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Show 4NIGHTS OF COLUMBUS AID CAMP KEARNY BOYS kjj J8 $S vjj tjjt cf5 RECREATION WORK AT CANTONMENT IS DESCRIBED' pATHER MARTIN KEATING (in gown) and the staff at one of the K. of C. buildings at ! F Camp Kearny. This K. of C. building is within a few feet of the Utah camp, where prac- : I tically the entire, command spends its leisure hours. :j xV S V S K , r x, , I X S N NN XXX, NN Nf xXxxx-. W W T T N , N XNN S X V xxxx-Jx. -WWJWWV 1 xS-XXxxxV- x N W V vVv.Ml'kv N N N , x V JN NN X N x NN n N N x , X N X , , nV v x;n-nUn::, N N N - NN N NXVXX NNN N , N.N NN.t,t-,.k' , , j N XN nN N VV, n N N sN N n x - f J VN , N NN N NXXX NX N NN , N NX X i J P i I X N N N N X N N N X X X . N j . i ' i , N W xXX .NX nx xxxxX ;tx ) ' NvI!nW, ' S XN X X X XXX XX x nNN X ,XX XN x i X X NXx N X x 4 X x t . V VnnX xX - V-XXXX Xx , f , , ' S VX NNxJ NXXXXXXx. x (". " ' N x N X I XX N, N SX X X X , v , . - ( N . ; , V N x NX x x N Xx . 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For the two performances of Monday Mon-day a special women's orchestra, arranged ar-ranged by Miss Genevieve Malone, will render an interpretive score and special selections and for Tuesday tie regular Orpheum orchestra will t in attendance. All musicians 1 have tendered their services for the performances. The entire gross re- i ceipts of the four performances will ifN?" aided to the K. of C. war camp v -v ' J Tietcvill be no reserved seats for any oi the performances, 25 ssts admission being charged to any . seat in the house at any performance for the two days. a , ' By FLOYD A. TIMMEEMAN, '; 1 Tribune Special Correspondent. CAJIP KEARNY, Cal., Feb. 9. News from Utah that their state is now raising a fund of $25,-. $25,-. 000 for the Knights of Columbus to tarry '.n its work in army canton-.. canton-.. ttents throughout the Uuite.l States-! States-! j5 caused a smile to spread over the tanned countenances of the Utah ar-; ar-; ,!'lerymeD, and it is a smile of tri-I'l', tri-I'l', for thev know that Utah will , t h.?hind the great work of their j nehts of Columbus friends here who have made the leieure hours pleasant and glad dujing the mouths of monotonous monot-onous training. Probablv no organization in the entire en-tire division has been able to study the work of the Knights of Columbus as the Utah boys, owing to the close proximity of their camp to the " building of ,ioys. : ' . Less than a stone's throw from the j Utah camp stands the most elaborate ! and best equipped building of its sort in the United States. Within its home-j home-j like portals a scene unfolds each night I that would make glad the hearts of the bovs' parents, could they but witness the manner in which this great order has made it possible for the red-blooded men to enjoy the simple and instructive instruc-tive games, good music, good books, educational features, and last, but not least, furnish the material, the place ' and the atmosphere to urge the men to write letters often to the parents they have left and who are always aaxious 1 about their "soldier boys." ; Saw Building Constructed. i The Utah bovs saw this huge build-i build-i ing throughout" its stages of construc-: construc-: tion from a pile of rough lumber to a 1 magnificent brown building, fitted to i house hundreds of men. They witnessed wit-nessed the carpenters as they hammered together the framework, and a few j weeks later the building was turned ' over to the interior decorators and the painters for final adornment. Seeing these things with their own eyes has caused the Utah men to feel that they are "charter members" to the joys of the building, and when they leave for the battlefields there will be many wistful eves turned in its direction, uttering ut-tering silent thanks for the good they have received within its spacious doors. In tills building there minglo each evening hundreds of khaki-clad men,: representing scores of religions, and every one of them is welcomed with the spirit that makes the men feel the same as if they had entered their own homes. Thev come and go at all hours throughout the day and evening. Many j wholesome hour of enjoyment is snatched during the hours of the afternoon after-noon when the men are relieved from -uard, in games of checkers, singing parties at the pianos, playing the ic-trola, ic-trola, reading from the library or telling tell-ing ths folks at home their experiences in the army. That Homelike Feeling. To get the men to feel as free and as much at ease in a strange place as thev would in their own homes is a problem probablv as hard to solve as the breaking of tho Von Hindenburg line but tho Knights of Columbus has accomplished this at Camp Kearney, as anv soldier will toll you. .Not all men are won to the place as in the instance in-stance below, but the spirit is the sanio in tho end: A certain Utah gunner, who stands several inches over six feet in his stock-in"- feet and hails from a 6parsely settled set-tled portion of Utah, walked faltenng-ly faltenng-ly through the Knights of Columbus door a few weeks ago. He was ill at ease as anv watcher could quickly judge by the manner in which he stepped ' cautiously about Inside he stood twisting his hat in his hands and Wazed slowly about. At last his eyes rested upon something in the corner of tho budding, and a change came over him His gaze rested upon a busy secretary sec-retary behind a counter in his shirtsleeves shirt-sleeves and puffing clouds of smoko from a man's sized pipe. ' Courage seemed to enter the huge frame of tho artilleryman, and with decisive de-cisive tread he made lor tho secretary's secre-tary's desk. He ot'r'ere.I his hand to tin;' seeretarv, and said: "I was kind of 'skeered' to come in here before, but I've heard the other boys say so mii.-h about 1 ho Knights of Columbus work that today 1 decided to look for myself. You see, I've never been much for religion, for chureh was miles away from the ranch where 1 hold forth. Of course, naturally I was a littlo worried about how to act when 1 first stepped in tho door, but when I spied you over here in your shirtsleeves shirt-sleeves and puffin' on that 'hod' o' yourn, I allowed I was at home, and I feel Just that way. " A Nightly Visitor. It is almost unnecessary to add that this man is now a nightly visitor to the, Knights of Columbus." The little things are what count in making the men feel at home, and not one detail has been overlooked in the Knights of Columbus work. If tho civilian population popu-lation could be mado to enjov the comforts of their homes as the soldiers sol-diers enjoy the Knights of Columbus atmosphere there would be a decided change in the nation. During the past three mouths the Ctah men have been able to hear many of the world's most famous singers and enjoy concerts by high-class strins orchestras and quartettes absolutely free at the Knights of Columbus. Practically Prac-tically four nights each week programmes pro-grammes are given, with everything from motion pictures of Charlie' Chaplin Chap-lin to the classiest selections of such singers as Madame Schumann-IIeink. Then there is a complete librarv of 1500 books, checker boards, phono--; graphs, pianos, reading rooms and' scores of games. Kacii day the men use more than 2000 sheets of paper and envelopes, furnished freo of charge, which shows that many of the epistles welcomed by tho folks'at home aro compiled within the Knights of Cclumbus walls. The staff of the Knights of Columbus Colum-bus buildings for there are two of them at Camp Kearny is the secret of success among the '''Sammies." Those in charge of tho building adjoin-ing adjoin-ing the Utah camp are: Father Martin Mar-tin Keating, post chaplain; Benno Brink, general secretary; H. J. Keeht-steiner, Keeht-steiner, Philip O'Brien, Thomas Mc-Naily Mc-Naily and Barney Wright, associate secretaries. Practically the entire staff have been men in high positions in civilian life and havo given up their enviable business positions in order that they may make ;brighter tho lives of the men in khaki who are goinu- out to fight the world's battles. |