Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1919 — K. OF C.'S HOLD BIG MEETING [ARTICLE]

K. OF C.'S HOLD BIG MEETING

LOCAL COUNCIL FOLLOWING NATIONAL COUNCIL FAVORING IRISH FREEDOM.

The Knights of Coluffiblttn Bishop Dwenger Council, No. 1881, the local branch of the order, held an important meeting Tuesday night for the purpose of installing their newly elected officers and arranging for the exemplification of the three degrees which will be conferred to a class of candidates in the near future. The fbllowing officers elected for the ensuing year were installed by District Deputy Thomas Kemple and his assistant, Mr. Kern, of Lafayette: Grand Knight, John Murphy. Past Grand Knight, Conrad Kellner. ■ Deputy Grand Knight, John H. Nagle. - Financial Secretary, William Eiglesbach. “ Treasurer, Lambert Halsema. Recording Secretary, Paul Worland. Warden, Paul Healy. Chancellor, Mike Wagner. Advocate, Stan Lane. Inside Guard, Stan Brusnahan. Trustee, John Worland. Chaplain, Rev. Christian Daniel. Lecturer, Lon Healy. During the evening'-various communications were read concerning the K.' of C. welfare work. The following statistics show that_ the knights found 70,023jobSbpenfor men back from France; rejected all offers of less than SIB.OO a week; placed 39.312 men at an average of $24.00' a week, a -total of $49,060,376 a year; gave vocational training to 21,113 applicants for better jobs and assisted the returned soldiers in many other ways. The local committee in charge of the new class 6f candidatesset October 26 for the first degree and November 23 for the conferring of the second and third. Coincidental with the visit to the state of Indiana of the Hon. Eammon De Valera, president of the Irish republic, the following resolution was voted upon and carried unanimously: “Whereas, the announced purpose of our president and the peace conference at Versailles was to give the people of the world the right of self-determination of their government, and “Whereas, the Irish electorate in the general election of December, 1918, seized the first occasion to dbclare’by an overwhelming majority its firm allegiance to the Irish republic; and . “Whereas, the elected representatives « of the Irish people in national parliament assembled have in the name of the Irish nation ratified the establishment of the Irish republic, . “Now, therefore, be it resolved, that Bishop Dwenger Council of the Knights of Columbus, endorsing the vote of the senate of the United States expressing ‘its sympathy with the aspirations of the Irish people for a government of its own choice,’ hereby urges the recognition of the national independence of Ireland by the nations of the world.”