Again I wish to ask the question, What justice is there in a law which declares that since a person cannot earn $38 a month but can earn thirty they shall not be permitted to earn anything at all. Instead they shall be made to beg and starve. Let me briefly summarize the position of the negative: We are opposed to a minimum wage for men in Washington and Oregon because wages are higher here than in any part of the country, therefore, to raise wages still higher would prevent our industrial development and therefore not benefit the workers; in the second place the law would be to a considerable extent evaded, and therefore would not benefit the workers; in the third place, with the peculiar conditions now existing in our industries, a minimum wage law would cause immediate ruin to a number of business concerns, throwing the employees out of work, thereby not benefiting the workers, and in the fourth place in those concerns that still existed the old and partially incompetent workers would be discharged and therefore no benefit to the very ones it is supposed to help. In short it will only make bad industrial conditions worse. APPENDIX XVIII SPECIMEN CONSTITUTIONS: FOR DISCUSSION LEAGUES AND DEBATING CLUBS STUDENTS may obtain bulletins containing specimen constitutions for civic clubs, debating organizations, etc., from the extension divisions of several state universities. These bulletins are free to residents of the State and will be sent at small cost to students living elsewhere. When writing for them, address "The Extension Division" of the university of the State, or write for one of the bulletins in the following list: California University. Extension Division. Constitution and Rules and Regulations of the Interscholastic Public-Speaking League of California. Berkeley, Cal. Published by the University, 1915. 19 pp. 5 cts. Indiana University. Extension Division. Manual for Civic Discussion Clubs. Bloomington, 1913. 24 pp. Wisconsin University. Extension Division. Civic Clubs, Organization, Programs, Loans to Clubs. Madison. Published by the University, 1909. 7 pp. 5 cts. Wisconsin University. Extension Division. Debating Societies, Organization and Procedure. Madison. Published by the University, 1911. 34 pp. 10 cts. Wisconsin University. Extension Division. Suggested Constitution for Triangular Debating Leagues. Madison, 1911. 10 pp. 5 cts. Foster, W. T. Essentials of Exposition and Argument. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. 244 pp. 90 cts. Appendix VI, "Specimen Forms of Agreement for Triangular High School Debating Leagues and State High School Debating Leagues." Phelps, E. M., comp. Debaters' Manual. 2d ed. The H. W. Wilson Company, 1916. $1. Part II, "Debating Societies: Organization and Management." Includes model constitutions and contracts for triangular leagues. APPENDIX XIX WHERE TO FIND MATERIAL ON TOPICS FOR STUDENTS preparing for debates save much time if they are thoroughly familiar with local libraries, their resources and the possibilities of assistance that they offer. They should understand how to use the catalogue of the library, how books are entered in it under the author's name, the subject and the title. The assistants in the library will be interested in knowing on what subject they need material and can help greatly in bringing within reach the resources of that and other libraries. Too much cannot be said of the value of work done by the student himself, but on the other hand, the work should be well organized from the very beginning. BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS ON GATHERING MATERIAL Winans, J. A. Public Speaking, Principles and Practice. Century Co., 1916. 476 pp. $1.50. Chap. xv, "Finding Material-Originality." Drury, N. B. Debating Material. 8 pp. 5 cts. California University. Extension Division. Bulletin, ser. 4, no. 1. Fay, L. E., and Eaton, A. T. Instruction in the Use of Books and Part I, section 3a, "Collecting and Recording Material for BIBLIOGRAPHIES A good bibliography of the topic for debate saves a student much time. Most libraries have on their shelves all those published by the Library of Congress and can often get from it typewritten copies of bibliographies on very recent topics of discussion. Those lists can be bought from the Superintendent of Documents in Washington from lists supplied by the Library of Congress. Many books contain bibliographies of specific subjects, varying from a brief list of books to a careful and fairly complete list of the books in the field. Various debate manuals, handbooks, and collections of debates include a list of references used in the preparation of the debate. The American Library Annual contains a list of bibliographies published during the year, in English and American books, bulletins, and pamphlets. Valuable bibliographies can be found at the end of articles in Encyclopædias. Both sides - briefs for debate on important questions of the day appear in the weekly Independent with lists of references. Periodicals devoted to a special subject often list the current literature of that subject. The National Municipal Review, Journal of Political Economy, and the American Labor Legislation Review print lists on specific topics and review the current literature of the field. INDEXES TO PERIODICALS Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1815-1904. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900-date. The H. W. Wilson Company. Indexes the magazines commonly found in libraries. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. Supplement, 1907-date. The H. W. Wilson Company. Indexes periodicals not included in the Guide and less commonly subscribed to by libraries. Magazine Subject Index, 1908-date. The Boston Book Company. Indexes many magazines not included in the Readers' Guide or its supplement. Industrial Arts Index, 1913-date. The H. W. Wilson Company. Indexes the leading trade, technical and engineering journals of the year. Agricultural Index, 1916-date. The H. W. Wilson Company. Subject index of agricultural (broadly defined) periodicals, bulletins and reports. Index to Legal Periodicals, 1908-date. The H. W. Wilson Company. Engineering Index, 1884-date. The Engineering Magazine Com pany. Subject index of technical periodicals. Annotates each article. Public Affairs Information Service, 1915-date. The H. W. Wilson Company. Acts as clearing-house for distribution of information concerning problems of research through its weekly bulletin, and lends documents to subscribers to the service. Its bulletins list Index Medicus, 1903-date. The Carnegie Institution of Washing- A monthly classified record of the current medical literature of the world. Business Digest, 1917-date. Cumulative Digest Corporation. Gives brief abstracts of essential contents of about fifty business periodicals, notes of important business articles in current general and technical periodicals, and notices of books and publications on business topics, including government reports, bulletins, etc. INDEXES TO NEWSPAPERS The New York Times publishes an index to the daily issue. This and the yearly index to the London Times and Information, a digest of current events and world progress, can be used as an index to dates. With the date as a guide, these indexes may be used with any newspaper. Chronological lists of current events published in magazines that review recent progress can be used as an index to newspaper files in the same way. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS A vast amount of material is published by the federal, state and city authorities. Indexes to the United States Documents are kept in libraries where a file of the publications is on the shelves. The Congressional Record discussion of current topics is indexed separately, weekly, as it is published in unbound form, or at the end of the session when the index volume covers all the debate of that session. It is indexed under three heads; names, subjects, and bills by their official numbers. A monthly index covers all other federal publications and includes the reports and documents of Congress, reports, bulletins, etc., of all executive departments and independent bureaus and commissions. At the close of each session of Congress a catalogue is published listing and describing all the publications of that session. It includes only reports and documents published by the authority of the House of Representatives and the Senate. It does not include reports, bulletins, etc., of executive departments and independent bureaus. At the close of each Congress a catalogue is published listing all federal publications issued during the period of that Congress. This includes the reports and documents of both houses of Congress, and the various reports, bulletins, etc., of the other divisions of the Government. |