OUNCIL

OCTOBER WASHINGTON, D. C. 1921

Hon. DAVID 1. WALSH. U. S. Senator from Massachusetts.

Whose Inspiring Call to the Catholic Laity of America Was an Outstanding Feature of the Washington Convention of the National Council of Catholic Men.-See story on pp. 18 and 19.

HIERARCHY'S ANNUAL MEETING NUMBER FULL ACCOUNT OF MEN'S COUNCIL CONVENTION 2 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

Annual Conference of the Hierarchy Prelates Review Work of Welfare Council and Adopt Program for Coming Year

WHAT THE BISHOPS DID AT THEIR MEETI G

Reviewed the work of the National Addressed a letter to Cardinal Logue Welfare Council as follows: Most Rev. Catholic Welfare Council as contained conveying to the Irish Hierarchy sym­ Edward J. Hanna, D.D., Chairman; Rt. in the reports of the episcopal chair­ pathy and good wishes for the speedy Rev. P. J. Muldoon, D.D., Vice-chair­ men of its various departments. fulfillment of the national aspirations man; Most Rev. Austin Dowling, D.D., Approved the program of the Ad­ of the Irish people, and for a happy Treasurer; Very Rev. John F. Fenlon, ministrative Committee for the coming outcome of the conference between the S.S., Recording Secretary. Rev. John J. year and provided budgets with which representatives of Ireland and the Eng­ Burke, C.S.P. continues as General to finance the work to be continued or lish Government. Secretary. initiated during the next twelve months. Fixed Sexagesima Sunday, February Unanimously re-elected the following Voted to the various chairmen of the 19, 1922, as Press Sunday and February members of the Administrative Com­ Council's Departments formal apprecia­ as National Press Month. tion of the Hierarchy for the good work mittee: Most Rev. Austin Dowling, D.D., Chairman Department of Educa­ thus far accomplished. Attended the mass meeting at the Catholic University arranged for the tion; Rt. Rev. P. J. Muldoon, D.D., Issued an important statement on the delegates to the National Convention Chairman Social Action Department; subject of limitation of armament, the of the Men's Council and presided over Rt. Rev. William T. Russell, D.D., plea being in conformity with the ex­ by Bishop Schrembs, and addressed Chairman of the Pre$s Department; pressed desire of His Holiness, Pope by Archbishop Hanna of San Francisco, Be-:ledict XV. Rt. Rev. Joseph Schrembs, D.D., Chair­ Senator Walsh of Massachusetts and man Department of Lay Organizations; Issued a call upon the Catholic peo­ Admiral Benson of Washington. Rt. Rev. Edmond F. Gibbons, D.D., ple of the United States to set apart Gave their approbation to an octave Chairman Department of Laws and Armistice Day, November 11, as a day of prayer for church unity-the octave of speciai prayer that God's blessing Legislation, to take the place of His beginning on January 18 and ending on Eminence Cardinal Dougherty, who re­ may guide the deliberations of the January 25, 1922. international conference and hasten the signed; and elected Rt. Rev. Louis J. era of peace and good will throughout Unanimously re-elected the officers Walsh, D.D., Bishop of Portland, mem­ the world. of the Administrative Committee of the ber of the Administrative Committee.

N ONE of the mo t ucce sfu] meetings of the Hier­ of the United :tate cabled to 11 j, Eminence Cardinal _ archy,held since the inauguration in 1919 of the plan Logue, Primate of Ireland. I for an annual conference, the work of the National At the same session the Archbishop and Bishops adopted Catholic Welfare Council during the past year was pre­ a strong re olution in favor of the limitation of armament sented for the consideration of the Archbishops and Bishops and issued a formal statement urging upon the Catholic at the several sessions held by them at the Catholic Uni­ people of the United States the ob ervance of Armistice versity on September 21 and 22, 1921. The meeting was Day (November 11) as a day of prayer for the succes~ presided over by His Eminence, Cardinal O'Connell, of the international conference called by President Harding Archbishop of Boston, and was attended by Cardinal to promote that cause. Dougherty, and more than three-score Archbishops and Both the letter of sympathy to Cardinal Logue and the Bishops. - resolution in behalf of a general limitation of armament Reports of the Mo -t Rev. and Rt. Rev. Chairmen of the received the unanimous approval of the prelates attending several departments of the National Catholic Welfare Coun­ the meeting. cil were submitted to the Bishops and approved by them. PRE u. 'DAY FEBRUAl{Y 19, 1922 The program of the administrative committee for the .\mong other proposals anctioned by the Bishops wa. coming year and the budgets with which to finance the • that for a Press Sunday and a Pre s lVlonth. It was voted various activities to be continued or initiated in the course to make Sexage ima Sunday (February 19) Press Sunday of the next twelve months were adopted. _Formal appre­ and the month of February Pre. s :r..10nth. This suggestion ciation of the Hierarchy was voted the variou chairmen was made in the report of Right Rey. W. T. Russell, chair­ of the Welfare Council's departments for the good work man of the Department of Publicity, Press and Literature thus far accomplished. of the National Catholic Welfare Council. Sympathy with the Ir~sh hierarchy and good wishes for The Bishops also gave their approbation to an octave of the happy outcome of the conference between the repre­ prayer for church unity. This octave will begin January entatives of Ireland and the English Government were 18 and end January 25, 1922. - expressed in a letter which the Archbishops and the Bishops The officers of the Administratiye ommittee of the THE NATIONAL ATHOLIC \i\TELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN vVelfare Council were unanimously reelected. They -are: over 'ea. The organized ·labor in behalf of immigrants Most Rev. Archbishop Hanna, chairman; Right Rev. P. J. both in this country and in the places of embarkation; Muldoon, vice-chairman; Most Rev. Austin Dowling, treas­ the creation of an agency to assist Philippine students who urer, and Rev. Dr. John F. Fenlon, S.S., secreta ry. come to this country for higher education; the issuanc of a conservative program with respect to moving picture CHA GES IN ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE and the resultful campaign against the circulation and His Eminence Cardinal Dougherty resigned from the exploitation of indecent films were other topics of the chairmanship of the Department of Laws and Legislation report . of the Council and from the Administrative Committee. . Successful opposition had been exerted by the Council. Right Rev. Louis S. Walsh, D.D., Bishop of Portland, A rchbishop Hanna reported, to the repeal of the law for­ was elected to succeed Cardinal Dougherty as a member bidding the transmission through the mails of literature on of the committee, and Right Rev. Edmund F. Gibbons, birth control, the Smith-Towner bill, and the move to re­ D.D., Bishop of Albany, becomes chairman of the De­ duce the quota of Catholic chaplains in the Army and the partment of Laws and Legislation. Bishop Gibbons was Navy. The administrative department also had defended already a member of the Administrative Committee, but he the Holy Father's letter on proselytizing in foreign coun­ was not chairman of a department of the council. The tries; continued the work of gathering historical record!:> chairmen of the other departments were unanimously re­ of Catholic participation in the war, and issued the publi­ elected. ('ation, "American Catholic in the War."

3. •.. Archbishop Hanna's Report ... ~ r Report of Educational Department ... ~

Allost Rev. Edward 1. Hanna) D.D.) Archbishop of San Archbishop Dowling, in reporting. the work of the De­ Francisco, chairman 0 f the Administrative Committee partment of Education during the past year, stated that directing the activities of the Council, reported a number ~reat progre s had been made in informing Catholic edu­ of definite and important accompli hment" on the part of cators of the work and purposes of this agency of the the organization ince the Bishops' la t meeting. Thi 'vVelfare. Council. The opinion was advanced that no single report showed that a letter on di armament had been issued group is more alive to the advantages of cooperation than by the Administrative Committee in April; that the Cath­ the Catholic educators of the United States, who, in prac­ olic position on education had been made known to Presi­ tical unanimity of sympathy and approval, have cooperated dent Harding and that he had been informed of condition~ with the work of the N. C. W. c.'s Education Department in the Philippines; that 'the Conncil haa been officially e1uring the past year. recognized and consu lted by all department of the Govern­ The chief purpo ' e. of the department were stated to ment on religious que tions' that the Church's interests be the following: . had been safeguarded in regti.lations governing the distribu­ tion of sacramental wines, in the tariff bill. and in the 1. A clearing house of information concerning Catholic immigration legislation. education and Catholic educational agencies-for Catholic educators and students and for the general public. IMPORTANT SERVICES RE~lDEl{ED 2. An advisory agency to assist Catholic educational The Secretary of the Navy had given his approbation vstems and institutions in their developments. to Catholic work in '1 THIS ISSUE 3. A con n e c tin g Haiti after the subj ect agency between Catholic had been brought to his DIGEST OF CONVENTION PA educational activities and attention by the Coun­ governmental e d u c a - cil, Archbishop Hanna EDITORIAL COMMENT .....,' I tional agencies. reported. His report Conference of the Hierarchy, 4. An active organi­ also recounted the suc­ Catholic Press, A Successful IE zation to safeguard the cessful efforts that had ment Crisis, For a Catholic Ins interests of Catholic edu­ been made in behalf of cation. PERSONNEL OF N. C. W. C. N bringing foreign stu­ The department held dents to American col­ WOMEN'S COUNCIL READY three successful meet­ leges, and told of the CONVENTION ..... , ...... mgs during the past official sanction ob­ year, and on June 15 tained through the Coun­ PRINCIPLES OF CATHOLIC E appointed Rev. James cil's interposition for the H. Ryan, D.D., Ph.D., PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMEI consecration of the to active supervi ion of BISHOP GIBBONS OF ALBANY graves of Catholic dead X ew Chairman Laws and Legislation Department t.he Department of Edn- ~ I;;E ==;;;J' E;;;E ==~, I;;E==;;;J' E;;;;= 4 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN cation as executive secretary, in which position, it was active State legislation, and studies of the educational sys­ stated, Dr. . Ryan wonld direct and be responsible for all tems in various foreign countries. the activities of the department and its Bureau of Educa­ A Teachers' Registration Section has already been com­ tion. Archbishop Dowling reported that mainly through pletely organized and is now functioning. Its purpose is to the efforts of thf? department, the Rev. Albert C. Fox, S.J., assist Catholic schools and colleges to obtain lay teachers president of Campion College, had been appointed a member and to assist Catholic lay teachers to obtain positions. of the Commission of the American Council on Education The Bibliography of Works on Education by Catholic on College Standardization. This appointment accon~.s Authors is now being prepared by Rev. Leo L. McVay, tational recognition to the work that Catholic colleges are of the Catholic University. In this work the Library of doing, and will have important consequences for Catholic the Bureau of Education of the N. C. W. C. is cooperating. educational institutions. The study of professional preparation of teacher training for Catholic schools and religious communities is being SCHOOL DIRECTORY PUBLISHED made by a committee composed of Rev. Dr. P. J. 1\1cCor­ One of the most important accomplishments of the mick, of the Catholic University, and Rev. Wm. Kane, D.D., department during the past year Diocesan Superintendent of was the publication of a Direc­ Cleveland. The department has tory of Catholic Colleges and approved the general plans of a Schools, prepared by Dr. Ryan, STATEMENT OF HIERARCHY ON study to be made by the com­ executive secretary. This direc­ DISARMAMENT mittee in cooperation with the tory represents a real contribu­ Following, not merely dutifully, but with a Bureau of Education. The col­ full conviction of It'3 supreme importance, the tion to Catholic educational sta­ expressed desire of our Holy Father, Pope lection of official church docu­ tistics. Other publications of Benedict XV, that steps should be taken to ments on education is being lift the crushing burden of heavy armaments the year were: The Study of from the overburdenea shoulders of the peo­ done by Rev. Dr. Peter Guilday, Catholic Students in N on-CatJ1,­ ples and nations of the world, and gratefully and the study on church legis­ recalling the fact that the Father of Christen­ olic Institut'ions, by Rev. John dom first proclaimed the necessity of united lation on training and certifica­ A. O'Brien, Ph.D., of the Uni­ action to secure this end, we commend most tion of teachers, by Rev. Dr. P. versity of Illinois; several im­ heartily the spirit and the measures so far J. McCormick, of the Catholic adopted by the President of the United States portant circulars dealing with in summoning the representatives of the University. laws and regulations relative to great nations to meet in Washington in N 0- vember to discuss and carry into effect a lim­ the certification of teachers; itation of armaments by all the nations, and l-... Laws and l.egisla- .•• pamphlets giving descriptions we call upon the Catholic people of the United * don Department J.. States to set apart Armistice Day, November r and directors of schools con­ 11, the day of the opening of the Conference, ducted by the various religious as a day of special prayer that God's blessing His E minenc eJ Car din a 1 orders; and a statement on the may rest upon the conference and that His Holy Spirit may guide its deliberations to­ Dougherty, chairman of the De­ Smith-Towner Bill and other wards hastening that era of peace and good partment of Laws and Legisla­ educational measures. will for which the stricken peoples of the earth hope and pray and labor. tion, submitted to the meeting a The bureau issued in mimeo- digest of the legislative situation graph form a four-page circular as it affects Catholic interests gi~in? ,the results of ~at~~~ ' attended by Cardinal throughout the Nation. Car­ OBrIen s study, referred three- core Archbi hops and dinal Dougherty'S report pointed out the failure of the a circular of Catholic club . advocates of paternalism, because of economic barriers, to lar on Philippine student and Rt. Rev. Chairmen of the r make any considerable advance in the present Congress. United States, a pamphle~tional Catholic Welfare Coun­ A determined element was reported to exist in the Senate Pennsylvania State Catholhhops and approved by them. and the House who may be relied upon to oppose all move­ port on the Fourth Annual nistrative committee for the ments to extend Federal control to educational and kindred of Education, and a circu:ts with which to finance the tl fields. It was urged that Catholics everywhere should tion of the Commission forlUed or initiated in the course • t( support the stand of these fearless legislators. ~?e ?epartment h~s u~d(vere adopted. Formal appre­ a CATHOLIC INTERESTS PROTECTED Phlhppme student sltuatlOns voted the v~rious chairmen the United States and t~artments for the good work \\ The Laws and LeCTislation Department was instrumental therein. Other works also IT in obtaining favorable provisions to Catholic interests in of complete sets of cata1c. 1 d d' h f 1e rarc ly an goo WI es or o regard to the importation of church goods, statuary, etc., schools and the preparatior.)n f erence b e t ween th e repre- in the new Tariff Bill. The attention of the Bishops was reference in regard to them E I' h G t . . . . . e ng IS overnmen were ~ called to pending legislation affecting the Indian social hons glvmg teacher. tramlt ' A rc hb'IS h ops an d th e B'IS h ops customs and to two bills aiming to reorganize the corps methods of promment ~atl of chaplains in the United States Navy. Through the THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNC1L BULLETIN 5 efforts of the National Catholic Welfare Council the Sec­ clubs, and answers to letters of inquiry have been the chief retary of the Treasury recently authorized allowance of kinds of work done in these fields. subsistence, quarters and laundry to chaplains appointed Two books, The Church and Labor, by Dr. Ryan-Fr. by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to Huss~ein, ar.d The Social Mission of Charity, by Dr. isolated public health hospitals. Kerby, have been published. A Catechism of the Social One of the disturbing questions with which the Laws Question, in pamphlet form, has also been published for and Legislation Department has been concerned for some use by social study clubs. time was reported to be the proposed change in the method CITIZENSHIP CAMPAIGN of selling and distributing wines for sacramental purposes. This entire question remains unsettled. The Civics Catechism has been placed in use in a large In addition to following closely the activities of the number of the parochial schools. There have been ordered administrative departments of the Government and Con­ or issued 200,000 copies of the Civics Catechism in Eng­ gress, the National Catholic Welfare Counci1's Department lish; 50,000 in Italian-English; 10,000 in SI~)Vak-English, of Laws and Legislation has acted as a clearing house for and 40,000 in Polish-English. Other translations have been many matters of routine that come to the Council for ordered. In addition, the Catechism has been republished attention and action. The department acts as a bureau of serially in more than fifty Catholic publications, making information for other branches of the Council in matters a probable distribution exceeding a million copies to date. within its scope. It has, likewise served both the Catholic The translations have been or are being published in Italian, clergy, and, in some instances, Catholic laymen and lay Polish, and Slovak papers, aggregating more than 300,000 bodies in obtaining passports, and in mi cellaneous other in circulation. The Civics in English and translations have ways. been brought to the attention of public agencies, settle­ ments, educators, newspapers, naturalization agents, educa­ Report of Social Action Department · ... ~ tional journals, and public men . Bishop Muldoon reported that during the past year, 295 In reporting to the Hierarchy the work of the Depart­ lectures and addresses have been delivered in Catholic col­ ment of Social Action, Bis~op Muldoon, the Episcopal leges and seminaries, and before Catholic and non-Catholic Chairman, stated that ~he department, which is under the societies, clubs, and conventions. Thirty-five states have direction of Rev. John A. Ryan, D.D., and Mr. John A. been reached in the lecture work of representatives of the Lapp, LL.D., devotes it elf to the e four fields of work: ouncil. A special feature of the work this year has been industrial relations, rural problems, education in citizenship, the lectures and personal assistance on vocational guidance and charities. Research work, surveys, lectures, publica­ given in forty-three Catholic girls' colleges and academies. tions, a news service, cooperation where advisable with out­ The following lectures were offered to all the larger Catholic side organizations, the promotioIl of citizenship, especially colleges and seminaries in the United States: Child Wel­ among the foreign born, the promotion of social study fare Movements, The Delinquent Child, The Care of De-

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pendent ChilJren, The Adult Delinquent, Sickness and Cuuncil of Catholic :Men and the National Council of Cath­ Poverty, The Care of the Sick, Better Citizenship, The Edu­ olic Women-the two coordinate branches of the Lay Or­ cation of the Immigrant. The Immigration Problem, Social ganization Department--Bishop Schrembs) the Episcopal Optimism, . The Rural Church, Rural Social Problem, Club Chairman, pointed out that social conditions in America to­ \Vork for Boys and Girls, Industrial Democracy, Trade day had made it imperative for the laity to organize for Unionism, Cooperative Societies, The Open Shop. the common good of Church and State. Intolerance and Active part has been taken by representatives of the bigotry. the report stated, stalk brazen-faced throughout department in the large national conferences dealing with the length and breadth of the land and the cowardly in­ city and rural social and civic work. At the request of the sults to which Catholics are subjected from time to time Denver Commission of Religious Forces and at the special are sapping their courage and energy. invitation of Bishop Tihen, an investigation of the Denver "Although so much of the antagonism to the Catholil' street car strikes wa conducted in conjunction with a Church is actuated by a diabolical malice or motives 0 f representative of the Federal Council of Churches. Special :elf-intere t," stated Bishop Schrembs, in his report, "yet investigations of different localities for the Men's Council much of it has its root source in ignorance, The Catholic were also made. Conditions of lVfexicans on the border Church in many instances is unfairly represented to our and in nearby States were gone into preliminary to a non-Catholic citizens. Because they are misinformed-they program for the help of the Mexicans and the investiga­ do not know us, and they do not understand that the un­ tion of the general immigration situation, especially the faltering allegiance of Catholics to their church is not ill work done by organization aiding or professing to aid any sense political, but springs' from a sublime conviction the immigrants, was continued. A special study was made that the church i Divine, and speaks with the voice 0 f of home visiting among immigrant women. Jesus Christ. "The fact that thou ands of OHr fellow-citizens view u' SOCIAL STUDY CLFBS ST.\RTED with uspicion deserves 'Certainly to 'be a matter of grave Encouragement and favorable publicity have been given concern to all of us. Certainly we have done nothing to the cooperative movement and other efforts of the working justify such a suspicion. We are a peaceful, God-fearing. people to better themselves. A campaign to start social justice-loving people-more Christian than most of our study dubs was begun during the summer month . . prepara­ !leighbor , and if we are good Catholic, we are more pa­ tory to greater activities in the fall. triotic than most, for our creed empha izes absolute alle­ The special rural work of the year was the survey of giance to our native land as a duty binding in conscience. Fr. O'Hara in Lane County, Oregon. This survey was \Ve have thoroughly proved ourselves in every war in which conducted for the purpose of developing further a rural (lUI' RepUblic has been engaged; we have won our spur .... program for the Church in the United State~. In addition, I)n every field of battle from Lexington to Belleau-\Vood. information was obtained from the Bishops about rural Why. then, is our Americani m questioned or our loyalty. conditions within their dioceses. to the flag doubted? Becau e we have not a serted our Close affiliation has been kept up with the Ho pitat and selves, We have a'Ccepted calumny ami libel a~d abuse with Library Service Bureau, a bureau to collect information a pathetic sort of re ignation which is not Christ-like, but about the construction and administration of hospitals and a disgraceful weakne s. We must . ee the other side of institutions which it then gives free of charge upon request. Christ' · character when He rose in fury to drive the mone\' During the coming year the general outline· of the work changers from the temple, and we must learn to cultivat'{' in the past year will be followed, and with the wider or­ a vigorous Christian spirit that will not brook insult or ganization of the Men's Council and \Vomen's Cotincil calumny. It is something of ·this fighting spirit which the work of thE' Social Action Department will develop we are giving the Catholic lay body of America through :;till further. the National Council of Catholic Men." In conduding his report Bi hop 'YIulcloOll said: "Altogether the experience of thi year has been encoul:­ aging. The National Catholic Welfare Council is coming The Men's Council ... ~ into its proper recognition in Catholic and non-Catholic circles alike. We are fully trusted. I t~ink. by the public Bishop Schrc111bs' report set forth how neces~ary is an groups with whom we deal, and there is ampl~ evidence that (lrganization such as the National Council of Catholic Men cooperative effort· for the common good are being fur­ to combat anti-Catholic propaganda; to serve as a dearing nished and unr~asollahle prejudice~ are being les"ened by house for all matters affecting Catholic interests in educa­ our work." tion; to handle the proble'm 0 f the adole. cent boy; to bring into Catholic organization the 72 per cent of Catholic men J.e. Report of Lay Organizations Department ... ~ who are not affiliated with any Catholic society; and to bring this now detached vast majority of Catholic men into In calling the attention of the lIierarchy to the organiza­ closer contact with their fellow-Catholics, infusing them tion progress effected dl1ring the pac:;t yell.f by the National with orne of nur courage and patriotism and spirit. and. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETL 7 above all, te~ching them the advantage of organized effort United States, the Cadets of the Knights of St. George. and unity of thought and action outside the Church, as and other societies dealing with the promotion of the welfare well as in it. of our Catholic youth; conduct of a boy scout training Bishop Schrembs pointed out that the dominating thought camp in France, sending a representative to that country and ideal in the National Council of Catholic Men was to to cooperate with the organization movement there and to give to every Catholic the opportunity of rendering his assist in safeguarding the religion of French Catholic boys; personal service to his church and to his co'untry through the conduct at Notre Dame University during July,' 1921, the united service of his fellow-men, organized into a com- of a summer school for training in scout leadership; the pact, efficient, intelligent lay body. . organization of a nation-wide protest against the campaign of religious prejudice as inspired by Senatqr Watson and PROGRESS OF ORGANIZATION other bigots of his type; opposition to the Ster1~ng-Towner It was shown that although the men's organization has' bill and organization of nation-wide oppos.ition to pater­ been actively operating only since December, 1920, the nalistic -legislation of this character; introduction of study movement had reached, on September 1, 1921, sixty-eight clubs dealing with the social question and the Civics Cate­ dioceses, in twenty-three of which organization had been chism in many parishes throughout the country; cooperation fully completed. It was also stated that every national with the Welfare Council's campaign for better motion pic­ society of Catholic men which has held a national convention tures; assistance in the campaign of the press department this year has adopted resolutions either endorsing the work to expand for the' extension of the Catholic ;press; and of the' National Council of Catholic Men or that of the cooperation in the work of the National Catholic Welfare Welfare Council as a whole. The report also shows that Council's Historical Records Department in building up the Men's Council movement has reached Alaska, Canada, full records of the Catholic participation in the war. Cuba, the Canal Zone, Honolulu, Mexico, Porto Rico, In concluding his report on the work of the Men's Coun­ Hawaii, and even far-away China, contributions having been cil, Bishop Schrembs emphasized that a favorable beginning received from all of the countries named. . had been made in the work referred to, but that much of Projects either completed or now in process by the Men's the work remains to be done. Council were reported to be the following: A National "What we shall do in the immediate future," concluded Training School to prepare Catholic men for social service Bishop Schrembs, "when our organization is p~rfected in work; cooperation with the Council's Bureau of Immigra­ every diocese in the United States with a well trained. tion; establishment of agencies in Seattle and San Francisco well organized body of Catholics ready to respond to the to assist Filipino students i~ getting in touch with Catholic call of our divinely appointed leaders to their service, is educational institutions in the United States; a study of the a thought that grips the imagination with its romantic Indian, Mexican, and colored problems; the organization of appeal-18,000,OOO CATHOLICS, THINKING, WORK­ 2.600 troops of Catholic boys in the Boy Scout movement ING, SERVING AS A UNIT, IS THE GOAL THAT, and cooperation with the Catholic Boys' Brigade of the WITH THE HELP OF GOD, WE SHALL ATTAIN."

LETTER OF AMERICAN HIERARCHY TO CARDINAL LOGUE His Eminence, Michael Cardinal Logue, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of Ireland. Your Eminence:- . In this solemn and portentous hour of Ireland's history, we, the Bishops of the United States gathered in annual conference, feel it Q duty incumbent on us to extend to Your Eminence and your brethren of the Irish Hierarchy, the assurance of our sympathy, our prayers and our united good wishes for the happy outcome of the conference in which the representatives of your people are now engaged. Partic~larly at this time we are not unmindful of the tremendous debt the Church in this country owes to Ireland and its people. For more than a century the millions of your race have come to our shores and by their strong faith and their loyal and generous help, they have built up a Church which has become the pride of Christendom and the glory of the country in which we dwell. And even though they have become loyal Americans, faithful to the flag under which they dwell, time has never been able to extinguish in their souls the love they bore to the land of their fathers, to the little island from which they parted as exiles destined never to return . • And particularly during these recent years, with anxious and expectant hearts they have watched the trend of events, ever hopefut that Providence in its wisdom might ordain that at last Ireland was to take its place among the nations of the earth. And indeed, during these latier weeks their hearts were filled with pride when they saw the representatives of their race con- duct themselves with a statesmanship that has challenged the admiration of the world. . Therefore, in this fateful hour, when the future of Ireland trembles in the balance, it is not our desire, Your Eminence, by anll word of ours to peril the outcome of those deliberations upon which a world wails with bated breath. Rather, in the true spirit of OUT Holy Faith, united with our people from every race and every station, our prayers ascend from every altar in the land that God in His wisdom may bring Ireland's misery of seven hundred years to an end, that this most apostolic race among all of God's peoples mall receive the reward for what they have done for the Church of America and elsewhere by obtaining the fulfillment of their national aspirations. . And finally, that God may grant you and your colleagues to live to see Ireland's golden age, and find your people even more faithful to their Church in the sunburst of their new freedom than ever they were in the years of their exile and expectancy. Your Eminence's devoted servants in Christ, THE ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS OF THE UNITED STATES. 8 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BGLLETIN

had demonstrated the effectivene s of such training. It ~ The " -omen's Council ~ ...... was stated that the National Catholic Service School will

Bishop Schre1'nbs explained that the effo~ts of the National be continued under the direction of Dr. Chas. P. Neill and COLlncil of Catholic Women had been largely devoted dur­ a faculty of competent instructors. Three hundred and ing the first year of existence to the work of organization sixty-five students have been graduated from the emergency throughout the country-getting in touch through personal school at Clifton and the influence of these graduates, interview, group and mass meetings, correspondence, a~d it was shown, had been felt, not only overseas, but also in distribution of literature, with organizations of CatholIc social work in many communitie in the United States. women in all parts of the country: It was stated that t~e An interesting development in the work of the school, Women's Council is striving to bring home to CatholIc the report stated, is the coming this month of twelve stu­ women the idea that the Council is not merely a federation dents from abroad, specially chosen by an agent of the of societies, but a definite, dignified part of a much greater Women's Council in cooperation with ecclesiastical and edu­ oraanization engaged in a great national work. cational authorities in Europe. It was stated that the respons~ of Catholic women's WIDE SCOPE OF ACTION organizations and individuals has been most encouraging. Other important activities of the Women's Council were The report showed that the enrollment in the Women's shown to be: Cooperation in the work of immigration Council embraces nine national organizations, ten State, and in organizing women's societies throughout the coun­ twenty-six diocesan, and 857 local organizations-a total of try to assist in this problem in their own communities; a 902 organizations affiliated. In addition, 5,251 women department for the study of education for foreign women have become individual members. These are all which will operate through affiliated organizations; pub­ paying dues, actively cooperating, and have proved their lication of a series of pamphlets which will afford assistance efficiency in more than one issue during the past yea:. to affiliated and inter.ested organizations in the study of Together, they now constitute a great natio~al Cathohc local and national needs, and the preparation of club pro­ organization of women, extending from east to west ~nd grams. Under this head have been published the Service north to south, defending Catholic rights and promotmg Bulletin No.!, entitled The Honte Teacher. and Bulletin Catholic welfare. Aiding the Women's Council in the co­ No.2, What WomenJs Organizations Can Do. ordination of women's activities throughout the country are During the year the Women's Council has cooperated seventy-six diocesan representatives, who serve as liaison with other departments of the Welfare Council in the fol­ officers between the national council and the local organi­ lowing ta k: The dissemination of literature showing zations. the Catholic viewpoint on citizenship, the ocial question, The report howed that not only in the United States is education, and other subject ; assistance in organizing op­ tremendous interest being manifested in the vVomen's Coun­ po ition to the Sterling-Towner Bill and other inimical cil movement, but that societies and individuals abroad are legi lation; aid in extending the Catholic Pre s movement watching closely the developments of the work of the N a­ and stimulating intere t in all Catholic \vomen's organiza­ tional Catholic \Velfare CounciL Requests have been re­ tion to support the Catholic Pre ' lVlovement Campaign; ceived from India, the Philippine Islands, Mexico, Argen­ cooperation in a nation-wide campaign of the N. C. \V. C. tina, Canada, Ireland, England, Italy, France, Austria, Ger­ for better motion pictures, and conduct of relentle s war­ many, and Qther countries for full reports concerning the fare against the efforts being made to repeal legislation national oraanizations of Catholic women. b which prohibits the spread of information regarding methods In these countries the same problems which interest of birth control. In stimulating influence and interest in Catholic women in the United States are being discussed. all this work. there were given under the au pices of the The study of such problems and united action in their Women' Council addresses in thirty-five cities, repre enting solution by Catholic women throughout the world can not even teen State and twenty- even dioce e. Everyone of fail to be an effective weapon in safeguarding the sanctity these meetings brought forth large local as emblages of of marriage, the dignity of the home, and the rights of Catholic women. parents in the education of their children. The Women's Council is also cooperating with Catholic COMMU..l ITY CTIVITIES women's organizations outside the Church in matters of The report et forth that welfare \vork had been suc­ common interest, and its representatives are now invited to ces fully carried on by the National Council of Catholic and are participating in many conferences of national im- \Vomen in several community and vi. itors' hou es turned portance. over to its snpervi ion by the National Catholic War Coun­ NEED OF TRAI ING SCHOOL cil. At the pre ent time the Women·s Council is directing center in the following places: Balboa, Baltimore, Beaufort, Bishop Schrembs pointed out the necessity of training Columbus, Detroit, East St. Louis, 11ilwaukee, San An­ Catholic women workers in every type of social work and tonio. and Wa hington, D. C. showed how the National Catholic Service School at Clifton During the past year work in Bridgeport, Charleston, THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 9

Cincinnati, Des Moines, and Toledo, formerly under the support had not only been valuable in the matter of in­ direction of the Committee on Special War Activities, has creasing the circulation of the Catholic papers, but had been turned over to local direction, and is being supported given new heart to the Catholic editors. Bishop Russell's by local funds and directed by local agencies. report commented upon the fact that wherever the Press The report calls special attention to important community Month Campaign was pushed vigorously by the local paper, house activities in Balboa, Canal Zone, Utica, N ew York, satisfactory results were obtained, in many instances the East St. Louis, San Antonio, and in the Reconstruction increase in subscribers being far beyond expectations. Aides Club, Washington, D. C., in all of which places the A very important development of the N. C. W. C. News work is proving itself worth while, and enlisting the com­ Service reported during the past year was the inauguration mendation and cooperation of the local communities, re­ of a service for teaching purposes in colleges. Brother gardless of religious affiliation. Leo, of San Francisco, one of the leading educators on the In concluding his report on the activities of the Women's Pacific Coast; Professor Carlton Hayes, of Columbia Uni­ Council, Bishop Schrembs comments as follows: versity, and other Catholic educators were said to be making "As a result of the work done by the National Council good use of the service in keeping student bodies better in­ of Catholic Women, Catholic women and Catholic princi­ formed of Catholic activitie throughout the world, their ples have been brought into public welfare work. Catholic Catholic viewpoint being greatly broadened thereby. Forty women have taken their place in our national organizations Catholic colleges now subscribe to this service. in all governmental work, and the National Council of The members of the Catholic Press AssoCIation, accord­ Catholic Women is included in all welfare bodies by gov­ ing to Bishop Russell's report, h~d, at their annual meeting ernmental officials, among the recognized national 'women's in Washington, on May 13 and 14, given high praise to organizations of the country." the N. C. W. C. News Service, the convention adopting formal resolutions of thanks to the members of the Hier­ fe.. Report of Press and Publicity Department ... ~ archy for establishing it. It was generally declared that there has been a great improvement in the Catholic papers Progress in variolls kinds of publicity attempted during as a result of the service and that they are now having the past year was reported by Rt. Rev. Wrn. T. R'Hssell, a larger and wider influence than heretofore. D.D'J in his review of the work of the Press and Pub'icity BUREAU OF INFORMATIO Department of the Welfare Council. Bishop Rus ell stated that the sub cribers to the weekly news sheet had increased Bi hop Russell reported the development of the Depart­ from fifty-six in September of 1920 to seventy-six in Sep­ ment's Bureau of Information as another important feature tember, 1921. Three additional subscribers were reported of the N. C. W. C. News Service. This bureau is engaged for the cable service. During the year the Press Depart­ in gathering and cross-filing newspaper clippings, magazine ment extended its service to several foreign countries. Serv­ articles,and other data which in any way touch the welfare ice is now being rendered to six Canadian papers. The of the Church or which may prove helpful to those who pre ident of the Irish Peace Society recently wrote that are called upon to defend her interests. if he could get the half rate for the N. C. W. C. Service Soon after the Press Department was inaugurated all he expected to be able to induce several Iri.sh papers to publishers of Catholic books were invited to send a copy take it. Father J eoffrey Bliss, S.J., of London, recently of every Catholic book to the central office for the purpose wrote to the Press Department that the best Catholic news of review in the N. C. W. C. News or Editorial Sheet. of Europe was now reaching England by way of the United Many books have so far been received, and form the nucleus of a national Catholic Library. It was pointed out that States. Reference to the personnel ·of foreign correspond­ ents and the sketches appearing elsewhere in the BUL­ the National, nm\' the Congressional, Library at \A/ ~shington. had its inception in a similar' manner. LETIN will partly explain Father TIEss's statement. In concluding his report Bishop Russell stated that the RESUL TS OF PRESS MONTH Catholic Press i now reaching directly and regularly about Bishop Russell reported in some detail upon the Press a million and a quarter Catholic subscribers. Vvays and Month Campaign conducted by the department last March means of inc:-easing the efficiency and u efulness of the in ' cooperation with the National Council of Catholic Men Catholic Pre s are set forth in the report, which concludes and the National Council of Catholic Women. vVide circu­ by emphasizing the necessity of taking advantage of not lation was given at that time to a pamphlet entitled "Cath­ only the religious pre s, but of the secular press as well, to olics, Do You Know?" which 'Contained the principal facts reach the non-Catholic world, and to explain away the oppo­ concerning the establishment of the Press Department of sition of those who are antagonistic to the Church because the N. C. W. C. and the call of the Hierarchy for united of a misconception of her aims and ambitions. action to promote the Catholic Press. In his report, Bishop Special appreciation is expressed in the report for the Russell took occasion to express his appreciation to his invaluable assistance of Rev. John J. Burke, C.S.P., and venerable confreres for their valuable assistance in making of Mr. Justin McGrath and his associates in the splendid the Press Month a success and to point out that their accomplishments of the N. C. W. C. service to date. 10 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

Men's Council Holds Successful Convention Catholic Leaders' from AllOver United States Inspired by Call for United Laity

The i\ ational Council of Catholic ::\I~n has held its first During the Tuesday afternoon . es~ion, paper::, were read annual convention. For three days, September 20, 21, to the convention by Mr. Daniel J. Ryan, of the N. C, ¥/. C. and 22, Catholic leaders from all over the United States Historical Records Department; lVIr . Justin McGrath, direc­ met together in conference, listened to the unfolding of the tor N. C. W. C. News Service, and Re\,. R. A. Mc­ great program of the National Catholic Welfare Council, Gowan, assistant director of the X. C. "V. C. Social Action and received the helpful advice of their ecclesiastical leaders Department. These and other paper ar~ briefly reviewed for the upbuilding and further expansion of the great lay on another page of this issue. movement now being conducted under the auspices of the SEND MESSAGE TO HOLY F~\THER Men's Council. During the session messages pledging the loyalty of the ,Following the solemn Pontifical Mass at St. Patrick's delegates to the Holy Father and pledging the delegates to Church, the delegates met for their first session in the support the President of the United States and "work with Willard Hotel on Tuesday afternoon, September 20. There him in his desire to see the country thrive and be honored Bishop Schrembs welcomed the delegates and sounded the by the peoples of the world" were sent by the convention. keynote of the convention in the following words: The message to the Holy Father wa as follows: "I take pleasure .as Episcopal Chairman of the Depart­ "Cardinal Gasparri, ecretary of State, ment of Lay Activities in welcoming you to the First An­ The Vatican, Rome, Italy. nual Convention of the National Council of Catholic Men. The National Council of Catholic :Men, a::,sembled in This is a wonderful occasion, an occasion filled with prom­ their first annual convention in \'Va hington, send respect­ ise for the future. The country is looking at you today ful greetings of filial homage to His Holiness, Pope and the Church is expecting big things from you. You Benedict XV, and pledge their whole-hearted loyalty and have not come here just merely to sit in and listen, to devotion. They wish to express their appreciation and applaud occasionally some beautiful sentiment, shake hands, . gratitude for the fatherly concern on behalf of his suffer­ smoke a few cigars, and go back and forget all about it. ing children throughout the world delivered by His Holi- That will not get us anywhere. We must make up our ness last Christmas, in which he so strikingly summarized minds that we have come here to do a big work, that we the causes of present-day unrest and suffering. Promis­ are going to do it. Work harmoniously together to perfect ing all their faithful cooperation to work for the allevia­ your organization, carry back enthusiasm into your own tion of these evils, they humbly ask his apostolic bless­ homes, and work until every Catholic man in the United ings for themselves and for their brethren of the United States is with you, so that we shall become what I ask you States." this morning to become-a cOlnpact body of Catholic men of Cardinal Gasparri replied to Bi hop Schrembs a follows: the whole nation, filled to the brim with the enthusiasm of their holy faith, and full of courage and strength in the "The I-Ioly Father, greatly pleased over the first annual thought that you are the army of the Lord, disciplined convention of the 'Catholic ~len of the 'United States. to effective work under the guidance and the leadership ends thanks for their noble sentiments of filial devo­ tion toward the Apostolic See and wishe abundant c f the bishops 0 f the Church." fruits from their efforts toward the Christian reCOl1- Bishop Schrembs then introduced Judge P. J. M. Hally, truction of American social life. The Holy Father of Detroit, to preside over the meeting in the absence of imparts to member of the Conyention and all Cath­ the president, Richmond Dean, who was unable tq attend olics of the 'Gnited tates hi Apostolic Benediction. the convention because of illness. CARD. GASPARRI.'} IMMIGRATION PROGRAM DR. SLATTERY'S REPORT One of the most important problem discu sed at the Judge Hally called upon the executive secretary, Michael convention was the immigration problem. J. Slattery, LL.D., to render a report of the work of the A plea for the support of the ~Ien's Council in carrying Men's Council since the last 'Convention. Dr. Slattery's out the work of caring for the ::\lexican who eros the report, which is summarized in this issue of the BULLETIN border into the United States and who are ubject to a in Bishop Schrembs' report to the Hierarchy dealing with vigorous campaign of proselytizino- by Protestant denomi­ lay organizations, was received with frequent applause on nations was made by A. W. Xorcop, the delegate of the the part of the delegates as the accomplishments of the Men's EI Paso diocese. As a result an appropriation of $25,000 Council during the past twelve months were recorded. A for the work among the Mexicans wa announced to be report was also rendered by the treasurer, lVIr. Charles 1. carried out under the auspices of the ocial Action De­ Denechaud, of New Orleans. partment of the National Catholic \Velfare Conncil. THE, NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETJ T 11

Resoltitions were adopted affirming the ,allegiance of the tional Council of Catholic Men to France in connection convention to the principles of Christian education, op­ with the Boy Scout organization in that country. In the posing State or Federal control of education, supporting East Room of the White House a cordial reception was the aims of the forthcoming disarmament conference, de­ given to the delegates to the convention by President Hard­ nouncing the divorce evil, urging relief for the unemployed, ing. The delegates were introduced to the President by and' the adoption of measures that will relieve the unem- Admiral Wl11: S. Benson, and each \yas greeted with a . ployment situation, urging the formation of social study hearty handclasp as the head of the Nation smiled and clubs, requesting cooperation of units in the compilation expressed his cordial greetings. of Catholic war records, endorsing the establishment of a CARDINAL DOUGHERTY FELICITATED National Training School for Men, approving the N a­ tional Catholic Welfare Council's program for cleaner mo­ Recognition of the elevation of Cardinal Dougherty to tion pictures, and expressing the hope that "in a final set­ be a Prince of the Church was expressed in the following tlement between our Government and the Government of telegralll which the convention ordered ent to His Emi­ nence: Mexico the civil and religious rights of 'Catholics will be conserved." "D. Cardinal Dougherty, RESOLUTION ON IRELAND 1723 Race St., , Philadelphia, Pa. A resolution was also adopted expressing the hope that "The following' resqlution was ' unanimously adopted at the "the leaders of the Irish people may bring out of the diplo­ first annual convention of the National Council of Catholic matic interchange now taking place the fa-rm of government Men convening here in WashingtQll today: "'Recognizing the high signal hOllor which has been paid to acceptable to the Irish people as a nation, and permit of His Eminence Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia for the great their immediate return to prosperity and the attainment of service he has rendered our Holy Mother Church our Holy Father has honored and rewarded him by raising him to the growth and proper national position before the world." rank of a prince of the Church and we rejoice at the honor The resolution on the disarmament conference, ' which paid His Eminence Cardinal Dougherty, and we extend to His was one most vigorously debated in committee, contained a Eminence our deep congratulation.'" clause declaring that "we are of the opinion that the United MICHAEL J. SLATTERY, Executive Secretary." States, while leading in the purpose of limitation of artna­ ment, should see to it that at all times sufficient means of On Thursday evening there was given a dramatic enter­ protection be maintained to meet any purpose on the· part tainment at the Central High School under the auspices of of any government on earth to intimidate, or to neutralize the Musical and Dramatic Guild of the Vvashington District the ~ position of our Government in the protection of its Council of the National Council of Catholic Men. Mr. interests." Michael Williams, assistant direCtor of the N. C. W. C. On Wednesday morning, September 21, the delegates Press Department, delivered a brief address dealing with -listened to brief addresses by Dr. Ryan, executive secretary "American Ideals in the Drama." The business' of the con­ of the N. C. W. C. Department of Education; Chas. A. vention occupied the attention of the delegates on Thurs­ McMahon, editor of the N. C. W. C. BULLETIN; Rt. Rev. day morning and afternoon, at which time the reports of Msgr. Wm. H. Ketcham, LL.D., director of the Bureau of the various committees were received, following which oc­ Catholic Indian Missions; Thos. W. Turner, Ph.D., of curred the election of officers for the ensuing year. Howard University, and Michael Williams, official historian ()FFICERS SELECTED of the National Catholic War Council. Wednesday afternoon was devoted to an automobile Admiral Wm. S. Benson, of Washington, D. C., was sight-seeing trip to various points of interest in and around elected national president; Thomas F. Flynn, of Chicago, Washington and on Wednesday evening the delegates at­ national vice-president; Judge P. J. M. Hally, of Detroit. tended a mass meeting at the Catholic University, which national secretary; Charles r. Denechaud, of New ()rleans, was presi~ed over by Bishop Schrembs and addressed by national treasurer, and Michael J. Slattery, LL.D., national His Grace, Most Reverend Edward J. Hanna, D D., Arch­ executive secretary. bishop of San Francisco; Admiral Wm. S. Benson, K.S.G., The members of the Executive Committee elected were and Honorable David 1. Walsh, United States Senator from as follows: Massachusetts. Over two-score of the members of the l-lier­ Aqmiral William S. Benson, Washington; john D. Ryan, archy attending the annual convention at the Catholic Uni­ New York; Richmond Dean, Chicago; W. P. Horan, Den­ ve.rsity were present at the meeting. Senator W~lsh's ver ; Walter T. J oh11son, Kenton, Ohio; Judge James E. brilliant address is reviewed elsewhere in this issue. Deery, Indianapolis; Edward J. Tobin, San Francisco; Joseph M .. Tally, Providence; C. A. Beeby, Hays, Kansas; DELEGATES MEET PRESIDENT F. P. Kenkel, St. Louis; Charles 1. Denechaud, New Or­ On Thursday morning the delegates liste~ed to addresses leans; Thomas F. Flynn, Chicago; ~Iichael J. Hurley. St. by Rev. Martin E. Fahy, of the Catholic Actors' Guild, Paul; James J. Sullivan, Philadelphia, and Judge P. J. 1\1. and Rev. Daniel J. Daly, special representative of the N a~ Hally, Detroit. 12 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

Bishop Schrembs' Sermon at Opening of Men's Convention Points'out Need of Intelligent Union of Laity and Vigorous Catholic Press

The National Convention of. old war cry that resounded thousands the Men's Council was formally and thousands of years ago to the NEEDS OF THE HOUR opened with solemn Pontifical walls of the Heavens above, when "What we need now, in the stress of present Lucifer, at the head of Heaven's hosts, Mass in St. Patrick's Church, day conditions, is, first of ail, a compact and in­ flung the challenge against the very Washington, D. C, celebrated by telligent union of all· Catholic men and Catholic women, filled to the brim with the enthusiasm of Throne of God, 'I will not serve!' the Right Rev. Owen B. Cor­ their holy faith, conscious of their strength and "There was' another in those days rigan, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop power, as the army of the Lord, and thoroughly that took up the challenge, St. Michael, disciplined to effective organized work, under the Archangel, gathering about him of Baltimore, with more than 8. the guidance and the leadership of the Divinely score of monsignori and priests constituted Hierarchy of the Church, which ha'S the faithful ho ts, and raising on high been placed by the Holy Ghost to govern the his power and his might, met the in attendance. The ermon was Church of God. That is the first need. challenge of Lucifer with that other delivered by the Right Rev. "Another need is an intelligent, strong, vigor­ war cry, 'Who is like unto God?' Joseph Schrembs, D.D., Bishop ous Catholic press, alive to all the great questions and in the might of right and justice of the day, and ready to carry the lesson of this of Cleveland, and Chairman of wonderful body of men and women to the farther­ drove Lucifer and his hordes into the Department of Lay Organi­ most corners of our land, into every Catholic the bottomless pit of darkest damna­ home, to bring that message home to every tion and hell. zations of the National Catholic mother's son of the Catholic Church of the Welfare Council, of which the United States of America."-From Bishop Schrembs' Sermon at the opening of theN.C.C.M. FUNDAMENTAL EVIL OF TODAY Men's Council is a coordinat ~ Convention. branch. Bishop chrembs' Ser­ "Do you know, my dear men, that th~ fundamental evil of this day­ mon was in part as follows: and God knows there are many-I "It is an auspicious beginning that dare say that a correct analysis will you are making for this meeting of yours which should be prove to you that the fundamental evil of our day is ignorance and pregnant of great things for God, for the Church, and for country. negligence of religious truth. Men have learned to forget the You are asking me for a message, a message that you might carry truths of God's revelation, they have pushed them out of their lives, into your deliberation to stir you to the very depths of your souls, and even as the body is dead when the soul has gone qut, so and to point to you the pathway of successful work. And even civilization is dead today because God has been cast out of it and as I knelt in the presence of the adorable Sacrament of the Altar our civilization today begins to smell, begins to stink, and' this and asked Our Lord to give me the message that I might translate stench rises up to Heaven even while it fills the nostrils of men's it to you, it seemed to me as though the Master whispered to me bodies. It breathes of the stench of our civilization, it breathes that wonderful message which He delivered nineteen centuries from the columns of Our daily papers, with their reports on the ago when, on the occasIon of the parable of the unjust steward latest orgies and crimes, it breathes from the hands that are He gave to His Apostles and to us that wonderful lesson, "The drenched in blood of the murders in civilization today, for never children of this world are wiser in their generation than the was there an age when murder wa so common and men imbrued children of light." their hands with the blood of their fellowman; it breathes from the phosphorescence of an obscene, loose stage, where the last decencies ATTACKS BY ORGANIZED ENEMIES of human life and of differences of ex have been cast aside in the effort to tickle and rou e men's passions; it breathes the stench "Oh, how often Church history has illustrated this fact, to the of modern civilization, or, rather, of a decadent civilization; it detriment of the Church militant upon earth! How often we breathes, I say, of the whole life of the nation, no matter where have seen the human element of the Church sink down ' to the you. commute. It is like a dead carcass; for men, notwithstanding lowe~t level, because the enemies of the Church were alert, were ~helr tremendo~s activities and all their material progre s, which organized, unified, had a plan, and followed that plan consistently, I real, and whIch I am the last to deny, notwithstanding all this and therefore a small but well organized and well conscious body material progress, and notwith tanding all this enormous expendi­ was able to beat into ubmission and to tread down the phalanx ture of human activity, despite it all, men have forgotten God, of the Church militant upon earth, which was not organized, but men have forgotten His law, men have forgotten Hi revelation each man walking in hi own way and caring naught for the great men have ignored the very essence and the very purpo e of thei: work and the great problems of the Church at large! Oh, how that existence, and because they have done this they have been struc'( story is told again and again on every page of history! by the death of materialism, and all the great living monuments "'The children of this world are wiser in their generation than that we see about us, the monuments of man's genius and of man's the children of light.' Have we not learned the lesson yet? Are powe.r, will in their day be as the ruins of the power of the we still blind? We look around us today in the world. Do we not Grecla~ and Roman civilization which fell into complete decadency see the Church militant surrounded by numbers of great problems? and rum because of irreligiousne s, Godlessness and materialism Do we not see her surrounded by bitter enemies? Do we not see "Our H.oly Father, Pope Benedict XV, gloriously reigning, the surging mob-no, I will not call it a mob; it is a well organized i~ an allocutIOn pronounced on the eve of Christmas Day of this past body of God haters, of sensualists, of materialists, united together year,. sounded the note of warning of five great evils that eat away still with that old war cry of Voltaire, 'Let us crush out the life the lIfe of the nations of the world, and he signalized them as a of the Church!' It is like that call, like that very echo, that old, (Continued on page 14) THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 13

Archbishop 'Hanna's Address at Men's Mass Meeting Eminent Prelate Points Out Task Before Catholic Laity

NE of the principal speakers at "We look around us, and ask, 'What the mass meeting arranged in ARCHBISHOP HANNA THANKS has happened since the war cloud O honor of the delegates to the N a­ THOSE AIDING IN WORK, passed?' And we answer that m~n have tional Convention of the Men's Council, OF N. C. W. C. gone back to the old paths, to greed, and which took place at the Catholic "I wish to thank from the bottom of to selfishness, to injustice, to cruelty, and my heart you who are aiding so much to all those things that have marked the University on Wednesday evening,. S~p­ to promote this mighty work that has tember 21, was His Grace, Most Rev. been given unto the hands of the Ad­ life and history of men upon earth. And E. J. Hanna, D.D., Archbishop of San ministrative Committee of the Welfare that migh!y democracy for which we Council by the Bishops and Arch­ Francisco and Chairman of the Admin­ bishops of this mighty country.' If fought, that mighty democracy for which istrative Committee of the National Cath­ special mention could be made, surely . we shed the blood of the flower of our we ought in reverence and in truth, olic Welfare Council. say a kind word for the men who in young manhood-is that even safe? And To the two thousand or more people the central office of this mighty insti­ when these thoughts come thronging tution, at 1312 Massachusetts A venue, who in spite of a heavy and continuous give their time by day and by night home, again we lift our eyes, ·and on downpour of rain, assembled for the for the accomplishment of our magnifi­ the summit of the ages we behold the mass meeting, Archbishop Hanna's pow­ cent ideals-the men who guide the Christ. He alone can teach men the destbnies of you who are gathered erful address came as a mighty inspira­ here for this great work. Surely they things that are necessary for the saving tion to undertake the task committed to deserve tonight from me and from of this world and bringing it back unto you, unstinted praise. them by the Hierarchy of the United "Theirs has been no easy task. A the paths of justice and of peace. States. Archbishop l-Ianna spoke, in more gigantic thing was never con­ ceived than the gathering of every SOVEREIGNTY OF LAW part, as follows: man and every woman of Catholic "It is a wondrous thing to enter with lineage into one great, united body, "For what do we need in this mighty added faith and with love and with filling them with the wisdom and spirit land of ours, this land of boasted lib­ of Christ and sending them forth into vision upon a new crusade, a crusade the conquest of the world for Him. erty and boasted freedom? We need, - that means faith in God, faith in our "Men were never called since his­ above all things, that men recognize the tory began into a nobler cause, and great cause, a crusade that will take all men were never called since history sovereignty of the law, that men bow the . energy and all the power and all began to one tha needs Christ as' this their heads to the mandates of those cause needs Him."-From Archbishop the courage of Catholic hearts, if this Hanna's .address at the Washington whom they choose as their rulers. But crusade be carried ' to a successful con- Mass meeting of the National Council this is only possible where men recog­ clusion. of Catholic Men. riize in those that rule them a higher "You have gathered here under the and a more sovereign power. All au­ auspices of the National Catholic Wel- thority, the mouthpiece of Christ says, fare Council, under the auspices of the Hierarchy of the IS from God, and those that rule, rule by the authority of United States, banding yourselves together into a mighty God. In a democracy such as ours we go back to the body to enter into the crusade. What is it you ask? For days of the founders of this mighty Republic, and we more than a century the princes of earth have stood up find that they recognized God's sovereign power, and against Christ. For more than a century they have ad­ bowed 'neath His mighty arm; that our fathers in this mitted that Christ and His mighty message unto the chil­ RepUblic not only recognized God's power, but also learned dren of men was indeed a part in the great progress and the great law of sacrifice, ·that they must give up all things, evolution of the race, but that men have passed beyond the rather than allow the liberties and the freedom of men to age and the time of Christ, and . now, under the rule of suffer; that they must be willing to sacrifice all personal, science, there was to be a new era. of progress, of democ- petty interests for the greater good of mankind, and that racy, of fellowship, of peace. . the law of sacrifice is after all, the law supreme. For "Those who knew the times wondered that men could he who would have all must give all, and until men can think these thoughts, as they looked out over the strange subject themselves to God and to law, until they learn world. But in one night the dream was shattered and the this great law of sacrifice, until they can give up all things vision gone, and men woke up to a terrible horror. No for the higher things of life, there can be no hope in the longer was there progress, but a return to savagery; no new and coming generation. longer fellowship, but the fiercest race and national hatreds MEN'S MIGHTY TASK that the world has ever seen; no longer liberty, but martial law; no longer peace, but the crash of cannon, and the "The crusade upon which you enter is a crusade in sound of arms. behalf of Christ in behalf of His wisdom and His power, 1-1 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETL' that in the heart and .minds of American men this wisdom Bishop Schrembs' Sermon may grow unto ftll1nes ' . Yon men of the National Cath­ (C ontinued from page 12) o1ic Welfare Council, you men of the National Council of revolt against all authority, human and Divine, as the rising up Catholic Men, mn~t always remember that you are the of man against man, brother against brother, in a fratricidal class chosen instruments for the carrying out of this l11ighty hatred, a strange and abnormal aversion to work, which is the law \York, and the in trument mu t be tempered unto the task, of life, an insatiable thirst and desire for the pleasures of the sensei which degrade and stifle and kill, and last, but not lea t, and the task means, in the first place, knowledge. You mt1. t the death of materialism which throttles and kills the spiritual know the world's problems, you mu t know the \vorld's needs ideals and aspirations of man, for which he was created. today, in these day of reconstruction, and, knowing the MR. "BECK}S REVELATIONS world's needs, you must know how to apply the wi dom of "And only just the other day the Honorable Mr. James Beck, a Christ and His Church across the ages to the solution of member of the American Bar Association, in the city of Cincinnati, these problems. There are few problems that the Church at their great convention, perhaps in many respects one of the has not met acro s the centuries, and by meeting them she most notable conventions of the whole year, comprising as it does has learned a mighty \yisdom. You must catch that wisdom, the legal rights of the bar and the bench of the whole United and you must catch her spirit. and you mnch catch her in­ States, this learned gentleman stood before that association ot terpretation of the law of Christ and apply them unto the thinking men, men who held in their hands the statistics of crime and the statistics of immorality, and he poin~ed out to them with problems that confront you in the world today. TIut it is not a clarity that must have been striking and overwhelming, these enough for men to kno\\' the world's needs, nor is it suffi­ five evils enunciated by Pope Benedict as the real diagnosis of the cient that they know the law of Chri t and how to apply world today, and taking up one after the other of these five the wisdom of Christ a interpreted by the Church, to the specifications he builded them up with such an array of facts taken solution of the world's needs. There must be faith, there from our contemporary American life as might- shock our country must be love, there must be zeal, there must be courage. today into a realization of the real conditions. I hope to God that this . speech, this wonderful address of the Honorable James else this crusade i impossible. Beck may be printed and spread broadcast by the millions through "Men were never called since hi tory began unto a our country, so that not only may that convention of legal lights nobler cause, and men were never called since hi tory have been shocked into an understanding of the actual conditions, began to a cause that needs Christ as this cause needs Him. but the people at large of our country may have their eyes opened It was this thought, as I interpret it, that brought to­ to what we are confronted with." gether the Archbi hops and Bishops of the 1Jnited tates In concluding Bishop Schrembs pointed out that a compact ami intelligent union of all Catholic men and Catholic women and a into the National Catholic '-VeHare Council. During the strong, vigorous, intelligent Catholic press were two of the \var they did mighty things; during the 'war were let loose greatest needs of the present time. energies that must be pre erved, and these men of faith "To affect this union is the reason why you members of the and vi ion, these men upon whom the ta k of bringing the National Council of Catholic Men are gathered here today. You world to Christ has come, formed themselves into this have come to be the nucleus, to be the seed-germ of that much mighty body in· order that they might find fitting instru­ needed and wonderful body of enthusiastic Catholic laymen filled ments for the great work that was ahead. with the knowledge and the love of the Holy Catholic faith and ready to do work with the Lord." AIDES TO BISHOPS N. C. C. M. Field Secretaries Visit Washington "You are the in truments in the hand of the bi hops Ten field secretaries of the National Council of Catholic 1Ien, of this land, in order to help the \vork of educatiop, of social who gathered in Washington from different parts of the country to .service, of giving expression to the truth which is in Jesus attend the national convention, have left for their respective ter­ Christ. l\1en of the National Catholic vVelfare Council, ritories after having spent considerable time in. making a close urely unto you ha come an opportunity rarely given unto study of the work of each department of the ~ ational Catholic \Vel fare Council. the children of men, for you live in an age unlike all the Admiral \Villiam S. Benson, President of the ~ T ati~nal Council age that have pas-sed. of Catholic Men and Michael]. Slattery, LL. D .. executive sec­ "My men, may the Yl 1011 that dawns upon you in retary, had several conferences with the field secretaries. the beginning of your work grow even unto the perfect Those who attended the convention and the territories to which day; may you always ee the great Lord of Hosts standing they- have been assigned are as follows: on the summit of the ages; may He be your inspiration Alphonse 1. Hirsch-New York and New England States; Philip unto high and noble thoughts; may He be your inspiration C. Shoemaker-Pennsylvania} Delaware, Maryland and Virginia; Vincent S. Sherlock-West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and unto love and unto courage, and may you, filled with His Michigan; Thomas J. Connors- outh Atlantic States and Tenne"­ '.vi dom, and strong by His strength, valiant soldiers in His see, Alabama, and Missi sippi; Edward J. Roach-Illinoi, ~fis­ army, go forth unto the conquest of this land of our ' for souri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Iowa: Frank J. Farrell­ Jesus Christ. and may you bring this world unto Chri ~ 1's Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, feet, and help to bring it back to sanity, to peace, to jt1 tice. Nebraska, and Texas; Robert G. Drady and Leo J. McCarthy­ and to love." Pacific Coast States, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. P. W. O'Grady, who has beel] doing pecial work in the central northern States, will cover the territory not as ·jgned to the field 111 n. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 15

Admiral Benson Elected National President of N. C. C. M. Believes Lay Organizations Movement Greatest Ever Inaugurated

SKETCH OF THE NEW PRESIDENT OF ADMIRAL BENSON'S ACCEPTANCE THE N. C. C. M. SPEECH Born in Bibb County, Georgia, 1855; ap­ "I am deeply ' sensible of the great honor pointed cadet midshipman, 'D. S. Naval the National Council of Catholic Men has Academy, 1872; graduated, 1877; served in done me in electing me as the first president Navy as En s,ign, Lieuteriant (Junior Grade), of this inspired movement. As my rule of Lt. Commander, Commander, Captain, Rear life for more than fifty years has been that Admiral and Admiral; Chief of Operations of service- to country and God with whatever for Navy during \\.Torld War; Chairman, D. fervor I have been able to muster, and as the S. Shipping 1?oard, and at present member requirements of the times seem to demand of same; decorated by Pope Benedict XV service, I have left no choice but to accept. with Order of St. Gregory the Great, being "The plan is so splendid, the purpose so the first American to receive this highest compelling, that when the necessity for orderly , degree of knighthood in the military division and sincere organization is understood, there of the Order; served as parish president, is not a parish or mission but will rally to District of Columbia president, Archdiocesan the cry of 'God and Country, service to both, president, and is now national preside\lt of genuine and untiring, every day of every the National Council of Catholic Men. month and every month of every year.'''

ADM IRAI, W. S. BENSON

NE of the most satisfactory results of the National sary to state that Admiral Benson has ll1ade good this Convention of the Men's Council was the unanimous pledge. It may be added that under his leadership as Dis­ O selection of Admiral Wm. S. Benson to be the Na­ trict President of the District of Columbia, and later, Pres­ tional President of the National Council of Catholic Men. ident of the Archdiocesan Council of Baltimore, there have­ When the decision of the delegates was announced at the been brought into the organization within the period of a vVillard Hotel at the close of the Convention's three day few weeks' time nearly 15,000 men of ·the Baltimore, Cum­ sessions, there occurred one of the most enthusiastic dem­ berland and Washi11:gton districts. onstrations which has ever -greeted a Catholic layman. Delegates cheered and clapped for several minutes after the EVERY MAN A ME},{BER new president was es'Corted to the chair. "I think every Catholic man 'ougr.t to enlist in the N a­ In responding to this cordial greeting of the delegates, tional Council of Catholic Men," Admiral Benson has re­ Admiral Benson expressed his appreciation of the honor peatedly said. "I am a busy man altd just at present have and pointed out the tremendous responsibility accompanying a difficult job on my hands; but I shall be glad to work if service in this national movement. He stated that if - he others will cooperate. I am a convert; I have not always were not thoroughly convinced of the ultimate success of been a Catholic. ,Since 'Coming into the Church, it has the movement, he ,,'ould not have been willing to accept been my belief that one of the greatest hafldicaps to her the post of national president. work is the 'nominal' Catholic. We must force the 'nominal' Although Admiral Benson is one of the busiest men in Catholic to have something besides inert faith; we must the service of the United States Government, occupying make him zealous and active in behalf of God's Church. as he does the responsible position of member 'of the United The N adonal Council of Catholic Men offers the oppor­ States Shipping Board, from the very inception of the tunity and the means of serving God and Country. Every Men's Council movement in the Baltimore Archdiocese, Catholic man is under obligation to perform that sort of he has been tremendously interested in it. When the move­ service." ment was first launched in the City of Washington, Ad­ This same spirit of interest and willingness to serve was miral Benson went back to his parish, St. Paul's, and an­ expressed again by Admiral Benson in his speech at the nottn'Ced that he would either bring all the men of that Catholic University gymnasium in the presence of two score congregation into the parochial unit of the National Council members of the Hierarchy and the delegates to the National of Catholic Men or remove from the parish. It is unneces- Council of Catholic Men, when he said: ' 16 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN Delegates to Men's Council Convention

"I would like to take this [FE Church is making upon us, opportunity to say to the =A=d=m~lH;~=ra=l=B~l ;ri=n=s=o=n~l ri=EA=S=k=S~)Bri=Ei=S=h=O~~ri=ES=t=O=G=l) F~=id=e~~ri=E o=r=k~)] and are determ ined to suc­ Hierarchy of the Church ceed under your guidance. that I have mingled with the ~c==~j ~c ===j~ ~c~==;;3j ~e ==~j ~E==;;;;;;Jj ~E==;;;;;;Jj ~c==~jC~==~j I also know and real ize representatives that have that even in the Cru ades of come here for this convention from all parts of the country, and old, men banded together for noble purposes, but as they grew and I have been amazed at the real, earnest and deep interest shown gained ~trength in numbers they became more or les. independent by everyone of them. While the results are not complete, while and at times restive under the authority of the Church. We realize only a small number of the dioceses have been regularly organized those dangers and possibilities, and we beg of you to keep a close in this short time, the deep and earnest interest that is shown hand upon us, that we may always have your guidance, and that at by every delegate with whom I have come into contact impresses all times we may show that absolute loyalty and fealty to the Hier­ me very strongly with the fact that the movement will progress archy of the Church in order that together we m2.y mobilize alt most rapidly, and not only that, but they have a full realization the power of Catholic manhood and womanhood in thi great of what the work is that is mapped out for them. country, and not only by precept but by example and by patient "We laymen feel and appreciate most deeply the confidence that and charitable effort with those who are not blessed with the faith, you have placed in us. We realize what the task i , we realize we may be able to stem the tide of immorality and of demoral­ the times have changed. V\T e know that in the olden times wars ization that is overrunning our country. \Ve realize all of these were carried on by a chosen few, or by hirelings, and the masses problems. We not only realize them, but we are anxious to of the people were not interfered with. We know that for a long struggle and to do Our utmost to overcome them, or. at least, time in the Church everything has been left to the clergy or to to stem the tide, and we intend to do it in a way that will be the orders, but as times have changed in conducting war, so they in perfect harmony with the teachings and directions of Holy have in times of peace. In the late war it was nations against nations. 110ther Church. And I repeat that we thank you for this oppor­ Men, women, children, all were combined, and lent their tunity of showing Our loyalty and our trength and our determi­ utmost efforts in the struggle. The times call for the same effort in nation, and promise you that under your guidance we will succeed. these days of disturbed peace. Never before in the world's history "If, a year hence, it can be said that the Catholic manhood has the demand been so urgent and so evident as it is today. We of this country is truly mobilized under the patronage of the laymen appreciate that, and we' are thankful that the Hierarchy has Hierarchy, it will be unnecessary for us' to assemble in mall groups given us this task to do, and it gives me great satisfaction to assure at any place in this broad land of ours to register our protest you. from my contact with these men, that they appreciate fully the again t actual or · contemplated violation of Our birthright and task before them, they appreciate the call that our country and our heritage" THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 17 it White House to Greet 'N a tion's President

judge Hally of Detroit, presided over The death of Delegate Thos. M. Mc­ the Convention in a most satisfactory man­ Farland, one of the founders of the Men's ner and received a vote of thanks from the Council movement and father-in-law of delegates for his consideration and fair- Executive Secretary M. J. Slattery,. cast ness. a temporary gloom over the Convention. * * * * The applause which greeted Admiral * ::( '" * W. B. Tucker of Wheeling, W. Va., Delegate johnson made it known to the evoked the first real demonstration of the Benson's announcement of the organization of 80 parishes in the Baltimore Archdiocese Convention that the next annual conference Convention when he reported nearly 2,000 of the Men's Council should be held in affiliations from 12 parishes in the First within a period of a few weeks' time delClyed the Convention for several min­ Cincinnati. West Virginia District-the result of less utes. than a month's organization work. Four * * ::( '" other districts are to be heard from and Mark Schriever, jr., of Baltimore and judge Wm. C. Walsh of Cumberland, were Mr. Tucker guarantees 100 per cent mem­ Chairman D. C. Harrington of Buffalo, bership from each. two of the most active delegates in the and Messrs. Nusbaum of Leavenworth, Convention. * * * :~~ Beeby of Concordia, and Shea of Helena, The report of President Nusbaum of the his associates on the Finance Committee, * '" * * Leavenworth, Kansas, Diocesan Council disregarded union hours in handling to Delegate Cannon of Chicago and judge contained much of information and inspi­ the satisfaction of ev.ery one one of the Hally, participated in a parliamentary de­ ration to the delegates. most difficult tasks before the Conventio::J.. bate which was greatly enjoyed by the * ;I-: '* :!= This example was closely imitated by Convention 8':1d which fortunately ended Mr. Fitzpatrick of Newark, New jersey, Chairman Denechaud's Committee on without fatalities on either side. was one of the hardest working delegates Resolutions. in the Convention and the reports show judge joseph M. Talley of Providence that his fellow Catholics of New Jersey attended the Convention as repr-esentativ~ are working just as zealously at home. Mr. Thomas E. Gill of the Rockford of the first diocese to be organized in the * * * * Diocese reported the enrollment of over Men:s Council movement. Twenty-five per cent of the men in the 16,000 Catholic men in the Rockford Coun­ St. Cloud Diocese are already in touch cil, employme~t o! an executive secretary, The Convention convinced Messrs. with the message of the Men's Council and the orgamzahon of a central diocesan O'Neill of California, McMorrow of Okla­ movement and, according to Delegate M. office. homa, Van Camp of North Dakota, Su]­ j. Kern, are moving rapidly toward the ,." "'." :::: :r< livan of Washington, Marqua. of Kansas, 100 per cent goal. Glavin of New York, Reed of Georgia, ::~ * * * H. R. Hawley of Boise, Idaho, stated Barr{)n of Minnesota, Lorenz of Illinois, Msgr. O'Reilly of Cleveland, took an that both the clergy and laity of his State Deery of Indiana, Horan of Colorado, active part in every session of the Con­ were gradually awakening to the advan­ Walter T. johnson of Ohio, Donegan of vention and performE)d valuable service on t3ges of the Men's Council and are now Iowa and N orcop of Texas, that the U. the By-Laws Committee. giving it enthusiastic support. S. A. is not such a large place after all. 18 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

Splendid Address of Senator Walsh Inspires Laymen

N ONE of the most forceful and America, without ever a king what a eloquent addresses ever delivered to NOTABLE UTTERANCES man's religion was, or what his racial I a Catholic audience, Honorable extraction was, I would like to know From Senator Walsh's Speech how any man who ever went into this David 1. Walsh, United States Senator "The only lesson that has come out from Massachusetts, appealed to the of the war, worth preserving, is the war dare ask any American what is his forty or more prelates present at the lesson of sacrifice which our brave race or his religious belief. American lads taught us." mass meeting of Catholic men, held at "This is an age of work, of social "One would expect that the scenes the Catholic Univ.ersity Gymnasium service. The Welfare Council is the that \ve witnessed during this war would agency in America by which the Cath­ during the 1Vlen's Council Convention in olic laity can be doers rather than forever banish these 'isms' and these Washington to give their unqualified hearers of the word." prejudices that are so unpleasant and "In the .last analysis the only measure endorsement to the great work of the of a man is not what he takes in, but disagreeable to combat in the e days of National Catholic \Velfare Council, and what he gives out." reconstruction and of peace. The N a­ to the lay forces of the Church engaged "Selfishness and greed are responsible tional Catholic vVelfare Council is un­ for the quarrels of individuals and the in launching the welfare program wars of governments." dertaking to keep together that solidarity, throughout the United States. Senator "Those who fought to safeguard that earnestness of purpose, that pa­ democracy in the world have come vValsh said, in part: home to fight for the preservation of triotic spirit, that religiou fervor, that "I am sure I speak the sentiments of democracy at home." actuated our people during the war, and "The National Catholic Welfare the people of America, regardless of their Council must be the champion of to lead them now, during these days of religious belief, and particularly the sen­ democracy in America." reconstruction, and in these times of timents of the great Catholic laity of peace, to do welfare work for America this country, when I extend their con- and for the people of our religion who gratulations to the National Catholic Welfare Council. The need the inspiration and guidance that can come from a work which the National Catholic War Council-rendered great movement of this kind. And that i why it should to our country during the war is one of the brightest pages have the cooperation and support of all of us. in the history of Catholicity in America, and, indeed, one of the brightest pages in the history of the United States CHAMPIONS OF DEMOCRACY of America. The manner in which our Hierarchy and our "The Catholic Welfare Council must be the champion priests and our teaching orders and our charitable, religious here in America of democracy! \Ve fought, or \~'e claimed orders, and our laity came together in one solid phalanx, that we were fighting, to preserve, to afeguard democracy and unstintingly supported every activity of our country in the world. We have begun to learn, only a few months during the dark day of the war, ought forever to drive after the war, that it was necessary for these men and out of America any question of the loyalty of the Catholics women to go forth and preach and fight for the preservation in this country. of democracy here in America. No DOUBT OF LOYALTY "But the time has come for the laity to take its place "Indeed, I can not understand, in view of what we wit­ in the work of ,ervice, in the work of giving, in the work nessed so often during the war, how there should be left of doing, here in America. It is a difficult nndertakinCT; one scintilla of doubt or prejudice about our loyalty to it is a tremendous responsibility; it is so ea ily misunder­ this country, least of all about our right to be here and to stood; it is so easily misrepre ented. But no man ever ac­ exercise our religious rights and to worship God according complished anything in life without courage. No man ever to the dictates of our own con cience. When you have all succeeded in life, and no cause ever triumphed that was the bra~ery, all the courage, all the harmony, all the unity led by a band of cowards. This movement, first 0 fall. and sincerity of purpose which actuated Catholic and must have the unqualified, enthu, iastic upport and hIes 'ing Protestant, Jew and Gentile, boys of all racial extractions, of our spiritual1eader , our Goel-given guide. the Hierarchy of German blood, Iri-h blood, French-Canadian blood, of bi, hops and priests of the Roman Catholic Church. It Italian, and Polish blood-when you realize how all these must be another arm to them in their pioneer work in. mer­ young men, representing the different religion thought of ica for the promotion of Christian principles, not a new body, the country, representing the different racial extractions not a new, separate adjunct, but a limb of their tree which that have been moulded into our citizen hip. went into thi has its root in the repre entatives of the Holy Father here war, hand in hand. ,yorked together, and died together for in America, a limb which will stand courageol1::-.ly against THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL B"CLLE11K 19 all the storms, and help to give strength and support to Cathohcs of the country in the matter of immigration, and the roots implanted deep in the ground. If this movement held it to be our duty to see that the children of immi­ is not to receive that support, and the hearty blessing of grants coming from Catholic countries shall not grO\\T up I-lis Holiness, it would be better that it be never under­ atheists, anti-Catho1ic,and lost to Faith. taken. It is inconceivable, of course, that that blessing One of the most forceful parts of Senator Walsh's ad­ should not be given speedily and graciously, and that this dress was his reference to the problem of Americanization, movement should not have at all times, as it is certain the C01111110n conception of whkh, he stated, was the in­ to have, the suppo~·t and approval of our leaders." sistence upon every poor foreigner being irtstructed in English. "Americanism is soul, is spirit. is love, is spiritual," said the Senator \Nalsh then explained to what a large extent the Senator. "A MAN THAT NEVER SPOKE THE ENGLISH TONGUE CAN' LOVE A D SERVE AND SACRIFICE AND thought of the world has been going .recently to Rome for DIE FOR AMERICA AS WELL AS THE BEST ENGLISH inspiration and for serious judgment on present-day prob­ SCHOLAR IN THE LAND. Much as we love to have our people lems; how only a few weeks ago speak a common tongue, America does not there was delivered a rnemorable ad- ask any . man or woman coming to these dress before the American Bar Asso­ shores to give up the tongue or the lan- guage that he first heard spoken at the ciation by a speaker \"ho took for his SEN. WALSH'S CAREER knee of a holy mother or a God-fearing text the message of His Holiness, Born at Leominster, Mass., in 1872; graduated from Clinton High School, father." Benedict XV, concerning the five ill Holy Cross College, and Boston Uni­ Senator Walsh stated that nothing had of humanity at the present time.. It versity L,aw School; received the hon­ pieased him more in his career in public was stated that men and women out­ orary degree of LL.D. from Holy Cross life than to observe the note of sympathy College, the University of Notre Dame and affection that had come from the side of the Catholic Faith were found and Georgetown University; admitted Catholic Hierarchy and the Welfare Coun­ looking to the Church for inspiration to the Massachusetts bar in 1897; elected to the Legislature of Massachusetts in cil for the men and women of America and guidance; and that the Bishops' 1899; reelected in 1900; declined office who know no other word in life but toil. reconstruction program of the N a­ the next year, and resumed law prac­ t~ce; served as leader of the Massa­ PROUD OF CHURCH tiona! Catholic Vola 1: Council was re­ chusetts delegation to the N.ational "It has been a positive inspiration to garded outside of the Church as one Democratic Committee; elected Lieuten­ me," said the speaker, "to see my Church ant-Governor of Massachusetts in 1912, of the rno t illuminating public docu- and Governor the following year; re­ taking its position and helping to solve -ments yet delivered fro111 the pen of elected the next year; in 1917 elected the problems of these people, and fearlessly any group of public men in America. a delegate-at-Iarge to the Massachu­ and courageously stating the underlying setts Constitutional Convention; elected and guiding truths and principles which The speaker's remark that the voice United States Senator from Massachu­ should prevail in the settlement of the of the I-Io'ly Father \vas the first voice setts in 1918. great conflicts between Capital and Labor." 1n the world raised in behalf of world Mr. Walsh was the first Democrat since the Civil War to be elected either As a friend of the oppressed peoples disarmament was received with cheers Lieutenant-Governor of his State, or everywhere, Senator Walsh asked the Wel­ by the audience. Senator Walsh United States Senator from Massachu­ fare Council to take the negro by the setts, and the first Catholic to be elected hand. and to lead him into the Catholic stated that America desired peace and in Massachusetts to the post of Lieu­ that international justice and truth, tenant-Governor, Governor, or United Church. In conclusion, Senator Wlalsh stated: alone would end wars and defeat the States Senator. "I am not going to say anything more purposes of armament.. except to wish this work God-speed, ex­ The drift toward materialistic cept to say to these men who have under­ philosophy, especially in our higher educational in titutions, taken this very' difficult task that more than eighteen millions of where the atmosphere was not anti-Catholic, but anti­ loya1 Catholics in America are sincerely interested in this move­ ment, and are anxiously hoping for the development of a great. Christian. was pointed ou t by the speaker as one of the nation-wide plan of general welfare work. A great opportunity great dangers of the times. Senator Walsh also explained for the exercise of these firre, human virtues of the heart, of love. the need of Catholic leaders in the profe ional, economic, of sacrifice, of service, of patriotism, awaits us. Religion is the social, and commercial life of the Nation, and gave as _one influence and force that stimulates, cultivates, nourishes. his opinion that the race or the creed or the religious broadens, and enlarges the virtues .of the heart. We have a chance denomination that does not produce leaders, well. trained to show it, quietly, with no attempt to control the headlines 0 f and well equipped. in the history of the race or in the the press every day, in our own quiet, even way, as God-fearing men and women, as bearers of the torch of the Christian faith, knowledge of the religion, is forever gone. One of the We have an opportunity in America to do a real service. God great sources of loss to the Church was to be found in the strengthen this cause, and, 'Bishops, give it your blessing and give it fact that Catholic professional men, teachers and v,rrit­ your every encouragement, AND ALL UNITED, BISHOPS A TD er in other countries. had SLlccumbed to the materialis­ PRIESTS, PRESS AND CATHOLIC LAITY, \VE 'iVILL tic spirit of the non-Christian institutions of higher STAND . TOGETHER, WE \VILL WORK TOGETHER, VlE learning. WILL FIGHT TOGETHER, TO MAKE THIS A BETTER, ~enator \ Valsh then outlined the responibility 0 f the CHRISTIAN, GOD-FEARING, GOD-LOVING AlIERICA!" • 20 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

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It is possible in this issue of the BULLETIN to make only a Catholic Men" said Bishop Busch "that I came here to assure myself brief mention of the many excellent papers read to the delegates by my own personal observation that the message and invitation attending the National Convention of the Men's Council. The that had gone out to the Catholic men of the United States were following is a list of the speakers and a brief resume of the topics being taken with the interest that you are very evidently showing discussed by them: them. I believe the best way to defend ourselves is to be prepared; MR. DANIEL J. RYA T, "Work of the N. C. W. C. Histori'Cal to counteract propaganda by propaganda; to go out and do good Records Department"-In his paper Mr. Ryan explained the work of works; to let our light shine before men so that it will glorify collecting historical data dealing with Catholic participation in the our Father Who is in heaven; and to make such a shining dem­ war. He especially emphasized the necessity of parish Councils onstration of the truth and power of Christ's gospel that people cooperating with Catholic pastors, inviting the assistance of ex­ who might be tempted to attack us would be either ashamed or service men and canvassing the parishes and public records of their afraid to undertake anything of the kind." towns or cities for any and all data dealing with the records of REV. JAMES H. RYAN, D.D., "Our Catholic Educational Catholic service men and the activities of Catholic individuals or System"-"The Department of Education" Dr. Ryan stated, "is an organizations. Mr. Ryan stated that the N. C. W. C. records depart­ advisory agency, a clearing house of information concerning the ment stood second to no similar organization on war records in the Catholic educational school system. a connection between Cath­ United States today but that a considerable amount of work yet olic and other educational activities and an organization to safe­ remained to be done. guard the interests of Catholic education generally. MR. JUSTIN McGRATH, "The Catholic Press"-Explanation "We are proud of our Catholic schools for the good solid love of of the N. C. W. C. News Service as a world wide news gathering country and the high-toned Americanism that they teach. Amer­ agency with home and foreign correspondents in the principal icanism is not a matter of blood. It is not a matter of birth. True, cities of the United States and Europe, was given by Mr. McGrath, real Americanism as it is taught in our schools today is a faith, Director of the N. C. W. C. Bureau of Press and Publicity. Through a belief and service and the man who has this belief and who lives, this service the Catholic and non-Catholic people alike are authori­ fights and dies for America-that man is an American if he only tatively and accurately informed of Catholic activities throughout came over last year in the steerage." the world. Every leading tatholic paper in the United States, six MR. MICHAEL WILLIAMS-"American Catholics in the War" in Canada, one in Cuba and one in England were, according to -As author of the official history of the National Catholic War the speaker, being served by the N. C. W. C. bureau. The service Council, Mr. Williams called attention to the fact that Cardinal enables the authorities of the church to speak with a united voice Gibbons had regarded this book as a story of "The Promise Ful­ and to have their message carried throughout the country im­ filled"-the redemption of the pledge made to the President at the mediately. beginning of the war, when in the name of the American Hierarchy REV. R. A. McGOWAN, "Social Study Clubs"-The organiza­ he promised to the nation the united support of the Catholic men, tion of laymen into clubs for the purpose of studying the social women arid children of the country. That this pledge was redeemed question and of obtaining the right viewpoint and correct knowledge through the patriotic service and sacrifice of the Catholic people with reference to problems dealing with labor and industry and of the country, was thoroughly demonstrated by the 467 pages the field of economics generally, was explained by Father Mc­ of the war history. Mr. Williams urged the delegates to promote Gowan. The success of the \Vashington experiment in this work the sale of the book as a story which would give to their children was proof of the interest of Catholic men in the social question. and to their children's children a c'orrect record of what American The speaker urged the delegates to establish similar clubs in every Catholics did in the great crisis of the world war. parish council for the promulgation of Catholic ideas concerning MR. CHARLES A. McMAHON-liN. C. W. C. Campaigns for the sccial question which was stated to be one of the greatest Better Citizenship and Better Movies." The National Council of problems confronting the United States and the whole world today. Catholic Men was pointed out by the speaker to be one of the most Catholic laymen, according to Father McGowan, had the responsibil­ constructive and generally helpful Americanization movements oper­ ity of introducing into the United States a saner system which will ating in America today. recognize justice in our industrial life and give to human brotherhood "Is it not an inspiring thought," said the speaker, "that the Cath­ an opportunity to express itself. oliclaity of this country is uniting in a movement which has for' REV. THOMAS BURKE, C.S.P.-Delivering a message of greet­ its keynote 'service to God and country'? That instead of inciting ing to the convention from his brother Father John J. Burke, C.S. P. who has been seriously ill for some time, Father Thomas Burke religious bigotry and setting up class hatred and the spirit of the stated that there could be no doubt of the need of the existence mob, we have an organization like the Men's Council engaged in real, positive, constructive work in behalf ' of better Americanism." of such a body as the .l ~ational Council of Catholic Men, that the Men's Council had a distinctive mission-to do things better than Real Americanism, it was explained is not necessarily a movement other men and whatever they did in the field of welfare, charity to attack radicalism or to force immigrants through a compulsory or social action, to do it in the name of Christ who said HWhat­ naturalization process; but rather a movement to create a better wever you do unto the least of these, my little ones, that you understanding between the immigrants in our country and our do unto Me." "That," said Father Burke, His the distinctive mes­ native-born citizens and to stimulate upon the part of all the sage to Catholic manhood." American people a greater respect for our American institutions BISHOP JOSEPH F. BUSCH, D.D., of St. Cloud, Minn.-HI and a willingness to assume the burdens as well as the privileges. am so vitally interested in this movement of the National Council of of Government. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 21

In speaking of the Better Motion Picture campaign Mr. Mc­ REV. JOHN J. GALE, S.]., "The Speakers' Bureau and The Mahon said: Dramatic Guild."-Father Gale, Moderator of the Speakers' Bureau "The National Catholic Welfare Council is endeavoring to rid of the District of Columbia Council of the N. C. C. M., explained pictures and plays of uncleanness and immorality. We are giving that the Speakers' Bureau in the District had been started to assist no aid or comfort to the advocates of 'blue' laws, and we do.not in the 'work of organizing parish councils-as was also the Dra­ favor the abolition of innocent public amusement on Sunday. Our matic Guild-but that it will do more than that. It will develop desire and determination is to eliminate from the stage and the men from the ordinary rank and file of life who can put before screen the indecencies which have become notorious on both. Men their fellow citizens clearly the ideas which the Catholic Church -conspicious in the moving picture industry have admitted that holds about various topics of the day. The Dramatic Guild will many films are unclean and some positively immoral. If these be an auxiliary to the Speakers' Bureau, and its members will be leaders of the industry sincerely desire to protect their business qualified to assist pastors in the various parishes to establish from hurtful restrictions and at the same time serve public decency, dramatic societies and get them functioning. we shall be glad to have their cooperation and give them ours. REV. JAMES D. MITCHELL, "The Catholic Laymen's Associa­ We shall consider legal censorship only as a final recourse. Whether tion."-"In the six years of existence of the Catholic Laymen's we shall eventually invoke it as a remedy depends on the men who Association of Georgia, which was organized for defense against are now apparently willing to turn dirt into doividends." attacks on the Church, more has been accomplished," Father Mitchell stated, "than anyone would believe, and more than was RT. REV. MSGR. WM. H. KETCHAM, L.L.D., "The Indian believed possible when the work was begun. "'Then the organiza­ Problem."-A sketch of the Indian situation with emphasis on tion was started, every newspaper in the State, with one or two the great need for both clerical and lay assistance in Catholic honorable exceptions, in the larger cities, was publishing anti­ work among the Indian \vas given by Msgr. Ketcham, who is Catholic reading matter daily or weekly. At the present time Director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions in the there is not a single newspaper in Georgia that indulges in this United States. He outlined and defended the policy of the Gov­ practice. This marvelous change has been the result of cour­ ernment toward the Indian from the early days of the country teous letters written to offending editors, asking for proof of their to the present and spoke of the importance and necessity of pro­ statements, and followed by the correct information. In more viding for the · welfare of the Indian. Father Ketcham asked the than one instance, an editor heretofore bitterly opposed to the cooperation of the National Council of Catholic Men in looking Catholic Church has openly written an apology and promised after the social life of the Catholic Indian children in the Gov­ a fair deal in the future." ernment reservation schools and also called attention to the shortage of prie t to handle the various missions. REV. DANIEL J. DALY, "The Boy Scout Movement in France." -In his brief talk on the Catholic Boy Scout work in France THOMAS W. TURNER, Ph.D., "The Negro Problem."-ln Father Dalt, who with George W. Boyle, has been representil1~ dealing with the subject of the Negro, Dr. Turner of Boward ·the N. C. W. C. in Boy cout activities in France, touched on his University, stated that the problem of the colored race should not work with. the American Committee for Devastated France, spread­ be thought of as "a problem." He advanced the statement that ing the ideals of the American Boy Scouts and assisting in organ­ it was due to a psychic state rather than real fact that there is izing troops in various Catholic parishes in France, all of which a Negro problem. He a ked that a pirit of tolerance toward the is exercising a salutary influence on the minds of the FrenGh youth. Negro be exercised, not in the sense of intruding upon or dis­ The Catholic Boy Scouts of France have a distinctive organiza­ turbing the ordinary social relations of the two races, but espe­ tion of their own. This Catholic federation binds together asso­ cially in the Church, that the colored man be considered first as a ciations that have been formed in Paris and throughout the Catholic and secondly as a colored man. Dr. Turner also asked country and enables lads to work out the ideals of Chri tian for opporttlnities for better education for the Negro, stating that charity with the energies of youth. Cardinal Dubois, Archbishop there is not a single Catholic institution of college grade in the of Paris, recently commented on this work to Father Daly as country doing work among the colored people. follows: "The spirit which exists among your American Boy MR. 'BRANDON TY 1 AN, "The Catholic Actors' Guild."-A couts is admirable and I appreciate immensely your efforts to strong appeal for the intere ts of Catholic actors throughout the inspire our Scouts ansi Scout leaders with the same ideals." United States was advanced by Mr. Tynan, President of the Catholic Actor' Guild, New York City, when he spoke of the difficulties which beset the actor in his efforts to practi e his DIRECTORY OF religion. A very large percentage of the theatrical profession is· Catholic and even though anxious to discharge their religious Catholic Colleges and Schools obligations, many are often prevented bv lack of knowledge of th.> Compiled by location of churches, times of Mas, etc., in the cities or town Rev.• JAMES H. RYAN, D.D., Ph.D. through which they pass. Mr. Tynan stated that the actors are Executive See'y, Dept. of Education many times mi directed when they ask information and urged that N.C.W.C. the Catholic laity tak it upon themselves to see that cards giving NOW READY the location of the principal churches, the hours of Mass and con­ An Authoritative Statistical Survey of Catholic fession, etc, be kept current and posted in all theaters and hotels Education in the United States throughout the country. This would give to actors taken sick on the road information as to where to call a priest. Subscription P1'ice, $3.50 REV. MARTIN E. FAHY, who also spoke on the work of the For Copies apply to organization explained how the Catholic Act0rs Guild, through Bureau of Education, N. C. W. C. its N ew York headquarters, aids thousands of young men and young women of every denomination who come to New York each 1312 Massachusetts A venue N. W. Washington, D. C. year to study the arts or to seek engagements. 22 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETI~

T H E N. c. w. c. B U L. LET I N PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY' THE NATIO~AL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL .Application for Entry as Second-class matter at the P03toffice at Washington, D. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879, pending. CHARLES A. McMAHON. Editor Office of Puhlication 1312 Massachusetts Avenue. Washington. D. C. NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE MOST REv. EDWARD J. HANNA, D.D. RT. REV. WILLLUf T. RUSSELL, D.D. B~op of Charleston AIchbishoCh~fir~a::nFranciSCO Chairman Department of Pu.blicity, Preu, and Literature OUR SEAL MOST REv. AUSTIN DOWLING, D.D. RT. REV. EDMUND F. GIBBONS, D.D. THE CROSS: The symbol of faith in-right, AIchbishop of St. Paul Chairman Department of Education Bishop of Albany in justice; the symbol of Him who died for Chairman DepartmenL of LaW& and truth. and right. and justice. The symbol of RT. REv. P. J. MULDOON, D.D. Legislation the faith that is the spring and inspiration of Bishop of Rockford doing for others according to justice and love. Chairman Department of Social Action RT. REv. Lours S. WALSH, D.D. THE CIRCLE: The symbol of service; Bishop of Portland all-embracing; equally dispensing its labor. RT. REv. JOSEPH ScaBEMBS, D.D. its enfolding strength. to all without end; the Bishop of Cleveland REV. JOHN J. BURKE, C.S.P. symbol of enduring, complete service to all. Chairman DepartmenL of Lay Organizations General .Secretary

Vol. III October, 1921 No. 5

EDITORIAL COMMENT ... ~

Conference of the Hierarchy Hierarchy focus and distribute for the this sad and distracted ''''orId of ours." general good the 'weighty influence of American Catholics cannot, will not, fail "The most successful meeting yet held." Catholic faith, morality, and patriotism in a their leader . was the characterization of the annual COIl­ ""ay that would not be possible otherwise. * ference of the. Hierarchy held in Wash­ * * * The fact that the leaders and guides of ington last month in the report issued by The Laity and the Catholic Press the Catholic Church in the United State Bishop O'Connell, the secretary of the The purpose of the _ ational Council of conference. Not only did the archbishops found that the work accomplished by the Catholic Men and of the _Tational Council National Catholic Welfare Council during and bishops consider the reports and pass of Catholic \\'omen is the trengthening the past year had, on the whole, been of faith by mutual example and contact, judgment upon the acts of the 1 T ational ,';orthy of the confidence and support of the Catholic Welfare Council, their own or­ so that faith may come to flower in good Hierarchy and deserving of an even larger ganization, through which they direct the works for America and for the Church. measure of support in the future, will en·­ national interests and movements of the How best may this purpose be fulfilled? hearten and Invigorate the men and women entire body of Catholic men and women, \Vhat human agency can most readily re­ -the clergy, the religious, and the laity­ but they also demonstrated again that their cord example and most effectively conserve who in ever-increasing numbers are becom­ annual meeting has become a public event the contacts formed by the Councils? ing leaders or participants in a work which of wide interest and of large consequences Hear our Holy Father the Pope: "The has been likened to the Crusades and has to the American people as a "'hole, and, Catholic newspapers have been an effective been declared by its own leaders to be the indeed, that it is an event that influence auxiliary to the pulpit ill ~preading the mightiest movement in 'its potentialities and not only the progress of peace, and justice, Faith." promises ever launched by the Catholics of and reconstruction in our own country, but Listen to the triking words of hi::. im­ the United States. in other countries as well. mediate predecessor in the Chair of Peter: The captains of the peaceful army of The press agencies and great new papers "In vain will you found mis ions and build God, meeting in coullcil at the close of one gave wide publicity to the action taken by schools if you are not able to wield the year's campaigning, reviewing the battle;; the Hierarchy in calling upon Catholics to offensive and defensive weapons of a loyal fought, the repulses received, and the many pray for the success of the limitation of Catholic Press." victories won, issue to their followers the armaments conference to be held in \Va h­ Pius X knew thoroughly the age in which ington in ... Tovember-a movement whicb. cheering words: "Well done-but do not he lived. He realized that it was an age as the bi~hops pointed out, was first pro­ rest upon your arms. Splendid as has been of publicity, an age in which newspapers mulgated by our Holy Father, Pope Bene­ the work accomplished, the work that re­ wielded an influence for good or for evil dict XV-and also their action in sending mains to be done is vaster and more diffi­ such as they had never exercised before. a noble and helpful message of sympathy cult than any so far encountered. Up, then, Every American citizen ha come to a to the Irish Hierarchy _and people. The cllld forward, as faithful Catholics and loyal realization of the same fact; many are reception accorded these resolutions prove~l Americans, and continue your struggle to utilizing their kno\\'lerige-Ilo always for that the annual meetings of the American speed the reign of justice and charity to pure or patriotic purpo es. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COU CXL BULLETIN 23

Members of :Men's Councils and Women's miral William S. Benson and Honorable deeply ~he welfare of our country. It Councils may take pattern by their country. David L Walsh, U. S Senator from Mas­ leaves its effect upon family hfe and good America had a big job on hand. Almost sachusetts. citizenship, upon morality and religion. overnight the nation had to raise enormous Archbishop Hanna voiced a popular note And unless it and the mote fundamental' sums of money with which to meet the stag­ when he expressed the appreciation of the evils from which it springs are cured, it gering expenditures made necessary by war. Hierarchy to the men at . headqllarters is hard to say what will result; The success of the different Government whose efforts were making the movement Surely the irnplication of this is plail).. Loans was made possible by the universal a success. In this list, Michael J; Slat­ We can hardly be content with looking support of the press. By this universa~ tery, Executive Secretary of the' Men's before us and seeing years upon years support two ends were attained simulta­ Council, comes in for special praise, not stretching before us during which, when neously. First, direct contact was 'made only for his tireless efforts to make the times are good, a million or so will be out promptly with individual citizens, the ap­ convention the success that it was, but for of jobs, and when times are bad three, four, peal was made individually as well as im­ the constructive work which he helped the or five millions of working people will not mediately. Second, a spirit of emulation Men's Council to accomplish under vety be able to find work. was consequently aroused, neighbor talked trying and difficult circumstances during * * * * with neighbor, encouraging and stimulating the first year of its exist~nce. An Educational Experiment to loyalty in its fullest expression. To the delegates themselves, however. The success ,,,,hich attended the Institut~ T11.e Catholic press can do this same great credit must be given and every man of Politics held during the summer months thing for the Men;s and the Women's Coun­ left Washington resolved to do ten time'" at Williams College suggests that similar cils. It is in better position' to do it than as much for the cause during the next experiments l1light be conducted at· some of ever before in its history. twelve months. our Catholic colleges, with profit both to But it must have support as well as give * * * * the colleges and the community. To it. The greater the assistance given to the gather in a summer conference of one or Catholic newspapers of America, the greater Unemployment Crisis two weeks' duration distinguished clergy­ assistance they can· render to the Councils The wave of unemployment now engulf­ men and laymen for the discussion of and to America. ing well over five n'li11ions of working Catholic problems could not but have bene­ •. Don't just buy a Catholic newspaper. people and their dependents is the return ficial results. ' Such a conference would Read it, and see that your neighbors buy of a wave that struck us just before the bring strongly before the visitors the work and read the Catholic newspaper circulated war. That ·was preceded by still another which the Catholic college is doing. It in your parish. wave. And so on for the last half century. .would likewise give the college an oppor­ * * * * Even in normal days about a million people tunity to serve in a large way the interests are out of work. of the Church in different parts 0 f 't~e A Successful Beginning The present Unemployment Conference country, with little expense and with no ad­ The first annual convention of the Men's is an emergency conference. It is called ditions to its equipment. Council was successful even beyond the to outline methods of getting jobs for those Most Catholic colleges are ",hat are expectations of those who had its arrange­ out of work, and of recommending methods called "small" colleges. The small col­ ments in charge. I t is not overstating the of relieving the distress among those for lege has always stood for quality, not matter to say that never before has a more whom work can not be found. But more quantity. It has opposed educational 'fads; representative and more zealously Cath­ than that the hope is held forth that the it has manfully defended the liberal arts clic body of men been brought together Conference may point out some road for course as the foundation of a higher edu­ than the men who comprised the first us to travel that will 110t lead on forever cation, whether that be professional or annual conference of the Men's Council. through steady. permanent unemployment purely cultural. It is, therefore, an ideal From the morni11g of their first assem­ to periodic catast.rophes of grave and wide­ place to bring together small groups of blage in the presence of their euchar­ spread industrial depression. Catholic men, and to obtain for their dis­ istic Savior until the last business of the The present emergency can be met, in cussions a much wider publicity than would convention was disposed of, the delegates part, if by no other way than by public pe possible if such an institute were held worked and planned in a manner that · and private charity, 'Better still, the num­ in a large university. The value of all this brought them the generous praise of their ber of jobs can be increased by prosecuting might be beyond calculation. ecclesiastical leaders and the admiration necessary public work, and by bringing Will not one of our leading Catholic col­ and re·sp.ect of their fellow-Catholics in the pressure to bear upon' employers and busi­ leges give the Williams experiment a tri;ll National Capital. . ness tnen to cut prices so that buying will next summer and prove what is accepted by Even a hea'l:Y and continuous down­ be increased. Local committees represent­ many educators today-that the college h;)'5 pour of rain, constituting one of the worst' ing various groups and interests can be a place in our educational life which cannot storms that Washington has experienced of help in many ways and, as it looks now, be taken. over either by the high school. or this summer, did not keep the delegates the formation of such committees will be the university? and some two thousand Washingtonians the principal suggestion of the conference. away from the mass meeting at the Cath­ But the problem of a million out of work WORK FOR THE LAITY olic Univer:sity. And there was 110t a per­ in normal times still remains. And the If every Diocese 'Would be organized son in that audience who did not come ~urther problem still remains of what is to on the. plan! of the National We/fm-e ~way well repaid in the splendid speeches be done to ward off another avalanche of Counctl, t/tiS would, in a short time) be the greatest Catholic county}, in the of Bishop Schrembs, their chairman, of unemployment, and still another one every world. All this can be ,accomplished. Archbishop Hanna, that peerless leader few years for an indefinite time. Here is Eve',,}' Cathol£c should do all in his or from the West, and the inspiring calls to the crux of the situati<:m. h,er power to foster Catholic organiza­ action delivered by the two distinguished It is a grave situation. It calls up ques­ tlOn as the great 11lissio1ta:ry effort of laymen who honored the occasion, Ad- tions of justice and charity. It touches our day.-The Lay Apostolate. 24 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN Personnel of N. C. W. C. News Service The N. C . W. C. News Service has been in exist~nce for a year and a half. It serves all the leading Catholic weeklie,,> in the United States and six Catholic weekl"es in Canada. The most recent sUbscriptions were received from Ireland and the Cathol"c weekly at Cetu, Philippine Islands. With these subscriptions the total number of papers served stands at ~eventy-eight. . For the information of all who may desire to learn of the personnel of the N. C. W. C. News Service, the following sketches are given:- DIRECTOR-JuSTIN Mc­ PAPER READER-ELLEN FOLEy-Graduate of the University of GRA TH-Editor, managing editor Missouri School of Journalism, and member 'of the Editorial Staff of and city editor ew York Ameri­ the Herald, Duluth, Minn. can (period of 8 years); manag­ ing editor San Francisco Exam­ PRESS TRA SLAT OR-ELIZABETH R. SHIRLEy-Official Trans­ iner (4 years); city editor St. lator in the War College during the world war. From twenty years' Louis Post-Dispatch (4 years); residence in Europe has gained a fluent speaking and writing knowledge {cting Sunday editor and of six languages. editorial contributor Tew York AMERICAN CORRESPONDENTS Times; Director Hearst Wash­ ington bureau and editorial WASHINGTON-ELMER MURPHy-Member of the Washington contributor to all Hearst papers; staffs of the ew York Tribune, ew York Su.n and )l ew York IIerald; Washington correspondent St. at present represents Kokusai, of Tokyo, Japan; student of national Louis Globe-Democrat, Albany and international questions; author of "The Development of the correspondent ew York Times, English. Dram~." Graduate of Notre Dame University, from which in charge of all Hearst papers he receIved Lltt.B. degree. Received Ph.M. degree from Catholic correspondence at Peace Confer­ University of America. cnce; organizer of N. C. W. C. NEW YORK-MISS MAZIE CLEMENs-Member of the staff of the Service under direction of Right New York World, reporter and special writer. For many years con­ Reverend William T. Russell, tributor to the various Catholic periodicals. chairman of Press Department, JUSTIN MCGRATH and Reverend John J. Burke, CHICAGO-WILLIAM J. CLARK-Member of staff of Chicago. Director N.C.W.C ..Press Department C.S.P., General Secretary. American. BOSTON-WILLARD DE LUE-Member of staff of Boston Globe. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-MICHAEL WILLLUfS-Authorof "Amer­ ican Catholics in the War," the official history of the National Catholic NEW ORLEANS-W. H. HA •. 0 '-Member of the Bar and writer War Council, "The Book of the High Romance," city editor of the San for various publications on legal and political SUbjects. Francisco Examiner, spe:.:iaJ correspondent of the International News Association during the Mexican Revolution in 1913, rewrite man on EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENTS the staff of the Evening World and the Evening Telegram of ew York, ROME-~ON I~NOR ENRICO PUCCI-Detached by Pope Benedict special contributor to the. ew York Sunday Times, the Ne.w York Sun, XV from p~nsh dutIes for the specific purpose of addsing and encourag­ Sunday edition, and many other leading newspapers; constant con­ ing the edltors of Catholic newspapers in Italy and abroad. Has tributor of fiction, both novels and short stories, and of special articles degree of doctor of philosophy from the Pontifical Roman Academy of to leading magazines, bot.h secular and Catholic; lecturer on literary, St. Thomas of .A quina" and that of doctor of theology from the Pon­ artistic, and historic,;al subjects. . tifical Gregorian University. LONDON-HENRY CHRISTOPHER WATTS-Associate editor of The ASSISTA T DIRECTOR-ERNEST F. BODDI. GTON-City editor Montreal llerald; telegraph news editor Brooklyn Eagle; dramatic Lamp; on editorial staff of America, staff of New York Times; special correspondent fo~ Catholic Herald of India, and Catholic papers in Spain critic and editorial writer same paper (3 years); Sunday editor New York and South Amenca. Times (2 years); editor Columbus (Ohio) News; managing editor Bing­ hamton (N. Y .) Press; managing director Regina (Sask.) Morning PARIS-MARTIAL M. MASSIA 'I-Secretary of the Libre Parole, Province and Evening Pro1,ince and Standard; various positions on ew one of the best known and most widely quoted of French newspapers. York World, ew York Mail. Winner of first prize of 500 in national editorial contest conducted by Philadelphia Public Ledger in 1916. VIEN TA-DR. FREDERICK Fu. DER-Editor of Reichspost; one of Author of stage versions of lVlary johnston's novels, "To Have and the leading political writers of Europe; has degree of doctor of laws from To Hold" and" Audrey," and of an original play, "The Heretic," for University of Vienna. Otis Skinner. DUBLIN-J. H. COx-Associate Editor on the Irish Independent; REWRITE-GRATTAN KERANs-Reporter St. Louis Republic 1900 noted writer on music and the drama; author of critical studies of Pascal, Mark Twain, and others; contributor to America and other to 1902; political reporter Columbus (0 ) Press-Post, 1902-3; dramatic magazines. editor Toledo (0.) Times, 1903; assistant city editor, St. Louis World, 1904; reporter St. Louis Republic, 1904; reporter Chicago Interocean, MADRID-REVEREND MANUAL GRANA-Editor of EI Debate. 1904-5; assistant telegraph editor St. Louis Republic, 1905; reporter Father Grana .recently traveled through the United States and has St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1905- 6; editorial writer St. Louis Republic. written extenSIvely for his paper on the Catholic activities in the 1906-7; political reporter St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1907- 11; editor United States. trade journal, 1911- 16; reporter and special writer, St. Louis Post­ Dispatch, 1916-18; assistant day manager News Division, Committee LOUVAIN-REVEREND JOSEPH VAN DER HEYDE ·-Editor and on Public Information, July to November, 1918; editor publications, manager of the Amert·can College Bulletin, Louvain; contributor to U. S. Training Service, Department of Labor, November, 1918, to America and other magazines. February 3, 1919. COLOGNE-PROFESSOR DR. WILLIAM BARON vo.- CAPIT,\INE­ Professor in gymnasium; author of books on English Educational Sys­ DANIEL E. DORAN-Born in San Francisco, educated by the Sisters tem. Recommended by His Eminence Cardinal Schulte. of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, and the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Graduated Sacred Heart College, San Francisco, 1910, and PRAGUE-NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF BOHEMIA. CATHOLIcs-Cor­ St. Mary's College, Oakland, A.B., 1912. Connected with editorial respondence from Czecho-Slovakia com: s through the J. Tational Alliance staffs of San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Call-Post, San Fran­ of Bohemian Catholics. , cisco Chronicle. and San Francisco Bulletin. Author of "An Ode to St. Patrick " and numerous. other poems. SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS-HILAIRE BELLOC; SEUMAS Mc­ MANUS; RENE BAZIN; FRANCOIS VEIULLOT; CHARLES PHILLIPS; " HEAD OF CLIPPING AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT­ SIR BERTRAM WI DLE; RIGHT REV. THOMAS J. SHAHAN; DR. PETER CECELIA ROMADKA-Formerly member of the Editorial Staff and GUILDAY; DR. RODERICK MACEACHEN; REV. P. J. CAMPBELL, S.J.; Exchange Department of the Milwaukee Journal. REV. MARTIN SCOTT, S.J.; REV. H. T. HE 'RY. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 25

MICHAEL 'WILLIAMS ERNEST F. BODDINGTON ELMER MURPHY Assistant Director, N.CW.C Press Dept. Assistant Director, N.CW.C Press Dept.' Washington Correspondent

MARTIAL M. MASSIANI MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI HENRY CHRISTOPHER WATTS Paris Correspondent R9me Correspondent London Correspondent

J. H. Cox REv. JOSEPH F. VAN DER HEYDEN DR. FREDERICK FUNDER Dublin Correspondent Louvain Correspondent Vienna Correspondent .

N. C. W. C. SERVICE WORLD WIDE NEWS AGENCY The N. C. W. C. Service performs a function for the Catholic papers similar to that which the Associated Press performs for the secular press. It makes available to every Catholic paper information of Catholic activities throughout the world which no one Catholic paper, or group, could afford to gather. 26 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE C01JNCIL BULLETIN [' .. ..- " .. " .. .0==. " ...... " " '] [ National c~m~~T~~~~OSES:S~~~~~; W otnen ] OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ] Mrs. Michael Gavin, President, Province of New York; Mrs. W. T. Donovan, 1st Vice-President, Province of St. Louis; Mrs. Arthur H. S. Bird, 2nd Vice-President, Province of San Francisco; Mrs. Teresa M. Molamphy, 3rd Vice-President, Province of Philadelphia; [ Miss Florence Loeber, Treasurer, Province of New Orleans; Mrs. Harry M. Benzinger, Secretary, Province of Baltimore. DIRECTORS ] Mrs. Francis E. Slattery, Province of Boston; Mrs. Edw. I. Cudahy, Province or Chicago; Mrs. F. E. Mackentepe, Province of [ Cincinnati; Mrs. Louis Nash, Pr~vince of Dubuque; Mrs. James H. Hackett, Province of Milwaukee; Mrs. Arthur Gerbe), Province or Oregon City; Mrs. W. J. O'Toole, Province of St. Paul; Mrs. EUa M. WeckbaUgh, Province of Santa Fe. ~ [~C~~~)~E~~~)~E~~~)~E~~~j1E~E~x~e~c~:1:~iv~e~S~e~:~:~e~ta~r~Y~:~,~~~IS~~~E~A~G~~~E~)StE~G~.~R~)Et,G~~~~'~E~~~j~E~~~j~t~~~j~E~~~)]

Arrangement~ forN. c. C. W. Convention Announced . Large Gathering of Catholic Women to Attend First National Conference

ASHINGTON in October! Surely no lovelier those problems which are of National interest and . setting could have been chosen for the first speakers with a real me sage have been cho en. W national meeting of Catholic womanhood. Dur­ Catholic women will meet as a National unit for tll':! ing the summer the city is hot and quiet-the beautiful fir t time at the Mass to be celebrated by His Excellency, homes, legations, and embassies are closed while their :Most Rev. John Bonzano at St. Matthew's Church at owners seek relief from the heat at the shore and moun­ 9.00 a. m., Tuesday, October 12. The ermon will be tains. With the first crisp breezes of autumn, Cniot) delivered by Right Rev. Edmund Gibbon, D.D., Bishop Station is alive with returning families, fresh after thei r of Albany, N. Y. long vacation iff the open-students from every corner of At noon, on the same day, 11rs. Harding; "The Fin.,t America pour into "The City of Education." The big Lady of the Land," will receive all Convention guest at houses open their doors and another season of gaiety the vVhite House. begins. Nowhere in this great world of ours is there a The first formal e:::.sion of the convention will be called sight more beautiful than \i\Tashington in her fall costume. to order at 3.00 p. m. Right Rev. Joseph Schrembs, D.D., The beautiful parks and driveways, designed by the sanw Bishop of Cleveland, 0., and Very :Rev. Thomas F. architect to whom Paris owes her beauty, form a riot of nurke, C.S.P., of Ne\v York City, will deliver the opening color. The leaves are 'a glorious mixture of tan and reds, addre. se . browns and golds, and the whole city seems to take on a On \Vednesday evening all the delegates and individual coppery tinge. members ,,,ill meet informally at the Hotel Willard. This The preparations for the Disarmament Conference add ,,·ill be a splendid opportunity for State to meet State, a special thrill to the opening sea on city to meet city, and for all with thr:! this year. The entire atmosphere j, big interest 111 common to meet each charged with the intensity of Nativnal other. and world affairs. Is it not an inspira­ The first session on Thursday will tion for Catholic women to meet on su h open at 9.30 a. m., when the directors a ground to take their place in the realm of the various departments of the 1'\ a­ of Kational service? tional Catholic \Velfare Council will pre ent "The Larger' Field." The de­ PRo~n~E~T SPEAKERS tail of the work will be given by In arranging the program the Execu­ Dr. James H. Ryan, Executive Secretary, tive Board has kept in mind the far Department of. Education; 1\'lr. Justin reaching vision which prompted the :McGrath, Director of Pre s Depart­ Archbishops and Bishops to establish ment; tir. NIichael \Villiams, author 0 f Catholic "Vornen from All Parts of the "American Catholic in the \Var." the National Catholic \Yelfare Council. enitcd States Will Come to the Xa· tion's Capital for the N. C. C. \V. Special emphasis has been placed upon Convention, October 12, 13, 14, 1921. A luncheon for those intere ted in /

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Girls' Welfare \vill be given at the National Catholic Community House at noon on Thursday. The speakers at this meeting will be prominent repre­ sentativesof various phases of Girls' Organizations. The program includes "We must send into the field of social action work­ Miss Florence Lober, Treasurer, N. C. C. W., New Orleans, La.; Mrs. H. ers who know and are Gloster Armstrong, "Big Sisters," New York City; Mrs. Evelyn S. Tobey, proud of their faith and Director of the Carroll Club, New York City; Mrs. Elizabeth Finnegan, who can carry the Name New York State Board of Health; Rev. Alexis Hopkins, Spiritual DirectOl:, of Christ and His Chu'rch Syracuse Girls' Club. into the welfare work of America." 1?ev. John J. Bttrke, C.S.P. , STUDY OF IMMIGRATION

Immigration and its relating activities will be discussed during the after­ What Is the Women's Council? noon session. The speakers will be Mr. Bruce lVIohler, Director of the De­ partment of Immigration, Na60nal Catholic Welfare Council; Dr. Anne A coordinate branch of the Depart­ Nicholson, head of the Department of Americanization, N. C. C. W.; Miss ment of Lay Organizations, one of the five divisions of the National Catholic Charlotte Ring, Supervisor of Community Houses, Baltimore and Washington. WeHare Council. The National Catholic Service School, which is attracting National and International Comment, will be the subject for discussion on Thursday ,even­ ing. The director, Dr. Charles P. Neill, whom Secretary of Commerc~ Officials of the N. C. C. W. Hoover has just appointed a member of the Unemployment Conference, will Bishop Schrembs, of Cleveland, Epis­ outline the plans for the school. The school program will also include Dr. copal Chairman; Mrs. Michael P. Gavin, William J. Kerby, of Catholic University, appointed by former President National President, and Miss Agnes G. Wilson a member of the Board of Charities and Corrections of the District of Regan, Executive Secret'ary. Columbia. On September 24 the following students arrived on the S. S. Rochambeau from Europe to attend the two year course; Edwige de Romer, Object of Women's Council Polish; Helene Solten, Polish; Gabrielle Brees, Polish; Yvonne Durt, Belgian; Mlle. de Creeft, Belgian; Jeanne Lamblin, French; Elaine Catelet, The unification in national work of all French. Madeline Blomart and Elizabeth Boniface, of France; Baroness Catholic women's organizations. Coge1, of Belgium, and Inez Villa, of 11anila, will register at the school in October. Plan of Organization At the end of their two years course these students from foreign lands will take the message of American service to their own countries. Catholic Diocesan representatives in the dif­ women of the world are facing the same problems and by a sympathetic ferent dioceses; affiliation of Catholic women's organizations and individuals; cooperation will be able to solve them intelligently. The N. C. C. W. is affiliation with foreign women's organi­ affiliated with the International Union of Women's Leagues. This organiza- , zations. tion was approved by His Holiness Pius X in 1919 when he appointed its president, Countess Wodzicka, of Poland. Requests for information on organization, policies, and programs have come to the N. C. C. W. from Membership Fees India, the Philippine Islands, Mexico, Argentina, Canada, Ireland, Italy, National Organizations, $100; State, France, Austria, and Germany. $50; Diocesan, $25; Local, $10; Individ­ The morning session on Friday, October 14, will be devoted entirely to ual, $1. the annual business transactions of the Council. At the afternoon session Professor Carlton J. H. :Hayes, head of the Program of Activities history department of Columbia University, will bring "A Nlessage to Catholic (1) Cooperation in organization and conduct Women." of women's community activities. (2) Coopera­ Judge Jean Norris, who presides over the Court of Domestic Rel~tions in tion with N. C. W. C. Immigration Bureau and affiliated organizations. (3) Cooperation with New York City, will give the social aspects of her work at the Convention Social Action Department and N. C. W. C. Press Bureau in distribution of Catholic Iit~ra. Dinner at the Hotel Willard, Friday evening, October 14. The Convention ture, and in the extension of Catholic press. will close with reports from the presidents of National organizations affiliated (4) Campaigns against indecent movies and birth control legislation. (5) Representation with the Council. :Mrs. Michael Gavin, President of the National Council of on national and local conferences of women's Catholic Women,. will act as Chairn!an of the closing meeting. organizations. (6) Publication of organization News Sheet and special pamphlets covering women's activities. ORGANIZATION PROGRESS Catholic women of the \vorld are looking to America for insoirabon, amI National Catholic Service School help. The National Council of Catholic \;Yomen has assumed tremendous a~ Conduct of standard-course, graduate school responsibility which they hope to meet more easily as time goes on. A for women desiring to train for Catholic welfare work. National organization is only as strong as its affiliated organizations afl,d individual members make it. Ten State, twenty-six diocesan, and eight hundred and fifty-seyen local organizations have affiliated. Five thousand Organization Progress to Date two hundred and fifty-one individual members have enrolled and on our list Diocesan representatives in seventy-si.x dio­ ceses. Affiliations include nine out of thirteen are nine national organizations. ' n~tional women's organizations; also 893 State, dIocesan, and local organizations, representing During the coming year, every woman in America to whOln has been hundreds of thousands of Catholic women o·· actively cooperating and ready for service in granted the gift of Catholicism, should assume her National duty by becomin any emergency. a member of the National Council of Catholic "Vomen. This is a messag~ to 'You and to yours. 28 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

[' " " .. " " " ..==" " " .. l( .. " '] N. C. W. S:;rm?~E~;':~;~~IN~~.D.Education ] [ , Executive Secretary: REV. JAMES H. RYAN. D.D .. Ph.D. ] EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE [ Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward A. Pace; Very Rev. J. A. Burns; Rt. Rev. Msgr. John P. Chidwick; Rev. John A. Dillon; Very Rev. John F. Fenlon; Rev. Albert C . Fox; Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis W. Howard; Rev. Francis T. Moran; Rt. Rev. Msgr. John B. Peterson; Rev. Brother G. Philip; Rev. R. H. Tierney; Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Shahan; Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph F. Smith; Brother ] John A. Waldron; Rev. Francis Walsh; Rev. John J. Wynne.

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Principles of Catholic Education As Set Forth in the Pastoral Letter of the Archbishops and Bishops of the United States HE Church in our country is obliged, for the sake stitute the actual process; and it remains true, whether rec­ of principle, to maintain a ystem of education di tinct ognized or disregarded in educational practice, whether this T. and separate from other system. It is supported by practice include the teaching. of morality, or exclude it, the voluntary contributions of Catholics who, at the same or try to maintain a neutral po ition. time, contribute as required by law to the maintenance of Second: Since the child is endowed with physical, in­ the public schools. It engage in the service of education tellectual, and moral capacitie , all the e must be developed a body of teachers who consecrate their live to this high harmoniou ly. An education that quickens the intelligence calling; and it prepare, without expense to the State, a and enriches the mind with knowledge, but fails to develop considerable number of Americans to live worthily as the will and direct it to the practise of yirtue, may produce citizens of the Republic. cholars, but it cannot produce good men. The exclusion of Our' system is based on certain condction that grow moral training from the educative proce s is more dangerous stronger as we observe the testing of all education, not in proportion to the thoroughness with which the intellectual simply by cahn theoretic discus ion, but by the crucial powers are developed, because it gives the impression that experience of recent events. It hould not have required morality is of little importance. and thus sends the pupil the pitiless searching of war to determine the value of any into life \"lith a false idea which is not easily corrected. theory or system, but ince that rude test has been 0 Third: Since the duties we owe our Creator take prece­ drastically applied, and with such unmistakab,le re ult , we dence of all other duties, moral training mu t accord the judge it opportune to restate the principle which serve as first place to religion, that i , to the knowledge of God and the basis of Catholic education. Hi law, and must cultivate a pirit of obedience to His com­ First: The right of the child to receive education and the mands. The performance, sincere and complete. of religious correlative duty of providing it are estabE hed on the fact duties. en ure the fulfilment of other obligations. that man has a soul created by God and endowed with F 0 urt It: 110ral and religious training is most efficacious capacities which need to be developed for the good of the in­ when it is joined with in truction in other kinds of knowl­ dividual and the good of . ociety. In its highe t meaning, edge. It should so permeate these that its influence will therefore, education is a cooperation by human agencies with be felt in every circum tance of life, and be strengthened the Creator for the attainment of His purpose in regard to as the mind advances to a fuller acquaintance with nature the individual who is to be educated, and in regard to the and a riper experience with the realities of human existence. ' social order of which he is a member. N either self-realiza­ Fifth: An education that unite intellectual, moral, and tion alone, nor social ervice alone, is the end of education. religious element is the best training for citizenship. It but rather these two in accordance with God's de ign, which inculcates a ense of respon ibility, a re pect for authority, gives to each of them its proportionate value. Hence it and a consideratene s for the right of others which are follows that education i e senti ally and inevitably a moral the neces ary foundations 'of civic virtue-more necessary activity, in the sense that it undertakes t9 satisfy certain where, as in a democracy, the citizen enjoying a larger free­ claims throug~ the fulfilment of certain obligations. This dom has a greater obligation to govern himself. \Ve are is true independently of the manner and means which con- convinced that as religion and morality are essential to THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN 29

right living and to the public welfare, both belong to the work of education. There is reason to believe that this conviction is shared by a considerable number of our fellow-citizens who are not of the Catholic faith. They realize OUR CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL that the omission of religious instruction is a defect in education and also a SYSTEM detriment to religion. But in their view the home and the church should give Statistics shown in the Directory of the needed training in morality and religion, leaving the school to provide Catholic Colleges and only secular knowledge. Experience, however, confirms us in the b~lief that Schools. instead of dividing education among these several agencies, each ,of them should, in its own measure, cont~ibute to the intellectual, moral, and religious The TOTAL REGISTRATION for 1920 of Catholic educational institutions of the development of the child, and by this means become helpful to all the rest. United States, as shown by the new Cath­ olic School Directory, was 1,981,051. THE RIGHT TO EDUCATE In order that the educative agencies may cooperate to the best effect, it is The ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS alone have an ATTENDANCE of 1,795,673. important to understand ~nd safeguard their respective functions and rights. The office of the Church instituted by Christ is to "teach all nations," teaching The balance of the 1,981,051 to~ is them to observe whatsoever He commanded. This commission authorizes made up as follows: Universities, 19,802; Seminaries, 6,667; Colleges, 13,996; High the Church to teach the truths of salvation to every human being, whether Schools, 129,838; Religious Seminaries, adult or child, rich or poor, private 'Citizen or public official. ' 4,531; Religious Novitiates and Normal In the home, with its limited sphere but intimate relations, the parent has Training Schools, 10,544. both the right and the duty to educate his children; and he has both, not by 8,706 SCHOOLS constitute the Catholic any concession from an earthly power, but in virtue of a divine ordinance. Educational System of the United States Parenthood, because it means cooperation with God's design for the perpetua­ and cover all grades and varieties of education. tion of human kind, involves respon ibility, and therefore impli'es a correspond­ ing right to ' prepare for complete living those whom the parent brings ihto There are 6,551 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, consisting of 5,690 parochial, the world. 503 private. and 358 institutional schools; The school supplements and extends the educational function of the home. 309 religious novitiates and normal train­ With its larger facilities, and through the agency of teacher properly trained ing schools; 113 religious seminaries; for the purpose, it accomplishes in a more effectual way the task of education 1,552 high schools; 114 colleges; 51 seminaries, and 16 universities. for which the parent, a a rule, has neither the time, the means, nor the ,requisite qualification. But the school 'Can not deprive the parent of his The Catholic schools of the countrY are served by 4,760 PROFESSORS and right nor absolve him from his duty, in the matter of educating his ~hildren. 49,505 TEACHERS-a total of 54,265. It may properly supply for certain deficiencies of the home in the way of Stated in terms of grades of schools, physical training and 'Cultivation of manner ; and it mu t, by its discipline there are 41,581 ELEMENTARY as well as by explicit instruction, imbue its pupils with habits of virtue. But SCHOOL TEACHERS (38,002 parochial, it should not, through any of its ministrations, lead the parent to believe that 1,208 private and 2,371 institutionai school having placed his children in school, he is freed from re pan ibility, nor should teachers) ; 7)924 high school teachers; it weaken the ties which attach the child to parent and home. On the con­ 1,697 college professors; 1,063 seminary instructors; and 2,000 university trary, the school should strengthen the home influence by developing in the professors. child those traits of character which help to maintain the unity and happiness THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE of family life. By this means it will cooperate effectually with the parent F ACULTlES of the schools shows 507 of and worthily discharge its function. the diocesan clergy, 4,229 religious (men), Sin'Ce the child is a member not only of the family, but also of the larger' 35,780 religious (women), 5,871 lay, 7,618 ocial group, his education must prepare him to fulfil his obligations to society. religious (unclassified), 114 unclassified, and 146 special teachers. The community ha the right to in i t that those who. a members, share in its There is a total of 766,034 BOYS in our benefits, shall posses the neces ary qualification, The school, therefore, schools as against 816,971 GIRLS and whether private or public as regards maintenance and control, is an agency 398,056 unclassified. for social welfare, and as such it bears responsibility to the whole civic body. An interesting feature of the Directory While the social aspect of education is evidently important, it must be of Catholic Colleges and Schools is a list remembered that social righteousne s depends upon individual morality. There of 61 CATHOLIC STUDENT ORGANI­ are virtues, such as justice and charity, which are exercised in our relations ZATIONS in secular colleges and universities. with others; but there is no such thing a collective virtue which can be practised by a community whose individual members do not posses it in any A list of SUMMER SCHOOLS OPEN TO RELIGIOUS enumerates 24, and manner or degree. For this very reason the attempt to develop the qualitie' another list gives the names of 8 Catholic of citizenship without regard for personal virtue, or to make civic utility the summer camps open to boys and girls. one standard of moral excellence, is doomed to failure. Integrity of life in each citize11 is the only sure guaranty of worthy citizenship. 30 THE _TATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIK

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The Problem of Unemployment Bishops' Program of Social Reconstruction Sets Forth Solution By Rev. R. A. McGowan, Asst. Director, N. C. W. C. Social Action Dept.

'The Pa~toral Letter's Indu~ trial Relations section was work that can be undertaken in tb pre::,el1l: ~1l1ergency, not i sued to cover an emergency uch as this when four would both relieve unemployment and advance the perma­ millions or more people are out of work. Yet it by nent well-being of the country. clown broad and general principle and makes a few con­ The Pastoral Letter does -not enter upon ~ llch a field. crete proposals which apply even today. Neither was the . till, the Bishops' Program and the Catechism 0 i the . ~ ()cial Bi hops' Program of Social Reconstruction issued to meet Question find the Pastoral Letter joining in atn~ming the sllch a time as this, though it touche. more directly upon fundamental right of men to receiYe family living wage. graye and wide pread unemployment because it was seen This has direct bearing upon unemployment both in time' that ooner or later after the war the business system of emergency and in calmer days. In the Bishops' Program, would fall in a slough of depression. The Catechi m of it is pointed out that living wages and better than living the Social Question, issued by the Social Action Depart­ wages -trengthen the purchasing power of the working ment of the National Catholic \\Telfare Council, follows people,' allow them to buy a good . hare of the thing- pro­ in broad outlines the ear1ie~ documents, and while it too duced, and thus keep up the continued operation of indu - was prepared for the general labor problem, still, it keeps try. Lmv wage do not permit the working people to buy in mind such a period as this through which we are now a large enough share of the national product, and if they passing in even a more definite way than the Bishop' Pro­ will not buy the goods the market is so cut into that btl 'i­ gram. From the e three there arise certain conc1u_ ions, ne. men huy and produce Ie s. ,Vhile other elements, principles, and proposals which refer directly to the p:-e_eni "uch as the operation of the credit system, enter to hring emergency and which cast a strong light upon permanent on the graye unemployment cri. es and the continllolb policies to relieve our country of the permanent and COIl­ unemplpyment of normal times, this element i::. very im­ tinuous evil of unemployment, and the periodical wrong portant. Ethically fair, good wages are economically a of several millions of people· out of jobs. henefit to the whole country. Unemployment bureau and public work are among the The Pastoral Letter and the Bi 'hop , Program, and, fol­ measures now advocated to meet the crisis. Both the lowing the e documents, the Catechim of the Social Ques­ Bishops' Program and the Catechism of the ocial QUb­ tion, favor labor unions and collective bargaining a: the tion advocate a national employment service cooperating normal mean of obtaining good wage~. All three join too with State, city, and private employment bureaus. Both in adyocating ,,-orkmen's participation in management. and also favor government work in times of industrial depre_­ the Bishops' Program and the Catechism of the ocial Que. - sion. The Bishops' Program advocates a special kind of tion call also for workmen's sharing in the profit of indu. ­ public work-the preparation of arid, swamp, and cut-O\oer try. \Vorkmen's participation in management and return<=: lands for cultivati n, and the sale or leasing of these lands would help to stabilize industry and would so strengthen 011 easy terms to settlers ,vho will live in colonies. Sucli the working people and arouse their interest that indu"tr.v a program of public work, while not the only kind of public wouln move along more smoothly, the product~ of indu. try THE NATIONAL CA'I'HOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BuLLETIN 31

"'ould be more widely distributed, and the market would a system in which the underlying principles of the guilds allow steadier work. of the l\1iddle Ages will be applied again. The Bishops' The Bishops' Program and the Catechism of the Social Program and the CatechislU of the Social Question specify Question unite again in favoring social insurance against copartnership arrangements and cooperative producers' unemployment. During times of unemployment, the work­ societies, but the Pastoral Letter is content with laying ing people would thus be protected against want by the down the principles of workers' ownership of the things. payments of money niade from a fund to which the em­ with which they work. Unemployment comes, as the ployers, and, in a smaller "yay, the Government and the Bishops' Pr.ogram hints, in great part because so many \Yorkers, contribute. Unemployment insurance 'can not now people do not get enough of an income to buy their share be introduced to meet this emergency, but it can protect of the national product. This in its turn arises from the them during future such crises and during the unemploy­ strength of those who own industry in proportion to the ment in normal times of a million of their number. strength or weakness of those who do not own the means of work, and from the custom of using the strength to pay PRICE REDUCTION FAVORED as low a wage or salary as. is possible and as high as is necessary. The. final way' out, the weakness of the work­ Reduction in prices is reconunended as a mean of in­ ing people over and above the labor unions, workmen's creasing trade. Both the Bishops~ Program and the Cate­ participation in management and profits, etc., lies in strength­ chism of the Social Question urge strict measures against ening them through property ownership in the mean of monopolies and even government competition. if monopolies work, extended as widely as large scale and monopolistic are refractory for the purpose of reduci~1g prices. The industry will allow, and to a dose approach to property Catechisln of the Social Question points out that govern­ ownership where real ownership is impracticable. It will ment ownership of even a whole industry under democratic be held by men in their organizations, and the underlying operation may be the only way to protect the general public principles of the guilds will live again. from the exactions of some monopolies. Again, the Bishops' It is probable, at this early writing, that the Unemploy­ Program and the. Catechism of the Social Question advo­ ment Conference .will urge the organization ·of local com­ cate cooperative stores as a means of relief from the ex­ mittees to care for unemployment in their communities. If cessive costs and waste in the distribution of goods. Both such local organizations are established they 'will furnish also call for a system of taxation that will fall heavier a good opportunity for definitely helping in sound ways upon those best able to pay, and thus free the incomes of the unemployment problem in our country. While they the rank and file for the pl1rchase of goods. may fall apart when the critical days are passed, still there The Pastoral Letter, the Bishops' Program, and the is a possibility that they may continue, even if they htst Catechi m of the Social Question meet in the advocacy of no longer than t.he emergency.

Catholic Charity Workers' Meet In Milwaukee

The annual meeting of the Nationa1 Conference of Catholic 1Irs. Nicholas Brady, New York; J. A. McMurray, Boston; Charities assembled in Milwaukee September 18 to 22. More !vIrs. Mary Young Moore, Los Angeles, and Mrs. F. J. Lewis, than 2,500 delegates, including many priests and religious, were Chicago, vice-presidents; Rev. J ohl1 O'Grady, Washington, sec­ in attendance. The delegates represented all parts of the United retary; 11rs, Frank Crowe, Chicago, assistan t secretary; Judge States and Canada. This was the first meeting of the Confer­ William H. De Lacey, Washington, treasurer. The executive ence ev~r held outside of Washington, and proved to be one committee includes: R-ight Rey. Thomas J . Shahan, . Wash­ of the most successful ever held. The discussions centered ington; Rev. William J. Kerby, Washington: Robert Bigg . Bal­ around the definition of Catholic charity, the promotion of good timore; Victor Riddler, New York; Mrs. R. P. O'Brien, Minne­ citizenship, the care of children, the menace of the motion pic­ .apolis; Rev. :Moses Kiley, Chicago; \Villiam L. Igoe, St. Louis; tures, economic problems of minimum wage and unemployment, J atTIes 'Murphy, Detroit; Very Rey. Francis O'Hara, Brooklyn; mental hygiene and the care of subnormal child'ren, rural Miss Katherin Williams, Milwaukee; Rev. Michael Scanlan, Bos­ welfare, medical inspection of school children, and the develop­ ton; Rev. F. T. Wastl, Philadelphia; Sister Eugenia, St. Louis; ment of Catholic organization work for charities. The diocesan Rev. Frank Gressle, Cincinnati; Col. P. H. Callahan, Louisville. directors of charities held several sessions during the confer­ The National Catholic Welfare Council was well represented ence. A special meeting of sisters of the various orders attend­ at the conference. Dr. John A. Ryan, of Washington, and John ing the cO.nference was held the two days following the main A. Lapp, of Chicago, Directors of the Social Action Department; conference. Miss Rose :McHugh, Assistant Director of the Social Action De­ Bishop Thos. J. Shahan, of Washington, was reelected presi­ partment; Dr. Anne Nicholson, of the )J'ational Council of Catholic dent of the organization at the close of the meeting, and the Women, presented papers at the different sessions. The next following officers and executive committee were selected: conference will be held in Washington, September, '1922. 32 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN

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