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Show PRIZE ESSflYDN ! SHIPK High School Pupils of U. S. to Compete for College Scholarship High school pupils of tho country are to be given an opportunity to com-peto com-peto for a four-years' university scholarship schol-arship to be awarded for the best osoay submitted In connection with Ship by Truck Good Iloads Wock, May, 17-22, according to an announcement announce-ment made today. w)iich said that tho essays will be read and the prizes and the prizes awarded by Judges to be appointed by the Feleral Bureau ofj Education. j Tho content, it is said, Is for the purpose of focusing public attention on tho necessity for good roads and the feasibility of tho motortruck as a I short haul medium. According to plans approved by Commissioner of Education P. P. Claxton, contestants, to be eligible to compcto for the national prize, first! must have won one of the prizes to be awarded by various organizations and. Individuals in their respective communities. com-munities. The national prlzo is to be known as the H. S. Firestone University Uni-versity Scholarship, and will be givon In any college or university chosen by tho winner. All High school pupils may submit a five hundred word essay, es-say, which must be ontitled, "Ship by Truck and Good Roads," but if the national prize is won by any ,pupil other than a Benlor, the award will be deferred until the winner is ready to matriculate at tho institution of his cholco. |