Evening star., 1922-04-07
ESSAY PRIZES TO Be
GIVEN TOMORROW
Presentation Exercises Will
Be Held in Quarters of
{ Evening Star Club.

The eighty.eight prizes won by the
cont ntsYtants In The Stars $1,000 school
esssy contest on the subject The
Arms Conference and Its Signif1-
csnce" will be awarded at informal
Exercises in the commodious quarters
Of The Evening Star Club tomorrow
morning promptly at II o'clock. An
Invitation Is cordially extended to the
parents and teachers of the victorious
essayists to attend the exercises.
Judges of the contest and Superin-
and Assistant Superintendents Ste
phen E. Kramer and Garnet c. Will
kinson- also are invited.
The Evening Star Club Is located on
the Sth floor of The Star building. at
11th street and Pennsylvania avenue
Entrance should be made to The Star
building at the new annex on the
11th street side. where elevators will
convey the prize winners. their par
ents and teachers and the guests to
the eighth floor. At that point the
visitors will be directed to the club s
quarters. After the presentation of
the prizes the winning contestants
and the guests will be given an op-
portunity to inspect The Star plant
and witness the issuing of a modern
newspaper.
Walker Greatly Surprised.
Henry L. Walker. seventeen years
ga. sen-or student at Central High
in his life when he bought a copy of
yesterdays Evening Star from news
boy and learned that he had won the
grand 500 senior prize.
waiker-entered the contest without
telling any OF his friends, with the
idea that IL he did not win q prize
they could not 'razz" him. as he put
it. The only person who knew that he
had entered an essay in the compe-
tition was his section teacher. he said.
in the Central High School Conse-
auently. when the announcement was
made that he carried of first honors
in the senior group. his parents and
friends were as greatly surprised as
he was.
He said he familiarized himself with
the proceedings of the conference on
the limitation Of armament solely by
reading the daily newspapers The
grand prize winner said he plans to
put the 500 in bank and draw on II
during the summer to step around
a Bit
Robert Maurer. principal of Central
hS ib hs. hs
70 the school by Walker. Il am
glad" he said. that a Central stu
dent won the grand prize"
viii Call 800 Birthday Gift.
Catherine Everett, pupil at st.
Patrick's Academy. who won the
is glad she won the money, but says
she Is sorry that she did not know IT
sooner. Catherine has bought all of
her nsw Easter finery and has no
immediate use for the money, she
said. and will put it in bank.
Tho prize money will go to Cath
erine as q birthday present. Tuesday
In her birthday. she said, and she will
be thirteen years old.
The girl lives at 223 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast. and has not been
. pupil at st. Patrick's Academy for
= year. Before entering st. Patrick's
she attended st. Cecelia's Academy.
She said she wrote her prize winning
essay from information on the arma-
ment conference proceedings in the
newspapers and current magazines.
Rushes to Get $50.
One of the first copies of The Even
Ing Star of Thursday to come off the
press was bought by Lawrence Hunt,
sixteen years old, 1922 Vermont ave-
nus, who won the second senior group
prise Of $50. Eagerly scanning the
hrst page Of the paper where the
names Of the winners in the contest
were announced. Hunt found his name
second In the list, and then hurried
to learn when the prizes were to be
awarded Asked by the contest editor
what he planned to do with his $50,
Hunt said he had not given that Ques-
tion any consideration.
tending Devitt's Preparatory school.
He was formerly student at Western
High School where he attended for
about a year. While at Western he
was president OF the debating society.
tended the closing session Of the con-
ference on the limitation of armament
and gained an insight to the historical
work Of the conference which aided
him in writing a prizewinning essay.
Famous for Second Time.
Winning prizes in essay contests is
not an unusual experience for Frances
Of the Dent School, although she was
surprised when informed that she has
taken the $50 second prize in the
senior group. Frances recently was
adtudged winner in an essay contest
conducted by the highway and high
way transport committee on the sub
Ject. Making Highways Safe"
The girl Ii thirteen years old and
lives at 433 LIST street southeast. She
plans to put the $50 prize money In
bank.
Hoped fer -; Wins SIS.
Despite the fact that he is handi-
capped by being paralyzed Clark T.
Robb, 4 student at Eastern High
School. succeeded in winning a SIS
third prize in the senior group. Robb
has only the use of his left arm and
has to be carried by his fellow stu
dents from classroom to classroom.
Robb Is seventeen years old and
lives at 1151 7th street northeast. He
said he had hoped to win one Of the
s. prizes in the contest. but had no
idea that he succeeded in writing an
essay sufficiently meritorious to take
third honors. He plans to put the
prize money in bank.
Worked Month to Win Prize.
willard H. Froehlich. a student at
et. Johns College. who won one Of
the SIS prizes in the senior group,
lives at 1919 9Th street. He said he
spent over a month preparing to
write the essay which won him S25
In addition to reading carefully all
the Information relating to the arms
conference which appeared in the
newspapers, Froehlich spent many
evenings at the Congressional Library
searching voluminous documents for
more data.
Amased by .Place In List
Hugh Hussey. a pupil in the Park
View School. who won one of the
two SIS third prizes in the junior
group. modestly admitted today that
he expected to win one Of the
being so high in the list" He is
eleven years old and lives at 3s2S
W4rder street.
Like a majority of the other prize