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...University debating team will meet the representatives of Bates College at Lewiston, Maine, next Monday, February 23, with the following subject for argument: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt the Plumb plan as provided in the Sims bill for the operation of the railroads." The team chosen from the University to uphold the negative will consist of L. E. Thomas '20, M. J. Donner '21, and L. Dennis Occ. The alternates have not yet been chosen...
...form of a debate will be tried by the University debating team on February 23. It will be a double debate, one of the University teams going to Albany, where it will Syracuse, the other matching Bates Lewiston, Me. Both teams will debate on the same subject, the "Plumb Plan," But each will argue on a different side. Thus the two debates will be conducted as though two halves of a debate against the adversary, although the University will face two opponents...
...Plumb Plan gives the railroad workers the absolute power to determine their wage. This fact has been admitted by the New York "Nation", a publication favorable to the Plumb Plan. "The Nation" says that whenever a vote is taken on the Board of Fifteen Directors, the ten members elected by industry can out-vote the five members appointed by the government...
Finally, the Plumb Plan marks the beginning of the nationalization of all industry. Senator Cummins has very truly said that the railroads have in the past, and will in the future, determine the fate of the other industries of the country...
...principal objections to the Plumb Plan is the inefficiency in management which would result. Government ownership has everywhere proved less successful than private management, our present experience with the railroads being a case in point. Moreover, the interests of the public would not control the policy and direction of the railroads under the Plumb Plan, but rather the interests of the railroad men themselves...