Show I Widow Il T O Wins U. U S. S ins Defense Bond n nI f 7 ff r c r W I Y v oY 7 j t vT IX I F E I Yf X r v Mrs BessIe le R. R Alston of Salt Lake Lace City receives from Mayor Ab JenkIns ri right ht U. U S. S Defense Bond as first prIze in unique contest sponsored by Mutual Casualty Casually Company an Lee representative representative looks on SALT LAKE CITY UTAH UTAH- In ceremonies held at the tile City Hall here today Mrs Bessie R. R Alston widowed school teacher was awarded first prize of a U U. S. S Defense Saving Bond for tor the best letter in a wide nation-wide contest sponsored by Mutual Casualty Company on the subject How Howald old should boys and girls be before being permitted to drive the family car Mayor Ab Jenkins an outstanding outstanding ing figure in safe driving despite the fact that he has broken many worlds world's speed records made the presentation tion Peter Pans Crowd Highways In her letter Mrs Alston who has a son in the Army and a daughter who is a nurse declared Thousands of Peter Pans crowd our highways today today children children who will never grow up Put one of these behind a steering wheel and he immediately develops deadly intoxication auto-intoxication which is the cause of most traffic accidents disregarding disregarding disregarding garding signals weaving in and out endangering lives he is the worlds world's worst show Driving maturity Mrs Alston wrote is made up of five special qualities intelligent thinking sane judgment emotional control unfailing courtesy and a high degree degree degree de de- gree of good citizenship j No one of these she continued continued continued contin contin- flashes automatically into being at the turn of a calendar page each is a slow growing product product product prod prod- of unborn intelligence and lifelong lifelong life life- long training Mrs 1 Alston suggested as a means of drastically reducing the appalling number of youthful automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile accidents each year an educational program so vivid and convincing that the public would wholeheartedly support it Attack on Problem nationally known for its long standing policy of helping help ing accidents not to happen sought in the contest the most astute methods of attack on the growing problem of ante aoto accidents among the youth of America The material contained in the many thousands of letters which were received over a two coon two month h period from all parts of the Western Western Western West West- ern Hemisphere will be assimilated assimilated assimilated by experts and incorporated into a safety promotion promotion promotion promo promo- tion plan according to company officials sponsors co-sponsors the Kemper Foundation for Traffic Police Police Police Po Po- Po- Po lice Training at the Traffic Institute Institute Institute tute of Northwestern University and the Not over 50 Club which now has a membership well over |