Smyrna times., 1938-04-14
NATIONAL AIR
MAIL CONTEST
Children of Delaware Given
Opportunity to Compete
For Poster Prizes
SMYRNA CHILDREN TOO

Somewhere in the United states
are two school children who will
attain nationwide fame as artists
for their assistance in promoting
National Air Mail Week, which
will begin May IS. The National
Air Mail Week Committee arrang-
ed a poster contest for the boys
and girls in the high schools and
grammar schools and institutions
having similar courses Of study,
according to an announcement here
today by Postmaster James j.
CahiIl, of Wilmington, Delaware
State Chairman of National Air
Mail Week Campaign. This con
test will close May 1, 1888, and a
few days thereafter the winner in
each of the 48 states will be an
nounced. The State Chairman an
nounced that any pupil in gram
mar or high school classes may
compete. He explained that the
poster, to be eligible, must relate
to the Country's air mail service
Of the present and future and its
adaptability to the needs Of the
nation. That allows the contest
ants a broad opportunity TO use
their imagination and to demon
strate their artistic talents. Post
ers will be judged so per cent On
originality of the idea; 25 per cent
for neatness and 25 per cent for
adaptability to promotion Of the
air mail services further develop
ment The poster should be on
cardboard twenty by twenty-five
inches, and submitted to the con
testant's local postmaster. A com
mittee of three judges will be nam
ed by the Air Mail Week Cam
paign Chairman for the State of
Delaware. The posters to be en-
tered in the contest must be ad-
dressed, to the State Chairman,
National Air Mail Week, Poster
Contest, in care of the local post
master,a nd the postmark must be
prior to midnight, May 1. The
wining poster in each state will be
forwarded before May 9 to Major
Paul r. Younts, General Chairman,
Air Mail Week, at Charlotte, NC,
and from these 48 posters vii! be
chosen the first and second place
winners in the National Contest.
The first National prize winner
will receive a fine trophy, and the
second prize winner will receive an
appropriate plaque. The winner in
each state will receive a handsome
trophy from the State Committee
The State Chairman also said it is
important that each entrant in the
poster contest have the school
principal certify that the boy, or
girl, is eligible under the contest
rules. Any postmaster will pro-
VIDE the aspiring young artists
with any desired information con-
cerning these rules, which are sim
pie. State Chairman Cahill said
that the children who participate
in the poster contest will render a
valuable patriotic service to the
United States, because their post
ers may be expected to prove Of
great value in further developing
tne nations consciousness and ap-
probation of the air mail service.
ms service, though relatively
young 10 years, already has at
tanned a place of vital necessity to
the people in their business and So
clal correspondence. However,
vast possibilities remain for furth-
er expansion of the Air Mail and
we are confident that our young
friends in the art classes of the
schools throughout our Nation, al
ready enthusiastic advocates of
aviation, will be more than delight
ca TO contribute a poster to assist
this great nationwide movement.