The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-22
K. C. CONVENTION
CLOSES TONIGHT
WITH A SMOKER
State Officers Are Elected This After
noOn-Banquet Served Tuesday
Evening For Members and
Ladies.

Evening For Members ana
Ladies.
The seventeenth annual convention
of the Knights of Columbus OF WIS
consin will come to close this al
ternoon with the election OF officers
A smoker this evening in the X. G..
hall will terminate the gathering,
which has been the guest OF Water
town the past two days. The conven-
ton was formally opened Tuesday
morning by Postmaster James w.
Moore, a member of Watertown Coun-
Gil No. 147S. More than two hundred
delegates responded to the roll call.
Mr.. Moore introduced Mayor Charles
Mulberger, who welcomed the dele
gates to Watertown. In his address he
referred to the work of the order in
the war as being wonderful and the
boys at the front certainly appreciate
it, and the average citizen no matter
what his religious belief may be,
should support the movement.
w. H. Doherty of GAINESVILLE, state
,
thanking the mayor for his kind words
of welcome and the tribute paid them.
Banquet Tuesday.
The knights and their ladies par
took of banquet Tuesday evening in
ST. Henry's hall, arranged by the To-
cal council The menu was served a la
Hoover:
n:
Roast Pork Tenderloin Roast Veal
Mashed Potatoes Brown Gravy
Watertown Peas
Biscuits
Brick Ice Cream Cake
Coffee
La Preferencias
When the feast for the inner man
was over there followed a feast OF
reason in a well prepared program:
Star Spangled Banner --------------
Orchestra
POSTMASTER
Rev. Phillip Schweitzer, Brighton
Invocation ----------------
Rev. W. H. LAWN, Watertown
The Order in the Wal
John F. Martin, Green Bay
oelectlon --------------------
Orchestra
True Leaders (Columbia's Hope)
Rev. H. C. Noonan, Milwaukee
The States War Chest
Walter M. Burke, Kenosha
Future Service
M. II. Doherty, GAINESVILLE
Orchestra
The Rev. Phillip Schweitzer OF
Brighton, former pastor of st. Henry's
church, graced the board as toast
master. With clever sally or person.
al quip he introduced in their order
the speakers of the evening. He gave
a brief resume Of the Waterfowl
council which he founded when here
He also told OF building ST. Henry's
hall
Rev. II. C. NoOnan.
True Leaders" (Columbia's Hope)
was the subject on which the Rev
Herbert c. Noonan, president of Mar
quette University, Milwaukee smoke
he condemned strongly the spirit OF
pro-Prussfanism which exists now
he stated that in many churches the
pastors were afraid to give tha;,
& views on patriotism oHaven't thew
any courage?" was the question pro-
pounded. In these times the call OF
blood must be forgotten for the call
Oh country, for the call of country is
the call OF God. | don't care what Won
say about Germany. You must fight
Tor the q. S. A, for when YOU fight
her you are fighting rank material
ISM" he said.
true leadership consists of two
parfs-ln church and state There is
the true and false leadership which
the speaker brought out in a clear
IofclDle manner, following in logical
sequence his thought in such man
ner that his audience could follow
him closely.
The end to which individuals are
conducted is secured through the oh
serVance OF the moral law--that law
pelng part OF eternal law" he de-
clared.
some say that life is a great mys-
tefy, that we do not know whence we
come or whittier we go. Skeptics tell
US that we are children cropping in the
nght. We know from whence we come
ana whittier we go-from God to God y
he said.
he dwelt briefly on the three great
FACTS essential to true leadership. The
nome, church and state.
He cited the medical convention at
chicago last year where by vote of
81 to it was decided to go before tbo
legislature to secure a bill authoriz-
ing them to put to death incurables
surely there is chaos in medical
thought" he said.
he also cited President Elliot of