Evening star., 1932-03-18
DOCTORS LETTER
| ON BOARDING Wins
HoIIod Given First Prize.
Women Take Second
and Third.

Judges In The Stars Anti Hoarding
Letter Contest announced their de-
cisions today. The winners are:
DR.. Maurice L. Hollod, 523 Four-and-
a-half street southwest, first
Miss Mayme Z. King. colored, 134 r
street, second.
Mrs. Doris Noetzel Eliason, 55o7 Thir-
teenth street, third
The prizes are 500, $50 and s25 in
! gold for first, second and third places,
respectively, and will be forwarded to
the victorious contestants Immediately.
The winning letters were selected by
The stars trio Of judges from the hun
oreds which were submitted during the
week OF the contest, ending last Sat-
urday evening at O'Clock. and repre-
| sent the outstanding views of Washing
ton citizens as presented to The Star
on their personal reactions to the
Nationwide anti-hoarding campaign.
Winners All Under IS.
The contest was open to any resident
OF the District who had returned his
or her money to normal channels. The
winners were determined solely on q
0dSio VI 1eJLeIS SuDKnlLLeQ.
The judges were c. E. Nelson, Sunday
editor OF The Star; S. H. Kauffmann,
assistant business manager, and Charles
e. Tracewell, columnist, whose daily
essays, This and That" appear on The
Stars editorial page. Several davM
after the close Of the contest were re-
quired for thorough consideration OF all
OF the letters.
All the winners, by coincidence. are
under IS years Of age, DR.. Hollod and
Miss King being 80 and Mrs. Eliason
"a. The first prize winner Is q chiro-
practor, with Offices at Vermont avenue
| colored beauty shop, and Mrs. Eliason.
the only one Of the three who is mar
ried, is q housewife.
i always have been interested In
economic and financial questions" DR..
Hollod said, "since college when
majored in economies When The
Star announced its contest my interest
Immediately was quickened. and real
lied what q powerful factor in popu-
lari1ng the anti-hoarding drive such
competition would be- I have def
mite views which 20 along with the
economic theory that the country must
spend TO be prosperous, SO I imme-
diately set down my ideas ON paper
and sent them in. did not expect
to win"
Confident Of Success.
When Miss King entered the con-
test she was considerably more conf
dent Of success than Or. Hollod. 1T
knew I was going to win prize" she
declared, because everything put In
| my letter was based on facts" Miss
King sent her letter to The Star the
day before the contest closed. It was
not until then, she explained, that she
knew 1t was in progress.
II sat down Immediately when I
heard OF the contest and expressed my
conviction that spending Is saving"
she continued.
Mrs. Eliason, a mother Of two daugh-
ters, thinks The Stars contest has
done much to bring home to the house
wife that anti-hoarding is not Just q
term but fact that prof1tably can be
| Incorporated in everyday life.
Since the anti-hoarding campaign
commenced many Of my friends have
found that to spend at this time Is
not extravaganza but good hard sense.
I intend to keep on buying what
need for the house Just as soon as I
get the money to do II with, instead
| OF waiting for the depression to end"
Mrs. Eliason is the wife Of Ray
mond o. Eliason, automotive engineer
In the War Department and principal
| OF the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation Preparatory School. She has
been married Il years. One Of her
daughters. Norma, Is Is years old. The
other. Clair. is T.