DEBATERS TRAVEL 300
MILES TO MEET DEFEAT
Oregon’s Women Given Unanimous
Decision Over Co-ed Debaters
From Washington.
Friday evening of last week Co-ed
debaters from two universities met
in Villard Hall to discuss the merits
and demerits of the Income Tax.
The Washington women supported the
affirmative of the question while the
Oregon women upheld the negative
in such a satisfactory manner that
the judges gave them a unanimous
decision. Both teams showed excel
lent training and conscientious work.
On the whole the debate was one of
the best held in Villard for several
years.
Miss Tvah Everett opened the de
bate for Washington, maintaining
that our present revenue system is
wholly inadequate, inelastic and un
just.
Miss Wise who spoke first for Ore
gon agreed that in theory the income
tax is a panacea for all the existing
evils connected with the collection
of adequate federal revenue but that
in practice it would be most imprac
tical in the United States. She then
showed that our present revenue
system, althongh not wholly success
ful at present, can be adjusted to
meet all demands that may be put
upon it. Miss Wise also maintained
that our great need was not a more
elastic system of revenue but rather a
reform of our budgetary system.
Miss Higgins, of the Washington
team developed the idea of injustice
existing in the present method of col
lecting revenue. She showed that the
revenues placed on the necessities of
life furnished the funds for maintain
ing the government and improving
our lands, thus laying too heavy a
burden on the poorer classes and al
lowing the wealthy to go practically
untaxed. She insisted that the only
just means of taxation was a system
whereby those most able to pay taxes
could be reached.
Miss Degermark further developed
the negative contention that the pres
ent revenue system can easily be made
adequate for all our needs. She gave
statistics which prove that already
two-thirds of our national income is
the result of revenue derived from
luxuries, which shows that at present
the burden of taxation is resting upon
the class most able to bear it. This
is sufficient to show that the present
system embodies the most virtuous
feature of the income tax.
The third speaker for Washington
was Miss Dixon, who cited the success
of the income tax in foreign countries
as a reason why we should adopt it.
She cited the corporation tax, which
is a form of the income tax as another
reason why we should make an in
come tax a part of our federal reve
nue system.
Miss Clark, leader of the Oregon
team, and last speaker for Oregon, re
viewed the work done by the former
speakers and showed the negative
nature of an income tax while the
present tax on productions is positive.
She reinforced the argument that it is
not reveneue reform that we need but
rather budgetary responsibility. in
spite of our present revenue system
the United States is the lightest taxed
of all great nations.
Miss Clark emphasized the negative
main argument that an income tax
is not necessary and therefore should
not be adopted.
Miss Dixon gave the closing re
buttal speech for Washington.
Two excellent musical numbers
were given by Miss Prosser and Mr.
Urosius while the judges were making
their decision.
Miss Perkins presided at this first
Co-ed debate held in Yillard.
Washington co-eds played a base
ball game at their first track meet
held May 11.
Stanford supports a chapter of the
National Collegiate Suffrage Asso
ciation.
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MISS LILAH CLARK, ’12
.Member Women’s Debating Team
COUNCIL IS SUCCESSFUL
Organization Has Covered a Wide
Field of Activities at the
University.
One of the newer organizations cf
University women is the Woman’s
Council which was organized last year.
The membership of this consists of
eight senior girls not in any club or
sorority and the eight heads of the
various clubs and sororities.
This year, under the presidency of
Laura H. Kennon, the Council has
had, beside its regular business meet
ings, two open meetings of much in
terest. The former of these, held just
after the Christmas holidays, was giv
en over entirely to the girls, who gave
interesting talks on college life as
seen from view points of the separate
classes.
Again on April 15, the Council had
a rousing meeting in the Women’s
Gymnasium. The subject of the hour
was a “Girl’s College Life.” Miss
Perkins, Dr. Stuart and Miss Burgess
gave pleasant glimpses of activities
and student life in girls’ colleges and
the larger universities. College songs
and special music added to the spirit
of the meeting.
The Council had the April Frolic,
the fourth of its kind under its di
LAURA KENNON,
President Women’s Council.
rection. The interest displayed and
the cleverness of the stunts were not
of course due to the efforts of the
Council alone, but the activity and
enthusiasm of the members certainly
was a factor in its success.
This year a new feature is to be
added to the Fern and Flower Pro- j
cession which the Council manages, j
It is the plan to have besides the
Procession a succession of quaint;
dances by the girls on the campus. ;
These will be under the direction if
Dr. Stuart.
The variety of interests which are
of benefit to college women for which
the Council stands sponsor should
lead all the women of the University
to take an active part in these in
terests and activities so that there
may be a greater feeling of unity and
comradeship among the women them
selves. This is the primary aim of
the Woman’s Council to get the wom
en of the University together on some
common basis of interest.
The first college to adopt a stand
ard flag, authorized by its corpora
tion. is Pennsylvania, whose flag con
sists tit' two red and one blue vertical
stripes, with Pennsylvania’s arms on
the blue stripe in the center of the
flag.
SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS
NEEDED FOR BUNGALOW
Y. W. C. A. Is to build Imposing
Structure Near Campus
Next Year.
The goal for which every Y. W. C.
A. girl has been working steadily
during the past two years is a bun
galow, to serve as a home and head
quarters. Plans for the building,
which it is hoped will be ready for i
occupancy by September 1911, have
already been drawn. The bungalow
includes a living room with fireplace
and seats, large enough to hold all
MISS CAItlN DEGERMARK, ’12
Member Women’s Debating Team
meetings, an office for the secretary,
and buffet kitchen. Open house will
be kept all the time for all the girls
of the University, whether members
of the Association or not. The bun
galow is to be located on the corner
of Twelfth and A streets, near enough
to the campus to allow girls to spend
the hour between classes there. The
cost of it, about $2,300, must be on
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MISS BIRDIE WISE, ’12
Member Women's Debating Team
hand before building operations begin.
Some $600 is yet lacking which it is
hoped will be met by private sub
scriptions. To help meet the ex
penses of a home, the Y. W. C. A.
intends to hold an annual Christmas
bazaar, similar to the one held last
December.
SIX PROMINENT SENIORS
COMPETE FOR PRIZES.
The Seniors who will compete for
the Failing and Beekman prizes this
year are working diligently on their
orations. The contest will be rather
unusual in that there are more wo
men competing than men.
Charles Robinson will give his
masterful production, “The Scape
goat.” Percy Collier is working on
“The Conservation Question. Daryl
Belat has filed an oration entitled,
“The Reign of Law,” and Alice
Stoddard will deal with the child
labor problem in “The Child Slave”.
Maybelle Larsen writes on “The Lure
of the Country,” and Naomi William
son will discuss “The Toll of In
dustry,” which deals with the question
of industrial accidents.
The average age of this year’s
freshman class at Yale is 19 years.
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