Versailles High School - Portal Yearbook (Versailles, OH)

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tin more upon the spirit of Versailles, since the town lias no parks or play grounds. No boy of the cin slums ever has this handicap. Think of it! Our boys have the streets, sidewalks, or alleys for recreation places—if they don’t get too noisy—while the worst city slums nowadays, are provided with ample playgrounds for the boys and girls. We want to point out our urgent, undeniable needs. Practically every man we have seen who is fighting the new school, admits all the above points. They only disagree on tin amount to be spent, location, and na tare of the building. Why not get to- gether on these? Perhaps the present plans may saddle an unnecessary burden upon the tax payer, or again it may be the cheapest and the wisest plan in the long run. The welfare of Versailles—the future of Versailles—as regards its progress forward and growth—all hinges on a modern school building, equipped with all modern facilities for educational work, including a gymnasium. Domestic Science and Manual Training rooms, Laboratory, Auditorium; with large enough grounds to allow for athletics—one of the greatest modern aids in educational work. Tom Brown, '25

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1 c EDITORIAL c Here and There When this goes to press our brief task will have been finished. Worry and toil over, the problems that eon-front us in making: up the Annual will be behind us, and we must stand upon our works, be they good, bad or indifferent. We can only say that we have done our best, given time, thought and hard work cheerfully for its success, and our sincere hope is that this Annual measures up well with those preceding it. And now as A'. H. S. poors out the largest class of graduates in its history and thousands of other high schools pour put their million or so, let us hope that there iias been taught and drilled into these future rulers of the world a different definition of the word success than that which seems to prevail tit the present time. To it close observer of times, its shown by events occurring daily, one would think that most men of responsibility are governed by tin methods of the old regime; the advice of the parent of those days to his son, going out into the world to make his way was get money, boy—get money! tier it honest if you can, but get money!’' Does it not look as though a great many of our statesmen of today heard and heeded that advice—and are get ting the money? Who can tell at this writing what great names will be blackened, that could have and should have, gone down in history to be recalled with love and gratitude by a great people for whom they should have unselfishly worked, but for which statesmen the only charitable thing we can do now is to try to forget; not their misdeeds—for we must guard against the future—but their selfish personalities must he consigned to the oblivion of things unworthy. Nor does it seem that our own land is the . i .j only one in trouble; for from what we can glean from tin confusing and conflicting dispatches from the European countries, we must be singularly blessed. France, despairing of the expected reparations from (lermany (or aid from Fnele Sam) is fighting desperately to keep from going down under her burden of debt. , But of most interest are Italy and Russia where there seems to be two distinct efforts to establish something new with their ideas of Government as wide apart as the poles. Russia with her cooperative schemes which place Government in the hands of the laboring class—and Italy which seems to take Government from all classes and place it in the hands of a dictator, a reversion to the old Monarchist ab solutism—and which history shows is a very good thing where we have a good monarch. But, unfortunately, the bad monarchs seem to have prevailed in the past, and we have no assurance that this case will be an exception. England too, is trying a new filing—and let us hope that her Labor-Government makes good. For it seems from the muddle the lawyer and statesman have got her into, that her condition is hopeless if MacDonald, the labor chief, fails; and Germany— who knows what her future is? So eialist? Monarchy? Republic? But to get back home to V. H. S.— we are having “Teapot Troubles” of our own. We are undeniably behind the times with our old school building. None will deny this who care to look about them, comparing our school with schools of our neighboring towns. We are crowded. A visit to ns any day will prove this statement. We have no grounds for our athletics, such as baseball and football. We have no.gymnasium. .Th.bLreflects all PAGE 10

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Lads of V. H. S. A secret, friends, I'd tell to you, How truly you cun get the clue, And at u distance Jar away, May know our students of today. These students look real wise, you know, For they are of I 'ersailles, I trow; Their heads erect, their shoulders square, And eyes so bright, tha t none would dare; To challenge them in some debate, Or meet them in a football fete. So when you stroll along the street And. some strange person you should meet, Just tip your hat and then confess— “Why, that’s a lad from V. If. S.” Audreth Williams PAGE 12