Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1926, Page 10

10 - HE ORATORY TEST WON BY-VIOLA BARRETT Youngest Entrant in Alexan- dria High School Declared to Be Victor. Viola Barreit, the youngest con- testant in the fleld of eight aspirants for final honors in the Alexandria Tligh School. was declared th hool apion by the supervising faculty commiftee and will bave the honor of representing her school in the closing ginia school district nal Oratorical Contest. ed as run- ed to speak any untoward the winner's w p and will be prey school should ance prevent the winning speaker 1 the Constitution™ mner-up, “The Con- Others who participated are Ma Tomlir Gladys ham, Marshall I and David Hanna zirls scored Dattle, in whic In this contest the @ warmly contested an equal number rep- oxes 100Kk P the conte ind public ynomic g time Florence Barrett's forefront devoting their constru social 1 v hert S. | 15 now enga ting the wo with the in dir connection v Contest has had the most hetic supervision sting of . head i Miss of a Miss Kroes of the department of aret Green of the depa Linda Carver of histor Prof. . principal of the and per n to the advancement the final As previously district will be contest in the Vir; held in the Alexandria High School auditorium on Tuesday morning, April 20, beginning at 11 o'clock. Paul Morton, city manager of Alexandria, will preside over the occasion and the list of judges comprises Senator Hu- bert D. Stephens of Mississippi, Rep- resentative Il. Walton Moore of Vir- ginla and_ Representative Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee SLIGHTLY-CLAD FEMALE FIGURE IN ADVERTISING IS BITTERLY ASSAILED | i (Continued from First Page.) i will wateh carefully for the bargain sale ad isement “As press news.” Dr. ra continued, “press ethics have e tablished the rule that it must be true, exact and ithent But this | is not true of in all and n all cou There ar | itors _and publi: who jealously guard the veracity of their press in- formation, but do ot consider it - | ner up. ment of | i H MISS VICLA BARRETT, Who will represent the Alexandria High School in the Virginia elimination trials for the National Oratorical Contest: At left: Morris Rosenberg, run- how is it justifiable for such an or ion to serve as a vehicle and nt, through the payment ‘of nd cents, for the schemes of or those who exploit the v of unsophiscated readers?” Speaker pointed out that in sriodicals of the United States pecial censorship is exercised over 4 es of advertising, certain ve required to give bank iveferences, plainly misleading or | fraudulent advertisements are exclud- | {ed, and other niethods are used to | protect the readers and the honest | advertisers alike. ¥or the speaker ments. and he recommended that this C ss draw up a resolution con: ining the following pronouncement, by which the newspapers of the en- tire - Western Hemisphere would be asked to bind themselves: (1) That it is advisable to establish a uniform system of methods, both in provisions of law and rules governing periodicals, looking toward censoring, sifting out and elimination of mis leading or fraudulent advertisement. (2) That every advertisement which tenas to exploit or promote vice, even if indirectly, or one which is an of- fense against decency, or onme which YOUTHFUL ALEXANDRIA ORATORY WINNER [ EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., MONDAY,. APRIL -1 selves. { upon Mr. per a under that v such toda onin foreig: and | about The tation heavil, ment, paper ie | Turi the e gestlo! from | er of El Commercio, Lima, Peru Quesa of my where! colum is not based on honest and legitimate business, should be refused or sup-| pressed (3) That it | DOES YOUR SKIN LOOK GREASY Nothig 18 a0 unsightly aa a skin always _shin Tooks {declared that a questionable ad is | just as dangerous to the honest ad- | vertiser as it is to the unsophiscated | reader. There are some advertise- | ments which tend, he said, to mote vice or work upon the supe able to designate | column rin some papers king appointmeats | of highly doubtful | tvertisements of for- | tune tellers nists and others ln’t'l also obnox since they batton upon the childish credul of peo-| iple who are ignorant or superstition {or who are worried re pro | lem | “Advertisements for patent medi- | { cine or treatment announced as in- | i and sure cure | still bevond | y, be proscribed, for | they are inserted by charlat eek- | ing to exploit desperate s s, Finally, there are those who attemp to attract the attention of readers by using, or rather abusing, the nude female figure in such a way that it is an insult to decency and to femi nine dignity, making the beautiful form of man's companion into a hackneyed advertising motif, serv- ing for automobiles. clothing or soft drinks glike.” There are some newspapers, Dr. Guerra_continued, that already have | tablished very strict rules with | reference to these subjects, and he urged that they should be made wen- | The Diario de la Marina of | which the speaker repre- | has fixed and very radical | as to all undesirable advertise- 7 | or . { i morality. 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