Victory Township High School - Echo Yearbook (Roanoke, IL)

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u R. V. H. S. Assembly Speakers SENATOR MGKINLEY Senator McKinley, who is from Danville, Ill. gave us a ten minute talk. He was making a tour through the state, and we felt quite fortunate in being able to get him to come up to the school. He told us about the wonderful schools, which are built, in order to bring up the future rulers of our country in an intelligent manner. Attention was also called to conditions in two countries. One of these is Russia, who has 140,000,000 people, while United States has 114,000,000 Russia has three times as much territory and many undeveloped resources, but she is not considered great, for the reason that only one-tenth of her people can read and write. It is ruled by only a few, in this way no schools, churches, or rights for men and women being brought out. The other country is Japan, which has from 40 to 60,000,000 people. Although it has been im- proved in the past year, it is yet a poor country from different stand points. It is true Japan was one of the big live, who met after the world war, out of 154 nations. One reason for this is because she is educated, her grade and high school system being similar to ours. She has two national universities, but the people are too poor, and for this reason we should be thankful for the opportunities we have, and the education that our people are able to obtain. We need moral support and, as the Senator concluded, although we are 3000 miles from our friends on the other side of the Atlantic, a peace treaty can be brought about. A DR. RODAWAY Tuesday morning, Feb. 3, 1926, Dr. Rodaway talked to us about his war experience, bringing out the fact how he was ordered to Ft. Sheridan while studying in Chicago, and how he served as Medical officer. He went to New York on the eleventh of May and on the nineteenth left for Liverpool, England, a journey which took thirteen days. From Liverpool he went to South Hampton and then to Alsace-Lorraine, where he stayed for training. ' Many interesting experiences were brought in throughout Dr. Rodaway's speech. DR. WYATT Dr. Wyatt spoke at the High School Monday morning and gave a talk on Getting a Ooldf, In this speech he discussed the respiratory system, showing just how different sieknesses start. One point, which seemed queer was the fact that there is no sickness known as the Flu. It has not as yet been dis- covered just what this is, but is believed to be a form of Pneumonia. After hearing Dr. Wyatt's talk we were very willing to keep fromgetting a cold. i PAGE Fonrv-oNE