Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-07-03
Official Report of Educational Work
For Former Service Men and
Women.
Have Seventy-three Schools Located
in Largest Cities Throughout
Country.
Perfect Information System For Par
ents Desiring to Visit Graves
in France.
THE WAR MEMORIALS COUNCIL

The official report of knights o
! Columbus educational work for for
mer service men and women has beel
prepared by William j. Mckinley, o
New York, Supreme Secretary of tn,
: K. of c., for presentation to the X
of G. educational convention to b,
held in Chicago. July ga. The re
port shows that the X. of c. have, S,
far, expended approximately $4,000,
600 on scholarships and the estab
lishment and maintenance of FIRE,
night schools.
In August, 1919, the report states
the X. OF G. appropriated $4,000 fol
the initial functioning OF. their educa
tional work and followed recommen
datlons of a committee comprisins
James f. Byrne, of New York; Rev
John ]. Wynne, S. j., Michael ]
Downey, of Boston; Rev. Edward A
Pace, of Washington, and Edward T
Devine, of Detroit. These men rec.
commended free night schools for for.
mer service men and women with
nominal fees for civilians and ex-
pressed the opinion that if the X. OF
G. had five or six schools well estab-
lished within a year the movement
could be successful.
The Knights, Secretary McGin-
ley's report states, have seventy
three schools located in the largest
cities throughout the country. One
hundred and sixty-fve thousand pu-
pills have passed through these
schools, the majority of them taking
direct livelihood courses. OF the
number 200 have been civilians and
approximately 1900 women and di-
plomas were issued to some $4,000.
When the schools closed for summer
5000 were attending classes.
The executive and faculty forces
OF the schools total approximately
$50 experienced educators, most of
them employed in universities or
public schools by daytime. 1t is es-
timated that between $4,000 and
$4,000 are needed to establish a X
of G. school, this sum rising to $685.
900 where elaborate automechanic
or radio plants are required.
The X. of C. educational conven-
ton will take up the work of resum-
ing the schools in September and ex-
tending their number.
With the cooperation of the
French Government the knights of
Columbus, according to a cable from
their Paris headquarters to William
j. Mckinley, of New York, Supreme
have been able to perfect
an information system for parents of
the A. e. F. dead desiring to visit
graves. On every railroad station
throughout France the X. of G. have
been permitted to place posters an
cemetery locations and the
address of their Paris graves infor-
nation bureau at IS Rue Hoche.
The X. of c. have ceased their work
of photographing graves, having sent
more than $500 pictures to parents
in the United States, but at the Paris
bureau they have complete record
Of graves registration available. with
detailed information as to how to
reach any particular grave.
Newton ID. Baker. Secretary of
War. has appointed James A. Flah-
erty, of Philadelphia, Supreme
Knight of the X. of c., to the Execu-
tive Committee OF the War Memoir
als Council. He will represent the
Knights of Columbus in the council
at a meeting to be held in Secretary
Bakers office when plans for the re-
moval of the American dead in Eu-
rope will be considered. Bishop w.
f. Mcdowell is Chairman of the COM
nittee.