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I I JUNE CINCINNATI MEETING OF THE C. P. A. By Frank A. Hall A REVIEW OF SOME RECENT SCHOOL REPORTS By Rev. George John on THE APOLOGETICAL MISSION'S PRESENT OPPORTUNITY By Gr:,ttan Keran CHURCH CONFLICT IN MEXICO - IS RECONCD..IATION IN SIGHT? By William F. Montavon ADDITIONAL FEATURES Extraordinary Record of Sergeant Matez Kocak- The Catholic tudy Club, Its Need, Purpose and Functions- N. C. W. C. Activities in the Field of Immigrati - Value of Creative Activities in Education- Announccment of the N. C. E. A. Meeting in Toledo, lune U-2i-Repl)rt of the Green Bay Industrial Problems Conference-50 Colleges Celebrate Anniversary of Pope Leo's Encyclical- Reports of Meetings of N. C. C. W. Units in St. Louis, Galveston, Cleveland, Winona, Harrisburg, Cincinnati and Sioux Falls-Brief Reports of N. C. C. W. Activities In the Various Dioceses. REGULAR BULLETIN DEPARTMENTS 2 N. C. W. C. BULLETIN June, 1929 I..t.._A __ W_o_r_d_W __ i_th __ O_u_r_R_e_a_d_e_r_S ___ E_BD_YI_~_:iE_B I VOLIJME. XI, No. 1 ITH THIS ISSUE we begin Volume XI of the N. C. W. C. BULLETIN. In so doing, we wish to make grateful ac W knowledgment of the interested cooperation and support of the ever-growing family of the N. C. W. C. N. C. ·W. c. WE doubt if there is being published any magazine which has a more devoted and responsive clientele. Evidences of this fact BULLETIN have been numerous and convincing during the past decade-a decade which is acknowledged on all sides to have been a period of Published Monthly by the resurgent Catholicism in the United States. During this time, NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE largely through the instrumentality of the N. C. W. C. and the gen CONFERENCE erous support and encouragement accorded it by the Bishops of the United States as well as the self-sacrifice and vitalizing leadership PUBLICATION OFFIClD supplied in its management by the members of the Administrative Industrial Bldg., Baltimore, Md. Committee of the Conference, our Catholic people have come to Entered as second-class matter at the post-office labor more unitedly both within and without· their dioceses and to at Baltimore, Md., under the Act of March 3, 1879. realize more clearly than ever before their common responsibilities AU changes of address. renewals and subscriptions in the common problems of the Church. I!hould be sent direct to N. C. W. C. Headquarters. WaRhington. D. C. A S the official organ of the Conference, the N. C. "\V. C. BULLE- N. C. W. C. Administrative Committee TIN has been privileged to unfold monthly for the enlighten MOST REV. EDWARD J. HANNA, D.D. ment and edification of a large body of readers the inspiring record Archbishop of Sa.n Francisco of our common activities and corporate achievements. In this and Chairman other ways, we have lalored to make better known Catholic ideals MOST REV. AUSTIN DOWLING, D.D. and principles and to promote a wider recognition and a n acceptance Archbishop of St. Paul of them in our American life. Whatever success we have attained Chairman Department of Education in this work has been due, as already stated, to the leadership of our RT. REV. THOMAS F. LILLIS, D.D. Bishops and to the loyal cooperation of the clergy and laity. Bishop of Kansas City Chairman Department of Social Action MAY the next ten years witness the accomplishment of even greater achievements in the far-flung field of Catholic work and RT. REV. JOSEPH SCHREMBS, D.D.. Bishop of Cleveland the promotion of an ever-increasing unity of thought and action Chairman Department of Lay among our people-all to the greater glory of God, the welfare of Organizations the Church and the well-being of our Nation. RT. REV. JOHN G. MURRAY, D.D. Bishop of Portland THE BOY SCOUT PROGRAM Chairman Legal Department OF IMPORTANCE to all interested in boys' work is the announcemant by the National Council of Boy Scouts of America of plans to raise a $10,000,000 ItT. REV. PHILIP R. McDEVITT, D.D. trust fund to carryon its work among boys on an adequate scale. Part of thiR Bishop of Harrisburg fund ·will be devoted to financing an extended five-year program, to provide n Chairman Department of Publicity, Pre83 retirement fund for profestlional scout ieaders, "or publication of hooks and maga and Literature zines and for establishment of a scout leaders' training school. The remainder RT. REV. HUGH C. BOYLE, D.D. will be convNted into a special fund, the income of which will be devoted to Bi'3hop of Pittsburgh new projects, such as development of scouting among farm boys and mnkin~ Member similar trainjng av::lilable for boys nndC'r the required age for membership. ANNUAL RED CROSS ROLL CALL REV. JOHN J. BURKE, C.S.P., S.T.D. General Secretary WE HAVE BEEN ASKED to call our reader..;' attention to t.h!:' next or Thirtieth Roll Call of the American Red Cross, which will begin on Ar mi.3tice Day, November 11, 1929, and continue until Thanksgiving, November CHARLES A. McMAHON, Editor .28. This period is the same the Red Cross has used for its annual enrolment of members for the past nine years. Editorial and Business Offices The announcement is made at this time in order to avoid, if possible, conflict 1312 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W. among other organizs.tions that may be planning to hold campaigns during the Washington, D. C. time specified. It has been found that when two or more campaigns are held simultaneously all are usually found to suffer. June, 1929 N. C. W. C. BULLETIN AROUND THE CONFERENCE TABLE "Come now, that we may ta.ke counsel together."-2 Esdras, Chapter VI: 7. A FEATURE OF THE RECENT Chicago The "Decree of Erection" was signed by Regional Meeting of the Catholic Stu the Rt. Rev. Thomas Joseph TooIeo, Bishop dent Conference on Religiou,> Activities was CAB·DINAL GASPARRI PRAISES WORK of Mobile, on April 29. and it was announced the reading of a credo on OF N. C. W. c. by the Rev. Thomas Augustine Judge, C.M., Credo for "Modesty in Dress" adopted A RCHBISHOP Edward J. Hanna, chaIr- M.S.SS. T., founder of the community, that its Catholic by one thousand girl students man of the Administrative Committee chief function would be to form a lay aposto Girls . of the 1m mac u I a t a Hi g h of the National Catholic Welfate Conference, late and to direct its work among the aban SchooL This credo, which has just received from Cardinal Gasparri, doned home missions. wus awarded first prize in a contest partici Papal Secretary of State, a letter III which The work of the abandoned missions, which pated in by students of forty colleges and the Cardinal expresses his thanks for reports was begun by Father Judge as a Jay aposto high schools in the Chicago area having as sent to him of annual meeting of the Direc late; is planned to reach both white and col its object the drafting of a brief, impressi~e tors of the N. C. W. C. His Eminence added ored. - Another vital field in which the order 'tatement on "Modesty jn Dress" in con the promise to ask ({the Divine Assistance to is interested and which holds a prominent formity with the frequently expressed wishes aid and encourage such a worthy work." place in its efforts for the preservation of the of the Holy Father, concludes with the follow The Cardinal's letter said: faith is boy work. Its work in this respect ing resolution: lies in the crowded sections of the larjZ:er "Mo&t Re'Ve?'wd and dear Archbishop: cities of the United States. We deplore the decline of woman's "My grateful thanks go to you for the ennobling influence: Father Judge also is the founder of the ' courtesy extrmded 1'fI, sending me, with We deprecate the thoughtlessness of your letter of February the eighteenth, Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed girls and women who become a source {te reports presented by the Directors of Trinity, a community of sisters which now of temptation to man by forcing too the National Catholic W elfare C onfer numbers about 300 members. The sisters much of their physical form upon his ence at the general meeting held in were established to work for the preservation gaze; Washington last November. of the faith and now have 30 missionary We keep for our model Mary, the Vir tcFrom these reports, I observe again cenacles. gin Mother of the King of Kings, the the generous activity of the Welfare Con weetest woman; ference. It gives me pleasure to exp7'ess BOOKS, PAMI:"HLETS and leaflets to the We place ourselves on record as ad tl'e sincere promise that we shall not vocates of a nat'ion-wide campa~gn for number of 1,498,068 were sold by the fail to al'lk the Divine assistance to aid Catholic Truth Society of England in 1928. self-respecting women and girls to keep and to encourage such a uorthy work. themselves so modestly-and yet so This total represents an tcWith expressions of sincere esteem, Catholic Truth increase of many thous stylishly-attired that they will inspire I remain, the reverence and the respect of all Society of ands compared with 1927. mankind and the approval of "ollr "Devotedly YOW's, England At the same time the So- tainted nature's solitary boast:" "P.