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Show OGDEN WOMEN WIN TWO PRIZES To stimulate interest in the railroads' rail-roads' "safety first" movement, the safety committee of the Utah division divi-sion of the Oregon Short Line railroad rail-road last November instiuted an essay es-say contest on the subject of "What Safety First Means to' Me." The contest con-test closed December 15. Yesterday the winners were announced. The winners are Mrs. Joseph Severn, Sev-ern, first. Mrs Martha D. White, second; sec-ond; Mrs. Mary Anderson. Mrs. Mary Kan-en and Mrs. Ella Kelson, third Only one third prize was offered, but these three contestants were considered consid-ered The third nrize will b cUmi $1 each. The first prize is $10, second $5 and third $2.50 Each of the third pnze winners will receive ?2.50 Mrs. Severn Sev-ern is the wife of Joseph Severn, division accountant in Assistant Su pcrintendent Malonc's office. Mrs White is mother of A. R. White of the signal department. She lives at 113 James court, Ogden Mrs Anderson Ander-son is the wife of a section foreman fore-man at Cornish, Mrs. Karren is the wife of R. B. Karren, tower man, Salt Lake, and Mrs Kelson, 815 East Second Sec-ond South street, Salt Lake, the wife of Frank Kelson, foreman molder. , Salt Lake shops. 1 For Women rnd Girls. The contest was open to all women wom-en and girls in the families of employes, em-ployes, and widows and daughters of deceased employes. A subcommittee, with A- W. North as chairman, was appointed to supervise the competition competi-tion Thirteen essays were written They were all considered so excellent that those who did not receive prizes were each given a gold "safety" button, but-ton, not a srfety suspender button, but one to be worn as a mark of merit. The llterateurs'Whp judged the essays es-says Were W. W. Armstrong. Miss Kate Williams, Colonel Willard A. Young. Miss Clara Colburno, F. H. Knickerbocker. A. F. Brewer, Miss Agnes Swan, J. R Wills and G. F. McGinn The works of the authors were submitted to them, numbered and no names attached. Mrs. Severno's prize winning essay follows: "What 'safely first' means to me: Home, comfort, magazines and books, pretty things, a little art, n little travel, trav-el, children reared in a 'homey' home with the unalienable' right to educational advantages: fatherly as well as motheily discipline and comradeship: com-radeship: an occasional romp with 'Dad; the chummy, Inadvertently given good counsel of father these things go to make up a home, the maintenance of which rests in equal exchange between railroad and employe, em-ploye, of money and human energy. Settlemont an Insult. "A desolated home the father's life sacrificed n service, no amount of poetry or eulogy can soothe the heartache or picture the shock; no life insurance policy or railroad settlement set-tlement can put complacency in the place of distress. To a woman's heart such things are a mere insult when proffered as a substitute for the big, fatherly personality which has been sacrificed. "A maimed home a limb lost, or an eye; just so much earning capacity, capac-ity, to speak practically; just so much of ones light to complete luc snatched snatch-ed away. To be crippled, what fortitude for-titude it demands! Here again money, mon-ey, damages, are an all too poor compensation. com-pensation. "To llvo one's complete life this is what safety means to me; the maintenance of a home in exchange for a man's best energy This Is just and right and good; and safety first, aye, a man assured that the railroad regards him as a man, not a machine, ma-chine, and really cares for his safety and his home, what good servico will h'e not heartily render!" Second Prize. The essay which won the second prize was written by Mrs. White of Ogden, and is as follows: '"What Safety First Means to Mo Is a broad, far reaching subject of potential interest to all who earn their livelihood in railroad service. We women whose goings and comings are infrequent have small opportunities to study dangerous conditions and their possible remedies, which I understand un-derstand constitute the basis of work taken up by the 'Safety First movement. move-ment. However, though we may not actively engage in solving these problems, prob-lems, we can and should lend support sup-port and encouragement to those whose minds arc working out a solution so-lution which carries with it a benefit, bene-fit, to us all. Ask the widow and the orphan, made so bj the death of a husband and father, and they would answer, 'Safety First' might have spared to us our loved one. Ask the man with the empty sleeve or a missing limb, and he would tell us that his. life might have been hap-1 pier, his possibilities Increased, had he had the protection of 'Safety First.' So then, as the lives and happiness of so many thousands of our American citizens are affected, let the movement move-ment to aid humanity prove an Inspiration. Inspi-ration. The economics will tako care of thomGelves, and this I trust Is what 'Safety First' means to all who , ask not Cain's immortal question, 'Am I my brother's keeper?'" ' |