Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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22 only aliens Who ever become thoroughly fused into our citizenship are those who not only accumulate capital in this country, but Who keep it here. The only native born American, Who is entirely true in his spirit is the one Whose point of View is sufficiently broad to realize in the foreigner of today the citizen of tomorrow; who realizes that each loyal American, Whether made, or in the making, is an asset of the government at large. The government is the people; it is supported by the people; it depends for its economic inde- pendence on the economic independence of its constituent parts. It is there- fore necessary that the people of a country should, primarily, accumulate wealth, individually and collectively. It is the fundamental social responsi- bility, one which makes all other social responsibilities easier of aequirement.

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21 In order to train for good citizenship. The citizenship for which we should strive is marked by at least three qualities: morality, patriotism, and intelligence. A highly intelligent nation may become a highly immoral people, failing to hold its own in the struggle for survival. Individually the Greeks were the most intelligent people the world has ever known7 but their public life became corrupt, their standard of domestic life was lowered, their patriot- ism waned, and in spite of their intellectuality they lost their national prestige and power. On the other hand, an ignorant people can never become a strong and socially effective people. Russia of today has virtually taken its place among the second rate powers of the world. A large percentage of its population is made up of the peasant class, who are steeped in ignorance. The explanation of the result of the late Russia-Japanese war is to be found chiefly in the fact that every Japanese soldier and sailor could both read and write. He was consciously intelligent. The vast majority of the Russian soldiers could neither read nor write. I A citizenship which is intelligent, or moral, or patriotic will not alone insure the future greatness of this country. It must be one which combines all three. . In order to establish a good home. The home is the fountain from which everything must spring. In its peculiar relation to the child it can do more for him than any other institution. The care and education of the child devolves upon the home and home-makers. True, the Sunday school takes upon itself the spiritual education and the day school the secular education, but the destiny of the child is well nigh determined before it ever enters school. It is altogether impossible to accomplish anything unless there be harmonious working between the school and the home. Lord Curzon says, ttIt would have been just as bad to have sent a knight of olden times into battle without armor as to send a young man or woman out into the world in this age without having a good educationf, And the only way to get a good education is to have a good healthy atmosphere in your home life. One of the greatest dangers which confront this nation today is the laxity of the home discipline. In all large cities, among the unfortunate classes, there is Virtually nothing which can be called Home. None of the higher and nobler thoughts of life are ever instilled in the minds of the children. They live on the streets and from the streets they get theirideas. Should this nation fall into the hands of such people it would fail. This nation may be overrun by the influx of foreigners, but such is the Vitality of the Anglo-Saxon race that instead of being overwhelmed by numbers from without we welcome them. May we encourage them to entereto enter, and, as soon as found worthy, to receive the stamp of our nationality. The

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28 CLASS PROPHECY RUBY D. LEECH. FEW years ago as I was looking through my old papers and note E books, I discovered an old diary dated 1918, and while glancing through it I found many interesting things. Many notes were such that took me back in memory to the almost forgotten year of 1908 spent in Valparaiso University. A diary kept by a woman of thirty some years is not like that of a young girl. The latter usually consists of full, lengthy accounts of everything just as they seem to her. But the notes of an older woman are simply notes and leave us to fill in details ourselves. Such were the hurriedly jetted down notes that I found in this little book. First I found the words: HGrood time, traveling. That made me think. What did I do? 0, yes! That year I took most of the summer OH? to see sights, to Visit friends, and to try to find out what had become of others of whom I had heard nothing for several years. On June the first I noted the arrival of Nan Neighbors in New York. I immediately telegraphed her to meet me there in a few days. She did, and I was overjoyed at seeing her smiling face after her long stay in the Philip- pines. She went there to teach but took up nursing and was soon established as head nurse in one of the most prominent hospitals there. A short time afterwards I was staying in a city in New York. When looking over the hotel register I found the name, Albert Wedeking, and on inquiring about him was told that he was professor of German in the college V which was situated in that town. After a hard days work he was seen sitting in a straight chair in his bachelor's apartments thinking solemnly of his lonely lot, and at last he sank back with a groan, saying, itO, Heck! I can stand this no longerW About this time I heard of Henry Teigan, a great preacher and evangelist, second only to Dwight L. Moody and popular among a large class of working people, chieiiy on account of his socialistic views. He has written a book on Socialism which is now taken as the most authoritative of all socialistic books. In it he often refers to Bryan, saying, uIf this man had been in office, Socialism would have been much farther advanced, and this country would therefore have been in a much more prosperous condition.H I found G. F. Sisson in charge of a ladies7 boarding school, which was attended mostly by pretty girls. He seemed to be a great favorite among