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Episode 32: 50 Questions for Debate - Art of Public Speaking · The Art of Public Speaking

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  Section thirty two of the Art of Public Speaking Appendix A. Fifty questions for
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  debate. One has labor unionism justified its existence? Two? Should all church
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  printing be brought out under the union label? Three? Is the open shop
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  a benefit to the community? Four? Should arbitration of industrial disputes be made
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  compulsory? Five? Is profit sharing a solution of the wage problem? Six?
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  Is a minimum wage law desirable? Seven? Should the eight hour day
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  be made universal in America? Eight? Should the state compensate those who sustain
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  irreparable business loss because of the enactment of laws prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
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  intoxicating drinks? Nine? Should public utilities be owned by the municipal pality?
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  Ten should marginal trading in stocks be prohibited? Eleven Should the national government establish
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  a compulsory system of Old Asian insurance by taxing the incomes of those to be
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  benefited? Twelve? Would the triumph of socialistic principles result in deadening personal ambition?
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  Thirteen? Is the presidential system a better form of government for the United
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  States than the parliamental system? Fourteen? Should our legislation be shaped toward the
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  gradual abandonment of the protective tariff? Fifteen Should the government of the larger cities
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  be vested solely in a commission of not more than nine men elected by the
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  voters at large? Sixteen? Should national banks be permitted to issue, subject
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  to tax and government supervision notes based on their general assets? Seventeen? Should
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  woman be given the ballot on the present basis of suffrage for men? Eighteen?
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  Should the present basis of suffrage be restricted? Nineteen? Is the hope
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  of permanent world peace at delusion? Twenty? Should the United States send a
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  diplomatic representative to the Vatican? Twenty one Should the powers of the world substitute
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  an international police for national standing armies? Twenty two? Should the United States
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  maintain the Monroe doctrine? Twenty three Should the recall of judges be adopted?
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  Twenty four? Should the initiative and referendum be adopted as a national principle?
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  Twenty five? Is it desirable that the national government should own all railroads operating
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  in interstate territory? Twenty six itsirable that the national government should own interstate telegraph
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  and telephone systems? Twenty seven is the national prohibition of the liquor, traffic
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  and economic necessity Twenty eight Should the United States Army and Navy be greatly strengthened?
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  Twenty nine Should the same standards of altruism obtain in the relations of nations
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  as in those of individuals? Thirty Should our government be more highly centralized?
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  Thirty one Should the United States continue its policy of opposing the combination of railroads?
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  Thirty two? In case of personal injury to a workman arising out of
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  his employment, should his employer be liable for adequate compensation and be forbidden to
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  set up as a defense a plea of contributory negligence on the part of the
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  workmen or the negligence of a fellow workman. Thirty three Should all corporations doing
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  interstate business be required to take out a federal license? Thirty four Should the
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  amount of property that can be transferred by inheritance be limited by law? Thirty
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  five Should equal compensation for equal labor between women and men universally prevail? Thirty
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  six Does equal suffrage tend to lessen the interest of woman in her home?
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  Thirty seven Should the United States take advantage of the commercial and industrial weakness of
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  foreign nations brought about by the war by trying to wrest from them their markets
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  in Central and South America. Thirty eight should teachers of small children in the
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  public schools be selected from among mothers? Thirty nine should football be restricted to
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  colleges for the sake of physical safety? Forty should college students who receive compensation
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  for playing summer baseball be debarred from amateur standing? Forty one should daily school
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  hours and school vacations both be shortened. Forty two should home study for pupils
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  in grade schools be abolished and longer school hours substituted. Forty three should the
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  honor system and examinations be adopted in public high schools? Forty four should all
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  colleges adopt the self government system for its students? Forty five should colleges be
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  classified by national law and supervision and uniform entrance and graduation requirements maintained by each
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  college in a particular class. Forty six should ministers be required to spend a
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  term of years in some trade, business, or profession before becoming pastors?
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  Forty seven is the y MC losing its spiritual power? Forty eight is the
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  church losing its hold on thinking people? Forty nine are the people of the
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  United States more devoted to religion than ever fifty does the reading of magazines contribute
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  to intellectual shallowness? End of Section thirty two.