Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-25
SPEAKING AWARDS
TO EXCEED S13O,O))
Total includes Cost of South
American Tour for
Winners.

Awards to be given in the Sixth Ma
tionai Oratorical Contest, which is be-
ing sponsored in this locality by The
Evening Star, viii aggregate more than
$4,000, 1t was revealed in the George
Washington birthday number of 1.-The
National Oratorical Contest News" Of
fetal contest publication which is being
received at competition centers and by
the movements sponsors throughout the
United States this week.
This issue of the Contest News, $4,000
copies of which were printed contains
scores of articles about the contest in
its national and International phases
No advertising matter, however. is print
ed, but photographs, including scenes
which the national flnalists will view on
their South American tour next Sum-
mer. and portraits of men prominent in
the support of the contest, brighten the
pages.
According to the story on the contest
prizes this year, the $4,000 total in
cludes the cost of the tour of South
America. which is estimated for the
eight winners at $4,000. Scholarships
valued at Sll,460 are offered by Drake
University. while many newspaper
thousands of dollars in educational tours
and college scholarships. Other papers
are giving cash prizes to the winners
of the contest in their territory.
Among these are The Star, which
this year Is giving II district" awards
of 500 each and an additional prize
Of 5000 to the winner of the local
championship. The winner of the 5000
award also receives the three months
South American tour.
The awards this year are given dis
the French government. through its
ministry of public instruction. is award
Ing the international champion. as an
n0Hnced a week ago in The Star.
~ Nations Listed.
Otaer stories IN the News include the
list OF n competing nations in the con-
test this year, the formal announcement
OF the Sevres vase award, the fact that
one-third of the schools In The Stars
area are competing with their entire
student bodies and the delay occa-
stoned the contest in Northern and
Central Europe by the recent storms
and billiards
Randolph Leigh, dire ctor general of
the contest, announces through the
News that the United States this year
is divided into eight major zones. This
means that eight orations viii be deliv-
cred In the national finals In the Wash
ington Auditorium next May instead Of
the usual seven.
Mfr. Leigh has made known the sched-
ule of regional finals, as follows:
Pacific region, at Los Angeles. May
10; Midwestern region, at Kansas City,
Mo-, May II; central region, at Chicago,
h asfn ar
cester, Mass, April 81; Eastern region,
at Harrisburg, May 3: metropolitan New
York region, at New York City, May II;
National Capital region. The Stars ter
ritory, at Washington, April rs, and the
Southern region, at New Orleans. May
10. This schedule is subject to niodifi-
cation at the discretion of the national
management.
Advice and Warning Given.
The News gives bits of advice and
warning which might well be taken to
heart by the contestants In the District
Of Columbia and the nearby counties OF
Maryland and Virginia who are COM
peting under the sponsorship Of this
newspaper. II is pointed out that the
time limit of 10 minutes must be adj
hered to strictly throughout a con-
stestant's participation or he may be
minute speech in a small auditorium.
the News declares, easily becomes
l0ia-fminute grafton In a much larger
hall where Formally and q huge audi
ence create q dignity which demands
more precise enunciation.
It is set forth also that the 20 an
nounced grafton subjects are not COM
pulsory, but are given as suggestions"
The official rules of the contest, 1t is
shown, demand an original l0-minute
speech which must deal with the Con-
stitution of the United States"
The Contest News has been made
available to enrolled schools throughout
the nation. The present issue is Num-
Der /, volume g." Other issues viii be
printed as contest news justifies.