The Winslow mail., 1924-11-07
CHILDREN MAY HELP
SOLVE PROBLEM O F
SAFETY ON HIGHWAY

Can children solve the traffic prob
lem?
In connection with the fourth ma
tional safety educational campaign an
nounced recently by the highway edu-
cation board, American school child
rem are to be given an opportunity to
answer the vexing question that now
engages the attention of the best en-
gineering minds of the country.
The announcement offers more than
$4,000 in cash prizes and medals to
elementary school pupils and elemen-
tary school teachers who submit the
best essays and the best lessons in
the 1924 national essay and national
lesson contests. Officials of the board
are not optimistic enough to believe,
it is said, that any. final solution will
come from the essays by children,
but it is believed that a nationwide
consideration Of the traffic problem
will have a beneficial effect in reduc-
ing the number of accidents and fat
alties on streets and highways.
The basic principle of the contest
is to train children in careful con-
duct on streets and highways and to
impress upon them sense OF per-
sonal responsibility This contest is
the fourth consecutive competition
conducted under the auspices OF the
board, approximately one million, two
hundred thousand pupils, an average
of at least 100000 annually having
participated in the three preceding
contests.
All pupils of the fifth, sixth, seven
oil RI
whether attending public, private or
parochial schools. Four hundred ana
eighty-eight checks and as many med
ais will be given for the best state
essays, while three national prizes
will be awarded for the three essays
chosen as the best of all those to be
written throughout the nation. The
first national prize is a gold watch
and a trip to Washington, with all
expenses paid. The second and third
state prizes are gold watches of re-
lative values.
All state and national prizes in the
pupils contest are given by the Nation
al Automobile Chamber of Commerce,
which has incorporated in its safety
program a plank calling for safety
education in the schools. In addition
to the prizes and medals for pupils,
this organization offers to the teacher
writing the best practical safety les
son a check for $500 and a trip to
Washington. AS second and third
prizes checks for $500 and 5000 will
be given to the successful teachers.
Pupils are requested to write es-
savs on the subject MY Conduct on
Streets and Highways" while teach
ers are invited to prepare practical
lessons for use in the class room. Es-
says are not to exceed 500 words in
length, while lessons by teachers may
vary between 1000 and 5000 words,
according to the inclination of the
teacher.
Each state is entitled to one first
prize, a gold medal and check for
fifteen dollars, and to one second
prize, silver medal and a check for
ten dollars. The number of third
prizes. bronze medals and checks for
five dollars, varies in proportion 10
the elementary school enrolment
The board announces that the CO.
operation of educators, the women,
clubs, chambers of commerce, civic
organizations, automobile clubs and
others, that has marked these; con-
tests in the past, is pledged for this
year. Many communities, it is report
ed, add strictly local prizes to the
state and national awards offered.
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