New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-03-18
Wednesday. March Is 1914
Carleton Orators Win Again.

Elmer Peterson Of Pine City, Mimi,
representing Carleton college, won
first place in the State Oratorical
contest held at st. Peter last Monday
night. Axel Backstrom of Gustavus
Adolphus, won second honors while
F. j: Voorhees,, of Hamline, won third.
Five, colleges are represented IN
the annual State Oratorical contest,
namely, Carleton, Gustayus Adolphus'
Hamline,- st. Olaf and Manchester.
Carleton has an unusual record IN
this event having won fourteen tirst
places and seven seconds during the
past twenty-five years. Only once
has the Maize and Blue fallen below
second.
Ane scene at the contest was ty-
pical of a big college gathering. Each
orator had an enthusiastic following
who had come to st. Peter to lend
their vocal and moral support to
their companion. Long before the
contest started the big Gustavus
auditorium was filled with q wildly
enthusiastic college crowd giving vent
to their college yells and by the time
the chairman took his seat the whole
crowd was at concert pitch. 2
Mr.. Backstrom of Gustavus Adolf
phus spoke: first, His topic was "The
Vital Conservation" He spoke Of
Nations Awakening to the reallza-
ton of the needs of conserving our
natural wealth of forest and mine
and of the advances made IN that d.
rection. But a far greater need OF
conservation lies in the conservation
of our people from the ravages Of
disease. He showed the tremendous
loss of life due to neglect and to
ignorance. Clearly, if we are to save
our nation we must conserve our
manhood The solution of this prob
lem, MIR. Backstrom declared, lies In
:.c1ucation and in proper legislation.
rTt2 Gustavus man had a good ora
s,.rl and delivered it splendidly.
The Evolution of World Peace
~; the subject of the next Grafton;
CHI was presented by the Macal-
n representative. The speaker
:: we'd the development Of the peace
10 7ment from it's earliest stages to
~: present time. He developed his
sjl for worldwide arbitration from
- n the ethical and economic side.
TIT, Grafton, while it contained some
Id thought, was poorly delivered
/ received fifth place.:
he next grafton was delivered by
Ter Peterson of Carleton. He took
- his topic, "a New Conception OF
edorn." First showing how our
forefathers struggled for their own
conception Of freedom, he then show
ed how the development of Big Bust
ness in America threatened this lib
erty so dearly bought by them. This
did not mean, however, that the cor
porations must go. New economic
conditions demand Big Business meth:
DDS. Corporations are, in themselves
all right. It is only when they be-
come monopolistic that they become
dangerous. Mr.. Peterson suggested
as a remedy for this condition ade'
,uuate government control of corpora
tons by means of a corporation com
mission similar to the interstate com
naefce commission and a corporation
court. These measures, coupled with
sufficient publicity of corporation
methods would check monopoly anc
still leave us the advantages of cor.
porations. The Grafton was a splen.
did effort and very we'll given. MIR
,Peterson's delivery was far and above
that of his competitors and he was
awarded first by comfortable mar.
gin.
Hamline was ably represented BY
F. j. Voorhees, who spoke on "The Evils
of Child Labor" He painted a sac
picture of modern factory conditions
and of the child labor employed there
The solution of the problem, he de
clared, lay in a living wage for thu
labor employed in factory work.
John Morris, who represented st
Olaf, spoke on much the same theme
as Mr.. Voorhees,. Factory conditions
are deplorable and can not be rene
died by child labor laws or any form
of drastic legislation. The solution
must be decent living wage for tn