Show r. r II J t Ii m A A. A FRESHMAN FRESHMAN'S NA S 'S LEi tiR LETTER f. f t r My Dear Beloved Father We e had iad Ol our pr preliminary ii deb debate te this thi week week week-I I don don't dont don't mean th that t it took tool all week th though some of the professors thou thought ht so A preliminary is something like that that in clap-in and out clap-out game that we pla played ed edat a at Jimmy I Hales when his sister got married married mar mar- ried ned only there isn't any kissing in it They kept the debaters out in the halland hall halland halland and only let them in two at a time and I Ithen then each two people go in and fall in inthe inthe inthe the same blunders blunder and call each other the I same names navies that the two before them did Now if I were going to debate like that Id I'd just go in and say Here now you know all Ive I've got to f say Theres There's no use of my going allover all over it again Lets Let's just call it square and Ill I'll bet bet the judges wouldn't be any too willing pling But the idea of going in there and andt telling telling tell tell- ll- ll ing the same lies that the six other fellows fellows fellows fel fel- felI I lows told springing the same old new jokes and seeing everybody trying to look pleasant I tell you I wouldn't like to fall on myself like that I 1 The question was Resolved that United States Senators should be elected by United States people and not by any any old machine boss legislative cont contingent ng nt platform syndicate trust railroad convention con coif conJ J or labor union or something to that effect It was instructive I tell you They said that ten ninths of the pe people and fiftysix fifty six States were in favor of it had h been en fo for a hundred and fifteen years That the present system was useless corrupt i and diabolical and that all senators were 1 7 elected by bribery That the question had been considered by our forefathers presumably Adam That witches are r all allright right light after all fil and all evils come com from rom an t excess of Democrats And another another thing that 1 I 1 didn't nb know v Jf father l er that that that- f man man Roosevelt has a a hoWling hoMing do t and 1 pony pony w ny show with his senators e every e y time rc d congress meets meets- He Ie I just cracks His whip and they spell all kinds of words in the f sand I T learned he heaps ps about debating Just come in in stick your hands in your pockets pock pock- ets quote something that two or three men have said and then end up with Now gentlemen I have proved etc All the other fellow can do is to say I beg to differ with you and quote somebody dy else Its It's dead easy and Im I'm pretty well convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced that our government is one of the most corrupt senseless and rotten institutions institutions institutions on the face of the globe I would i. i not have known it if I hadn't fallen into that debate Ill I'll not be very apt to do doit doit doit it again agail Your dutiful son Andrew |