The New York herald., 1922-05-07
STUDENTS GET CASH
FOR PORT ESSAYS
Prizes Awarded to Fourteen
for Ideas on Needs of De-
velopment.

Fourteen cash prizes were distributed
yesterday by the Educational Council.
cooperating with the Port of New York
Authority. to seven boys and seven girls.
students of the high schools and colleges
of New York and New Jersey for essays
on "The development of the Port OF New
York and its relation to the cost of liv-
ing" More than one hundred students
participated.
Two prizes or $50 each were awarded
to- students of Hunter College and the
College of the City of New York. The
other awards OF $25 each were made 20
students, one boy and one girl, In the
high schools of Greater New York and
of Essex and Hudson counties. New
Jersey.
The awards went to the following:
MANHATTAN
Evelyn Lois Harris. Wadleigh High
School.
NJ l. Bernstein, De Witt Clinton High
School.
Mollie Goldberger Hunter College.
Irving Waissar. City College.
BRONX.
Sadie Bader. Morris High School.
Howard Cameron. Theodore Roosevelt
High School.
QUEENS
Elizabeth Boettiger. Newtown High
School,
Reed Hartel. Newtown High School.
BROOKLYN.
Sophie sindell, Girls Commercial High
School
Rudolph Klemm, Bushwick High
School.
NEW JERSEY.
Phyllis 3. Tinckler, Columbia High
School. South Orange, N. ].
Paul. r. Lynn, Verona High School,
Verona, N. J.
Elsie Steuer and William McHenry,
Union Hill High School, Town Of Union,
Weehawlen, ~. ].
Donors of the prizes were Alfred r.
Marling. George McEwan, Charles L.
Bernheimer. Benedict Erstein, the
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, the
Jersey City Chamber Of Commerce, the
Chamber of Commerce of the State of
New York and the New York Board of
Trade and Transportation. Judges were
Prof Alzada Comstock of the Depart
ment of Economics at Barnard College.
Agricultural College, New Brunswick.
The essay submitted by Miss Mollie
Godberger of Hunter College. Manhat-
tam was the longest and in the opinion
of the judges perhaps the most thor
ough digest of the subject. Miss Gold
berger said:
"The Thoughtful citizen cannot be obli-.
vious to the vital influences of the Port
Of New York on the barometer of prices
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more concretely, in his own district.
With that inherently characteristic
American self satisfaction. he is con-
scious of New York's preeminence as
world market. regardless of the efforts
Of the numerous ports striving TO wrest
prominence from her. On the other
hand, when shall each and every one
of us be imbued with that sense of civic
pride and mutual helpfulness necessary
for effecting the numerous improvements
OF New York's natural facilities?
LET us lay aside political and local
prejudices We have the resources at
our door, insufficient because of made
ouate development, which has been ham,
pered by corruption and coercion.
Every citizen should familiarze him
self with this vital phase of living con-
ditions and agitate for a permanent
authority.
"In this way only can the enterpris-
ing and expediting recommendations
made by the commission be actively
realized We began on the for
ward path in 1917; let us continue on
ward. Let us create an authority which
will realize better and cheaper facili-
ties for New York and consequently take
the high out of the high cost of
living"
Robert Adamson. chairman OF the
Educational Council, who presided at the
presentation, said he believed the oppo-
sition to the development plan of the
Port Authority was gradually fading
away. Other addresses were made by
John H. Small. president Of the Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress.
who said New Yorlx's best answer to the
proponents of the deeper st. Lawrence
plan was In development of the local
port and of the Decentralization Bay
link of the intercoastal waterway pro-
proposed from Boston TO Florida, and by
mr. william l., Fttinger, Superintendent