The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-30
BUREAU HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING
Miss Boylan Read Report Father Scanlon Made Address.

presided. Miss Marguerite BOylan, executive secretary, read report on the work of the year. The speaker of the evening was Rev. M. J. Scanlan, Director of the Catholic Charitable Bureau of Boston.
 The secretary's report showed that 932 cases have been handled by the Catholic Charitable Bureau, 314 new cases having been received during the year 1918. Of these 61 were cases of dependent children. Of these children 20 were placed to board in private families, 14 were placed in good free homes, , were given in adoption and 25 were placed in institutions. Cases were referred to the bureau as fol- lows: By public officials, 66; private societies, S2; churches, 49; interested individuals, 50; applicants in person, 70; Day Nursery, 29; investigations for other cities, IS.
 | The secretary spoke of the urgent need Of boarding homes due to the fact that the recent epidemic deprived So many children of a mothers care. In most cases the father Is able and glad to pay for the child's care in Q private family.
 ! hol V IliSeHl $ Lay WHICH IS conducted by the bureau, was recent ly removed to new and larger. quar- ters at Barnum avenue and Pembroke street, the building having been given l by the Singer Co. Through the gen. erosity of some of the other manu- lecturers on the East Side it was pos sible to undertake the necessary rem | ovat1ons. These renovations cost in the neighborhood of s4, 300 and of this amount s2,0O0 is still due.
 Another feature of the work of the bureau during the past year was the development of a juvenile delinquency committee to keep in touch with the children and young girls brought be- fore the Children's Court Catholic women have responded splendidly tc all appeals for their services during the past year. It is earnestly hoped that during the trying times of re. iconstruction, the women will continue
 this work. The strength of the bu
 reau and it's success depend largely upon the strength of its volunteel
 force. It is hoped that the work O
 the bureau will be doubled this com
 ing year and this can be done througl
 a greatly increased membership ant
 an increase in number of volunteers.
 The address of the evening by Rev M. J. Scanlan dealt with "After-Wa Problems" Father Scanlan first ex
 plained that the great world war wa ) simply the bursting out of a certai1
 form of philosophy and moralit which made material efficiency it ultimate aim. It was system 0 philosophy which had been unwit ingly accepted by many nations but . when it was seen in full force an : full meaning, as Germany sought | enforce it upon the whole world,
 was rejected by the rest of the world
 Peoples and nations are now strivin , to reconstruct their aims and ideal! , One concrete example is the forma
 tion of a League of Nations Gu , great President, in sponsoring thi l movement, has uttered the most sol
 emn declarations as to rights of me
 and of nations, which are but a re statement of the fundamental princi ; pies of Christianity, the first and onl
 democracy the world has ever know1 Father Scanlan polluted out that a , that our most advanced civilizatio s stands for is the product of Christ 1 anity. He drew a comparison be
 tween the standards of Christia , lands and heather lands such 6 . China, Japan, India. In these cour f tries there has been little or n 3 recognition of the equality of mel . low standards of morality, lack of 8 sense of right and wrong.
 People are rejoicing today in th g development of democracy througol : the world and rightly so. But peop |, generally fail to realize that democ
 racy was born of Christianity an
 that the spread of democracy is but
 spread of a great fundamental prir
 cipIe of Christianity.
 pi Democracy gives the people rigE A to express a voice in the governmen :. This right brings it's duties and A obligations. The people must 6 trained not to abuse their right an r privilege. The people must be guide s along sane principles. It Is the speci; h duty of the Catholic people = America to show by precept and e.
 ample what the church stands fo ' Many Catholics are, however, indiffe. n ent to the problems and historic . significance of the church.
 Democracy and humanitarianisr Il the two great inspirational factors V our age, are but the expression of u
 principles of Christianity. Presidel il Wilson, in voicing the principles A democracy is voicing the principles q the Catholic church. Humanitaris r. Is but the re-acceptance of Il , church's spirit of mercy for the LII l. fortunate which found expression
 the building of hospitals, asylum
 and refuges even in the earliest ce,
 turies of Christianity.
 Father Scanlan closed his addre f by making a special plea that Amer a can Catholics show intelligent syn ,t pathy toward the foreigner, I " pointed cut that the greatest servi Ia that can be rendered to the foreign 2 is to teach him that he can have co I hdence in the American governmeT in Most of our foreigners come fro
 countries where they were tyranniz
 over by an absolute government.
 is hard for them to give up the
 old suspicion of all government i is only by showing them sympatl D. that we can win their confidence. IT r. obligation falls particularly upon | a Catholic people bound to them n " only by the ties of a common citize " ship but also by the ties of a COT ed mon faith.