The second group of the cash prizes totaling $100 will be awarded winners of this week’s competition in the new “Biggest Jewish News of the Week” contest, which starts in today’s Jewish Daily Bulletin.
Coupon No. 1 appears today and a new entry blank will appear on each consecutive day until Friday, when the second week of this interesting, educational and lucrative contest will close.
Readers and students who have entered the first week’s contest for a share in the $100 will learn in Friday’s issue of The Bulletin how they have fared. On each succeeding Friday thereafter the winners of each new week’s contest will be announced. Winners of the second week’s “Biggest Jewish News of the Week” letter-writing competition will be announced in the November 30 edition.
FIRST STILL OPEN
Entrants in the first week’s contest have until midnight Monday to bring or mail their 250-word letters, telling what is the “Biggest Jewish News of the Week” and why, to the offices of the Jewish Daily Bulletin, 221 Center street.
Hundreds of letters from readers and students who have entered the first week’s contest already have poured into the offices of the Jewish Daily Bulletin. Hundreds more are expected to be mailed to the office before the deadline on Monday at midnight is past.
Meanwhile this contest has received praise from educators throughout New York City. A splendid endorsement comes from Mordecai Soltes, director of Jewish extension education for the Jewish Welfare Board. Mr. Soltes, in a letter to the editor, terms the contest a “very commendable educational enterprise.” His letter follows in part:
“. . . I submit herewith a brief statement concerning the significance of your Jewish News Contest:
“I regard the ‘Biggest Jewish News of the Week’ contest, inaugurated by the Jewish Daily Bulletin, as a very commendable educational enterprise, which may be expected to yield results of permanent and enduring value. It should help to deepen the Jewish interests of the participants and to contribute towards the inculcation of an abiding personal concern for the welfare of the Jewish people.
READ THE RULES
“The knowledge concerning Jewish problems and movements and the standards of judgment and discrimination, which the young people will acquire incidentally, should equip them for intelligent participation in the various phases of Jewish communal life.” Complete rules for this contest appears in today’s Bulletin. The rules are simple. The contest is educational. Prizes total $100 in cash each week.
There are three divisions in this contest. General readers who do not atend a university or college come under the first group. Men and women who attend college are in the second class, while high school students are in the third. Three cash prizes await the writers of the best 250-word letters in each division. High school students who win first, second and third prizes also will receive gold, silver and bronze medals along with the cash awards.
The new contest starts today. Don’t neglect this opportunity.
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