The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-12-20
Western tearns Boys Quarantin-
), ed for Measles at Camp Pike

ficer stands high in their respect.
Can all go to town, sagunt," asked
negro soldier of the captain. Certainly"
said the captain" but I'm no sagunt,
I'm a captain" Thanks, cap'n";
answers the black" only it seems to
me dem folks at Washington used poor
judgment in 70 case. 20 deserve to be
sagunt"
We didn't quite finish up with our
visit to Little<Rock however. We had
gotten 4hour passes. the main reason
being that we wanted to sleep late one
morning. Even in this we were dis
appointed for about o'clock the hotel
in which we were sleeping caught fire.
When we awoke the room was full of
smoke; we grabbed our clothes and
ran to the elevator; the elevator and
telephone were not working; damn !.
fool coon ran down the hall way with
a bundle of newspaper ablaze, look
ing for the source of the real fire.
Finally we landed in the lobby and in
about a half hour the fire was located
between the walls, the fire department
called and the blaze quenched. By the
time we were dressed and had our
things together, the time limit was up
on our passes, so now on this cold,
grey Sunday afternoon we are back,
waiting for news from the United
States again. Tomorrow will be listen
ing to the natural tread, become en-
meshed in formations and commands
out at the drill grounds, reconcile our
selves that we are embryo soldiers and
forget that such a city as Little Rock
exists, if it were not for the size of
our pocket books.
What we have seen of Camp Pike is
not much. It is not as modern as
Camp Dodge, however, nor has it the
equipment on roads. There are many
trees here though and pretty ones,
the ground is rolling and in the spring
and summer it will undoubtedly be a
very beautiful place. At the Iowa can
torment the grounds were level, so for
drilling and target work this camp is
not as good. One thing strikes us very
for chilly is the southern strictness and
southern courtesy, particularly the lat
ter Officers have a snap to, their
salute that is all their own and their
strictness is shown in the fact that
they insist you salute when the salute
is due. That also applies to every
thing. Our Major gave the best des-
cription of the salute we ever heard
the other day in a speech, which, by
the way was very patriotic. He said
the old version of it was like this
I'm your dog" private's salute. 81
know it," officers return salute. But
the new version is different. I'm a
soldiers in the United States army and
will do my duty" is what the private
salute says. '"I'll try honestly to treat
you properly" comes back the officer
Speaking of Christmas list of &C
ceptable gifts for soldiers might be
proper. We don't want you to thinI,
that.Ahe ones l mention are the ones
/ want. Pm>a an unselfish brute. But
if you send your boy a camera, briar
pipe, wrist watch. flash light, socks
safety razor, toilet articles. knife
cigarettes, cigars, scarfs. a small pill
i'"' "i'0IiS'Ih SioFCS Npio"HI ~. ~
handkerchief and stationery you may
be sure they will be appreciated. You
may think of many more things, such
as eats, ETC., but suffice to say tn.
there are no more cheerful receivers
than the boys in the army. They like
to give too, but to do so under exist
ing conditions, and give in the style
generally do, could only be done under
handicap. C. Wills.