The border vidette., 1923-12-29
NEW YORK TEACHER WINS.


best practical lesson on highway
safety entered in the 1922 ma.
tional contest, according to an
nouncement today by the High.
way Education Board. More
than 10000 elementary school
teachers competed.
| Five hundred dollars in cash
and trip to Washington with
! all expenses paid is the reward
Miss Lenney will receive, her
prizes the gifts of the National
Automobile Chamber of Com
merce.
! Judges who reviewed the les
sons we're Mrs. Louis N. Gel
dert, Washington, D. O., Nation.
al President, League of Amer
ican Pen Women; DR.. A. B.
Meredith, Hartford, Conn, Com
missioner of Education for Con.
necticut, and DR.. Ernest Hamlin
Abbott, New York City, editor
in chief of The Outlook. Their
estimates of the lessons were
carefully made, and a meeting
re quired before decision could
be reached.
| Second national honors in the
1922 lesson contest were award
ed the lesson plan by Miss Hen
rietta M. Horn berger, a teacher
in Pueblo, Colorado, schools,
who will receive a check for
three hundred dollars. Miss
Clyde v. White, Briggs School,
Portsmouth. Virginia, is the re
cipient of a check for two hun
dred dollars, token Of third
national honors awarded for the
lesson she entered in the contest
Altogether more than one
thousand dollars is thus given
by the automotive organization
to stimulate interest and concern
in the problems of highway safe
ty, aside from amore substan-
tial sum, approximately $4,000,
given children for essays on the
subject. The contests. which
were renewed with the same in.
ducements in 1923, were con.
Quoted under the auspices of the
Highway Education Board, with
the active cooperation and sup
port of State Departments of
Education, and school officials
generally.
Four other teachers we're
awarded honorable mention.
They are Miss Genevieve L.
White, State Graded School.
Mazomanie, Wisconsin; Miss
Josie Jaynes, Goodson Rural
School, Hughes Springs, Texas;
Miss Bertha E. Wienbar, Con.
way Springs Graded School.
Conway Springs, Kansas, and
Mr.. M. K. Tschirgi, Sheridan.
Wyoming. They will not re
ceive awards, but their lessons
were considered as ranking next
to those so designated by the
committee.
Miss Lenney's lesson was
taught to seventh grade pupils
as part of a lesson in -civics.
She obtained a portion Of her
material from actual observa
tions with her class at a "the
intersection of streets where
traffic was heavy" THE streets"
she sail, "were used by a great
variety of moving vehicles and
various classes of people. The
careless, reckless, needless, ig.
norant behavior of the average
person on the streets convinced
the pupils that traffic laws must
exist; that they must be known;
that they must be enforced, and
that accidents are avoided with
ease when a few simple traffic
rules are strictly adhered to.
The judges read only the best
lesson from each state, the
others having been previously
eliminated. In an examination
of these studies." wrote Mrs.
Geldert, my difficulty has been
the embarrassment of riches in
the material offered. Each ma
nuscript deserves prize"
DR.. Abbott said: Man, one
of the feeblest of animals, has
built for himself muscles of iron,
supplied with enormous energy,
and can now run to and fro tire
lessly and at speed which no
animal can approach. We have,
therefore, created for ourselves
a whole new environment. The
children of coming generations
must learn to adapt themselves
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