House & Garden 
KELLY 
SPRINGFIELD 
TIRE 
“It’s great to have friends for an emergency like this.” 
“It’s better to have Kelly-Spring fields—then you never have the emergency.” 
—Submitted by Miss Claire Ncivilian 
Prize Contest 
Announcement 
AFTER weeks of con- 
sideration of the con¬ 
versations submitted by 
the 120,000 or more per¬ 
sons who sent in entries 
to the Kelly-Springfield 
Prize Contest advertised 
in the March issue of this 
magazine, the judges 
rendered a decision in 
favor of the dialogue sent 
in by Miss Claire Newman 
of 703 Mt. Prospect Ave., 
Newark, N. J. 
T HE judges had a difficult task. There were a large number of exceedingly clever 
entries, but many of them had to be discarded either because they did not fit the picture 
or because they were so similar to captions suggested by two or three hundred other 
contestants that it was impossible to decide which had phrased the idea best. 
Every letter submitted was read as it came in and was immediately either laid aside for 
further consideration or eliminated for one reason or another. When the closing date came 
the judges had over a thousand entries for final consideration. This number was gradually 
sifted down to fifteen. Each of the three judges then wrote down his first, second and third 
choice of the fifteen. When the lists were compared, it was found that Miss Newman’s contri¬ 
bution was the only one which had been chosen by all three judges, and a check for $250.00 was 
therefore mailed to her. 
A contribution from far-off Peru got two votes and so did one from a Pennsylvania farm, 
but the winning caption was the only one that got all three votes. 
The entries came in from all over the world—from Canada, Mexico, Cuba, South America, 
Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan, China, France, England, Alaska and every state in the Union. 
Only four contestants failed to recognize the picture as a Kelly-Springfield advertisement. 
