Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1929, Page 11

GIRL, 75 VICTOR. | “INORATORY TEST Elizabeth Bréereton Wins in| Group Contest—Herndon - Competition Tonight. Delivering a_well-ordered speech that fairly glowed with the warmth of her | own personality, Miss Elizabeth D.| Brereton; 15-year-old = senior - of the Warrenton High School, was: adjudged | victor in the fourth Virginia group com- petition of the Sixth National Oratorical Contest last night at Warrenton. Not far behind the winner was Miss Beuldh, B, Smith, 16-year-old senlor of the Remington High School, who was. determined alternate to Miss' Brereton. The fitth and concluding group meet in the Virginia district of The Star’s contest area will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the auditorium of the Hern- don High School where three girls and A boy will compete for the right-to cnter the Virginia finals. Contestants’ Listed. i In the order in which they will speak and their respective orations, tonight's | contssiants are: Miss Evelyn Osborn Jénnings of the | Franklin-Sherman High School of Mc- Lean, on “The Citizen: His Privileges and' Dutfes Under the Constitution.” Omer Hirst of the Lee-Jackson High School of Fairfax County, adjoining glemdrll, on *“The Constitution To- ay.” Miss Hélen Lucille McCarthy of the Herndon High School, on “The Citizen: His Privileges and Duties Under the | Constitution.’: fi?s BoBe Robb- ot the Floris vo- | cational School of Herndon, on “The | Constitution in the Daily Life of the | Individual.” | Wilbert Woodson, superintendent of the Fairfax County Schools, will pre- side at tonight's meeting, while the judges will be Elmer Louis Kayser, sec- | retary of the George Washingion Uni- versity at Washington; Representative | Louis Ludlow of Indiana, Rev. D. Camp- bell Mayers of Middleburg, Va., and H. Earlton Hanes. member of the V(rnm-‘ House of Delegates. Last night's meeting at Warrenton | presented one of the closest-fought elim- inations in the contest this year. In| the compilation of the baliots Miss Brereton was a decisive but not neces- sarily overwhelming victor. The judges who accorded her first honors, Miss Smith second and Miss Cary Amelia Marshall of the Marshall High School third honors, were John F. Bethune, | secretary of the United States Tariff | Commission; Dr. Julius H. Parmelee, di- | rector, Bureau of Railway Economics; Miss Ruth Newburn of Washington, who was alternate to the champion in the First National Oratorical Contest; Clar- ence Carter, commonwealth attorney of | Warrenton, and Walter Robertson, Wer- renton attorney. Daughter of Army Officer. Miss Brereton won with her oration on “Personalities of the Constitutional Convention.” Hers was a speech which reflected & magnetic personality and & maturity and poise beyond that of a 15-year-old girl. Miss Brereton estab- lished herself as one of the year's fore- most contenders for the Virginia cham- pionship, She is the daughter of Maj. Lewis H. Brereton, U. S. Army Awr Corps, and Mrs. Brereton, and follow- ing her graduation from the Warrenton High School she plans to enter Sweet Briar. ., % The contest at Warrenton was opened by Lloyd Davis, 15-year-old junior of the Haymarket High School, who spoke on “The Constitution in the Daily Life of the Individual.” Davis faced his audience with a clear directness that was pleasing. He used no gesture until he had -reached the midway point in his speech and- then ‘it came with naturainess. He k _occasion to defend youth of today when he demanded to know if boys and girls were studying and discussing their Constitution 30 years ago as they are today. Ray Swank, Nokesville High School sophomore, .and the only 6ther boy on the program, followed Davis. He spoke on “The Evolution of the Constitution.” He presénted in his oration a miniature course in American Governmental his- tory., He cited more real facts of his- tory in his brief time upon the stage than most persons would be willing to read in a much longer time. Miss Marshall, the Marshall High School girl who was adjudged third place winner, ‘seemed the all-Virginia girl as she delivered her speech on “The Development of the Constitution.” Her voice, bearing testimony to the Old | Dominion by its traditional Dixie accent, whipped across her audience with much of the fiery type of elo- quence for which Virginia's statesmen have been known. There was little fear in this girl, for when she faltered for a fraction of a moment, she smiled her own amusement at the very ridicu- Jousness of possible forgetfulness and carried on to complete her speech in eloquence. Speech Rich in Logic. Miss Brereton_was, next introduced and then Miss Lucy Johnson of the Bealeton High School took the stage to | deliver her oration on “A Citizen: His Privileges and Duties Under the Con- stitution.” Miss Johnson’s speech was rich in the logic with which it had been constructed. She took up -her points in good erder and lald a basis for all her statements. Her delivery was rapid and unhesitating as though the oration sprang from a fountain of knowledge of American history.: Miss Smith, the segond-place winner, was the concluding speaker on the pro- gram. She was impressive with the sincerity of her convictions and as she spoke she left no doubt that she actual- ly meant what she said about the “privileges and dutles of the citizen.” She developed an interesting thought when she declared that the privileges and duties accorded citizens under the Constitution are synonymous. The bal- lot, for instance. she said, extends a privilege in offering a medium for the citizens to choose their own legislators, and at the same time, it imposes a duty in its wise use. The program of oratory was com- pleted by delightful choral singing by the Warrenton h School Girls' Glee Club, under the d lon of Miss Mil- dred Br¢wn. - Col. J. Donald Richards, ‘Warrenton attorney, was chairman. MILD WEATHER.PROVES AID TO MARYLAND CROPS o ——3 Wheat Is Ov'er‘ro"n in Several Sections—Tobacco Is Well Started. munnuuan'r:“lur. et L BALTIMORE, A 12.—Due extremely mild weather in Msrch and the first eight days of April,’vegetation is ahead of normal, according to & crop report of the Maryland office of the United States Weather Buféau. - Reports show thst wheat, rye pastures have & heavy growth for this season. In some places the wheat is overgrown. Peas, potatoes and oats are growing rapidly in the eastern and southern ties and the planting of garden truck is well advanced. The tobacco beds have been sown and in some beds Pdrty Planned. /' APYTOL: HEIGHTS, Md., - April 13| ‘The 1 Heights Home the henefit émfwm bullding tomorrow night. first, plane th: prin and | Upper, left to right:. Miss Elizabeth D. Brereton of the Warrenton High School, who won the fourth Virginia group meet at Warrenton, and Miss Eve- Iyn_Osborn Jennings of the Franklin Sherman High School of McLean a Miss, Doris Robb of the Floris Vocation- al School of Herndon. Lower, -left to right; Omer. Hirst of the Lee-Jackson High School and Miss Helen Lucille McCarty of the Herndon High School, all of whom will compete tonight at Herndon. i KENSINGTON GRADE 10 BE REMOVED State Roads Commission Funds to Provide for Over- head Bridge This Year. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY, Staft Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md. April 12— ! Elimination of the grade crossing at Kensington, Md., by the cans!rucuon' | of an overhead bridge. will be effected this Summer, and it will be built en- | tirely, with funds of the State Roads Commission. from the l3-cent gasoline tax and the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road, it was authoritatively announced today by Maj. E. Brooke Lee, Mont- gomery County Democratic leader. This much was developed, according to Lee, following a conference with State Roads Commission officials. The canference was: held in Baltimore, and J was attended by Chairman Uhl of the | commission, Howard Bruce and John | K. Shaw, associate: members; Chief En- gineer Williar, Survey Engineer Rhine- dollar and Bridge Engineer Hopkins, all of the State roads body, and on behalf of Montgomery County, in addition to I STATERAD FUID T0BE STRETCHE Narrow Paving to Be Laid to Serve Sections Isolated by Mud. By a Staff Corresporident of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., April 12— Stretching of the road-building funds provided in tHe bond issues passed by the last Legislature for Montgomery County so that.hagd-surfaced highways may be bullt -into territories reached Maj. Lee, were Dr. Benjamin C. Perry, | now only by mud and dirt roads, will chairman of the commissioners west of Rock Creek, and Capt. Joseph C. Cissel, Silver Spring, attorney for the county commissioners. Approved by Commission. The site for the crossing is the one approved by the roads commission and | its engineers, as well as the mayor and | councilmen of Kensington. 1 3 ‘The project alzo provides for tl construction _with State Roads Col 2 mission funds of a pedestrian under- ing and the ratiroad.station. ‘The vé- hicular cressing will be located one square north and west of the intersec- | tion of Connecticut avenue and the | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks, | and the project -includes the construc- | tion of a concrete State highway at each end of the bridge. This highway will lelvevca?nectlcut‘ avenue at Baltimore street and will go | diagonally across the south five lots in the square betweca Baltimore and | ‘Wamer streets, and continuing in an almost straight line across the square between Warner street and Knowles avenue, between the properties of C. V. Sayre and Grace R. Hass on the south and Charles Saherrer, A. W. Ray and L. E. McCulloch on the north, to the intersection of Bladensburg road, Concord street and Metropolitan ave- nue and from that point to St. Paul street.. % Crossing Center of Fight. ‘The ‘Kensington crossing has been a bone of contention for several years, as seven people lidve been killed there within the last three years. The ma- jority of the officials interested wanted | the jocation at the site finally decided upon by the roads commission, but State Senator Eugene Jones of Ken- sington, has consistently opposed the overhead crossing in favor of an under- pass in the vicinity of the present crossing. Because of the differences existing, a bill providing for a bond issue of $100,- | 000 for the underpass, which passed the*House, was lost in the final hours of the last Legislature. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA,. Va,, April 12 (Spe- cial) —Past Masters’ Night was cele- brated by Alexandria-Washington Lodge of Masons, No. 22, last night with 19 of the 22 living past masters of the lodge taking part. John T. Cochran of The Plains, grand master of Masons in Vir- ginla, and other Grad Lodge offices at- tended. Musical numbers were ren- grehd by the Washington Masonic Glee ub. ‘The living past masters of the lodge are J. Fred Birrell, William A. Moore, Leopold Ruben, Dr. Thomas B. Coch- ran, J. Edward Shinn, Robert W. Ful- ler, Charles H. Callahan, Edward H. Kemper, Samuel W. Pitts, Charles B. Swann, C. Page Waller, ‘Claude W. Fletcher, Willlam B. Davis, Robert A. Zachary, Percy E. Oliff, Alfred C. Moses, C. Phillip Heishley, Ruben J. Schooley, T. Wilfred Robinson,;Dr. John T. Ash- ton and W. Selden Washington. Mount Vernon Airways, Inc., will hold a banquet at the George Mason Hotel ‘Wednesday night at 7 o'clock. Lieut. ‘Walter Hinton, pilot of the NC-4, the to mh"u Atlantie, will be speaker. ul driven by Dr. W. Lewis Schafer, city health officer, and Dr. Thomas B. Cochran of Jefferson Park, collided last night at the intersection of Washington and Prince streets. ‘William C. Murray has presented the Alexandria Library Board with 78 vol- umes. A benefit card party will be held by the Holy Cross Alumnae of St. Mary's Academy tonight at 8 o'clock. Miss ice Dyson is chairman. ‘The Girls’ Guild of the Grace and | be made - governor of the metropolitan district | cision of ' | pass Between the present grade crofs<|Foads are_liitle traveles, ‘sulli. pal Church will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the residente of Mrs. Les rehearsals week for “Cyclone . v ‘ v Funeral services for Mrs. Jane Pop- kins Taylor, who died at her home Groveton, Wednesday, took place this afternoon at the residence.. Burial was in the Bethiel Cemetery. —_— Mrs, Anns Burrows, 87, Dies. ot W, Burrows, 7 berland of Co., ‘Wednesday N, J, aged 87, B bh:& & rm&t’ of ‘:!lde» e_State Rodds, Commission. The decision follows a conference with Montgpmery County ~lea “.to build s‘mg-lom«ldg foads: un:::?&filn con- .- ' Would, Serve vir. : ' ““While’ the .roads ‘com: jon,_usually requifes, that 16-foot roagways be con- structed; as. & condition“to fhe State over_for: it out™ that’ P ithe e ‘been #pproved o a down towards the rit ly one or: two viliages... However, should: the traffie on any of these’ roads, become “heavier; then there will Bave %o be bullt an additional seven feet ag & capital charge ‘against coun- ty fur®s, but in the meantime they will be maintained as’a part of -the State road system. With-the cut #n the road bond- issues :in- the Maryland~ Senate, the county commissioners were faced with the necessity of cutting down their road construction if required:to build the full width of 16 feet, buk it will be possible’ now to extend, the‘foads in the proportion of 9 to 16. 2% Wiil Lay Plans Tuesday. Dr. Benjamin C. Perry, chairman of the Board of Montgomery :County Com- missioners; stated that the board would probably. épertect its. program- for the comin; ummer at. the meeting at Rockville -Piiesday. ‘While commissi the Montgomery County authorities. wese informed.that the five miles of .roadway . between Laurel and the end qf the of the Columbia Pike would be started this Summer. ‘The underpiiss to carry the new Silver Spring-Bethesda_direet “highway under the tracks' of 'tHe Baltimjore & Ohio Railroad ;will; be :started. also within a short time, it was said RESTRICTION URGED FOR NEW.INDUSTRIES Necessity™ of Utderstanding Be- tween Manufacturers and People Cited by ‘McCormac. Special Dispatch to 111! Star. WIN into Virginia of only those new indus- tries whose leaders understand the ideals and characteristics of Virginia people was emphasized last evening in an address before the Rotary Club by H. B. McCormac, president of the Vir- ginla Manufacturers’ Association and general manager of the Virginia Woolen Co. here. He explained the breakdown of har- monious relations between employer and employe in the present industrial diffi- cuities in Tennessee as the result of lack of understanding of the people of that State by certain interests coming into the State from the outside. He referred to the spread of communistic agitation to other Southern States as a cancerous and dangerous development, which threatens havoc to industry in the South. He named the,Du Ponts; Henry Ford, the late Judge Gary and the late Sam- vel Rea as among the great industrial leaders of the country. —_— GROVETON CHAPEL BURNS Firemen, Unable to Obtain Water, ‘Watch Blaze. GROVETON, Va., April 12 (Special). —Fire of undertermined origin startin, in a nearby outbuilding destroyed the 1 Chapel early today. wis | The byilding, valued at $5,000, burned to the s’:\md +while members of the w Fire Department, unable to ol ‘water, the blaze. F. J. ‘Weafe of the fax County polis sald today he believed the fire was rtéd by tramps. Fulton Funeral Held. LEESBURG, Va., April 12 (8] 1) — services wurlnn held yelpr::l:y at thur H. Fulton, 72, who d Rey. C. T. H B ,mnt;renée with the roads | HES . Va., April 12—The | importance’ of -encouraging the entry e G COUNTY MAY CLOSE BSHALL SEHDOLS Attendance Falls Below Mini-" “'Year Is Sought. By 4 Staff Correspondent of The Star. " UPPER MARLBORO, Md., April 12.— | Bight Printe Georges County schools tace the possibility of being closed be- cause their average attendance has fallen below the . minimum ,require- ments, it was revealed yesterday when Superintendent of Schools Nicholas Orem began carrying out instructions received at the monthly meeting of the Board of Education to learn through the teachers of the schools affected what the prospects for enroliment are for the coming school term. The schools whose attendance have fallen below the minimum requirements are: Paint Branch, Croome, Hickory Grove, Woodyazd, Aquasco, Ritchie and Surrattsville. It was reported that in some-of the one-teacher schools average attendahce had dropped to 7 puplls, As it costs the county about $1500 a year to operate such schools it has | been the policy to close them when the average. attendance :drops below e rd of Education appointed a buifding commitiee for th® new build- ing of the Bradl School to consist of G. Russell Hull; Elza Job, Theoddre L. Langohn, Oscar Raba, Mr. Bradburn and Mr. Tierney. e 'SCHOOL UNIFICATION | Herndon Citizens Hold Mass Meet- ing to Further Consoli- dation Plan. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | meeting of the citizens of Herndon was | held last night in the school auditorium, | the purpose of the meeting being to | further interest in having a consolidated high school furnished here as sug- gested in a survey made last year by a committee from the University of Vif- ginia, William and Mary Coilege and the State Board of Education. | . Mayor Edgar E. Gillett presided and introduced George R. Brady of school board, who read extracts from reports of the survey. He stated that | there is a possibility of the increase in the teachers’ salaries if the consoli- dations is effected, a net increase of over $4,000 resulting if the schools, of Floris, Herndon and Forest Hill ‘are | combined. . Frederick W. Robinson said there is no fight between Floris and Herndon. Cassius Lawrence spoke in behalf of the Herndon school. Arthur Buell said he attended the supervisors’. meeting when the budget was discussed :and: he noticed the new Courthouse dh;: had cost $80,000 and it is now plann to put up a $70,000 jail, H. E. Hanes, Rev. C. N. Brown, Sey- mour Robb, Silas F. Hutchinson and A. Sager, postmaster, spoke. SPECIAL TERMS MADE | ON MOTOR INSURANCE Virginia Companies Announce Plan for Merit Rating Entitling Owners to Digcount on Premiums. By the Associated Press. s RICHMOND, Va., Aptil 12.A 'num- ber of insurance companies in Virginia are publishihg regaltions whereby ap- plicants for automobile Mability, .and property damage insurance may procure 2 merit rating entitling them to 10;per cent discount on premiums. 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