The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-01

tive from each diocese named by the
 bishop. For the purpose of closely
 uniting the Connecticut, Council of Catholic Women with the National
 Council of Catholic Women it was
 embodied in the constitution of the former body that the person who rep resents the diocese in the National Council would ipso facto be chairman
 of the State Council. Miss Margaret
 Boylan, the first secretary of the Catholic Charitable Bureau of Bridgeport, and now secretary of the
 Diocesan Bureau of Social Service, is
 diocesan representative on the Ma tional Council and ex-off1cio chairman
 of the administrative committee of
 the. Connecticut Council of Catholic
 Women.
 The Connecticut Council of Catholic
 Women was organized in November,
 1920, six months after the formation
 of the Diocesan Bureau of Social Ser
 vice of which it is the women's bu- reau. At the organization meeting in
 1920 there were about 200 delegates
 from all parts of the diocese. Bishop
 Milan, who addressed the organiza-
 ton at this meeting. described this as
 a satisfactory showing, but when 300
 women came for Hartford for the
 first annual meeting a year later, he
 expressed himself as astonished not
 only at the rapid growth in member
 ship, but at the volume and variety of work undertaken and effectively car r:ed out by the committees in the sev- eral counties. He urged the women to continue these. Activities and ex-
 pressed the wish that ultimately the women would be organized in com
 mittees of volunteers to carry on works of charity even in the smallest town and parish in the diocese. At the organization meeting of the Con- necticut Council of Catholic Men in Hartford on March 19, Bishop Milan held up the women'S organization as a model for the men to follow.
 The professed objects of the Con necticut Council of Catholic Women are:
 CD To unite all organizations of Catholic women in the Hartford Dio- cese in a bond of union; CD To serve as a medium through which the Cath olic women of the diocese may speak and act as a unit in all matters of\lo- cal public interest, and as part of the National Council, act in unison in all matters of national importance; (3) To promote the carrying on of the ac- tivities of the National Council of Catholic Women through the instru- of existing women's organt- cations in the diocese; (D To st1mu- late the work of existing organiza- tions of Catholic women to greater efficiency and usefulness to meet the exigencies of the time.
 The next subdivision is the county. Mrs. M. J. Flanagan of Bridgeport, is chairman for Fairfield County of the Connecticut Council of Catholic Women, and ex-officio a member of the administrative committee Of the Council of Catholic Women, which is made up of the chairman for each county, the pres1- dents of each affiliated state organi- Zation of Catholic women, and the eX- ecutive secretaries of the auxiliary To- cal bureaus of the Diocesan Bureau of Social Service.
 Mrs. John McElroy of this city rep resented Fairfield County as chair man at the organization meeting of 10 TnnnapficIJf COnnCi1 of Catholic Women in 1920, and served until 1921, when she felt com pelled to resign on account Of the pressure of other obligations. Be- Service was already organized in Bridgeport under the direction of the Catholic Charitable Bureau, it was thought best to concentrate on inter esting the women in other towns out side of Bridgeport during the first year. Meetings for this purpose were held in fIorwalk, South Norwalk and Stamford. at which encouraging re- suits were obtained, including in ad- dition to substantial acceSsions to the membership roll. the affi- liation of the following societies in the county: Daughters of Isabella of Norwalk and South Norwalk; Cath ollie Daughters of America of Bridge port and Greenwich, and Ladies of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul of Bridgeport.
 The bridgeport Unit of the Connec- ticut Council of Catholic Women has already enrolled approximately 200 members, in addition to the two or affiliated with it. the Catholic Daughters of America and the Ladies of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. An active campaign is now in progress under the chairmansh1p of Mrs. Jane L. North for new mem than its share towards reaching the goal of 5000 members in the diocese which has been set for the second an- nua1 meeting to be held at Hartford in May.
 Meetings of the Bridgeport Unit are held during Lent on the second and fourth Thursday of the month at the Catholic Community House. Bar mum avenue, at which applications for are received. After Eas- ter the regular meetings will be held on the second and fourth Tuesday at the same place.
 The Bridgeport Unit has been grad ually broadening its range of activities with the aim of ultimately carrying out the whole of the varied and ann bilious program which the dioceason auth critics desire the unit to under take. The complete organization of the Bridgeport Unit was designed1y left until more urgent organizat1on work had been performed in other the Catholic Charitable Bureau was doing in Bridgeport much of the work of the Council.
 Four main activities are on the i'm mediate program of the Bridgeport Unit, some of them already In oper- ation and the remainder planned for the near future. These are: q Cate chism Centers: CD Big Sisters; (3) Civics Club. which is to be a study club of national. state and city gov ernment; and (4) lectures on social service, governmental and liberal arts.
 A succe cessful sale was held during the Christmas season under the aus pices of the Bridgeport Unit, the proceeds of which were turned over to the Catholic Charitable Bureau for the purpose of providing Christmas sheer to the poor children in families aided by the Bureau and for defray- Ing expenses of giving Christmas parties and Christmas toys to s25 children. A pre-Lenten whist at the Stratfie1d provided the Unit with modest working fund for the active of its program.
 The volunteer social service work