The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-04-17

had money I would travel" She
looked up at him through starry
eyes and laid her hand in his,
Would you?" she whispered, as
she slipped a nickel in his hand!
BRIGADE REVIEW
BY Private II. j. Holman
With the massed bands of three
regiments providing a resounding
background of stirring martial
music, the 101st Coast Artillery
Brigade, commanded by Colonel w.
D. Frazier, in temporary command
due to the absence of General Rob-
inson who is attending the Coast
Artillery School, marched in review
in honor of it's guest, Major Cen
eral ]. A. Green, chief of Coast
Artillery. The parade was held at
the rear Of the 216th area at $3.50
p. m, April 3, 1911, and nearly a
full hour passed before the last bat
terry marched by the reviewing
stand.
Major General Green, whose
headquarters is at Washington, ar
rived the forepart of the afternoon.
The purpose of his visit was to in
spect the area and to note the
training progress made by the per-
sonnet since their arrival at this
camp.
The 217th, commanded by Colon
ell ]. w. Carter, unfurled and car
ried for the first time officially the
national colors presented to the
regiment at farewell party held
at st. Cloud, Minnesota, a week be-
fore the regiments departure. The
colors are a gift of the citizens of
st. Cloud.
At the conclusion of the review
all officers of the brigade were ad-
dressed by General Green at the
theatre tent. In the course Of the
short but interesting talk, he men
toned that he was very favorably
impressed by the manner in which
the troops carried themselves and
by the amount of training they had
assimilated in such a short time.
The fine appearance of the camps
grounds also drew a compliment
from the general.
You can change the methods and
the equipment but you can't change
Army Technology, it seems from
letters written by Sergeant A. w.
Rosenwald to his family here. They
can modernize the army but a
movement of troops, either by foot
or in truck convoy, is still called
a march, he wrote.
One letter he was writing at 6
a. m. and "the band is going by
playing the Beer Barrel Polka.
They play every morning for flag
raising ceremony"
Other snatches from his letters
told of the seeing in flight some
Of the new fast single motored
planes from March field. They've
been putting on show. They tear
through the sky at a terrific speed
and you just want to crawl under
something they make so much
noise. The planes are flying across
all day and most Of the night in
formations. At night the search
lights are out and how the planes
do shine in that powerful light"
Art wrote telling of organization
Of baseball and bowling teams and
are even arranging lessons in
dancing for the boys, which he de-
cided he would pass up. But per-
haps he will be in the musical van,
for he has purchased $3.50 uke-
lele and it looks like there will be
music-or reasonable facsimile.
1.-THE ball started rolling for the
trucks" he wrote. I'VE sent out
ten truck convoy as test this
afternoon. Tomorrow morning at
five we send out another convoy
from the second battalion. Andy
Steffes Is going to cook and John
Dubois acts as mess sergeant. They
are going to be gone for two days.
The 216th left on convoy today and
our outfit is to attack them when
they find them. They will sleep
in pup tents on the march"
In his office Stanley Burt is clerk,
James Scott is chief dispatcher,
and Alvin Blank assistant. Jerome
Wruck is shop foreman and Merle
Hardin assistant. There are twelve
other shop foremen, representing
each Of the batteries, and there
are two large shops with room for
16 trucks at a time.
Eats the boys have and plenty,
he writes. For two Sundays they
had turkey and then followed 1t
with chicken. I'VE got all we want
and If anyone kicks, it Is because
he isn't used to good eats" Art
wrote.
Speaking Of the surrounding
towns, he wrote that what he no
ticed most was the mixtures Of
nationalities. In all Of them are
large numbers Of Mexicans, Indians
and Spanish, also Chinese and jap
anese. He described the Spaniards
as classy and clannish."
A non-commissioned officers club
has been organized for the purpose
Of arranging trips to points Of in
terest. They have in mind traps
to Mt. Palomar, Catalina Islands,
San Diego, and the Redwood for
ests. Twenty-seven men in the