Evening star., 1925-11-15
CATHOLIC WOMEN
DELEGATES HERE
Annual Convention of Ma
tionaI Body to StartW
Mass Today.

With delegations registered from all
parts or the country, the fifth annual
convention OF the National Council of
Catholic Women, will be opened for
maily this morning with pontifical
mass at 10 o'clock at the Shrine Of
the Immaculate Conception at Cath
olic University, Brookland, by Bishop
Thomas j. Shahan, rector of Catholic
University. Mgr. Edward A. Pace will
preach.
Business sessions will begin at $40
tomorrow morning at the Willard
Hotei. Three sessions a day, open to
the public, will be held. Education,
immigration, peace, girls welfare and
rural problems will be principal top
les discussed at the four-day session.
District Commissioner Fenning this
evening will welcome the delegates in
an address at a reception by the
board OF directors of the council in
the ballroom of the Willard Hotel
from until 10 o'clock. Mgr. Thomas
also will greet the delegates. and an
address will be made by 1t. Rev.
Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of Cleve-
land. Another reception to the dele
gates Will be given this afternoon at
the National Catholic School of So
cial Service, 240O Nineteenth street,
with the faculty and students as
hostesses. and there also will be a
sightseeing tour.
Will Present Reports.
The morning session tomorrow will
open at $3.50 o'clock when Miss Flor
ence Loeber of New Orleans. ma
tional president, will make her an
nual address and report will be
rendered by the national secretary,
Miss Anna Dill Gamble of New
York. and by the treasurer of the
national board, Mrs. NJ. E. Daily of
Cleveland.
The delegates will be received at
the White House by President Cool
idge at noon. Discussions on immi-
grafton will be led in the afternoon
sessions by Miss Sarah Weadick,
assistant director of the Bureau OF
the council; Miss Mary Kennedy of
the New York Council Miss Irene
Hickey of Oklahoma, Very Rev. Ed
ward Molloy of San Antonio, Tex,
and others.
Will Speak on Education.
AT the evening session tomorrow
DR.. George w. Johnson. professor of
education at Catholic University, Will
give an address on the general sub
Ject of education, and Rev DR.. Thomas
werner Moore. professor of psychology
at Catholic University, will talk on
THE Education of the Subnormal
Child" AT this same session a paper
on The Modern Health Movement in
the Schools" will be presented by Miss
Mary Spencer, health expert of the
Bureau of Education of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference.
A meeting of the national board of
directors and presidents of diocesan
councils was held yesterday at the
convention headquarters to discuss
organization.
At 1 o'clock the meeting adjourned
and a committee went to Arlington to
lay wreath on the tomb of the un-
known soldier. Mrs. T. ]. Despecher,
the representative of the Omaha Dio-
cesan Council and a member Of the
visiting group yesterday, had been
present at BelIeau Wood at the cere-
monies attending the disinterment of
the Unknown Soldier.
The delegation then returned to
Washington, where a wreath was
the memory Of the nuns OF the battle
field. opposite ST. Matthew'S Church.
at Rhode Island avenue and NJ street.
The administration committee of the
council consists of Most Rev. Edward
]. Hanna, Archbishop Of San Fran
cisco, chairman; Most Rev. Austin
Dowling, Archbishop of st. Paul,
chairman department Of education;
Right Rev. p. J. Muldoon, Bishop of
Rockford, chairman department of So
cial action: Right Rev. Joseph
Schrembs, Bishop Of Cleveland. chair
man department of lay organizations;
Right Rev. Edmund F. Gibbons,
Bishop of Albany, chairman depart
ment of laws and legslation; Right
Rev. Philip r. McDevitt, Bishop of
Harrisburg, chairman department of
publicity, press and literature: Right
Rev. Thomas F. Lillis. Bishop of Kan
sas City, Mo; Rev. John ]. Burke.
general secretary.
The national board of officers and
directors are: President, Miss Flor
ence Loeber, archdiocese of New Or
leans; first vice president, Mrs.
Michael Gavin, archdiocese of New
York: second vice president, Mrs.
Arthur Mullen, diocese of Omaha;
third vice president Mrs. John N.
Jackson, diocese Of Seattle; treasurer,
Mrs. NJ. B. DAILY, diocese of Cleveland;
Secretary, Miss Anna Dill Gamble,
Diocese Of Harrisburg, and Mrs.
Harry NJ. Benzinger, Archdiocese of
Baltimore; Mrs. John MacMahon,
Archdiocese of Chicago; Mrs. John d.
Campbell, Diocese Of Ell Paso; Mrs.
James A. Bach, Archdiocese of Mil
waukee: Mrs. c. o. Lamy, Archdiocese
of ST. Louis; Mrs. c. j. McConville,
Archdiocese of st. Paul; Mrs. Joseph
A. Donohoe, Archdiocese Of San Fran
cisco.