The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-06-07

Team work which showed thorough
ness OF work. mastery grasp of the
subject and clear and conctsa
seatation or it gave the palm of w.
tory to the Hammond school last nisht
as against South Bend. The audience
Wnicn comfortably filled the First
Metnndist church for the occasion was
given an excellent demonstration of
the efficiency OF the Hammond school
Inc victory rebounds to the e@edif os
Supt- G. NJ Mcdaniel, Principal r. .
McE'roy and the balance of the corns
OF the high school, but particularly SO
10 Prof. A l.. Murray and Mrs. Watson
INSTRUCTORS respectively In the English
and the public speaking departments
Mr.. Murray and Mrs. Watson built nm a
team capable of defending Hammond,s
honor against opponents much superior
to the South Bend aggregation.
Representative Is Edited.
A number of the Hammond CITY off,
c1als were in the audience, and were
deeply interested in the discussion.
Judge " S. Reiter of the superior court
presided as chairman. the debated hav
Ing been preceded by a chorus song
fsom the eighth grade.
Barnie Carter, who is a member of
the Indiana Legislature, and whose
daughter on the Hammond team aided
In its brilliant showing, stated to a
TIMES reporter that he did not hear
the question so ably discussed in the
legislature last winter when the Ft
Wayne government plan was under
consideration.
The debate was opened by Leslie
Hellerman for Hammond He outlined
briefly what is meant by the commits
sion form, or the so-called Des Moines
plan. and the FIT. Wayne plan. which
was proposed in the last Legislature
but which was killed for political rea-
sons.
The Two Plans.
Both plans he stated embodv the
initiative referendum and recall the.
principal difference between the two he
ing that in the Des Moines plans the
commissioners who are the policy de-
termining body are elected directly by
the people, while in the Ft. wavne
plan, the commissioners are an ad
ministrative body appointed by a coun-
cilmanic body which In turn is elected
by the people. In latter plan while
the commissioners and the councilman
act as check on each other, they are
both in a policy determining capacftv
which the Hammond debaters argued
was not a form of government max
ing for the best EFFICIENCY The visit
tors argued that under the Fort Wayne
plan, the council could appoint EXPERTS
as commissioners. while under the Des
Moines plan any man who is popular
with the masse could be elected To
this the affirmative answered that the
popularity elected commissioners could
appoint experts department heads
Leslie Hellerman gave his audience
the impression of having mature
mind. His flow of language however is
trifie to rapid for public speaker. a
fault which he will undoubtedly over
come. He is a of Adolph Heller
man the shoe dealer. AS a sophomore
Theodore Adams son of the Rev F. H
Adams. gives much promise as pub
lie speaker. He is deliberate and
showed depth of thought Miss Carter
was the principal speaker for the Ham
mond side and displayed all the ouaIi-
ties of a good debater.
Murray Wins On Both Sides
Louis Inwood was South Bends prin-
cipal and easily it's best speaker Miss
Guthrie has a. winsome manner. and
showed. a good grasp of the subject but
the general statements which her side
had to offer were answer to the
research and the considerable cor
respondence which the Hammond side