of personal injury to a workman arising out of his
employment, should his employer be liable for adequate compensation and
be forbidden to set up as a defence a plea of contributory negligence on
the part of the workman, or the negligence of a fellow workman?

33. Should all corporations doing an interstate business be required to
take out a Federal license?

34. Should the amount of property that can be transferred by inheritance
be limited by law?

35. Should equal compensation for equal labor, between women and men,
universally prevail?

36. Does equal suffrage tend to lessen the interest of woman in her
home?

37. Should the United States take advantage of the commercial and
industrial weakness of foreign nations, brought about by the war, by
trying to wrest from them their markets in Central and South America?

38. Should teachers of small children in the public schools be selected
from among mothers?

39. Should football be restricted to colleges, for the sake of physical
safety?

40. Should college students who receive compensation for playing summer
baseball be debarred from amateur standing?

41. Should daily school-hours and school vacations both be shortened?

42. Should home-study for pupils in grade schools be abolished and
longer school-hours substituted?

43. Should the honor system in examinations be adopted in public
high-schools?

44. Should all colleges adopt the self-government system for its
students?

45. Should colleges be classified by national law and supervision, and
uniform entrance and graduation requirements maintained by each college
in a particular class?

46. Should ministers be required to spend a term of years in some trade,
business, or profession, before becoming pastors?

47. Is the Y.M.C.A. losing its spiritual power?

48. Is the church losing its hold on thinking people?

49. Are the people of the United States more devoted to religion than
ever?

50. Does the reading of magazines contribute to intellectual
shallowness?

APPENDIX B

THIRTY THEMES FOR SPEECHES

With Source References for Material.

1. KINSHIP, A FOUNDATION STONE OF CIVILIZATION.
"The State," Woodrow Wilson.

2. INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM.
"The Popular Initiative and Referendum," O.M. Barnes.

3. RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA.
Article in _Independent_, 53: 2874; article in _North
American Review_, 178: 205.

4. IS MANKIND PROGRESSING?
Book of same title, M.M. Bal