Bureau of Education of the N. C. W. C. Other important discussions at the meeting were on such The Americanism of the Catholic School is explained in one of the most vigorous chapters of the administrative questions as the Organization of the Cur­ . Catechism of Catholic Education ricula, the Reorganization of College Catalogues and Other Single copies ...... 25 Cents each Publications, Budgets, Faculty and Student Scholarships, In Lots of 50 or more 20 Cents each and particularly on College Architecture. The association's In Lots of 100 or more 18 Cents each 28 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

the camp u's. Rev. John O'Hara, CS.C, Prefect of Reiigion, is ~ ••. In the Field of Catholic Education .•• ~ also working out a plan of a post-card reminder of religious duties which will give the time of Masses and Confessions at the downtown churches. NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY, Notre Dame, Ind., has 100 young men enrolled in its School of Journalism. THE ROSATI-KAIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS was recently opened in St. Louis. It is a con~rete expres­ THE ORDER OF MINOR CONVENTUALS of ST. FRANCIS sion of the devotion o-f the Catholic laity to Archbishop Glennon, is erecting a House of Studies at the Catholic University. The who recently celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary as a member building is situated just outside the University grounds. of the American Hierarchy. CRETIN HIGH SCHOOL OF ST. PAUL, conducted by the RT. REV. THOMAS A. MOLLOY, D.D., Bishop of Brooklyn, Christian Brothers, won two prizes at the meeting of the Central has recently made a successful appeal to his people for a $2,000,000 Inter-scholastic Press Association, held at Wisconsin University high-school fund to take care of the erection and equipment of last month. three central high schools. RT. REV. LOUIS S. WALSH, Bishop of Portland, contributed ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, Philadelphia, has recently completed to the recent educational Number of the Lewiston Evening lottrnal a successful drive for $1,000,000. This fund will be used for the a~ article entitled "The 'Catholic' Public School System of Maine." extension of the college builsings and the erection of a tadium and Although largely of local interest, there are parts of the contribu­ athletic field. tion which have a national significance.

TRINITY COLLEGE'S $1,000,000 ENDOWMENT FUND will A DIOCESAN NORMAL SCHOOL is a recent educational be raised through a campaign conducted by the Alumnae of the development in Pittsburgh. Over 700 Sisters are attending the institution, according to plans mapped out at a recent meeting of classes, which are conducted on Saturday mornings and cover the drive committee. No professional solicitors will be employed. not only academic work, but strictly pedagogical training. The fund will be used to provide a new dormitory building, a science building and a gymnasium. SCHOOL HEALTH WORK is being continued in one of the parochial schools of Toledo following a successful experiment last THE SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH plan the erection of a new year which brought about the remedy of many unhealthy child academy and college for girls at Miami, Florida, which will conditions. It is hoped that regular nurse and doctor care of eventually cost $250,000. Two blocks h~ve b~en purchased and the parochial school children will become a fixed feature of the schools erection of one unit of the college will be s~arted immediately. of the Toledo Diocese.

FIVE GEORGETOWN STUDENTS are represented in the ST. ANTHONY'S NEW PARISH SCHOOL, Brookland, D. C, government of Rhode Island: Governor-elect William S. Flynn, has recently been opened as a model school for the Catholic Sisters' Lieutenant Governor-elect James E. Dooley, John Herman Green, College of the Catholic University. The school, which is under the Jr., elected to State Senate, John J. McGrane, also elected to State direction of the Dominican Sisters from Newburgh, N. Y., was Senate, and Philip V. Joslin, who is a candidate for Speaker of . opened with a solemn High Mass celebrated by the Rev. Patrick J. the House. McCormick, S.T.L., Professor of Education at the Catholic University. THE CARDINAL GIBBONS INSTITUTE FUND, which is being collected to finance a national school for colored youth, to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Washington, D. C, has be located at Ridge, Maryland, has recently received a donation of laU1whed its organization work in the campaign to raise $5,000,000 $2,500 from Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Doheny, through His Grace, as an endowment fund. Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, S.]., vice­ Michael J. Curley, D.D., Archbishop of Baltimore. president and regent of the Foreign Service School, Dr. Conde B. Pallen, national chairman of the endowment association, ar.d others A $2,000,000 CAMPAIGN FOR CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY, are traveling through the country speaking and organizing units OMAHA, has been inaugurated in crder to permit the erection of of the alumni. four new buildings and a stadium and to increase the endowment of the University. REV. FRANCIS KANALEY, superintendent of parochial schools in the Diocese of Buffalo, died suddenly just before Christmas. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, Chicago, have arranged Father Kanaley was appointed superintendent of parochial schools to build a $300,000 gymnasium on the college campus. The building by Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia when the latter was Bishop will be three stories high and will contain clubrooms, bowling of Buffalo. alleys, swimming pool and other facilities of a complete training quarters. CATHOLIC STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS at Lafayette Col­ lege, the University of Virginia and the University of Texas were THE JESUIT COLLEGE OF_BOSTON, through its School of admitted to membership in the Federation of College Catholic Clubs Education, is conducting an extension course for religious engageq during the second annual Conference of the Pennsylvania Province in grade school work. The course is recognized by Boston College held recently at the Newman Club of the University of Pennsyl­ and college credits are awarded, the underlying purpose of the vania. The following officers were elected: President, Homer R. course being to elevate even higher the excellent teacher efficiency Sullivan, '15, U'niversity of Pennsylvania; First Vice-President, obtaining in the grade schools. Richard T. McSorley, '09, University of Penr.sylvania; Second Vice-President, Prof. David A. McCabe, of Princeton University' NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY has adopted a daily "Religious Secretary, Hugh B. Flanigan, University of Pennsylvania: Bulletin" as a means of keeping in contact with students living off Treasurer, Walter Miller, Temple University. ' THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 29

[' Natio~'al "c~u~cii=c~~h~li~' Wo~~'n I]] [ Chairman: RT. REV. JOSEPH SCHREMBS. D.D. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ] Mrs. Michael Gavin, President, Province of New York; Mrs. W. T. Donovan, 1st Vice-President, Province of St. Louis; Mrs. Arthnr [ H. S. Bird, 2d Vice-President, Province of San Francisco; Mrs. Teresa M. Molamphy, 3rd Vice-President, Province of Philadelphia: Mias Florence Loeber, Treasurer, Province of New Orleans; Mrs. Harry M. Benzinger, Secre~ary, Province of Baltimore. _ DIRECTORS ] Mrs. Francis E. Slattery, Province of Boston: Mrs. Edward I. Cudahy, Province of Chicago; Mrs. F. E .. Mackentepe, Province of [ Cincinnati; Mrs. Louis Nash. Province of Dubuque; Mrs. James H. Hackett, Province of Milwaukee: Mrs. Arthur Gerbel, Provinc. of Oregon City; Mrs. W. J. O'Toole, Province of St. Paul: Mrs. Ella M. Weckbaugh, Province of Santa Fe. [~C~~~)~E~~~'~E~~~)~E~~~)~E~E~x~e~c~:~:Siv~e~S~e~:n:Se~t~ar~Y~:~)n~~I~S~~~E~A~G~~~E~)~~~G~.~R~~~.G~~~~)~C~~~)~E~~~)~C~~~'ic~~~.I] N.C.C. W. Represented at Wome.n's Industrial Conference Delegates of Sixty National Organizations Discuss Improved Condi1;ions for Women in Industry By Marie M. Reilly

N EIGHT HOUR DAY, minimum wage, and the tional Association of Manufacturers, and by Miss Mary abolition of child labor were the three principal Gilson, Superintendent of Employment and Service De­ A points discussed at the Women's Industrial Confer­ partment, the Jo eph and Feiss Company, Cleveland. ence, called by Hon. James J .. Davis, Secretary of Labor, Ohio. and held in Washington on January 11, 12 and 13. More At the ses ion dealing with· "What Industry ieans to than 350 delegates, repre enting the interests of employers, Women Workers," Miss Mary Van Kleeck, Director of employees, social research workers and national women's the Department of Industrial Studies, Ru ell Sage Foun­ organizations, attended the ses ions, at which Miss Mary dation, emphasized ·the necessity of' basing conclusions Anderson, Director of the Women' Bureau, presided. on information compiled from investigations which cov­ The National Council of Catholic Women was repre­ ered all types of industries in all parts of the country. sented by Miss Agnes G. Regan, Executive Secretary, Miss Van Kleeck was followed on the program by lVIrs. Mrs. Teresa M. Molamphy, representing the Pittsburgh Raymond Robins, President of the International Federa­ Council of the N. C. C. ·W., and Mis Rose j. McHugh, tion of Working Women. In her plea for a fair chance Instructor in Social Case Work at the National Catholic for the industrial workers, Mr ' . Robins told the story of a Service School. Miss Linna Bresette and Miss Miriam little girl, whose home was in the tenement district of Chi­ Loughran r.epresented the N. C. W. C. DejJartment of So­ cago. . The child's mother was employed in one of the cial Action. Press privileges were given to the N. C. C. VI/. city's factories, and, left alone to amuse herself, the tot Director of Publicity. spent much of her time drawing pictures on the sidewalk. The purpose of the Women's Indu trial Conference, as A chance passer-by recognized the youngster's hidden tal­ announced by Miss Ander on, was to further the fulfill­ ent and, through an intere ted group, her education was ment of the duties of the Women's Bureau a ' prescribed made po sible. After finishing- high school, the girl went by Congress, namely, "To formulate standards and policies through the Chicago Art Institute, then studied at the which shall promote the welfare of wage-earning women, .licole des Beaux Art in Pari and lf the conference was addressed by Vvomen's Chri tian Temperance Union, presided at the the Secretary of Labor, who brought a message from the meeting at which "Health Standards for Women in Indus­ President of the United States. Hon. Edward J. Hen­ try" and "Home Work" were presented by Dr. R. A. ning, Assistant Secretary, presided at the session, at which Spaeth, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, the subject presented was "What Women Workers Mean School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins to Industry." Th~ employer's point of view was brought University, and by Mrs. F19rence Kelley, Executive Secre­ out at this meeting by Mr. Charles Cheney, of Cheney tary of the National Consumers League, respectively. Brothers, South Manchester, Conn., representing the Na- General discussion followed the addresses. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, president of the General Federa­ under the direction of Dr. Neill that the first country-wide tion of Women's Clubs, introduced the speakers at the investigation of women in industry was made. session devoted to "Women's Wages." Mrs. Maude Swartz, Miss Julia Lathrop, former Chief of the Children's president of the National Women's Trade Union League, Bureau, presided at the closing session and said that the was the first speaker on this program and was followed by Conference had been an inspiration to all those privileged Miss Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Dean of Women of the to attend, since, although the representatives traditionally University of Chicago. ' Miss Breckinridge stated that one and I historically held divergent and opposite views, of the reasons why women have not been given wages equal throughout all the sessions there had been an atmosphere to those allowed men was the claim that a man invariably of tolerance and sincere interest in each other. Before has a family to support while a woman supports only herself. the delegates left, Miss Mary Anderson, Director of the This is not true, as was pointed out by the speaker, for in­ Women's Bureau, expressed her heartfelt appreciation of vestigations have proved that a large percentage of the girls the cooperative spirit shown in the Conference and assured and women occupied in the industries and professions have the delegates that the Women's Bureau would always con­ one or more dependents. It is not an uncommon discovery sider it a privilege to serve them and the organizations to find that a girl is the whole support of the family and is which they represented. struggling, in addition, to put a sister or brother through URGES STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION school. Girls naturally feel the responsibility of their At the second annual convention of the N. C. C. W., held parental home more than boys, and again and again the in November, a resolution endorsing the passage of laws boy marries, leaving one or more girls to care for the family. for the protection of women in industry was unanimously Under these conditions, the girl not only does not have adopted. During the coming months, individual members leisure or money for self-development but cannot save for a and affiliated organizations of the N. C. C. W. are urged day when she may be physically unfit for work. to make a careful study of the industrial legislation pro- . "I am a labor woman believing in organization, yet until posed in the various state legislatures and to make every women have grown strong and capable enough to secure effort to better ' the working conditions of the eight and better conditions for themselves I advocate special laws for one-half million women engaged in the industries of the women in industry," said Miss Melinda Scott, of the United United States. Textile Workers of America, speaking on "Labor Legisla­ tion for Women." Miss Scott urged laws compelling an N. C. W. C. Promises Support to Texas Catholics in School Fight eight-hour day, minimum wage, education of children up Commenting on the recommendation of the conference in to the age of sixte~n, elimination of night work, proper San Antonio, Texas, on January 21, at which the delegates sanitary conditions in factories and stores, widow's recommended to the five bishops of the State of Texas the pensions and a period of rest -before and after child birth. immediate organization of men's and women's councils Miss Mercia E. Hoagland, Director, Mutual Service Divi~ throughout. the state and the union of the councils in a sion, Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company, state-wide organization having for its purpose the conduct Indianapolis, spoke after Miss Scott and said that she be­ of a state-wide campaign of education on Catholic subjects, lieved special legislation put women at a disadvantage in Miss Agnes G. Regan, Executive Secretary of the National their struggle for ,equality with men in the industrial world. Council of Catholic Women, expressed gratification at the At the banquet, with which the Conference closed on the action taken by the conference and declared that the evening of January 13, "The Need for Women to Enforce Women's Council will make every effort to forward any Women's Labor Laws" was presented by Miss Tracy Copp, suc.h movement having the approval of the ecclesiastical Special Agent for the Federal Board for Vocational Guid­ authorities of that state. Miss Regan's statement on the San ance; Miss Agnes Nestor, vice-president of the National Antonio conference reads as follows: Glove Workers of America; Mrs. James J. Devitt, of the That the bishops of the great State of Texas feel that the State Board of Education of Iowa, and Miss Mary Mc­ lay organizations, the National Council of Catholic Men and Dowell, of the University Settlement of Chicago. In the National Council of Catholic Women, can be of real service in their vital work is a source of great encouragement. speaking of the development of the welfare work among The N. C. C. W. has already organized to some extent in El the women employed in the stock yards, Miss McDowell Paso. In spite of its small membership it is doing a splendid spoke of the assistance which Charles P. Neill had offered work and has set an example for other organizations throughout when a student in the University of Chicago. "Later," the country. San Antonio has taken a most important step. In said Miss McDowell, "when we felt that a national inves­ response to the call of Bishop Drossaerts a meeting of delegates from organizations and parishes was held in San Antonio on tigation of the main industries in which women are em­ January 18. A large number of pastors were present at this ployed would be of tremendous help, Charles P. Neill was preliminary meeting. Temporary officers were elected and plans Commissioner of Labor under President Roosevelt. Jane were made for an all day conference to be held in February. Addams went to talk over the proposition with President At this meeting a r:presentative of the national headquarters of the N. C. C. W. wt11 be ~ne of the speakers. Great things are Roosevelt and I went to myoid friend, Dr. Neill. It was expected from the CatholIc women of Texas. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 31

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Minnesota Council N. C. C. W. Holds Annual Meeting in St. Paul state of one-third of the amount expended by counties to mothers as provided by the county allowance- law; for the establishment of ST. PAUL, MINN.: a family court an-d for, the provision of the necessary appropriation Three hundred delegates from all parts of Minnesota attended for the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act. the Annual Convention of the Minnesota Council of Catholic In addition to the delegates' reports, the following officers also Women, held at the St. Paul Hotel, in Sf. Paul, on January 3-4. gave their annual reports: Secretary, Mrs. Gunn, Minneapolis; The meeting opened with Mass at the Cathedral, at which the Treasurer, Mrs. George Satory, Wabasha; Auditor, Mrs. Philip celebrant was Rev. Lawrence Ryan. At the opening session the Randall, Little Falls; Custodian, Mrs. R. P. O'Brien, Minneapolis, mvocation was delivered by Rev. John T. Doherty. Welcome to and Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. K. McKeon, St. Paul. the delegates was extended by Mayor Arthur E. Nelson. - Mrs. C. J. McConville, president of the Minnesota Council and national director Permanent Headquarters for Pittsburgh Council of Catholic of the N. C. C. W., presided at the sessions. Women Most Rev. Austin Dowling, Archbishop of St. Paul, the Rev. PITTSBURGH, P A. : Thomas E. Cullen, president of St. Thomas' College, 'and the Rev. During December, the board of directors of the Pittsburgh J. M. Cleary, pastor of. the Church of the Incarnation, were the Council of Catholic Women purchased a splendid prnperty to be speakers at the banquet with which the convention closed on the used as a permanent headquarters for Catholic Women's activities evening of January 4. in the city. The purchase includes a twenty-room house and a In his address on "Catholic Social Work in Rural Communities," garage with a ten-car capacity. The house has large rooms, four Rev. Edward J. Mahowald of St. Cloud made a plea for good tiled baths, and hardwood floors. When ready for occupancy the moving pictures. The formation of clubs and societies for th_e new headquarters will include an auditorium, classrooms, library employment of the leisure time of both young people and adults, and other attractions. With the establishment of a headquarters, women's participation in civic affairs, and cooperation with the the Council plans to increase its splendid work in the future. work of the rural priests were also urged by the speaker as a One hundred and forty-five affiliated organizations of the Pitts­ means by which Catholic women could help in building up the burgh Council were affiliated with the N. C. C. W. during 1922. In life of the rural community. the January BULLETIN, the number was given as forty-five. W. W. Hodson, director of the Minnesota Children's Bureau, Mrs. Teresa M. Molamphy, director of the Philadelphia province spoke on the "State Program of Social Legislation." Rev. Francis of the N. C. C. W., is president of the Pittsbuq~h Council. Missia of St. Paul's Seminary gave an address on "Sacred Music." Dr. Helen Hughes Hielscher of Mankato presented a report on the Trinity Club of Woonsocket, R. I., Plan Drive for New Club House Resolutions Committee. WOONSOCKET, R. I.: In her report of the Seton Club, the director, Mrs. D. E. Virtue, announced that during the past five years five new Catholic girls' On January 5, a drive for $50,000 for a new club house was clubs had been started in Minnesota and that thirty-five towns in launched by the Trinity Club of Woonsocket, R. I., one of the the state were considering the establishment of such clubs. Mrs. affiliated organizations of the N. C. C. W. It is the ambition of Virtue suggested that a uniform name be adopted for all Catholic the club to build a community center which will have a swimming girls' clubs in the United States and that a uniform membership pool, gymnasium, theater, ball room, class and reading rooms, and card be issued. all the other advantages of a .modern and fully equipped club. The Mrs. R. P. O'Brien of the Minneapolis League of Catholic club is also planned to afford living quarters for business girls. Women announced that an average of 1,700 girls a month had The Trinity Club is just three years old. During its infancy it attended the activities of the Junior League and that several acquired a membership of over five hundred. There are no deficits hundred girls receiving small salaries were being accommodated on the books in spite of the fact that the present club house has at St. Mary's Hall, the indebtedness of which had been 'reduced been furnished and maintained and many club activities have been from $21,000 to $11,000. Mrs. O'Brien also spoke of the Margaret introduced. From the mite box, the sum of $180 was sent to the various charities in the city. Berry Settlement, which had a total attendance of 29,587 women and children during the year and for which a new addition Catholic Women's League of Boise, Idaho, Carries on Splendid at a cost of $26,000 had been built. Program Mrs. W. J. O'Toole of St. Paul presented a resolution asking that the election of officers be held over until another year be­ BOISE, IDAHO: cause of lack of time to complete the full plan of carrying on the The dues for 1923 of the Catholic Women's League of Boise were work of the organization. The resolution was unanimously accompanied by a report of the last year's accomplishments. With adopted. a membership of one hundred and sixty, the League endowed a Mrs. Daniel M. Coonan, chairman of the Legislative Committee, bed in the Catholic hospital at a cost of $600. The fund was states that the council will work for the passage of bills dealing raised through rummage sales and a sale of home-cooked food. A with the preservation of the marriage bond, the protection of scholarship for a worthy orphan boy was established also, and the women in industry, proper regulation of dance halls, and the Associated Charities of the city were assisted with their Thanks­ elimination of the traveling street carnival. The council will also giving and Christmas baskets for the poor. work for the establishment of a central bureau for the blind and A member of the League was appointed one of the three teachers an appropriation to aid in work for the prevention of blindness; for the Americanization evening classes. Each year under the appointment of a woman to the industrial commission; for the auspices of the League an Americanization meeting is held, to .eight-hour day for women in industry; for the refunding by the which all the church and civic organizations in the city are invited. 32 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

" All th~ city groups are cooperating in the education of the foreign "The Catholic priest who tries to get a true view of our modern born. conditions in regard to religious morality and who -sees, with The Children's Committee gives plays for the children and sends sorrowing heart, the widespread decay of Christian thought and gifts to the children in the orphan homes. A Near East orphan principle in the public life and affairs of our Nation, must realize was adopted by the League and a sum of $60 was created for his better than anyone else can the tremendous importance of an in­ maintenance. tensive Christian activitiy by strong Catholic women for The League legislative chairman is in close touch with all the the Christian regeneration of society. In this we Catholics here bills introduced into the state legislature. are still far behind in comparison with the Catholic women's French Woman Joins N. C. C. W. as Expression of Appreciation organizations in European countries. No wonder, when even too of Immigrant Aid many of the Catholic clergy fail to understand their duty in this regard, and are satisfied to stand by idle, while others are trying NEW YORK CITY: their best to muster our Catholic women into a strong army of The following is an extract from a letter written by a French theLm~ - woman shortly after her arrival in the United States: "It is true that, before this can be done with any real success, "To my great surprise, when I arrived in this country, I was sent our Catholic women must be properly educated in regard to right to Ellis Island. This was .due to the fact that, although I am organization as well as to organized action. It is especially in the French I was born in Africa and the quota of the African race had larger annual gatherings, where the more active and public­ been e~hausted. Due to the efforts of the' National Catholic Welfare spirited Catholic women meet, that the best opportunities are given Council, especiaUy Mr. Mulhql1and and Mis~ Weadick, I was for disseminating the right and proper knowledge of women's allowed to remain in your country. I am now teaching French in a Christian work in our modern times." children's school, and my only regret is that my generosity cannot be in proportion to my gratitude; but · I shall never forget the College Students Members of N. C. C. W. services rendered by your organization. I am enclosing ten dollars, MONROE, MICH. : one for membership in the National Council of Catholic Women Promptness seems to be the slogan of the students of St. Mary's and the rest to be used for your work." College and Academy, Monroe, Mich., for already forty-five student El Paso Council N. C. C. W. Assists Needy Families have become 1923 members of the N. C. C. W. During 1922, thirty­ nine students joined, and the increase in this year's number is EL PASO, TEXAS: indeed encouraging. Students of today are the women of tomorrow. Seventy out of the one hundred and forty-two families visited The N. C. C. W. expects much from those girls whose interest in by the Social Service Committee of the EI Paso Council of the national problems has had an early beginning. N. C. C. W. during six months' time were found to be in actual want. Clothing was suppl.ied for sixty families, ten were given Catholic Women's League of Canada and the National Council of financial assistance, and sev~n persons were sent to the county Catholic Women hospital. MONTREAL, CAN ADA. St. Louis Catholic Women's Association Opposes Reinstatement The National Council of Catholic Women welcomed gladly a of Roscoe Arbuckle representative of the Catholic Women's League of Canada at their ST. LOUIS, MO.: First Annual Convention in 1921, when Miss Margaret Jones came At the January meeting of the Catholic Women's Association of as an official delegate to that Convention. This happy relationship St. Louis, the organization voted to go on record as opposed to was emphasized when an invitation was extended to the National the reinstatement of Roscoe Arbuckle to the screen by Director C<:>unciI of Catholic Women by the Montreal Branch of the Cath­ Will Hays. At the meeting Miss Bertha Breuning was elected olic Women's League of Canada, to attend their annual meeting on president for the new year. Other officers elected were: Mrs. ]. W. January 16. Grace, vice-president; Miss Margaret Carolan, secretary; Miss A splendidly representative body of Catholic women assembled Clara Hagney, membership secretary; Miss Katherine Murphy, at luncheon in the Windsor Hotel on that day. In the absence of general fund treasurer; Miss Mae Kapple, lunchroom treasurer, Mrs. John McMartin, the President of the organization, who due and Miss Christine Le Brun, club house treasurer. to a death in the family was unable to be present, Mrs. S. C. Mar­ son presided at the meeting, and extended to the visitor from the Archbishop Messmer of Milwaukee StimUlates Interest in South a most cordial welcome. N. C. C. W. Miss Regan addressed the gathering on the subject of "National MILWAUKEE, WIS.: Organizations in Relation to Women's New Responsibilities," and In his appeal to the women of the archdiocese of Milwaukee to outlined the development of the Catholic Feminist Movement in attend the second annual convention of the Milwaukee Archdio­ European countries, and the growth and development of the move­ cesan Council of the N. C. C. W., described in the January edition ment in the United States and Canada, giving a summary of the of the BULLETIN, Archbishop Messmer paid the following tribute plan of organization of the National Council of Catholic Women, to the work of the Men's and Women's Councils: and in particular, it-s relationship to the National Catholic Welfare "These organizations and their work are needed so much more in Council, which is a unique characteristic of the organization in the our days as the necessity for united and systematic action on United States. The importance of national cooperation was pointed the part of Catholic men and women is growing from day to day out. 1 in view of the ever-growing demands for the protection and the Lady Hingston, representing the League, and Madame Gerin promotion of Catholic interests in all the dioceses of the United Lajoie, representing the National Federation of French-Canadians States. If we need strong Catholic ' men, we need strong Catholic also addressed the meeting, especially emphasizing their interest in women no less. The sphere of woman's influence upon society the growth and development of the Catholic women's movement, is becoming wider and larger from year to year. Her influence and in particular the possibilities of the results to be obtained upon public affairs is growing, right or wrong. Then it becomes through international cooperation. Reverend Gerald J. McShane, absolutely necessary, in every regard, that the powerful and whole­ S.S., D.D., the spiritual Director of the League, paid a splendid some influence of the Catholic women of the land should widen tribute to the work of the Catholic women of Canada and their out more and more, both within and without the Church. sisters in the United States. -THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 33

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The day selected for this ceremony is the first day work in the field of higher education for women. of November, "All Saints Day," because on this day our Holy SWITZERLAND: Mother Church celebrates the"'ieast of all the saints, of all countries Many women have been appointed as members of the various com­ and all conditions. mittees connected with the League of Nations. Baroness de Mon­ T'he International Union has also announced that the report of tenach, President of the International Catholic Association of Works the International Conference held in Rome will be published, and for the Protection of Y oling Girls, has been appointed as one of a that individuals and institutions desiring copies may obtain them group of several representatives of international organizations. from the headquarters of the Union (Hoogt 1, Utrecht, Holland). The report is a volume about the size of the Atlantic Monthly and ITALY: published in French, the official language of the Union. The price Of great interest to women engaged in social work was the recent is 4 francs (French) per copy.. . . convention of the Federazione Nazionale dell'Ago, or Najonal FRANCE: Federation of Needle Workers, an organization which, for several years, has been working for the protection of women who make The French Academy of Sciences has awarded a prize of 3,000 their living by sewing, whether at home or in factories. The un­ francs to Mademoiselle Andree Chaudun, of the laboratory of vege- employment among women, resulting from the termination of war . table physiology of the Catholic Institute of Paris, for her physico­ work in munition plants, etc., has caused many women to turn to chemical study of the inversiol;l of sugar. The conditions following their needles for a livelihood, but the present condition of the market the war have caused many French women to enter the professional as well as certain other factors have brought grave danger of causing world. Another evidence of this fact is the announcement contained women to lose the benefit of several hard-won protective measures, in the last Monthly Bulletin of the Action Sociale de fa Femme that particularly those affecting· the health and morals of working women. a special course for librarians is to be given at the headquarters of The Federation is doing everything in its power to preserve the that organization in Paris. Already there are six women librarians advantages already won. in the Arsenal and Sainte Gene,vieve, two of the largest libraries in One of the chief concerns of the Federation is the problem of Paris. A group of Americans has recently presented to the City of piece work done in the home . . A woman's cooperative movement has Paris a model public library with a special reading r~om for children. been suggested as a means of solving this problem, and although All the librarians in this new institution are to be women, and the progress will, inevitably, be slow, on account of the lack of informa­ Bulletin of the Action Soc·iale de la Femme, which gives the informa- . tion among working women in regard to the cooperative plan, there tion, adds that three scholarships wiU probably be given each year is great hope of success. to French women who will .be sent to America to study American library methods. As there is every indication of a remarkable in­ SPAIN: crease in the number of libraries throughout-France, the profession At the consistory held in Rome in December, at which several new of librarian will doubtless attract many women of culture who have cardinals were created, the red hat was bestowed UpOll Archbishop been thrown on their own resources, and the course organized under Enrique Reig y Casanova, -of Valencia, .who now becomes Arch­ bhe auspices of the Action Sociale de la Femme is, therefore, bishop of Toledo and cardinal primate of Spain. As Bishop of singularly opportune. Barcelona and Archbishop of Valencia, he was active in promoting BELGIUM: the organization of women's work in these dioceses. His interest in The Catholic women of Belgium are mourning the death of this work is shown by the fact that his first blessing, as a cardinal, Marguerite Baers, the first directress of the Women's University was sent to the Accion Catolica de la Mu/er, an honor of which at Antwerp, and the sister of Maria Baers, one of the leaders of the members of that organization are justly proud. Catholic social work in Belgium. CANADA: When, in 1913, Marguerite Baers determined to study for a The University of Montreal is resuming the courses given last university degree, the University of Louvain had not yet opened its year for the civic instruction of women. This is an immediate and doors to women students. Feeling herself especially attracted by the practicaJ response on the part of the university authorities to the study of philosophy, attendance at a secular university seemed in­ resolutions passed at the meeting of the International Union of advisable, and her choice was arrested by the Catholic University of Catholic Women's Leagues l;eld last spring, in Rome, under the Fribourg, Switzerland, which is under the direction of the Dominican auspices of the Holy Father. Ft;lthers. During the tragic days of the war, separated from her sister, who ARGENTINE REPUBLIC: was devoting herself to the welfare of-the Belgian working women) The Liga de Damas ·Catolicas Argentinas, of which Madame de and from her brother, who was serving in the trenches, Marguerite Ortiz Basualdo is the president, is launching a campaign against Baers threw herself heart and soul into her studies, in order to immoral motion pictures in the Argentine, where the problem is a prepare herself for greater service to her countrywomen. IIi 1918 very serious one. The Catholic women of the United States will she obtained the degree of doctor of philosophy, and then spent undoubtedly give their full moral support to their Catholic sisters an additional year at the Psychological Institute of Geneva and the of South America in their fight for clean motion pictures. University of Berne. When she returned to Belgium, Mademoiselle E. R. S. 34 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

1 _ Diocese of Syracuse: Sixty-Four Women's Organizations Diocesan: Council of Catholic Women, Syracuse, N. Y. Diocese of Newark: Affiliate with Women's Council Local: L. C. B. A. Doane Br. No. 160, Newark, N. J. PROVINCE OF OREGON: Organization memberships for 1923 have been received from 62 Archdiocese of Oregon: local and 2 diocesan organizations of Catholic women up to Local: L. A. A. O. H. Div. No.1, Portland, Ore. December 31, 1922. Eight archdioceses and 28 dioceses are Diocese of Boise: represented as follows: Local: St. Stanislaus Altar Society, Lewiston, Idaho. Diocese of Helena: PROVINCE OF BALTIMORE: Local: Helena Branch of the N. C. C. W., Helena, Mont. Archdiocese of Baltimore: Diocese of Seattle: Local: Alumnae of St. Joseph's College, Inc., Emmitsburg, Md. Local: Takoma Inst., No. 67, Y. L. I., Takoma, Wash. St. Mary's Council of the N. C. C. W., Annapolis, Md. PROVINCE OF PHILADELPHIA: Diocese of Wilmington: Archdiocese of Philadelphia: Local: C. D. of A., Inc., Ct. No. 471, Wilmington, Del. Local: Ladies of Pinzon, Ridley Park, Pa. Diocese of Richmond: Diocese of Pittsburgh: Local: St. Ann's Benevolent Society, Colonial Hts., Petersburg, Va. Local: L. C. B. A. Branch No. 262, Arnold, Pa. Diocese of Savannah: Sodality Holy Innocents Parish, Pittsburgh, Pa. Local: Catholic Woman's Club, Savannah, Ga. Ct. Beaver Valley No. 549, C. D. of A., New Brighton, Pa. Ladies Altar Society Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta, Ga. Ladies of Charity Roselia Foundling Asylum, Pittsburgh, Pa. Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, St. Phillip's Church, Crafton, Pa. PROVINCE OF BOSTON: L. C. B. A. Branch No. 854, Latrobe, Pa. Archdiocese of Boston: Diocese of Altoona: Diocesan: League of Catholic Women, Boston, Mass. Local: Ladies Columbian Circle, Altoona, Pa. Local: De Valera Circle No. 102, D. of I., Newburyport, Mass. Diocese of Providence: PROVINCE OF ST. LOUIS: Local: Dames de St. Anne, Our Lady of Consolation Church, Pawtucket, R. I. Archdiocese of St. Louis: Local: Congregation, Children of Mary of the Sacred Heart, St. Louis, Mo. PROVINCE OF CHICAGO: Diocese of St. Joseph: Archdiocese of Chicago: Local: Baring Circle No. 112, D. of I., Baring, Mo. Local: St. Philip Neri Women's Club, Chicago, III. Diocese of Belleville: PROVINCE OF ST. PAUL: Local: E. St. Louis Catholic Junior League, E. St. Louis, Ill. Archdiocese of St. Paul: Diocese of Rockford: Local: Catholic Woman's Guild, Anoka, Minn. Local: St. Joseph's Parish Council, Aurora, TIl. Seton Guild, Minneapolis, Minn. Diocese of Duluth: St. Mary's Parish Council, Gilberts, TIL Diocesan: Duluth Council ·of Catholic Women, Duluth, Minn. St. Paul's Parish Council, Sandwich, TIl. Diocese of St. Cloud: St. Joseph's Parish Council, Freeport, Ill. Local: Guild of Catholic Women, Morris, Minn. St. Catherine's Parish Council, Dundee, TIL Diocese of Fargo: St. Joseph's Parish CO!lncil, Eligin, III. Local: W. C. O. F. No. 1044, St. Joan of Arc Ct., Lidgerwood, N. D. St. Wendelin's Parish Council, Shannon, Dl. Altar and Rosary Society, St. Mary's Parish, Rockford, III. PROVINCE OF SAN FRANCISCO: Sacred Heart Parish Council, Marengo, Dl. Diocese of Sacramento: St. Patrick's Parish Council, Maytown, III. Local: Catholic Women's Society, Auburn, Cal. St. Joseph's Parish Council, Apple River, IIl. Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish Council, Aurora, TIl. St. Patrick's Parish Council, Rochelle, III. Notes of the National Catholic Service School PROVINCE OF CINCINNATI: Diocese of Detroit: Opening of Second Semester Local: League of Catholic Women, Wyandotte, Mich. The Second Semester of the National Catholic Service School C. D. of A., Ct. No. 386, Kalamazoo, Mich. will open on February 3. Students who desire to register for the Diocese of Toledo: Local: Catholic Ladies of Columbia, No. 112, Fremont, Ohio. regular or special courses should communicate at once with the PROVINCE OF DUBUQUE: Director, 2400 Nineteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. Diocese of Des Moines: Professor Carlton J. H. Hayes Member of Board of Managers Local: Catholic Community Council, Des Moines, Ia. Diocese of Sioux City: Professor Carlton J. H. Hayes of the History Department of Local: Catholic Women's League, Sioux City, Ia. Columbia University will act as a member of the Board of Managers Catholic Women's League, Le Mars, Ia. for the National Catholic Service School. The delegates to the 1921 PROVINCE OF MILWAUKEE: Convention of the National Council of Catholic Women had an Archdiocese of Milwaukee: opportunity to hear Professor Hayes deliver a stirring message to Local: Fond du Lac Council Catholic Women, Fond du Lac, Wis. Jeanne d'Arc Circle, Milwaukee, Wis. the Catholic women of America. Catholic Women's League, Fox Lake, Wis. Senate Confirms Appointment of Dr. Kerby Woman's Guild of Misericordi Hospital, Milwaukee, Wis. Catholic Instruction League, Milwaukee, Wis. The Senate recently confirmed the nomination of Rev. William ]. Diocese of Green Bay: Kerby of Catholic University, to serve another term as a member of Local: Altar Society St. John's Congregation, Antigo, Wis. the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia. Students at the St. John's Ladies Aid of Antigo, Wis. National Catholic Service School enjoy the rare privilege of studying PROVINCE OF NEW ORLEANS: Sociology under Dr. Kerby. Diocese of Lafayette: Local: Mt. Carmel Progressive Association, Lafayette, La. . New Member of Faculty to Supervise Work in Psychiatric Social Diocese of Corpus Christi: Work Local: St. Gertrude Welfare Society, Kingsville, Tex. Diocese of Dallas: . Miss Beatrice Mullin, a new member of the faculty of the Service Local: Catholic Daughters of America, Ft. Worth, Tex. School, will assist Dr. Thomas Verner Moore with his clinical work PROVINCE OF NEW YORK: in Providence Hospital and will supervise the field work of the Diocese of Albany: students who are studying Social Psychiatry. Miss Mullin was Local: Women's Service League of St. Mary's Church, Hudson Falls, N. Y. Diocese of Buffalo: formerly Director of Service at the U. S. Veterans' Hospital at Local: Catholic Ladies Sodal Club, Middleport, N. Y. Perryville, Md. ,I THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 35

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