The Elbert County tribune., 1919-11-21

Albin's went to Denver Wednes-
day. returning the same day.
Mrs. Mamie Weidner il in Den
yer this week having medical at
tenton.
1--WE have co-ordinated and brought
into common service 10000 Catholic
mems organizations throughout the
country. This cooperation insa1res our
ability, which has been tested more
than once, to meet the great oppoftu-
mites that present and will present
themselves. These mems Tganiza-
tions are used to conduct service clubs
for men, to supply workers IN many
fields of endeayor, to cooperate with
governmental agencies.
Conditions at the beginning of the
war revealed the fact that the activity
of Catholic women had no national
expression, no recognition. The
Committee on Special War Activities
has within the ten months of Its eN-
istence co-ordinated into national ac-
tiyity the thousands of Catholic wo-
mems organizations of the country; 1t
has established women's clubs through
out the country; 1t is sending Catholic
women into every field of social work;
It is giving them the opportunity OF
service in the visitors houses.
"In like manner we secured recog-
milton for Catholic women in over
seas work. That we might train them,
we established training school for
women with its own faculty. There is
~ In Do
and two representatives of the Nation
al Catholic War Council, Mr.. Dene-
chaud and Mrs. Stocks Millar. The
work of women abroad Will continue
for at least eighteen months TO come,
and we are in position to extend II
to other countries. The Catholic wo-
men of the country have responded to
this opportunity in a wonderful way.
The resources at our command are
rich. All that is needed is training
and leadership.
"As early as April 49, 1915 the sub
committee on Reconstruction was ap-
pointed. This committee gave dlligent
attention for months and anticipated
in surprisingly accurate way the
problems of reconstruction. We have
assisted in shaping the Government
conduct of the problem of relief and of
vocational training. Our workers are
placed in the reconstruction hospitals
throughout the country. Dependent
upon, these men is the future education
of the wounded man and the college
to which he is sent and in what he is
ttA be educated at the expense of the
Go yernment We are officially coop
erat rug with the Federal Board of Vo-
cational Training and with the United
States Employment Service. Through
the ComiNjttee on Special War Activi-
ties is published series of pamphlets
on Reconstruction, the first of which
was an official pronouncement of the
Administrative Committee of Bishops
1.-THE Committee has likewise taken
up the work of supplying through our
Catholic hospitals free clinical service
for soldiers and sailors and their fami-
lies and is extending this in co-opera-
ton with the Red Cross Home Service
TO all the larger cities of the country.
The same extension has provided us
with an opportunity to have and en-
ploy the clinical woman social worker.
1t Is not too much to say that our work
in Reconstruction plays a leading part,
and the heads of Government Depart
ments have told us explicitly that they
have been aided more by the advice
land help of the National Catholic War
Council than by any other orgeniza-
tion.
Born of the emergency that neces-
STATED the full cooperation and corpo-
rate service of the entire Catholic body
.Of America, the National Catholic War
Council has been officially recognized
by the Government and has made en-
during the great record of Catholic
lpatriotic service. 1t has devolved In a
special way on the Committee on Spe-
,cial War Activities TO do the pioneer
work of co-ordinating the mems organ
izations and of practically creating n
national woman's organization tina;
would give the Catholic women of the
country rightful place in war welfare
work The record of achievement that
this report shows, slight as 1t may be.
is nevertheless sure evidence of what
the entire Catholic body of the coun
try under the leadership of the Bish
ops can do in time of peace"