4 i BLANCHE Wi. WINS ESSAY PRIZE At the mass meeting bfeld in t high school auditorium last Friday evening in the interests of the Smoky Mountain National Park campaign, one of the chief features of the evening's program was the awarding of prizes to the three high school students submitting the best essays on the advantages of the Smoky Mountain National Park, and the reading of the essay by the first prize winner, who was Miss Blanche Penlaftd, a student in the tenth grade. The winner of second prize ?as Miss Miriam Henderson, of the Jleventh grade, and of the third prize. Miss Nina Wheeler, of the tenth grade. The prizes as awarded by the campaign committee were five dollars for first prize, three dol lars for second, and two dollars for third. Of the 100 essays submitted this contest, the committee judge Miss Penland's the best, and trulj displayed superior talent in the a of writing, stating as it did the facts in the case in a ccnyiMN con vincing and well-written style. The reading of the essay H; .nss i land was received most enthusiastic ally by the audience and w; s - e rally accorded an excellent bs sion on the subject. The essay follows: "The Proposed Nation be located in the Gr.rU . >> Mountains of Western North Can Una, is not only 'something new or der the -sun,' but it looms before th public just now in such pr that this particular area ?s tm , cynosure of all eyes. *hen men u, nation-wide financial and ****?) fame are craning their neck-, in America's arena ?f P1-?^re waiting for our next mo\ the game, it is h^h time to such a move. The question are we going to do about no longer be evaded >n ?,%c "The region sel- cted i*1 appropriate t'or h a par its towering rusiged m peaks, broad valleys. wide-spr forests and beaUV-t '-d strtai __ possesses natural Kauty unsurpass, in America. Spec: - of shrub, plant, flower, tree hitd and fish abound. The fact was .elected by. ? national o rv tee after eight month- pa research and survey in a . lumbe, . . _ states, should make us indeed proud ?f our State, and can*? ever> eif.r. to be put forth in favor of the pr , JCC"Bveo- intelligent citizen knovj the benefits we derive each ye from the 'tourist traffic'; the val 0f a park, comprising a great natu al plavground for tho^ who si pleasure in healthful recreation, c nut be computed in dollar - and ey It would mean more tourist.-, ^ tver before; tourists mean mone;. money tor hotel owners, famier, uarage-owners; churchy . theam ? and charities; to the butcher, tne baker. the candle-stick make.. Money means process. Our h. accommodations would enlarge. bank deposits increase, the m value of produce would rise, churches would be filled, our .? ours assembly places - Mo^ Junaluska. and others wou t hold those who apply at theiv "Our population would i^ Many tourists who came ^ and pleasure would loca^ ently. California has 980 who first came to C tourists. ^ anderbilt. an men who have helped North Carolina on th came to Ashe^ :lle as ing health and re* i"6 developed water po resources call for much capital; tou to spend somewhere ence htem to spend it needed? "It will mean conserva' tiv?e flowers, trees, shrubs life will flourish here f making the P^rk a me botanist, orinthologist, a. student- No lumbering is u National Park This m 'his gr shall this one of the nanfis of primes- : ores be destroyed? K if in this district .arr deprive thousa- o bat will suppi he ment lot* dar.? out unerative. Luii.peric weakest arguirfnts for lj inc les; has n mater | ing to "The, | The K1' ing to in the and w ! I borin. "V the S j for 6ll?| ing. profe. more <1 than pl al we l than "()i| in by ?A*<