Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1912-09-28
President Taft Holds Recep-
ton at the White
House.
Woman Advocates Suppression
of the White Slave
Traffic.
ADDRESS BY PAPAL DELEGATE


poverty and measures designed L
rescue the poor from ignorance anC
disease, the National Conference o.
Catholic Charities began its seconC
biennial meeting at Washington las
Sunday with several hundred dele
gates from various parts Of the
United States attending. The con
vention opened with the celebration
of mass at the Catholic University OF
America, where the Right Rev. J. F
Regis Canevin, Bishop of Pitts.
burgh, sounded the keynote OF the
gathering in sermon on charity
and correctional work. At a public
meeting at the university at night
Commissioner Johnston welcomed
the delegates to Washington, and
the broad phases of charity were
| discussed by several leaders in the
movement. Mgr. Thomas J. shahan,
Rector of the Catholic University,
delivered an address on "The
Church in Charity" Thomas NJ.
Mulry, of New York, on "The Gov
eminent in Charity"
Three sessions of the convention
we're held simultaneously Monday
forenoon at the Catholic University
and in the afternoon President Taft
received the delegates at the White
House and told them that their pres
ence suggested the passage we know
from Scripture, ''the greatest Of all
Is charity" President Taft said
there was no greater work being
done for mankind than charity.
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Catholic Woman's League of Chi
eago, discussing Necessary Legisla-
ton" advocated an appropriation by
Congress of 100000 for the sup
preston of the white slave traffic,
and condemned the teaching of sex
hygiene in schools. 'I am a bit old
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to eugenics, and | offer a prayer of
thanksgiving every day that my boy
has been told the story of life by his
mother instead of by some disinter-
ested schoolmarm."
Miss Mary f. Shinnick, Probation
Officer of Cincinnati and we'll known
in Kentucky, said it we're better for
the State to support the home,
through the Juvenile Court or some
charitable State agency, and keep
the mother and children together,
than for the home to be broken up
and the children placed in a char
table institution. She urged that
the widows be pensioned by the
State and allowed to care for their
own children as half a dozen States
are already doing.
Adequate laws and their rigid en-
forcement for the guardianship and
protection OF children were urged by
Leonora L. Meder, of Chicago,
member of the Catholic Woman's
League. She urged the prevention
of street selling at night by child
peddlers State support of children
whose natural protectors have been
imprisoned and greater protection TO
girl immigrants against the dangers
Of the white slave traffic.
Remedial legislation, including
old age pensions and non-employ-
ment insurance, was proposed as a
solution Of the problem of dependent
children and needy families by for
mer Judge Michael f. Girton, of
Chicago. at Tuesdays session of the
National Conference of Catholic
Charities. Judge Girton said that
accident and industrial insurance IL
properly managed would do much to
prevent children becoming depend
ent upon the State, and said II the
plan of sickness insurance were
adopted many families could remain
together and not be broken up and
scattered among charitable organi-
cations. 81 know some of these
ideas are new" said the Judge, but
| believe We should give them trial
and II they prove ineffective they
can easily be changed" He told
how these measures were estab-
lished in Germany and other Euro
pean countries and said that many
of the large corporations in this
country had adopted pension sys-
TENS for their employees.
Monsignor Giovanni Bonzano,
Apostolic Delegate to the United
States, told delegates TO the National
Conference OF Catholic Charities on
Wednesday that their work was
fully as important TO humanity as
that OF the scientists now gathered
here in the International Congress
VI A1ybAchO anu DcmObIdpuys Il ne
conferences of these great scientists
OF the world will no doubt result in
good to the cause Of science and
health" he said, but OF as great
Importance is this exchange OF
views and formulation of plans TO
make the lives and homes OF the
poor better and happier"
Modern treatment of inebriety
and the care OF dependent and de-
linquens children were among the
subjects discussed at the final SEES
sion. Every phase OF charity work
was discussed by leading workers
from all parts OF the United States,
with results that the delegates de-
clare will prove most beneficial. In
a cablegram Pope Plus X. conveyed
to the delegates his blessing and
them upon the work