Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-27

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and their respective speeches will be:
| Miss Anne A. Burdette of the Glasvs
| High School. Bel Alton, on 1.-THE Citi
zen-His Privileges and Duties UndeI
| the Constitution"
| William Wilroy of the Lackey High
| School, Indian Head, on 1.-THE Citizen
His Duties and Privileges Under the
| Constitution
Miss Elizabeth Wolfe of the Hughes.
vile High School, on THE Origin Of
the Constitution"
z. Maccubbin Waters of the Char.
| lotte Hall School, on 1.-The Development
of the Constitution.
John Dudley Digges of the La Plata
High School. on 1.-THE Constitution"
H Holland Hawkins, president of the
La Plata Board of Town Commissioners
| will preside over tonight's meet, while
| the judges will be Dr. Charles Marsh
professor of economics at American
University; Miss Phyllis Wilson, in
structor at the Marjorie Webster School
of Expression, Washington, and J. F.
Abel Of the u. S. Bureau OF Education
Music viii be provided by Mr.. and Mrs
Anton Nimmerichter
The fifth and final contender for the
Maryland championship will be chosen
at Hyattsville tomorrow night, when
Miss Mary Payne of the Hyattsville
High School. Miss Mary Eugenia Hardy
of the Takoma-Silver Spring High
School, Miss Mary Morris of the Mary
land Park. High School and Miss Nan
Edith Wheeler of the Falkland High
School, compete.
State Senator Coad Presides.
Z Last nights competition at Leonard
town was launched inauspiciously for
Muldowney, who was determined win
ner. A suggestion of Illness chicken
pox, as a matter of fact-was discovered
among the students of Leonard Hall 10
days before the contest when one of
the boys became slightly i'll. No new
cases of the malady were registered. but
the students of the school were kept
closely segregated. 1t was in line with
this precautionary surveillance that
Brother Ambrose, G. F. X, principal of
dents of the school would not attend
the meet However, the brothers of
the school rustled the telephone COM
pany's technicians out and a few min
utes before the contest got under way
three telephones had been rugged up on
the speakers platform and connected
with the schools radio loud speaker in
the institutions auditorium miles
or so away. r. Reid King, a student
of the school, was installed as an
nouncer, and until the chairman took
over the meet, he gave his fellow stu
dents at school running description
OF the assembling crowds which soon
packed the hall to overlooking.
State Senator Coad of ST. Mary's
County presided. In his introductory
Senator Coad declared his constant
willingness to participate in amy move
Inent which is for the welfare of my
country" 81
Rebecca Wallace Speaks First.
I'm this materialistic day." he said. cit
is well we should pause once in awhile
to contemplate upon the birth of our
Nation and the principles which give
It life. The contestants here tonight,
who have studied those principles and
the circumstances surrounding their
creation, will contribute a great deal
more to the welfare Of the United States
than they probably realize. 1t is well
we should hear them'
After a brief review of the rules of
the contest, Senator Coad presented
Miss Rebecca Barber Wallace of the
Mechanicsville High School as the first
contestant. Speaking only six minutes
on Lincoln and the Constitution" Miss
Wallace was impressive with her sin
certify. Her oratory was of distinctly
feminine type that was gracefully
Womanly. She set pace and estab-
llshed at once the meet as one in which
only good oratory could survive.
Miss Loker, the second speaker, ac-
copied the challenge and for nine min
utes and ten seconds she talked on
The Constitution - the lard and
Guide of Personal Liberty Iiss Loker
borrowed considerably froi what is
popularity accepted as ''masc ,l',e ora
tory" There was a slight 7ow Of
her victorious brother ALEC in her
speaking and a we'll ordered Grafton of
her own creation to give it body.
Choporis' Sincerity Convincing.
George Choporis, 17-year-old son Of
Greek parents, who came to America,
where they have become naturaliZed
citizens of sturdy patriotism, was the
next speaker. Having fought hard
against a severe cold last year only to
go down in the group meet before the
heavy forensic attack of other con-
testants, Choporis put his whole soul
into his Grafton on The Origins of the
Constitution" in last nights meet His
facial expression bore evidence of his
sincerity. He was pleading with his
fellow Americans to appreciate the
sources of the Constitution his parents
came here to adopt as their own gov
ernmental scheme. His Grafton was in
keeping with the high plane of the
whole meet last night.
Then came MuldoWney. Seeming all
most dimunitive in stature, he took his
place and quietly addressed the chair
man Muldowney started speaking in
even tones and in the course of his
8 even minutes of talking, he rose
| through the scale to end in a burst of
| oratory which made profound i'm
preston upon the audience, and, from
their verdict, upon the judges. There
was spontaneity in his oratory that
may have been lacking in his last years
effort, and there was Withal speech
| that would hold together ana command
attention on any platform. MuldoWney
started" last night and no matter
where he ends in the contest his fellow
orators will know they have tasted war
| to the finish.
When applause for Muldowney had
ceased within the hall lusty school
yell with triple 'Muldowney!" on the
end burst from somewhere outside the
building. The audience listened.