The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-07-04

to the Herald this week which this
paper takes pleasure in publishing
herewith:
33 Rue Caumertin
Hotel Petrograd Paris.
My Dear Mrs. Cleveland
/ was glad to hear from you and
know that you did get my letter. Life
is so different here that find myself
spending much time learning, but lit
tie time writing to tell you what
learn and see. / am learning
much about my own United States.
never thought when was there that
we as people, were anything to boast
about, nor that our organizations were
better than they had been elsewhere.
But I am learning better. Do yon
know that I can get more world news
out of the Sank Centre Herad than l
can out of Paris daily? 1t is true, l
can. When Paris daily is compared
with our dailies published in cities of
100000 or more, the papers of France
do not at all compare with them. Our
poorest laborer calls before his eyes
all that happens in the world worthy
of note-and all for two or three cents.
/ never realized before what a tre-
menduous educating power these pa
pers have on every foreigner who
learns to read; therefore on the other
hand how very important it is for US
to teach every foreigner to read Eng
fish. Could the pro-Germans in the
United States have learned through
English books and papers how the
common people of Germany have
Sbeen made to support large standing
army and how that same organization
is now starving them, lying to them,
killing them off in battle with an utter
disregard to human life-they would
be rabidly pro-American, instead of
pro-German.
And our public schools they are
the best in the world. ! have heard it
said, but I thought it was our spread
eagleism." But this minute one of the
big things that makes me proud is the
vision have of little towns dotted all
over the United States and in almost
every town the school house is the
largest and most beautiful building
Sank Centre never spent any thous-
ands that will come back to her so
many thousand fold as those that were
spent on her school buildings. ] know
many little towns of 400, 500 and 600
that have $4,000 buildings with all
the latest improvements. They are
the best in the whole world, and they
are ours.
"And then, I am proud of how fast
our ideas can grow. 1t was not long
ago that we thought every man had
s>ro drink and that saloons had to exist.
But Francis Willard used that wonder
full influence, the public school, to dis
pei that ignorant idea. So today the
saloon is going-the disgusting drink
habit with all the misery and poverty
and disease that it carries with it
is doomed soon. In Sank Centre, you
have too many voters that never went
through out public schools. That is
why ignorance is so hard to conquer
there. But it is coming. There are
Young men who will vote at the next
election for the first time, see to it
that they vote for the good of all the
people of the u. S. A.
aSome or us doctors went down to
the freight station one morning and
distributed cigarettes to some OF our
wounded soldier boys Can you think
how we feel when we see them? !
always feel throb Of sympathy for
the mothers back in the u. S., when |
see them. Oh, they are such fine
, fellows. And those who have passed
on into that other world during bat
tie and whose bodies lie buried In a
foreign land, my heart aches for those
mothers, and / wish that she could feel
that her boy is nearer her after death
than before.
"But you can't be sad when with
the living. They are their own jolly
selves. ooh, just flesh wound SAID
Y one Wnen aSkou. Ills Coiiii cuS =
in GO on. You know that chrapnel
went through your thigh So it was
no trifie after all. And how they love
to tell us about it to talk English
again. "You will never know" said
one of our boys, "what the Red Cross
means to us boys over here. Anything
we want they get it for us and it is
ali free" That makes me proud
again. for no country is backing its
soldiers the way we do. We send
them off backing them up with our
firm faith in them to be the best men
and the best fighters in the world.
And they are. The Paris papers are
full of praise for our boys right now.
We back them up with good pay, good
care for their folks back home, we
! give them the best food Of any soldier,
the best clohting and then in addition
they have these organizations to keep
them up to the highest ideals in life
and the American Red Cross is not the
least of them. It is like the Mother
Spirit Of the u. S. A. saying "My boy,