Weekly journal-miner., 1922-04-05
BAD GERS IN
 TITLE PLACE
 MIN DEBATE
CFrom Saturdays Daily) No doubt remains.

Wlll be retarded. Three times have
 the Badgers proved this against other
 school teams, winning last night from
 Williams by unanimous decision, so that they are now champions of the |, northern part of the state. They will
 try their skill against Chandler in
 the near future. If successful they
 will then go to the University of
 Arizona, University week, April 2S,
 to contest with the winner of the Isouthern district for the state high lsehool debating championship.
 The Williams team fought hard but
 was unable to rebut the arguments advanced by the Badgers or build up
 ar argument of their own sufficient ly strong to outweight theft oppon- ents.
 The program began with the sing
 ing of two songs by Miss McMur- chic, entitled 70 Heart of Mine" and One Song Is Sweet" Principal Neal D. Moore took the chair and announced the subject, and the speak CTS. Eleanor Cotton spoke first on the affirmative side. After stating the subject, Resolved, That Further Legislation to Restrict Immigration
 Into the United States is Injurious to the Industrial Development of the Country" Miss Cotton declared that ithe question was confined to indus {! try and that social O. political con alterations could have nothing to do with the case She reminded her audience that America had been de- veloped through the immigrant and that all Americans today are descend ed from immigrants and that the im- migrant IS necessary to do the basic and dangerous work.
 Maudie Russel then spoke for the negative side. She laid great stress On the present unemployment situa- ton and stated that the present type Of immigrant was the unskilled and undesirable class from southern Europe while previous to 1900 irn- migrants had been of higher class from northwestern Europe
 Dorothy Stuart spoke for the af- fi;mative. The immigrant taught the American his habits of thrift and in dustry. The Boulder canyon project would open much new land to culti- vation. The United States needed the unskilled laborer to do the work of digging ditchcS, building railroads so that the American laborer might be free to do the better kinds of work
 Lawrence Pratt made the last chief speech for the negative. Of course the large corporations wanted cheap labor but the American laborer must be provided for. This country has protective tariff for many manufac- turers, why not protect the work man? He warned his audience that the } per cent law was going to ex- pire in June and that thousands of immigrants were waiting for the bars Ito be let down.
 Miss Russel opened the rebuttal for the negative. The United States did not need more farms with crops now as low as they are. She at tempted to tear down her opponents | argument but without success.
 Eleanor Cotton asked what was pure Americanism" Did not this nation develop from immigrants? Would it now close the gates and become isolated as China and Japan had done by cutting off the life blood of the nation?
 Lawrence Pratt closed for the negative. The affirmative had failed to prove its point, he said. Instead l the negative had conclusively proven that the 5 per cent law should be re- newed and even more stringent meas ures passed.
 Dorothy Stuart ended the debate with the dramatic statement that the American laborer was not the whole of industry; and the long discussion of her opponent on this subject was not to the point. She was disap- pointed that her opponents had not kept to the subject as she liked to discuss it and not wander off into other fields. The European works for low wages her opponents had said and yet comes over here to make money and return home with it, talk ing wealth from this country. This seemed strange.
 The decision of the three judges, J O. Mullen, superintendent Of the Jerome school; w. R. Hull, superin- tendent at Clarkdale, and J. C. Ken well, superintendent at Humboldt, was then rendered.
 Miss Frances Keen and MT. Cur ratin, coaches of the Prescott and NAT;11,,-,.