HOUGHTS, CTIVITIES, ECHNIQUES
A Department of Helpful Suggestions and Materials for Chaplains
gin, for your inspiration and use, we present the Here there are no quotas of how many from each group Department. This is your page. Your THOUGHTS, are admitted or allowed. Among these men there is no r ACTIVITIES, your TECHNIQUES are what build discrimination. No prejudices. Theirs is the highest is department. If you wish to pass along ideas or and purest democracy." stations from your sermons and bulletins, you may e this medium through which to spread the light. d material to TAT, c/o THE ARMY AND NAVY Do you like to dabble in figures? Sometimes they make APLAIN, 1751 N Street, NW, Washington 6, D. C. us think!
Population of the U. S., 1945 .139,621,431
W hite ................. 125,053,137
Resource Material for Chaplains Non-white .............. 14,568,464
Look up "Army Talk No. 114," WD, Washington, 16th Male ................... 69,694,981
ch, 1946-"The Veteran as a Citizen." Female ................. 69,926,450
M It is estimated that by 1950 the population of the U. S. SDowling, S.. in leaflet "Chaplain's Serice," will have gained thirteen million.
dward Dowling, S.J. in leaflet Chaplains Service, In 1950 there will be five million more children under III, No. 11, refers to RECOVERY, INC., 185 N. 10 years of age than in 1940. bash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. They publish a month- In 1899 only 22.5 per cent of the population of the 2 mimeographed news sheet ($1.00 per year) dealing United States was reported as belonging to the church. th improved psychiatric techniques. Fr. Dowling writes: In 1945 52.5 per cent were reported as having church "Just as chaplains can hold out solid hope for alco- affiliation. holic penitents in the example of the Alcoholics Anony- Population of the U. S. 24 years and under-54,984,127. mous, so he can do much the same for mental and nervous cases that come to him, by citing the example of Recovery, Inc. And as we are speaking of figures we quote this tabulation from the Christian Observer, Louisville, Kentucky: ethodist General Board of Education, 810 Broadway, Expenditures for the war .....$86,700,000,000 ashville 2, Tenn., publishes an interesting brochure, Savings and investments ...... $40,000,000,000 emobilization Bulletin." Annual subscription, 50 for Luxuries and gambling ....... $10,000,000,000 ssues. Liquor .................... $ 7,100,000,000
PRecreation ................. $ 5,500,000,000
Tobacco ................. $ 2,700,000,000
From Chaplain Robert O. Smith comes this idea that Cosmetics, etc............... $ 2,200,000,000
y be of help IF we practice it. He says "I keep a little Churches and charities ...... $ 1,600,000,000 k which I call a log book of ideas and experiences. ten an idea or a thought comes to my mind as I read or about my work . I don't think that I shall log in From Chaplain Ylvisaker's correspondence when on his ny original gems of wisdom in my little log book. But tour of ETO we lift the phrase: "GI and GIW." That er chaplains might." gives us something new to use. Would a chaplain therefore become a "GIS" if he is a GI Saint?
om Chaplain Roland B. Gittelsohn's burial service for ericans killed on Iwo Jima comes this great paragraph: CWO Paul M. Filmner of the office Chief of Chaplains "Here lie men who loved America because their an- calls our attention to a correction in the American Army estors generations ago helped in her founding, and Chaplaincy. On p. 44, line four, read: ".. called to other men who loved her with equal passion because active duty with the Citizens Military Training Camps and alater incconnection with the work of the Civilian Conserey themselves or their own fathers escaped from op later in connection with he work of the Civilian Conseression to her blessed shores. Here lie officers and men, vation Corps egroes and white, rich men and poor-together. Here re Protestants, Catholics and Jews-together. . From the cover of the November, 1945, issue of The
ay, 1946