The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-26
KEEP COMING, CASEY
SOLDIER IN ARGONNE GIVES
WORD TO KNIGHTS OF coLUM.
BUS-k. OF c. PERSONALITY
WRITER IN GOLFERS TELLS
OF PLEASANT ATMOSPHERE
OF THE K. c. HUTS.

Over in France the Knights ac-
quired new motto. writes w. A.
Wolff in Golfers. 1t was in the Ar
gonne. Uncle Joe Herman was talk
ing to a young artilleryman, who'd
come along looking for something to
eat. When the soldier had finished
he started back. He turned, when he
had gone about twenty yards, and
waved, and called:
Keep coming, Casey-keep COM
ing!"
You bet" yelled Kernan-and saw
a shell fragment kill the boy as he
turned away. But that soldiers last
words have seemed like pretty good
motto to the knights of Columbus
ever since: Casey means to keep COM
| ing.
Won Its Spurs.
When Lieutenant Colonel Whittle-
sey led his immortal lost battalion
back from it's desperate struggle in
the Argonne, neither he nor any Of
his men knew they had been lost, -
says the Collier contributor further.
But some things these boys did know
land knew mighty we'll! They knew
| they had used up their emergency ra-
tons: that there hadn't been a cigar
cite or the makings of one in the out
| fit for uncounted hours. They knew
what something hot would taste like
Ian advance bit of heaven! And sud
denly one of the doughboys, plodding
along, yelled. ooh, you Casey he
cried.
| Two minutes later a queer-lOoking
continuance on wheels was being
mobbed. Clouds of smoke rose all
around it in minute: sounds of men
gulping down hot coffee and cocoa
filled the air. And a grinning, cheer
full chap in the uniform of a Knights
of Columbus secretary was handing
out food and hot drinks and cigarettes
as fast as he could-which was pretty
fast. X. c. was emblazoned on his
arm and Casey every soldier called
him.
Knights of Columbus secretaries
don't mind being called Casey. I
they weren't by way of being goot
working psychologists, they wouldn'
get very far in their work. And the!
realized when the American army
adopted that nickname for the Knight!
of Columb bus, that the organization hat
won it's spurs.
Had Personality.
| The roller kitchens, the writer ex
plains, were X. of c. inventions
They had done other things, as fol
example, send stenographers to thu
hospitals to take dictation from mer
too i'll to write. type the letters an(
bring them to the men for signatures
After explaining the religious reasons
for the Knights of Columbus en-
trance on war work the Collier writer
pays this tribute to the X. c. secre
taries:
The quality the X c. huts in France
and Italy had to themselves, the thins
that distinguished them most sharpl.
from any other huts, was a might!
intangible AFFAIR." thing extremely
hard to get into words. | have talked
with great many returning soldier
and marines, and they all say abou
the same thing. Those X. c. huts hat
ersonality-thats about as close a
you can come to defining it.
They're regular guys, those Case!
guys Dozens of soldiers have toll
nue. that. And what they have sait
hasn't involved invidious compari
sons, either It's just that there wa
something different, and mighty pleas
ant. about the K. c. atmosphere.
For one thing, Casey managed t.
eliminate red tape entirely Since
nothing was sold, there was never
chance for a timid secretary to MAKE
THE mistake of refusing supplies to ;
hungry outfit that had missed conneo
tons with it's payroll. Man after maj
would go to a X. c. hut, get cigarette
or whatever he wanted, and then ask
How much?" "Son, this stuff doe
not belong to Casey!' the secretar.
would answer. ut was just handet
to us by your folks back home to pas
on to you. Your moneys no goo'
with Casey-get that