The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-05-12


feetiveness of their great work. A
great philosopher has said that the
highest aim of civilization is doing
something To make humanity happier.
10 make their lives better to aid them
I'm misfortune and distress. You are
carrying out this idea, doing some
thing to make your fellow men and
women better and happier. 1t is the
Christian side, the great human heart
I'm every individual breast that Is maxi
ing for che salvation OF the world.
Maoeabees Congratulated.
Most OF the great things in the
world" said Rev. j. T. curzon. the
next speaker, "have been the work of
men, but back of the the men, urging
them ON for good or evil, has invari-
ably been some woman. The kind of
a man a child is to become, depends
on the training given by the mother,
and when the mothers of the COM
munity are banded together i'm good
cause, the country and humanity are
going To be benefited" Mr.. Curzon
congratulated the ladies on the selec-
tion of st. Josephs hospital, where he
said the sick will be well taken care
of. at is a great thing" he said. ito
receive the tender, loving care that
win be given them by the kind, de-
voted women, not for pay, but because
of the lives TO which they have dedi-
Gated themselves and because they
love the souls of their fellow beings"
Address by Mrs. Bailey.
Mrs Rachel Bailey of Grand Rapids,
chairman of the Grand Rapids hospi-
tai bed committee, spoke of the en-
dowment OF the beds at that city and
at Detroit, and of the loyal support
given by the ladies of the order
throughout the state. She mentioned
several interesting cases that had
come under her observation and said
that the work had been greatly bless
ed, socially, physically and financially.
Sixty-hve cases. she stated, had been
cared for at the Grand Rapids bed last
year.
Praise for tho Sisters.
The most important address Of the
afternoon was made by Mrs. Frances
IL. Burns, great commander of the
Lady Maccabees, who expressed her
feeling of gratitude at the successful
outcome of the movement to establish
an endowed Maccabee bed i'm the upper
peninsula and to express her thanks
for the good things said and the bless
ings that had been called down upon
the undertaking. Referring to the Sc
lection of st. Josephs hospital from
among all such institutions i'm the up
having examined hospitals here and
talked with the dear sisters devoted to
the work, there seemed to be but one
accord, after seeing st. JCseph's hos
ptal with it's splendid environment, its
fine equipment and its good location.
Mrs. Burns paid fine tribute to the
mother superior of st. Joseph's saying
that to glance into her kindly face
was to feel that there dwelt a feeling
of tender motherhood and sympathy
for all the world. To Dr. Abrams also
Mrs. Burns expressed hearty thanks
and informed the sisters that but for
him it would have been impossible TO
establish the bed here. In the other
cities where endowed beds are MAIN
tanned, there are regular house sur
geons attached to the staff of the hos
pital, but in Hancock each physician
takes his own private patients and
cares for them at the hospital. DR..
Abrams. who is a knight of the Mac
cabees has offered his services gratis,
and the members feel deeply grateful
for his aid involving as ii will the
exercise Of great skill, and hours of
anxiety and care that the cases I'm his
hands will call for. a portrait of Mrs.
Or. Cook. through whose efforts the
first Maccabees bed in Detroit was en-
dowed. moved Mrs Burns deeply when
her gaze fell upon it draped In the
| Maccabees colors on the platform at
| Germania hall, and she spoke feelingly
Of the great results that have follow
ed the carrying out of the idea OF Dr.
Cook, now deceased.
Mrs. Burns gave some figures con-
corning the Maccabees, which now
have 10000 members in the United
states. 5000 being in the upper PENN
sula. The order has one thousand sub
ordinate lodges i'm twenty-one states
The work of other organizations along
charitable lines was referred to briefly
Mrs Cook stating that in the United
states last year $91.000,OOO was paid
out by them for charitable work, that
there are 5000. 900 persons i'm the coun-
try who are members OF fraternal or
CARNATIONS. and that immense sums
have been paid out i'm obligations. The
oWodmen's tuberculosis sanitarium III
Colorado and the institutions main
tanned by the Masons, Elks, Knighs OF
| Pythians and other societies were
mentioned besides the extent OF the
abroad much of which was new tc
many of her hearers.