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WENIG, u. S. ENTRY. WINS TITLE
IN WORLD ORATORY CONTEST

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BOLIVAR AND THE
LATIN AMERICAN
PEOPLES.
Second Prize Grafton
BY JOSE MUNOZ Gotta
OF Mexico

Spengler's genial analysis has re-
vealed two important currents in the
mysterious march of time. The static
line and gesture Of the ancient Greeks
whose heroes live on forever in the
magic power OF sculptures: and the
modern note since Christ. I'm which
action is the very essence of life and
in which painting. mobile with color,
is the expression of creative energy.
For moderns. progress since Christ
has become Faust-like. There is the
eternal restlessness Of the active will;
the constant desire OF perfection, su-
blime, hopeful OF achieving the sacred
command Of the Master. BE ye per
feet, even as is your Father in
Heaven"
Biography with Plutarch was only
the expression of esthetic acts But
with US history is the voice of human
passions, a record of the tragedy of
indecision, vacillating between denial
and affirmation.
Heroes are no longer presented
Apollo-like, statueSque as or Pericles
resembling statue OF Phidias
touched by God. but. like Dionysus
are full Of life and action; Of action
sane and intelligent. capable of con
uuering the necessity of the classica
dramas and the inescapable fatalit!
peculiar to the Orient.
Liberty is the dominant note Of Ou'
time. Therefore in our lliad and fo'
our Odyssey no longer intervene pro
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to America is the gift Of the immortal

to America is the gift Of the immortal
men of '87.
NV fellow countrymen: Only an
| American. one who knows our history,
| can feel the sacred symbolism OF that
Constitution; only one whose soul Is
| steeped in the spirit of the far-on days
| when Old Meeting House in Philadel-
| phia felt the throb of the great hearts
! Of the constitutional fathers can un-
| derStand.
What solemn obligation is ours, to
teach those who come among us from
| foreign shores, and who often, all TOO
often. come to scoff because they do
| not understand! And here Is our DUTY.
here is our obligation, too. for those
who do not know must be enlightened
and those who do not care must be
taught to love our institutions and the
Constitution by which they live.
And for those who come with hatred
| in their hearts, ladies and gentlemen
| no words of mine could fuliy express
the indignation that should rouse
every true American heart, to stand
on guard as they did on concord
Bridge, who gave to US our flag, our
country, our Constitution.
For this flag, for this country ana
this Constitution, Webster's voice Still
reverberates I'M the old Senate cham
Der, For this Union and this consul
tuition Lincoln wept. prayed ana uleo.
THE flag" says Justice Holmes. is
but bit OF bunting to one who INSISTS
on prose-
| But it's red is our life blood. its stars
| our world, it's blue our heaven. II
owns our land. At will 1t throws away
| our lives.
Without the Constitution there
/ ifl
symbolism. There would be no
united country; no Supreme Court to
safeguard our liberties: without the
| Constitution there would be no
| American republic founded upon
equality; there would be no justice
founded upon law; there would be
no representation founded upon the
! ballots of free people.
| Was there ever a document like
| This" Was there ever such chal-
/ lenge TO Intelligent citizenship Was
| there ever a martyrdom so sweet az
death for its perpetuity?
The past has given us this Con-
! stitution let us guard with hallowed
| hand our Inheritance and transmit II
| to the generation yet to come with
no blot from our neglect ana no
blemish from our misdeeds.
! j ne spirit OK illtlllleltllCc "hi'A
exists toward our governmental in
stitutions must be replaced with d
! spirit Of interest upon the part OF
an Intelligent and courageous citi-
zenry. We mast exercise that "eter-
nal vigilance" which is the price of
! liberty" If our Constitution is TO
remain vital living organism of
government. if We are to hand down
TO posterty Constitution stronger
| and better because we have lived
under it. you and | must stand sentry
at the gate of constitutional promise
guarding our citadel of freedom
! against the inSidious plans Of would
! be reformers.
! For real dangers are appearing on
the horizon. To-day disturbing reports
reach us of the activities of organiza-
tions seeking to teach the necessity
! for q new national document. We are
asked TO destroy our Constitution and
| to replace it with another made to
satisfy the personal and selfish de
| Sires of class.
Ladies and gentlemen. il ever such
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continued from First Page.)
other hand. was Thought in evening
clothes, worn bit careleSSly, cir
culating among the guests at Il COun-
try house gathering. The Mexican
boy dWelt upon Bolivar rather as the
idealist and thinker than the soldier
and conqueror. He held that the Lib
orator had led the way to cultural
rather than to material greatness
among the Spanish speaking repub
lies (which owed to him their exist
ence. His keynote was "the evolu-
ton of the Latin American soul"
The French champion, Maxine
Raymond puel OF Nancy, offered an
other contrast in national manners
and ways of thinking. He spoke on
The French Constitution. His talk
was Il clear, logical presentation Of
facts, utterly without frillS 1t was
not particularly eloquent. but a splen-
did example OF the French method
of logical analysis Puel spoke at
somewhat of q disadvantage. He had
arrived in Washington only the day
before the contest. He had not had
time to get familiar with his sur
roundings. His talk was imperfectly
memorized and Il number Of stumbles
soon obviously had put him out of
the running for the championship.
Audience Is Enthusiastic.
Each speaker was given generous
applause, but that which came at the
conclusion of Wenig's oration was
easily the loudest and most prolonged.
This was due in part, doubtless. tc
the fact that he was more intelligible
to the hearers. Applause of course,
played no part in the final judgment
when the inherent differences in Ian
guage had to be taken into full consid-
Grafton.
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tecting gods. No longer do we behold
merely the silver smile of clear-eyed
Pallas Athene, the way-shower with
pointing spear. but. transformed 93
deathleSs force forever enveloped IN
the classic mantle of eternal beauty
In the evolution OF the IAtnl
American soul we ind beautifully
realized the harmonious blendin9lY
the classical and modern spirit. II
has the quality of music In Its eN-
preston of life. deep and unconfined.
1t is as if the spirit of Greece oVer 4
turned its golden amphoras into 0ie"
startled eyes of the Latin peoples, Tor
they have the esthetic sense OF Nhe
Greeks combined with Christian
force. Our history is feast OF col
or. like the paintings of Rubens and
of profound space as in Rembrandts
pictorial biographies. The crown OF
beauty. the dance. is the symbol rs
our culture. Ours is "a sentient in
telligence. OF mobile grace and eN.,
uberant force. behind the golden
locks of the goddess Harmony. Our
very spirit. Showy and affected ia
the eyes of others. is but the music
to some stern tragedy with forest
background unconfned. like the
music Of Wagner And our ambition
Is like unto a symphony. even the
Fifth Symphony with Indians oh
the trot, carrying on their shoulders
the sad burden of the Spanish Const
quest, or even the Novena in mo
ments of light. music and JOY ot
being, with it's wise men. poets and
thinkers. In short. while Pan reveals
the marvel of esthetiC pleasure. our
race looks forth like some divine
Satyr from behind the curve of
beauty and of truth.
All our heroes are like this. Ard
especially in BOlivar-for us The hero
type-may we find. ever present
those two world traits. In him Hel
leniC harmony. the charm OF plastic
pose. the art of the noble gesture. AZ
we'll as action. positive and tragic.
making him til" poet soldier and OF
his life q mar, elouS epic poem. the
most restless figure in all our history
We must not. therefore. ask this in
pulsive spirit IL direct his military
campaign like a technical expert. His
battles are like hurricanes Bolivar
himself becomes for MS a great III
(ContinUed on Page Thirty-twol
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THE CONSTITUTION
Victorious Grafton.
BY HERBERT WENIG.

From the beginning Of recorded
time the force that has propelled
civilization onward has been mans
desirs for freedom. When that desire
fails the wheels Of progress cease
thei- turning. and when most active
civilization makes the greatest ad-
Vancement.
Born beneath the sunny skies Of
Greece. nurtured in England's island
empire by those who wrested from an
unwilling royalty the bill of rights and
the Magma Charta. fostered in Amer
lea by those lofty spirits that guided
our Revolution to success. its most
battling problem was faced by those
men, who. in May, 1889. in the city
Of Philadelphia, took up the work OF
consolidating and perpetuating the
fruits of victory. For the crown and
consummation OF Freedoms forward
march was the American Constitution.
Look with me at that group Of men
who in four months wrought out of
the chaos and confusion of the CON
federation a Constitution for all time.
Into that Constitution went the wis
dom of Franklin, the majesty of
Washington, the vision Of Hamilton
and the legal learning OF James
Madison. 1t had as its inheritance
the dash and vigor of the Minutemen
of Lexington and Concord. the courage
in the battery smoke of Bunker Hill
the prayers at Valley Forge, and the
patriotic sacrifice In the ice and snow
along the frozen Brandywine.
For the first time since governments
had been instituted among men that
Constitution provided for a. govern
ment whose base was in the bedrock
of the God given rights of the individ
ual: for the first time a government
had been formed which guarded It's
citizens against encrOachnentS ol
class and arbitrary power; for the
first mans desire for freedom found
fulfllment in the Constitution of the
United States. In it's check and bal
ance system safety is assured. In It's
presidential message and presidential
veto, in its representative initiative
ard senatorial clariticatlOn. ITS yudl
cial review for constitutional violation
and finally in its amendatOry prerogd
tive, the Constitution furnishes 10
the United States of America the great
est written guide for laWmaking ana
potential progress ever devised ny
the human mind And almost as
part of the covenant itself, 1ncarnate
and forever enshrined "a bill of rights,
guaranteeing to the individual his life
liberty and property, undlsturhed eA'
cept by due process OF law.
one hundred and thirtynine years
have passed since Washington took
the oath of office to uphold that
ConstitutjOn--one hundred ana thirty
nine years of constitutional blessing
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a call comes, may every true citizen
set his face, like flint" against the
change and with universal voice let us
fling back the answer, Remove not
the Ancient Landmark Which Thy
Fathers Have Set.
The pages of this sacred document
are fast crumbllng away. but their
meaning and their significance are
carried in your heart and mine. Bap-
tized by our fathers blood. conse.
Grated by our mothers tears, dediCat nd
to immortality by a free people. may
our Constitution ever stand as the
emblem of peace on earth. good will
toward men" the sacred embodiment
of the soul of the American people.
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Nearly every seat in the great audi
to1ium was filled, signifying a. grow
ing interest in the art Of oratory
among the people of Washington. II
was distinguished gathering which
these boys faced. 1t included noted
educators. delegations from schools
and colleges. many Government OH
cialS and naval and military officers
On the platform We're three members
of the cabinet---SeCletai'y of the Navy
Wilbur. Secretary OF the Interior
Work and Attorney General Sargent
The meeting was opened by John
Hays Hammond. Then came the ad
dress by President Coolidge. When
the President had finished. Mr.. Ham
mond gaVe a group Introduction OF
the contestants. There were no In
,lividual introductions. Before each
BOY arose the Unite,i States Marine
Band PLAYED the national anthem OF
mis- country. and this pretty ceremony
afforded sufficient Introduction.
Cup Presented to Winner.
At the conclusion the judges, head
ed by ;he Spanish Ambassador. Senor
Don Alexandra Padilla. retired to
form their decision. The verdict was
announced by Frank 4. Eoyes, presi
dent of The Evening Star Co.. and OF
the Associated Press. on behalf of the
committee of publishers which had
sponsored the contest. MIR. Noyes
handed the great silver loving cup to
Wenig.
Besides Scnor Padilla the Judges
consisted of a distinguished group OF
linguistS and scholars, qualified tC
make the fine distinctions necessary
between speakers who used different
tongues. They We're: DR.. Richard
Frederic Antoine Muller. a native OF
Belgium and an international en-
gineer and scholar; DIR. Louis ]. A
MERCER, a native of France and a
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professor OF romance languages at
Harvard University: DR.. Robert Nj.
Sugars, a native of Ireland and a
member of the faculty of McGill Uni
versity, Montreal, and DR.. Richard
Henry Wilson, a native Of the United
States and professor of romance
languages ut the University Of Nir
ginia
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Actress Connard Gets Divorce.

NEW YORK, October Is CR.-Phyl-
lis Connard, actress. yesterday was
granted a divorce from Weldon H.
Franks, known on the stage as Vel
don Hepburn. He is leading man in
a Lansing. Mich. stxek company.
They were married in 1924
An American firm is building a
modern highway in Colombia.
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A Flannel Coat is
Smart for Sport Occasions
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The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1926-11-25

In the absence of Mrs. C. J. Winter,
who is now touring Europe, Mrs. w. F.
Ude will read the paper on "The Peas.
ants by Reymont, which Mrs. Win
ter prepared for the Monday meeting
Of the Fortnightly club. Mrs. Henry
Rising, who is leader for the day,
Will sketch the life of the author, Rey-
mont, and Polish music will be pre-.
sented in folk songs and piano mum.
bers. Mrs. r. E. Ahlquist will discuss
prohibition, Success, or Failure" as
the current events feature. Mrs. w.
II. Ransom will preside.
The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1926-11-25

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE-The subject
of the Lesson-Sermon tomorrow in
both Churches of Christ, Scientist,
which are branches of The Mother
Church, The First Church of Cchrist.
Scientist, in Boston, Mass, is Thanks
giving"
The addresses of branch Churches
OF Christ, Scientist, in Spokane are.
First Church, Fourth Ave. and Post
Street.
Second Church, Indiana Ave. and
Post Street.
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Sleeves hold an important place in
all coats. They either fit very snugly
or do not fit at all, but are in the ma
ture of cape.
The bolero coat is much seen, while
tunic lines also possess place of first
Importance.
The bloused back, or the all-around
blouse is perhaps the most interesting
and novel feature of the new coats. 1t
appears very smartly in all coats and
in all fabrics. 1t is sometimes bloused
with a belt and at other times the eff
fect is obtained in a deep puff effect.
In all coats, however, the impor-
lance of luxurious furs is keenly felt.
they bring an air of smartness to the
suits which advance the newest
modes.
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Chapter A !, P. f. O.. will be enter.
tanned on Saturday by Miss Lou Ben
son, when it meets for the fortnightly
study meeting. The feature of the
program will be paper by Miss Katie
y. Barker. 1.-THE Story of the Opera
'Natoma."