Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-27
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finished. giving opportunity for bypiay
I which prove interesting. The visitors
never have made use Of rebuttals.
The American method of training.
according to Professor A. c. Baird,
the past 10 years mentor of Bates
teams. creates leaders who can think
| their way nationally through the great
and confusing issues which beset the
country today.
| The question debated was: RE.
| solved, That the United States Should
at Once Join the League Of Nations"
Oxford had the affirmative and Bates
the negative side Of the question. Gov
ernor Percival p. Baxter presided.
With this debate. the second inter-
national contest ever held. and re-
turn engagement of that of Bates at
| Oxford year ago last June. the Ok
cnians began series of debates with
American colleges during the. next
| two weeks. including Pennsylvania.
Swarthmore, Princeton. New York Uni
versity. Columbia, Yale and Harvard
in the order named.
I The personnel of the teams was en-
| tirely different than at the first meet
ing. The Oxford, Union Society was
| represented by Edward Martoribanks
Of Christ Church, president Of that So
ciety; Maqboll Mahmood, a member Of
| the aristocracy Of India, and NJ. c. Hol-
lis Of Balliol College.
The second speaker, who is an OK
| ford graduate and president of the
| International assembly of the uni
! Nersity, came from New York to sub
| sttute for X. NJ. Lindsay, of Wor-
cester college, who reached New York
today from Sweden and was unable
TO make connections for this city
The other two are undergraduates.
The Bates speakers were Erwin d.
Canham, Of Auburn, Arthur w. Pol
lister. of Danville, and William f.
Young. of Lewiston. Each speaker
was allowed twenty minutes for his
argument and five minutes for re-
, buttal
The judges were Luere r. Deasy,
Of Bar Harbor, associate Justice of
the Maine Supreme Court, Congress
man Wallace Fl. White, Jr., OF this
city, and Oren G.. Hormell profess
sor Of government at Bowdoin COL
lege
Decisions were given both by the
Judges after the American method,
and by the audience. as is done in
England. John l.. Reade, of this
city, was time keeper.
Governor Baxter. addressing an
audience which packed the audito-
RUM welcomed the visitors, compli-
mented the Bates team of last year
upon their efforts at oxford and re-
ferred to the international interest in
Che debates.
1T really appeals to the magma
| ton when one recalls that no such
debates ever had been held before"
he said. They cement the friendship
OF the people of the British Isles and
those of the United States of Ameri-
ca. Anything that brings these two
great English speaking nations to-
gether contributes to the welfare Of
humanity and tends to increase their
friendly relations"
He anticipated that the sojurn IN
this country would bring them much
pleasure and satisfaction, and said
Bates college had renderer public
service in emphasizing the value and
importance of public debating.
1t was announced after the six
men had spoken that by common
agreement, the rebuttals would be
omitted. The judges then proceeded
to make their decision without con-
sultation and the ballots of the audi
ence were taken up by ushers.
Mr.. Majoribanks. after referring
10 the fact that his mothers home
was in Nashville, Tenn. asked the
audience TO consider the debate upon
its merits, apart from any nation
ality or craftsmanship and on whether
they think the United States should
join the League Of Nations
Europe is on the point Of de-
struction and despair today" he de-
clarcd. There is only one thing
which can make the League of Ma
tions succeed: that is, that America
enter it," He denied that it is a
super state and said it is league
for freer relations between the ma
tons of the world, though he later
said they need some central organ
ization to control their affairs
he quoted from the speech OF
President Lincoln at Gettysburg.
with reference to government "of the
people, by the people and for the
people, saying that his thoughts
then were Of the whole earth as we'll
as for a reunited nation.
Mr.. Canham, the first speaker for
Bates, who followed him. expressed
pride in extending a welcome to the
visitors. We do not know each
other well enough" he said. The
more we know of each other, the
better we will like each other, and
realize each others independence"
Almost at the start OF his arsu-
ment. he was interrupted by Mr..
Majoribanks, who said he had been
misquoted. His attention was called
by Governor Baxter to the fact that
ne and the other speakers would he
allowed five minutes each for rebuff
tai at the close.
The American people, he declared.
rejected the treaty of Versailles e
cause they did not believe in il. He
claimed the league had aroused dis
putes in European countries. notably
in Poland and Lithuania, and that in
spite of the League there are twelve
wars going on now TO prevent which
II has taken no action. He referred
70 the present crisis in the Near East,
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