Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1918 — K. OF C. WORKERS BUSY OVER THE COUNTY [ARTICLE]

K. OF C. WORKERS BUSY OVER THE COUNTY

' Reports from the township chairman of the Knights of Columbus war fund drive shows that the various team workers are meeting with great success and everyone is doing his bit to help put this drive “over the top” and keep up the patriotic reputation of Jasper county. The money collected in this campaign is to finance extensive work in our army and navy stations. “Every Welcome” is the sign emblazoned on every Knights of Columbus camp center and hut. The doors are open wide to Protestant, Catholic, Hebrew, white or colored. It is here that they gather after military duties are over for the day, to pass their time writing letters back home, seeing moving pictures, reading magazines and newspapers, hearing lectures, and holding their “sings.” A Knights of Columbus recreation hall is both club house and home to the boys in khaki, and thousands of them are this moment participating in the cordial hospitality and good fellowship which prevails under these roofs. Whatever his creed, his kind, or his color, a soldier’s welcome to a Kngihts of Columbus social center is assured. The secretaries in charge do not concern themselves with sectarian questions. Catholics, Protestants and Hebrews use the buildings for their religious services. At every training camp and with the troops over seas, the Knights of Columbus, the Y. M. C. A., the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and other welfare organizations work hand in hand, always to the one end our soldier boys in the ’fight to win thq, war. Help the Knight of Columbus war drive.