PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Awards

Topics for 1926-27

Teachers: How to Correlate the Facts as to the Effects of Alcohol with Work for Character Training. National Prize, $50.

Normal Schools and Teachers' Colleges: Facts and Methods for Educating Present-Day Youth to Total Abstinence from Alcoholic Beverages. National Prize, $50.

Colleges: What the Modern Social Order Has to Gain by Emancipation from the Drink Custom. National Prize, $100.

Senior-Junior High School Classes: Choice of (1) How Abstinence from Alcoholic Liquors by the Individual Benefits the Community; (2) Dialogue: Why Not Use Cigarets? National Prize, $25.

Sophomore-Freshman Classes: The Steps from 1825 to 1920 by which the United States came to National Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic. National Prize, $25. (May be correlated with history or civics.)

Seventh-Eighth Grades: Choice of (1) Why the United States Prohibits the Sale of Beer and Wine; (2) Why Did the College Teacher Say to Young People, "Leave Smoking to Your Competitor?" National Prize, $15.

Fifth-Sixth Grades: Project for a Temper

ance Work Book. Details given in the Subjects and Rules leaflet. The National Prize ($10) will be awarded to the "Work Book." Honorable mention will be given the best essay from rural schools which are unable to make the work book, on the subject, "Why I Intend to Let Alcoholic Liquors Alone."

Fourth Grade: Reproduction of story, "The Boy Who Talked with Abraham Lincoln." National Prize, $5.

Posters on Alcohol and Tobacco. Elementary and High School. National Prize, each $10.

Detailed information is given in the leaflet, "Subjects and Rules for Prize Contests-192627," published by the National W. C. T. U. Publishing House, Evanston, Illinois.

Further information will gladly be given by the national director, Miss Cora Frances Stoddard, 400 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

Harmon Foundation Survey Awards

The Harmon Foundation, 140 Nassau St., New York City will make four quarterly awards, totaling $1,600, to writers of short articles on social, civic or industrial subjects. There are three awards each quarter-the first, $250; the second, $100; and the third, $50. The successful manuscripts will be published in the Survey Graphic.

ALVIN F. KEMP

Alvin F. Kemp, who has succeeded the late Eli M. Rapp as superintendent of the schools of Berks County, is a native of Berks County. Superintendent Kemp is a graduate of the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown and of Muhlenberg College. He holds his master's degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Superintendent Kemp has devoted himself to the educational field. He taught in the winter and attended normal school classes during the spring in the early years of his preparation. After completing the normal school course he taught seven terms in Heydt School, Washington Township. He resigned that position in 1905 to become principal of the Longswamp Township High School. In 1915 Superintendent Kemp became assistant superintendent of Berks County, a position which he filled ably until his present promotion.

Mr. Kemp's ideals in teaching have been accuracy, self helpfulness and mastery of sub-. ject matter on the part of the pupil.

ARE YOU TRYING TO CLIMB? Are you trying to climb where the chosen are, Where the feet of men are few?

Do you long for "a job that is worth one's while?"

Well, here's a thought for you.

The pots of gold at the rainbow's end

Are sought by the teeming mob,

But the fairies who guard them choose as

friend

The man that loves his job.

It isn't the kick, it's not the pull,

That brings the strong man out:

But it's long time work, and it's all time will, And the cheerful heart and stout.

Have you faith in yourself? Do you want to win?

Is your heart for success athrob? There's just one thing that can bring you in With the winners-love your job.

THOMAS J. GEORGE HONORED

Thomas J. George, superintendent of the Carnegie schools until last June, retired amid honors conferred by various groups associated with him during his thirty years of work as principal of the high school and later as superintendent of the schools of Carnegie.

The School Board elected Mr. George superintendent emeritus at his former salary. At a testimonial banquet given in his honor by the directors and teaching staff, C. E. Dickey, superintendent of the schools of Allegheny County; William M. Davidson, superintendent of the Pittsburgh Schools; and Ruth E. Dennis of the teaching staff made addresses. Superintendent Norman L. Glasser, successor to Mr. George, presented him with a white gold watch, chain and knife in behalf of the school directors and the teaching force.

A few days later at the eighth grade commencement exercises the 2,500 pupils of the Carnegie schools gave Mr. George a beautiful mahogany radiola 28. At a reception of the Carnegie High School Alumni Association in honor of Mr. George, the president of the Alumni Association announced that a bronze bust of Mr. George was being prepared and that it would be placed in the high school building in memory of his services as founder and organizer of the Carnegie High School thirty years ago.

A VALUED APPRECIATION

We have greatly enjoyed going through the September PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL JOURNAL. It rises admirably to its responsibility as the official organ of the largest state education association in the world.

Very cordially yours,

JOY E. MORGAN, Editor.
Journal of the N. E. A.

F. THEODORE STRUCK

F. Theodore Struck, on September 1, resigned as State Director of Vocational Education to become Professor of Industrial Education and head of the Department of Industrial Education at State College.

Doctor Struck obtained his B. S. degree from the University of Oregon in 1911; his A. M. degree from Columbia University in 1914; and his Ph.D. degree from the same institution in 1920. Before entering the teaching profession, Doctor Struck had practical experience in the trades, in architecture and in engineering. His professional experience covers a period of fifteen years as teacher, supervisor and administrator in Vocational and Practical Arts Education. From 1918 to 1920 he was instructor in Teacher Training at Pennsylvania State College. He accepted a position in the Department of Public Instruction in 1920 and served four years as Assistant Director of Vocational Education. For the past year, he has been Director of the Vocational Bureau.

Doctor Struck is the author of "Construction and Repair Work for the Farm" and several bulletins. He is a member of the Beta Chapter, Phi Delta Kappa.

INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LAN-
GUAGE CONGRESS

The International English Language Congress will meet in Philadelphia under the auspices of the Sesquicentennial Exposition, November 25 to 27. Dr. Ralph Dornfeld Owen, Professor of Education at Temple University, is chairman of the national committee.

Melvil Dewey, a member of the group of scholars who held an international English meeting during the Centennial Exposition, will address the meeting.

Some of the leading philologists and linguists of the United States, believing that English can and should be made the international

auxiliary language, have accepted membership on the National Committee of Thirty-five to sponsor the Philadelphia meeting.

Among them are Dr. Roland Kent, professor of Indo-European philology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Edward Prokosch, professor of Germanic philology at Bryn Mawr College. Six national organizations are represented on the committee,-the Philological Association, the Modern Language Association, the Linguistic Society, the American Library Association, the New England Association of Teachers of English, the National Council of Teachers of English. All of these organizations and scholars take the viewpoint that linguistics, like biology, can be an applied science as well as a descriptive science.

The National Council of Teachers of English, of which Dr. Sterling A. Leonard of the University of Wisconsin is president, has accepted Dr. Owen's invitation to hold joint meetings with the Congress next November.

WESTERN CONVENTION DISTRICT President, William H. Martin, Wilkinsburg Secretary, F. W. Shockley, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

Members of our Association in Western Pennsylvania have a rare treat in store on October 22 and 23, and it is hoped that many of the schools will be closed on October 22 so that the teachers may secure the benefit of the inspirational speakers and the group conferences.

On Friday forenoon, October 22, the Pittsburgh city institute will be held in Syria Mosque. The institute and the Western Convention District will hold a joint session there in the afternoon. On Saturday morning in the Schenley high school the various departments will meet at 9:00 A. M. for two hours. 11:00 A. M. the final general session will be held in the Schenley auditorium.

At

Through the cooperation of William M. Davidson, Superintendent Pittsburgh schools, and Grover H. Alderman, Dean School of Education, University of Pittsburgh, the following imported speakers have been secured:

1. Franklin Spencer Edmonds, Author of the Edmonds Act of 1921, Philadelphia 2. William Finley, Nature Study Specialist, Washington, D. C.

3. William Scott Gray, Dean College of Education, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

4. William Mather Lewis, President George Washington University, Washington,

D. C.

5. Albert E. Winship, Editor Journal of Education, Boston, Mass.

Teacher.-Tommy, your arithmetic paper is very poor. I shall have to write your father. Tommy.-Give him fits, teacher; he did that

paper.