ESSAY COMPETITION.

White Ribbon, Volume 31, Issue 368, 18 February 1926, Page 3

ESSAY COMPETITION.

The special attention of all readers of the "White Ribbon” is asked for the following paragraph, that all may do what they can to encourage teachers and i-urents to take an interest in this competition, which cannot fail to be of benefit to the schools and individual children who may take part in it, by turning their thoughts to the question of w,bat true heroism is, and how it may >est be exercised in their own lives. It is hoped that many of the New Zealand schools will enter for the competition, and that the interest of the children generally will be awakened. A WORLD HERO PRIZE COMPETITION has been organised by the National Council for Prevention of War (for particulars, write 532 Seventeenth Street, North-West, Washington, D.C.), offering 1200 dollars to school children all over the world for short essays on the twelve figures in human history deemed most worthy of remembrance as the worlds greatest heroes, giving due consideration to (1) nobility of character, 2) fearless and self-sacrificing devotion to a great cause, (3) constructive power for hu rrvinity of a permanent character. Tin competition closes on May 18, 1926. ESSAY COMPETITION. Who are the Twelve Greatest World Heroes? Clement M. Riddle, of Nev