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Show u K. OF C. IN CONVENTION. Nearly 100 delegates representing the various state councils of the Knights of Columbus attended the twenty-first annual convention of the supreme body at New Haven, Conn., last week. In h!s address Supreme Knight Heara said from the viewpoint of organization or-ganization the past year was a busy one. The order has nen extended into California, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Da-kota, Oregon, Washington, Montana, and the province of Ontario. The total to-tal number of councils now is 730, with a membership of 88,993. Under the head of "Charity'' ihe supreme knight spoke of the Catholic Catho-lic missions for Indians in the Southwest, being most deserving, and continued: "Let us stop and consider con-sider the condition of our co-religionists in Cuba. Porto Rico, Mexico, and in the distant Phllipines. There are great deeds to be done in all these countries. There is need for a strong, active and permanent Catholic Catho-lic organization, especially in the Philippines, where a crisis in Catholic Catho-lic affairs is approaching which must be met and averted. The schism of the Independent Catholic Filipino I Church is a fact and is growing in strength and numbers in defiance of rightful authority. The united influence influ-ence of American Catholics must be brought to bear against this dangerous danger-ous movement, and the Knights of Columbus ought to take a prominent part in the work. I am convinced that the Knights of Columbus, with its Catholicity, its patriotism, it3 organization, or-ganization, its force, its purpose and its magnificent results would satisfy a great many of the needs in the Philippines and In the countries nearer home. There are many of our members scattered throughout the Philippines who are without organization, and the Knights of Columbus once established estab-lished would have their earnest support sup-port and would appeal to the honest-minded honest-minded and intelligent Filipino whose love and devotion to our holy faith and to hi3 native islands are hi3 life and religion. Further, prudent and conscientious fraternity will cultivate and strengthen alms for God, for ! country and for tTuthnfTT the deserving Catholic gnair ' our insular possessions conM k the Knights of Columbus an and undying memorial 0f glories of their country fent "Few of us seem to up.fierstan to raise the depressed f0 th. ,. at of men Is the highest aim o' cial state. Let the ,u,w ,! Ur s-accomplished s-accomplished be an jnceJJ? h higher accomplishments" 6 to The following officers "w ra D, Supreme knight, Evhv(i-, L South Framingham. Mas ,L preme knight, Patrick " 1 ? s'3' Chicago. Ills., national vTMl lX iel Colwell. New Haven-treasurer, Haven-treasurer, Patrick .1. i;ra(iy ' C1patl0,:il O.; national physician lv 'wnr0'-McMannis. 'wnr0'-McMannis. New York C'V T-advocate, T-advocate, James E. Mr fV, ' .Jnal I burg. Mass.; director J c 'p 1 Boston; William S. Vc--lv' I(Pletief, ' Dr. A. Smith. Brooklyn; Thar WW Weber, Brooklyn. rl 9 1 |
