The sun., 1919-07-28
WILL FIGHT REDS
WITH EDUCATION
Knights Of Columbus Begin
Conference to Map Out Ma
tional Programme.
FATHER wYNNE SPEAKS
No Readymade Cure for Boil
shevism, He Says-Noted
Leaders Lend Aid.

There f. no ready made cure for Boil
shevisn1, socialism and all the other fall
lacious isms of political and economic
philosophy in the mere crying of Amer
icanism." according to the Rev. John J.
Wynne, S. J., editor of the Catholic En-
cyclopseedia and one of tho leaders at
the conference of educators under the
auspices of the Knights of Columbus,
which opened in the Commodore Hotel
yesterday. The conference will continue
week.
We've got to do more than cry Amer
ioanism," said Father Wynne We've
got to show In understandable detail Just
what our ideals of social and industrial
Justice are; we've got TO convince the
forming mind of the justice OF our ideals
of property and law and order. These
things have been confined heretofore to
college and college extension courses.
every man and woman who wants to
think straight about them"
This Is one of the items of an ambi-
tious programme which IL being pre-
pared for the consideration OF the peace
convention of the knights of Columbus
in Buffalo next month. The programme
will run all the. way from courses of
philosophy in one syllable words, as sug-
gested by Father Wynne, to such practi-
cal things as trades, stenography, bust
ness methods, languages and physical
training 1t Is aimed to furnish any
person struggling in the battle of life
with what ne needs.
Wide Range OF Studies.
TN New York for instance" said
Father Wynne. "the young man or young
woman who finds that steography would
help a career. must wait four years to
learn it in the public night schools. Ere
quently the cost of quicker progress in a
private school is bar. This Is typical
of the need we want to meet"
The 1000 councils of the knights of
Columbus with their 100000 members
will provide for those courses as they
are needed in the various localities. and
the whole system will be supervised by
experts engaged for the purpose. While
the New York councils may specialize
in instruction in the mechanics OF busl-
ness, those of the middle West are to be
called upon to supply expert agricultural
knowledge.
Those in attendance at the conference
here include James A. F1aherty of Phila-
delphia, supreme knight; Joseph C. Pei
letter of Boston, supreme secretary; Will
lam ]. Mckinley OF New York, supreme
secretary: Father Wynne, Edward d.
Devine, president OF the Detroit Board of
Education: Michael J. Downey. member
OF the Massachusetts Board OF Educa-
ton, director of the Boston evening
schools and professor in Johns Hopkins
University. Baltimore Peter w. Collins,
director Of reconstruction and reemploy-
ment work for the knights of Columbus !;
Arthur Somers. former president of the
New York Board OF Education. and other
educational experts, who will be called
into the conferences during the week.
Result of War Welfare Work.
The entry of the order into the educa-
tional field Is a new departure and Is the
result Of its success in welfare work with
the armies at home and overseas during
the war. While 1t is planned to exact
small fees for the proposed courses, the
councils probably will be asked to pro-
vide a general fund for supervisory ex>
penses and to provide for the remission
of fees in worthy cases.
Father Wynne expressed the opinion
yesterday that all such expedients as