Arizona republican., 1921-05-02
PLANS FUR NATIONAL
 GOOD ROADS ESSAY
 CONTEST PERFECTED

Various government agencies ana national organizations have joined in announcing the new good roads and Highway transport national essay contest. to be open to all pupils Of high school grade. The national prize is a four-year scholarship in the uni versity or college chosen by the sue cessful contestant. It is offered by H. $. E'irestone, Akron, Ohio.
 The contest will be conducted by the highway and highway transport education committee, pr. |. P. Clax- ton, United States commissioner of education, chairman. who has an- nounced rules governing the contest.
 Essays, it is said, must be not more than 500 words in length, and must be written on the subject Good Roads and Highway Transport" All essays must be in the hands of local committees not later than June IS, when local and state committees will begin the task of grading the many thousands of essays expected.
 Local and state prizes are to be an- nounced soon in many places, but, ac- cording to the committee. essays winning first hoHors in local and state contests will be eligible to com pete for the four years university scholarship whether local and state prizes are offered or not.
 Among government agencies and national organizations cooperating to make the contest successful are the bureau of public roads, of the de- partment of agriculture; the bureau of education. of the department of the interior; the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce; the Firestone Ship by truck bureau: the National Grange: women's clubs, chamber of POr,rnprca and anfOnOtiva tions everywhere.
 The contest is a renewal of the Ship by -Truck-Good Roads" essay contest held among high school stu dents last year. in which more than 100000 essays were submitted.
 Miss Katherine F. Butterfield pretty 16-year- high school pupil of Weiser Idaho, was the victor ir this contest and is enjoying the scholarship at a famous eastern school. As a result of her conquest Miss Butterfiefd will receive a four year college education.
 In addition to the scholarship, Mis-: I Butterfield recently was paid a higf l honor when she was called to Wash | ington to receive at the hands O 1 President Warren G. Harding a cer. | tificate of the scholarship during i formal exercises on the White Hous, 1 laWn- MT. fTeSIOne ana nemDeT 1 of the highway and highway trans ! port education committee. of whicl 1 he is a member, were present fo l these exercises, which were photo 1 graphed and filmed by newspaper and moving picture news weeklie and shown to hundreds of thousand of parents and pupils throughout tn l country.
 l Back of the idea of the essay con | test is the wish of the highway trans | port committee and co-operatin
 organizations to bring to the atten I ton of the high school pupils of tn | country the urgent need for imme
 diate improvement in the nations 1 highway system.
 Members of the highway and high
 way transport committee are: Dr.
 P. Claxton. United States commis
 sioner of education, chairman: T. Macdonald chief, l.. s. bureau (
 public roads; Col. M. NJ. Patricl
 corps of engineers, United State
 army; Roy D. Chapin. National Auto
 mobile Chamber of Commerce: V
 s. Keller. president. American Asso
 H. s. Firestone, Rubber Associatio
 of America; Dean F. [. Bishop, Sc
 ciety for the Promotion of Engineer ing Education: Dr. Walton c. Johl
 U. S. bureau of education. secretar-
 and Prof. c. I. Tilden. Yale univeI sity. director The offices of the con mittee are in the Willard buildin
 Washington, D. C.