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MOREHOUSE COLLEGE MEETS CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY IN INTERNATIONAL
DEBATE
Frank B. Adair, ’34 L. Raymond Bailey, ’34
They went hard against Cambridge!
By H. B. Allen
Two young men of Morehouse College, Monday night,
November 2nd, matched wits with a pair of brilliant
debaters from England’s ancient university of Cambridge,
and had a decision been in order, would undoubtedly
have been the victors.
The debate, the second international contest in More
house history, involved the question, “Resolved that the
League of Nations is the only secure guarantee of world
peace.” A large audience, fully a quarter made up of
white friends, enjoyed a free-for-all exchange of wit, im
passioned eloquence, logical argumentation, and occa
sional “ragging” of opponents.
From the very outset it was apparent to all that the
teams were arguing at cross-purposes, and there was
a difference in interpretation of terms, despite the con
stant efforts of the Morehouse speakers to hold the
Englishmen to the question as originally worded. As the
first spokesman for the affirmative, Alastair Sharp, of
Cambridge, admitted that the present League was “in
bad odor.” His colleague, Michael Barkway, deplored
the abject failure of the League to enforce its authority
in the Sino-Japanese situation. The pair argued, how
ever, for the acceptance of the idea of a society of na
tions, based on the Covenant of the League of Nations,
and held there could be no true League without parti
cipation of the United States and Russia.
Morehouse, ignoring the obvious play of the English
team for laughter, held to a logical course of argument.
The first speaker, Frank B. Adair, Jr., assailed the League
as a peace-assuring body. It was, he said, devised to
perpetuate the injustices embodied in the Treaty of Ver
sailles and to maintain the status quo of the great powers
that dictated that treaty. Further, he argued, the Cove
nant of the League contains inherent weaknesses—such
as the domination of its Council by the five great pow
ers—that make it impossible for the League to insure
peace.
Following him, his colleague, L. Raymond Bailey,
cited five factors that he declared proved the ineffective
ness of the League as a guarantee of peace. These were
die complete failure of the League to bring about dis
armament of member nations; the rise of nationalism,
particularly in Italy and Germany; the inability of the
League to curb mounting economic nationalism, as was
shown by the failure of the World Economic Confer
ence; the League’s failure to stop Japan’s invasion of
China, and the futility of economic boycott because of
the fact that the United States and Russia, the two great
export nations, were outside the League.
The argument for the League was brought to a stirring
climax by the plea of Mr. Barkway for international co
operation to check war at its source. Any act of war any
where in the world may eventually involve us all, he
declared. Could anything be more remote, he asked,
than an assassination of an Austrian archduke by a Serb?
Yet in less than three years after such an assassina
tion the United States was involved in a war that grew
out of this event.
The debate marked the second international debate
sponsored by the College within the past two years. Dur
ing the scholastic year 1931-1932, Morehouse College
debated Oxford University of England.
PRESS CLUB TO LAUNCH WEEKLY
It’s being molded into form and no longer is just “a
thing we’d like to have”! Look for the first publication
—a Morehouse weekly.
George Smith, Chairman of the Press Club, announced
that at a meeting of that organization Tuesday, Novem
ber 7, it was officially decided that Morehouse College
is to have a weekly newspaper of student opinion. The
unique manner in which the paper is to be edited
should make it all the more successful. The editorial
r aff is comprised of Leonard Archer. James Smith, Frank
Adair, and Thomas Kilgore. Theodore Minchen was elect
ed business manager, and is soliciting subscriptions for
the weekly at five cents per month, for the Tiger s Tail,
the Maroon News, the Tigers Eeye, the Spectator, the
Cry, or whatever it is to be named, is from all indica
tions going over big. The Student Activities Committee
on November 1 voted its approval of the weekly.
FEDERATED CLUBS ENTERTAIN THE “GREEN
PASTURES” CAST
When is a Gladiator not a Gladiator, a Chi Delta not
a Chi Delta, a Texas Club not a Texas Club, a Ki-Yi not
a Ki-Yi, or what-have you? When they confederate,
of course! Well, that’s what happened to all the clubs
on the campus when they decided to entertain the cast
of The Green Pastures. Sunset Park was alive Wednes
day night, November 1, with the merriment of a host
of college youngsters and many of the cast from the
celebrated show “havin’ a good time” and saying it with
music and laughter.
(NSFA)—Experiments at the University of Michigan
prove that the ads one sees are sometimes right. The re
sults of the experiments have shown that the lighting of
a cigarette actually aids in maintaining nonchalance in
moments of stress.—Ring-Turn Phi.