Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-22 | Page 6 | Five Points Student Winner of First Prize in Essay Contest Held under Direction of Army

FIVE POINTS STUDENT WINNER OF FIRST PRIZE IN ESSAY CONTEST HELD UNDER DIRECTION OF ARMY i Announcement of winners in the school children's contest for the best essay on the benefits to be derived from an enlistment in the new peacetime peace-time army is made today by Sergeant Edward- A. Stumpf of the Ogden arniy recruiting station. Decision has been held up by the great number of papers submitted for examination, the officer saitl though they were written early In March. , First place was awarded to Miss Zella Andrews of the sixth grade, Five Points school, the award being an autographic au-tographic kodak offered by Browning Bros. Others were: Katheryn Kay, grade 7-B, Central Junior High school, second, $10 merchandise, Wrights; Alice Leon Joy, North Junior Hlgn school, third, $5 merchandise, Lewis jewelry; Kathleen Alsup, Washington school, $5 merchandise, .Richardson-Hunt .Richardson-Hunt and Washington Market. The) Central Junior High school is given the bugle offered by Glen Bros.-Rob-erts for the most essays written. Prize winners may secure certificates at the recruiting station. Miss Elsie Coleman of Idaho Falls, Ida., was winner of the district, (Utah and Idaho), silver loving cup. Miss Andrews, 12 years of age, Is author of the following winning 1 essay : Uncle Sam's new peace time army is going to be great. It's to be one big school, training men to meet the demands of peace and of war. Think what it will mean to our nation. Every time I see a soldier it makes me want to be one too. even if I am a girl. They look so big and strong, clean and cheerful. Is' it any wonder though? The training they received while in the U. S. army made them what they arc. Some day I want my brother to enter this great training school. My Daddy knows what an enlistment In the army docs for a person, for he fought in the Groat World War. I hardly knew him when he came back, for he looked so big and strong. He often tells me what his army life has meant to him and then he adds, "It was the strict discipline of It ail that made real men of us." An army life seems to be such a well planned life. The boys have many happy times, aside from real work. Think of being able to see other parts of the U. S., and of the world, as they can. I know many older men, right here at home, who haven't been outside of their own state. If they live to see my brother in training and enjoying life won't they feel queer? I can just see them shaking their heads and saying, "Strange how that boy Is enjoying life. He's bound to win in whatever work he does for the training he is receiving receiv-ing can never be measured in dollars arid cents." Won't that sound good' America means a great deal to me. sin'ce Daddy fought "over there," and. under the grandest flag the Stars and Stripes, I want to do my part by being loyal to my country and my flag always. Every boy in the United States will become a bigger man nnd a better citl7.en through enlisting in the Un;ted States army for: "I'd like to see the sort of a man the flag could boast about, I'd like to see the sore of a man it cannot live without, I'd like to see the type of man that really is American. With head-erect and shoulders square, clean minded fellow, just and fair. That all men picture when tney see, The glorious Banner of the. Free." ZuLA ANDREWS, Martha Society Home, Ogden. Utah.