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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 8. 1007.
farmers Hold First
tTH production of nearl
"1 ATI r7'&10'0n0'f'00 f wealth coming
VV I from the frms of th country
uncie nam In a position te
respond to the demands of tha
hungry e-lobe and rt rnntni
.In the knowledge that time will bring te
.these ahores tho floating cash of the world
In amount sufficient to relieve the strain
of any money rhortage that may aria. Ia
this respect the "money stringency" could.
rnot have been better timed, for the bale '
of cotton were ready for shipment to Liver
pool before tho planter knew that upon surU
shipment depended the fate of the banks
which had during the year advanced hint
money to grow his crop. The northern
farmer's corn and wheut were ready for
the rmrvest, when "lack of confidence
brought about the presence of the clearing
house certificates and he nobly responded,
by . accepting these certificates In Hen
of cash until his grain could ba
' delivered to the . European buy or
who . stood ready to exchange gold
for It, Thus but a few days elapsed be
tween the Inception of the stringency and
Its relief through the sale of products of
the farm. This Is the financial phase of tha
situation which appeals to all persona
Whether they take part In tha annual pro.
Auction of the grsln or receive only the
secondary benefits of the harvest '
i Farmer la High Poeltloa.
I This lacks considerable of being the mora)
Important part of the work of the AmerU
can farmer, and the coming century prom
Ises to find him not only restored to tha
I relative position he occupied ih the early
' days of the republic, but advanced to
. still higher position In the affairs of tha
'nation. This Is being brought about througn
j the excellent agricultural schools being
' maintained by practically every slat la
f the union. The "scientific farmer" waa at
j one time considered a Joke by the men and
I boys who derived their knowledge of pram
tlcal farming operations by hard knocks
behind the plow, and who could see no rea
on why a knowledge of soil composition
would result In larger crops. It must ba
admitted that In the Inception of the eclen.
tlflo operation of farms In the west, at
least, the practical farmer had a basis for
looking upon the innovations as mora or
less harmless cranks whose efforts to farro)
by. rule would have a disastrous ending,
for these scientists brought to the west
the result of 'experiments In the east where
profits were so much larger than those of
the west, per acre-of soil cultivated, that
the cost of the experiment was not re
munerative: and the yield per acre of the
unexhausted soil waa little less than that
whlc'a has been "scientifically" treated.
The scientist found that what was true
In Massachusetts was not true In Iowa,
and he was willing to learn from the people
who had developed a different system of
farming under prairie conditions.
Science and Agriculture).
Then came a change of view on the part
of the "practical" farmer. He still laughed,
but was wise enough to adopt some of the
Innovations. Better crops followed and he
saw that study in the laboratory and the
school had Its returns in the cash account
He then demanded more and better sohools
o that today the farmer is the only trades
man who is considered of sufficient import- '
ance in the west to have colleges built for
his training by the community at large.
That he was able to take advantage of
the opportunity for study Is in a great de
gree due to the invention of labor-saving
machinery. The picturesque suffered
through the new machine, but the farmer
and bis wife and his children, even his
hired man, prospered in a manner unprece
dented. No longer waa it - necessary for
communities, to combine in harvesting the
Nebraska
EBATINQ and basket ball now
Vie with each other at Ne
braska university for first honor
following foot ball. If the
record of the Institution from
the purely academlo standpoint
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Is to be upheld, the enthusiasm of the
students at tho Nebraska-Iowa contest at
Llncolr, December 13, must draw a host of
devotees. Memorial hall must be crowded
wJth a band of "rooters" displaying aa
much vitality as If banked upon bleachers
by tho side lines.
Hooting for a debate seems a misnomer,
but It Is entirely feasible. After the home
team has been coached for months and the
arguments on the question ore made known
to the entire membership of the university
:hrouRd repeated publlo preliminaries, it
Is possible to sit through the final contest
and score the "game." with as much In
terest as if on the Held.
Nebraska university during the last few
years has more or less regularly carried
on debating contest with nearby uni
versities. Kansas, Iowa and Missouri have
alternately appeared In Lincoln with their
platform stars, but for two years a debat
ing league has been organlred between tha
states of Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota. Wis
consin end Nebraska. One question Is
snlectsd for all and with an affirmative
team at home und a negative team abroad,
the forensic field Is thoroughly covered
This plan has been In operation so short a
time that as yet not all teams have met,
but tills year will afford an opportunity for
a comparison down the entire list.
, When the Nebraska department of
rhetorlo first established a class In publlo
speaking, about fifteen years ago, the Re
bating microbe secured firm hold of the
university young man. He was assigned
fe, subject and a regular schedule was pre
pared for competition In the class room.
Tear by year the rivalry thus started In
creased and from local debates and con
tests between university societies, the de
sire grew to test the merits of various in
stitutions. The debate soon displaced the
oratorical contest, with Its set oration and
flowery language, until now the university
team, when finally selected. Is as much a
fighting machine as the eleven molrskln
clad giants who cause the rah-rah boys to
nurse sore throat a month following
Thnnksgivlng. (
Early In the year the preliminaries are
held. Out of a large array of "talent,"
through repeated and often heart-rending
trial, there com? the finished speaker,
hi head an encyclopedia, hi brain a
mechanism well adjusted. In the final
trials the jurors have found him entitled
to represent the 'varsity and he and
thr-e others like him form the squad by
hU-h the institution is to reveal its posi
tion among the college of th middle
west.
Preparation for a debate nas covered a
w 1 range both to research and endeavor.
Member pt the squad are assigned, differ
ent phases of th subject chosen. They
are asked to make themselves masters of
the on theme. Then they prepare brief,
which are submitted to th Instructors,
keenly criticised, often rewritten. Many
meetings for discussion are held. The sub
ject is discussed In every light and every
possible ramification la followed. Much of
this is doa In the preliminaries In which
the squad 1 selected, but for th final
struggle the work is gohe over again and
each member of the team is familiarised
with the entire subject.
The arguments are then catalogued, a
y ' y
W. O. SADDLER
crops, for the housewife to cook for a
score or more of men called together to
garner wheat and oats. One maa on a
twine binder and two In the field did the
work previously employing a doien, and
the nine men out of employment, with
other twine binders, "moved west" and
were to be found harvesting grain for
themselves.
Wirt Affords Outlet.
This "moving west" which In the flrat
half of the nineteenth century was a com
plete severing of family ties and a break
ing up of all traditions, became In the lat
ter part of the same century a natural and
ordinary event In the lives of the young
man and woman who entered life with a
desire to own farms it. their own and to
add to the wealth of the . nation through
the growing of crops. The railroad had
supplemented the stage and the steamboat
as means of transportation and the Ne
braska farmer was nearer to Boston than
the farmer of Iowa had been to Chicago
when the Fort Dearborn gave way to the
city. The railroad also brought the mar
kets of the world so close to the Amer
ican soil that the words, "granary of the
world" as. applied to the Mississippi valley
Orators
It were. Condensation serves to present
every possible line of thought In briefest
words, with the answering arguments op-
poslte.
Thus equipped the squad receives Its
platform Instruction. No member o the
j r,r, f
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King, 0L Van OrsdeL tWl Law. T Weaver, IX MoWhinney. 0t Lais, t
Osceala. Mxxwell. Hentrlcei Lincoln.
NEBRASKA DEBATE THAU AGAINST MINNESOTA.
Some Queer
FEW belated traveling salesmen
V I and a brakeman on a Mlnne-.-
I apoll A St. Louis freight train
witnesses nuvtmoer 10
the first meeting, courtship and
finally the marriage of UUi
Laura Patterson of Estervllle and O. M.
Vail of Fort Dodge., Ia., all cf which oc
curred wlthia two hour.
Miss Patterson waa u passenger on th
train and Vail was conductor. Time
eemed to drag lowy for th young
woman, and Vail enegaged her In conver
sation. Shortly afterward the other occu
pants of the caboose noticed the conductor
lean toward hi fair companion and con
fide something in a low ton. 8h blushed,
her Up moved perceptibly, and then ah
became Interested all at once In watching
the flying prairies.
Vail arose quickly, hustled his subor
dinates toguther, and In a moment they
were heroically working to give the dingy
caboose a cleaning. The happy conductor
drew two of the traveling salesmen aside,
conversed with them, then resumed hi
eat by the aid of Mia Patterson.
When. the train reached Humboldt the
passengers hurried after a marriage li
cense, and a local justice of the peace,
who, in the dingy, bouncing cabooee, mar
ried Vail and Miss Patterson Just as th
train was moving out of the city. They
wtll reside in Fort Dodge.
Vacl Sam la Kola af real.
One of the little details that fall to the
Place in
OF ADAMS COUNTY.
was no longer a figure of speech. Today
the butter of the dairymen of the extreme
northern states go on the tables of Lon
don In competition with that made in Den
mark, arid the cold-storage beef X South
Omaha Is carved Into the "roast beef of
old England". In a thousand kitchens. The
com of Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois fat
tens the pig which pays the rents of Irish
tenants, and the tobacco of North Caro
lina and Virginia sooths the nerves of Paris
and Melbourne. Canned corned beef from
Chicago is exchanged for copra on the
shores of Samoa, and condensed soup frim
a doxen towns of the middle west feeds
the hunter of reindeer in the Arctic sones
and makes possible the development of the
gold mines of Alaska. Under the burning
sun of the- Sahara the traveler refreshes
himself with the product of American bar
ley and hops and the descendant of the
Scottish Highlander tusas with joy to the
American rolled oats aa superior to the
oatmeal of his' ancestors. The American
farmer surrounds the earth with his prod
ucts and a thankful world In turn pours Its
wealth Into the lap of the man who tills
the soli of the richest nation under the
skies.
While the farmer has been doing all of
Who Will Debate
final team secures his place unless he has
had practice in this particular. He must
have poise, the ability to collect his thought
in action and polish in delivery. .
The Intercollegiate debate draws a crowd
of enthusiastic supportera of the scarlet and
and Romantic
Philippine government is that of finding
husbands for the orphan girls of the in
stitution bearing the name of the Hos
plclo De Ban Jose and to do this Is no
easy matter.
Before the Filipino will consent to go
to the altar he has to be shown a mone
tary advantage in' fact, a bride without
a dowry wouldn't get a hsuband in a thou
sand years.
Uncle Barn's agents, after wondering why
there was such a dearth of bridegrooms
for their pretty charges of tbs Hosplclo,
finally discovered that In order to marry
them off dowries would have to be found.
As the result a matrimonial brokerage
commission has been formed. Through vnls
150 la offered to any young Filipino at
good character who will take one of the
orphan maid at hla life mate, but no bar
gain la closed until after official cupids
have thoroughly examined Into the hialory
of the husband-to-be.
Ref aaed ta W ed a Ceaat.
At. fit. Btanlalaua' church. Fall River,
Mass., Angela Pawlow, daughter of a mer
chant absolutely refused to go on with
the marriage ceremony that waa to unite
her to Btwyl Mullnski, who says he is a
Polish count and the owner of an estate
In Russia.
The marriage had been set for I o'clock.
The church Waa crowded with friends and
relatives. The bridegroom had answered
an exultant "Yea" to the usual question,
and the bride. In a white silk weddlug
Ranks of
these things he has not. according to at a
tlstlcs. held his own In comparison with
other lines of Industry In the United State.
Manufacturing has grown more rapidly
than farming and the dawn of the twen
tieth century finds the farmer several
points In the rear of the position he occu
pled at the beginning of the last century
with reference to numbers engaged In agri
culture and other pursuits; but a change
Is coming in this respeot and the end of
the present century .will, perhaps, see rela
tively more farmers than heretofore. Thla
ehaiige will be brought about by rapid
transit and ease of communication. Man
Is a sociable animal and he naturally Join
his fellows. When he does life is mora
attractive. There can be no doubt that
under conditions even now existing tha
residents of the towns have an easier Ufa
than the men who live on the farms, but
farm life today Is one continual round of
joy and sociability compared with the daya
when the housewife was compelled to spla
the wool and flax and weave all of tha
cloth used by the farmers when the farmer
was compelled to be' his own blacksmith
and often the undertaker for members of
his own family: when a day's journey, waa
twenty-five miles and the man who lived
In the next township was as far away aa
the man who now lives in another state.
Rural telephone lines have, brought tha
farmers Into close communication; tha
trolley line brings him close to the towns.
New systems of agriculture make the small
farm more profitable than the large, one,
and thus larger holdings' will be broken up
and agricultural . communities established
which Will bring to tne farm all of tha
advantages of the town, as well as pre
serve to the farmer all. of the advantagea
of tho farm.
This tendency Is becoming more and
more apparent In the west, but its full
development awaits additional Invention of
"American genius. At this time .cost of
rapid transportation Is too high to maka
Its available In any but the more thickly
settled portions of the nation. At the sama
time unlimited power Is going to waste
The strength of the winds has not bean
harnessed, so that they can be available
at any time. Water power as a means of
developing electricity Is In Its . Infancy.
Some day these powers will be brought
within the reach of man, certainly and
cheaply. When this Is done the farm will
become the real home of America and tha
farmer will again be. the statesman and
the leader of American social and political
life.
Yvhet a Nebraekan Has Done.
The exact formula of success In farm
ing, as with probably all other occupations,
Is something that lacks complete defini
tion. The man who loses finds ready ex
cuse, but the man who wins can only say
that certain things were essential In his
success. It can be pointed out that this
thing and that thing contributed to his
success or were necessary to It and then
comes the Indefinable quantity, the quan
tity of doing things In the right way. If
by doing certain things success would be
certain there would be a minimum of fail
ures, but )t Is the doing of these things
In the way of greatest productiveness that
finds expression In a growing bank ao
count. In every section, no matter how fertile
the land and how favorable the conditions,
there are failures in farming. One man
may work harder .than his neighbor and
yet fall, while his neighbor at. the end
of each harvest may count himself richer.
And In the other way of arguing the man
who thinks and doesn't toll is not apt to
advance. So say all successful men who
make agriculture their business.
cream each time the men take their seats
on the platform facing opponents from
across state . lines. While jthe Interest
usually does not travel far from the uni
versity bounds. It Is sufficiently acute
within the confines of the Institution to at
Bwenson,
Omaha,
Entanglements Brought About by Cupid
dress with long veil and wedding bouquet,
seemed to smile as Father Basin turned
to her and asked: "Will thou take unto
thee tbjla man to be thy lawful wedded
husband?"
The bride dropped her hand from the
arm of the bridegroom. . Bhe turned and
faced the crowded church and answered
loudly:
"No; he has been unfaithful to me before
marriage. I will not marry him." J
Then the girl ran down the aisle to her
mother. The audience was dumbfounded.
Before It really appreciated what had hap
pened the church official had cleared th
church.
Merries la France.
Reduced to the personal equation, says
a writer In Alnslee's, any matrimonial
problem ceases to be national. Withdrawn
from the realm where we can delightfully
generalise. It falls Into the narrow limits
of Individual character and qualities. It
la. therefore, easier and more profitable to
remain within the broader confines of
Franco-American marriage In general.
Tha American girl is brought up to think
much more of herself than of her mar
riage. If, In the course of events. It suits
her desire to confer upon some ardent
ultor her good graces, then ah . will
marry; not otherwise.
The French girl is brought up to look
upon marriage as an obligation In itself,
something she owe to society. She has
no choice la the matter, and. Indeed, so
American
FRED M. JUMP OF
' When W. O. Saddler came ' to Adams
county In the fall of 1883 thla section waa
comparatively undeveloped. Land values
were small compared with those of the
present time.' Mr. Saddler bought eighty
acres about twelve miles from Hastings
not a large farm In those days but now
Mr.. Saddler has 400 acres and a home In
town. .
Mr. Saddler found early In his experienoe
that successful methods would necessarily
be methods adapted to local conditions. It
was this Idea" that gave him his start and
It is the same idea ,that has 'glveji all
other successful farmers their start
Mr. Saddler was the first man In this '
part of Nebraska who made a success of
growing winter wheat. He- Imported seed
from Illinois and followed the methods
which seemed adapted tb local conditions.
His yield the first year waa satisfactory.
His next crop, grown from native - seed,
was better. Now Mr. . Saddler has about
160 acres in wheat and once in four or five
years he changes it to corn.
Live gtortc Ills Specialty.
Winter wheat was. a profitable crop, but
Mr. Saddler believed that he might do still
With Iowa and
tract every student's attention.
Professor M. M. Fegg, head of the depart
ment of rhetorlo at Nebraska university,
has devoted much -of his tima to the de
bates. It was he who first succeeded in
making their lmportano felt . He brought
Tedar. ta.
Frartahs fLaw),
Topeka, . Ind.
Auuum.
NEBRASKA DEBATE TEAM AGAINST IOWA.
confined and narrow 1 her jeune fill life,
that marriage with no matter what young
man her parents may select appears to her
a the sesame of emancipation. Wa do not
mean to insinuate that marriages now, aa
In th eighteenth century, are consum
mated against the will and inclination of
the bride, who appears under such cir
cumstances as a victim; but we mean
clearly to show that whereas with us tha
suitor is looked upon with cendeseenslon
In France, when accepted, he 1 considered
veritably a th Lohengrin, th knight who
ha come to tree a Sleeping Beauty from
her enforced and useless Idleness.
Hat Pacefor Elders.
After an ardent courtship of two weeks,
the strenuoslty of which would have put
many a young man to shame, Henry C.
Wilder of Lowell, Mass., aged tS years, a
well known printer of that city, was mar
ried to Mra. Esther Crawford, said to be
a resident of Evanston, 111., aged 90 years.
The marriage is one of the most romantlo
that has taken place in Lowell In years.
Neither bride nor groom has been married
before, according to the marriage license,
and neither had seen the other until two
weeka ago, when the bride came here from
her home in Evanston, 111., to visit her
niece. .
Bhe waa introduced to Wilder at a church
and frlenda aay it waa a case of love at
first sltfht. He accompanied ber to church
that evening and escorted ber and her
niece home. Since then her life has been
Prosperity-Makers
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JOHNSON COUNTY. '
better with stock. Thirteen years ago be
purchased some registered Shorthorn cat
tle. : He gave his time and his - thought to
making the stook business successful. He
conducted sales at frequent intervalaand
found an increasing demand for standard
bred stock. He - found, too, that publlo
auction sales were more profitable than
private sales. -A' few months ago Mr.
Saddler sold less than 100 head of cattle
for $11,000. Mr. Baddler raised hogs for a
while, but he found he could do better
with one kind of stock. Without hogs ha
could give more attention to cattle. He
realised . that he could more suooessfully
specialise with one kind of stock than with
two. Other farmers who have succeeded In
bog raising have applied the same rule.
Of his 400-acre farm Mr. Saddler keeps
about 160 acres in wheat. He uses upward
of 125 acres for hay and pasture and the
balance he divides for corn, oats and other
farm products. t
Hard work alone, declared Mr. Saddler,
will not bring sucoess. There must be
proper direction; in other words, effort
properly applied. He believes that to ba
successful one should rather do a few
things well than numerous things fairly
the system to the Institution which has re
sulted In many victories. The professor Is
secretary of the University of Nebraska
Debating board.
December 13 two debates . will ba held,
between . Nebraska and - Iowa state unl-
t.
TThivwsuy flaca.
a round of carriage rides and walks.
Neighbors say Mr. Wilder has even taken
her autoroeblllng, although previous to this
he steadfastly atood against the advance of,
the "new f angled machines."
Both the bride and groom refuse to dis
cuss the romance. "It is nobody's busi
ness," the bride said. "I don't see how
anybody found out about it anyway."
"Don't you go putting any place in tha
paper about this, young man. We're old
enough to know our own business, and
we've got a much right to lov each other
aa anybody else." the groom said.
"Tell my wife'a ageT I will not It's no-i
body's business, " the old man chirped as
he hustled down ' the street with a step:
as light as that of a man much younger.
As aeon aa the marriage ceremony had
been performed the bride and groom left
for Boaton on a wedding trip. The bride's
niece accompanied them.
In the marriage license the bride's age Is
given as 90, her home as Evauston, 111., her
birthplace as Burlington, Vt.; single, never,
married before, and of American parentage.'
.
Divorced kevea Tiaaes.
On the hearing of the divorce . case of
Anna McMabon agalnat W. L. McMahon In
the auperlor court of Kohomo, ind., the
startling fact was brought out that ahe
waa asking for the aeventh divorce, having
been married and divorced alx times.
. Although she was given a separation as
asked, the court ordered all court costs as,
assd against bask
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well. Constant and persistent Industry la
necessary, hut along with It one must
think and reason. Ho must have a definite
object and adapt himself to the pursuit,
Mr. Snddler has been painstaking and per
slstent In his work, but he has found tlmaj
to take an active Interest In publlo affairs, j
Ifn has represented the county In the legls- I
lature and has always done his share in'
the advancement of the Interests of tha j
community, j
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Pointers from a Practical Maa. I
J M. Jump of Johnson county, who riaav
really succeeded aa a farmer, writes The
Bee:
Bountiful and many are the blessings at
talned from well directed farming In south-,
eastern Nebraska. Once more the farm Ml'
Is assured of a glorious harvest of every
thing except fruit and In this we are not
aloi.et the warm weather of March -and
the blistards of May reached far over tha
middle west and destroyed all of our fruit,
But most of the progressive farmers have ,
enough canned fruit In their cellars to tlda(
them over for another year.
Located as we are la about tha cent '
of the corn belt, corn of course Is tha
principal crop; however, wheat Is grown
very successfully, making all tha way
from twenty to fifty bushes per acre. Two
Brain elevators at the village of Graf, In
Johnson county, Nebraska, pay over (4,009
each for wheat threshed from tha shock
In one season.
To be convinced of the great prosperity
of southeastern Nebraska you will need,
only to tide through this rich farming)
district; you will find a people prosperous,
happy and contented with their surround
Inga. Our banks are overflowing) Ne
braska has on deposit In Its banks mora
money per capita than any other state In
the union. How Is all this brought aboutl
The answer Is by well directed, progressiva
farming: our farmers are eduoated In thsls!
profession and are wide-awake business
men.
In the fall of 1903 X bought a farm that
had been rented and allowed to grow up
to cooklcburrs. In my judgment this farm
was an average one; but on account of lt
run-down condition it did not appear to
be salable at all. In order to exterminate!
this pest a special kind of farming mustl
be practiced, and by sa doing Z have suo
oeeded In thinning them out to such aa
extent that while passing through tha.
field after tha corn Is "laid by," ona marsl
can cut tha burrs out on three rows, ,
While walking over my farm with a nelgh
bor soon after I had bought It ba ln-
formed ma ha was glad X had thla farm
instead of him; ho thought X never could,
get rid of tha cockleburrs, and such was
the opinion of all others who knew tha
condition of the farm. In order to suc
ceed at anything a person must have a
fixed determination and not be as the blade,
of grass that bends to the slightest breeze,
I had this fixed determination to make
this a good farm. I have succeeded far
beyond my expectations. '
The corn crop this fan will doubtless)
surpass anything In the history of No
braska. This will mean thousands of dol
lars to be added to the farmers' bank ao
count. Then why should we not love Ne
braska, with its rich soils, its thrrving
cities, Us abundant natural resources, lta
brave sons and fair daughters. It was our
fathers in the '60a and early '60s who
headed their oxen westward over tha
plains of Iowa and across tha Missouri
river, drove the Indians and buffalo be
yond the Rocky mountains and caused tha
Great American desert "to blossom as tha
rose."
Minnesota
versltle at Lincoln and between Ne
braska and Minnesota at Minneapolis. This
is the first debate with Minnesota.
Federal control la the subject to ba
discussed, the question reading, "Resolved,
That tha federal governments should hava
exclusive control of all transportation cor
porations doing an Interatate business,
constitutionality granted." Nebraska will
have tha affirmative aide at home and tha
negative abroad.
Prof. Fogg haa this week received a tele
gram that W. J. Bryan will be In the olty
on the evening of the debate and will pre
side. Joseph M. Swenson, an Omaha boy. Is on
the team that will meet Iowa. He rep
resented the Omaha High school on flva
winning debate teams and haa repreaented
Nebraska already with success.
The Iowa squad consists -af B. L Elliott
f University Place, Martin L. Frerlchs of
Auburn and Byron E. Toder of Topeka,
Ind., besides Mr. Swenson.
Robert, L Elliott 1909, waa valedictorian of
his clasa at the Wlnalde (Neb.) High school
and represented the school In debate. At -the
Wayne (Neb.) Normal school, whioh ha
attended before he came to the university,
he took first honors In publlo speaking. Ha
la a member of Acacia.
Martin L. Frerlcha, Law, 190J. won on of
the prlzea for the highest scholarship In
the first-year class In the college of law.
He Ik chief justice of the college of law
supreme court.
Joseph M. Swenson 1908. represented tha
Omaha High school on five winning debata
teams. In his freshman year he won a
place on the Nebraska team which de
feated Washington university. He was
alternate on the team that debated with
Wisconsin In 1908 and was a member of tha
team which met Wisconsin laat April. He
wa managing editor of Tha Comhuaker
last year.
Byron B. Toder of Topeka, Ind., waa a
member of the team which debated tha
University of Illinois laat apiing. During
last year he waa business manager of Th
Dally Nebraekan. He Is a member of the)
Delta Upellen Fraternity.
The Minnesota squad Is composed of WH
llain R. King of Osceola; Clyde McWbinney
of Lincoln. Lawrence J. Weaver of Beatrice
and Ralph A. Van Orsdel of Maxwell. Neb.
William Rosa King, 1908. was a member
of the Nebraska team which debated'wltt.
tha Univeralty of Illinois at TJrbana laat
April. He Is president of tha Nebraska
chapter of Phi Alpha Tan, and a member
of Delta Sigma Rho. the honorary debating
fraternity, and of Delta Tau Delta.
Clyde C. MoWhinney, 1908, law 1809, was
awarded ona of th first year scholarahlp
P riles in the College of Law laat year bo
waa a member of the debating squad of
19(6-198, and was an alternate en the Ne- '
braska team whioh debated with tha Uni
versity of Wisconsin at Lincoln last April.
He was the first president of the Univer
sity Forum, which became a chapter. Phi
Alpha Tau. He is a member af tha Phi
Delta Phi . fraternity.
Lawrence J. Weaver, Ul, represented
the Beatrice High school three years In
debates, was class orator and won tha
Crabtree forenalo prise. He was a mem
ber af the university debating squad last
year. He belongs to the Alpha Theta Chi i
fraternity. j
Ralph A. Van Orsdel, 1908. law 10, wa
editor of The Dally Nebraekan lof 1906-1908
and was superintendent of the Obiowa
;(Neb.) sohools laat year. Ha is a mem
ber of the Alpha Theta ChL Phi Dal La
rbj aad Pfc Alpha, Tag try ty va,.