Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-09
THREE JUDGES WILL AWARD
SCHOLARSHIP
Announce Names of Men Who Will
Read Essays Written in Good
Roads Contest For Fire
stone Scholarship

Washington, D. c., August g.
Three distinguished judges, each wide
ly known in his individual field. will
constitute national committee to
award the four years university scho-
larship offered for the best essay
written on the subject Good Roads
and Highway Transport" in a nation
al contest among high school pupils
conducted under the auspices of the
highway and highway transport ed
ucation committee which has head
quarters here.
According to announcement OF the
committee the judges will be Dean
A. \. Johnson, Department OF En-
gineering, University of Maryland
chairman; Hartford Powell, Jr., editor
of Golfers Weekly; and c. H. Illus
ton, Assistant Secretary Of the De-
partment of Commerce and Presiden.
of the Lee Highway Association.
Upon the decision of these judges
rests the hopes and ambitions of tens
of thousands of high school boys and
girls from every state in the union.
During the last six weeks offices {
high school principals and city
state superintendent of schools have
been deluged with essays and manu-
scripts. These now are being site
and sorted, the best from each state
being chosen by process of elimina-
ton. 1t is these best essays that
be presented to the national judges:
together with the best essay sub.
mitted from the District of Columbia,
Porto Rico, and Alaska respectively.
The scholarship is the gift of H.
s. Firestone of Akron, Ohio, a men,
Der of the committee, offered at the
request of his associates on the COM
mittee. The contest represents the
first renewal of the Firestone scholar
ship, the first having been won b.
Miss Katherine Butterfield of Weiser,
Idaho, who attended school last year
under its provisions. 1t is believed
a SIMILAR contest will be held next
year, the committee being urged by
eminent educational authorities to re-
peat a contest that enlists the /;
vities and sympathies of pupils and
teachers alike The 1922 contest will
be announced in February, according
to present plans, and closed prior to
commencement exercises in the
schools.
Arrangements are being made by
the highway committee to have each
of the fifty-one essays typed uniform
" and piven a serial number for the
consideration of the judges. In tn:
manner the Judges will be unaware
of the sex of the writer, or the
ton Of the country from which the
essay comes. They will, therefore, b.
swayed by no motives except the in
hcrent qualities of the manuscripts
themselves.
After the judges have eliminate
all but the best of the fifty-onc they
will read, meeting will be called al
Washington. when they will again go
carefully over the essays and make
their firal decision 1t is believed the
result will be known in time for the
successful contestant to enter colleg
the coming school year, if the win
ner is senior student. In the event
the national prize is given any pur
other than senior in high school
the award Of the scholarship will b.
deferred until the winner is ready to
take advantage of it. The scholar
ship has a value of not less than 81
600.