Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1918 — THEY DO NOT OVERLAPTHEY CO-OPERATH [ARTICLE]

THEY DO NOT OVERLAP—THEY CO-OPERATH

The Knights of Columbus and thJl Y. M. C. A. has the govern]] ment recognition because they aral doing the same work. There is n]| over-lapping because if only one off] these organizations did the all thal welfare work, it would need a faj|| larger budget. Co-operating, botflll organizations have all the worlil WELCCME’II slogan of the K. of C. has now bell come a password among the soldier]] and sailors of all creeds at our armwl training camps and naval training I stations. , _ ~11 Catholic, Protestant and Jew will I fight side by side; they should bdl backed by ALL their countrymen] I irrespective of creed or race id I every drive for funds. Let us pro] I mdte harmony by forgetting religious] I differences at home as they are for]! gotten at camp. . Here is what a Protestant mimstei] says of the work: “I want every Protestant boy tdl feel that his church is keeping right up close to him during this awful struggle, and we are doing sd through the Y. M. C. A. on the insiddl of the camps and through our open] door churches in all the camp wan zones, and I want every Roman Catholic boy to feel that his church is keeping right up close to him, just as truly as the church of his Protestant chum. And the Knights of Columbus are doing this, and are keeping up the courage and faith of thousands of boys and teaching how to live the clean life. And say to you, as a Protestant minister, from the Protestant pulpit, that it is great a necessity as the Y. M. C. A.” —Rev. Russell H. Brady (Meth.), Pontiac, Mich. Help America win the war. Give to the K. of C. War Fund.