Evening star., 1924-05-25
STRIKING CONTRASTS
IN TYPES OF ORATORS
Contest Here June 6 to Offer Com
parsons of Seven Sections
of United States.
TWO GIRLS FORGE TO FRONT
District Schools Confident Miss
Newburn Will Set Pace.

Seven distinctive personalities.
representative of the high school
youth of the land. will be seen in
action in the national oratorical con-
test to be held June 6 at Memorial
Continental Hall. President Coolidge
will preside, and five justices of the
United States Supreme Court, includ-
ing the Chief Justice, will act as
judges.
From the Pacific coast, the far
south, the great middle west, in fact
all sections of the United States,
the chosen secondary school orators
of the nation will meet here to
battle for the honor of being ac-
claimed the countrys premier high
school speakers.
Girl Represents Capital.
In the number will be Miss Ruth
Newburn. siXteen-year- senior of
Central High School. who will repre-
sent the National Capital in the ma
tional contest, having been chosen
recently in The Stars zone as leading
secondary school orator in the Dis
trict. To her went The Stars prizes
Of 500 as winner at Central and $500
as grand prize winner here.
The orators. ranging from sixteen
to eighteen years old. will compete
for prizes of $500, $1,000 and $500,
the first, second and third prizes,
respectively. The winner will be in
Vited by the American Bar Associa-
tion to speak before it at its annual
Toll ri in,
July. This il understood to be the
first time a minor ever has been
asked to speak before tho associa-
ton.
Coolidge 20 BE Chairman,
Robert T.. l.. Saner. president of
the American Bar Association, will
be temporary chairman at the meet
ing in Memorial Continental Hall,
scene of the international confer
ence on the Limitation of armaments
and OF the annual congress Of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion.
Mr.. Saner will introdr &c President
Coolidge. who Will = side during
the remainder of the rreting. The
President is to make 81 address. af-
ter which the seven Jrstions will be
heard. With Chief Justice Taft of
the Supreme Court viii be Justices
Van Devanter. Sanford, Butler and
Sutherland as judges of the contest.
In the order of their speaking the
seven contestants are: Don Tyler of
Los Angeles, representing the Pacific
coast; John NJ. Dallam. Sd. of Phila-
delphia, representing the eastern
states; Jack Turner of birmingham,
representing the southern states; Miss
Ruth Newburn, Washington, repre-
senting the District of Columbia; !;
George Chunlos of Topeka, Kan,
representing the middle west; Miss
Eleanor Huber of Louisville, repre-
senting the central states, and Vail
Barnes of New Brighton, n. Y, repre-
senting the northeastern states.
No Fnvoritea Picked.
1t is anybody's contest, according
to the few who have seen and heard
practically all the contestants, and
Judging also from the reports reach
ing Washington.
These seven are the selections out
of the more than a million contestants
who participated in the zone contests
held in the seven zones. More than
$4,000 high schools took part, and
approximately 100000 persons
heard the various trials.
Zone /, made up of northern New
Jersey, New York and New England,
offers Vail Barnes, a seventeen
year-old junior in the Curtis High
School, New Brighton, N. Y. He is
tall. forceful and possesses a voice
of wide range and dramatic fervor.
His fighting spirit is shown in the
fact that, in defiance of his doctors s
orders. he got up from a bed to which
he had been confined for five days
with fever and won a clean-cut vic
tory in the zone finals in Town Hall
in New York city on May 3.
Holder of Two Medals.
Already the holder of two medals
for public speaking, John Mortimer
Dallam, III, of the West Philadelphia
Boys High School will represent the
eastern zone, made up of Pennsyl-
vania, southern New Jersey, Della
ware, and Maryland. Dallam is the
winner over more than 10000 con-
1estants in his zone and was accord
ed first place by four out of five
judges at it's final meeting on May IL.
The son and grandson of Philadel-
phia attorneys, Mr.. Dallam relies for
his appeal on argument rather than
rhetoric. A slight, soft-spoken bru-
nette, very much at ease before an
audience, his victory brought him a
$1,000 university scholarship. He is
eighteen years old.
Miss Newburn is the youngest of
the contestants. being the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. T. w. Newburn of
the Wardman Park annex. She was
the unanimous choice of Justices Sid
dOns. Mccoy and Robb, who COM
prised the board of judges in the
finals, in which eight high schools
took part.
Miss Newburn is an exponent of
what some term the latest style" in
oratory, the calm, self-possessed de-
livery, the orator relying on forceful
presentation of facts, rather than the
So-called "arm-waving brand of
oratory.
Editor of School Wear Book.
The Central High School contender