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

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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

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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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