The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-10-21
$500 OFFERED KY.
SCHOOL CHILDREN
IN ESSAY CONTEST
Kentucky Tuberculosis Association
Offers Prizes For Essays on
Health Topics.

simple health laws which he may
consciously use himself, and also may
pass them on to others.
Prizes will be awarded for the best
essay written on the following sub
jects:
Sixth Grade-The Life History of
the Common House Fly.
Seventh Grade - Is the Public
Health Nurse Necessity or a Lux
ury?
Eighth Grade-If You Have Tuber-
culosis, How May You Cured? How
May You Prevent Others From Taking
1t?
Ninth and Tenth Grades - What
Does the Modern Health Crusade
Mean?
Eleventh and Twelfth Grades-Why
Should l Buy Red Cross Christmas
Seals?
We recommend the following book
and bulletins for reading before try
ing to write the essay (all furnished
free):
Health and Sanitation Through the
Public Schools of Kentucky" depart
ment of Education, Frankfort, Ky)
Bulletin on Tuberculosis, and the
Public Health Nurse Bulletin" Estate
Board of Health, Louisville, Ky)
Modern Health Crusade; and, Red
l Cross Christmas Seals" (Mr. Chas. M.
DeForest, 3s1 Fourth Avenue, New
York city,
Bulletin on Files" metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, Paul Jones
Building, Louisville, Ky; also, Inter
national Harvester Company, Chicago,
In)
Who Are Eligible
Pupils in all public, private and
parochial schools in the State whose
academic qualifications place them in
the Sixth Grade or above as measured
by the State Course of Study.
Terms of the Contest Essay
No essay shall contain more than
one thousand words.
1t shall be written on one side OF
the paper, in ink, by the child sub
hitting it.
] 1t shall be folded neatly and on the
back a record of the following infor-
nation made by the teacher: o
/. Grade vi, VII, etc.
g Subject.
3. Name and post-office address of
writer.
| 4. Teachers name.
5. Rating, decided by judges.
Clearness of conception of the
health problem and its solution Will
be the chief considerations in award
ing the prizes.
The three prize essays in each
school shall be read by the pupils who
wrote them to an assembly consisting
tof the school and invited guests on
Friday afternoon, November 81, 1913.
The local teacher shall then send
the three essays from each grade to
the County School Superintendent to
be entered in the County Contest.
The Judges selected by the County
School Superintendent will read all
essays submitted to them and choose
the three from each grade which seem
to come nearest solving the problem
| discussed. These the County Superin-
tendent will send to the Kentucky Tu-
| berculosis Association, 500 Republic
Building, Louisville, KY, by Decem-
Der Is, 1919, to be entered in the State
! Contest.
Here the judges selected by the
Kentucky tuberculosis Association
will choose the prize essays.
Judges
The superintendent, or principal, or
some one named by him shall act as
Judge in the school contest.
The County School Superintendent
shall choose three judges to read all
essays submitted from the county.
These Judges shall choose the three
Essays from each grade which seem
most pertinently to solve the problem
discussed. They shall mark them first,
second and third and return them to
the County superintendent who will
scad them to the Kentucky Tubercu-
lo2is Association, 500 Republic Build
ms, Louisville, KY before December
IL. 1919.
| The Kentucky tuberculosis Asso-
citation shall name three judges who
Twill read all the essays submitted and
choose the three, which most peril
nently solve the problem discussed,
from each grade entering the contest.
As this is a health rather than an
English contest, the judges will evalu-
ate the essays on the basis of content
rather than form.
The three essays chosen from each
grade by the State judges will be
awarded the prizes named below by
February I, 1920.
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