Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-09
BALLSTON YOUTH.
| ORATORY F|NAL|ST
First of Five Virginia Con-
.teStants Is Chosen at
Falls Church.

The first of five Virginia finalists IL
the Sixth National Oratorical Contes
was chosen at Falls Church last night
when Jerry Schultz, 16-year-old senior
of the Westinghouse High School Of
Ballston, won the decision in the initia
group meeting in that State Miss Anr
E. Crimmins of the Villa Maria Acad-
envy of Vert Falls Church won second
place and was designated alternate tC
Schultz.
Virginia's second finalist will be
chosen at Leesburg tonight, when, at
o'clock, four girls and one boy offer
their forensic bids for the consideration
OF three judges.
Tonight'S Contestants.
IN the order in which they will speak
and their respective subjects, tonight's
contestants are:
Miss Sarah Frances Lefferts of the
1eesburg High School, on Origins OF
the Constitution"
Miss Maxine Hazel Barton of Round
Hill High School, on THE Origin OF the
Constitution"
Thomas Edward Taylor of the Lin
coin High School, on The Develop
ment of the Constitution"
Miss Clara Conard of the Hillsboro
Junior High School, on Origin of Our
Constitution"
Miss Maxine Compiler of the Water
ford High School, on Origin of the
Constitution
o. L. limerick. superintendent of
Loudoun County Schools, will preside,
while the judges will be Rev. Sanford
L. Rotter of The Plains; DR.. Fred Goch-
nauer of Upperville, and DR.. Harold
If EforIicIo Of
lean University. Music for the program
will be furnished by Mrs. Arthur Jen-
kins, vocalist, and Mrs. John R.
Clemens, pianist.
Miss Lefferts is the 16-year-old daugh-
ter of Rev. and Mrs. Horace H. Lefferts
of Leesburg; Miss Barton is the 17-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward H
Barton of Bluemont, and Miss Com
pher is Is years old, and the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. R. o. Compiler OF
Waterford. Edward Taylor is II, and
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Taylor
of Lincoln. Miss Conard, one of the
last contestants to be chosen by her
school, is Is years old. and the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. George Conard OF
HillSboro. She does not expect to be
graduated from high school until 1882
as this is only her first year OF the
high school course.
Commends Location.
Harry M Keyser, secretary Of the
Washington Railway e. Electric Co..
was chairman of last nights meeting
at Falls Church. Commenting upon the
contest in Virginia, he said that no
more appropriate location for the dis
cuSsion of the Constitution could be
chosen than the Northern part of the
State, in which are situated Mount
Vernon, home of the first President
under that Constitution, and Gunston
Hall, home of George Mason, author OF
the documents Bill of Rights. He char
scterized the teaching of the Constitu-
ton in secondary schools as lone of the
most important features in education
today"
Following brief recitation of the
rules under which the contest was to
be staged, Mr.. Keyser presented Miss
Cupp as the first orator of the inter-
school phase of the contest In Virginia.
Miss Cupp delivered her speech on
1.-THE Citizen: His Privileges and Duties
Under the Constitution" in short,
snappy phrases that were punctuated
by pauses which broke what might have
been verbal racing and which made her
delivery interesting and pleasant She
used no gesture of hands, but she ac-
complished all the expression they
might have given her by turning her
head, and at times her body, to face
the various sections of the hall so that
each member of the audience felt he
was being spoken ito" rather than
talked at" She used minutes and
Is seconds of her allotted 10 minutes.
Schultz was the next orator to take
the program, and in presenting his for
ensic bid in his speech on THE Con-
stitution: a Guarantee of the Liberty
of the Individual" he impressed his
listeners with the pleaSantness of his
voice and with the evidence of reserve
power which it possesses. AS he spoke
last night he presented himself as an
orator not given to animation or out
ward display of fervor, but one who, for
all his apparent quiet. was capable of
registering expression with a turn or
two of infection. For one thing, Schultz
was fitting himself to his auditorium"
and when he goes into the Virginia
finals in the larger Washington-Lee
High School auditorium ne very prob
ably will uncork some of the natural
fire which placed him in last nights
meet through his victory in his school
finals.
Miss Crimmins, winner Of second
honors, was the third speaker on the
program. Her speech on The Develop
nent of the Constitution" was a philo-
sophical sort of discussion and was
highly interesting. This girl Of the
Villa Maria Academy of West Falls
Church was almost boyish in her voice