Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-22
SIX WILL COMPETE
IN ORATORy TEST
First Maryland Interschool
Contest to Be Held Tonight
at Bethesda.

The interschool phase of the Sixth
National Oratorical Contest will b
opened in Maryland tonight at Bethesds
Elementary School, where. at 8 O'Clock
three boys and three girls, the champion
speech-makers Of their respective
schools, will contend for the right to
enter the Maryland district hnals next
month.
Marylands initial interschool battle
follows closely the concluding inter.
school meet in the private and parochsal
district held late yesterday at George
town. University and won by James
Leonard Butsch, 19-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard E. Butsch, 4720 Fiji
tenth street, and the spokesman for st
Johns College.
Six VIII Speak.
Tonight's contestants and their re-
spective orations in the order in which
they will speak. are:
John G. Colt Of the Dickerson High
School, THE Development of the Con-
stitution.'
James Alonzo Cannon, jr., OF the
Georgetown Preparatory School, Garrett
Park, on THE Constitution-Its Value y
Miss Doris Palmer of the Gathers
burg High School, on THE Constitu-
ton: A Guarantee 70 Liberty for the
Mis- Frances v. Fulks of Rockville
High School on THE Citizen: His Priv
ileges and Duties Under the Constitu-
ton
Miss Margaret Benson of the Bethes.
da-Chevy Chase High School. on The
Citizen: His Privileges and Obligations
Under the Constitution"
David Trundle of the Poolesville High
School, on The Privileges and Obli-
cations of Citizen Under the Consti-
tuition"
The victor will be determined by a
board of four judges. They are Lieut..
Col Wallace M. Craigie, u. S. A., pro-
lessor of military science and tactics
in the District Of Columbia public
schools; Robert Peter, jr., of Rockville,
States attorney: George P. Sachs, pres
ident of the Bank Of Bethesda, and Mrs.
H. D. Rogers of Linden; chairman OF
the education committee Of the Mont
gomery County Federation OF Women's
Clubs.
$50 Strict Time Limit.
Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing editor
of The Star, sponsor OF the contest
nearby counties of Maryland and vir-
gir1ia, will preside at tonight's meet.
Each contestant is allowed 10 minutes
in which to deliver his Grafton, and II
participant continues to speak after
the time signal is sounded, he will be
dropped automatically to last place.
The program of oratory will be re-
lieved by musical selections at intervals
during the evening, played by the
students of Miss Gemeze Bordeaux,
music instructor at the Bethesda-C Chevy
Chase High School. The players will
include Miss Dorothy Hobley and Miss
Jean de Lashmutt. pianists, and the
Girls Glee Club of the school.
The first contestant on the program
John Colt, is the 17-year-old son of
r. 3. Gott, clerk of the District of
Columbia Police Court and resident
Of Dickerson, Md. Young Cannon is
is years old, and he Is the son of DR..
James A. Cannon, Washington surgeon
of 1915 Biltmore street. Miss Palmer,
the daughter of Robert e. Palmer of
Washington Grove. Md, is II yeas
old, while Miss Fulks. the daughter
Of Mrs. Edna Fulks Gross OF Rockville,
is-I7 years old. Miss Benson is the 49,
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. o. H
Benson of $500 Moreland lane, Edge
moor, and young Trundle, who Is 10
years old, halls from Poolesville.
Uses High Pressure Grafton.
Butch, the st. Johns College orator
who won the decision in the concluding
private and parochial district group
meeting at CASTOR Hall, Georgetown
University, yesterday, made his success
ful bid with a high pressure type OF
oratory. He used many gestures In the
course Of his speech, to which he gave
variety and expression with well con-
trolled voice meditation. Butch used
only minutes and 40 seconds.
Miss Nellie Mccormick. the st. Pat
rick's speaker. who was second on the
program, made brave attempt to wrest
the decision from the powerful Butch
who proceeded her. Speaking on THE
Citizen: His Privileges His Duties I'm
der the Constitution" Miss Mccormick
presented the. picture of little spit
fire, telling the audience her ideas on
IT, Constitution with all the vim and
speed Of a whippet. She spoke min
utes.
The final bid for victory was made by
Miss Louise Waters Of Holy Trinity
High School, who, in her quiet, even
way. delivered her well ordered Grafton
on THE Constitution of the United
States: Its Origin" Miss Waters spoke
for 8 minutes, using no gestures
but facing her audience and giving il
facts with serenity and sincerity which
commanded attention.
The Judges were members Of the
Georgetown university's Philodemic De-
batting Society, the oldest college debate
organization IN the United States Rev
Hugh Gaynor, dean Of Latin at the
university, who was presiding In the
absence of Rev. John j. Toohey, 8. j..
announced the winner. The program
was augmented by musical selections
played by music students of Holy Trim
ity School, j. :luding Robert Schombert
Catherine Garland. Frank Warner
Elizabeth O'Conner, Donald Herman and
Rudolph Kirchgessner.