The San Francisco call., 1908-03-17
MANY NOMINATIONS
SENT TO THE CALL
Chance to Win $500 Motor
Awakens Great Interest
in All Counties

That The Calls $4,000 prize con-
test viii 60 with q rush from the
start is indicated by the many nomi-
nations that have been already re-
ceived. The interest aroused is wide
spread and practically I'll the nearby
counties as well as the city of San
Francisco and Alameda county have
several energetic workers already in
the field. determined tilat such high
grade prizes shall not be allowed TO
slip by without an effort on their part
The out OF town contestants are
more numerous at the start than was
expected and il is evident that those
who live outside the great centers of
California population fully realize that
the division into districts and suhdis-
1ricts gives each one of them as good
4 chance of winning an automobile as
81 does those who ike IN the more
deaseiy habited districts Of the city.
Those who enter this contest
whether they strive primarily for an
automobile. a scholarship OF trip 10
Hotel del Coronado, are engaged in
educational work from the start. To
be successful il viii be necessary for
each contestant 20 meet many people
and TO study them with view to en-
listing theii aid toward the desired
goal This in itself is an education.
and the broadest education that can he
imagined. From the start the contest
ant has z scholarship IN the greatest
school in the world. the school OF
human nature q study whose possibili
ties are unbounded and which brings
the most lasting results. the ability to
understand and deal with ones fellow
men.
ENLISTED AGAINST HER WILL
In the last contest that The Cali con-
ducteo one Young woman was induced
TO enter by her father Sac was sure
st the start that she had absolutely
no chance to win as she knew so few
people, she said
The idea OF having TO meet people
not the people she knew. but new ones,
was almost repugnant to her She was
accustomed TO living within herself,
and that was her fathers reason for
enlisting her in the contest
Get out and meet people" he ad
Nised her. Meet them not on your
plane, in which you have every advan-
tage, but under circumstances where
they are at home and you are not
Realizing her lack of self-reliance
the young woman took her fathers ad-
vice. So far as personality went she
probably was above the average OF the
contestant, and although suddenly cast
into an utterly unaccustomed sphere
she persisted. Her name did not head
the list of prize winners. but was high
enough up in the roll Of honor TO make
her effort a source of qualification as
well as of profit to herself.
Many will find in this contest
means OF taking them outside of them
selves. Hardly a day passes in many
households that 2 daughter or son
does not complain of having nothing
IN which to interest himself or herself.
This contest. If II is called strongly
enough to their attention. will give
them just that purpose in life for
which they have been longing or Of
which at least they have felt the
need.
TEN DAY OUTINGS OFFERED
Then there is another class TO whom
this contest especially will appeal
those who wish TO travel and have not
the means to crafty their longing.
Such persons will find the trips offered
in this contest especially to their lik-
ing. Thirty-one outings will be
awarded, with all expenses paid, rail
way fare, sleeping car tickets, hotel
bills and even Incidental expenses for
P 10 days outing 70 one Of the most
famous beach resorts on the Pacific
coast and stay in = hotel that is of
sufficient fame to draw tourists from
the Atlantic seabosrd to enjoy its COM
forts. Would not that crafty the long
ing to travel OF most any one2
II you have not already sent in your
name to this contest, a word about how
TO enter and how to work may not be
smiss- With each issue of The Call,
until the voting coupons begin to be
published. Will appear a nomination
blank This is worth 10 votes, and as
only one of them can be filed for each
contestant you Will start even with
every one else. Fill out one of these
pominatien coupons and have one of
your friends sign il or sign ii yourself
and send il in The one who dominates
the winner of the s4,5o0 automobile.
which is termed the grand capital prize,
viii receive as a special reward a $50
diamond ring.
Having fllled ont the HANK and gent