Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1926, Page 22

22 ORATORY OFFIGIALS| HOLD CONFERENCE # Canacian Chairman - Dis- cusses Plans for Interna- | tional Finals Here. I | ol James L. Hughes -of Toronto, dean of Canadian educators and chair- man of the committee for the ¢anadian National Oratorical Contezt, | the rule in the contests in the United States whereby puplle are allowed to participate year r year, as long as they are under 19 vears of age and | in high school. Indead, that idea (“keep trving”) is the keynote of his famous “'three laws” for developing power in public speaking, which he defines as follows: “1. Practice speak- ing: 2. Practice speaking: 3. Practice speaking.” Col. Hughes has lectured before teachers’ organizations in 158 citles in the United States and is the father of military training in the secondary schools of Canada. An interesting feature of the contest | there is that it is imposeible to de- termine at this time whether the Ca nadian message at the international finals in Washington next October will he dolivered in French or kinglish. Al- most a third of the schools in Canada are conducted in French. and pupils in those institutions will be allowed to Harr heati post, ‘rim THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, [HUSBAND APPEALS! T0 AVOID LASHING Five Blows From Cat-o-Nine-Tails Would Bring 40 More Than Pre- scribed, Is Plea. By the Associated Prees, BALTIMORE, April K. 'y Kingsmore, convicted ng, westerday invoked the imposed three weeks foal Court Judge | 0'Dunne. James of wife- | Mary land Court of Appeals in an effort to escape five lashes at the whipping | Kingsmore is serving a 60-day jail sentence, the lashes to begimposed | some time during the term. S Window Cleaner Hurt in Fall. Warren Coleman, colored, 30 years old, 735 Harvard street, a window- cleaner at 621 H street, fell from a| | second-story window vesterday after- | noon, receiving severe injuries. He | was treated at Emergency Hospital for possible concussion of the brain. | His recovery is expected. . Seoretary Davis Back at Desk. Secretary Davis of the Labor partment returned to hiz office " | terday after an iliness of sevaral da) He has been suffering from an a tack of grip. - . D. . C, FEARING SANITY QUIZ Maryland Mountain Woman , Dies Before Physicians Arrive for Examination, Special Dispatch to The Star HAGERSTOWN, April 8.—Rachael Smith, aged 72, Jiving in the moun: tains at Charmain, near here, burned herself to death. She died a few minutes hefore a committee of phy- THURSDAY, '‘APRIL 8, 1926. ',’“"ul;inm ‘ro}xndn recently was dls»l72, BURNS HERSELF, 5 siclans arrived to examine her to determine whether her mental condi- tion warranted sending her to an asylum, The woman learned that the phy siclans were coming, her brother-in law, A. L. Bailey, with whom she resided, declared. Shortly after aris ing she went to the chicken house, and after being frustrated by Bailey in one attempt to end her life, tried | again with success. ¥ AR Biologists to Meet. The Biological Soclety of Washing ton will hold a meeting nexi Satur day. April 10, at 8 p.m. in the audi torium of the Natfonal Museum. 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