on Societies received only
about $6,000. We conclude that it is simply because we did not ask for
our "Pound of Flesh."

* * * * * *

Should not, therefore, the work of Catholic Immigration with all its
wonderful possibilities for the welfare of Church and Country, appeal
to our Canadian Knights of Columbus? Many and many a settler has been
lost to the Church--he, his children and future generations--because
perhaps no one was there to receive him on his arrival in his new
Country, to help him to settle where there was a church, a priest, and
a Catholic school. No one needs more the help of his Catholic brother
than the immigrant, who has just broken away with a past made up of
customs, friendships, racial feelings, of all that is dear to man's
heart, and faces an enigmatic future.

The long procession which we have seen in the years of intense
immigration, winding its way through our cities and losing itself on
the plains of the West, is about to start again. Shall we be there to
welcome and direct it?

_Knights of Columbus, what is your answer_?

[1] 200,000 are expected to come to Canada in 1921 from the British
Isles alone. Hon. J. H. Calder, Minister of Immigration, made this
statement.

CHAPTER XVII.

UT SINT UNUM

_A Catholic Congress of the Western Provinces, the Ultimate Solution of
Their Problems--What is a Congress?--Its Utility--Its Necessity--A
Tentative Programme._

To know a problem, to probe its nature, and to analyze its various
factors frequently lead to an easy and happy solution. But as Church
problems are mostly of a complex nature and cover a wide range, they
necessarily depend for their solution on the co-operation of the
various component units. This explains why we would now appeal to the
Church of the West as a whole, for the solving of the problems dealt
with in this book. Of their nature they out-distance the boundaries of
parish and diocese, for they affect the Church as a whole. Without
wishing to disparage the value of parochial and diocesan activities, we
claim that the issues we have placed before our readers are not
confined within the imaginary lines of the parochial unit or the
boundaries of jurisdiction. They will not be met with rightly and
successfully, if the Church as a unit does not agree on a uniform plan
of action. For, to prevent a deplorable waste of potential powers, of
misdirected energies and of overlappin