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THE LEXHIPEP
OCTOBER 16, 1924
$100 CASH PRIZE OFFERED
HIGH SCHOOD STFDEXTS
Best Essay on “Safety on the Public
Highway” to Bring- Fine Sunt
A cash prize of $100 is being offer
ed to the high school student, regu
larly enrolled in a North Carolina pub
lic or private school for white chiidren
who writes the best essay on, “Safe
ty on the Public Highway.” The prize
will be given by Traveler’s Protec
tive Association.
The following rules govern the con
test.
1. Any student, regularly enrolled
in any public or priviate high school
for white children in North Carolina
in the fall of 1924, is eligible to enter
the contest. In case of dispute the
state superintendent of public instruc
tion shall determine whether or not
the contestant is entitled to enter.
2. All manuscripts shall be plainly
typewritten one side of the paper and
the manuscript itself shall bear no
mark to Indicate its authorship. Each
manuscript, however, is to be accom
panied by a sealed envelope in which
shall be the name of the applicant
and the postofflce address. This en
velope shall also contain a statement
from the principal or superintendent
of the high school certifying that the
contestant is a bona fide student of
the institution.
3. All manuscripts shall be forward
ed to the state superintendent of pub
lic instruction, Raleigh, N. C., post
marked not latter than January 1,
1925. Each envelope which the manu
script is mailed shall be marked plain
ly on the outside “Highway Safety
Contest.” The state superintendent
shall number the manuscripts conse
cutively as they are received and the
same number placed on the envelope
containing the name and credentials
of the contestant. This envelope shall
remain sealed in the office of the state
superintendent and only the number
ed manuscripts forwarded to the
judges. The identity of the contest
ant selected, will therefore, be un
known until the sealed envelope car
rying the winning number is opened.
4. The state superintendent shall
appoint a committee of three disin
terested parties, who shall be able to
judge the essays both from the stand
point of literary merit and appropria
teness to safety on the highways. The
judges shall read the essays and re
port the winning number to the state
superintendent.
5. No essay shall contain more than
2,5 00 words.
6. A cash prize of $100 furnished
by the Travelers Protective associa
tion, will be forwarded to the success-
contestant within 30 days after the
judges render their decision.
7. A list of the names of all con
testants, together with their schools
and postofflce addresses, will be sent
by the state superintendent at the
close of the contest to the Travelers
Protective association.
HOW, WHEN AND WHY WE DIE
Statisticians of national reputation,
digging into United States Census Re
ports, coroners’ records, and the ex
perience tables of big insurance com
panies, in their efforts to learn how
and when and why we die, have un
earthed these startling facts:
20,000 men in perfect health today
will be taken to a hospital tomorrow.
Pour out of every 100 employees
are absent from duty every day in
the year on account of sickness or
accident.
Excepting only consumption and
pneumonia, a person is more liable
to accidental death than from any
other cause.
15,000 wage-earners yearly leave
work permanently disabled.
Between suns, every day in the year
automobiles kill 3 9 persons, 2 7 are
murdered, and 41 commit suicide.
Automobiles killed 14,000 people
in the P^nited States in 1922, which
was one fatality every 3 8 minutes.
Between the ages of 20 and 6 0, one
death out of every eight is accident
al, and for every accidental death
there are from 120 to 140 disabling
accidents.
Five times as many people are kill
ed and injured every year as die from
natural causes.
There are 113 accidents to one fire.
5 7 automobile accidents every hour;
1,370 every day, 500,000 every year.
More than 5,000 people are killed
every year bj’ fires and over 50,00 0
injured: 6,000 drown; 7,000 die in
rialroad accidents.
One person is accidentally kill'''d
every six minutes; 10 every hour; 240
every day; .87,600 every year. This
means that at the present rate, 876,-
00 0 persons are sentenced to die by
accident within the next ten years.
Twenty-three persons are accident
ally injured every minute; 1,380 every
hour; 33,120 evei-y day; 12,088,800
every year.
Careful and painstaking research
has demonstrated, beyond question,
the 8 5 per cent of our fatal and dis
abling accidents might have been
prevented by the exercise of ordinary
care and foresight.
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