The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-10-24

SAUK
Industry is never far behind any situation
witness the sign in of the city garages: Military
| service repurchase plan.
The w. D. Gallups are cozy in their home
now And there hangs a brief tale. For the first
time since they have been married they are in a
their own it represents the first time they haven't
lived in apartment with other families Imag
inc it seems nice.
Into the shop the other day walked the talest
bit of humanity we've in a sailor uniform
=. We suggested that perhaps it was the mast from
the flagship, perhaps they ran the flag up him
instead of the pole. But he grnned and allowed
how there were others in u S. Navy equally
tall. The lad is Bud Hunt Just out of pre-
minary training at the Great Lakes Naval Training
Station, Lake Michigan Buds thumbnail survey
of the Navy prompt: Its great. It's the real
thing for young fellow" From there on in we
were interested. Bud says he made sharpshooter
rating in gunnery, firing one of the new Garand
units. His amazing for beginner
that the officer asked him if he'd used gun of that
calibre before Bud had never shot anything but
% in these precincts for busting off rabbits
or bottles His craftsmanship qualities him for
gunnery school, gives him the eagle and twin chew
his dress blues that he proudly
He's here until the 10Th when he leaves for Pen
sacoa, Florida. :.
Gunnery school means this to Bud. 1t
that he will take up machine gunnery for he's in
the aviation ordinance. Providing he makes good
in the interim at Is years he's eligible to take up
Navy flying. He'd like that. There's just
hitch right now. With Japan kicking up current
in the otherwise peaceful Pacfic-or could Balboa
have been wrong?-the Navy doesn't know how many
men it will keep in long term training. The Navy
is duly exercised over the Far Eastern question
ships, trained men are being shot to the Asiatic
fleet in a scamper. If things get worse Bud like
hundreds of Others have to forego his aviation
training until things right themselves One never
eats quite well as in the Navy, Bud assures
ICoIy
into fried potatoes, eggs and the rest for the morn
ing meal Just for variety they alternate Sun
days between chicken and turkey At the Great
Lakes station with 5000 young heartes training for
seafarng life eating in one mess hall-wel the noise
is amazing The first thing a sailor learns out
side Of yes sir and no sir is that ship is ship
lines. Ashore aboard ship there is floor;
it's deck. Walls bulkheads. :. You sleep
in hammock and officers known gold
braids" Oh yeah, and flag is an ensign. -.
Back in the years when the Keller factory was
the industrial plant supreme in this city, Frank
Schlichte recalls incident Frank en-
poye there, and he tells about Mr.. Keller It
seems that during Of the years Mr.. Keller had
staked man to start He'd put up the money
for the man to go to farming. Then misfortune
struck the man and his family. He lost what he
had; he moved to North Dakota Into the ware
house at the close of the went the account, filed
away with other year end volumes. Later Mr..
Keller died. Frank still worked there, and
day the man who carried on called him into the
office. Get the books of such and such year he
was told. The man had received a letter about
this account years later. In short time the man
staked to his start came to the factory. II want
to pay that money" he said. He paid it, but
because of his honesty for all those years interest
waived The man had gone through lot; he'd
gone into bankruptcy. But he bobbed up with his
self-respect. Frank found it Of the most
ing instances he had The eternal faith
| restoring magic in man.
Vignettes Of the past: Art Forsberg had four
runaways in the II years that he drove horses
mail carrier. Tiny item recalling gently what
has happened in transport in not many years Of
The old days when entire community had
its fun together are nearly gone. A revival of
having fun together, both odsters and YOUNGSTERS
could be an interesting and diverting thing. Per-
haps a great stimulus to other community gather
ings. It seems to me that the ideal behind the
approaching Halloween party is sufficiently great
allow this kind of thing. It's motive is to rear
the youngsters of this town in such fashion that
wholesome parties-fun-may be made synonymous
to Halloween. Which in itself is a completely
new departure. Generations up to have found
only that depredations, minor property damage are
the handmaidens Of Halloween While there
is no legitimate squawk on the apparent commun-
ity interest in these programs for parties for the
youngsters we feel oldsters could have fun by
charging the program. The motive, the attempt
are excellent, but they don't carry it through far
enough. Why not old time party for oldsters
the same night costumes and all? In the mean
time the organizations to whom goes the credit for
financing and backing this party for youngsters get