The University debaters were twice defeated Saturday night in the second league debates when Wesleyan and Williams triumphed over the affirmative team and the negative team respectively on the question, "Resolved: That this house favors the adoption of the Child Labor Amendment."

The debate with Wesleyan, which took place in Paine Hall, was won by the visitors by a 2 to 1 vote of the judges. R. W. Lishman '26, first speaker for the University, pointed out that the number of working children in this country was tremendous and that the states do not regulate this labor either fairly or uniformly. He was followed by H. N. Eggleston of Wesleyan, who stated that the states had improved conditions and would continue to do so. The second speaker for the affirmative was Barrett Williams '28, who said the separate states would necessarily fail to regulate the labor fairly owing to the fact that conditions vary in each state. C. M. Gifford, Wesleyan's second speaker, practically won the decision for his team by his smooth delivery and his argument that the amendment "like a steam roller, would crush out all local interests and ideals."

The Williams team won over E. C. Sibley '28 and F. W. Sorenzen '28, the University negative debaters, by a 2 to 1 decision of the judges.