Milford chronicle., 1924-01-11
ESSAY BY KENTUCKY
GIRL WINS In GOOD
ROADS COMPETITION
Miss Dorothy Louise Roberts To Re.
ceive H. S. FirestOne 4 Years
University Scholarship.
ROADS AND RELIGION
Distinguished Committee Awards
Coveted Prize To Mountain Lass.
Enters Ohio College.

Miss Dorothy Louise Roberts, Har
ian, kentucky, high school girl, is an
nounced by the Highway Education
Board as winner of the H. S. Fire
stone -Four Years University Scholar
ship, offered for the best essay enter
ed in the fourth annual good roads es.
say contest.
Daughter of a Methodist minister
resident in the heart of the Kentucky
mountains, she becomes the recipient
of one of the most coveted prizes. and
perhaps the largest single education
al award offered in the United States.
More than 10000 high school stu
dents from all sections of the coun-
try sought the prize which a high gov
eminent official, distinguished edi-
tor, and learned churchman award
ed to her. All essays were written on
the subject "The Influence of High
way Transport Upon the Religious
Life of My Community"
Members of the reviewing commit
tee that awarded the scholarship were
the Secretary of War, John w. Weeks;
Dr. Albert Shaw, New York City, edi-
tor Of the Review of Reviews; and
Bishop William F. Anderson, Cincin-
natl, Ohio. They served at the request
OF the United States Commissioner of
Education, DR.. John J. Tigert, and
spent weeks reading the several es-
says which previously had been chos-
en- as the best from the respective |
states and territories from which they |
came.
The committee awarded honorable |
mention to the essays by Miss Mar
Jorle Mathews, Portland, Oregon; Ben
Thompson, Peoria, Arizona; and Miss
Addie M. Muller, Sanford, Florida.
Miss Roberts essay had first been
selected as the best from her school,
and then as the best from the State of
Kentucky by the Extension Depart
ment of the State University of Ken ]
lucky, which awarded her a gold
medal as token of Kentucky honOrs. {
A similar procedure was followed in q
other states, where educational insti- c
buttons cooperate with the Highway
Education Board in the promotion of b
an annual competition among high +
school tsudents. t
A similar contest is conducted each Il
year. The subject of the essays TO be e
written in 1924 is "The Relation of Il
to Home Life" All high
school students may compete, and the S
contestant will receive the p
scholarship for that year. lo
When Miss Roberts essay was Sc b.
ected by the judges, she became the 81
ourth in quartet of high school stu ST
tents that have been so honored Each
u them is now in university or col al
eye under the generous provisions of ha
he scholarship. All expenses incident W
o tuition, room, board, books, and HI
pecial fees for each of them are being
betrayed by the donor, H. S. Fire FRI
tone, Akron, Ohio, a member of the
Highway Education Board. nit
The first to win the award was Miss or
-atharine F. Butterfield, Weiser, Ida u
o, who will graduate in 1924 from Tu
OrthWestern University, Evanston, rel
illinois. The second is Miss Garland pa
now attending West Virgin !
. University, Morgantown, West Vir- be-
mia The third is Karl G. Pearson, Sm
indsbOrg, Kansas, a freshman in
Gorge Washington University, Wash FRO
gton, D. c. Miss Roberts, whose IA COL
er is now pastor of church at Mar son
tia, Ohio, has entered Marietta Col Boo
&c. A
She is the eldest daughter of DR.. Hol
ID Mrs. T. B. Roberts. She was born the
June Fl, 1906, in Methodist Epis- Bet
pal parsonage at Cooperstown, N. vice
near the spot where Cooper wrote The
J famous Leather Stocking Tales. Cas-
Miss Roberts essay follows: best
IE INFLUENCE OF HIGHWAY socl
transport UPON THE RELIoI- Th
Gus LIFE OF MY COMMUNITY hosI
BY DOROTHY LOUISE ROBERTS eu T
of Harlan, KY. one
he Appian Way, most famous of Ro- MI
n highways. was called bv Horace visit
ihnell "tbe Queen of Roads >; II, estab- Harl
ing Christianity Paul and other early MI
istians made great use of the TWENTY visit
J famous military roads radiatine phia.
n Rome. "And so we came to Rome.
the brethren came
leet us as far as The Market of APP
e" And it came to pass that Rome, Sci
ng the greatest road, built later the
test church, st. Peters. The greatest
oh of Christianity built at the end TIL,
he greatest highway. Strange coinci- whicl
e! Here is food for thought. From on D,
very first the mightiest Of all relig- write
went forward upon the great high forme
of travel. State,
e present writer lives in the noun Christ
of Southeastern Kentucky, where "No
religious life is backward, and the forum
} almost impossible. The purpose of limited
paper is to show how these two facts in fiji
each other. One dislikes to write knew
ling uncomplimentary of ones own men +
unity, but one should study condi- nrei,d
before suggesting remedies. tbens,
survey of Harlan County shows Cover
seven churches, with thirty-six or snbere
and licensed preachers. Excepting nossib-
churches in the county seat these onsIar
eak, struggling organizations, To- Outhur
principally in mining camps, serv- driven
unframed preachers. These men jdecisio
Of whom could with difficulty pass nal an
trance examinations of frst-class rim a :
chool, work at the mines or else conduc
throughout the week, having little surely
for study or preparation. Such wrong
ship develops only religion of the innocer
nal, irresponsible type. the ign
sites from our criminal courts in SO thew
that these outlying churches fail that the
It the situation. Recently within of Ours
Iys in this locality twelve persons preme
,lent deaths. and TIM
raj lawlessness is not in reality the your ris
# crime. It is only the outward life, AMI