New-York tribune., 1920-05-21
Student Wins
$4,000 Prize
For Platform
Carl Smith JosIyn, Harvard,
Picked by DR.. Butler
and Senator Beveridge
in Republican Contest
Every State Represented
Award Made by Truxtun
Beale in Memory of Son
Who Perished in the War

Carl Smith Joslyn, Of Springfield,
Mass. twenty one -year-old student,
who is working his way through Har-
ward, was yesterday announced as the
winner in the $4,000 prize Republican
Platform contest in which DR.. Ncho-
las Murray Butler, president of Co
lumbia University; former United
States Senator Albert J. Beveridge and
former Ambassador David Jayne Hill
acted as judges.
For outlining in clearest and most
logical form the greatest problems
which confront the nation and the Re-
publican party, Joslvn wins $4,000
Howard B. Wilson, of Philadelphia, a
student of the University Of Pennsyl-
vania, wins $4,000 for the second best
platform and w. P. Smith. of Ann Ar
Dor, Mlcn.. a student of the University
of Michigan, is third, with a prize
of $1,000
The contest was inaugurated last
November for Americans Under twenty
five years old throughout the United
States and its possessions and was an
nounced by Republican National Chair
man Will H. Hays in behalf of Truxtun
Beale, who offered the prize money and
named it the "Walker Blaine Beale
Contest" in memory of his son, an
American aviator, who perished in the
war. Mr.. Beale formerly was United
States Minister to Persia, Greece, Ru-
mania and Serbia and is an author.
The Beale contest closed on March 81,
since which time the judges have exam
ined ''platform" manuscripts from
youthful Americans in every state of
the Union, from Canada, Alaska,
Hawaii, Porto Rico and even from the
The keynote of the three platfoms is
perhaps sounded by Mr. Joslyn as
follows:
"The Republican party appeals to
the people for their support on the
stand which it has taken against the
abuse Of executive power and for the
preservation of the sovereignty and
the independence of the United States.
Its principles and policies are all for
mulated by q liberal and constructive
statesmanship. Its creed is one OF
undivided Americanism; one faith, one
loyalty, one devotion-and these in the
service of upbuilding and strengthen
ing the great United States of America
erty and justice and which has dedi-
Gated its future to their perpetuation
and advancement"
The Democratic President has vio-
lated the spirit of the Constitution, -
says the second prize PLATFORM "He
has made partisan appointments, re-
tanned men Of inferior attanments un-
fitted for the great public tasks.
conducted our foreign affairs in high
handed and secretive manner
attempted to foist on an unwilling
people his personal conceptions of what
our government and policies should be.
:. We call upon the people of
America to repudiate that party which
has supported such conduct and ac-
knowledged such leadership"
We cannot condemn too strongly the
autocratic conduct of the present
Chief Executive in usurping the powers
Of the Federal legislature" says the
third-best platform. "We earnestly
maintain that the Presidential office
should not be conferred upon q man
who is motivated by a desire to use
ms nlgh position as means for the
achlevement of personal greatness; but
rather upon one who in spirit of
loyalty to our national ideals shall
strive to secure to the American people
the fullest blessings of free govern
ment by the strictest fultillment of his
oath of office to preserve, protect and
oefend the Constitution Of the United
States."
The rejection of the league of ma
tlons IN its present form and its ac-
ceptance not without reservations
which would preserve American SOW
ereignty from "a precarious future of
internationalism" are unanimously de-.
manded hV the contarton+o