Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1918 — THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DRIVE [ARTICLE]

THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS DRIVE

Another drive is on. The soldiers are weary enough, bedraggled, worn perhaps, bruised and aching and many of the boys have “gone over the top” but these will respond to the new call. The going “over the top” once or twice does not end the war—or any single soldier’s part in the war. He knows that he must “go Over the top” again— and again—and yet again until the fight is finished. And he knows that he has not done his part until he has done his all. And he knows that were he to plead to be excused from going “oyer the top” Again he would be despised by his comrades and probably shot for insubordination. The soldiers are tired—but American soldiers never stop until the work is done. The drive in on to raise in the United States $16,000,000 to continue the great work the Knights of Columbus are doing for the boys at the front until July 1, 1919- That means a quarter of a million in Indiana. And let this be understood—the work that xis being done by the Knights on the front and in the training camps is not confined to the soldiers of the Catholic faith, but extends just as generously to those of the Proste'stant or Jewish faith, as the work of the Y. M. C. A. extends to those who worship in the ancient church. These two organizations jointly are achieving mighty results in sustaining the moral tone of the troops, in furnishing wholesome recreation and pleasures, in projecting into the camps the spirit of the homes. And through their co-opera-tion, the dove tailing of their work, religious differences are yielding to the spirit of national unity, and the realization reaches every dollar that every sect and creed in America has found a common cause.