Williston graphic., 1916-05-04
LIBERAL PRIZES FOR
ROAD PHOTOGRAPHS
NATL HIGHWAYS ASSN WANTS
PICTURES SHOWING CON.
TRASTING CONDITIONS

movement, with cash prizes OF $z,-
600 open to everybody, was announced
at the National Highways Association
headquarters here.
Purpose of the Contest
The photographs selected in the
competition will be used to establish
in Washington a national exhibit on
the good roads problem designed pri-
marily to promote a nationally con-
| ceived scheme of highways.
In connection with the pending
legislation in Congress to have the
federal government shoulder a part
of the task of "good roads construc-
ton, the National Highways Associa-
ton, it is explained, desires to have
adopted plan for a system of ma.
tional highways, surveyed and located
by expert engineers, so that federal
funds will not be spent in hit or
miss "pork barrel" fashion, but in
accordance with scientific plan as
any railroad is built or as the Gov
ernment itself did in the case of the
Panama Canal.
BY means of the Photographic con-
test it is proposed to gather com.
plete picture of the good and bad
road problem as 1t exists in every sec
tion of the country, and this the As
sociation will use in its effort to OBJ
tain scientific "non-pork" legislation
from Congress.
Prizes to be Awarded
The cash prizes of $4,000 were sub
scribed by General Coleman du Pont
Chairman of the Board of National
Councillors, and Charles Henry Davis.
President of the National Highways
| Association. The competition will be
known as the du Pont-Davis Road
Photograph Prize Contest.
The first prize, to be given for the
most striking (good or bad) road
photograph, will be q $500 cash
award. In all there will be 166 cash
prizes awarded.
There will be S second prizes of
$lOO each, 20 third prizes of $25 each
40 fourth prizes of SIS each, and 100
fifth prizes of IS each, making 166
chances in all for each person enter
ing the contest.
The competition will be kept open
for eight months, closing at noon,
Tuesday, November 7th. All photo.
graphs should be addressed to "Good
Roads Everywhere" Photograph Con-
test, National Highways Association
Washington, D C.
Discusses Photographs Desired
Discussing the Photographic con-
test on Good Roads, General du Pont
of the National Highways Associa-
tion said today:
"The purpose of our Association in
this matter is to see to it that, when
Uncle Sam enters upon this work of
road building, he starts off on the
right road. The good roads issue is
a national problem as we'll as state
and county problem. Whatever the
federal government does in this mat
ter should be done on a national basis
upon a plan nationally conceived.
every member Of Congress knows
the good roads problem in his dis
trict or State, Of course, but we want
to have him know it nationally.
eve have inaugurated this photo
graphic contest as first step in this
direction and we believe that with the
assistance of all Americans interested
in the good roads problem we can
make it a very important step. An
exhibit of photographs picturing the
good roads problem as it exists in
every section of the country will make
most graphic and forceful lesson.
eve want the subjects of the pho
tographs in this contest to demon
strate not only how bad roads are,
and how good they can be made, but
also what it means to the welfare of
every man, woman and child in the
United States to have good roads. For
instance, we all know that country
school house located in a district of
good roads has far better attend
ance of pupils, and for that reason
can offer them better educational op-
portunities than a country school IN
district of bad roads.
Consequently it would be of great
value in our contest to have photo
graphs giving a picture lesson to the
eyes of our law makers Of what it
means to children in our rural dis
tricts to have their school house To-
Gated on good roads. This is only
one idea that has come to me. There
are hundreds of such lessons on the
value of good roads which can be
taught by photographs.
"Perhaps the best way to do this is
through photographs contrasting
good and bad road conditions. We
will arrange out exhibit to do that,
but in order to allow individual COM
petitiors to take advantage of some
such striking contrast as may have
come to their attention, the Associa
tion has not limited competitors to
one photograph, or to one prize. Each
competitor can send in as many pho
tographs as he wishes, and he will
get as many prizes as his work de-
serves.
photographs will be Judged first
upon their merit in strikingly en-
phasizing road conditions (good or
bad), second in their pictorial inter-
est, and third in their Photographic
excellence"