Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-20 | Page 14 | Oratorical Honors Awarded Contest at the East Side High

Oratorical Honors Awarded OS i S8 Contest at the East Side, High MISS ROSELLA MANTLE AND HEBER SEVY. i ;4 7 : I ; -, ' S re j f ? if b 6 I - - - 1 S t x A f " -f r 1 6 S s ? f it I If - v' if- Jl Miss Rosella Mantle and Heber SevyV Are the Winners. 0 MISS ROSELLA MANTLE for the girls aud Heber Sevy for the boys were successful candidates for honors in the oratorical I contest held yesterday afternoon at the i East Side High school under the aus-! aus-! pices of the Sons and the Daughters of , the American Revolution. Miss Man-i Man-i tie's subject was "American Individual iism," in which she brought out the distinctive, dis-tinctive, national qualities that have been developed by the American people, and applied the point to the individual j citizens. It was her argument that opportunities op-portunities abound for the persons who i develop individualism to a point where ! they can tit into the complexities of tbe world. As a people, she advocated that we should develop our own ideas iu regard re-gard to dress and style. Mr. Sevy, who won first place among the boys, took as his subject "Our Inheritance. In-heritance. 71 He showed the folly of the present war in Kurope and pointed to the conditions prevailing on this eonti-j eonti-j aent rhat lead us to a course of peace ! and democracy rather thau to one of war and militarism. Mr. Sew is one of the most prominent promi-nent members of the school. He is president pres-ident of the senior class, is a member of the debating team and associate editor edi-tor of the Red and Black, the school paper. Miss Mantle also is exceptionally exceptional-ly popular among her school friends and is engaged in numerous activities. She is a member of t he cast for the dramatic dra-matic club production and is captain of the senior girls' indoor baseball team. The judges for the contest were Mrs. Arthur II. Parson-;, Miss Edna Linn and Miss Dora Shaw for the girls, and John D. Spencer. X. W. Sonuedecker and J. C. Oglesbv for the boys. After rendering render-ing the decisions the judges presented the winners with handsome medals. The contest, they stated, was very close and difficult to judge. In addition to the winners the students stu-dents who entered the contest and their subjects were: "What Liberty Means,'7 Claude Carey; "Our National Policy.'1 J Bryan Johnson; " Saca iawea., the Maid-I Maid-I en (Juide." Burris McFarland; "Woman "Wom-an aud Militarism, ' ' Persa Hegiuboth-am; Hegiuboth-am; ''Peace Through Arbitration. ' ' Da- vid Coleman ; ' Open-air Patriotism. ' ' Alice Newman : ' ' International Peace, ; How to Obtain It.M Inez Calkins. Music Mu-sic was rendered by the high school orchestra.