The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-12-28
GROCERIES

schools of the Salesians are famous,
and, following the injunctions of Don
Bosco, they have opened them by the
side of their literary colleges in the
chief cities, whilst in the country they
manage eight agricultural schools,
where all tasks permitted by the eli
mate are in progress, from basket
weaving to wine-making. Here in the
city district they conduct seven col
leges, and moreover, $500 girls attend
six schools taught by Salesian nuns,
who have thirty establishments in the
Republic
Catholics also influence the Gov
eminent lay-schools. The silver iubi-
lee of the Society of the Divine Teach
err, started by Canon J. n. Herman
was celebrated in the month of June,
and now spreads into the provinces,
and even into Uruguay. There are at
present more than 800 schooimistresses
on the rolls, pledged to inculcate the
Gospel precepts by word and example.
Great efforts are being made to finish
| the Belgrano-Street Training College
| this year. which will accommodate
| 1000 pupils.
| The newer Catholic schools are fine
| ly fitted up, and compare we'll with
| the State institutions. Variety enter
tainments and motion-picture perform
ances are used to entice the children to
attend punctually. In some parishes
| regular attendance is rewarded by
taking the children to public motion
picture; and this makes the proprie-
tors careful in the selection of their
films, which is a further advantage.
Hospitals.
Buenos Aires is more abundantly
supplied with magnificently laid out
and splendidlv equipped hospitals and
sanitoriums than any city of equal size
and population in the world. Almost
all Of these, whether municipal insti
tutions or built by donations. have
Catholic nursing staffs, and II you
hear that any hospital is not in charge
of nuns, you may be sure that you
have to do with foreign institution
such as the French, British or Ger
man hospitals; but in these latter
priests and nuns are generally allowed
to visit All the native establish
ments, and the countless orphanages
asylums, girls homes, workshops ant
other elemosynary institutions in the
capital, and throughout the Republic
are conducted by nuns.
Catholic social work is too vast {
theme even to outline here. st. Vim
cent de-. Paul Societies. both for mel
| and women, are scattered all over thf
j country, and, in addition, the section
i III for girls with its .2,400 members. dis
4 tributes more than 10000 pesos year
and maintains SO workshops in Bue
nos Aires city and Is in the prov
, inces. Social theory is looked afte,
by the Liga Social Argentina. which
: has reference library of 10000 vol
J umes on economics and kindred sui
: iects. To the restless energy ant
! thoroughness of Father Grote is dut
| the foundation and development o
/ the Workmen's Clubs, sixty-seven 3
/, which dot the land, each irradiatin;
!, Christian philosophy and economic
J truth in its own district. For year
! the Socialist orators monopolized thu
i public places, and tauntingly declares
) | that the priests skIllked in their pul
3 pits. unable to meet the arguments Q
: Marx and the later prophets. AL last
i the Workmen's Clubs remembers
( that, as part of the Church Militant
t lit was their duty to fight. SO the,
/ sent their young men out into tn