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THE DEBATE. Synopsil.-With his grandfather, small llamsey Milholland is watch ing the "Decoration Day Parade" in the home town. The old gentle man, a veteran of the Civil war, endeavors 'to impress the young ster with the significance, of the great conflict, and many years aft erward the boy was to remember his words with startling vividness. In the schoolroom, a few years afterward, Ramsey is not distin guished for remarkable ability, though his pronounced dislikes are arithmetic, "lItecitation's" and Ger man. in sharp vontrast to itam sey's backwardness is the precocity of little Dora Yoeum. a young lady whom in his bitterness lie denomi nates "Teacher's Pet." In high school, where he and Dora are classmates, Ramsey continues to feel that the'girl delights to inani fest her superiority, and the vin dictiveness lie genera tes becomes alarining, culminating in the reso lutoion that some day lie will "show" her. At a class picnic Rarn sey is captured bag an(l baggage by Milla Rust, the class beauty, and endures the agonies of lils first love. Hiansey's parents object to Mills and wish he'd taken up with Dora Yncum. ansey kisses Milla. Then Milla suddenly leaves town. She marries. Ramsey enters the state university and there is Dora Yocum again. CHAPTER Vil.-Continued. --- -8 Concluding hils reading, which was oral, the volatile Mitchell nade use of his voice in a nianner of heathenish bolsterousness, and presently reelined upon a louige to laugh the better. Ills stricken conrade, meanwhile, recov ered so far as to pace the floor. "I'm goin' to pack up and light out for home!" he declared over and over. And even oftener he read and reread the card to ninke sure of the etual ity of that fatal coincidence, "D. Yo Cunt, '18." "If I could do it," he vocifernted, "If I colild stand ip there and debate one o' their darn ole debates in the first place-if I had the gull to even try it, why, my gosh ! you don't sup pose I'm golfi' to get tip there and argue with that girl, (1o you? That's a hot way to get an edugation: stand up there and arglie with a girl before a coulple o' hundred people ! My gosh !" "You got to!" his prostrate compan ion cackled, weakly. "You can't get out of it. You're a goner, ole Buddy(13 !" "I'll h~e sick, I'll be sick as a dlog! I'll be sick as the sickest dhg that ever--" -"No , use, ole man. The frat senirs'll be on the job. They'll know whet her you're sick or not, and they'll havey you ther-e, ighit on thle spot to the minutte!1" Th'le predictIon wtas accurate. The too fatherly "frat seni's" dlid all thai. F'i'd s-lid they would, and muore. For the honor of the "frat," they coached the dlesperalte llamnsey in the technic of Luminen debate, told him many muore things to1 say than could he said in Lix' ninutes, anad produtced him, de spaliring, ghastly and bw'eewed, in the large hall of thle I Lmen' soelty at eight o'clock oin [Frliay eveninag. F'ourm othiei' ''twelve-minute diebmates" pr'ecededl lis anad the soundit of t hese, in Itanasey's (earis, wias (lie sound of Glabrieil iratlliig on lis boirn in the ear'ly mnorninag of' Judginent dlay. The miember's of thle 50('lety sat, three rowys dleip, iilonig the watlls of~ the roomt, leaving a ('lear ollong of' gr'een (cari pet in thie center1e, wherie wereO tw sall des5ks, twty3 f'eet uaart, lhe r'ostriumis of thle debater('ms. Upon a piatformii at thle haead of thle room sat drendfuli seniors, (lie omllers of thle soelety, anmd, uiponi benchies near' thle platform, thle dehl Ieirs of the evening weire aligned, One of the fraternal seniors siat with swelltering tamise'y' and (lie latter', as his I imne irelentlessly caime neairerl, made a lust miiirable "Look here, Brother (Colhurn, I got to gt't 4'ut 0' lhere," '"No, y'ou dion't, younig fl'tllow."' "Y'es, I do !" llamsey wvhiper'd, pas siOniatly.3' "~IHonest, 1 do.6 I loniest, IBrother't Colhurn, I got to get ai dinik of water, I got to !".. "No, You can't," "Hiuiest, Colburn, I got-s" "'Hush I'" Itamsey cast lisa dilating eyes along the rows of faces, Most ouf them were but as blurs, swimming, yet lie wa'is aware (lie thought) of a formidable and horrible imfpassive scrutiny of' hiniself, a glare seeming to pierce thr'ough him to the back of the belt r'ound~ his waist, so that he began to have f'ear'ful doubts about that belt, about every faistening anti adjustment of lis garments, about the expression of his ('Ountemmaiee, anid maluny other things ,jumiling together in lis con sciousness. Over anti over lie wthis paeredl gaspingly to himself the open ing wordts of the sentence ithi whieh a senior hiad advised him to begin his argument. And as the moment of mu 41h 1 96ith1aggr Illustraions by 'f'rWIrN Pyers # ghh Doubleday. PQqe &gCompong. preme agony drew close, this whisper Ing became continuous: "in ilciag my first npearance before this honor' ble membership I feel constrained to say in making my first appearalce be fore this honor'ble membership I feel constrained to say in making my first appearance before this honor'ble memn It had come. Tie chairman announced the subject of the fourth freshman twelve-minute debate; and Dora Yocum, hitherto unperceived by Rlamsey, rose and went forward to one of the small desks in the open spice, where she stood composedly, a slim, pretty figure in white. Members in Itamsey's neighborhood were aware of a brief and)(I huilshed colmmOlit tion, itnd a tierce whisper, "You cn't! Y oi get u) there!", And the blanched Itatisey came forth and placed himniself at the other desi k. lie stood before the silent popu lIice of 1ithat morgue. find it s"e'imed to lat that his features had forgotten that lie was supposed to he their own or and in control of them; lie felt that they were slipping all over his face, regardless of his wishes. Ills head, ns a whole, was subject to an agita tion not before known by him; it de sired to move rustily in eccentric ways of its own devising; his legs alternate ly limbered and straightened under no direction but their own ; and his hands clutched each other fiercely behind his back ; lie was not one cohesive person, evidently, but an assembled collection of parts whieh had relapsed eich into its owin individluaity. In spite of theIlm, lie somehow contrived the semblance of a bow toward the chairman and the semblance of another toward Dora, of whom he was but hazily conscious. Then lie opened his month aind. not knowing how he had started his voice going, heard It as If from a distance. "lit making my first appea rance be fore this honor'ble memnbership I feet restrained to say-" He stopped short, and thenceforward shook visi ]L bl. Afe a Alon pash' aae H.wamedt tthny Lonest oue Alai auseskere, and wthed Awfu Gavityn atof thecAenctyten Ald nsuf iat tbo.Afealogpule ngd "Th*te sje ug signe d t g e."h suad Is esolvedt tats Germany is maor'ly amnd legally justified in liel gians-egigmutus ! Th'lis sublje(ct was assigned to meo to be thle subj~ect of this111 dhto.'' I te Inttetrrute d himtsel f to gasp plitcotsly. founidl brething dif. fleulit, but faltered on tigmin: "Thliis subject is the subject. It is the sub jec~t that was assignedl to meao on a postal ('trd." Then, fort a momien t oni so, lie had a miraculous spuirt of confi dence, anid cotilmled, ra ther raidil~ly: "I feel contra':ined to sauy thait the (Oiunt ry of Belgian---eglium, I mean this colmtry has been conist ra'ined by~ the-inuvadedl I mean-inivaded by3 the Iiperhtil German Imipire aniel my sub ject in this inebnte is whether' it ought to or not, my being the infernative, afirmantive I mennt-that I got to prove that G ermnany ia mnor'iy anid legally justilled. I wish to state that-" lie .pautsed again, lenugihily, then struggled on. "I have been relestedl to5 stite that thme German Imp-Emph-e --thlit it certainly isn't right for those Dutch-I ermatns, I mean-they haven't got any miore business ini Belgium than11 I have myself, but I-I feei constrained to say Itat I had to accehit wvhatever slid' of' this debate I got oni the postal card, tol so I am constraltned to take the suet of the Dutch. I mean the Germtants. Trho Dutch are. s 'imetimes ctall-i mean the' Germans are sonme times called the Dutch ini this country. but they aren't Dutch, tnough some times called Dutch in this country. Well, and so-:-so, well, the war began last August or about then, inyway, and the German larmy Iuvaidle( the 1lm. glan army. After they got there, the Invasion begain. First. the'y caie tiround there land then they com menced Invading. Well, whut I feel constrained--" He came to the longest of all his pauses here, and the awful gravity of the audience almost suffocntel him, "Vell," lie concluded, "it don't look right to ie." , "Four minutes!" the cliariman an. itouncedl, for Ratusey's pauses had worn away a great el more of this terrible interval than hadI his elo huence. "Opening stiatement for the negative: Miss D. Yocutm. Four min utes." As Dorn began to speak, Ramsey experlencedl a little relief, but only a little-about the same amount of relief as that felt by a bridegroom when It Is the bride's tuen to "respond," not renily relIef at all, but merely the %light relaxation of a coilnuing atrina. The audience now looked at Itamsey no more than/people look at a bridegroom, but he failed to percelve Mny substantial mitigatIon of his frightful conspleiuoisness. le had not the remotest idea of what lie had saId in setting forth his case for Germany, mnid he knew that it was his dluty to lIsten closely to Dorn, int order to be table to refute her argument when hIs two-minute closing speech fell dlue; but he was conselous of little more thai1n hIs own condition. his legs had Inow gone wiI(l beyondf all <levilry, and lie hld to keep shifting hIs weight from ine to the ot her in order even to hope that their frenzy niight esenpe gen. eratl aittenltionl. He retalized that Dora was sp1ek1ing rapily lanil (conibhdlitly, land1 that some where in his ill-lsselmibled parts lurked a fatInlilar hit of him thlt objectedl to her evpn more thni usual ; but she hliad us(.(]Ililf of her time, lit least, b(ore lie was able Io gather any coherent mealling from what she was saying. Even thien Ie cilight only a fragment, here (and there, unid for the rest-so far as Itamsey was concernedl-she might as well have been reciting the SwedIsh all)hnhiilet. In spite of the rather startlIng fee bleness of her opponent's statement, Dorn went at her tiask as earnestly as if It were to confute some monster of sitilstry. "Thius, iiavliig delionstrat ed that till wair Is wrong," she stld, ap proaching her conclusion, "it Is scnrce ly necessairy to poltit out that wiit ever the anetual clrcumiistatinces of tile invaislot, and1 whatever the status of the ('lse i In linteriational law111 , or by renson of treaty, or tile Geriman onth to respect the neutrality of Beigium, which of course was grossly and (is honorably violated-all this, I say, lia (lies ain gentleien tof the Limlen o clety, till this is beside the point of morals. Sltice, as I have shown, all war Is wrong, tle case mity he sinpil fled as follows: All war is morally wrong. Quoid erat demionstrandun. Germany invaded Belgium, Invasion Is wiar. Germay, therefore, (1d6 moral wrong. Upon the legal side, as I began by pointing out, Germany confessed in the reiclistig the violatiion of law. Therefore, Germany wtis justilhed In thle invasonu neithbetr morally nor legal ly; but was bloth Iiorally atil legally Orf the Lnite society' I awavit thle refutation oIf miy tiopoent !"' Il('r opponien~lt appeare2il' to lbe havinig enouihitrli ribile wtht his legel, wvithott t aking ainy ath ledl enre unqu11141 hilms'lf In the 'way of ref iaions. Hit thle miarvelous I )tn hadi en Inat the 11 lengthi of h'er stullemieiit wIthI sumchl n1ic'tyV lit th le elirman nnn211I I~tionle stant oif her fiad syllhble; antil aill fniees t urnedl rine mo~re to t he uphl-lll d'r of the( ailirmtlutive. "'lefuIltti ntI concl(1usion by thle a tlirmat3ive," soldi t he miinui'es.'' There~dwith, I amse li5O oughed as5 long as Ihe coul cough, nnd wheoti lhe felt thatt rao more shiouhhilhe dlone In thIs way, lie wlipeth his fac'e-ignin nn3 not (If necessIty -1and tiiunverIugly biegana: "( lottleine'n al3HI itujles, orP ladies tiiul gelatineli, linlu ilitg thle rt'tt11in olf miy (ipponet't. I feel thlat-! fe'el t hat hardly aniythiing more ought to he 1i Im aused, looiked la heplessly at hiIs uniconit rollabile legs, and 351 reuied: "I refullatiion of myv opponient, iand I feel that I ou~ght to1 say qumile a den'i3 more, h in tfirst piaet, I feel thatl the iniva sloon has3, taiken 1ince4. 1 am31 supposeitd -an~lyhotw I got ii poIstal ti erdl that 1 in talking 4over thIs mtlter' withl a ('''u plc of seniors, they told( me I wasM sup-1 posed( to clhlim t his inivatson was ulor'ly lbyOII so 113 hnd', the recollect Ion of a word of IDorni's liekeredl 13nin hIs cha title intd. 2101l he 1hm3( 2 birighter tint all wnrl I is wrong -- -C r 10 somethig 11ike that, anyhoiw. Slhe said she provedl It was wronig to tight.,1 nolmatterl whalt. Well, i' she waisn't n1 gIl. anybily thiat wnnlt ed tol get her to1 fIght could proh'Iy do it.''" ie i no l~ t ndd that he w"ouldl be thle piersont 1 to make t he ex perimient (if Dorn wl ereni't n1 gIrl), nior dId the thottght erter his m1ind1 unftil an hour or so later'. "We'll," lhe atled. "'I Suppose ther3e is litle mnore to be saId." It becomes ~understood that Ramsey is a woman-hater. (To nT-: CON'l'I N U ED.) It keeps somel men03 so bulsy belig Im. portanit that thley haven't any timt left toaoamplish thingst WILL SUBMIT OFFER FOR MUSCLE SHOALS PROPOSAL TO BE SUBMITTED BY ALUMINUM WHEEL COMPANY OF AMERICA. NEW JERSEY CORPORAION Expects to Have Formal Proposal Ready For Delivery to Secretary Weeks By May First. Washington.-It. It. Grant, of ICliza beth, N. J.,.president of the Aluminum Wheel Co. of America, announc ed after a conefrence with war do parttueut officials here tilat he would formally submit an offer for develop nent of the government properties at Muscle Shoals, Ala. lis proposal, he said, was yet in a tentative form, but would be written in a completed draft ats soon as the projects could be in spected and certain basic data ob tained from governtnent officials. Mr. Grant left for Norfolk, Va., to confer with the fertilizer interests which he hoped to interest in the Ala bania propertIes. Depending upon the restult of the Norfolk visit. he said, ho would either go direct to Atlanta, Ga., Birmingham, Ala., or Florence. Ala., to continue his preparation and col lection of data. lie expected to have the formal proposal ready for deliv ery to Secretary Weeks by May 1. provided the ordnance. qiarteriaster and engineer bureaus of the wiar lde partilent give their endorseeiont when it is put into finished form. "My plan call calls for the creation of a government controlled corpora tion," Mr. Grant said. "When this is accomplished, I suggest as its first act the mortgaging of the properties in or der tomake an Immediate return to the government for the investment it already has nade. "Later." he contintied, "a second mortgage would 1e arranged and se curities sold for the raising of money needed to bring the projects to a con pleted stage of construction and opera tion. Including the hydro-electric units proposed and nitrate plants. In that way tile projects can be developed without imposing any additional bur den on the federal treasury, and at, the 4aime time, giving it an inmmediate return of the money it already has sink in the various worki; at Muscle Shoals." Old Hickory to South Carolina. Knoxville. Tenn-Th. fourth annual reunion of the Thirtieth divisfion, Old Hickory Association of \V'orld War Veterans, will be held in the snmmel or early fall, preferably at a South Carolina city, tile place and date to be selected by the executive commit tee at a meeting later in the spring. This statement was made by Capt. Frank P1. Bowen of the Old -ickoi-les on tihe return of himself and Col. .Jamens A. Oleas'on, president or the as sociat ion, and Guy H. May, mlemberS oIf the commiiliitt Pe from Tenn messee, fol lowing a mlleating (If t he comm itlee held the dlay prievions11. All inem bersm were in at tenidance at. he meeting with thle except ion or Mr. lIat~tonl of Nash viille, it was sta ted. Inl d iscuss iig the actio o(f th Ile entum)1ittece, Cap tain llowen said:1 "it wais thie sense0 of the commiiiitt1e0 that soime city in Soithti ('arol ina would he eniitled to the reuniiioni this yeari, and11 the namiing of Deu phiOt iiam exact dlate for- this con ,ent ion was de' fere-.d to a1 lai~tl dte ini order- to at ford cities in Houith! Ca rolina an op. porlinniity to bidfo thIle conlvenltion. Farrar's Farewell Appearance. New~ Yorkl. -- Gera ldina" lVarrari-, fa rewvell appeara n'e withI the Metro-i iptlitani Opera comipany was thle great e'-t trliumiph or her ca reer. She ang foi- he r swan song thie r-ole of Zaha,1 l wh-h she (-reated at the Met - ropolitni and theni, (-rying iand lauigh ig, wa ca (irried fr-omi the aumdi toriumn (on the shoulde1( ~rs of sta:ge' handits, while the( g re~Iatio audene chieered and( tl hOW O red heor with flow ers anad girtsa. L onlg bef'ore0 the t ime forP her pier for-manyci, (-rowdslt of oplera loveirs, V-a rr-ar lov'ers, erowded into Ilie lob by or the opera hous.e, el amloring for- tick (IS. Had Impressions of U. S. Currency. Washlinigt on.-LI ouis lIaIrris, foriuoer i'hibidelphia business man. under ar rest. at MIinm napol is, had In hiis pos session "phlot ogra ph I iii impes sions"' of $2t6,500 or tUnited St ales cuirr'ecy. Chief Moran said he is still waiitiing for a1 detailed reptlort fr-om) his a goats ait Minlneaipolls. MIor-ian said fur t her, that utiIl rfi rhle r inv est igat ionl is 'oml plot ed, he is untabl e to sayM whiat i . liosi tion wVill 1)e miade~ orf liarriis' (aSie. The secret ser'vice0 is seeking to find Out how liarr-iis came1) lnto) possession of tile imipressions. Trouble Brewing in Belgrade. Rlome----j ollow injg insur-rectionial out breaks in ~helgrad t~ he gover-nme(nt has order-ed thle arres't of all MIonte niegins and1( intel lectulals connected w.'ithI thet r(teent uis~iinlgs, ac(cording to ani 10xchange Tielegraiph rephor-t re eived here. Thiie mountlain passes0 are filled with rr-bels who hav VpPitchied (tamp and arne awaitiang the decisions of the (Genna ('oinfe reine he~fore they dlecelor oti ac tion of aniy kind... It is bielievedl hiere that grave evotata are impnng.h .707 SANITARYwalls are essential. Germ laden J walls may be the cause of much illness. Why take a risk when it is so easy to have Alabastined walls-beautiful, artistic and ab solutely sanitary. Instead of Kaleomine or Wall Paper Alabastine, either in simple single colors or the many hued onyx effect so rich and so easily produced by the new Alabastine Opaline process, will give ,you walls which are germ proof-walls in harmony with your rugs and draperies-any tone or tint to please your taste or fancy. To obtain Alabastine effects you must use genuine Alabastine Be sure to look for the cross and circle printed in red on every package. And, be sure to ask your dealer or decorator to show samples of the truly beautiful Alabastine-Opaline Process. The Alabastine Company Grand Rapids, Mich. %o...... I o. .... " ~~ "Good to the Last Drop interpreter of ?'ature.inoat at3 hand33, saysiI I VIhe Younstow Te1 l'l'le ir iitnlu ti e 8gaeal grin~, a3wak1Peed Iwo littl i r .ils who 3)i13f3331(*.03. were1* spend'.ing t heir lirsl lnighat ini the ~ l(--"''i 31 i'eIi hu o country, l l-'iri~ e:ne3 the hi1gh, jaijiing i 13 ('1. vo3lve( of a1 lili "4' 13pe3r."' "Wh'Iat's t hii ?" asiwd WVinnaie. 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