Winners Announced in Women’s Council Americanization Essay Contest

The results of the fourth annual Prize Essay Contest, conducted by the Department of Immigrant Aid and Immigration Education of the National Council of Jewish Women, of which Miss Florina Lasker of New York City is National Chairman, have been announced. The participants were attendants at the English classes for the foreign-born, which are promoted by Council Sections in various cities. The prize winners were Mrs. Bessie Cholodenko of Newark, N. J.; Mrs. Jennie Ruttenberg of Chicago; and Mrs. Dora Chaiken of Philadelphia, Mrs. Sarah Perloff of Philadelphia; Miss Pauline Klempner of New Haven, Conn.; and Mrs. Ray Klot of Nashville.

The subjects to which the essays were limited were “The Most Important Day of My Life,” “Prominent Americans Who Were Born in My Native Country,” and “How Can We Help to Make Our Country Better.”

The Judges of the contest were John Foster Carr, Director of the Immigrant Publication Society, New York City; Mrs. Edward Josephy, President of the New York City Section, National Council of Jewish Women; and Spencer Miller, Jr., Secretary of the Workers’ Education Bureau of America.

Mr. Carr, one of the judges, in submitting his decisions on the several essays, said: “These essays make an amazing showing, always heartening but sometimes so pathetic, of valiant ambition and effort in the face of every conceivable handicap, of crowded human details, of personal struggle and sacrifice and victory-a showing of heart and fine conscience, of moving love of our Country. What an eloquent appeal they make for a more generous understanding of our Jewish new comers! And how impressively they reveal the good and essential work that the National Council of Jewish Women is doing.”