Evening star., 1926-05-30


Miss Myrtle Posey, who, Us Tie
lars tinaliSt in the third annual Ma
jional Oratorical Contest on Friday
night at the Washington Auditorium.
viii strive to win international glory
for Eastern High School and the Capt
tal City at large by achieving The title
"f national finalist, has been invited
20 attend the dinner "Wednesday night
which prominent local Georgians are
rendering Joseph Mullarky, Georgia S
rntrant in the contest, 1t WAS an
uounced last night. No one ~ Ihe
other five contestants in the national
iirals will l,e in Washington on the
night OF the banquet.
In extending the invitation to Miss
t'osey, Moultrie Hit. president OF the
Georgia State Society, who will pre-
side. advised her that she would not
20 called upon TO speak. 1t also Is
greed that Mullarky will not be re
uuested to talk. Senator Walter
George and Representative Carl Vim
son, from Mullarky's home district,
are taking prominent part in the ar
rangeinentS for the banquet, which ls
10 be held at the White Peacock. Mrs.
Ruth Patillo, proprietress of the White
Peacock, and a Georgian. announces
She is extending herself to make the
event notable.
VIII Visit White House.
The banquet to be given by the
GeorGianS will start a round OF con
tiuuous entertainment for the seven
district Onallsts this week. Friday
noon they will be received at the
White House by President and Mrs.
Coolidge. From the White House
hey Will go to Eastern High School.
where they are TO be the guests or
Charles Hart, principal, at q luncheon.
On Saturday they will make an ex
rensiye sightseeing trip and go down
tho river on the Sylph, Secretary of
the Navy Wilbur's official yacht, with
n dinner arranged for them Saturday
night at the home Of John Hays Ham
mond, famed mining engineer, who
will preside at the national finals.
The assemblage Friday night viii
eclipse the TWO preceding national
final meetings in a number Of re
spects. The audience will be one OF
he most brilliant, including the Am
bassadors Of England. Germany,
Italy, Japan, Belgium and Mexico and
she French charge d'affaires. The
judges will be Chief Justice Taft and
Associate Justices Van Devanter,
Sanford. Butler and Sutherland. On
The stage will be Vice President
Dawes, Gen. John j. Pershing, John
Hays Hammond, Frank Is. Noyes,
chairman Of the publishers COM
lnittee for the contest. and Walter A.
Strong. publisher OF the Chicago
Daily News. This years finals also
will be the first at which there will
he large-scale school cheering and
singing by the representatives Of the
different schools. The Eastern High
will er{x- To
yells Of the six other competing
schools.
Program Is Broadcast.
The program this year will be the
broadest TO date in the matter Of
subjects treated by the speakers.
There will be one Grafton on Amer
ica's Contribution to Constitutional
Government" two on Lincoln and
the Constitution" one on Jefferson
and the Constitution" and three on
The Constitution" The contestants
ia their speaking order follow: Thomas
p. Cleary, Philadelphia, 1.-THE Consti-
tution"; Herbert Wenig, Los Angeles,
The Constitution: Guita r. Bear
man, Minneapolis, Lincoln and the
constitution; Ann Hardin. Louisville.
Jefferson and the Constitution;
Myrtle Posey, Washington, Amer
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Government: Joseph Mullarky, Au-
gusta, Ga, THE Constitution; Helen
Eylund, New York, Lincoln and the
Constitution
With the seventh district finalist
rhosen at Philadelphia on Friday
night, speculation over their relative
chances for flrst-place honors is the
principal topic Of conversation in
school circles. The triumph Of
Thomas 4. Cleary Of St. Joseph's
College High School at Philadelphia
brought the number of boys up to
three as compared with four girls.
It will be interesting to see what
showing the girls Will make when
they are in a majority on the pro-
gram. In those regional finals in
which girls emerged victors, they
were invariably greatly outnumbered
by the boys. In this instance the boys
will be in the position of lighting
against numerical odds.
Cleary's victory marks the second
time that a parochial school has won
a place In the national finals. He won
his way through one Of the most diff
ficult divisions of the contest, for in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Della
ware the contest has virtually become
a part Of the school curriculum and Is
participated in by the entire student
body in q great many Of the schools
The contest this year Is broad der than
ever before, there being one repre-
sentative of the private schools of the
country, one of the parochial and five
~ the public schools