The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
FOLLOW THE FLAG! K. OF c. WATCHWORD

| find it's destination. No small part of
| the work Of the K. of G. secretaries
has to do with hunting up informa-
tion concerning men requested by
their friends back home, and the case
has yet to be recorded where the eff
forts of chaplain or secretary have
failed to bring eagerly awaited news
to those who desire it.
Evers Sails With Party of Seventy.
A party of K of C. workers contain.
ing seventy secretaries and a number
of chaplains sailed for France recent
ly. Johnny Evers, the famous major
league ballplayer, was included in the
party. His advent has already been
made known to the A. E. F., and from
all accounts a rapturous welcome
awaits him from the thousands of
quandam ball fans now fighting for
Uncle Sam. The national pastime
never is anywhere more popular than
it is among these American boys thou
sands of miles away. from the corner
lots where they built up the sinews
that are now standing democracy in
such good stead. From the outset the
Knights of Columbus have made espe-
cial efforts to furnish large quantities
of athletic materials to the boys over
there, and particularly of baseball ma
terials. Evers' talents as a diamond
star are bound to make a big hit with
the boys among whom he is assigned
to work.
Already the campaign to recruit
secretaries for the K. of G. is bearing
fruit, applications from the four cor
ners of the country finding their way
to K. of C. headquarters. The foreign
department of the X. of C. Committee
Building, 461 Fourth Avenue, New
York City, is as busy an Office as any
in the country, for this department
must handle the vast amount of work
connected with the enlistment, pass
porting and transporting of the for
eign force, together with the thousand
and one other details in connection
with rapidly expanding work abroad.
More Men Wanted.
But the appeal for more men capa-
BILE of meeting the X. of C. standard
men between forty and fifty, skilled
machinists, traffic managers, book
keepers, steregraphers, etc, who are
eager to work and work hard for the
boys with the colors, has the same
urgency as when it was first issued,
and will have the same urgency until
all the men necessary are recruited
and even when all the two thousand
called for are enlisted and assigned,
the growth of the work will make fur
ther enlistments necessary.
A further development of the X. of
G. war work is the consolidation of all
activity in the home field under the
direction of William J. Mckinley, Su-
preme Secretary of the Knights of Co.
lumbus, whose indefatigable energy
and executive ability has had so much
to do with the success of the work
from it's very beginning. From the or
der's headquarters in New Haven Mr..
Mckinley will keep in constant touch
with every camp and cantonment in
the country.
Free Instruction in French.
Arrangements have been made to
give free courses in French in New
York to K of c.. secretaries, and
phonograph records of the French
| language will be furnished to all K of
G. huts at home and abroad so that
opportunity to learn the French tongue
will be within easy reach of every
| soldier. This will prove great boon
to the men, providing the individual
| instruction that warrants rapid prog.
ress.
Every department of the Knights of
Columbus war relief organization is
now working at top speed and with
maximum efficiency and, as Father
/ Noll of Huntington, Ind, recently en-
phasized after a personal inspection
of war relief work at one of the large
cantonments, the Knights are giving
the utmost value in results for every
dollar contributed to the X. of C.
war fund.