The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-12-28
A SeIf-Denial Week to Be Observed
by the Members Of the Order, in
Order to Complete the Fund.

OFoer 10 complete tne fun0.
Tentative plans have been formu-
lated by the National Board of the
Ladies' Auxiliary to the Ancient Order
Of Hibernians, for celebrating the 25
years of success and prosperity which
has attended the organization, when 1t
is planned to erect the Memorial to
the Nuns of the Battlefield in the CAPT.
tai of the nation.
The proposed site for this Memorial,
which will commemorate the bravery
and self-sacrifice manifested by the
members of our Catholic Sisterhoods
In all the war which the United States
has engaged in (including the present
world war; is a most prominent and
central one in the city of Washington.
by the intersection of Rhode Island
Avenue and M Street and Connecticut
Avenue. 1t is directly in front of ST..
Matthew's Catholic Church, and near
by is the house which the American
people presented to Admiral Dewey
upon his return home after the battle
of Manila Bay, ard also in the neigh.
borhood of the homes of Chief Justice
White and Justice McKenna of the Su-
preme Court, both prominent Catho-
lies.
In order that this Memorial may
take its place with the many beauti-
full statues that adorr thte parks of
Washington, it is proposed to raise an
additional fund of at least forty-five
thousand dollars, and Mrs Mary r.
McWhorter of Chicago, National Pres
ident of the organization, has called on
the members throughout the country
to observe Self Denial Week." in
| which the amount contemplated will
be raised.
In her official letter, sent to every
division in the order, she says in part:
"At the National Convention held
in Norfolk, Va, in July, 1914, Mrs
Ellen Ryan Jolly, who was at that
time your National President, placed
before the delegates her life lone
dream of erecting monument to com
memorate the brave deeds of the Nuns
who gave up their lives on the altar OF
patriotism nursing the sick and wound
ed soldiers of the Civil and Spanish
American wars. AS 80 per cent OF
those Nuns were of Irish extraction
Sister jolly stated that it was the
duty of the Ladies' Auxiliary, Ancient
Order of Hibernians, to erect this
monument because it was the only or
ganizatfon of Irish Catholic women in
existence. The delegates unanimous
ly adopted the suggestion of Sister
jolly and with one voice pledged the
organizations assistance to help he1
carry out this great undertaking.
AT that time Sister Jolly expected
to he able to- obtain the necessary
site for this monument in Arlington
National Cemetery, in which event the
fifteen cent per capita tax for which
she then asked would have been suffi
!. cient. The Order is familiar with hel
long and bitter struggle in Congress
until finally last March she obtained
the site, not in Arlington, but in the
city of Washington.
The Fine Arts Commission have
wonderful plans for the future beau
tifying of the Nations Capital, and as
a part of this scheme of beauty all
monuments to be erected there in fu
ture must come up to certain specifi
cations. Hence the sum of money
that would have been ample to erect
the Nuns monument in Arlington is
entirely insufficient to erect it on the
site granted. 1t therefore becomes
necessary to raise an additional sum
amounting to, at least, forty-five thou
sand dollars?
| when your National board was in
session last July, the members dis
cussed various plans by which this
additional amount could be raised, and
suggest "Self Denial Week." dur