Details about the 1945-1946 Webster Club are not yet available.
National Tournament Locations
National Forensic League:
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
The National Association of Secondary School Principals assumed control of national contests and restricted entry to one student from a state in each event. The national contests for the five speech events were held at Northwestern University following four regional contests.
—National Forensic League
National Policy Debate Resolution
Resolved: That ever able-bodied male citizen of the United States should have one year of full time military training before attaining age 24.
This resolution was a repeat of the one debated during the 1941-1942 season.
High school students in Wisconsin, participating in organized forensics, will debate compulsory military training during the school year now opening. Members of the Wisconsin high school forensic association will use this topic: “Resolved, that every able-bodied male citizen in the United States should have one year of full-time military training before attaining age 24.” This subject was a wise selection since it will help to focus the attention of youths in high school age upon a question in which they ought to be vitally interested. It may also clarify the thought of many adults on a question which up to now has been unduly influenced by the war. Before many months of the postwar era have passed it may be found even by proponents of compulsory military training that it is not as pressing a problem as it appeared to be when the war was at its height. Given to the youths to discuss who will be obliged to do the training, we predict that sound arguments will be found against such a program that can become the basis for adopting a more feasible way of accomplishing the same end.
—The Waukesha Freeman (“A Good Subject For Debate,” September 05, 1945, Page 8)