13. That raw sugar should be allowed free importation into the United States.

14. That the Athletic Association should support non-athletic

societies.

15. That baseball players should not be permitted to play Sunday

ball while representing their school in the P.S.A.L.

16. That American ships using the Panama Canal should not have to pay any toll.

17. That the United States has done right in fortifying the Panama Canal.

18. That party bosses be done away with.

19. That Preference Primaries should be established everywhere in the United States.

20. That any boy who attains an average of 85 per cent in his class work should be exempt from examination.

21. That the United States should build two battleships each year. 22. That there should be equal suffrage for both sexes.

23. That pupils in the high schools should furnish their own text

books.

24. That the closed shop is better than the open shop.

25. That immigration to the United States should be restricted. 26. That the protective tariff on in the United States should

be lowered.

27. That the motions in Burke's Speech on Conciliation should have been adopted by the English Parliament.

28. That the tardy room of our high school should be abolished. 29. That Chinese immigration to the United States should not be

restricted.

30. That car fare for high school students should be reduced to three cents.

31. That the annexation of Cuba would be advantageous to the United States.

32. That the Presidential term should be limited to six years, without eligibility for reëlection.

33. That the policy of a tariff for revenue only should be instituted

by Congress.

34. That the popular election of senators should be put in force. 35. That a navigable waterway should connect Chicago and New

Orleans.

36. That the orchestra in our high school should not be supported by the Athletic Association of the school.

37. That all high schools should be co-educational.

38. That the President of the United States should have power to recall decisions of the Supreme Court Judges.

39. That the Initiative and Referendum be adopted in all states. 40. That reciprocity would not be beneficial to Canada.

41. That the present method of amending the Constitution is not

satisfactory.

42. That the present laws regulating child labor in our state should be changed.

43. That life imprisonment should be substituted for capital pun

ishment.

44. That the capitalization of department stores should be limited

by law.

45. That the United States should subsidize her merchant marine. 46. That no President should serve more than two terms.

47. That the government should provide scholarships for competition among students ambitious to go to our large universities and colleges.

48. That all boys, unless physically unable, should be forced to learn to swim before being enrolled in high school.

49. That the United States should have sole power of chartering interstate corporations.

50. That the formation of “pools" be considered criminal by the government of the United States.

51. That a Central Bank should be established in the United States. 52. That the government should control all means of transportation, and all light and water works in the United States. 53. That the honor system should be instituted in all of our schools. 54. That the jury system should be abolished.

55. That labor organizations should not enter into politics.

56. That high school students should be allowed to ride on the sur

face, elevated, or other municipal railways of this city free.

57. That the "school city" should be adopted in our school.

58. That the Louisiana Purchase was unconstitutional.

59. That school fraternities should be abolished.

60. That corporal punishment should be abolished in all schools in the United States.

61. That a great increase in armies would prevent international

wars.

62. That the government should own, control, and operate all

railways.

63. That competition in trade is better than monopoly.

64. That circumstantial evidence is insufficient to convict.

65. That Socialism is disastrous to the general good.

66. That the United States should largely increase the size of the navy.

67. That the United States should give pensions only to army and navy veterans.

68. That the city should own all public means of transportation. 69. That candidates for Congress should be nominated by direct

primary.

70. That the Recall of Judges should be instituted instead of the

impeachment.

71. That thought is mightier than action.

72. That the present course of study in this high school be altered. 73. That the president of the steamship company was justified in jumping into a lifeboat at the time of the Titanic disaster. 74. That the United States government should introduce one-half cent currency.

75. That trades should be taught in all high schools.

76. That the labor conditions in the steel industry of the United States should be reformed.

77. That life imprisonment for women, instead of capital punishment, should be introduced in the United States.

78. That a limit as to height of buildings should be enforced in all large cities.

79. That divorces should not be granted in the United States. 80. That the United States should keep an army in Cuba. 81. That a two-year high school course is of no practical value. 82. That the United States should not pension its clerical force. 83. That millionaire smugglers should receive a jail sentence. 84. That trusts in any form should be declared illegal in the United States.

85. That Sunday professional baseball should be legalized.

86. That the sale of liquor should be prohibited in the state.

CHAPTER IX

DESCRIPTION

The Word Picture. We have defined description as picturing or suggesting by words some person, place, thing, or effect. Properly composed, it should leave upon the reader's mind a clear and complete impression. "Word picture" is, however, a convenient rather than an accurate term. Of course, as writers or speakers we can only suggest color and form by means of words; we cannot present our picture to view all at once; and we can indicate a good deal more fully than a painter the experiences of our senses. We could, for instance, clearly indicate hearing and smell and taste and touch, while as painters we could do so only by suggestion. Moreover, we can put into our word picture action and changes of action, which again as painters we would be unable to represent, except by suggestion. We may speak or write of lightning as "flashing" flashing"; we could paint it only as a dead, permanent streak. We may describe an oncoming or a passing thunderstorm; we must paint the storm in a single stage only. We may describe a noise as a shriek ; we could not paint such a thing. We may describe such an emotion as fear much more easily by words than by the pencil or the brush.

We see, then, that the painted picture is confined almɔst altogether for its appeal to the sense of sight; its value for getting impressions through the other senses is much less. The word picture, on the other hand, may make its appeal through any or all of our five senses, and may be used for an emotion or a mood, as well as for the concrete things of na