Atwood Hammond High School - Post Yearbook (Atwood, IL)

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Nearly every person has a “hobby,” or in other words he is interested in one thing more than in any other. During the last term, the boys of the Atwood high school have had a common “hobby,” and that has been athletics. When the school term opened last September the boys brought out their base ball supplies and played a few games of base ball. But they did not have a very strong team and they soon gave this up and began practice for a basket ball team. They played this a few weeks and then gave it up for track

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problem which is largely the product 1,1 our new industrial order. The press in many cases, does not express public opinion. It is too frequently the tool of another force. It is a well known tact that the modern newspaper derives it support from its advertising, now then can a paper thus dependent support men hostile to their advertisers, who in many cases are large and powerful corporations? It is impossi-ide. Only a newspaper or magazine not dependent upon these organizations alone, can voice the true sentiments of the people. Without a complete change in business policy by our newspapers we are likely for a long time to' suffer from this evil. Resides controlling the press the trusts demonstrate their enormous power by their effect upon elections and legislation. This we may call the problem fo the “corrupt lobby.” They keep men at Congress and the State Legislatures to watch the proceedings and report legislation affecting them. If unfavorable laws are introduced, they exert their utmost influence, frequently by questionable methods if not. open bribery towards defeating the hills. These then are some of the prob- lems which confront the American people today. They are questions with w hicli none of the old, so-called democracies had to cope. It depends upon us to prove to the skeptical European countries that a democracy can exist, that a nation conceived in liberty can endure. When Mr. Roosevelt was Police Commissioners of New York City he read for the first time Jacob Eiis’ book, “How the Other Half Lives.” At once struck with the personality and message of the writer, lie went down to call upon him in Lower Manhattan. He climbed the creaking stairway of the old tenement house and knocked at the hall bed-room. There was no response. Mr. liiis was not there. Mr. Roosevelt took out his visiting card and simply wrote, “Have read your book and came to help. Theodore Roosevelt.” It was enough. May we not paraphrase that as a motto that expresses our feeling here tonight? We have read the newspapers and learned the problems. We have heard the call of our country to do service for the betterment of her condition. Upon every individual here tonight as upon every citizen, depends the future of our country as a democratic nation. Will you help?

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ATWOOD H.GH SCHOOL ATfILETIC TEAM (Reading from right to left.) Top Row— Bernice Barber. Carl Hasstg, Proi. r. W. Samuels. John Browning, Fred B. Romlne, John Mvengood. Bottom Row—Raul Fisher. Perry Rodgers, Fred Romlne. K ail 1 Carroll. Floyd Hurshbarger.