Warden L.E. Lawes of Sing Sing Prison will debate on "Capital Punishment" under the auspices of the Harvard Debating Union next Tuesday evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, it has just been announced.

Mr. Lawes has long been warden at Sing Sing, where his enlightened policy of leniency and prison reform has been largely responsible for raising the standards of justice in New York State.

His opponents and colleague have not yet been chosen, but it is believed that Senator Baumes, author of the Baumes Criminal Law now in effect in New York State, has been invited to take part in the discussion. If he is unable to come, another authority on Criminology will be secured to oppose Warden Lawes, who is against the practice of capital punishment for crime.

The other two debates will be undergraduates of the University. As was the case in the two preceding debates this year, a competition for chairman and secretary of the Debating Union is now under way, and these officers will be appointed before midyears. They will manage the bi-weekly debates of the spring term, obtaining speakers and fixing dates for the meetings.