Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-06

/ Many opinions have been expressed
as 10 the reason why the capital prizes
were not awarded IN the Wilson essay
competition under the accpiccS OF the
/ Woodrow wilson Foundation. II seems
most generally assumed. however. tina,
genius cannot Be inspired 10 superlasive
effort by cash offers
More good things. Of greater or
/ shcrter length. viii Dc written about
/ Wilson. II is no, likely that they will
be produced in competitions for q
! money pr.xc" a~er.s the Newark Eve
/ ming News Professional writers pre-
| fer to choose their own topics. They
/ know 100 much about the business o..
/ writing to underestimate the difficulty
! OF threshlng over old straw ard pro-
/ ducing something they would care 20
sign. on a man about whom so Rucls
has been written and whose place IN
history cannot yet be exactly de-
/ tcrmined
To offer a monetary rewagc. for the
study OF Mr.. Wilson" according 10 the
Charleston Daily Mali sounds pecul-
lar II Mr.. wilson was the kind q:
man he was supposed To be oy his
friends and even admitted to be by SO
many who could not agree entirely With
his ideas. what he stood for needs no
.S,lch tricks as this method OF keeping
his name before the public The
Mun,ce Star states, In this coansc-
ton IL may be said that the prize oaeyS
for novels that have been features Of
the book publishing business for several
years have not developed anything ~
all remarkable III the way oi fiction
1T is uadeniahle," asf,r,ns the Boston
Transcript. that the methods o; the
prize competition are unsavoTahie 10 the
production Of either the best writing
or the best thinking A ghsteriag prize
Is waved in The air, Thousands say,
Go to, will win that The prize,
rather than the subject, ioomS, Thu
condition does not really inspire, II
may even dcaden or s,iiie the deliberate
Thought the ripened Judgment, the
calm one may almost say the casual,
tatroSpeetloa. upon which the best
work OF The sort mus, he founded"
The BROOKLYN Daily Eagle offers the
Judgment that Woodrow Wilson Is too
big. his achievements ioom too larse IL
permit division Of attention III ap-
rfaiSing shtm between subject and q
money awaid"
There are probably two W three
hundred men or women III The United
States, says the Columbia Record who
could qualify As contestants, but fhSY
would not attempt III do the lob With.
out dropping all other tasks for II
least six weeks, Academic tales which
may be turned cut in the space Of an
hour and which are faulty in aieticn
and ordinary in construction and rea,
Soasng fan TO receive any more asten~
smn than they merit"
A question As to the character of The |
ESSAY demanded Is raised by the lsnusS- ]
vile Tunes, The caateSt MAS con. /,
Quoted, and the extremely liberal nre&aS !
offered remarks that paper, by AN ,
organization necessarily PARTISAN as tn /
MI, Wilson, 4 natural caswluStcn /
when 1t made It's nter, NtlhpuSh tAS I
conclusion may have aeea ent,rVN M,>, |
taAsn Mas that What the foundation I
wanted was not 81 mach an appraisal .
rs admiration ut Mi, wilson, not ~ I
much ANALYSTS a. hero wasNhln The /
idea roAlt not have appealed esssS~SsallS /
10 young people who n,ake point VI I
u wauld not he SURPRISING 81 learn that 4
what most at the contestants submitted /
were more 81 leSS lavish eNcanttla.s "
The antstanaIns events IN Macasew
WILSON'S career are too fresh IN the
menoIN af the American leanle" IN
the oplnlen Ut the SEATTLE DatN TtmeS, !
no ha iudsed insl,artislS NM YET can
the people ~ whole eiiSeSt their MtnaS |
Of pasltseal nart.Sanshlp In annyatslAs
As deeas and his ideals No estimate
III hn service Ia the country Waala ee
a. the Nation n wgtsten by a /
walshipIul admifel 81 by a poiitseal or
naaNnt Mvmais at events ~ ssdtened
a. thsy feeete into the MAST A. W.
alaw away We aet = better eelN,seetsve Il
and We can nudge aet,ans by pegmA.
nsnt results eSlhArs We mast leAvt
10 aAesAa eaesatloA the sass vi wan. I