Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-01-19
THE HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE AT
NEW BRUNSWICK

New Brunswick, January 9th.-One
hundred high schools of New Jersey
and the Hudson River valley Of New
York state will participate in the
ninth annual inter-scholastic debating
program of the Philoclean Literary
Society of Rutgers College and the
State University of New Jersey at
New Brunswick. The schools have
been divided into groups of four to
hold semi-final and final debates with
a few exceptions where triangular de-
bates will be held.
The subjects have been selected by
the schools from eight proposed by the
inter-scholastic debating committee.
They are: Resolved, That in view of
the economic distress of Europe, the
United States should cancel at least
so per cen of the wal debts of the
allies" and Resolved, That the mer-
chant marine of the United States
should be subsidized by the Federal
Government"
Semi-final debates will be held
March 23d and final debates will take
place April 9th. The winner of each
group will be presented with an award
by the society. The chief changes
from past years is the adoption of a
uniform judges ballot, the provision
for a two and three-man rebuttal in
stead of a single man rebuttal in the
past, and the defining of terms by the
competing teams. Principal Heilman,
of Clinton, N. j., is the author of the
judges ballot. 1t is similar to an
election ballot with squares in which
the judge will mark for either the af-
firmative or negative on the following
three points: Superiority in subject
matter, superiority in form of argu-
ment and superiority in delivery.
Instead of the nter-scholastic de-
batting committee defining terms in
dispute, the affirmative teams will sub
NIT to the negative teams such terms
before January 30th and the two
teams shall get together before Febru-
airy 9Th and agree upon the definition
of terms. This is to enable the teams
to reach a common ground of debate.
and not argue from different points
of view.
The number of rebuttal speakers is
left to the two teams to agree upon.
The groupings are as follows:
South Je~rsey-Haddon Heights, Col
~lingswood, Woodbury. and Gloucester
City; Pleasantville, Glassboro, Had
donfield and Mount Holly; Vineland,
Millville, Salem and Bridgeton; Ocean
City, Wildwood, Woodbine and Egg
Harbor.
West Jersey-Chatham, Madison,
Summit and Millburn; Boonton,
Dover, Roxbury and Rockaway; Whar-
ton, Netcong, Newton and Hamburg.
North Jersey-Butler, Sussex, Has
brouck Heights and Caldwell: Nutley,
Bellville, Kearney and Rutherford;
Dumont, Westwood, Park Ridge and
Chester.
New York State-Poughkeepsie,
Kingston, Beacon and Newburgh;
Walden, Warwick and Port
Jervis; Drum Hill of Peekskill, Ossin-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Tuxedo.
Central Jersey-High Bridge, Hamp-
ton, Clinton and Hackettstown; Union,
Roselle Park, Roselle and Linden;
Lambertville, Hopewell
and Princeton; S~omerville, Bound
Brook and Bernardsville (Triangular)
Railway, Woodbridge, Hightstown and
Bordentown; Washington and Belvi-
dere.
Larger City Group = B%arringer
Newark, East Orange and South
Side Newark (~Triangular); Perth
Amboy, New Brunswick, Battin
(Elizabeth) and Atlantic City; West
Hoboken, West New York, Passaic
and Bayonne.
Shore Group-Asbury Park, Red
Bank, Neptune Ocean Grove and
M%anasquan; Freehold, Atlantic High
lands, Keyport and Leonardo; Toms
Barnegat, South River and
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