Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
BY EARL F. JENNINGS.
INSTALLNIENT /.

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~ Bling Fraser, president of
the junior class of Punkin-
vile High School, spoke emphatically and smote
the palm of one hand with his other fist. An
informal council of war was being held, with
Bing and the two members of the Junior class
debating team in attendance. One of the de-
baters, Ross Jones, nodded gloomily.
"Yeh. we got to-" he agreed sarcastically.
1--WE got something else, too-we got the bum
side OF the argument. The seniors have to
prove that horses more useful than dogs,
and we must prove they aren't. That's a horse
on us, If you ask me-"
Sure, it's tough" barked Bling But we've
got to win. They'll get the trophy sure If We
don't"
The annual senior Junior debate was only a
day away, and ON its result hinged the winning
of the Punkinvile Upper Glass Achievement
Trophy. This trophy was awarded each year
to the class winning a majority of five con-
tests, including foot ball, basket ball. oratory,
debating and base ball. The seniors had won
the foot ball game, the juniors had come back
to take the basket ball contest and had gone
into the lead when Ross Jones was judged to
have delivered better Grafton than his senior
opponent The base ball game would not be
played for several weeks, but 1t was foregone
conclusion that the seniors would be victorious
on the diamond, if the juniors were to get
the award, it was absolutely necessary that they
win the debate.
We'll, we've got some pretty good points"
said Harry Jensen, the other member of the
debating team, "but I'll admit you can find a
lot more useful things about horses than you
can about dogs even hot dogs or the kind you
wear on your feet"
Eyes, and if all dogs were like that pooch
OF yours, we'd be beaten before we started"
grumbled Ross. The meeting was being held
in Harry's home, and the three boys glanced at
Pete, HarTy'S dog, who was asleep on a mat
before the gas CRATE. Pete was a brown dog
and that's about as you can come to
describing him. Harry had found him shiver-
ing in the cold the Winter before and had
taken him in. Since that time, Pete had spent
all OF his time eating, sleeping and scratching
He was probably the most useless dog that ever
lived.
u OSS JONES shuffled over the sheets of
paper on which he and Harry had written
their speeches.
We'll" he said, Harry will be first speaker
for the negative. followed by Willie Nilly, who
will open for the seniors. Willie isn't so good
but, Of course, you never know what sort of
argument he'll have. Then comes Ed Smith
and I'm the last speaker. I guess Ed will
handle the affirmative rebuttal and I'll handle
ours
IF you're as good on that as you were ON
the grafton, you can clinch the argument,
speaking last" said Bing hopefully. But his
ten, Ross, don't use as many long words as you
did on the oratory contest. That's all right
for q fancy speech, but in a debate you want
people TO know what you're talking about.
Gosh, I'd never heard half the words you used
IN your grafton"
R0Ss smiled In a superior manner. They'll
know what I'm talking about this time all
right" he said. "You can't say dog in very
many different ways. Mans best friend is a
good phrase. But if Willie or Ed calls horse