The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-06-28
MEET
LARGELY ATTENDED
THURSDAY EVENING
Meeting Was Arranged BY Delegates
To Missouri Synod Conference of
the Lutheran Church i'm SEES.
sion Here.

A large audience was present at the
patriotic meeting in the high school
Thursday evening, arranged in con-
Missouri synod Of the Lutheran church
in session here. The Rev. A. Sedan
chaplain at Camp Grant, was the
speaker. The band of ST.. Johns
church took part in the program
which was opened by the singing OF
the Star Spangled Banner and Amer
ica
The Rev. FIJI. Eggers, pastor of ST
Johns presided and introduced the
speaker.
The Rev. A. Soldar opened his ad-
dress by saying:
tonight to be called upon on such an
occasion to deliver an address, No one
knows the difference and apprecia-
ton unless he were in my former po-
sitiOn-chaplain at the United States
penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth
where | had for an audience all men,
Tonight there are both women and
men, which lends a much better at
mosphere. At Fort Leavenworth /
preached to 400 men every Sunday
and even among those criminals the
wonderful word Of God never loses
power.
From Fort LeavenwOrth I came to
Camp Grant last October Camp Grant
is one of sixteen environments now in
the United States. 1t is six miles long
and four miles wide and now has
more than forty thousand Sammies
stationed there These men are all be-
tween the ages of 81 and 81, being the
bloom and cream of the country. No
finer boys were ever assembled.
The first thing we must teach the
soldier at camp is obedience. The day
a soldier comes into camp the officer
lays down before him the first funda-
mental-obedience No Sammie ever
replies to an officers questions, L
think So May be- or the like, but
says CURLY, No, sir, Yes, sir
The second thing a soldier is taught
is to rise early. After breakfast is
eaten each washes his own dishes
the only drudge of soldier life. The
rest of the day they spend in drilling.
Now, the soldiers are beginning to
drill after supper.
1t is an honor to salute a soldier.
Every mother gives her boy up to
help whip autocracy Another thing
must be said, about knockers. If only
these knockers who >criticise the war
department and everything else, would
consider the matter over again and
really see what our war department
has done up to this time, they would
see different picture. Last year what
was Camp Grant? A cornfield. Today
we have forty thousand boys stationed
there, and cOnveniences as good as
any home. We should rather thank
the war department for what it has
done.
The boys at Camp Grant are well
fed and well clothed If all the other
camps were up to eur standard we
would have the best army in the
world
The Lutherans have to this day
stuck to their old fashioned ideas. that
is to teach and preach the gospel of
Jesus Christ, and with this end in
view, our Sammie boys are made and
only can be made true Christians On
every Sunday at o'clock in the Y. M
c. A. tent a sermon is given to the
Lutheran boys New members are be-
ing enrolled every Sunday into our
congregation. Last Sunday ninety
eight were added to our list and the
Sunday before eigthy-seven were
added. How do we get these? is the
question-by getting hold on them
when they are small.
Some German schools are looked
upon as pro-German. Such erroneous
ideas should not exist Why not name
them christian schools? Since that is
our main purpOse-tO make each and
every child christian If there be
any prO-German schools they should
be wiped off the map
A word must be said Of the Liberty
Loan drives, Red Cross campaigns and
War Savings Stamp sale. No person
who claims to be true American can
refuse to buy a War Savings stamp. II
he does he should be deported.