The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-06
FINE REPORT
 GIVEN BY THE CATHOLIC BUREAU
Financial Statement Shows Balance of $882,82
 On Hand

 The Bureau is really in it's infancy having been in existence only four years. It's growth seems to be all most magic.
 The officers of the bureau are:
 President, Rt Rev. John J. Milan, D. D., Bishop of Hartford.
 Director and Treasurer, Rev. Matt hew J. Judge.
 Executive Secretary (absent on leave )-Miss Marguerite T. Boylan, "A. Nj. s7!t1s
 Acting Secretary - Miss Victoria Larm our4eA. M.
 Visitors Miss Mabel L. Garvey, : Miss Julia A. Moran.
 Community Work, Head Secretary Miss Elizabeth Daley.
 The directors report for the year 191851s9 is as follows:
 Mindful iof the Scriptura1 injunc- the other is%doing, we hesitate to speak about our work. However, we must look to, the public for approval and support, hence they have a right to know. 5-
 At this, the beginning of our fifth year, we review with keen satisfac- tion, and just pride, the short but eventfu1 career of the Catholic Char itable Bureau. Just four years ago, ''the Catholic Charitable Bureau was established. Its first "office'' was +'desk room" in the living room of ., private residence. fts staff consist ed of one person, Miss Marguerite Boylan, who acted as stenographer, lboolzkeeper, field worker and ex- { ecutive secretary.
 At the close of 1919, we had over one thousand cases in our files; two workers in the field; an executive sec retary and a director. We are now conducting a Day Nursery, and with the aid of the National Catholic War Council, 8 Community Center.
 The most important event of the past year was the incorporation of the Catholic Charitable Bureau under the laws of the State of Connecticut.
 Early in the year, the Bureau suf fered loss when Miss Boylan left on a leave of absence to take up the work of the National Catholic War Council abroad. This loss would have been a. serious one for the Bureau had we not been fortunate enough ito have on our staff, Miss Victoria Jarmour, who had been acting as as -sistant secretary. Miss Larmour be- cause of her experience in social ser vice work, and because of her inti- mate knowledge of the work of the Bureau through her association with it for the past few years, was most admirably fitted to take charge of the field work. As result of this intimate knowledge and experience, the Bureau has con tinued l to grow and to prosper. - The ending of the world-war tend ed to lessen the abnormal conditions caused by the war, but did not dim finish the manifold problems of widowhood, desertion, non support tdleness, old age, physical and mental handicaps juvenile delinquency, etc. -these are almost as old the world itself.
 While the Bureau is not primarily "a relief giving agency, it has always given emergency relief when neces- Hary. The old fashioned practice of do1ing out aims tended rather to make the family dependent. Pow erty is not cause in itself but rather the effect of some abnormal condt- tion. The Bureau always aims to re- move this abnormal condition and to restore the family to a self-support- Ing basis Hence the actual amount of service it has rendered to the community cannot be properly judged by the amount of money actually ex- pended in giving relief, but must be measured by the number of cases it has successfully treated" During the past year, the Bureau has "treat- ed'' approximately three hundred new cases. How successful our ef- forts have been, we are quite willing to leave to the good judgment of those who are interested in and who have followed up our work.
 During the past year, the Bureau ,Ras assumed guardianship of over keven children. We have boarded twenty eight children in privata homes, and found free homes for twelve children.
 Saint Vincent's Day Nursery was opened by the Catholic Charitable Bureau in December, 1917, as a pa. 4riotic measure. The war has re kiuced the available man power of the city. The government called for ar Increased output of munitions. The women workers were needed in large numbers. It was necessary to pro. wide adequate care for the childrer bf these working mothers during Their lhours of employment. Hence Khe need of day nursery on thE East Side where most of the muni lions factories were located.
 The close of the war left the perm anent problem of providing care fol fhe children of mothers who, be cause of widowhood, desertion ol other cause, are ObllSSu to WOIh II order to support themselves and theil children.
 This problem is industrial and eco homie. The factories need the work CTS. The women need the work. Tn day nursery helps solve the problem of both employer and employee.
 St. Vincents Day Nursery is main fained by the Catholic Charitable Bu reau at an annual cost of about $3. oO0 (Actua1 cost last year was $2, 8T6) The average number of chil dren attending daily is forty three The aggregate attendance from De cenber 1, 1918 to December l, 191 has been 13,416. The Bureau has ex pended $4,412.S6 on Improvements Of this amount, $2.460 was contribut ed by manufacturers
 The Juvenile Delinquency Commit fee. with Mrs. Catherine c. Sulliva hs Chairman, has continued to pro Beet the interests of Catholic childre drought before the City Court. Tn members of the committee strive norestall commitments to reforma Sories by urging that a full invest
 katton of the child's past record an