Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-25
WEST WATERLOO IS
WINNER OF DEBATE
AMES HIGH SCHOOL GETS Sec
oND PLACE AND LOCAL S
TEAMS LAST.
N. n. s. oEsArERs BEATEN
HERE AND At AMEs SCHOOL
Question Of Universal Military Train
inc for Young Men Under n Years
Of Age Subject Debatcd-Negativs
Teams Appear at Homs-Synopsis
OF the Dsbatsrs' Arsum snts. a.

o. tno Oeoatore arguments
In the annual triangular debate. In
which the local high school partici-
pated Wednesday night, with Ames
and West Waterloo high schools
West Waterloo won. defeating the
Marshalltown negative team here. and
tho Ames affirmative team at Water
loo, Ames won second place, defeating
the local affirmative team at Ames
Resolved. that congress enact legis-
lation providing for q system Of uni
versal military training for all able
bodied men before they reach the
age Of 81 years." was the question
debated.
The local debate was held at the
high school gymnasium, but was lat
er in starting than had been planned.
The high school band furnished mus
ic during the evening. C. H. Van
Law was chairman and The judges
were George w. Hubert, H. r.
O'Brien and Ruth Kentxler. of Ames.
Local Team Beaten.
The local negative team, which de-
bated here, was composed of Frank
Roth. Hugh Nichols and James Laur-
lie and they debated with Kenneth
Kister. Max Livingstone and Jewell
Johnson. Of West Waterloo The af-
firmative team. which went to Ames
was made up of Donald Milne, Leon
ard Buffers and Leon Jones.
The local teams has no alibi to
offer as an excuse for their defeat,
but the members Of the opposing
teams were all seasoned debaters,
having had the work In previous
years. while the game was entirely
new to the local teams. Fl
At the local debate the opposing
team failed to bring up a single arg
ument which could not be answered
by the local debaters. The rebuttals
Of the local team were entirely ex-
temporaneous. while those of their
opponents had been prepared.
The affirmative team argued that
a system of military training would
lesson death rate in time OF war, and
that the training would be great
help physically. They maintained
that 1t would Americanize the farm
er, unite capital and labor and that
the moral effects Of 1t would be good.
Synopsis Of Arguments.
| The negative team claimed that
with the new appropriations made
by congress to Increase the army, the
present system is adequate for the
needs Of the country. They argued
that as there Is no place for the plan
in the present educational system.
that it will have to be given in
camps. The cost of this training
would run into billions Of dollars an
nually. and even II given in the
schools. the cost Is $50 per. capita
which means an annual expenditure
POf over $4,000. 100000.
Physical training, they said. would
be OF greater benefit for the indivi-
dual than military training. Their
main argument, however, was the
danger of military training develop
ing into militarism. since the men
who train the boys are regular army
officers. and trained to drill men. and
not schooled in the work of handl-
ing boys of high school age. The at
firmative team could not refute this
argument.
Critieiss Treatment At Ames.
The local team was very direct in
delivery, stating plain facts and driv-
ing them home with out using over
~ developed gestures. The West
Waterloo team had q tendency to
work upon the sympathy Of the
judges by painting vivid pictures of
men who went to France and were
killed because Of lack of training.
The audience was very attentive
and was equally liberal in their ap-
probation Of both teams.
The treatment given to the local af-
firmative team at Ames was not cor
dial. The pupils at the Ames high
school are compelled to attend the
debates regardless of whether they
are interested or not consequently
they appear to have taken out their
spite on the local team while mem
bers OF 1t were speaking.
Saturday, Miss Esther Leech who
won first place in the local extern
poraneous speaking contest, will rep
resent the school at Waterloo, in q
state contest Of that kind which will
be Judged by professors OF public
speaking from the State University
Vi IOWA.