The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-06-29
Great Growth at Home.

necessarily lHpllsS vast duEflenE
tion of the number of chaDlains an
secretaries, who now exceed the Nv
hundred mark. BY the time the pre-
jected expansion IL completed II (
expected that no fewer than one thot~
sand priests and laymen will be wear
ing the uniform Of the Knights
Columbus in the camps and canton
ments at home.
Cost Of Work to Date.
The cost of the work so far, accord
ing to estimates made within the pas
week, reaches seven million dollars
apportioned as follows: CONSTRUCTION
and equipment, $2,jOO,000: operation
Sl,j00,0 900: chaplains, secretaries an,
stationery. S2,000,0O0, community an,
welfare work, $l5O,OO0 /admlnistra
tion, 100000; extension Of work
81, 900, 900 Expenditures and advance,
for the current year are about thre,
million dollars for work in the L. s
and four million dollars for work over
seas.
If this substantial sum has beer
necessary for the establishment of the
work in what might be termed an ed
vanced nuclear state II Is obvious thal
far greater sum will be necessary tG
extend it and maintain It on the vastly
expanded basis required to cope with
the needs of our ever,increasing mill
tary forces.
These seven millions of dollars ara
the financial measure Of the work ac
complished during the fiscal year: but
this work will be, so far as men and
material and results are concerned
about sextupled during the forthCom.
| ing twelve months, for it has been the
experience of the Knights of Culum
bus that the Orders war relief servr-
| ices are in urgent and extraordinary
demand. demand far greater than
| anybody ever calculated, and this Ge.
mand is made by scores of thousands
of nom n-Catholic soldiers and sailors az
well as by the hundreds of thousands
of Catholic boys with the colOrs. II is
i an imperative demand that must ue.
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| doubt that the Catholic pCople. sup
ported by their non-Cathoic friends
whose sons and brothers are intimate
! ~ Denenueu by the work, will provide
the funds to supply the demand.
UniversaIist Praises Work.
Perhaps the surest gauge of the
vast ramifications of the X. of c. work
is the manner in which the Orders
name has come to be linked with that
of the Red Cross as an efficient agency
of war relief. Everybody in the coun-
| try knows now that the X. Of G.. war
work stands as a monument of Catho-
lie civilian patriotic endeavOr just as
the great proportion of Catholic men
in uniform is an imperishable tes-
timony to Catholic devotion TO cOun-
try. But evidence from the outside
is always most convincing. The fol-
lowing excerpt from the address OF
welcome of DR.. Charles w. Parmenter
President of the trustees of the church
entertaining the Massachusetts, Uni
versalist Convention at Cambridge re
Gently, is reprinted from the Univer
salist Leader:
Millions will return from the west
ern front with new visions and greatly
changed ideals. They have fought side
/ by side with their English, French
, and Italian brothers, and have cheer
fully obeyed a single commander II
order that they might fight effectively
/ They have learned the value of eff
cient leadership and fraternal CO
, operation. They have appreciated th'
, ministration of the units of the YOuns
> Mems Christian Association and th'
) Knights of Columbus, working har
moniously under the same badge Q
. honor. They have noted that tht
, nationality or faith of, the Red Cros
l nurse in no way affects her gentle
!. ness efficiency or heroic devotion t
p duty. They have heard Catholic am
Protestant boys sing together the an
! propriate music of the Mass, while
\ multitude of Protestants and CathC
O lies listened devoutly to the solemi
! words of the priest They have Oh
served that similar groups, equal
large, have given rapt attention to
Protestant chaplain whose inspirin
J 60 impressive message contained q