Milford chronicle., 1931-04-10
ANNOUNCE TENTH
ANNUAL SAFETY
CAMPAIGN FOR
PUPILS, TEACHERS
Essay And Lesson Con-
tests For Elementary
Schools Provide Trips
To National Capital sAs
First Prizes.

FIRST PrIZeS.
Offering 430 cash prizes and the
same number of medals to elemen-
tary school pupils and prizes total
ing 81 900 to elementary school tea
chers, the Highway Education Board
recently announced its Tenth Ma
tiOnal Campaign for street and high
way safety This campaign, COM
prisins a safety essay contest for
pupils and safety lesson contest
for teachers, has been conducted an
nually since the school year 192l-22
in cooperation with state, county
and municipal school authorities
throughout the United States and its
possessions.
The project this year will stress
the rewards for practicing safe con
duct on streets and highways and in
keeping with that, the subject for
the essay contest is My Rewards
for Observing Street and Highway
Safety Rules" The subject for the
lesson contest is Teaching the Re-
wards of Careful Conduct on Streets
and Highways" The competition for
pupils is open to children of the
fifth, SIXTH seventh and eighth
grades, II years of age and under
and the lesson contest is open to
all elementary school teachers of
the eighth and lower grades.
Contestants from every State in
the Union, from Alaska, the Philip
pines, Hawaii, the Canal Zone and
Porto Rico are expected to strive
for the many prizes, aggregating
Sc 500, offered for the best essays
and lessons. In the pupils contest
cash prizes are offered as State
awards. The writer of the best pa
per in each state will receive a gold
medal and check for SIS. Second
prize winner will receive a silver
medal and a check for $lO and third
prize winners will receive bronze
medals and checks for S5. The num-
Der of third prize winners in each |
state ranges from one to 23 depend /
ing upon the school population
From among the essays ranking /
first in each state three national .
prize winners will be chosen, the |
first receiving a trip to Washington
with all expenses paid, at which /
time he is presented with gold
watch. Second and third national
prize winners will be presented with
gold watches btlf wifi not be taken !
ON the trip to Washington.
A AVrTat 10
are more substantial. The
teacher writing the best safety les
sons from among all submitted
throughout the country, will re-
ceiVe trip to the National Capital
with all expenses paid, and will be
presented with a check for $500
Second and third national prizes in
he lesson contest consist Of checks
)nly, the checks being for 5000 and
300 respectively TO the teacher in
each state who submits the best
esson certificate of honor will be
lwarded. All prizes are being do
lated by the National Automobile
'hamber of Commerce.
Essays are to be not more than !
100 words in length, it was an
bounced, while lessons must be at
east 1000 words but not more than
1000 words long. The contest closes
lay Is. Between that date and May
. the principal of each school is
equired to select the best essay and
est lesson submitted by pupils and
eachers under his supervision and
hese two papers must berorwarded :
D the state superintendent of ,
chools or state Headquarters not ,
lter than May %. The state com Z
littee will then select the prize $
inning papers and forward them f
} the Highway Education Board in .
Washington. =
States have been allotted third
riZes according to elementary @
choOl enrolment. While some q
-ates have been allowed but one a
lird prize, most of them have ma o
arially more than that number. r
erritories outside continental Uni n
I'd States are listed for one third Ii
rize, in addition to a first and sec d
nd prize, and this is the case also r
ith Wyoming, Nevada, Vermont Ii
nd Rhode Island. Alabama, the h
'st on the list, is entitled to seven o
ird prizes, white % New York pu- a.
Is will be awa 'ded third prizes. n
with the sec ne -larg- Fl
t allotment, receives q third n,
ICES. =,
In announcing the tenth national w
rect and highway safety cam c,
ign, Thomas H. Macdonald, chair fr
an of the Highway Education m
,ard and Chief of the United or
ates Bureau of Public Roads, as h.
rted that safety education i'm the oT
hools had definitely proved its or
lue in reducing the number of ac- u,
lents. II is receiving increasing oh
lentiOn each year, he said, and
few schools now are wi
thOut safety instruction. r.,
Between 650,000 and 100000 pu-
S participated in the safety essay 10
ltest last year and provision has 81,
an made for an increase in. this Cl
mber in the present campaign. le;