The Holly chieftain., 1924-05-29
OUR COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE

rrizes of $3.50, s1.110 and, $500. to-
aether with the honor of being
acclaimed the three foremost secon.
dairy school orators OF the United
States.
Widespread Interest
No previous event of the same
kind has attracted such widespread
personalities of the contestants
( lends a piquant interest.
Indeed the wide difference of
these aspirants to oratorical honors
in physical, mental and racial
characteristics affords irrefutable
testimony to the breadth of appeal
made by the contest to secondary
school students.
Zone J, made up of Northern New
Jersey, New York and New Eng
land, Will be represented by Vail
Barnes, a l7-year-old Junior in the
Curtis high school, New Brighton,
n. Y. Young Barnes is tall and
folccful and possesses a voice of
wide range and tremendous drama
tic fervor. His fighting spirit is
shown in the fact that, in defiance
of his doctors orders. he got up
from bed to which he had been
confined with fever and won a
clean cut victory in the zone finals
in Town hall in New York City on
May ..
Zone Already the holder of
two medals for public speaking
lohn Mortimer Dal'on: III of the
West Philadelphia Boys high
school will represent the eastern
zone, made up of Pennsylvania,
Southern New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland. Dallam was the winner
over more than one hundred and
ten thousand contestants in his
zone and was accorded first place
by four out of five judges at the
final meeting on May 12. The son
delphia lawyers, young Dallam re-
lies for his appeal on close argu-
ment rather than rhetoric. A
slight, soft-sDoken brunette, very
much at ease before an audience,
his victory brought him a $1,2000O
university scholarship. Preparations
are under way by his fellow stu.
dents to send large delegation
to the Washington finals.
A Girl From Washington
Zone 3-To Ruth Newburn, stu
dent at the Central high school.
Washington, will fall the honor of
representing the national capitol
in the national finals. Miss New
burn is in her senior year and is
one of the leaders in her school
both in intellectual and athletic
pursuits.
Ionel-T'he southern zone, Miss
issippi Alabama. Tennessee Geor-
gia, Florida, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Virginia, will have an
able representative in 17.year-old
Jack Turner. student of the Phil
lips high school. Birmingham. Ala,
who has devoted every available
minute since the first announce
ment of the contest to perfect his
Grafton.
.Zone5-To Eleanor Huber, the
winner in the central states zone,
NHltI1 llltltlltS w IStOIlSIIl, MltlIl-
gan, Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, Ken
tucky and West Virginia and that
part of New York adjacent to Buf
falo, belongs the distinction of be-
ing the most diminutive of those
orators who will appear in Wash
ingtOn. Miss Huber, who is pO-
pular senior in the Louisville high
school, is feet s inches in height
and weighs seventy-five pounds.
Miss Huber is no stranger to ora
torical 'honOrs. inasmuch as while
in the seventh grade she won a
local Oratorical contest in her home
town.
George Chumos From Topeka
Zone 6-George Chumos, the win
ming representative of the fifteen
states which comprise the mid
western zone, is short, heavy set
He speaks with passion and effect
OF Greek descent. he is a native of
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