The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-02-28
BISHOP BUSCH AND THE BEST
SPEAKERS OF CITY AID
DRESS THEM.
over 5000 AT The TRAIN
HOME GUARD ESCORT C0NTIN.
GENT-TRAIN LEAVES AMID
CHEERS AND TEARS.

That Sank Centre is patriotic
town and Stearns county is loyal
county was never more completely
demonstrated than on Monday when
the entire community gathered in the
Junior high school auditorium to
cheer the boys of the second draft
quota of Western Stearns on their
way. The program was scheduled to
begin at 1000 o'clock and long before
that time every seat was taken and
even standing room only" was at a
premium. The Home Guards, COM
fortably seated in the front, smilingly
gave up their places to the visitors.
A rough count would estimate some
thing over 1900 people. Seats were
reserved on one side of the auditorium
for the Civil war veterans and on the
other side "the veterans to be" as
someone expressed it. S. P. Hansen Jr.
was appointed captain of the men and
took charge of the contingent until it
reached Des Moines. 1t would have
been hard to make better choice for
a leader.
After a selection by the faithful
and absolutely necessary band, Mayor
DuBeau, chairman of the meeting,
welcomed the boys of Western Stearns
in a short sincere speech and then in
troduced Bishop Busch of st. Cloud,
who, he said, was well known through
out the county, state and nation as one
of the greatest of war time patriots.
Bishop Busch who had spoken be-,
fore Sank Centre audience befort
and consequently was no stranger,
said he had come from Chicago the
day before where he might have met
some of the big students of the war
intimately, just to bid the boys of his
county, goodbye. And he did make
his farewell forceful and eloquent. He
said in part, "It is easy enough for
us who are beyond the age limit to
say that we envy these boys who are
leaving us today, but I do say, in all
sincerity that I envy you boys who
are going, first to the training camps
and then to France. You are being
given the greatest opportunity any
soldiers has ever had; you are to fight
for the liberty and righteousness of
the world, for democracy and the
rights of smaller nations and our
rights on the high seas. You are to
come back with high ideals translated
into realities. You are to gain your
education in the school of experience,
which teaches as no other school can,
sympathy, breadth of outlook and de-
votion to just cause. You will learn
that truth is mighty and will pre-
vail. You will know as you go "over
the top" that faithful, honest duty
alone counts and that your soul goes
marching on even into eternity.
"You are not going alone, there are
100000, 900 seemingly left behind, who
go with you. This nation has become
welded into one great mind, one great
heart, one great arm to secure justice
and righteousness through out the
world. We, too, are being educated
in the school of sorrow. We also
serve, who only stand and wait
Sometimes, I feel as if the soldiers
had the easier job. All he has to
worry about is that he may be hit
with bullet and that simply means
that he will be sent back to a hospital
and a pretty Red Cross nurse will
hold his hand until he gets well.
President Wilson has said that we
want no annexations and no indemni-
ties, but / think can amend that