Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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Negative Team Swil zer Zehncx' I I RI 1 L Affirmative Team Um-slznul AIQISIQCI' I XX U41

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EIU - Dill El U Debating U Plymouth for a number of years has had successful debating teams, our opponents generally being Warsaw and Rochester. This year Rochester dropped debating and we were compelled to look elsewhere for competition. Fortunately, circumstances provided admirably. At the call of Laporte, five schools of northern Indiana met at that city to form a permanent organiza- tion for furthering inter-scholastic activity in the held of debate. Such a so- ciety composed of representative schools cannot fail to bring about an in- creased interest in a part of school work that has ordinarily been given too little attention. The league. consisting of Laporte, Michigan City, Elkhart, Mishawaka and Plymouth was formed and the name. Pentagonal Debate League was chi'-sen. The question, Initiative and Referendum was debated on March 15 and 22. Plymouth was awarded second place in the debates. The first home de- bate was held at the VVebster school building with the Elkhart negative team. The affirmative defenders of the Plymouth High School were Clark Logan, jean Metsker and XVarren Heestand. They easily won the decision by a unanimous vote of the judges. On the same night our negative team was dc- ieated at Michigan City by a close decision of two to one. The percentage grades were SS for Plymouth and S9 for Michigan City. On the following Friday the negative team, 'Roy English, Rieta Zchner and George Switzer, debated at home and defeated Mishawaka by a vote of three to nothing. Our atiirmative team was defeated at Laporte by a vote of two to one. The percentage grades at Laporte were 95 for Laporte and 94 2-3 for Plymouth. The decision at Laporte determined that city as winner of the Hickey shield which was awarded to the winning school. Three other schools tied with Plymouth in the number of victories, but we were given second place because of our high percentages. Four of our debaters will be in school next year and at that time we ex- pect Plymouth to be stronger than ever before. The spirit shown by the high school students in supporting these contests was indeed admirable and we trust that it has set a precedent which will never be abandoned. JEAN METSKER. RHS CN . yd tif 5' ll 1918 Page Thirteen

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..-lllllllllliggullillillEEEEEEIIIIIIIIII-.a 7aw time ae: a TF A' te 'M The American Flag y t l.YhltJU'l'l'l lli fh School scored a dramatic success when it ire- ! ga l 5 , P sented The American Flag, on the evenings of March ll and 12. The amount cleared was illl-l-1.20, which was divided between the local lied Cross and the -lnnior Red Cross of the schools. The play opens at the American consul's home in 'ii France, where Kommandant Wlollf and his German sol- diers are temporarily quartered. june Oliver, daughter of judge Oliver. the consul. becomes engaged to Bob McMillan, an American, who enlists with the Allies. The love affairs of june be- come complicated by the addition of Kommandant Nvolili as a suitor and the appearance of Rozika, a gypsy girl, to whom he is already married. Through the help of Dixie, Bob NlclXlillan's sister, the situation is cleared up just as Bob leaves for service. Dixie enters the service as a Red Cross nurse. and mani- fests her American heroism by leading the retreating soldiers hack into the hght and on to victory. McMillan is taken as a spy for saving .I une after she has been captured by Kommandant NVolff. The American troops arrive and kill XYolll' just as the German guns are aimed at Nlchlillan. The play closes as Dixie pulls down the German Hag and amidst the cheering of the victorious soldiers hoists the American flag in its place. to Hoat over northern France. The event was characterized by the remarkable development of two stars. Thelma Canan, hitherto unknown in this activity was easily the feature of the performance as she won repeated applause in her role of Dixie, the little pa- triot from the States She completely won over each and all in the audience by her American vivacity and charming ways. Harold Fries was her close rival, in the character of liommandant Wlollf. Harold manifested a talent before unsuspected as he threw himself so per- fectly into the part of the domineering German otlicer. Arthur Clough as Bob lVlclVlillan, the hero of the play, displayed the typ- ical American spirit. Apparently he was unconcerned and let nothing trouble him 3 but once he puts himself to the contest he was in to win. Howard Maxey did splendid work as the lierman sergeant and issued his orders in an authoritative way, which gave evidence of his military training. Cleatus llahn, as the American lVlajor Marvin, was so bashful that it re- quired the hearty assurance of Hob together with the ablest assistance on the part of Dixie to manage and carry out his proposal to that young lady. l15l