The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-11-26
WORLD HEROES.

greatest world heroes % has been
answered according to the judgment
of thousands of high school boys
and girls of this and more than
thirty foreign countries who par
ticipated in the competition estab-
lished over year ago by Clement
M. Biddle, of New York. The re-
suit of their vote was announced last
June by DR.. Augustus o. Thomas,
Commissioner of Education of the
State Of Maine, President of the
World Federation of Education
Associations, and Chairman of the
Committee of Award of the essay
contest. The list, arranged accord
to the number of votes each one re-
ceived, was as follows Louis
Pasteur, Abraham Lincoln, Chris
topher Columbus, George Washing
ton, Benjamin Franklin, Woodrow
Wilson, Florence Nightingale, Joan
of Arc, Socrates, Johann Gutenberg.
David Livingstone, and George
Stephenson.
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countries of Europe, England.
France, Germany, Austria, Latvia,
Spain, Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria.
Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, n d
Greece, as well as from every one
of the United States, from Canada
Mexico, Porto Rico, Jamaica, the
Virgin Island, Hawaii, the Phil
lipines, Turkey, India, Persia
Morocco. and even from far-off
Tasmania.
Doctor Thomas's committee has
now finished its arduous work Of
reading and Judging the thousands
of essays written by the studnets in
support of their votes. Although
the members of the Committee OF
Award had no clue to the origin and
authorship of the essays. it is graft
flying to discover" said Doctor
Thomas, that five of the twelve
prizes are going to students in
foreign countries, and that five of
the twelve essays were written by
girls. 1t is an interesting and really
remarkable coincidence that the
prize for the best essay on David
Livingstone goes to a student in the
High School for Girls in Pretoria
South Africa. A girl in the Roman
Catholic parochial Academy of the
Holy Family in Connecticut, wins
the prize for her essay on Joan of
Arc. The High School in Burling-
ton, N. j., has the extraordinary
distinction of winning two of the
twelve prizes. A boy in that school
receives the prize for his essay on
Pasteur, and a girl receives the prize
for her essay on Lincoln"
The winners of the prizes, one
for the best essay on each of the
characters chosen, as announced by
Doctor Thomas today. are as
follows: Louis Pasteur, William
Schuyler Petit, Burlington High
School, Burlington, N. j.; Abraham
Lincoln, Alice ]. Watson, Burling-
ton High School, Burlington, N. j.;
Christopher Columbus, Alma Kath-
rine Frederickson, Jefferson High
School, Portland, Oregon; George
Washington, Victor Middleton, High
School, Grand Rapids, Mich; Ben
jamin Franklin, John E. Lake, Jr.,
Oskaloosa High School, Oskaloosa,
iowa; Woodrow Wilson, Alfred
Dennis Jacob, George School, Bucks
county, Pa; Florence Nightingale,
Prudencia Maria Bryan, Aguadilla-
High School, Aguadilla, Porto Rico;
Joan of Arc, Florence Mildred
Connell, Academy of the Holy
Family, Baltic, Conn; Socrates,
Jacques Reynold, Ecole des Roches,
Verneual-sur-Avre, Eure, France;
Johann Gutenberg, Paul Edouard
Pulh, Ecole de la rue Hugo-de-
Senger, Plainpalais, Geneve, Suisse;
David Livingstone, Kathleen Mont
gomery, Pretoria High School for
Girls, Pretoria, South Africa; George
Garabed H. Assarlukian,
American School for Boys, Samokov,
Bulgaria.
Each one of these students Will
receive 800, the amount of the
prize, and in addition gold medal
in recognition of his accomplishment
The committee of Award was COM
posed of the following: Augustus o.
Thomas, LII. D., Commissioner of
Education of the State of Maine, and
President of the World Federation
of Education Associations, Chair
man; Richard Bartholdt, former
member of the U. IS. Congress and
President of the Interparliamentary
Union for Promotion of International
Arbitration; James William Crab
tree. M. A., Secretary of the National
Education Association; Albert F.
Coyle, Editor of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers Journal"
Glenn Frank, LII. D., President of
the University of Wisconsin,. David
Starr Jordan, Phi. D., LII. d., Chan
cellor Emeritus of Leland Stanford,