Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-17
GOD ROADS ESSAY Wins
SCHOLARSHIP FOR GIRL
nlio High School Youth Writes
izc-Winning Article on
"Ship by Truck"
$1,000 SUBMITTED PAPERS
hthcrine Fiourncy Buttcrficld, 10,
of Wicscr, Also Wins Distinction
During Liberty Loan Campaign
and Produced u Play.

AKRON, Oct. iG.-In q competition
at conferred thoughts OF more IMAM
|od roads lG-ycar-oid Katharine
ournoy BultcrAeid. OF Weiser,
aho, won the Harvey S. Fircston"
iivcrsity scholarship for tn" best
say written In the ship by truck
Fod roads essay contest recent!
ncludcd.
School children from every State
the Union competed under the SUI
rv!sion OF educational authorities.
Commissioner OF Education l.. i.
axtOn appointed tho coninittc: that
dyed the essays from among Wash
gton officials.
From one OF the smallest high
iys has lived Mss Buttcrneld
mes forth as one Of tn" best in
rmed young persons In the country
highway transportation problems.
most quarter of Il million high
iool pupils from the metropolitan
hitcd states competed with her
writing a 500-word essay on good
ads and motor transportation For
+ efforts She receives four years
fularshID in any college or uD!vcr-
she chooses to attend.
In winning the scholarship Miss
ttcrncid realizes the dream of her
c-four years In college. She has
oScn TO spend one year at a we'll
own girls school on the Hudson,
enter an eastern university for
rec years.
Wrote Loan Essay.
This young Western CIR! Is not
thout honor In her own home. Dur
2 the war she won FIRST prize for
+; hest Liberty loan essay and wrote
play which was produccd--with the
| OF twenty cOus.nS-upon the rc-
I'm Of her brother from the battle
lda Of France.
Miss But,erhcld.s essay. which won
her the scholarship and honorS
veted by hundreds OF thousands o..
IN school pupils. follows:
ike curious children, the Indians
the plains watched the building
the FIRST transcont!nental railroad.
hen the first engine breathing
coke and flame steamed down upon
tm, they turned their ponies heads
d fled wildly, expecting to feel,
every jump, It's no, breath on
cir cheeks. But the monster never
rsucd them over the trackless
has them now.
"a more mobile kinsman OF the
:omotive demonstrates ability to
ivcl without steel railx. the tract
lie truck. On the farm It Is short
Ing the distance to market. carry
; NHiCc tHc Iosu IN nt.T tie tllnc
Il eating only while II works.
Freight Tranlc CioKged.
Freight traffic everywhere is
,Eged. The present condition IS
oking industry-a menace financial
q otherwise TO the whole country
cry year. to some extent. freight
ngestion recurs. The railroads
We no competitors for the long
vi. which 5ustiiies the short haul at
ch end. Shall they compete for.thc
ort haul, or advise the segregation
short-haul traffic, and Invoke the
Of this rural express" for the
ndrcd-milc runs? Railroads cut
rough community areas single
Imcter. Truck highways spread
!nnumcrable radii
Within 4 mile Of EdInboro town
ere runs an old Roman road. The
;htscers' bus travels over the same
shway that rc-cchoed to the tread
Roman soldiery. The work o. hui
an hands 1000 years ago IL an in
'ument OF human progress today.
g cost OF such highways. distrib-
ed over centuries. fades into insig-
ricancc. Nevertheless IL takes
mcthing besides the enthusiasm
energy OF a pseudo efficiency