Show Two Girls and One Boy Legion Essay Winners Two vo girls and a boy were declared i to be national winners In the annual essay saY contest conducted by the na- na na national Americanism commission of 10 25 1 J 12 the American Legion for Miss Elizabeth of Wat- Wat Watseka Wat-j Wat seka Ill took first place amon among the 0 and more essayists who en- en entered the competition She won a 11 scholarship of to tn be used In her further education She plans to take a course In music at Northwestern unIversity She has hag been teaching piano since she was twelve years old Second place with a scholarship ot of 00 was won b by Miss l Gertrude Car Car- Carter Carter Carter ter Stockard whose home Is on a acre acre farm at the top of one of the most beautiful hills In the Ozarks a amile amile amile mile and a 11 half above aboe the little vIllage of Ark She has never attended school a day In her life I j Her mother who was for fifteen years n teacher In the schools of Eu- Eu Eureka Eureka Eu Eureka I EuI reka Springs and Fort Smith Ark directed her sole Instruction She has hasI I been driving In to Fort Smith In the fatally family car once a 0 week when the roads are not too muddy to study music at one of the best studios In the Southwest She plans to continue her herI musIc at the School of Applied Arts In I New Nev York city while she works on onI time the bachelor of oC arts and bachelor of I education degrees at Columbia university university sity I I 1 Earle A Tompkins now a freshman freshman fresh- fresh freshman I man at Massachusetts In Agricultural colle college e won wan the third prize of O i Ills home Is ut lit Mass i lie plans a business career I The essays dealt with reasons why 1 Ule he Legion as an organization otI of ot I World war veterans Is Iii concerned with upholding and defending the Constitution I of the lie United States as Legion Legion- Legionnaires Legionnaires by hy their constitution are arc I i pledged to do |