Republican farmer., 1919-05-16
K. OF c. HOLDS
 ANNUAL SESSION
Report of State Deputy Cronin Shows Interesting
 Facts.

Putnam, May 13.-Delegates to the tive nty-sixth annual state council of the Knights of Columbus met here to- day. first attending high mass at St. Marys church. When the business session was opened State Deputy Will liam J. Cronin, of New Haven, reao his annual report.
 The routine business being taken up the report on membership was read by the state secretary, J. M. Philips, of Hartford In this review it was shown that there are 62 councils in Connecticut with 7.561 insured mem bers and 1886 associates. total of 14947 a net increase of 4,065. ! The supreme secretary's report indicates that Connecticut stands eleventh in the country. The membership in five cities is: New Haven. 1909; Hart ford, 1,57S; Bridgeport, 1,469; Water bury, 1,273, and Stamford, 627
 State Deputy Cronin termed the session the victory convention" The Knights of Columbus, he said. stood out "a beacon light to all the world, the work it has accomplished un- selfshly will live forever in the hearts and memories of the boys in the serv- Ice of the best country in the world the United States of America" Depu- ty Cronin described in de tail the work of the order in war activities which embraced campaign as part of the United Drive when the amount col lected was beyond the quota. The Knights were active in every drive during the year.
 War activities of the Knights were summarized as 294 camp buildings, 27 tents, and 674 secretaries in this country Overseas, the Knights maintained 250 places in France. Bel gium, Italy, Germany and Great Brit ain, with 1000 secretaries. At pres ent there are 90 secretaries on trans ports bringing over soldiers. There are K of c. service huts in course of installation in the Hawaiian Islands, the Philippines, at Panama Porto Rico and with tho American forces in Siberia Nearly $14.000,000 has been collected for the work independent to the combined drive. the Knights share of which was $11.00o.000. making a total amount available of $25,000,000.
 It is expected that by the close of the major portion of the war work, in a total period of two years, the re- ceipts and disbursements will be close to 0,OoO,00O
 
 figures of some of the free dtstnbu- tions by the Knights, the totals run ming into big figures, such as hun dreds of talking machines, thousands of gallons of ink, millions of sheets of writing paper, hundreds of thousands of pounds of tea, coffee, candy and chocolate; cigars, pipes. etc. by tho million. He also quoted from official letters of commendation of the Knights work on land and sea MT. Cronin said he wished to emphasize this: '-rhe work is not yet done; see to it that the boys returning from service are we'll taken care of. and during these days see that they have every chance to get employment.
 He suggested that each council should have a committee to work on re-employnent. and to work with the general committee. A history of the orders war activities will be o,,t about September 1. More secretaries are needed and MT. Cronin appealed for volunteers.
 Councils are reminded that those with permanent quarters or buildings are to be open to men discharged from the service. The places must be social centers devoted to needs of the community.
 Deputy Cronin dealt with conditions in the order, its various features and urged renewed effort to strengthen it by large membership, more atten- ton to the individual welfare of mem 4bers and the carrying through of the slogan, "A million members in 1s1s- so per cent. insurance: all good men and true.'