The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-01-13
BLOOMINGTON PUPIL is
AWARDED ESSAY PRIZE
Nina Warwick, 13, Wins In Ma
tional Safety Essay Contest

Stephen James, of the Highway Ed
ucation Board, Washington, D. c.,
recently sent the following letter to
Miss Mary F. Athey, principal of the
Bloomington public school, which is
self-explanatory, and which, along
with the prize-winning essay referred
to therein, is published in connection
herewith:
HIGHWAY EDUCATION BOARD
Washington, D. c., Dec. 20, 1926.
Miss Mary F. Athey, Principal,
Bloomington School,
Bloomington, Maryland.
Dear Miss Athey:-We believe you
will be interested to know that Nina
Warwick, a pupil of your school, has
been awarded one of the third prizes
for Maryland in the 1925-26 national
safety essay contest. In recognition
of this success she is entitled to a
check for $500 and bronze medal.
We are taking the liberty of send
ing these tokens to you for presenta-
ton to the pupil in the belief that
you may wish to hand them to her
at some school exercise or assembly.
We believe the pupil merits some rec
| ignition of her success and feel sure
| that she will appreciate her prizes all
the more if presented by you.
You will find a check for $500,
made payable to Nina Warwick, en-
closed with this letter, while bronze
medal is being sent under another
cover.
| Our 1926-27 National Safety Cam
paign is shortly to be announced. Lit
erature will be sent you, and we hope
| to be favored with your cooperation
in these contests.
Please accept our sincere thanks for
your courtesy.
Sincerely yours,
STEPHEN JAMES.
The essayist, who is IS years old,
is sixth grade student in the public
school at Bloomington, the subject
treated by her in her paper being
Safety First" and was as follows:
Claim prevention means better feel
ing from your fellow men and all
others who are acquainted with you;
it also represents efficiency from ev-
cry one. Every loss and damage is
signal that something is wrong.
| Watch the signals and resolve that as
| far as you are concerned there will be
no accident for which you are respon-
sible or which you can prevent.
In 1923, ninety per cent of every
one hundred dollars received for
freight charges on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad was paid out in claims.
| Tn 1904 tho y11o1,l- a.
cent of every one hundred dollars.
can be done. viii YOU help?
Safety is a law and has to be
dealt with accordingly. Safety move
ment isn't theory-its crusade.
Practice safety at all times, not only
| during drive; get safety into your
| system.
Safety above everything" is con-
hsidered very wise thing. We should
endeavor to practice it always-to
preserve life and limb; TO accept the
suggestions made by safety commit
tees. Safety pays. Do not gamble
with death.
We see so many instances where in
every life man takes a chance. We
are sometimes led to believe that self
preservation is not the ruling impulse
of man. To save q few seconds Of
time a man will continue to use an
unsafe ladder rather than spend few
minutes repairing it. To avoid a
trifiing inconvenience, worker, who
has no interest in his company, will
do that very thing, thinking the COM
pany is able to stand the expenses, but
it isn't always the case. That isn't
playing safe A worker will some
times, through thoughtlessness re-
move guard on a machine which he
knows has been placed there for his
own protection. Thoughtlessness is
chief cause OF many an accident
The thought of danger and its conse-
quences are unpleasant, so we ignore
them. We continue in blissful ignor-
ance and thoughtlessness until we are
rudely shaken out of it by an acct
dent. Familiarity with danger leads
US to despise it. We take chances for
years and get away with it, gradually
forgetting that danger exists. Safety
requires constant thought, which is
| irksome to most natures.
To correct an unsafe condition re-
quires time and effort, which we nat
urally shrink from. To some natures
danger is stimulus. To them secur-
ity is monotonous and irksome.
Here is poem that some men and
in some cases women, too, should ever
keep in mind. It's title is "Play Safe"
Another speeder went driving by
AS fast as he could go,
He never paused to read the sign:
Crossing ahead -go Slow"
He knew it all, this wise (?) speed
king,
To learn, he'd not begun;
He drove the car upon the track
A crash, and all was done.
This our advice to such speed FOOLS
Stop; wait, or you may lose"
A moment spent in reading signs
May save life-now choose.
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