The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-26
JACK TURNER Is
STATE CHAMPION
IN ORATORY MEET
John Detlie Is So
Marjorie Poip SIS
Decatur
TEN ORA s9ROVE
CREDIT Il ALABAMA
DR.. Denny, DIR. Palmer
And DIR. Dowen Judges
OF Big Contest

Jack Turner of Birmingham. 17-year-
old student of Phillips High school, Fri.
day might was adjudged the champion
high school orator of Alabama in the
national oratorical contest sponsored by
The Birmingham Age-Herald.
This decision was reached by the
presidents Of the three leading col
leges of the state after the champions
Of the 10 congressional districts had de-
livered their orations before a large
audience in the First Baptist church
auditorium.
: DR.. Spright Dowell of Auburn, head
of the Alabama Polytechnic institute
DR.. George HI. Denny of Tuscaloosa,
head of the University of Alabama, and
DIR. T. w. Palmer of Montevallo, head
of Alabama college, were the judges.
Second place went to John Detlie, q
lad in knee-pants from Tuscaloosa High
school. Third honors were taken by
pretty Miss Marjorie Pointer of the
Decatur High school, the only young
lady in the contest.
Turner received a scholarship from
The Age-Herald valued at $1,000. good
at any college in the state, and also
won the right to represent Alabama in
the all-southern contest to be held May
~ III D1TluiuSnduly WHICH ChduApAOus
from six southern states will meet.
Detlie won a $46O scholarship and
Miss Pointer won a $3.50 scholarship,
and they may use them at any Alabama
institution.
Covered With Glory
All the contestants covered them
selves with glory, and the judges, after
it was all over, admitted they had found
it exceedingly difficalt to pick three
winners from the 40 splendid oratious.
The United States constitution was
The basis 81 nlk the oratiQias and the
remarkable mai sfS4 ID " slitH iie iy0tfilg
orators hnnfIied their subject was 4 rexe-
iatiom to the audience One thing sto0d
out in all the orations:
The world is safe for democracy and
the constitution Of the United States,
the greatest of all documents, will en-
dnre forever.
, Composition of the orati0ns and the
manner Of delivery were the main tests
applied to the speeches by the judges
in their deliberations.
Sent BY Radio
Radio apparatus was installed on the
stage and the entire program was
waited into the air and carried over
Alabama and the rest of the country
by "WSY," Birmingham's powerful
station. 1t was estimated
that thousands of Alabamians were lis
tening in" for news of the meet, which
had stirred intense interest in every
section Of the state.
!. Ohio J. Sharpe, contest manager, in
PRODUCED DIR. @. b. Glenn, superinten-
dent Of the Birmingham public schools,
as the opening speaker. An ardent sup
porter of the contest from the beginning,
DIR. Glenn, declared it was certain to
prove a great stimulant to the states
educational progress. -
iaThe state of Alabama he said, "is
extremely grateful to The Age-Herald
for its enterprise in going out Of the
ordinary channels of newspaper activ-
ity in this extraordinary effort to for
ward educational progress in our state:
No event within my memory has caused
such keen statewide interest, and no
movement ever launched in Alabama has
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