Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-19
KNIGHTS Of COLUMBUS
ANNUAL CONVENTION
Launch Greatest Peace Time
Activities Society Has Ever
Undertaken.

Thousands of Knights OF Colum-
bus and their families are now en-
route TO San Francisco to attend the
national cGnvention where will be
launched the greatest peace time ac-
tivities the X. of c. have undertaken.
Since the beginning Of the war, the
work of the Knights of Columbus
has been practically centred upon
European activities. BY The time the
convention in San Francisco gets
under way the knights will have with
drawn from all foreign countries (ex-
cepting. of course, Canada. Newfound-
land, Cuba and Mexico) and concen-
trated their organization strength on
achievements i'm the United States.
The knights have on hand funds
OF. several millions of dollars to be
expended in welfare, educational and
historical work. and it is the plan to
expend these funds along lines laid
down by the board of directors that
Will be ratified by the convention.
During the year 1921 the knights ex-
pended roughly S2,o00,00o on - :
tionai work. principally for tufner
veterans of the war, who received free
college, academic and technical train
ing, the latter in the chain of 12S
X. of {. night schools operated in 100
principal cities and towns. The
knights. in San Francisco, will devise
ways and means to continue this very
substantial work, and at the same
time complete plans for new work.
The X. of C. history movement, des-
~ 10 rr,sf
with monumental and popular books
of propaganda proof American history
written by acknowledged experts from
original sources. is the most arrest
ing of the new tasks under taken by
the X. of c. These pamphlets viii be
available. free. 70 everybody.
Another important project to be
launched at this convention will he
the enlarged open forum work of the
h, of g., which during the 1921-22
season Will be made to include cul-
tnral as well as sociological subjects.
To their sociological lectures this
. year-all delivered absolutely free TO
the public under the auspices of local
councils of the h. of C.--will be added
a course of lectures in commcmora-
tlpn of Dante's 6ooth anniversary.
Many Americans know little Of Dante
but his name. and the h of c., by Sc
lecting recognized scholars of the great
Italian poet and placing them before
the public. hope to revive or rather.
stimulate interest in his works in
country where he should be known
as well.
The most picturesque activity
planned by the knights fro their COM
ing years program is the dual demon
stration which they will hold in
New York and Chicago in honor of
Marshal Foch when he visits the
United States and Canada in the late
autumn. Marshal Foch has said that
he Will bring with him to the United
States the jeweled baton, the cost
Hest in the world. presented TO him by
the X of c. on the occasion of the
unveiling of the K. Of C. statue of
Lafayette in Metz last August, which
function Marshal Foch attended.
Other features of the interna tional
convention viii be the launching of
the largest correspondence school sys-
tenn in the world. to accommodate
1.ooo. 900 former service men with free
mail courses. although in its expert
mental stage the school will be linn
tied to 100000 students, and the in
.stitution of new State jurisdictions
pf the X OF c. in Canada.