Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-22
UNKNOWN HERO
BURIAL BASIS IN
LITERARY GEMS
News Story and Editor
ial Each Win Prizes of
900 For Authors.
B o o t h Harrington S
Novel, Alice Adams,'
Tops Pulitzer List.

New York, May 21-(By The AS
sociated Press. Booth Harrington
again has won the Pulitzer prize of
$1,000 for the American novel best
presenting the wholesome atmosphere
of American life and the highest stand
ards of American manners and man
hood Columbia university announced
Sunday. The prize winning novel was
Alice Adams
Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie"
won the 1000 prize for the Ameri-
can play best representing the "educa-
tIonal value and power of the stage in
raising the standard of good morals,
good taste and good manners"
The $1,000 prize for the "best book
of the year" history of the United
States goes to James Tuslow Adams
excluding as too obvious the names of
and the $1,000 prize for the "best
American biography teaching patriot
ism and unselfish services to the peo-
pie illustrated by an eminent example.
excluding as to obvious the names Of
George Washington and Abraham Lin
coln,' to Hamlin Garland, for "a
Daughter of the Middle Border"
Poems Even Draw $1,000
Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Col-
lected Poems" won the $1,000 prize for
the best volume of verse published dur
ing the year.
Arlington ceremonies for Americas
unknown soldier" last November pro-
vided the material from which were
written the prize-winning newspaper
stories and the prize winning news
paper editorial Of the year.
kirke l.. Simpson, of the Washing
ton staff Of The Associater Press, for
his stories on the return of the "un-
known soldier" was awarded the $1,000
prize for the "best example Of re-
porter's work during the year"
Best Editorial Was HeraITs
Frank NJ. O'Brien's editorial ~The
Unknown Soldier" published in the
New York Herald on November II, was
awarded the $500 prize for the ''best
editorial article written during the
year; the test Of excellence being
clearness Of style. moral purpose,
sound reasoning and power to influ-
ence public opinion in the right direc-
ton"
Tho prize Of $500 for the best news
paper CaItOpA Wcut W 1bOlIlu AiEOV, OF
the New York World for his cartoon,
'On the Road to Moscow" published
August s. 1921.
N. Y. World Wins On X. X. X. Expose
The New York World won the gold
medal for "the most disinterested and !
public service rendered by |
any newspaper during the year, for its |
expose of the Ku Klux Klan."
Three travelling scholarships of |
81 500 each for graduates of the Co
Iumbia school Of journalism "who have
passed their examinations with the
highest honors and are otherwise most |
deserving" went to Robert Arthur
Curry, of Nassau, Bahama Islands:
Zilpha Mary Carruthers, of Denver;
and Robert Henry Best, of Spartan
burg, s. G.
These scholarships are awarded to
enable them to spend year in Europe
% study the social, political and moral
conditions Of the people, and the char
lcter and principles Of the European
,ress."
Edith Ben. Of Des Moines. Iowa,
vop the $500 scholarship to the
American art student ''who shall be
certified as the most promising and de-
erving BY the national academy of
lesign."