Evening star., 1923-10-02
SITE PICKED HERE
FOR NUN MEMORIAL
j
Monument to Be Unveiled
/ Next Year Opposite St.
! Matthew's Church.


The monument to the memory of
Nthe Catholic sisters who were nurses
during the civil war will be un-
yeiIed in the public reservation oppo-
site St. Matthew's Church. Rhode Is
land avenue near Connecticut avenue,
next September, according to an an
nouncement made by Mrs. Adelia
Christy, national president of the La
dies Auxiliary of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians, in a report read be-
fore the delegates to the third annual
conference of the National Council of
Catholic Women at the HQtel wash
ington this morning.
The Wnman's Auxiliary with the
help of the Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans has raised $4,000 for the monu-
ment and Congress has granted the
triangular space opposite st. Matthew's
Church as the site. The monument
will be of granite and bronze and will
be fourteen feet high. 1t will have a
granite base.
Around the top of the structure
there will be twelve figures about
five feet in height, each figure repre-
senting in detail as to costume and
habit an order Of nuns. The figures
will be in bronze relief with figure
representing peace at one end of the
structure and one representing war
at the opposite end.
Reports Presented.
Reports from the various diocesan
representatives and national organ
iZations We're read at the morning
sessions. They were followed by an
address on The Recreaticnal and
Rev John j. Callaghan. executive
chairman of the Catholic Drama
Guild.
The delegates will go to the White
House to meet President Coolidge to-
morrow morning. They have accept
ed an invitation from the Secretary
of the Interior to visit his depart
ment TO view motion pictures that are
available from the department for
welfare work. They will also accept
the invitation of the American Red
Cross to visit its headquarters to-
morrow afternoon.
Speakers To-day.
Speakers this afternoon are Rev.
Edward +. Garesche, :. j. of st.
Louis Mo, who will address<the con-
Girls Welfare; Miss Catherine Nolen
of the New York League of Catholic
Women, who will speak on Rooms
Registry" and Miss Charlotte Ring,
who will speak on Leisure Time =.
An Asset or Liability" Discussion will
be made by Miss Christine lie Brun,
st. Louis, Mo; Miss Helen Phelan,
Cleveland, Ohio; Miss Catherine Bren-
nick, Canton, Ohio; Mrs. Rose e. Vir-
tue, Minneapolis. Mimi; Sister Ger
trude, Milwaukee, Wis; Mrs. \. NJ.
Butler st. Louis, Mo. -, -
The following addresses. VIII pc
made at tonight's sessions: Catholic
Women in National Life" Rev.
Michael ]. stritch, 5. J., st, Louis,
Mo-; "Principles and Training of So
ciaI Workers" Miss Mary J. Work
III 4 ne A11t a
Council of Catholic Women; The
National Catholic Service school,
Rev. John !. Burke, c. 5. p. general
secretary National Catholic Welfare
Council; "A Growing Need and How
We Shall Meet IT. Mrs. John Nc
Mahon, Chicago, ILL.,
Archbishop Curleys' Address.
Citing the founding by the Cath
Ollie Church Of lis universities OF
the world. including oxford. Cam
bridge and the University of Paris
Archbishop Curley of Baltimore
scorned the assertion that the Cath
Ollie Church was an enemy to educa-
tion in an address before the mem
bers of the conference last night.
In spite Of the sacred words OF
Washington, Wilson, Harding and
Coolidge, men have banded them
selves together to endeavor to chas
away God from the schoolhouse and
the heart of little children" declared
Referring to tie Catholic Church
he declared 1T is Americas great
est friend. Twenty million Catholics
here stand by the church, not only in
the interest of the souls of Catholics
but for the welfare of the whole
America"
state and Education, Topic.
Constantine j. Smyth. chief justice
of the Court of Appeals of the District
of Columbia, spoke on the relation
of the state to education. In speak
ing of the Oregon action against
parochial schools and private schools,
he declared: "Those in favor of this
movement would wrest from the par
ents the control of the education of
their children and transfer it to the
state, because they say that parochial
schools do not inculcate devotion to
American institutions.
mo greater slander could be ut
tered" declared Justice Smyth, who
said that during the war SO 1-3 per
cent of the chaplains of the Army
We're allotted to Catholics. This. -
he said, was done on the assumption
that we had supplied that proportion
of soldiers. Ponder over the fact
that we constitute only Is per cent
of the population" declared Justice
;Smyth, who denied that Catholics OPP
posed the public school system
The conference also was addressed
dby Mrs. Thomas y. McGoldrick of
New York, who declared the children
needed home influence, which, she de-
.clared. was love labor and PRAYER