, 1925-02-25
SCHOLARSHIP
OFFERED STUDENTS FOR
BEST ESSAY ON ROADS
Sixth Annual Competition Open to
High Schools is Announced by
Highway Education Board


with all expenses paid is contained
in the announcement made at Wash
ington by the Highway Education
board of the sixth annual good
reads essay contest, in which all
high school students are eligible to
participate.
In line with administrative poll
cies toward economy students are
being requested to write ESSAYS on
the subject Economics Resulting
from Highway Improvement" hav-
ing In the two preceding years writ
ten papers or subjects dealing with
highways and religion and high
ways and home life.
The contest in the various states
usually is sponsored by one Of the
leading universities or the state de-
partment of education. In Mich
iSan the cooperating agency is the
division of highway engineering and
highway transport of the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor, which
will aid in the announcement OF the
contest, n at its termination will
name competent judges to determine
the best essay from that state The
best three essays from each high
school are to be sent there for re-
view.
The principal prize is a fouT-vsar
university scholarship, offered by
H. S. Firestone, of Akron, Ohio. a
member of the Highway Education
board, of which the U. S. commits
sioner of education, DR.. j. j.. rigert,
is chairman. This scholarship,
which in the past five years a
been won by three young women
and two young men, provides that
the successful contestant may at
tend any college or university in
the United States, with tuition,
room, board, books and special fees
paid by the donor. 1t is said to
be the largest single educational
award offered in this country and
its estimated value to the winning
student is approximately 1000 an
nually, or at least $4,000 for the
four years.
Many state awards are offered
by the cooperating organizations,
including tuition scholarships, cash
prizes, loving cups and medals.
BY educational authorities this
annual competition among high
school students, started in 1920, is
declared to have been the first es-
say contest to assume national pro-
portions. 1t annually attracts ap-
proXimately a quarter of a million
contestants, the number who submit
essays depending on the nature of
the subject. Entire high schools
often participate as part of their
school duties. Essays are received
from every state in the union, while
many of the best come from outly-
ing territories and possessions, such
as Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines,
Porto Rico and the Canal Zone.
The award in 1924 went to John
Liska, "a Wisconsin high school
student, whose subject was, 1.-The
Relation of Improved Highways to
Home Life" The first winner, Miss
Katherine Butterfield, of Weiser,
Idaho, was graduated last year from
Northwestern University, near Chi
cago. Other successful students are
Miss Garland Johnson, Bridgeport,
West Virginia, 1921; Karl G.. Pear
son, District of Columbia and Linds-
borg, Kansas, 1922, and Miss Dor
othy Roberts, Harlan, Kentucky,
1923. With the exception of Liska,
all of these students are in college,
and will enter when he has COM
pieted his high school course.
Rules of the contest do not limit
participation to high school seniors,
but provide hat any student at
tending high school may submit an
essay. Nc other conditions, except
those governing the preparation of
the paper itself, are provided. Es-
says must o exceed 700 words in
length inc must be handed school
principals Or teachers not later than
May l, 1925. Selection of the best
essay is by a process OF elimina-
ton.
Complete information will be for
warded each person who inquiries
of the Highway Education Board,
Willard Bldg, Washington, d. c..
The best essays of previous years
have been collected in pamphlet
form and are available for distribu.
ton. These booklets may be found
in most libraries, or upon request
to the Board.