New Britain herald., 1919-10-15

Attorney Crosby, as the latter was the real orator, and after such a flood of oratory, Mr. Reilly said that were he to speak then, he would feel like the hero of the JohnstoWn flood who, when he went to heaven and began relating, as urgently requested, the story of his heroism in saving many people in that flood, was continually interrupted by a bcWhisllcrcd indi- vidual with a derisiVe "Oh, heli!' The individual appears to have been Noah ".Anybody who follows the flood of elOQuence of John Crosby would feel like the hero Of the Johns- town nood," Mr.. Reilly said.
 "Mayor Quigley,' he continued, 'Said a lot of fine things tonight. In fact, it is the best speech 1 have heard him deliVer."
 Turning to the mayor, he said:
 "If you had made that speech dur ing the recent campaign, Gus Loner- gan would not have had so soft a Snap.'
 No order," said MT. Reilly, "has done more than the Knights of Co., lumbuS in the recent war and their record will be known as long as his tory endures. Connecticut and DalE council have done their part.
 Many Important Problems.
 "The war is now over but there are problems confronting us now that are just as important. Conditions are such that they will bear careful study. Any Knight who has lived up 10 the principles of his order will be better prepared to meet these prob lcms for the better the Knights of Columbus the better the Americans. There are those who pride their Americanism upon the fact that their ancestors came over in the Mayhowcr. Americanism is not matter of birth place or lineage. It is something we feel deep in our hearts and high in our heads. There are people, born in this country, who don't know what Americanism is. There are foreigners who have been naturalizcd and who live up to the principles of American
 ism, and they are Americans just so long as and no longer than they live
 up to these principles. There is no place for the hyphen. We either are or arc not Americans.
 "The problems we have to meet we will be better fitted to meet as Knights | of Columbus. When we realize that | our order stands for the old spirit of 1 Knighthood, We will be able to com 1 bat these problems.
 ! 'Whcn the manufacturer realizes
 he is dealing with human beings 1 when labor realizes the spirit Of Knighthood-there will be no need to
 fear agitators or labor unrest" Attorney Crosby Speaks. Postmaster Halloran then intro
 duced United States District Attorney
 John r. Crosby of Hartford. After expressing a feeling that he
 was honored to have the privilege of | addressing such a gathering, MT. 1 Crosby told a story of a time when i he was in a little western town for l the purpose of addressing the mem l bers of the Knights of Columbus on i the life of the great discoverer. He
 was waiting for the meeting to start l when he over heard an Irishman say 1 What does a long-legged fellow by l he name of Crosby know about the l Ks or Cc, sure he knows as much | about them as the Pope does about l the A. r. As" Mir. Crosby said that l he sometimes wished that he had an l Irish name like Reilly, or Halloran, | or Sullivan, or even Quigley. But 1 Crosby is always suspicious, he said | However he assured the gathering in the western city that if being an
 Irishman and a Catholic were the | credentials necessary for one to talk 1 on the Knights of Columbus he had 1 them. He did not know what an 1 aristOCratic name he had until he came 1 east. His ancestors were Irish hoW-
 ever and while they did not come 1 over in the Mayhower and were poor coming from the eastern coast of l Ireland, he is just as proud of them
 as if they had come over in the
 Maynower.
 The church, declared the speaker
 teaches the love of God and the homo
 as well as country, and for that req
 son it is but natural that Catholics
 should be patriotic towards this
 country.
 Prohibition War On. Mr. Crosby then called attention to l the fact that the war was over with l the exception of the prohibition war
 which some think is the cruelest ever | perpetrated. When prohibition first l came up, he said. he thought that it would not prevail and was told that
 1t would not and he felt like the re-
 crult who in the airplane when he , was high in the air and was told by l the instructor while the machine was l SurGing down through the air that 50 l per cent. of the crowd that was watch
 ing below fet the flyers would fall to
 the ground. He said "They have ! nothing on uS.'
 At this point he told another story 1 about a law observing sheriff in the ! west who when asked why a certain | church was being moved declared that
 tho law provided that no saloon