Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-27
CANADIAN YOUTH
CHAMPION ORATOR
RoCh Pinard Wins World
Honors, With German
Contender Second.
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City, American spokesman; F. Whit
nall Allen Of England, Miss Lis TorSlen
Of Denmark, Vincente Pardo Suarez OF
Havana. Benigno Petit Lecaros of Peru
and Gabriel Fouche of France.
Leigh Opens Meeting.
The judges who determined the VIC
tors were DIR. Jan Herman Van Royen,
Minister from the Netherlands; Dr.
Jules-Bois of the faculty Of l'Ecole de
Psychologist, Paris; DR.. Richard Henry
Wilson of the University of Virginia;
DR.. Adam Boving Danish scholar Of the
National Museum; Or. Paul G. Gleis
If Catholic University and Comdr j..
College at Toronto.
Randolph Leigh, director general OF
the contest opened the meeting short
ly before 8:l5 o'clock with a brief talk.
in which he reviewed the purposes Of
the contest These principles, he said,
were the increase of respect for and
interest in good government and the
preservation of the spoken word as a
medium of human intercourse.
He introduced DR.. Friedrich W. Won
Prittwitz und Gaffron, German Am
basSador to the United States, who de-
liyered the opening address.
Competition of any sort" Ambas-
sador Won Prlttwitz declared, lis the
best method of training physical and
mental ability and of developing
understanding comradeship, fairness
and mutual respect. This competition.
just as any international one, tends
Furthermore to create in the hearts
and minds of its contestants the feel
ing that they are also citizens Of an
international world in which they have
to live together"
Presents Each Contestant.
Following the German Ambassadors
address Mr.. Leigh presented each OF
the contestants to the audience. Later
the youths were summoned to speak
with the playing of their national
anthems by the Tech Symphony Or
here, under the direction of Dore
Walten, faculty leader.
On the stage with the nine contestants
were, besides Mr.. Leigh, the French and
German Ambassadors, and Mr.. Ham
mond, Vincent Massey, Canadian Min
lister to the United States; Don OresteS
Ferrara, Cuban Ambassador; Constan-
tin Brun, Danish Minister, and DR..
Don Pablo Campos-OrtiZ, first secre-
tary Of the Mexican embassy.
Swofford Opens Contest.
Summoned to verbal battle by the
strains of his country's "Star-Spangled
Banner" Ben Swofford. Kansas City,
spokesman for the United States,
walked confidently to the center of the
stage TO do his best to repeat the VIC
tory which won him acclaim in the
American finals last May. Delivering the
same grafton on The American Con-
stitution and Its Trainers" young
Swofford spoke with new command and
feeling There was new drama in the
MiSSourian'S voice with which he
sought to oppose the anticipated fire
of his foreign competitors. Yet there
was the same dignity with which he
wrested the decision from board OF
Supreme Court justices in the Spring.
If he was fearful Of opening the con-
test he failed to show it and applause
greeted his efforts.
Gabriel Fouche, young Partisan who
told his audience he was delegated to
bring a message to America from the
youth of France, was second OF the
orators to bid for the championship.
His message, delivered with the feeling
for which his people are known, carried,
as his topic implied, The Aspirations
of French Youth" These hopes, he
said in French, are for a recognition
of the necessity of combination of the
physical and the mental abilities of his
people If prosperity Of France is to b"
restored. Spectators at a foot ball
game, he said, are not mere W., hers,
but they are moralists because they
recognize that the acquisition of physi-
cal strength is a basis for spiritual life
and because they are tired of mere
work This combination he said, will
reflect itself in French industry o. the
future.
Tells of German Life.
Herbert Scnaumann, East Prussia
spokesman for Germany, followed
Fouche with an Grafton on THE Sig
nificance OF the Weimar Constitution
to the Use of Germany" Tracing this
significance in the everyday life of his
generation, Schaumann reviewed the
demands his government makes of its
people-pursuit of education, develop
ment of talent and service to country
so that the future German adults may
struggle for peace, for humanity" that
humanity itself may be strong. Schau-
| mann'S delivery was rich in expression
and at times dramatic in its appeal
for understanding OF his homeland
by the foreign audience which faced
him. His impaSsioned conclusion drew
thunderous applause from the audience.
Peruvian Appeals for Beauty.
| Another Latin, Benigno Petit LecaroS,
| Peruvian spokesman for South Amer
lea, followed Girls with an appeal for
appreciation of things beautiful. His
Grafton on Art in Civilization" was
the longest on the program and was
fraught with phrased darts pointing to
the harmonies of life, which, he said,
| should thrill all mankind.
Now, more than ever" Lecaros said,
there is urgent need of the art that
comes to lift with spiritual fervor mod
ern society out OF its materialism."
After the German, came the Mex
lean, and the diminutive Roberto Ortiz
Girls, spokesman for the republic below
the Rio Grande, launched with good
effect his oratorical query, Shall the
Latin American Peoples Try to Replace
Pan Americanism by Policy of Uni
versal Interests?" His answer, coucIIed
in phi!osophic observations of the
changing times, was emphatically af-
| flrmatiye.
Girls declared that the Latin Amer
lean nations were right In creating Pan
AmericaniSm for they we're the victims
of colonial oppression and such an al