Evening star., 1920-09-13
CATHOLICS HEAR
JUDGE TELL NEED
OF FAMILY COURT
Technical Discussions of So
ciaI Service Occupy
Charities Meeting.

Technical discussion of various forms
of social service comprised the program
this morning of the sixth biennial
session of the National Conference
Catholic Charities, which is being
held at Catholic, University. More than
1000 delegates from every section of
the country are registered. Meetings
are being held in McMahon Hall and
in the gymnasium. The conference
will close Thursday.
One of the most important topics
discussed was the need of family
courts. by Edward J. Dooley, presid-
ing justice of the court of domestic
relations. Brooklyn. n. Y.
Judge Dooley advocated a court
(which will be a sheet anchor to So
ciety,. which will protect and enforce
the right of abandoned and neglected
wives. children, parents and grand
parents; that will safeguard the home
and execute with vigor the marital.
parental, moral and legal obligations
imposed upon man in his relation to
the family"
Committees Meet Today.
Two committee meetings were held
this morning. The committee on fam
lily was presided over by Robert
Biggs president of the Society of st.
Vincent de Paul of Baltimore. The
Among the speakers this morning at
the two, committee meetings were Miss
Agnes G.. Regan, executive secretary
of the. National Council of Catholic
Women of Washington: Rev. w. f.
Corr of Los Angeles, Calf; Mrs. Anne
Nagle of Baltimore. James Fitzgerald
of Detroit, Steven Mccarthy Of Pitts
burgh and William II. De Lacy of the
Society of st. Vincent de Paul of
Washington.
Business sessions We're resumed this
afternoon. to be followed tonight by
a general meeting of the conference.
Opening Session Yesterday.
Rev. Archbishop Bonzano. apostolic
delegate. offciated at the opening
mass yesterday, while at the first
general session last night the speak
ers included Secretary of State Colby
Thomas ]. Duffy. chairman of the
Ohio industrial commission; Charles
j. Brown, president judge of the
municipal court of Philadelphia. and
Assistant District Attorney Helen r.
Mccormick of Brooklyn.
Secretary Colby. explaining that he
was IAN incorrigible Protestant de-
clared there is no charitable work
that is carried on with such gusto,
with such conviction, with such in
trepidity, with such quiet modesty
and with. such effectiveness as the
Catholic charities of the world"
Charity Needed Now.
There never was a time in the
United States he asserted, when
the charitable impulse that feels
general solieitude for the other man,
for the other nation, for the. less
favored. less advantageously situated
peoples, was so called for. The char
ity that sends you into the slums. the
cnarity that sends you into the sick
room, the charity that sends YOU to
the battlefield. must send you to our
afflicted humans wherever they may
be-"
Pope Benedict bestowed ~his bene-
diction upon the conference and ex-
read by Bishop Shahan,
rector of CATHOLIC University.
Miss Helen p. Mccormick, assistant
district attorney of Brooklyn, who
presided, made an urgent appeal to
Catholic women to compel enactment
of new social legislation.
Would Give Workers Voice.
Thomas J. Duffy, chairman of the
Ohio industrial commission, proposed
that workers be accorded a voice in
the conditions of the in
dustry in which they are employed
Referring to the recent steel strike,
Mr.. Duffy asserted that the persons
in control of the steel industry de
ceived the American people and de-
feated the steel workers." largely by
means of misleading propaganda.
Il do not wish to imply that the
employers in the steel industry are
worse than other employers said Mr.
Duffy. II refer to them merely be-
cause recent developments in the
steel industry furnish conspicuous ex-
amples of the methods that should
not be tolerated by the American peo-
pie"
Charles J. Brown. president judge of
the municipal court of Philadelphia.
advocated the abolition of antiquated
judicial machinery and the socializa-
tion of civil justice so that the poor
might stand on the same plane as the
rich before a civil court.