The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-03-08
PRIZES GIVEN TO
PUPIL ESSAYISTS
Grade and High School
Pupils Show Much
Ability in Contest.

That Tulsa grade and high school
pupils understand clearly the prin-
ciplcs which undcruc Americauism
was demonstrated conclusivcly in the
recent essay contest on "Why | Am
an American" for wl,.ch prizes were
offered by Mrs. II. g. Ashby. regent
for this district for the Daughters OF
tho American Revolution The es-
says submitted were uniformly well
written and well expressed and en-
usolv the work OF the pupil without
outside assistance. school principals
and teachers certified
winners of the prizes for the three
best 500-word ESSAYS were Florence
Fiihian of the "A grade In the
Lowell school, whose essay won first
place; Rosa Arnold Of the lO-B
grade in the Washington Junior high
school, whose essay received second
place, ana Frederick ward of che
"a grade in the Washington Junior
nigh school whose essay was
awarded the third position Mrs
Frank H. Greer Preston c. West and
Carl c. Magec acted as judges
Florence fithiau, to whom first
the stcpdaughtcr Of J. G. Green.
carpenter. at 6iS North Rockford
Miss tithian is I'm the English class
OF Miss Nell Eubank, a teacher OF
English at Lowell school. Miss
Fithian's definition Of real Ameri-
can was expressed as follows:
what is "a real American? He Is
n patriot. lie votes lie pays his
taxes honestly lie keeps informed
on public questions. He is ready to
serve In army or navy when his
country Is at war Ills heart beats
a little faster when he sces the stars
and stripes. He is made up of three
Ingredients, Washington, Franklin
Lincoln. lie respects women, any
woman. lie looks you straight I'm
the eye, and SAYS plainly what he
thinks. lie honUrs those who work
ana has "A wholesome contempt for
idlcrs. He speaks slowly, and means
a little more than he says. He does
not care what your religious belief
is. as long as you ore decent. once
in -four years he goes on a political
debauch. but when It IS over he f.
once more an American. ana is for
the man who was elected. no matter
which party was successful lie likes
to make money, but ne likes to see
everybody around him making
money also. lie does not enjoy
riches in midst Of poverty lie wants
a business OF his own, a home of his
own and an opinion of his own. His
parents may be French Italian,
Greek or German: but he has
caught another spirit: he has been
born again. he is an American. He
hates class when laws do not suit
him. he does not break them. he
changes them. lie is loyal tn his
family. to his friend, and to his coun-
| try. He does not want the United
States to rule the world. but to be
the big brother TO the world.
\ II try to act those things which /
have mentioned, so | count myself
an American"
| "Americanism versus Bolshevism,"
| the essay winning second prize, was
written by Rosa Arnold, as follows;
| "Of the great problems which face
our nation at this time none rre
more important than the teaching Of
| true Amcricanism To our foreign
born population. 1t seems to me
! that five things are essential TO the
, accomplishment of this great work.
! "First-The emigrant should be
encouraged and aided In obtaining a
| fair education. That ~, he should
| be able TO read and write the English
! language. lie should have enough
perception TO observe what is going
4 on about him intelligently. Place the
| brains, character. thrift, decency,
| righteousness, gOdliness OF n nation
under the domination vote of ig-
norance. violence, thuEGcry. deviltry
and ungodlincss and you have boil
shevism. We should welcome to our
| country those who speak our tongue,
for ours is the language Of liberty
and freedom, and those who refuse
to learn and speak the finest Ian
guagc on earth should be dcpOrted.
/ "Sccond-The newcomer should
! not not he n convict ora fugitive
from Justice. This country made a
fatal and terrible mistake in allowing
these shores to be made a dumping
ground for all races of the earth.
We should have selected the ingrodi-
ents that went into our national
pudding with more care. We did not
do so. and now, instead Of n pud-
ding we have a mess that It is "a be
feared we cannot assimilatc or di-
Ccst. If we breed from so different
racial strains we shall have race,
not Of men. but OF mongrcls. II was
the Anglo Saxon ideas, ideals, Nir-
tues. genius respect for law, love of
freedom and love Of God, that made
MS a nation. and IL was the spirit We
imbibed from those people ana their
genius that has Vitali2od and given 10
our institutions all those principles
that keep this national structure,
luow a very over Of Babel, from dis
integrating and falling to pieces