Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-30
BY EARL F. JENNINGS.


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class president discovers that the seniors expect to
the uselessness Of such animals and he considers
the debate arrives While Siy FIRST Speaker the
starts IN to list the ss points IT'S by Enoh ae
starts badly and Bins thinks the Juniors viii win
INSTALLMENT III.
WILLIE NmLY, after little more hesita-
w ton, recovered his wits somewhat and
went on to state his points.
my first point" he said as that horses
have been very important in history, more i'm
portant than dogs. You don't ever read about
horses"
Smokers arose from the assembled students.
Miss FlintnoSe, who taught history, looked
shocked. Bling Fraser chortled gleefully. Miss
FIintnoSe was one of the Judges, and Willie
had intimated that her course was not to be
taken SeriouSlyl
While, however, seemed not to have noticed
his blunder He was Just getting warmed up.
In fact he was so warm that he had to mop
his face with his handkerchief and run his
finger around inside his collar But he got
grip on himself and continued:
What did King Richard say in the famous
battle? He said, "A horse, a horse, my king
dom for a horseP He didn't say anything
about wanting dog did he? No. sir. Nobody
ever offered a kingdom for dog. But King
Richard offered the whole kingdom Of Eng
land for just one horse. At that rate, think
what all the horses in the world are worth.
They're certainly worth q lot more than q
bunch Of dogs"
Ross Jones, Junior debater, hastily made a
note on the paper before him. "Iu knock
that point down on rebuttal," he whispered to
Bing. king Richard was licked in the bat
tle that's why he wanted horse! Therefore,
he was punk fighter and his judgment isn't
worth anything"
But Willie wasn't done with horses in history
"Where would Paul Revere have been with
out his horSe?" he Numbered Can you
imagine him riding to Lexington on q dog?
All great generals have used horses. And how
about the cowboys, who fought the Indians and
civilized the West? They all rode horses, didn't
they? Horses have been one of the most I'M
portant things in the history of America"
Bing began to look a little worried. Willie
was making strong argument after all. He
glanced apprehensively at Harry Jensen, who
was to speak first for the Juniors. Harry
caught his eye.
"Gee," Harry whispered in an awed voice,
elf he keeps that up he'll be proving that
Columbus discovered America on a horse"
Willie went on with his illustrations Of the
horses value in history mentioning Sheridan's
ride in the Civil War, the pony express and
other equally good points. Then he proceeded
TO his second main topic.
"In the second place." he went on, horses
are more useful than dogs because they work
hard on farms and pull milk wagons and gar
bage wagons in the city"
Dogs pull milk carts in HoIland!" Bng
whispered excitedly to Ross. I've seen pic
lures of theml"
"Yeh and they empty garbage cans too"
replied Ross disdainfully. But 1 don't think
I'll mention that can knock out his farm
argument, though. Tractors and automobiles
are better than horses nowadays. .......,,...
Nevertheless Willie made IA, good sRfech4 on
the value of the horse to the farmer, and his