New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
$500 Planks
Voice Opinions
OF the People
Foreign Relations Leads,
With Labor and Capital
Running in Second Place
Among Great Questions
Prize Awards Still Open
Announcement of Winners
to Follow Careful Study
of Material by Judges

This Is the last week Of The Trib-
mes National Republican Platform
Contest. Contestants have until mid
night next Friday, April 80, to COM
lete their entries. All contributions
reaching the Tribune Office by that time
Will receive due consideration in the
swsrd Of prizes.
Readers who purpose submitting
blanks or letters arc urged to do so at
ence in order to facilitate the work of
the judges, who hope to announce the
prize winners in the course of the week
after the close Of the contest.
The task of judging the planks and
he prize letter Of the competition is
10 easy one. Up to date $3.50 planks
have been voted. Public enthusiasm
has Intensified as the contest has drawn
toward conclusion, and at the rate plat
form mail has multiplied in the last
week the competition will register con-
iderably in excess Of 5000 planks.
OF the great mass of material re-
eeived from all parts Of the United
States. it has been possible to publish
emily small part each day, owing to
the shortage Of print paper. The fact
that communication has not been
printed, therefore, does not mean lack
Of merit, nor does it imply that it is
not considered as prize material.
By the conditions of the contest, each
plank submitted or letter discussing
m issue is cast as vote for that is
sue. The ten issues receiving the high
est number of votes will determine the
construction of The Tribune's model
platform. The planks which best ex-
press these issues will win the prizes
and comprise the symposium of the best
thought which our readers would lay
before Republican leaders.
These votes have been counted from
day to day. The result to date is given
in the survey Of $3.50 planks which ap-
pears to-day on this page. The ten
leading issues follow, in the order of
standing:
Foreign Relations, 533 votes; Labor
and Capital, SIC; Americanization, 459;
Army and Navy Programs, 448; Cost
Of Living. 319; Constitutional Rights,
e08; Bolshevism, 277 Education, 238;
Conservation of National Resources,
1876. and Social Legislation, Ill.
The first five issues appear to be as
sured Of place In the ten-plank plat
form. From the first day Of the con-
test, January 26, Foreign Relations,
Americanization and Labor and Capital
have led. 1t was at the end of the sec
end month that Labor and Capital dis
placed Americanization in second
place. Education. originally embodied
with Social Legislation, became sep
arate issue on March IL, moving into
eighth position, where it has remained,
increasing daily In popularity. Cost Of
Living has made q steady gain, adj
yancing from twelfth to fifth position
Social egislation-under which is
elassed the demands for new and uni
form divorce laws. regulation of child
labor. old age and mothers pensions,
health and sanitation, better living
conditions and the like-holds tenth
place, with III votes, but it is by no
means certain that this issue finally
will be among the first ten. Admins
tration Reforms, 1875; Taxation, 1853,
and Free Speech, 1874. may advance into
prize position before the end of the
contest. immigration, Tariff and the
Mexican Question also are in the run
ming. Conservation of Natural Re-
sources and Education, at present in
prize places, are none too secure in
their positions.
Now, then, let the contestants with
. faycrite issue get busy