Evening star., 1927-05-01

The Constitution" He is the son of
Mrs. Frances c. Bell of Clarendon.
After John Bell comes the Mary
land school district che-.--.~~- VIII
H~~1 beva-1tor Loiter. the l.-yv-
Old senior of Leonard Hall School.
Leonardtown. William, better known
as "Aleck," is the son of Judge Will
liam NJ Loker. of the seventh judi
ciaI district Of Maryland His ora
tion on The Constitution win be
his bid for honors
Not Separate Contest.
The final speaker OF The Star
finals and the third contestant to
take the platform in the Museum
unit viii be Bessie Cush. 17-year-old
senior of Notre Dame Academy Of
this city. Bessie is the champion OF
the Washington private and. pdfo-
chial schools district and she will
contend with her Grafton on The
Constitution" She is the daughter of
Mrs. William Il. Cush. 210 s street
northeast.
While the Tech Orchestra, directed
by Dore Walten. plays S0usa g
High School Cadet March," the
judges carrying with them the name
of the till-undetermined winner will
return to the national contest head
quarters in The Star Building Each
will write his ballot separately and
once in the headquarters office the
three ballots bearing the individual
contestant rating of the three judges
will be totaled and the results made
known for the first time in Wednes.
day afternoons edition of The star:
1t is made clear by the contest
management that the three units of
the finals are not separate contests,
but integral parts of one big COM
petition In other words, the orators
in the Central High School unit are
competing, each in his own right,
not only against the contestants in
that meeting, but against the speak
ers in each of the other units. The
winner will have defeated nine con
testants and not merely those who
shared his immediate program.
Boys Are Victorious.
While seven boys and three girls
are awaiting The Star finals in this
region. the boys victory plurality is
being maintained throughout the Ma
ton OF the seven newspaper rep
resentativeS who were chosen in con
tests during the past week, six are
boys
The lone girl winner of that group
of newspaper representatives is Betsy
Perrow, 16-yearold student of the
Asheville, n. c.. High School, who
won the North Carolina championship
and the representation of the Win
ston-Salem Journal, the sponsoring
paper of the state. Her subject was
why We Should Uphold Our Consti
tution.'
The upholders of the mems con-
quests include:
Maxwell Lancaster 16, of the Phil
lips High School. Birmingham, Ala,
who spoke on The Constitution. " The
content in which Lancaster won was
sponsored by the Birmingham Age
Herald and associated newspapers,
and his victory gives to the Phillips
High School its fourth consecutive
State champion.
Winners i'm States.
Jack NJ. Caldwell, jr.. 10, of the
Rhea County Central High School,
Dayton, Tenn, won the Tennessee
State championship with his speech
on ''The Constitution" in a contest
sponsored by the Chattanooga Times.
John n. Bryson of the Allegheny
High School, Pittsburgh, Pa. won the
championship Of the area embracing
western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio
and northern West Virginia, under
the sponsorship of the Pittsburgh
Sun. His subject was The Constitu
ton"
Harry Rockwell, IA, of the Aquinas
Institute, Rochester, n. Y. was the
winner of the contest sponsored by
the Rochester Democrat and Chron-
icle, with an oration on Lincoln and
the Constitution" The territory of
which Rockwell is champion is north
ern New York.
Carl Albert. 1S, of the McAlester
High School of Oklahoma City, Okla,
won the championship Of that State
with a speech on THE Constitution"
under the sponsorship of the Okla
homa City Oklahoman.
Wallace Palmer of the William Girls
man High School, independence
kans., speaking on Americas Con
tribution to Constitutional Govern
ment," won the championship of the
territory embracing Missouri, Kansas
and Colorado, in a contest sponsored
by the Kansas City Star.