Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-10
President TAKES
! BIG PEACE Prize
Nobel Awards Bestowed on
Mr., Wilson and Leon
Bourgeoise.
RITES ARE HELD TODAY
Message of American President One
Feature of Notable Exercises
at Christiania.
RITES ARE HELD TODAY
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHRISTIANIA, Norway. December
INSTRUMENTATION of the Nobel peace
prizes for 1919 and 1920, which have
been awarded. respectively, to Leon
Bourgeoise of France and Woodrow
Wilson, President of the United States.
took place here today. Formal an
nouncement of the awards was made
yesterday.
A message from President Wilson to
be read upon the presentation of the
1920 prize had been received by Albert
g. Schmedeman, American minister to
Norway. and was read by him during
the ceremony.
Cabinet Members Attend.
The exercises took place in the pres
ence. of members of the cabinet in the
house of parliament. many foreign Dip
lomats being in attendance. j. G. Loev-
land, former premier, spoke, in handing
the prizes to the French and American
ministers, who We're introduced by the
speaker of the chamber. Anders johnson
Buen. The committee which made the
award consisted, in addition to Mr..
Loeveland, of Hans Jacob Horst, a
prominent banker: Bernard Hansen, a
member of parliament; DR.. Halvden
kobt, a university professor, and VOL
lert konow, former minister of foreign
The last time the Norwegian parlia-
ment in session awarded the Nobel
prize was in 1906. when the late
Theodore Roosevelt received the
honor; On that occasion. American
minister Pierce received the prize on
behalf of Mr.. Roosevelt. and, having
thanked parliament and the Nobel
committee. read message from the
then American President
Sixteenth BestOwal Of Gift.
NEW YORK. December Howard
or the Nobel peace prize today to
President Wilson "as the person who
fraternity of nations and the abolish
ment or diminution of standing
armies and the formation and in
crease OF peace congresses" marks
the sixteenth bestowal of the gift of
the Swedish inventor Of dynamite AL
fred ID. Nobel. whose name it bears.
|. PRESIDENT Wilson is the third Ameri-
can TO receive the peace prize. the
others being Theodore Roosevelt and
Elihu Root
interest on about $4,000. 600, left for
the purpose by Mr.. Nobel, normally
amounts to about $4,000, but is payable
In Swedish kroners, which, at the
present rate of exchange, represents
about s29.100 in American gold. A
} kroner in the United States at present
mas value of only 1914 cents, as COM
pared to it's normal value of nearly %
cents Recipients in countries where
the kroner is above par. however. will
receive much more than the amount
stipulated. Knut Hamsun of Norway.
winner of the Nobel prize for litera-
ture. thus will receive $4,000 and a
German award would make the recip-
lent In that country almost million
are. Similar awards.are made in the
1xrrr
viduals who have attained supreme
eminence in the domains of physics.
chemistry and medicine.
List ,efs the winners.
Winners of the peace prize. since the
1und was established have been as fol-
lows; f19e1) ]. H Dunant, Swiss, and
rather Palsy. French: 1902) E. Du-
common and A. Cobalt. both Swiss !;
Sisos9 SIR W r Cremer. English !:
(19o4) Institute of International law
(190s) Baroness Won Suttner. Austrian !:
(1906) Theodore Roosevelt, American !:
(l9o7) Z. T. Moneta. Italian, and L.
Renault. French; 190S) K p. Arnold
son, Swedish. and F. Bajer. Danish !;
1909) A. NJ. F. Beernaert. Belgian.
and Baron De Constant, French; (IsI01
the International peace bureau of Switz-
erland: G91D T. MIC, Asher, Danish.
and a III. Fried. Austrian: Q912)
Ehhu Root, American; (1913) H La
rVHtdiue. belgian. tl9l1D International
Red Cross. Geneva. Switzerland: (l919)
Leon Bourgeoas, French member of tn e
commission which drew the league of
nations covenant: 1920) Woodrow Will
son. American. No prizes were awarded
for the years 1914, 1915, 1915 and 1918.
Presidents Acceptance.
President Wilson. in his letter ac-
cepting the Nobel peace prize, which
hA a.
ceremonies at Christiania. said that
If this were the last peace prize to be
offered, he could not accept IL, "for
mankind has not yet been rid of the
unspeakable horror of war" In the
years to come. the President added,
there will be abundant opportunity
for others to distinguish themselves in
the crusade against hate and fear and
war"
I'm accepting the honor of your