The Irish standard., 1918-09-07

The keynote of all activities should be unity
The United States has just begun OATS as
young ana powerful nation, fully developed for the
preme contest i'll which engaged This status of
solidarity has been achieved evocation the spirit
OF patriotism which had lain dormant in the
the people until aroused by tocsn of alarm for the
cause OF universal democracy. The response has been
supberb surprising the expectations friends
alike The whole country has been transformed in the
short space of from it's incongruous divergent
policies and purposes into mighty engine of limess
force whose dynamic vibrations resondng through
the world We are at last in full action, and the pages
OF current history daily attesting national
capacity and rresstbeness Under competent
leadership of President Wilson fabricating the
thunderbolts of that destined speedily to sound
the eternal doom of oenzolernsm Hapsburgism and all
other sms of their kind in the world. In fine we are
now doing for the nations of the globe what we did for
ourselves in 1776 redeemng from the thradom of
Alien domination and setting them up in such forms of
governments they may deem best their own well
fare and development.
Such Is our mighty policy they should
not be hampered disturbed by any petty or narrow
considerations either from within without our bound
aries Our activities have thus proceeded wonder
fully WELL without friction jealousy or internal strife in
any substantial degree In this spirit of unity
and will continue notwithstanding Sudden sounds
and shocks fappings of the sail" which
natural effects of wind and wave
1t Is in this spirit that the knights of Columbus have
made formal protest against the decision of the war
TO 0lrect drives funds
by the Y M. G. A, the Y. w. G. A., Camp Com
munity Service and the American Library Association
and another later for the knights Columbus the
Salvation Army and the Jewish Welfare Board AS Su-
preme Knight James A. F1aherty points out "his
be drawing religious line in time of that cannot
fail to criticism disturbance throughout
the country" Bishops Hayes and Muldoon have also
voiced their opposition pan saying their vote of
protest:
"We most sincerely hope that the announcement of
6riVa nOf foot nd
the Government. For unity, economy and Amercaniza
ton let us have only drive which, without doubt
would be immense success from every viewpoint One
drive prevents any possible misinterpretation."
The dual drive would also operate unfairly in relation
to the second group of organizations mentioned in that
they will be delayed several months in recruiting their
funds Furthermore, there will be Liberty Loan drive
In October-the drive of the first societies above
mentioned will follow in November then comes the Red
Cross membership drive in December then
Holidays and the Knights of Columbus Jews and the
Salvation Army left to get what is
of the year.
These considerations obviously of such weight as
to command the prudent attention the authorities
No suggestion of Intentional favortsm partaliy
been made is recognized that there may be
difficulties in the way of conducting single drive for all
the welfare organizations But earnestly hoped that
more democratic method of dealing with situation
may be found than that of separate drives with
long interval between them In this as all our war
activities the watchwords should be- equality
and unity.