The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-22
Council Urges Welfare Work

Women's organizations should be
called upon and their interest aroused
IN finding such prospective matrons
| and landladies. In cases, too, the To-
cal organizations can find means to
| advance as loan with security, on a.
| business basis, a moderate amount Of
money to such matrons as they would
| choose. The Council will do all in it's
| power toward finding and recommend
| ing the proper matrons, after such
houses are established. 1t will in
struct its secretaries to cooperate
heartily in the way of recreation and
other assistance, and will offer the
girls to live in the approved houses.
the advantages of whatever recreation
al and educational facilities it dis
poses OF IN given community.
Apropos of this, our Catholic wom-
ems organizations can do a great deal
toward having such laws passed as
will bring about and maintain proper
standards in boarding-houses. Such
laws are actually in operation in some
OF the communities and states of the
land. The Council will furnish infor
nation to those who are interested in
the subject. It is a civic problem
which concerns women and girls close
ly and which should interest our Cath
olic Women's organizations.
Women Are Getting the Vote.
The Catholic War Council says:
Once it be obtained, whether they
have been in favor of it or opposed to
it, it is their duty under democracy
as 1t is their duty of all citizens in a
democracy to make use of the vote
not as means of personal aggrandize-
ment or political distinction. but as a.
means of promoting the common well
fare. They should be interested in
discussing, debating, and get back of
such legal measures as touch so close
iy the welfare, moral and physical
of our American girls"
Employment will be found for the
unemployed, attention being called to
the fact that an employment Office
conducted by welfare agency is
still obligated by the standards Of
business ethics-and in all cases the
employment work should be carried
out IN cooperation with the Federal,
State and Municipal Employment Bu-
reau wherever the same are in opera
ton.
The National Catholic Welfare
Council in summing up its work for
Girls Welfare" states that 'in its
endeavor to establish it's chain of
Community Houses and to enlist the
sympathetic cooperation of Catholic
organizations engaged in the same
field, it has solely in mind the meeting
OF national need revealed and deep
ened by the war. In asking the CO.
operation Of the Catholic women of
the communities in which it is en-
deavoring to inaugurate the work, it
is only endeavoring to assist them to
do what they want to do or are al
ready doing. Without this co-opera-
tlon it's efforts would be futile.
Hence arises the need of a COM
mittee in each community represent
ing the united Catholic womanhood.
Catholic womanhood even when work
ing in entirely isolated groups has
force and persistence. United behind
this needed work for girls, it becomes
one OF the great significant powers in
community. Many of our woman's
organizations are about to disband.
Many who have been engaged in war
work are about to abandon such actiy-
tiles. They are anxious to take up
the gigantic and splendid work of war
reconstruction. The work for girls
and women is chiefly womans work
and one that appeals particularly to
the traditions and sympathies of Cath
olic womanhood.
Conditions change, virtues are per-
ennlal. 1t is so with the honored vir-
tue of hospitality. If we pass from
primitive to advanced civilization, it
may be neither wise nor prudent to
exercise indiscriminate hospitality TO-
wards all who knock at our doors:
but here is an opportunity for literal
,, hospitality to the stranger, the girl
who has just arrived in our commu-
nifty. What labor of love is there
more womanly. more maternal, more
Christian than giving hospitality and
home interest to the strange and lone
ly girl? I was a stranger and We took
me in