Evening star., 1937-09-30
CATHOLIC WOMEN
END CONVENTION
Right Rev. Fulton J. Sheen
Says Civilized Code Rests
on WomanhoOd.

The level of any civilization is the
level of its womanhood, delegates to
the seventeenth annual convention of
the National Council of Catholic Wom-
en- we're told by Right Rev. Fulton j.
Sheen in an address at the closing
banquet of the convention last night
In the Mayfiower Hotel.
1T is the demands you make upon
our civilization which determine what
that civilization will be- he said. The
world today needs mothers who will
of the sickle and hammer. 1t needs
penitent mothers who know the spirit
OF sacrifice and humility"
The banquet followed closing busi-
ness session at which the delegates
elected seven directors to fill vacan-
cies on the board and adopted a num-
Der of resolutions. among them de-
nunciations of birth control and the
distribution of salacious literature.
Miss Williams Reelected.
The board late yesterday elected
officers for the coming year, re-elect-
ing Miss katherine r. Williams Of
Milwaukee as president for her second
term. Other officers are Mrs. Earl R.
Reynolds of Chicago, reelected first
vice president; Miss NJ Pauline Casey
of Scranton. Pa. second vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Thomas Dignan of Glas-
gov, Mont, retiring secretary, pro-
NOTED to third vice president; Mrs.
Thomas P. Ryan of Minneapolis, re-
elected treasurer. and Mrs. j. w. Nc
Collum of Gainesville, Fla, secretary.
In other resolutions the council
condemned the spread of Communist
and Fascist activities in the United
States. urged more extensive Ameri-
canization work among immigrants.
advocated additional school facilities
for Catholic youth, urged renewed ef-
forts to insure world peace. and
pledged themselves to a broadened
youth program.
In the birth-control resolution, the
council delegates resolved that the
pseudo-scientific principles offered to
women to defy the God-given right of
co-creatorship and to set at naught
His choicest blessing. be condemned
by the National Council of Catholic
Women in convention assembled as
pernicious, injurious to health of body
and destructive to peace Of conscience
degrading to the purity of womankind
and unworthy of Christian women"
In the same resolution the council
denounced any social order under
S,nit7iNC tho cpPrvity of 70, fa
Sees Damage in Literature.
The council called for application
to literature and advertising of the
pledge of the Legion of Decency. point
ing out that "a great mass of indecent
literature circulates among the people
from newsstahds and drug store racks
and is actually distributed among
high school children in many cities. ."
1t also declared that advertising even
of reprehensible motion pictures is
designed to appeal to the baser in
stincts of people" The council called
upon its thousands of local units to
wage "a concerted campaign against
the sale and distribution of all sala-
cious literature" and to protest against
'lurid advertising" of motion pictures
Another resolution advocated crea-
tion of additional study clubs and
through them the placing of a Cath
olic bookshelf in every public library.
Vacancies on the Board of Directors
we're filled by reelection of Miss M.
Pauline Casey of Scranton, Pa. and
Mrs Thomas Dignan of Glasgow,
Mont, and by election of Mrs Ste
phen Gaffney, Portland, Me; Mrs. Eu-
gene Mccarthy, Cleveland; Mrs. Dan
Burns, Ell Paso. Tex: Mrs. John Skae,
Detroit. and Mrs. John Aicher, San
Francisco.
At last nights closing banquet newly
created honorary life memberships
we're presented to Mrs. Mary T. Mullen,
Miss Mary Graham Hawks and Miss
Anne Sarachon Hooley. former ma
tional presidents, and Miss Agnes Ger
trude Regan, for II years national Sec
retary.
The gold medal of Theta Phi Alpha.
In recognition of outstanding work by
Catholic woman, was presented to
Miss Regan by Mrs. Frank letting
hoff, national executive secretary of
the fraternity.
W. I. Plant, State deputy of the
knights of Columbus for MARYLAND.
told the delegates that the danger of
the age" is not battle between the