Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-15
LOCAL DEBATERS
PICKED IN TESTS
rrxou,s for Teams to Represent High
School Develop Fine Talent
Among Students.
TWELVE ENTER THE CONTEST
r,cbt Are Selected by Judges After
Interesting Trials-RiyalS to
Clash in March.

At the tryout Of the u candidates
Gar the local high school debating
teams yesterday afternoon at the close
- school, eight men were picked to
represent Rock Island on the two
ANS that will meet Davenport and
,to,ine respectively. These debates
Vii take place on March II upon the
,rostion: Resolved, that the present
s-my and navy program Of the United
GATES is inadequate for our needs"
The men picked yesterday afternoon
ore. Edgar James, Lewis Saulpaugh,
pohert L. Olmsted, Werner Hallgren,
pnbert Anderson, Uri Metcalf, George
ADAMS. Roy Johnson. From these
LIGHT Coach Robb will select six regu-
iors for two teams of three each and
an alternate for each team. Mr.. Robb
Gates that these men would be chosen
az soon as the issues have been de-
c,ded upon, which will probably be
within a week.
The contest yesterday afternoon was
,be most interesting ever held in the
biph school. Twelve contestants, all
of them Of marked ability, met in
room q Of the high school before five
y, the teachers who acted as judges,
these being Miss Hazel Healy, Miss
Reryl TitteringtGn, o. F. Achtenhagen,
and ". c. Robb. Each contestant had
some phase Of the question to deal
with and all Of them, considering the
little time which most of them had to
work upon it, did remarkably well. 1t
is no reflection on those that lost that
they did lose, for the contest as a
whole showed the bad effect which
lack of preparation had had upon
them. the class tournament and va
rious activities of the past week TAX
ing a considerable amount Of atten-
ton. Also, the candidates for the
team this year were all of unusual
merit, most of them having had some
experience in the line of public speak
ing. Now that the teams are picked,
however, there is no doubt about the
interest and loyalty of every man and
they will begin to attack the question
Immediately
Credits for Music Study.
At the end of a semester, Principal
A. J Burton of the high school now
announces that the plan Of giving
credit to high school students for out
side study of music has been taken adj
vantage of to very great extent by
the students. The number now en-
rolled in a course outside school and
receiving high school credit for it is
4S, 81 of whom are doing work on the
piano, eight on the violin, one on the
coronet, one on the clarinet and one
with the voice The plan is to give
one credit a semester for six hours a
week or more outside study, or fol
three hours a week if the student takes
up voice culture The student mus
apply TO be enrolled in this course be.
fore the close Of the second semester
and at the end of the semester mus
give the teachers report of the WORK
accomplished. The plan has been {
great success during the past semester
and Mr. Burton hopes that it will bt
taken up by even more during thu
next.
CastO's New March Heard.
At the general assembly, which wal
held at the high school yesterday aft
ernoon, J. W Casio, instructor in his
tory, favored the students with hi
new selection, THE Jubilator," a mil
itary march. Mr.. Casio has designed
the march as a memorial to the lat
Thomas B. Myers, couple Of year
ago an instructor in English at tn
high school, in collaboration will
whom he wrote his popular piece, 9TH
High School Kids" and for that pur
pose has embodied in the new produc
ton the chorus of that song. "Higl
School Kids came out two years agt
at the high school, the words by MI
Myers and the music by Mr.. Caste
Now that Mr.. Myers has passed away
Mr.. Casio decided that he would re
member him in a piece which woul,
be OF more than local interest an
with that end in view composed 9Th
Jubilator" last summer. The selection
is an excellent one and will undoubt
edly enjoy wide sale as one of tn
best OF Mr.. Casto's productions. Nj
Casto has to date composed some %
selections and the new one promise
10 be ono of his hest