Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-04
UNIVERSITY DEBATE
Columbian Boys to Meet Vir-
g MIA Representatives.
INTEREST AROUSED
QUESTION OF GOVERNMENTAL
CONTROL OF RAILROADS.
Argument to Begin at 4:5o O'Clock To-
morrow-Personal Sketches
of Dehaters.


which will take place tomorrow at the La
favette Opera House. The question to be
argued is whether Ownership. control ana
operation by the federal government Of the
steam railroads of the country would De LOT
the best interests Of the people,
The debates between Columbian and VIZ
sinia are regarded as of the highest Or
der. ranking with the best intercollegiate
oratorlcal contests of the country The ar
e,,ment will be opened at $50 o'clock TO-
morrow evening and will continue for two
hours.
For Columbian the debaters will be MIL
ton NJ. bearing. law, '05; Bynum E. Hinton,
law 'O4 and Harold J. Pack. candidate Tor
the degree LIN, with Irwin 8. Pepper
l.u 'O5 as alternate. The University Oh
Virginia $ debaterS are Roger b. w ooo' john
". wayiand and John /. Whey, with Roy
". Rucker. alternate
assistant secretary of the navy: Jesse 3.
Wilson. president Lincoln National BANK;
Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor OF the rev
York Avenue Presbyterian Church. me
management of the debate Is In the hanos
of the intercollegiate debate committee
consisting of Mr. J. r. Moore of Alabama,
Mr.. Harold J. Pack of Pennsylvania anu
Mr.. Samuel Edelstein of Wisconsin, ne
nresidtng officer will be Mr.. Oliver e. Car
penter of South Dakota, president OF the
Columbian Debating Society.
Sketches Of the Debaters.
Tho Columbian representatives: Milton NJ.
bearing, Columbian Law. %, was porn Au-
gust IS. 1881. at Columbia. Mo. He at
tended the nublic schools and high schools
at that place. receiving the BIS. degree
from high school in 81. He entered the
University of Missouri, located at Columbia.
in the fall of '9S; won the william j..
BRYAN prize in freshman year Tor essay Oh
."The Government of the United STATES;
held several class offices; was secretary VI
the debating league of the university, con,
sfstine of six debating clubs, and mao
charge of intercollegiate Debates was III 81
lieutenant commissioned by Governor
Doekery in the university cadet DattaHon;
which is a part of the Missouri Nauonai
Guard: was valedictorian of his class,
graduating in June. 1852 with degree OF
Alb. and entered Columbian in fall OF 1917.
His debating record is one when Is P.on
ably not eauaIed by any other inter-
collegiate debater in the country. he rep
resented Missouri in debates with the Uni
yersity of Nebraska in 1900, University oI
Kansas In 1901 and University or llilnois ia
1902, winning in all three of the contests.
In his first year in Columbian he mace Out
three public speeches. In the nrst ne won
a place on a public debate; In the second ne
won a place on the prize debate, ana III the
third he won the prize debate %.
Rvnum E. Hinton. Columbian Law. o.
vas horn in Hampstead county, Ark, on
FEBRUARY f. 1875. and attended the com,
mon schools of that county. he entereo
Ouachita College, Arkadeiphia' Arh-' on M
1898 graduating in 1897; taught from 1851
ia 1aIg) and later resigned position as as
ISOLATE principal of Friendship High Schooi
Star City, Ark, to come to washington II,
the government service. lie was oNereu
the position of principal of one OF the Ward
schools of Pine Bluffs. Ark. the schools
of that city being recognized as the pest
in the state, but declined the oner, as Wen
as the one of the chair Of mathematics m
Pine Bluff High School. Since his entrance
in Columbian he has developed fine debat-
ing qualities. In his trials for place on the
virginia team he impressed all who heard
him as being. q man in whose care Column
bian could well place her debating laurels
Harold j. Pack was born in 1879, and is
a Pennsylvania. Entered Columbian Law
School in 1900. receiving the degree OF
LIB. in 1862: was admitted to the bar OF
the District of Columbia in 1903. but has
never engaged in active practice; is a no
tary public for the District and holds re-
sponsible position III the bureau of supplies
and accounts Navy Depa rtment: Is can
didate this year for the degree of LIN.
His first public address was made in 1907
in a public debate, in which he won first
honors, emitting him to a place In the prize
debate In May, 1902, in which he won sec
ond honors. In 1893 he won place on the
Georgetown debate, but was protested be-
cause ne was not canuludte IOF d uS-
gree and. although he was an officer and
an active member of the debating society
Add was registered as special student, the
protest was sustained. He will close the
argument for Columbian.
Mr.. Irwin s. Pepper, alternate. was born
in southern Iowa. on a farm He attended
country school until he was seventeen: en-
tered Southern Iowa Normal Of Bloomfield
Iowa, when he had finished common school.
graduating from the scientific cou.se in
1877: entered Columbian University In Oc-
tober. 1903, as a member of the ,aW class
! of 1905 AS new man in the Virginia
trials he showed strength and was highly
coraEiimented by the judges. If not heard
froEi at the Virginia debate Mr.. P Apper.s
debut IL intercollegiate debates will be but
temporarily postponed. for he will undoubt-
ed,y speak for Columbian before his gradu-
atcn.
The University of Virginia.
Mr.. Roger B. Wood one of those repre-
ferson Literary Society, is the son of Col.
John E. r. Wood of the Frederick, Nd.
bar. and was born In Frederick June 26.
1878. He was educated in the public schools
of Frederick and graduated from the Fred
erick high school with honor In 1896 After
his graduation he served for several years
upon the reportorial staff of the Frederick
News and as correspondent for the Wash
ington Post. Mr.. Wood matriculated and
began the study of law at the University
of Virginia In September, 1902. and at the
opening of the session of 10000 was ap-
pointed law librarian by the law faculty of
the university. He has been member of
the Philomathean Literary Society Of Fred
of Virginia debating team which defeated
the team representing the University of