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JANUARY 4, 1958.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE
Catholic 7/Mman *a. page
EDITED BY MRS. ERNEST DINKINS
DIOCESAN COUNCILS OF CATHOLIC WOMEN
Augusta Deanery
Luncheon Jan. 8
AUGUSTA — The midwinter
luncheon meeting of the Augusta
Deanery Council of Catholic Wo
men-will be held on Wednesday,
January 8, at 1:00 p. m., at the
Elks- Home. Bishop Thomas J.
McDonough, D.D., J.C.D., Auxil
iary Bishop of the Diocbse of Sav
annah will be the principal
speaker. A Dialog Mass will be
offered at St. Patrick’s Church
at 12:15 p. m. Father A. A. Welt-
zer will be the celebrant, and
Father John Toomey will coordi
nate the_ Mass prayers.
All the women of the Council
are requested to receive Com
munion in a body at this Mass,
and everyone in the Augusta
area who can attend is most cor
dially invited to do so. There
will be no sermon at this Mass.
Reservations for the luncheon
are to be made with your parish
president. The cost is $1.50 per
person.
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* A documentary portrait of
Rome and Vatican City, past,
and present will be shown on
NBC-TV Network:
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Jan. 5 — “The City of Peter”
Jan. 12 — “The City of
Faith”
Jan. 19 — “Renaissance
Rome”
Jan. 26 — “One Moment at a
Time”
Cathedral
Altar Society
Meets Jan. 6
ATLANTA — Comes the New
Year, and the Altar Society of
the Cathedral of Christ the King
is busy making plans to fill a
very interesting calendar for all
the members.
The January meeting of the
Altar Society will be held Mon
day afternoon, 1:30 p. m., Jan
uary 6th in the auditorium of
Christ the King’s Elementary
School. During the business meet
ing a slate of officers for the
coming year will be submitted
by the Nominating Committee.
Following the meeting all
members are cordially invited to
attend a Tea honoring the new
officers. The Tea will be held at
the Rectory. The out-going presi
dent, Mi's. H. A. Kane will pour.
ptaHeets
AT ALBANY
ALBANY — The December
meeting of St. Teresa’s PTA was
held in the school auditorium,
with the president, Mrs. John
Wolfe, presiding. Father LeFrois
opened the meeing with a prayer.
Mrs. Wolfe extended a special
welcome to the many fathers
and other family members w’ho
were present, this being the first
of the night meetings.
The minutes of the previous
meeting were read and approved,
and the financial secretary re
ported a balance of $2,927.42. The
room count was won by the 4th
grade.
The PTA voted unanimously to
support Mrs. Ray Pinkston as a
candidate for “Woman of the
Year.” Mrs. Pinkston has been
nominated by another organiza
tion. It was also voted by the
Association to give $2,500 to the
building fund.
The meeting was adjourned
and a delightful Christmas pro
gram was given by the children
of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
grades.
Men talk about doing good
deeds, and consider that as their
share.
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS — St. Joseph’s Auxiliary was welcomed into the Augusta Deanery
of Catholic Women at a recent meeting at the rectory. Shown here left to right are Mrs. Ralph C.
Thompson, president of the Auxiliary; Father Mahoney, pastor of St. Joseph’s; Mrs. Charles E. Par
sons, secretary; Mrs. John F. Holleran, treasurer. (Fitz Photo, Bryant English)
Need For Mothers To Work
Devaluates Family, Priest
Tells Economic Group Meeting
(By Charles Shreiner)
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
PHILADELPHIA, — Mother
hood and the family are danger
ously devalued in America by the
tragic necessity for wives and
mothers to work outside the
home, the Catholic Economic
Association Convention was told
here.
Of the 6,500,000 working moth
ers who have children under 17,
some are contributing to “one of
America’s most serious social and
spiritual maladies,” Benedictine
Father Jerome L. Toner, told
delegates.
He identified the national
malady as “the degeneration of
the dignity, function and nature
of woman.”
Father Toner is on the faculty
of St. Martin’s College, Olympia,
Wash. He analyzed problems of
married working women in a
talk delivered to 80 delegates of
the professional CEA whose mem
bers are-chiefly academic per
sonnel in the field of economics.
The group met here in con
junction with the American Eco
nomic Association and allied or
ganizations.
Stating that “economic neces
sity is the chief cause that forces
the vast majority of married
women to work outside of the
home,” Father Toner said the
necessity is almost absolute in
the case of widows, separated,
divorced and deserted mothers.
“Facilities and funds for the
care of children of these working
mothers are economically and
spiritually necessary, “the Bene
dictine professor stressed. Assis
tance must be forthcoming from
some source, he warned, “if the
family—foundation of civilization
—is to be properly preserved.”
He pointed out that no Federal
funds have been allocated for
child care purpose since 1926 “in
spite of the fact that the woman-
labor force in the United States
has incresaed about 3,100,000..”
According to Father Toner, in!
1956 only three states were ope-j
rating any kind of child care I
programs.
“Mothers who work outside of j
the home without necessity, and j
career mothers, should place the.
good of the children, family and
society above and before their
personal freedom, satisfaction,
and glory,” he emphasized.
The priest-economist said
“there are some married women
working who seem to be motivat
ed by neurotic competition—they
feel that they should have luxur
ies that other women posses.
Their families could live in
modest comfort upon the hus
band’s earnings but the wife’s
desire to improve her standing
in society will, in spite of the
heavy family demands upon her
time and energy, move her to
take a job outside of the home.”
He said there are other mothers
who labor outside the home under
the pretense of love for their
families but who actually “are
depriving their children of their
right and greatest parental gift—
love.”
The five talks of the convention
were based on the theme, “Some
Problem Areas in American Eco
nomic Life.”
Speaking on “The Migrant
Worker Today,” Louis F. Buck-
ley of the U. S. Department of
Labor, Bureau of Employment
Security, Boston, said there is a
fallacy in limiting “discussion of I
migrant workers to problems of \
Mexican nationals or braceros j
who constitute only a small per
cent of the total seasonal farm
labor force.”
Although it is true that Mexi
can nationals have an important
influence on seasonal wages,
“their problems are not as serious
in many respects as those of j
domestic workers,” Mr. Buckley |
assured the delegates.
He said that in October, 1957,
of an estimated 1,362,400 seasonal
hired workers about 20 percent
came from Mexico and less than
1 percent from Puerto Rico.
“Studies indicate that workers
often become migrants because
they need the work and nothing
else is available,” Mr. Buckley
continued. “The most frequent
positive reason given is that farm
work offers a chance to utilize the
labor of family members by
working as a family group. Such
factors explain why there is a
supply of migratory workers
available despite the low wages
offered.”
He said it is not likely that
fundamental changes will be
made in the near future in the
following areas of migratory
work: unionization on the part of
workers; programs on the part of
organized employers to provide
steady employment and to find
a substitute for the ultimate de
pendence on alien labor; protec
tive wage and other regulatory
legislation on the part of govern
ment.
Such a forecast is a dismal one,
he admitted, “because many econ
omists maintain that only by de
vices of this nature will the con
dition of migratory labor be. im
proved in the long run.”
Father Edmund A. Kurth, of
Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa,
spoke on “Consumer Debt and
Inflation,” and Joseph P. Mc
Kenna, of St. Louis (Mo.) Uni
versity presented a paper on “The
Current Merger Movement.”
At a convention banquet in the
Sheraton Hotel, Charles J. Walsh
was installed as president of the
CEA which was founded in 1941
and has an international member
ship of 670. Father Toner was in
stalled as first vice president and
Paul A. Montavon, of the Univer
sity of Notre Dame as second vice
president. Jesuit Father Robert J.
McEwen of Boston College, took
over the secretary-treasurer
duties.
The retiring president of the
organization is Holy Cross Father
Mark J. Fitzgerald, of the Univer
sity of Notre Dame.
