The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-06
KNIGHTS TO WAR
 ON REDS AND ALL
 OTHER RADICALS
Great Peace Convention of K. of C. Opens In
 Buffalo.
ANNOUNCE THEY WILL
 FIGHT RABID ELEMENT
Delegates Representing 600,O00 Catholics Gather to
 Deliberate.

bullalO, AuS. O~I He great peace convention of the Knights of Colum- the delegates and several hundred members of the order attended a solemn high pontifcial mass in St Joseph's Cathedral. Bishop William Turner of this city was the cele- brant.
 The sermon was delivered by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Thomas Shahon, head of the Catholic University, at Washington who said in part:
 Two years ago you took your ap- pointed place in the mighty national host which arose like one mass in de- fense of our imperiled American free dom, and you went down body into the bloody arena of humanity's last and greatest conflict.
 You represent today in the United States the flower of our Catholic laity, whether we consider your great numbers or the forty-eight states you represent, or the Vigor of your man. hood, or the sincerity of your faith, the distinction of your character, or the variety of your professions and offices in our American life"
 Mayor Buck, of Buffalo, welcomed the Knights in the name of the city at the opening session in the K of c.
 
 falo, addressed the Kni ghts, congrat- ulating them upon their immense ed- ucational program, which he describ- cd as right education designed to correct wrong education.''
 The meeting adjourned to the Stat Ter Hotel, where the business of the convention was immediately launch ed. James A. Flaherty, of Philadel- phia, supreme knight, gave his official report, which ran, in part:
 To-day we find ourselves together in the most crucial meeting ever held by this supreme body. Last year, at our prophetic Victory convention, we reaffirmed our undying devotion to the allies cause at a time when the world throbbed through the most critical hours of the war for universal democracy.
 with victory achieved, with peace signed and with a world half wrecked striving to recover itself, we now hold our peace convention to deter mine what shall be our contribution toward the reconstruction, just as last year we determined our final contri- button toward the victory, and to re- solve to bend our energy so that this contribution will be made promptly and effectively.
 Now we stand on the verge of the greatest educational movement ever attempted in this country. Famous educators from the East, the Middle West and the West have, at the in stance of special committee of the board of directors. prepared a pro- gram of educational activity for this order.
 By this educational system we shall most emphatica1ly promote the 1 world; we shall aid that enlargement of the scope of practical citizenship i which is popularly designated by the term, 'Anericanization.'
 That term Is altogether too vague, too liable to become an asper- sion of worthy people who have not been blessed with birth under the American flag. During the war these people demonstrat ted they are as thor ougly American as any of us. It is both dangerous and ridiculous to treat them as aliens in need of cor | rective principle. What they need Is good counsel and practical enlightenment regard | ing the rights and duties of citizen | ship, training in the earning of a good | livelihood and a constant preservation 1 of religious practically far the l most dangerous persons In this coun- | try are the native writers and takers | of extreme radicalism, the promoters ! of ungodly education and the fomen- | ters of economic and religious bigotry. | "At the comm encement of what we f have seen to be a well organized movement of unrest I made bold to | state in the public prints the everlast- | ing opposition which the Knights of 1 Columbus will maintain toward the | fermenting forces of reckless social | ism and anarchy, known popularly by | the imported term Bolshevism. "We shall fight Bolshevism to the | bitter end. by every means in our l power. And our chief weapon in this warfare will be education. That Is | the object of this new movement to operate supplementary night schools | in every city and town where there Is I a K. of c. council"
 Supreme Physician E. W. Buckley | of St. Paul and Supreme Advocate | Joseph c. Pelletier of Boston also | presented their reports dealing with | the internal. affairs of the organiza- ! tion.
 | The Knights are avoiding the usual l convention festivities and reducing | their procedure to the needs of strict | business.