The Washington times., 1920-12-03
GOES TO
VIRGINIA FRYE
Dorothy Shore Wins Second
Honor and Third Is Award
ed Louise Barham.
CHECKS MAILED WINNERS

Ten OF the thirteen prizes oiiereu
BY The Washington Times for the
best essays on why Everybody
Should Do Their Christmas Shop
ping Early" were awarded to girls
attending local schools. The three
masculine winners finished in the
consolation class.
MANY ESSAYS DISQUALIFIED.
Although the contest, which ran for
forty.five days, was open to every
school child in Washington vast
majority OF the essays were written
by girls, and II developed into some
thing like a feminist movement.
Hundreds and hundreds OF the little
girls essays were disqualified because
they did not state their ages and
because they used more words than
the rules of the contest permitted.
Following IL complete list OF the
prize winners:
First prize, S50-Virginia Frye,
SOL = street northeast
Second prize, SOD OrOthy
Shore, 1921 Euclid street north
west.
Third prise-Louis Barham, 7l8
L street southwest.
Prizes Of so worth OF merchan-
disc to each Of the following:
Anna Bernstein, 81 X street
northwest
Mary +. Dawson. 113 Fifth street
southeast.
Marie Faherty, 1917 Thirty.fifth
street northwest.
Sarah Felter, 62 Bates street
northwest.
John Fratantuono, 73s Otis place
northwest,
Raymond Kibbey, 1887 l street
northwest.
Rose Margaret LepIey, $500 New
Hampshire avenue northwest.
Margaret Mahneke, 1872 Taylor
street northwest
Virginia MeSorley, 1886 Monroe
street northwest.
q. Donald Whiting, 1887 Church
street northwest
ESSAYS TO BIZ PUBLISHED.
The essays written by the three
cash prize winners are published to-
day. Between now and Christmas
The Washington Times will publish
the essays submitted by the winners
OF the ten consolation prizes, and as
many other of the essays as are
deemed worthy of publication.
The judges of the contest were DR..
Abram Simon, president Of the Board
OF Education. Philip King. president
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association. and Robert F.. Buckley,
one of the the managers of the
Palais Royal. The Shop Early Editor
turned over to them the several
thousand essays entered in the COM
petition and by a process of elimins =
tion-rejecting those which did not
comply with the rules in every re-
spect or which did not come up to
the mark--boiled their work down to
a consideration of several hundred.
After n lengthy conference the
judges simmered the competition
down to twenty-five essays and later
took several ballots by means OF
which they came to the decisions an
nounced in todays Washington
Times.
EDITOR THANKS JUDGES.
After the prizes had been awarded
the shop Early Editor said to the
judges:
an tho name Of the school children
of Washington and The Washington
Times ] desire to thank you because
you have given more careful thought
ful and thorough consideration to the
work OF awarding these prizes than
any set of judges that has ever as
sisted The Washington Times in de-
Gliding contest"
Checks for the prizes were mailed
TO the thirteen successful essayists
Immediately after the decisions were
made known and the winners are ex-
pected to do their Christmas shop
ping early--in other words. now.
The boys should not feel discour-
aged over the outcome of the contest.
since tho women OF this country
spend about four-ffths Of the money
in this country and therefore should
know the best reasons for spending
IL early.