The Washington herald., 1920-05-10
Miss Margaret B. Carroll Winner Of Prize
In National Radio Essay Contest Surprised
When Told Her Paper Ranked Second Best
War Department Typist
Doesn't Know What to
Do With $l00.
"oh. lis too good to be truer'

Onp u loo BOOU 10 DC eAuS'
Miss Margaret b. Carroll. whose
essay on amateur radio was found
by the national judges to be the
second best submitted among the
thousands sent in from every State
in the Union, could hardly believe
this honor had fallen to her when
she was notified by the Radio Editor
of The Washington Herald last
night.
Miss Carroll, who lives at 1647
Lamont street northwest, lis a typist
in the War Department. She says
she has no idea what she is going
to do with the money-S100. Wis
ions of an enjoyable summer vaca-
ton, down az her home in oxford,
Ga, however, loom large now and
1t is probable that a portion of the
prize will be spent in this manner.
studied Radio Here.
Before she came to Washington,
Miss Carroll had never been inter
ested in radio work. During the
war. however. she decided to take a
course in radio work at the Ma
tional Radio School here and ii was
there that she became interested
with the work and decided to de-
vote all of her spare time to it.
Miss Carroll says she was in
spired to write her prize winning
essay by the remarks Of Admiral
w. G. B. Bullard on amateur radio
work which were made at mass
meeting he addressed during The
Washington Herald's Radio Contest
to stimulate interest in the contest.
She did no. delay in her determine
tion to ente- the essay contest. Her
essay. neatly pewritten, was one
of the first rece iYed by the Radio
Editor. She Is a graduate of the
Florida State College.
Bell Acted as Judge.
Alexander Graham Bell, Gilbert H.
Grosvenor AMI Mai. Milan V. Ayres,
the three local judges. are to be
congratulated upon their selection
of material to be sent to the na-
tional judges as every amateur ra-
dio operator whose work was rep
resented won an award.
Thousands of entries were con-
sidered by the various sets of local
judges in the cities entered in the
radio contest and of this number
several hundred of the best were
selected for consideration by the
national judges at New York City.
The three national judges. DIR. Lee
de Forest. Elmer Z. Bucher and Jo-
seph s. Newman. spent more than
four days in selecting from the en-
tries those who should win the
prizes offered by The Washington
Herald and the other newspapers.
Task Not Easy One.
easy one the judges believe that
they dispensed Justice by a strict
adherence to the rules and a care
full consideration of the merits of
each entrant.
eIt H. Gowan. his chief engineer,
the entries were a revelation of the
work of the American amateur.
So deeply interested was the De
Forest engineer that he begged the
privilege of borrowing all the en-
tries made in order that he might
write treatise on the success of the
amateur for a wireless technical
magazine.
VIII Describe Contest.
The other electrical experimenter's
magazine. read by radio amateurs,
Is preparing an article on the sue
cess of the contest.
In the opinion of the judges and
those interested in the future of the
wireless. the contest did much to
stimulate interest among amateurs
and to bring to the general public
some knowledge of what "the kid
next door" is doing with this great
est miracle of all times-speech
across space.