. The Knights of Columbus in peace and war. relief committees. StateDeputy Patrick J. McCarthy of Ohio and Supreme DirectorWilliam F. Fox in Indiana, each directing the Orders work in hisown state. On receipt of telegraphic information from Cincin-nati Knights, describing the terrible conditions in that State,Supreme Knight Flaherty hurried out to supervise personally andSupreme Secretary William J. McGinley instructed SpecialSupreme Agents William J. Moriarty and Frank W. Sherlockto proceed to the flooded areas and take charge of the Ordersgeneral relief work. The Board of Directors appropria
. The Knights of Columbus in peace and war. relief committees. StateDeputy Patrick J. McCarthy of Ohio and Supreme DirectorWilliam F. Fox in Indiana, each directing the Orders work in hisown state. On receipt of telegraphic information from Cincin-nati Knights, describing the terrible conditions in that State,Supreme Knight Flaherty hurried out to supervise personally andSupreme Secretary William J. McGinley instructed SpecialSupreme Agents William J. Moriarty and Frank W. Sherlockto proceed to the flooded areas and take charge of the Ordersgeneral relief work. The Board of Directors appropriated$10,000 for the sufferers, which sum was afterwards increasedto $18,000. Councils of the Order contributed over $20,000 tothe relief fund in response to appeals in The Columbiad. Here,as in the San Francisco disaster and in other calamities where theOrder stepped in as a relief agency, the old adage was illustratedthat he gives twice who gives quickly, for the effects obtainedwere proportionately much greater than the actual sum donated. WILLIAM J. McGINLEY. of New York City Supreme Secretary, and Director of Domestic War Work Relief Work in Times of Peace 171 might indicate, when compared to the estimated cost of the dam-age wrought. When a cyclone struck central Illinois in 1917, wiping outwhole villages and causing havoc in many towns, members of theOrder were again among those affected. Mattoon suffered heavyloss, several Knights losing their homes in that city. The SupremeOfficers acted promptly, forwarding whatever money was neces-sary to tide over sufferers until they could begin to re-establishthemselves. In the storm that caused death and destruction inCorpus Christi, Texas, in the early autumn of 1919, the Knightswere once more among the first to send succor in the form ofmoney and men. In all these emergencies, the gifts of moneymade by the Supreme Council were augmented by donations offood and clothing from Knights and their families resident nearthe affected dis
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