Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-04-02
OFFER PRIZES FOR
!. LOAN COMPOSITION
Contest Open to Pupils of All
Grades Above the
Fourth.

Combining the effort TO interest the
$1,000 boys and girls attending the
public schools here in the Liberty Loan.
with regular class work IN English, 4.
Rae du Bell, executive secretary of the
Liberty Loan campaign for Wilmington
and New Castle county, has arranged
with Clifford J. Scott, City Superintendent
ut Schools, TO give prizes to the students
writing the best composition on the
Liberty Loan.
The contest will be open to all pupils
from the fourth grade on, and the work
will be counted part ~ the regular
course. the pupils being given credit for
their effort
Mr. du Bell has also arranged for an
essay contest among the students of
Delaware College and OF the Women's
College of Delaware on the subject of
WHY | Should Buy a Liberty Bond. 3"
The terms and details of the contest
were completed by DR. Samuel c. Mitchell
president of Delaware College, and MIR
( du Bell some time ago and have now been
announced to the students There will
he three prizes at Delaware College OF
$50. SIS and $40 respectively for the
mems college and the same prizes for the
womcn's college. The essays must be
handed in before O'Clock April @
md will be judged by Professors f. V.
Vaughn, G. : Counts, f. f. Clark X r.
Greenfield, c. T.. Dutton, !. r. Moore,
+. NJ. h. Foster and ". q. Shepherd.
In the high school in this city there
will also be three prizes of SIS, $40
and S. respectively I'm each Of the
five grammar schools there will be three
prizes of $40. S. and 50. respectively. and
in each of the p primary schools there
viii be ) prizes of s.. 81. and 81.
The prizes will be given in War Savings
and Thrift Stamps and the money gwen
by philosophical citizen Of Wilmington
when the matter was placed before HIM
hy Mr.. du Bell
Tomorrow Mr. du Bell Will confer with
members of the Women'S Liberty Loan
committee and explain the school contest
II is expected that the womcn'S committee
viii cooperate Ia the fullest extent in
the matter OF stirring up interest among the
school children in the contest
The judges Tor the prizes IN the public
schools have not vet been selected nor has
the date been set when the prizes Will
lie awarded These matters will Toe
attended to within the next few days and
the judges and other facts announced
ELKs sUBsC RIBE 81. 600
AT a meeting OF Wilmington Lodge
No. 307, b. p q. Elks, held last night.
il was decided to withdraw ) 900 from
the funds Of the order and purchase
Liberty Bonds to that extent with the
reserve money. Frank Turner was chosen
chairman of workers committee that Will
solicit sales of bonds among the Elks
individually
Liberty Loan workers for St, Georges
hundred are preparing for an enthusiastic
opening of the campaign on Saturday
VI meeting held al the headquarters al
The committee 81 Middletown last night.
plans were completed for big automobile
parade on Saturday afternoon
Starting from Middletnwn at | o'clock
close 10 100 automobiles will tour the
hundred. There will be band. school
children to sing patriotic airs and each
mother of bow who has gone to war viii
ne an honored guest on me trip. Stops will
be made at Mt. Pleasant. Port Penn.
and Odessa. while short
meetings ar held. rapid-fire orators
explaining the need for the loan and how
the bonds can be bought returning TO
Niddletown in time for a meeting at +
0 clock. At : in the evening there Will
lie meeting IN the square and later the
orators Will explain the loan between reels
at the movies.
During the campaign the ladies will
make a house 10 house canvass of the
entire hundred having mapped out every
home throughout the hundred. Business
men. fnancerS. churches and all branches
OF society have promised to do their bit
In making this loan the most popular