The Washington herald., 1921-08-14
K. of G. Convention !
Completed With Pledges
Cooperation With Welfare Council, Promise
Of Funds for Italians, and Publication
OF Oath Big Features.

SAN FtSANSIoSO, 1dl.' aug. 10
Eight hundred thousand officers
and members of the Knights of CO.
II mbus have been pledged by the
orders thirty-ninth annual conven-
ton. which clos d yesterday. to Co
operate 80 far as possible with all
the good works Of the National
Catholic Welfare Council" Most
Rev. Edward J. Hanna, archbishop
of San Francisco, and chairman of
the administrative committee of the
Welfare Council, addressed the con-
vention and thanked the delegates
for their resolution. He was
greeted with great outburst OF ap-
plause.
In respect TO the program of ac-
tivities adopted and the growth and
influence to which the reports of
the orders officers testified to the
convention. II was the most notable
gathering in its history. 1t was an
Rounced that s2.50O,000 OF the fund
subscribed for the orders welfare
work in the war and reconstruction
and not yet expended, would be
devoted to a great scheme Of hos
pitalization in behalf of sick and
disabled former soldiers.
sIy0OO,0 900 for Italian Welfare.
Subscriptions of q total Of $1,000
COO with which to inaugurate and
conduct welfare work in Italy were
authorized by the convention. This
money will be gathered from the
members Of the order. The actiVi-
ties in Italy, 1t was explained, will
be undertaken at the Sequest of
Pope Benedict. Supreme Advocate
Joseph C. Felletier. in an interview,
stated the purpose of the fund as
follows:
TT Is our aim to go to Italy and
introduce American welfare work,
to repay Italy in part the debt laid
upon America when Columbus, the
great italian, found this western
world and made it possible for
Christiandom to extend its sphere"
The names of several historians
and authors who will be engaged to
write a correct and impartial his
tory of America. under the auspices
OF the order, were made public at
the convention, by Supreme knight
F-laherty. They were those of Maui
rice Francis Egan, former United
States Minister to Denmark: Prof.
George Derry. of Union. College;
Charles s. Mccarthy, professor OF
American history at the Catholic
University, and Admiral w. s. Ben
son. former chief of operations of
the U. 8. navy during the war.
The commission which will be in
charge Of the preparation of this
history of America will have for its
chairman EDWARD F. McSweeney, of
Boston. A fund of s1,o0o.o0o has
teen appropriated by the Knights
fer the work of writing the history.
Campaign Of Education.
To present the true story of
America to the people of the coun-
Try. Supreme Master John H. Red
din, of Denver. declared a cam
paign OF popular education will be
started by the order.
1T need be, we will food every
town in the country. with pamphlets
that tell the true tale OF Americas
great origin and Americas great
ness, stripped of all manner of Eu-
ropean or Asiatic coloring." said
Mr.. Reddin.
1t was decided by the convention
that the educational facilities pro-
vided by the order, particularly
for former soldiers. sailors and ma :
rines, will be continued. The 500
colleges and university courses and
Il e 1872 Knights>o Columbus night
vocational schools for veterans and
civilians will be financed and oper-
nted during the forthcoming year.
Endorsement of the Boy Scout
movement in the United States and
q pledge to support it wherever II
has been approved by the arch
bishops and bishops for Catholic
boys were voted by the convention.
Ts Publish Oath.
To counteract the campaign OF
hostility against the Knights In
which a spurious oath" ascribed to
The members of the Fourth Degree
Assembly Is widely circulated, the
convention authorized the publica-
ton Of the actual obligation taken
by members of the order. This was
the second time the Knights have
sanctioned the publishing of their
oath. which binds them to patriotic
service in behalf of the United
States and to a faithful observance
Of 'their religious duties.
l.. Although expressing doubt as to
the efficacy Of censorship of the
plays and motion pictures. the dele
gates held that the public should
adopt some .safeguards against in
decency on the stage and the
screen. .
&At the maj session Of the con-
vention the resolution pledging COL
Iabora ton with the National Gath
ollie Welfare Council was adopted.
This. resolntion In full is as follAws:
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