Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1928, Page 6

GIRL ORATOR WINS IN MARYLAND TEST Mary Hardy Takes Initial Contest on Birthday—Rock- ville Soeeches Tonight. nia Hardy. speaking Spring High er in the Marylai.d the Fifth High School her contrasted ech of her dy became the for the Ma calm deliberateness which effectively with the ra) four opponent first oMcial co cham| fifteenth ntly the award won with her victory t of present for her meeting contest will be in the Rock- ix more school the - second als contestant stetday was snonitersary. Col of $20 which she consftuted a sor! T the vl High School. when winfers will compet pitee in th field. In her victorious speech last night Miss by t Hardy he way, is the f 2 S. Hardy d & akoma- s for victory mepieces with anxious intensity as ne minutes sped by Then, when only 10 seconds remained, Miss Hardy. as though entirely oblivious to time’s flight. brought her speech to a graceful yet firm close Hers was an oration bearing the evi- dence of careful study and original thinking. There seemed in it little of -book memorizing, but. on the contrary, a thorough appreciation of the trend in national life today. She appealed for continued respect for the traditions have grown up with , for reverence for the she condemned tear down hout ap- ures, while and_precepts w Ma. they are not yet the gestures of & strict champion or a national cham- pon, Miss Hardy in all probability will 8 sturdy contender for the higher honors in the contest by the time she 1s cglled upon for further ba Although victory went to the Takoma- Silver Spring contestant. there were s on the program which judges food for serious con- n ‘in selecting a winner. Miss Thompson, who came to this 1l the way from Texas to enter the Maryland ®ark High School, which she represented in the meet last night, won second place with her oration on “The Constitution—Its Present Mean- ing Miss Thompson was the first orator to speak. and while her bid was not rated highest by the jury, her speech, particularly in its content, was admirable. Other Contestants Close. Then there was Miss Margaret O Oldenb the Hyattsville entrant, who came 1n third with her speech on “The Development of the Constitution.” Urged on by the vibrant cheers of her feliow students, Miss Oldenburg made a galiant effort to capture the honors to- ward which Miss Hardy, the third speaker, had made such sturdy progress. Other speakers on the program were Clark Adams of the Fairland High | School, & slight chap, whose rapid-fire voice rang out in high pitch from the moment he began his oration until he | Tod: National Oratorical Contest. Upper cqueline Darrieulat, winner in the Dickerson High Schoel finals, and lower: B. F. Dennis, victor in the Georgetown Preparatory School finals. egy. and he played it for its worth. His oration was on “The Development of the Canstitution.” Prof. H. F. Cotterman, associate dean the college of education, Maryland University, proved an admirable chair- man of such & meeting. His remarks were brief, and he confined himself be- fore the delivery of the.orations to & concise recitation of the rules governing the meet. He permitted himself a crypt commendation of The Star for its con- of the National Oratorical Con- test in the District of Columbia, Mary- Jand and Virginia, and again for its Golden Rule safety campaign. Prof. Cotterman was introduced by K, J. Morris, principal of the Hyhtts- ville High School and host to last night's meeting. Mr. Morris declared he was glad that at least once & year a contest in which real. live interest i taken is not an athletic competition He made it plain, however, that he is not opposed to athletics, but that he welcomed the annual relief from physi- cal contest that is afforded each year by the institution of the National Ora- torical Contest judges of last night's meet, as had been previously announced. were Dr. W. T. Taliaferro of the University of Maryland, Prof. F. M. Lemon of the University of Maryland. Dr. W. A Griffith of Berwyn. C. A. Cary of Rive ’i?h‘ and Rev. B, A. Matzen of Hyatt: ville. Rockville Contest Tonight. Last night's program was completed with selec ns by the Hyattsville High School Orchestra. under the direction of Miss Ruth McKinley, facuity leader. Six school champions will be heard in the second group meet of the Mary- land district tonight, when the second contender for char>pionship will be named. Presided over by Oliver Owen Kuhn, news mana- ger of The Star. the competition will be staged in the auditorium of the Rockville High School, with three judges sitting in jurors’ chairs. The six contestants and their respec- tive orations, in the order in_which they will speak, are Willlam H. Waters, jr., of the Gaithersburg High School, on “The Present Significance of the Constitution”: Douglas Griesemer, jr., of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, on “The Present Significance of the Constitution”; David Trundle of the Poolesville High School, on “The Constitution as thg Bed Rock of Amer- ica’s Present-day’ Happiness'; B. F. Dennis of the Georgetown Preparatory School, on “The Present Significance of the Constitution”; Helen V. Wilkin- son of the Rockville High School, on he Significance of the Constitution and Jacqueline Darrieulat of the Maryland _district | | represent THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON attorney. The decision of this jury in fts selection of the winner in to- night's meet will be announced by Mr. Kuhn as soon as their judgment is compiled Two Other Finalists. The latest school winners to be an- nounced are two of the spokesmen on tonight's program. B. F. Dennis of the Georgetown Preparatory School, _and Miss Jacqueline Darrieulat of the Dick- erson School, have won the right to their e ive institutions in_their own school finals. Young Dennis, who will be 17 Thurs- day. hails from Stamford, Conn. He is the son of Mrs. M. G. Dennis and fol- lowing his graduation from the “prep’ | school in June, 1928, he plans to enter Georgetown _University, where he will study medicine. He is a foot ball player at Georgetown Prep as well as a leader in literary and debate activities. He is vice president of his class, a member of the staff of the Blue and Gray. the school paper, and winner of a D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1928 ENDEAVOR CRUSADE TOSTART TONIGHT Maryland and Virginia Will Participate. Fifteen hundred delegates from Chris- tian Endeavor Socleties of the District and nearby Maryland and Virginia will assemble in the auditorium of Calvary Baptist Church at 7 o'clock tonight for three-day the opening sesson of a {“Crusade With Christ” convention. un- der the auspices of the District of Co- 'lumbin Christian Endeavor Union | Dr. Daniel A. Poling. president of the | International Society of Christian En- deavor, will be the principal speaker on tonight's program. Tomorrow there will be four distinct sessions. beginning with the morning sunrise service at 7:15 oclock on the east steps of the Capitol intermediate rally at Calvary |Church at 4 pm.: the junior confer- ence, beginning at 4 o'clock, and the | senior and intermediate conferences, be- | ginning at 5 pm | Smith to Preside. | s (ill be presided Tonight's session W ’n\m'( by Merritt L. Smith, president o the District of Columbia Christian En- | deavc Union. Dr. Roland )"nllm:‘ is [general convention chairman. The session will be opened with & song serv- ice by H. Lee Smith as leader X_ulh\.\\r-d by invocation by Rev Murray S. l\vjn worthy, pastor of Friends' Church lll(: delegates will be welcomed to Calvary Chureh by Rev, William S. Abernethy pastor, and by Charles Hayeraft, presi- At of the Sunday Evening Society Mr. Smith will respond for the -\mh“:j Following special music, prayer an announcements, Dr. Poling wiil be in- {roduced by William Knowles Cooper, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A Rev. George E. Schnabel. pastor of Albright Evangelical Church, will pro- nounce the benediction and from 9:45 the until 10:45 o'clock the delegates will be‘ entertained at a ‘social hour. | Tomoirow will last for three-quarters of an hour | Should the weather prohibit assemblage w0 the steps of the Capital. the service will be held inside the building. Darrell Crain. president of the Eckington Pres- byterian Christian Endeavor Soclety. will lead the song service: there will be special music by trumpeters directed by L. C. Greene and Rev. Earle Wilfley, pastor e i e medal last month in a debate with the Jersey City High School. Miss Darrieulat, 17. is a daughter ot M. L. Darrfeulat. instructor in fencing at Cornell University. The young orator is anxious to become a_teacher and she proposes to prepare herself for that profession at Cornell after her gradua- | tion from high school in June. Her athletic activities at Dickerson are con- fined to gymnasium work and her acho- lastic standing is. as her principal de- clares, “above the average, 11,500 Delegates From D. C.,| morning's sunrise service | lot | the Vermont Avenue Christlan Church will be the speaker, Willard E. 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Hayden, who made the arrest, Loewe was driving down Monroe street in the | direction of Washington and failed to yleld the right-of-way to a taxicab turning into Monroe street from Bal- timore street. Loewe's car was hit by the taxi and wrecked. The taxi driv- er, Frank L. Beard of Baltimore, was uninjured. Estate Valued at $34,795. Henry Weyl, who died March 13 left an estate valued at $34.795, ac- cording to the petition for letters tes- tamentary file? yesterday in Probate Court by his widow. Mrs. Carolyn Weyl. The deceased also was survived {by his brother Adolph Weyl, and h sisters, Edna Auerbach. and Gertrude Weyl. Hattie Weyl e eSS TE I ST E PR I AL E TR TN ] MEXICAN, BAND|TS ROUTED - yoe—t—i | Federdls ‘Wound Géveral’ of Bang That Robbed Autolsts. 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