Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1918 — SOUND KEY NOTE FORK. OF C. DRIVE [ARTICLE]

SOUND KEY NOTE FORK. OF C. DRIVE

GREAT ORATION DELIVERED BY DEAN STANLEY COULTER. The drive to raise $16,000,000 in nation, $250,000 in the state and $2,000 in Jasper county is on in earnest. The artillery lire delivery here Thursday evening at the Gaiety Airdome has cleared the way for an infantry attack, that will go over '.he top and Jasper county is sure to fa.exceed its $2,000 quota for the war fund for the great order, Knights of Columbus. The band led the way to the Airdome and gave a brief concert. Hon. Edward P. Honan presided at the meeting and in his usual happy way, introduced the speakers of the evening. The first to address the meeting was August Berghoff, secretary of the Knights of Columbus hut at Camp Taylor. Secuetary Berghoff gave a vivid description of the work being done by the K. of C. and their hearty co-operation with the Y. M. C. A. Also that the one thing they emphasized was that their work was for all soldiers regardless of creed or any other 1 conditions. He read a very interesting endorsement from Col. Healey, which reads as follows: “It is probable that the friends of the soldiers have a very good idea of the work performed in the field by the Knights of Columbus, but unless they have visited an army Camp or hqve had explained to them the activities that center about the Knights of Columbus but they have only partial knowledge of the work. Fortunately I have been associated to sopie extent in the activities that are inspired by the Knight of Columbus and the Y. A. and therefore know first Mnra"‘that their influence is whojesome, instructive, patriotic and consequently vital in the making of the soldiers who are to offer tneir lives on the altqr of their country. The drill hours of the soldier are long and tiresome. Naurally varied means of relaxation must be employed. The government can encourage but not enact these means and thus the existence of the organizations mentioned. They provide reading and writing rooms, furnish stationery, sell stamps, have an abundance of cool drinking water, have picture shows,.clean entertainment, religious services, provide parties, picnics, athletic, lay off tennis courts, football fields, baseball grounds, organize into action suggestion for soldier wefare that the busy soldier .himself could not perform. Without them time would hang heavily on the soldier in free hours, others relaxation would be sought and many dangers and temptations confront the soldier from which he is now kept apart. These organization work in the finest harmony. Both are essential. Boarding at the mess of field officers of the 151st infantry Y. M. C. A. and K. of C. workers, Catholic priests and protestant ministers and they confer about soldier welfare work and the

result is a better army, better satisfied soldiers and all tends to the quicker solution of the war and to the assurance that there will be returned after the war ends men better prepared as citizens to take uip important duties of reconstruction of the government. Realizing that the people back home are being frequently implored for assistance, I fell that the appeal which the Knights of Columbus are now making for money to carry on and extend their work is one worthy of the assistance of all who are able to give and I cheerfully recommend the charity as being one of .the best place auxiliaries to the fighting branch of the army. GEORGE H. HEALEY, Col. 151st Inf., Camp Shelby, Miss. The address of Dean G. Stanley Coulter, of Purdue University, was a splendid plea to the people present, urging all to give to the Knights of Columbus and other war relief activities. It was a dignified, vivile message and made an impression on all present which undoubtedly will give all a renewed zeal and interest in the great struggle between Autocracy and Democracy.