White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-16
PHOTOGRAPH CONTEST TO
STIMULATE GOOD ROADS WORK

A nationwide Photographic con-
test in the interest of the Good
Roads Everywhere" movement, with
cash prizes of $4,000 open to every
body, was announced at the National
Highways association headquarters
in Washington recently.
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 leg
islation in Congress to have the fed
eral government shoulder a part of
the task of good roads" construc-
ton, the National Highways asso-
citation, it is explained, desires Il have
adopted a plan for a system of ma
tional highways, surveyed and locat-
ed by expert engineers, so hal fed
eral funds will not be spent In a hit
or miss pork barrel" fashion, but
in accordance with a scientific plan
as any railroad is built or as the
government itself did in the case of
the Panama canal.
BY means of the Photographic COLI
test 1t is proposed to gather a COM
plete picture of the good and bad
road problem as it exists in every
section of the country, and this the
association will use in its effort to
obtain scientific "non-pork" legisla-
ton from Congress.
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
Photographic Prize Contest.
The first prize, to be given for the
most striking fgood or bad) road
photograph, will be $500 cash award.
ing 1875 chances in all for each person
awarded.
There will be 5 second prizes of
800 each. 20 third prizes of $25
each. 40 fourth prizes of SIS each.
and 100 fifth prizes OF SIS each. max
ing 1876 chances n all for each person
entering 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 Photographic
Contest. National Highways Associ-
alton. Washington, d. C.
Discussing the Photographic con
test on Good Roads. General Du Pont
of the National Highways association
said.
THE purpose of our association in
Uncle Sam enters upon his work of
road building. he starts off on the
right road. The good roads issue Is
a national problem as well as a 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
triet or state, of course. but we want
TO have him know il nationally.
I'VE have inaugurated this pho
%tographic contest as a first step in
this direction and we believe that
with the assistance of all Americans
interested in the good roads problem
we can make 1t a very important
step. An exhibit of photographs pic
turing the good roads problem as II
exists in every section of the country
will make a most graphic and force
full lesson.
I'VE 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 Ii means TO the welfare OF
every man. woman and child in the
United States to have good roads.
For instance. we all know that a
country school house located in a dis
trict of goo droads has a far better
attendance of pupils. and for that
reason "a offer them better educa-
tional opportunities than a country
school I'm the district of bad roads.
Consequently 1t would be of great
value in our contest to have photo
graphs giving a picture lesson to the
eyes of u law makers of what 1t
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