Connecticut western news., 1919-11-13
CHURCH REVIEWS
 AID TO NATION
Catholic War Work of the Past Promises Future Usefulness
 to Uncle Sam.
MILLION WORKERS ENLISTED.
From the War Front to Every Corner of This Country Catholic War
 Council Helps Our Cause.

NaSnlnSlOn. .--lttI'OFllnR 10 lHe toll- ference uf the entire hierarchy of the Catholic Church in this country, that has been called in Washington to con sider the past and future work of the National Catholic War Council, the leaders of thlS nationwide welfare or ganization have outlined a record of war work that extends from the front lIn@ In France to the furthest cor ners ee this country. They have also isdLcstsd comprehensive li~es along whirA tns fan force of the millions of -xsr3su- @iistcd -in their varioxsr actiy.' itScs ati henS< and overseas may he turned ts the aid sf ths government ia the trying times of reconstruction ahead, ...'.s..' '.''
 Tn summarizing the war work of its Committee on Special War Activities. In a recent report to the Administra- tive Committee of the National Cstho- lie War Council, the following resume of some of the things undertaken and carried out by this organization has just been presented:
 "We have co-ordlnated and brought into a common service 10000 Catholic mems organizations throughout the country. This cooperation insures our ability, which has been tested more than once, to meet the great opportu- mites that present and will present [ themselves. These mems organlza- [ tions are used to conduct service clubs i for men, to supply workers in many | fields of endeavof, to cooperate with 1 gover!. r!.:Hental 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 It's ex- istence co-ordinated into national ac- tivity 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 !; 1t Is giving them the opportunity of service in the visitors houses.
 "In like manner we secured recog- hilton for Catholic women in over seas work. That we might train them, we established a training school for women with Its own faculty. There is ready to receive them a home in Paris ! and two representatives of the Nation 1 al Catholic War Council, Mir. Dene- chaud and Mrs. Stocks Millar. The work of women abroad will continue for at least eighteen months to come, and we are in a position to extend 1t to other countries The Catholic wo- men of the country have responded to this opportunity in wonderful way. The resources at our command are rich. All that is needed Is training and leadership.
 "As early as April 13, 1918, the sub committee on Reconstruction was ap- pointed. This committee gave diligent attention for months and anticipated in a 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 l to be educated at the expense of the Government We are officially coop erating with the Federal Board of Vo- cational Training and with the United | States Employment Service. Through the Committee on Special War Activi- ties is published a series of pamphlets i on Reconstruction, the first of which was an official pronouncement of the Administrative Committee of Bishops.
 "I'he Committee has likewise taken up the work of supplying through our | Catholic hospitals free clinical service for soldiers and sailors and their fami- 1 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 em- | p!oy the clinical woman social worker. It Is not too much to say that our work in Reconstruction plays leading part, and the heads of Government Depart ments have told us explicitly that they | have been aided more by the advice and help of the National Catholic War | Council than by any other organiza- tion.
 Born of the emergency that neces- sitated the full cooperation and corpo- rate service of the entire Catholic body of America, the National Catholic War l Council has been officially recognized 1 by the Government and has made en- | during the great record of Catholic patriotic service. It has devolved in special way on the Committee on Spe- 1 cia War Activities to do the pioneer work of co-ordrnting the mems organ izations and of practically creating national woman's organization that would give tho Catholic women of the country rl-htfuL place in war welfare work The record of achievement that this report shows, slight as 1t may be, Is nevertheless sure evidence of what 1 tho entire Catholic ho0y of the cOun-