Show Point Four Writing Contest Held Plans for a nation-wide essay contest on the Point IV program with prize awards totalling have been announced by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. The which opened I and closes at March is open to all Americans between the ages of 15 and Prizes will be awarded to two groups consisting of high school-age 15 to 18 and college-age 19 to Names of winners will be announced about May Awards Prizes In addition to the two first prizes of there will be two second place awards of two third prizes of and twenty other prizes of Essays on the subject United States and the Underdeveloped may be submitted at any time after Basic purpose of the said is to stimulate active interest of young Americans in the problems of the Point IV Program and our relationship with the economically less developed countries of the Explains Point IV Explaining that IV is a two-way Lefever said are naturally concerned with pointing up U.S. responsibility to underdeveloped areas in and Latin But we are equally concerned with recognizing our dependence upon these areas for raw materials and to say nothing of the ideas and values we may learn from Chief requirements of the contest are that the essays be kept to one thousand words or less and deal with the moral responsibility of the U.S. and the underdeveloped The contestants may choose any phase of this topic as the subject for their Name Judges Judges of the competition will be Eric president of the Motion Picture Association of Am- erica and chairman of the Inter- national Development Advisory i board for the Point IV J Mildred McAfee former I president of Wellesley college and t a vice president of the National Council of and John C. professor of Christian Ethics at Union Theological New York |