The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-04-06
LOCAL DEbATERS
Are VANQUlSHED
ELIMINATED FROM THE STATE
CHAMPIONSHIP BY EAST
GRAND FORKS TEAM
JUDGES WERE DIVIDED In VOTE
TWO DECIDE FOR VISITORS AND
ONE FOR SAUK CENTRE IN
SPIRITED CONTEST.

Sank Centre high school has been
eliminated as contender for the state
high school debating championship,
the trick being turned by East Grand
Forks high school last Friday night at
the Caughren theatre in one of the
best and most spirited debates ever
heard in this city.
That the three judges, Supts. Dob
byn of Little Falls, Guthrie of Glen
wood and Susens of Alexandria, had
no easy time in arriving at a decision
is indicated by the two-to-one vote
with which they awarded the palm to
the visitors. The division of the vote
attests the closeness of the contest
and that victory and defeat hung on
hair line.
Students of the local high school,
who attended almost in body, with
splendid school spirit and magnanim-
ity, gave the visitors a tremendous
cheer when the decision was announc-
ed and the members of the defeated
team were the first to grasp the hands
OF their conquerors in congratulation
The decision was universally accepted
as fair and just. AS a result the
East Grand Forks team enters the
state semi-fnals and will have Will
mar high school as next opponent.
The Caughren theatre was packed.
Moving pictures, school yells, college
songs and parodies on popular melo-
dies worded to suit the occasion and
rendered under the direction of Miss
Linton served to entertain until the
commencement of the debate.
Supt. c. H. Maxson of the St. Cloud
public schools presided as chairman
and proclaimed that public debating
was invaluable to young man for
the development of poise, quick think
ing, reasoning and the art of oratory.
He announced the subject as "Resolv-
ed, That the United States Should
Materially Increase It's Armament"
with the visitors taking the affirma-
tive. The members of the teams were !:
Sank Centre, Kenneth McCullom,
Henry Sauers, Aloysius Breher; East
Grand Forks, Stephen Zipoy, Alvin
Moebeck, w. E. Lurton.
Both sides in their arguments dem
onstrated that they had delved deep
into the subject, had studied hard and
had their points at finger ends. In
support of their contention for or
against greater army and navy they
hurled great broadsides of figures and
quotations from eminent civic and
military authorities. The subject is a
live one, the six young men threshed
out seemingly every kernel in it, with
the result that it was education as
well as entertainment for the big as
semblage.
The visitors were undeniably the
best balanced team from debating
viewpoint and scored their heaviest
against the local boys in rebuttal. In
this respect Lurton, the last speaker,
was especially strong. He followed
the leads of his colleagues closely,
cleverly picked out weak points in the
arguments of his opponents, and, with
high flights of oratory, sometimes
waxing amusingly sarcastic at the au-
thorities and points made by the neg
alive, he made many big dents in the
negative armor. Zipoy had the easy
carriage of professional lecturer, a
good voice and steadiness of deliv-
cry that counted highly for him. Moe
beck had big booming voice and easy
poise that scored we'll, though his part
of the argument was not as powerful
as that of Lurton and Zipoy.
However, highest Individual honors
must be accorded Aloysius Breher of
the local team and the youngest of
the six debaters. His clear, ringing
voice, his nimble mind, his logic of
thought, his clear-cut assembling and
disbursement of his facts, made him
hold his audience spellbound. He was
easily the most convincing as well as
peppery debater of the sextet and
when he closed in rebuttal he was ac-
corded long continued applause. Nc
Cullom and Sauer were the same
strong heady debaters as always, ac-
quitting themselves handsomely.
Mrs. J. A. Lockhead returned Sat
urday from several months visit
with relatives at Seattle and Tacoma,
Wash. She was called to Tacoma in
the early part of last October to as
sist in caring for her daughter, Mrs.
S. F. Chelsey, who was and is still
quite seriously ill. During her alb
sence Mrs. Lockead also visited her
sons, C. R. and C. D. Lockead, and a
brother. ]. C.. Wood. of Seattle.