The Carlisle independent., 1919-10-09
CHURCH REVIEWS
 AID ID NATION
Catholic War Work of inc 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.

Washington.-Re Reporting to Inc con
 ference of the entire hierarchy of the 1
 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 i Headers of this nationwide welfare or
 ganization have outlined a record of
 war work that extends from the front Hines in France to the furthest cor !
 ners of this country. They have also
 indicated comprehensive lines along | (which the full force of the millions of 1 workers enlisted in their various activ- Iities at home and overseas may be turned to the aid of the government in the trying times of reconstruction ahead
 In summarizing the war work of it's
 Committee on Special War Activities, !
 in a recent report to the Administra- five Committee of the National Catho- l lie War Council, the following resume
 of some of the things undertaken and -carried out by this organization has liust been presented:
 l I've have co-ordinated and brought !
 into a common service 10000 Catholic ! mens organizations throughout the |
 country. This cooperation insures our ability, which has been tested more | than once, to meet the great opportu- l
 mites that present and will present |
 f h al e ix.1- tions are used to conduct service clubs | for men, to supply workers in many | Helds of endeavor, to cooperate with | Governmental agencies.
 "Conditions at the beginning of the 1 sswar revealed the fact that the activity ! fof Catholic women had no national | expression, no recognition. The | tCommittee on Special War Activities ! has within the ten months of it's ex- 1stence co-ordinated into national ac- itivity the thousands of Catholic wo- mens organizations of the country; it [ has established women's clubs through !
 out the country t is sending Catholic l women into every field Of social work | 1t is giving them the opportunity of ! lservice in the visitors houses.
 s'In like manner we secured recog- ! milton for Catholic women in over tseas work. That we might train them. | we established a training school for women with it's own faculty. There is ready to receive them a home in Paris
 and two representatives of the Nation ! lal Catholic War Council, MT. Dene- i lchaud and Mrs. Stocks Nfillar The
 work of women abroad will continue for at least eighteen months to come, ! And we are in position to extend it fo other countries. The Catholic wo- men of the country have responded to this opportunity in a wonderful way.
 The resources at our command are Eich. All that is needed is training and leadership.
 "As early as April 13, 1918, the sub ! icommittee on Reconstruction was ap- pointed. This committee gave diligent attention for months and anticipated i 5n a surprisingly accurate way the i problems of reconstruction. We have 1 assisted in shaping the Government l. sconduct of the problem of relief and of vocational training. Our workers are placed in the reconstruction hospitals | Throughout the country. Dependent ! Npon these men is the future education hof the wounded man and the college t Ito which he is sent and in what he is . to be educated at the expense of the ! iGoYernment. We are officially coop
 erating with the Federal Board of Yo- ! lcational Training and with the United . States Employment Service Through ! the Committee on Special War Activi- . Eties is published series of pamphlets . lon Reconstruction, the first of which was an official procurement of the . Administrative Committee of Bishops.
 'The Committee has likewise taken . np the work of supplying through our Catholic hospitals free clinical service | dor soldiers and sailors and their faIni- ! aies and is extending this in co-opera- { 4ion with the Red Cross Home Service ! ao 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. It is not too much to say that our work an 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 and help'of the National Catholic War ICcuncil than by any other organiza- { Hion.
 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 Council has been officially recognized l. by the Government and has made en- during the great record of Catholic { patriotic service It has devolved in a f Special way on the Committee on Spe- i tial War Activities to do the pioneer { work of co-ordinating the mens organ [ lzations and of practically creating a national woman's organization that F