The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-12

W CORNELIUS
VANDERBILT. JR.
Being Mostly in Midwest

with the Leicester Fausts at their
country place in Clayton. Mo.
Leicester much interested in civic
welfare, especially in "Manresa,"
the first and only Negro layman's
retreat in the world. 1t is conduct
ed by the Reverend Otto j. Moor
man, pastor of the Holy Angels
Church and Mission in South Kim
lock. Father Norman took over
the mission in 1929 and the congre-
cation has increased from 40 to 306
since. Although it is announced
that money for the retreat-house,
chapel and rock garden-was donat-
ed by an anonymous white St. Lou
isian. practically everyone knows
that the heir of Anheuser Busch is
the man. The chapel is built under
ground in the garden and is a copy
of the cave in Manresa, Spain,
where St. Ignatius of Loyola, found
er Of the Society of Jesus, retired
from the world four centuries ago in
meditation. Each morning the Re-
treatans walk through the garden
reciting the Rosary. The Faust's
beautiful country home is also Span
ish in design, architecture and price
less antiques.
Talked next evening before the
students of the Concordia Seminary.
largest male Lutheran institution Of
its kind in the world, founded in
1889 by Saxon immigrants who fed
to America to escape early day
brutalities in Prussia. 1t has stood
for l02 years as a shining light to
all the oppressed. 1t covers 70 acres
on a hill overlooking St. Louis, has
an enrolment of nearly 1000 stu
dents from every state in the Union
and from 81 foreign countries.
Theological students are exempt
from the draft and l was told by
one of them that the enrolment this
year is much larger than it was two
years ago. Twenty-Five out of every
100 students actually enter the
ministry. Concerning all up
risings" in any part of the world.
the students vote among themselves
as to whether it is a Just war or
not. No vote has been recorded so
far On the present war and as the
students enroll for a period OF
more than four years, it may be
some time before a vote is taken.
Took the midnight express to Chi
cage and out Immediately to Fort
| Sheridan. 80 miles north on Lake
Michigan, to spend the day with my
old friends. the Colonel Durings. He
is executive officer of Chicago's
largest cantonment and although
German born, fought heroically in
the last war and received the D.S.O.
from the American army. Besides
being the Midwest's largest induc-
ton center for draftees, Fort Sheri-
dan is best known perhaps because
it has the army's only school for
bakers and cooks. Here every 60
days a large number of culinary ex-
perts is turned out. They are sent
to environments, barracks and army
posts throughout our vast military
area. Visiting this section. l was
especially impressed by the clean
illness of everything and by the mod
ernity Of the machinery now used to
prepare the enlisted mems mess.
Besides all sorts of electrical equip
ment, the new army gas stoves are
everywhere. These fit into the rear
end of army trucks and are attached
to the motors eXhausts. They are
collapsible. The present-day Amer
lean army in the field is no more
like the AEF in which l served
in the last war as a buck private
than night is like day. Today, a
modern buck private sleeps between
sheets; he carries four of them and
two pillow cases among his equip
ment! We used to roll our march
ing shoes in our tunics and use them
as a pillow in 1918. The Durings
gave a tea party In their attractive
house on the Post for Colonel and
Mrs. John H. Horner. commandment
of the 48th Artillery Brigade and
post commander of Fort Sheridan.
One of the army officers told me an
amazing fact: British officers at
tached to the camp as instructors
are now flying back and forth across
the Atlantic from Canada with no
more effort than we cross the ma
ton. One of those present was leav-
ing that very evening. He would be
back in Chicago inside of four days
the flight from "a point in Can
ada to one in the British Isles now
takes less than five hours! Coming
back in the big British flying boats,
they bring 30 to IS young men every
trip to instruct them in Canada in
, all the most modern flying tactics,
! 50 tina; they may pilot the planes be-
, ms delivered TO England.
Have been reading Quent Rey-
, nolds' The Wounded Don't Cry"
! By far the most readable book on
the war thus far published, at least
to my mind.