Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-09


er of the affirmative. REPUTATION and
conclusion by the affirmative" said the
chairman. "Mr. r. Milholland. Two
minutes"
Herewith, Ramsey coughed as long
as he could cough, and when he felt
that no more should be done in this
way. he wiped his face again an act
of necessity-and quaveringly began:
Gentlemen and ladies' or ladies and
gentlemen, in making the refutation
of my opponent, feel that feel that
hardly anything more ought to be
said"
He paused looked helplessly at his
uncomfortable legs, and resumed: II
am supposed to make the reputable
refutation of my opponent, and | feel
that ought to say quite deal more
In the first place, I feel that the inya-
sion has taken place. / am supposed
anyhow / got a postal card that |
am supposed to be here tonight. Well,
in talking over this matter with a cou-
pie of seniors, they told me | was sup
y
and legally all right. Well" Here
by some chance, the recollection of
word of Dora's flickered into his cha
otto mind, and he had brighter mo-
ment. "My opponent said she proved
all war is wrong-Or something like
that, anyhow. She said she proved it
was wrong to fight, no matter what.
Well. if she wasn't a girl, anybody
that wanted to get her to fight could
prob'ly do it." He did not add that he
would be the person to make the ex-
pertinent (if Dora weren't a girD, nor
did the thought enter his mind until an
hour or so later. "Well,'' he added, Il
suppose there is little more to be
said"
He was so right, in regard to his own
performance, at least, that, thereupon
drying up utterly, he proceeded to
stand, a speechless figure in the midst
of multitudinous silence, for an eter-
nifty lasting forty-fve seconds. He made
racking effort, and at the end of this
epoch found words again. 'In making
NY al Ilio N0OoIS, "CNAu
state that"
1.-TWO minutesp said the chairman.
REPUTATION by the negative. Miss D.
Yocum. Two minutes"
81 waive Them" said Dora, primly.
II submit that the affirmative has not
refuted the argument of the negative"
"Very WE'LL With his gavel the
chairman sharply tapped the desk be-
fore him. "The question is now be-
fore the house. Resolved, that Ger
many is both morally and legally justi-
fed in her invasion of Belgium All
those in favor of the"
But here there was an interruption
Of q kind never before witnessed dur
ing any proceedings of the Lumen so
ciety. 1t came from neither Of the de-
baters, who still remained standing at
their desks until the vote settling their
comparative merits in argument
should be taken. The interruption
was from the rear row of seats along
the wall, where sat new members of
the society, freshmen not upon the
program of the evening. A loud nasal
voice was heard from this quarter,
loud but nasal voice. shrill as well as
nasal, and full of a strange hot pas
sion. "Mr. Chairman !" it cried. ,"Look-
a-here, Mr.. Chairman! Mr.. Chairman,
I demand to be heard You gotta GIN
me my say, Mr.. Chairman! I'm a.
gunna have my say You look-a-here,
Mr.. Chairman!'
Shocked by such a breach of order,
and by the unseemly violence of the
speaker, not only the chairman but
everyone else looked there. A short,
strong figure was on its feet, gesticu-
lating fercely; and the head belonging
to it was a large one with too much
curly black hair, fiat Swarthy face,
shiny and not Immediately shaven;
there was an impression of ill-chosen
clothes, too much fat red lip, too much
tooth, too much eyeball. Fred Mitchell
recognized this violent interrupter as
one Linski, fellow freshman who sat
next him in one of his classes. whats
that cuss up to?" Fred wondered, and
so did others. Linski showed them.
He pressed forward, showing himself
through the two rows in front of him
till he emerged upon the green carpet
of the open space, and as he came, he
was cyclonic with words.
you don't put no such stuff as this
over I tell you!" he shouted in his
hot. nasal voice. "This here's q free
country, and you call yourself a de-
batting society, do you? Lemme tell
you l belong to debating society in
Chicago, where I come FROM and them
fellas up there, they'd think they'd
oughta be shot fer a fake like what
you people are tryin' to put over, here,
tonight. | come down here to git some
more education, and pay fer it, too,
in good hard money I've made sweatin'
in a machine shop up there in Chi
cago; but if this is the kind of educa-
ton I'm a-gunna git, I better go on
liz IL