The Catholic bulletin., 1920-10-23
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GRAFTON CAN RAISE ANY
AMouNT--FUNDs FOR CHURCH
EASILY RAISED BY MODERN
METHoDs--MR. ROBERT EGAN
TELLS OF SUCCESSFUL CAM
PAIGNs AND THEIR LESSONS.

TELLS OF SUCCESSFUL CAM.
PAIGNs AND THEIR LESSONS.
(By N. C. W.. c. News Service.)
BY adopting modern methods involv-
ing, system, publicity, and organiza-
ton, millions of dollars have been
raised during the past two years by
Catholic laymen in the United States
for every form of charity, education,
liquidation of church debts, and gen.
eral diocesan needs, writes Robert
Egan. In any parish or diocese where
drive has been successfully launch
ed. the bishop or priest will never
again resort to the old plan of money
raising in which all of the community
were stirred up for weeks in the man.
agement of a picnic, a fair, a tea par
ty or euchre, resulting in small re-
turn of cash in proportion to energy
and effort expended.
AnaIyzing the Campaign.
Many profitable lessons came out of
the late war. The feasibility of or
ganiZed and concentrated effort was
one Of them. 1t is not difficult to an
ticipate that the leaders of the Cath
olic Hierarchy in the United States
will hereafter harness the energy and
enterprise of the entire laity in fu-
ture national, state or diocesan efforts.
In communities where big money-rais-
ing drives have been conducted, in
addition to the funds accumulated,
bishops, priests and the laity have
brought to the surface wealth of
good will and an evidence of honest
appreciation for the service of the
Church which could never be develop
ed by any other method. The non
Catholic who signs a check for any
Catholic church movement does SO un-
der conviction that he should be part
of the works of mercy or charity for
which the fund is being raised.
An analysis of results in any of the
many campaigns conducted throughout
the country since the termination of
the war, independent of the big Chi
caeo and New York campaigns, re-
veals non-Catholic contributions from
20 to 40 per cent where the appeal
has been made to the general public,
The writer associated with the work
ers of Seattle during the effort to pay
off the Cathedral debt, heard this eX-
preston of qualification from Rt. Rev.
Edward J. O'Dea when the army went
over the top:
1--WE raised $130.000.00 in money,
and lifted a 100000 debt which has
1aen pending for many years, and we
annot estimate the value of good
N i'll and new friendships found in this
community
Lesson Of Seattle Campaign.
The success in one community, par
ish or diocese can be duplicated else
where. BY employing proper methods
Catholics can be organized to work
for the Church, and it is the history
of every drive that Jealous and eff
ficient captains can be trained who
have never lifted hand in the cause
If religion. If you went to Seattle
six months ago and asked any resi-
lent if he knew Napoleon Campbell
ne would probably answer in the mega.
i've. Go out there today and he will
tell you that. Napoleon Campbell is the
most prominent Catholic in the Seattle
diocese. He is the man who stood up
in the middle of the campaign and
gave a pledge for $4,000. Never be-
fore did he realize that he was per
sonally responsible according to his
means for the orphan, the widow, and
the aged of his community. AS a
business man who has accumulated
half a million dollars, it occurred tc
him and his good wife during the
campaign that what you give and not
what you get" will be the consolation
at the eleventh hour What Napoleon
Campbell has done, is doing, and in
tends to do is matter of Seattle his
tory today. There are Napoleon Camp
it requires the argument the organi
zation and general publicity to bring
e them out in the open
"The Rieoted Press"
In one diocese where campaigning
was tried for. the first time, the work
ers at the opening conference opposed
the plan because "the daily newspap
ers are bigoted." They were under
that impression. This verdict was SC
generally believed that prominent law
yers, doctors and even bankers, feared
to undertake a movement which migh
stir up opposition. Notwithstanding
this lack of cooperation, the drive was
started. Four column advertisements
in the daily newspapers explaining the
work of the Catholic Sisterhoods il
the Home of the Good Shepherd, the
orphan asylums, hospitals and othe,
institutions had the effect of convert
ing Catholics as we'll as non-Catholic!
and arousing so much general interes
that the goal was reached without diff
ficulty. The "bigoted press" publish
ed full column editorials recalling tht
important part played by the Churcl
in that particular diocese in ever,
righteous cause and emphasizing tha
she is a formidable barrier between
Americanism and Anarchy. The 'big
oted press" published columns and tols
the reading public that the communit,
should help this great conservative
moral force working Loyalty for Coz
and Country. Having heard the non
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