Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-29
this the real boom of the organization

this the real boom of the organization began.
 Much of it's success and rapid growth has been due to the organizing abilities and ceaseless zeal of the present As sistant District Attorney John J. De laney. who is known all over the Unit ed States as the champion worker of the ritual and promoter of councils. The national headquarters is at New Haven, Conn, and the government is in the hands of council composed of delegates from the various states m which the Knights are represented. The national officers are supreme knight, who gets a salary of $2,500 a year; deputy supreme knight. a sec- retary, treasurer. physician, advocate. organizer, warden, chaplain and spirit ual adviser.
 The possibilities of the society were apparent at an early day to the poli- ticians. In this city and in the smaller cities they are to be found largely on the roll of its membership. The period of special progress came under the ad- ministration of Supreme Knight John J. Cone of Jersey City. in the years 1S9S-99. He expected to be reelected to office as a reward for his success, but at the meeting of the national body, held in March. 1900, the politi- clans from New York and those from some of the New England states op- posed him and the office was given to Edward l.. Hearn of South Framing ham, Mass.
 At this meeting it was stated that the membership consisted of 30, 436 in- sured and 3S.265 associate members, a total gain during the year of 12.1OS members. There were then 539 coun- cils, in which New York leads with 164 and membership of 27,500. Massa- ehusetts came next. with 120 councils.
 Last month Charles Weber of Brook lyn, one of the national directors, while on a visit in Ireland, organized a council in Dublin and thus began the first international scheme of aftilia- ton. The European bishops. who are very chary of American innovations in church influence and procedure, can be relied on to back up Bishop Janssen's $ inquiry at Rome if the progress of tue Knights shows any indications of im- mediate prominence within their Jurls- diction.
 A curious feature has just been ce- yeloped in one of the western diyis- ions of the Knights in the shape of an anti-treating crusade. At Knights of Columbus banquet at Toledo, O., Deputy Supreme Knight Minahan made the proposition that at all Knights of Columbus gatherings the q spensing of liquor be cut out and that individual members use their best endeavors at all times by example to abolish the American habit of treat ing. 1t is reported that the suggestion has received considerable approval III many directions. One of the most notable of these is q communication from Bishop Henry Moeller of Colu;n- bus, O., to Council No 400 of the Knights of Columbus. which held a meeting to consider the idea.
 'One of the subjects to be consid- cred this evening"" wrote Bishop Moeller. "is the senseless and un-Chris- tian practice of treating. Good sense indicates that you ought not to urge q man to drink nor permit yourself to be forced to drink when he or you do not need it to quench thirst. This canon of common sense, the practice of treating, violates III most instances. Let it be one of the requisites in being a Knight of Columbus that he v1ll neither treat nor be treated by offer ing or accepting an intoxicant. 1t is a step in the right d;.ection; it has not only my entire approval. bput will re- ceiye my hearty co-operation.
 This idea has not yet been formally preached in this part of the country, and it remains to be seen how such a crusade will be received.