The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-10

OhA Va 4A la los
gard to wealth. Men that can take
advantage OF such an hour to exploit
a suffering public would rob the dead.
They would steal corn from a blind
mule. Such men must be put out of
power. 1t is time to unload all fool
Bolshevism and /. w. w. nonsense
and show that all genuine attainment
comes in progress rather than by ere.
ating a FOOLS paradise by legislative
scheming. This is a great day for
the human race 1t is time to ring
out the old and ring in the new and
If we can do our work with the army
is it ought to be done. the young men
will go home to run this old world AS
it has not been run since Adam went
amuck with his bad system in the
fruit business. 1t is tine to unload a
lot Of silly frenzy about this war. A
lot of people are Fostering the gov
eminent about going to France that
would not be worth a whoop there.
IL they can't be worth something here
1t is certain they can not be there.
First of all we want fighting men over
there, and with them we want those
helps that create fighting morale. But
to get excited and frenzied and mix
1t up with a lot of melodramatic ad-
venture Of female Amazons just now
shows that the great American desert
is to be found under some peoples
hats. IL your country really needs
you on the other side, it's noble to re-
spond but its mighty essential just
now that the people on this side stand
faithful and do their utmost creating
morale and at home.
The great adventure over there
appeals to many Of us but some must
do even bigger work by staying here
and doing with our might our work
which lacks the thrill of the great ad-
venture doing of which makes such
interesting reading but America must
set her face against a premature
peace. This job of international
spanking must go on till goddess au-
toNi az has lCdl Z us IcSSOu ny Tile
all 6redest-lambasting that it ever
knew. Already Kaiser Bill is feeling
like the fellow who sat down on a
cactus to spank a %porcupine and the
dance has just begun. Oh if you
could see our fellows, these gaunt. an
gular young Americans come in here
and then see them metamorphose and
swing out with superb manhood with
the CLINT OF a new era in their faces,
you would see why the Huns are on
the 'scoot' just now along the west
ern front.
when We have unloaded a lot of
useless tin-gods Of the middle ages
goose-gable has set a race of
to Intellectually whiting white
pine and discussing the relation of
the Trinity and the fourth dimension,
it is then time to load up with vital
religion that comes through the God
conscience creating love and JUS
tice in the world whether we have
time for a lot of dogma, sacraments
and ecclesiastical ceremony or not. It
is time to load up with the ideals of
the man of Galilee who tells us in an
old book what to do with money, how
to love folks and make in brief a new
world the Kingdom of God on earth.
But here | am about to approach
serious vein which is not the DUR
pose Of this letter. Some good friends
sending me letters forget the import
Of getting the address exact. At
ter the name, put on all mail: Y. M.
c. A. Headquarters, Camp Travis, San
Antonio, Texas. In the army a slight
error prevents mail reaching the par.
ty for a long time and might make it
fail entirely.
From the distance we are watch
ing South Dakota grow and measure
up to all demands. You are exceed
ingly fortunate this year. Drouth has
cut short all in this part of the coun-