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Show iff s Si an citEiw Rational Delegation at Buffalo Buf-falo to Launch Drive Against Radicals. Educational Program Pro-vides Pro-vides for System of Night Schools. Lcial to The Tribune. KFU0 N. V.. Auk. -IMore than U lle'l tes. representing 600.000 .n.em-.30, .n.em-.30, dt ew.. f Columbus in the 'kerB, iiate" Canada. Newfoundland. k, i r, Cuba Porto Rico, the canal zone 'h ' j i'hiliPPinfs. have arrived m hirrT.'o' to attend the thirty-seventh an- 1 r . ,Aiivntion styled the peace cunven- 1 ti;,''Ji the Knishis of Columbus. This Ration succeeds the prophetic Victory jPSheM by the Knights last year Ul 'r wehispeace convention the Knights ; i'l eo "over the top" against Bolshevism i rH all other forms of extreme radical-f;, radical-f;, or any movement threatening Amer-& Amer-& a,i institutions. Having aided with dis-Kiishcd dis-Kiishcd success the cause ot the Sotted States in the war. both in this -Wjnirv and abroad, the organization is " V,i;v chlng at full speed putting into op- 'Vaiion a nation-wide educational pro-crani-an immense chain of supplement-V supplement-V i-v hools. Just what this program eon-v eon-v it', n wili be laid before the big peace '.invention which commences at Buffalo v jon Wednesday. 1 .Education Flan Drafted. week a conference of New York i-lfdu'-ators drafted the Knights of Colum-ibus Colum-ibus educational plan at the Hotel Com-'modore Com-'modore in New York City. The gathering l represented some of the most eminent (educators of the country. The problems, ''plan and operation of the educational l' srheme have been entirely left in their hands, and, according to James A. wFlaherty. supreme knight, no small derail de-rail in insuring its success and popularity f.Jias been overlooked. k That all the pernicious "isms" will meet Kii formidable foe in the Knights of Colum-Fi)ijs Colum-Fi)ijs can be readily forecast when one 'gianc;s over the report of William J. IMcGinley, supreme secretary of the organization, or-ganization, whose report for the year on '- the activities of the "New World Knights" r nvill be one of the most interesting docu-merits docu-merits to be laid before the peace conven-; conven-; ! lion. Some of its most salient points are: ..)That the organization will, at the present r l rate of growth, have about a million mem-v,' mem-v,' Iters by the first of the year IOl'O; the f lit v; membership is coming from the army V-.' and navy, despite the fact that during jtiie months of activities with the troops and sailors the knights did not try, be-haujsc be-haujsc there was a rigid rule against so frioin', to propagate the merits and bene-fits bene-fits of their orgar ization. Finances Satisfactory. : The finances, according to Secretary McOinley, are in a highly satisfactory condition. The present assets, exclusive l-of iho .special war fund, total over ?S,-' ?S,-' fi'0, fJ'JO. The total death benefits paid 5:.durin,' the year amounted to $ i . 1 7 ;j , 6 0 4 . 1 S f ? making a total since the beginning of the ""j order of $L3,l'3,64G.7fi. The total insur-i insur-i t ance in force this year amounts to ?16.-'jli.ifir).?. ?16.-'jli.ifir).?. The influenza scourge cost the Knights of Columbus in payment to beneficiaries of insured members 1,149,-i 1,149,-i (I'm. - The educational program to be launched r, hy tiie knights is for the 600,000 mem-vhers mem-vhers and others not members who may i wish to take ad'antage of the courses. lTlie syslem of night schools will extend -.from trie Atlantic to the Pacific and from -tf. Canadian borderland to the Rio I : (irande. The chief aims will be to teach 1 practical citizenship, and to give courses Mn executive, technical and cultural train-iiip train-iiip (hat will guarantee a solidarity of , ; citizenship of such proportions that Bol-'G Bol-'G ;shevism and Socialism and other "isms" .ivill become subdued. v Gibbons Sends Message. j;, Supreme Knight Flaherty today received re-ceived a message from Cardinarl Gibbons, f1 ithe veteran patron of the Knights of Co- f UumlniN, who gave the knights their first iemphatic test as an organization destined , jor public service when he. with fellow ijiipnirjers of the hierarchy, intrusted to the knlKhts the task of raising half a million dollars for the Catholic University of America, which task the knights success-j success-j lully achieved. "The knights have clone a magnificent . iM'ork, and i lie hierarchy, the clergy and the people will always be most grateful," I Caniinay Gibbons wired. JThe convention will open in St. Jo- Rph's new cathedral with a pontifical hicu mass by Bishop William A. Tur-iier Tur-iier of Buffalo, followed with a sermon by 1 jjjishoii William T. Sheehan. rector of the Catholic University of Washington. From ijhe cathedral the knights will march to hdr convention hall, where Admiral Wil- Mm S. Benson, ranking officer of the J nlted f,state.s navy, tvill speak. Admiral f lienson js expected to bring an official message from Washington. T. t |
