The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-16
Champion Of South
 Selected Tonight
 In Oratofical Meet
Five High School Speakers Arive In Bnming- ham On Eve Of Semi-Fmal Contest To Be Staged In First Baptist Churh Auditorium Judge Anderson To Preside

Representatives from five southern states arrived in Birmingham Thur4 day for the All-Southern finals in the national orHtorical contest to be hBld under the auspices of The Age -HBrnlA in the auditorium of the First Baptist church Friday night. The T~presBn- tatives are:
 Clara Ginsburg. South Carolina.
 Thomas Moore Craig, North CarB- lima.
 David Carson Stubbs. Ge0rgia.
 Thomas Goodrich, Tennessee.
 John M. Turner, Virginia.
 These with Jack Turner, iihe Age Her4ld's prize winner arBm AlEsazsR, will speak on the ggnstitufi0n of the United States; competing for hgnDrs Hn the selection for tho All-Sguthern BrR- torical champion.
 The winner Friday night will go to Washington to represent the Hnti1e south at the National 0rafDrical June 6, when $5.00O will be offered in prizss, the first prize being $3,500. President Coolidge will preside and the supreme court of the United States will not Rs judges. Representative will rBmpBtA in this national final from seven maJBr zones throughout the United StGtes.
 Justice Anderson Rresiaes
 Judge John c. An1erson, chief JHs- tice of the supreme court of the state of Alabama, win preside at the All Southern meet Friday night. Gov ernor Whitfield of Mississippi, SthtR Superintendent of Public Instruction Bond of Mississippi, and R. H. ThBmp- son, president of the Mississippi BHr association will be the judges.
 Friday afternoon there will be a mammoth parade in the down town section of Birmingham, in which each stare will be represented by n aarge float. High officials and npted Bttu- cators in the several states win be Ir the line of march.
 Motion pictures of the event will be made by Pathe cameramen, and they will be shown a few days later m the leading motion picture bheatsrs throughout the country before g0ing Un their regular tour.
 Other Ssmi-FinEls Frlaay
 Semi-finals will be held stimuli taneously in Kansas City, ChicRBB, Philadelphia and Los Anselss. New York held its semi-finAl match several days ago.
 The oratorical contest has attrRctBd wide attention throughout the country and from various sections in the south. The Age-Herald has received letters and other communication of cOngrabn- lation and appreciation Tor its pant an the program.
 Otto J. Sharpe, contest manager, mas announced that the semi-final winners from all over the country will be pub lished Saturday morning.
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 The rules for the semiflnal cOntesrs have been announced as follows;
 The low point-tOtal system, under which each judge rates every speaker, will be used in determining the win ner. The contestant with the lowest total score wins. Since there Are rh1Re judges, the perfect score would be th1~e first places, or a total score of three.
 The order in which the speakers AlD- pear on the program was determined bg lot, the drawings having been made in Washington by Frank B. Moves, pl'ssl- dent of the Associated Press.
 The public is invited to the program Friday night, there being no admission charge. The events are being FpUn- sored principally to foster a stimulated interest in the study of the United States Constitution, not only among high school students, from whom tbe contestants are selected, but among the entire citizenry of the country. It is, therefore, desired that a large RndieDee be present and receive the various R5ew- points that have resulted from studiBs made by students in different sections of the south of America's s most fundR- mental government document.