The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-07
AN AMERICAN ACADEMY OF
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY FOR
WOMEN.
Prospective Students Invited to Make
Application by Peter e. pletz.

Women Have Share In Carrying Out
Papal EncycIieals.
Young Ladies' Sodalities, Catholic
Women's Leagues, Working Girls, Stu.
dents Of Suffrage, and Social Workers
generally will be interested in a plan,
which is expected to fill many gap
in Catholic endeavors, to contribute to
the coordination Of various Catholic
activities among women and, Incl
dentally, to raise them to a higher
plane of efficiency
The day of haphazard charities is
past. On the European battlefields
the Red Cross System comes second
in the scheme of military operations.
In the social and industrial conflicts
of modern life White Cross System
is in process Of evolution to meet the
most exacting demands Of progress. It
is late in coming, but come it must.
To Start Training School, Location.
Trained lay-workers are needed to
devote themselves to certain outside
lines of work, which for various rea-
sons, the religious sisterhoods are un-
able to undertake. A special vocation
is required, having the mind and heart
of the religious, though none of its
outward appearance. Therefore a
training school for young ladies, who
do not wish to enter the religious
state, yet desire career of doing good
and helping others.
The Social Service Commission of
the Catholic Federation has led the
way. The undertaking becomes pos
sible through the generosity of Mrs.
Katherine M. Stafford, socially promi-
nent Southern convert, who has placed
her beautiful estate and chateau in
the heart of the Unaka Mountains at
the disposition of the Social Service
Commission. With episcopal consent,
the domestic and disciplinary manage
ment shall be contided to the Sisters
of Mercy.
The First Course Of Autumn, 1915;
Expenses and Registration.
The opening four months course is
to begin on the 9th of September and
continue until the 22nd of December
The studies and work will be of a
popular and practical rather than AGA
demic charact6f, so that even work
ing-girls may be enabled to take the
course with profit. The routine Of
studies, graded and partially elective
includes parliamentary practice and
organization methods, newspaper ani
lecture work, domestics and nursing
philosophy of labor and political sci
ence, history and religion.
The expense for board and tuition
shall be $4,000 for the full course O
four months. A few scholarships ar,
available for working-girls and an op
portunity to earn part of the boart
and tuition shall be afforded to deserv
ing young ladies'. Catholic societies
of young ladies and women are in
vited to assist and extend this splen
did work by providing scholarship
for some of their own membership.
The autumn 10 not far off and pre-
spective students, young ladies VIII
are at least 10 years Of age, are re
quested to apply az soon az possibl
by letter to Mrs. Katherine M. Sal
ford, Chateau Loretto, Hot Spring.
N. c.
u The Underlying Thought.
There are many problems whic
can only be solved by women an
some specifically Catholic problem.
which can be solved by Catholic won
en- only. Some of these problems ar
educational, social and industrial, pt
litical; others have to do with char
ties, public morals, organization an
societies, public speaking and tn
press. Let us specify in part:
The Community Survey.
Every community is a social organ
ism. An injury or weakness of an
member is the common concern {
the entire organism. There are PEI
) pie in every community that require til
help of others in one or many way
This is especially true of the gres
industrial centers of this country, wit
their foreign colonies, where the la
guage, customs and American stan
! ards of life are unknown or ignore
Body, mind and posterity of the tr
mendous immigrant population are e
posed to many dangers in the proce'
p of acclimatization. The Sudde