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Show ing the result of a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Garvan of New York, in memory of their daughter, Patricia, is being conducted con-ducted by the American Chemical Chemi-cal Society. Every high school and secondary school student in the coilntry is eligible to participate. partic-ipate. Six cash prizes are being offered to the winners in each state and six scholarships to Yale or Vassar will be awarded in the national competition between be-tween the state winners. Each contestant may submit one essay es-say not to exceed twenty-five hundred words which must be confined to one of the following six subjects: The Relation of Chemistry to Health and Disease to the Enrichment of Life, to Agriculture and Forestry, to National Na-tional Defense, to the Home to the Development of the Industries Indus-tries and Resources of Your State. The best essay of these six subjects in each state will be awarded twenty dollars in gold, and six best essays will be selected se-lected by the National Committee Commit-tee from among the state winners. win-ners. The writers of the winning essays will be awarded four year scholarship to Yale University or Vassar College, each scholarship scholar-ship to carry with it five hundred hun-dred dollars a year m cash in addition ad-dition to tuition fees. National and state educational education-al officials have endorsed the project and over twenty thousand thou-sand sets of reference books, including in-cluding The Life of Pasteur, Creative Chemistry, The Riddle of the Rhine, Discovery, The Spirit and Service of Science, and the Future Independence and Progress of American Medicine Med-icine in the Age of Chemistry, have been donated to schools and libraries all1 over the country. Booklets and posters describing describ-ing the contest have been distributed dis-tributed and it is estimated that more than a million essays will be written by High School boys and girls. Through the generosity gener-osity of the publishers the Committee Com-mittee has been enabled to offer sets of the reference books to interested in-terested individuals at the actual cost of printing. This was necessitated nec-essitated by the great demand for the books and the fact that the funds of the Committee did not permit the free distribution of books to those other than schools and libraries. Committees sihoilar in form to the National Committee are being be-ing formed in each state and to these state committees will be entrusted the duty of selecting the six best essays written by the boys and girls of their state. These committees will be announced an-nounced through the committee in charge and through the press. The competition will close on April 1, 1924 and on that date all competing essays must be in the hands of the designated state authorities. Booklets describing the contest con-test and sets of reference books at cost, may be had upon application appli-cation to Alexander Williams, Jr. Secretary, Committee on Prize Essays, American Chemical Society, So-ciety, Munson Building, New York City. Committee on Prize Essays : II. E. Howe, Chairman. W. D. Bancroft, Charles II. Henry, Alexander Williams, Jr Secretary. AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Committee on PVize Essays Headed by Herbert Hoover and made up of men and women leaders in practically every field of endeavor, a National Committee Commit-tee formed to act as judges in the American Chemical Society Prize Essay Contest was announced an-nounced today. Dr. Charles H. Mayo of the Mayo Foundation of Rochester, Minn., represents the medical profession on the committee; F. E. Weyerhaeuser, the lumber field and Julius Rosenwald, of Sears Roebuck and Co., Chicago, the merchants of the country. Prominent women on the committee, com-mittee, will be Alice Ames Winter, Win-ter, President of the General Federation of Women's Clu4s, Ida M. Tarbell and Jane Addams. Dr. J. R. Angell, President of Yale University and Dr. II. N. MacCracken, President of Vassar Vas-sar College, have accepted membership, mem-bership, representing the nations educators, while scientists will be represented by Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, physicist, who has been the recipient of the Nobel No-bel Prize, Dr. J. C. Merriam, the head of Carnegie Institution and Dr. Edgar F. Smith, past president presi-dent of the American Chemical Society and former Provist of the University of Pennsylvania. Gen. J. J. Carty, Chief Engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, United States Senator Arthur Capper, who will represent the agricultural agricul-tural interests of the country, Robert J. Cuddihy, of the Literary Liter-ary Digest, George Eastman of the Eastman Kodak Company and United States Senator J. W. Wadsworth, Jr., Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs, are also members of the Committee. The Prize Essay Contest, be- |