Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-29
He Won First Over 100000 Contestants

IN the North Woods there came sew
eral weeks ago sixteen year old lad
~ from Birmingham, Alabama. To look
at him he was but an ordinary and av-
erage American lad; not bigoted but with
wholesome regard for the everyday man
dates of life, whether it be play or work That
he is OF that type there is no mistake, for he is
lad with reputatlon--and he carries it just
like the American boy does carry almost every
thing he tackles in this hustle for existence
and does not swell up over such trifes
Robert Sessions is now sixteen years of
age-Just passed the sixteenth milestone
month or so ago. When he was in his fifteenth
year, say some time last May, he pulled down
the biggest plum in publicity and career-mak-
ing ever given to a lad of that age. He did
something which millions of men of mature
age have been striving for but it came to this
lad to reach the goal with whz and bang
and bring credit to his parents his instructors
and to his common sense as we'll.
You should meet this lad who, in May at
Washington, D. c.. carried off the national ora
torcal hOnors in a contest staged months
before in which 100000 Zone million six hun
dred thousand, get that?) boys from all over
the United States strove to land for their own
noterlety-what young Sessions holds.
A countrywide contest was staged some
months ago for the best Grafton on the Consti-
tuition of the United States. Every hamlet;
every village and every city school in the Uni
ted States put up contestants to the above num-
Der. Then the method of elimination followed
and at the end the finals summed down to a
representative boy orator from but seven
states. Robert Sessions of Birmingham Ala
bama, of the seven. These boys were
called to the final meet at Washington where,
before President Coolidge, Ex-president Taft
and other ma or minded men, he prepared for
battle. Easily he won from all the points in
oratory and the ovations given this lad would
have caused many boy to lose himself in self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and sWel-headedness. Not
Robert Sessions.
He is the same American lad he was before
he secured national honors and eulogies from
men of greatness For the past three weeks he
has been in camp at Camp Winnepe the boys
camp on Catfish lake three miles from Eagle
River, and it was not publicly known that this
ordinary lad was a worldbeater in oratory.
Even his friends in camp, some hundred boys
of the same type in manhood, knew not that
Robert was famed boy. Last Sunday evening
at the camp during the evening program, the
opportunity given the writer to listen to
the oratory of this boy 1t was revelation in
oratory; not only in delivery but in the strong
ness of construction and delineation of what
our constitution stood for all these years.
Some evening next week (date to be an
nounced later Robert Sessions will deliver
this 15minute address before the people of this
section at the Eagle Theatre Manager En-
mons has kindly given the patrons the oppor-
tunity to hear this boy and the management Of
Camp Winnepe, where he is guest have con-
sented to his appearance.
We appreciate the courtesies shown this
section, and the writer can say that every per-
son, especially the boys and girls Of this tribe
of Americans, will miss one of the strongest
and ablest delivered pleas for the preservation
of the Constitution of the United States-and
also meet up with common American boy you
will love for his observation-disclosures and ability
if they fail to and hear him.