The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-02-07

your position is too filled with respon-
sibility." Get discipline over here or
you never will have it, was further
advised, for over there too much COM
motion exists. Only we'll disciplined
men can accomplish anything amid
bursting shrapnel and flying bombs.
His talk further disclosed the fact
that bayonet men were far more i'm
portant than sharp-shooters in this
great war. Everyone knows, who has
studied the situation, why this is true.
Artillery makes it compulsory that
men dig themselves in; the only way
to go forward is to dig them out. The
bayonet has been found to be the most
efficient weapon to accomplish this.
Men should not be overtaxed; they
are not beasts. But the work should
go on silently, continually and forci-
bly,. The moment soldier dons
United States army uniform, it should
signify his willingness to a willing
submission. When you salute an of
ficer, the force and character in you
is portrayed to keen officer. 1t
doesn't mean, 81 am doing this be-
cause have to-" but 81 am proud |
am soldier, fighting for such
righteous cause"
Taking the audience back to the
days of the Pilgrims, he stated that a
band of them had set forth on
boundless sea, turned their back on
their mother country, determined to
lind, God, Justice and Freedom in
new land The principles were estab-
lished, as you all know in America.
He recounted that England had been
beaten by us in the Revolutionary
war. He praised God that the three
cardinal principals named above had
been more firmly established. (He
blamed this war with America on a
German Prince. Our connection with
histor ydoes not verify this detail, but
we hope it's so. He recited the Dec
laration of independence, admired by
all deep thinking Englishmen, and
worded only as brother could address
a brother.
Conditions are now reversed, he
said, the small states of Belgium. Plo-
and, Servia, and others are crying for
the freedom you sought and fought for
and won back in '76. With the same
purpose of giving to the world and
these suffering states God Justice and
Freedom. America has entered this
great war and for no other purpose.
The world is looking to America.
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Do you know what the by-word of
Camp Pike is? "Click." If discipline
we must have, we must have "click."
1t is a small word but it means so
much. The click is on every ones
tongue, from the General down to the
buck private. If you are called to
"Aatention," tits "click." If you fall
out for retreat, it's "click." If you
march off in a column, it's "click." If
you salute an officer, it sure is
click" Camp Pike is waking up. If
discipline is lacking, why hesitate,
"click" into it. Ir on-commissioned
officer is not measuring up to the
standard, why, "click" off goes his
stripes. Why not? Time is precious
and valuable Lives depend upon this
"click."
We want to say something about
the Home Guard. "You should see
some of the old birds trying to get
some Of the stiffness out of their
backs" a fellow wrote me the other
day from home. Laughable, yes it
undoubtedly is. "You should see some
of the young stiffs getting the kinks
out of their systems, too, when they
| first came in the National Army"
answered him. Don't laugh at them,
or don't the members of the Home
! Guard laugh at each other. Let me
tell you what happened to me day be-
fore yesterday. A member of each
company in the Second Battalion is
taking personal bayonet lessons from
Sergeant Major Sam Brooks of Eng
land, a national character in the
British Empire, SO we are informed,
and if you think you have discipline
in our army, you should see him. He
had criticised Sergeant for an
awkward mistake, really laughable,
but the criticism was meant to be
serious. But laughed never will
again, however. He put me out in
front of the class as a shining p
example, and if you ever heard man
!, get "bawling out" got it. You
grasp the point. Do you think a man
ought to get peeved at a thing like
that and have it in for the Sergeant
| Major, or do you think the Sergeant