The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-08-31
Catholic Chronicles

ray of doubt concerning the ultimate
success of the momentous tasks which
are confronting the nation and those,
fully as important and significant.
which are to come"
In the report rendered by Supreme
Secretary Mckinley the work that has
already warranted public faith in the
| Order was reviewed.:
For the twelve million dollars
which have been realized in the first
years campaign the Order is able to
show brilliant record of it's steward
ship. Seven and one-half million dol.
lars of this sum have been expended
and appropriated every dollar being
applied to the best result of it's value.
Roughly, about four million dollars
have been spent on the work abroad
and over three million dollars on the
work at home.
| mo fewer than $50 Knights of Col
umbus halls are in operation in the
camp and environments of the United
States, the number of buildings in
each camp ranging from one in the
smaller encampmentS to three in the
great environments. Each building has
its staff of a general secretary and
his assistants, $50 secretaries in all
being attached to the X. of c. build
ings in this country, while 100 X. of c.
chaplains are serving the boys at
home, night and day.
The buildings are all fully equipped
with chapels, libraries, writing-desks,
lounges tircplaces, stoves, ice-water,
billiard-tables, player-pianos, graf
onolas, and scores of miscellaneous
games; each building contains stage
with scenic apparatus, and cinemato-
graphs and films are provided for the
constant entertainment of the men.
in France forty-tive Knights Of
Columbus huts are in operation, and
us secretaries and forty X. of G.
chaplains are serving the men, not
only at the ports of debarkation and
at the American encampments, but
right up to the front line
"The crucial problems of labor and
transportation in France were solved
with the aid Of the French Govern
ment, which not only enabled the
Order to secure a large quantity of
automobiles, but, in recognition of the
vital value of the *. OF G. work. as
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to aid in it,
In England, too, the work is under
way, and the same story will shortly
be told concerning our cncampments
in Italy Cardinal Bourne recently
blessed the cornerstone of a X. of G.
building i'll London. Wherever the
boys 20 the X. OF G.. work will follow
them, and the ORDERS hospitality is
extended also to the Allied armies and
navies.
"The buildings abroad are equipped
precisely as those at home, and abroad
special attention is paid to an ade-
quatc supply of athletic materials, for
the American soldier loves nothing
better in a foreign land than the games
of his home country.
Recently orders were placed for
50,00O,000 cigarets, each cigaret to
bear the X. of G. monogram, 1000 900
bouillon cubes, ten tons OF sweet choc-
olate, 100000 packages OF chewing
gum, several three-and-a-half ton
motor trucks, and large coIsignments
of coffee, condensed milk, and other
supplies for our men at the Front.
The single item OF stationery calls,
each week, for 100000 sheets of pa
per and 100000 envelopes Tens of
thousands of rosaries scapulars,
prayer-books, and other religious arti-
cles have been and are being distrib-
uted.
And this imposing showing rep
resents but the growth of the work
for the first year. 1t is expanding day
by day. Additional buildings are in
course of construction, feature being
the erection of numbers of portable
structures. Scores of secretaries are
being recruited for service at home
and abroad, and the total of chaplains
is being largely increased.
with every reason the Order relies
upon the fullest support, not only of
American Catholics, but of Americans
of all creeds and races The work is
for all. The Order, in it's application
of the War Fund, lives up to the letter
and spirit of the splendid slogan.
Everybody Welcome and Everything
Free for the Men Here and Overseas!"
With forty thousand Knights now in
the service and hundreds of thousands
of Catholic boys bearing arms for the