The Fifth Biggest Jewish News of the Week Contest starts with today’s edition of the Jewish Daily Bulletin and $100 in cash prizes and medals will be awarded winners who have submitted the best 250 word-letters on this subject.
The series of contests, now entering its fifth week of competition, has proved to be a popular feature with readers of the Bulletin. College men and women have found this an interesting and educational feature. High school boys and girls are enthusiastic over their cash awards and handsome medals. Dr. Potter, principal of New Utrecht High School, said, when he awarded the medal to Edward Dauber, “This medal is a beautiful symbol of your splendid contest. I hope that it meets with all the success due an educational feature of this kind.”
$300 GIVEN ALREADY
In Friday’s edition of the Bulletin winners of the third week’s Biggest Jewish News of the Week Contest were announced. To date $300 in cash prizes and medals have been awarded these winners. Chances are equal for all who enter. Everybody is eligible. Doctors, lawyers and rabbis have written to the editor, saying that the contest makes reading the Bulletin more interesting than ever. College men and women and high school students find that the Bulletin is an aid to their studies in current events. Competing in the contest lends added zest to their school work, they say.
Rules are simple. They are published in today’s Bulletin. The contest bars no one except employees of the Bulletin and their relatives.
IF YOU DON’T SUCCEED AT FIRST
Many readers and students who have entered and whose letters were not adjudged winners were discouraged and have failed to write again. Others have entered regularly and in some cases have been rewarded for their efforts. Miss Jessie Shoban of Rhinebeck, N. Y., won in her second attempt, while Saul Shapiro of Auburn, N. Y., succeeded in winning in his third try.
Winners of the contest for any one week are not disbarred from further competition. Everybody becomes eligible again with each new contest. Thus far only one winner has duplicated his success. Achad Sanders, of James Madison High School, entered the contest in its first week of competition and received honorable mention from the judges. In the second week’s awards he received a five-dollar cash prize and a silver medal. When the announcement of winners was made in Friday’s Bulletin Sanders’ name was published as a first prize winner of ten dollars, a gold medal and sufficient points to place his school in the lead for the News Trophy.
DEADLINE MONDAY
The Fourth contest ends midnight Monday. All manuscripts must be brought or mailed to the Bulletin before the designated time. The contest board has been forced to disqualify several entrants because their letters arrived over twenty-four hours after the deadline. Winners of the fourth contest will be announced Friday, December 14.
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