Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-10
.SH|P-BY-TRUCK ESSAY
CONTEST is WON BY GIRL
Katherine Buttcrflcld, of Idaho, Is
First I'm National Competition
OF 100000 Students.
REWARD is SCHOLARSHIP
High School Pupil Shows Unusual
knowledge OF Transportation
ProbIcms-Shc Elects to Spend
-Four Years In University.

In n competition that centercd
thoughts Of more than 100000 high
friends. upon good roads:-16-ycar-old
katharine Flournoy Butteriicid, Wei
ser. Idaho. won tho Harvey $. Fire
s, us, university seh9lar ,hn s tGr me me
Truck Good Roads essay contest re-
Gently concluded.
School children from every State
IN the Union competed under the
ties: Commissioner OF Education l..
i. ClaXton appointed the committee
that Judged the essays from among
Washington officials.
schools OF the West. where she al
ways has lived. Miss Butterneld comes
iorth as one Of the best-informed
highway transportation problems.
according to the contest Judges. Al
most $4,000 high school pupils from
aections OF the United States com
pcted with her in writing 500-word
essay on good roads and motor trans
porta,ion For her efforts she re-
any college or university she chooses
10 attend.
Contest In National.
inc contest and prize was an
Truck Good Roads Week las, May
:ud was part OF MIR. Fircstone's con-
'r!but.on TO It's success. SO great
was the interest aroused by this cf-
Tor; 10 turn the thoughts OF thous-
anus or young people to one OF the
!huohs greatest problems that mo-
.1r companies, newspapers. maya
sociat!ons gaTc hundreds Of city and
state prizes.
In commenting on the nation wide
scope OF the contest. Mr.. Firestonc.
VINO II Il prominent tire manutactur-
az. said:
Il, WAS with the hope of inspiring
ne men and women OF tomorrow to
national problems that I offered the
scholarship The results lived up to
my Highest expectations. 1t ought
10 give great impetus TO the good
IN winning the scholarship. Miss
butterhcld realizes the dream of her
iite-,our years, in college. She has
Sh"feh 10 spend one year at n we'll
Known girls school on the Hudson
near New YORK City. She then plans
- enter an Eastern university for
tnrcc years.
-, Girl Won Previous Honor-.
THIS young Western girl Is no;
~l,hou; honor in her own home. Dur
ing the war she woh first prize for
"a" best Liberty Loan essay. and
wrote a play which was produced
Win The pid OF twenty cousins
IN" battle fields OF France.
Members OF the committee which
made the awards Of national prizes
we're Or. G. -. Jarvis. United States
irreau of Education, chairman; DIR.
walton G. John. United states Bureau
-! Education: II. :. Fairbanks. United
sitics Eurcau OF Public Roads, and
Ike Johnson. secretary o. the high
Ways committee OF the National Auto
mobile Chamber OF Commerce. The
bcFt essays were winnowcd out by a
PROCESS OF elimination through city
sad state committees until tho ma
t.Dnal committee, which sat in wash
.Gston. had before II only one essay
from each state.
The Winning Essay.
Miss Butterhel6's essay, which won
ipr her the scholarship and honors
coveted by hundreds of thousands OF
niGh school pupils. follows:
Like curious children, the Indians
Of the plains watched the building
oi the FIRST transcontincntaI railroad.
When the first engine breathing