Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-07
Il YOUNG ORATORS
READY FOR FINALS
Star National Winner to Get
$500 and Expenses on
Europe Trip.

Eleven contestants are in readiness
for the test tomorrow morning to decide
The Stars champion in the National
Oratorical Contest. The winner will
be awarded prize of 5000 and trip
to Europe this Summer in company
with the six other national finalistS.
The itinerary which the judges will
follow has been arranged and plans for
the various assemblies at which the
contestants will speak have been made.
Instead OF all IL orators delivering
their speeches in one hall, the judges
will visit each of the eight local high
schools to hear the school representa-
tive deliver his Grafton. The winners
in the private and parochial, the Mary
land and the Virginia districts will be
heard in the auditorium of the Ma
tional Museum.
Home Audiences Assured.
BY allowing each orator, with the
exception of the latter three, to speak
before audiences with whom they are
familiar, it is believed that much of
the nervousness and tension natural
to a final contest is removed. The
private and parochial, Maryland and
Virginia speakers are gathered into one
IldIi UcCduSC NOlllu
possible for the judges to visit the
schools they represent in one morning
The judges. Randolph Leigh. national
director of the contest, and George
Keneipp of the American Automobile
Association, the timekeeper, will journey
from place to place hearing each con-
teStant in turn. Arrangements have
been made to have everything in readi-
ness for them when they arrive at the
high school and the museum.
The only preliminary will be the an
nouncement by the school principal of
the subject of the prepared speech.
Following its delivery, brief applause
will be permitted. The chairman will
prepared address, which the contestant
will proceed to develop. The first ora
ton will be limited to minutes, and
the second to 4.
Subjects for the extemporaneous adj
dress have been prepared by Mr.. Leigh
and will be given to the speaker As
minutes before they begin their prepared
speech. During this As minutes, the
contestant will be left in a room alone,
without books or references, with a
pencil and paper to record his thoughts.
during the 4-minute speech. It is obVi-
to notes will 60 against the extempo-
raneous speaker, in the opinion of the
judges and audience.
1t is planned to have the first con-
teStant launch into his speech promptly
at 8 O'Clock and the last orator complete
his at noon.
At 9 o'clock the judges will be in
their places at Eastern High School and
Charles w. Hart. 15-year-old son OF
the principal of the school. will speak.
Next in their itinerary is Mckinley
Manual Training High School. where
the speaking is scheduled to begin at
$40 o'clock. David Akers Hill, 10
years old, will speak.
Other orators and the time their
speeches are scheduled follow:
Edith King, 10 years old, Armstrong
High School, at GAS o'clock.
Joseph Cornelius Waddy, Is years old,
Dunbar High School, at 10 o'clock.
Robert ]. Harlan, Is years old,
Cardoza High School, at 1918 o'clock.
The contest at the museum Is to
begin at 1925 o'clock, when j. Loren
Freund of GonZaga College, representa-
tive of the private and parochlal dis
trict, will commence his speech. Freund
will be Just 10 years old tomorrow. He
will be followed by Virginia Carr. Ii
years old, of the Oakton High School,
representative of the Virginia district,
at 10:46 o'clock. The last speaker at
the Museum will be Frances Gertrude
McKim. Is years old, of st. Mary's
Seminary, st. Marys City, Md, at
10: ST o'clock.
Dorothy Marie Zepp. II years old,
Business High School, at 1l:15 O'CLOCK
Griffith johnson, II years old, Cen
trail High School, at 1880 o'clock.
Edmund Gullian, II years old, West
ern High School, at 1850 o'clock.
Star to Announce Winners.
The decision of the judges as to WIN
ner and alternate will be announced in
tomorrow's Star. rather than at the
completion of the speaking.
The judges include Senator Tom Con-
nally of Texas, Representative Ruth
Bryan Owen of Florida, French
Strother, administrative assistant to
President Hoover; c.. Aaron Young
quist, Assistant Attorney General of the
United States, and Robert v. Fleming.
president of the Riggs National Bank.
AS in previous contests, they will
use the low-point total system in rating
the contestants.