Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-14
AWARD PULITZER
JOURNALISM PRIZES
YEARS BEST WORK

New York, May 13-The 1923
awards of the Pulitzer Prizes in
Journalism and letters and Of the
travelling scholarships. offered an
nually. were announced tonight by
the advisory board of the Columbia
School of Journalism.
Alva Johnston of the New York
Times, was awarded the $1,000 prize
for the best example of a reporters
work during the year; William Allen
White, editor of the Gazette, En-
poria. Kan, $500. for the best edi-
torial; and the Memphis Commercial
Appeal. Memphis. Tenn, the $500
gold medal for the most disinterest-
cd and meritorious public service
rendered by a newspaper.
The judges selected "One of Ours"
by Villa Gather for the $1,000 prize
for the American novel published
during the year which best present
ed the wholesome atmosphere of
American life. and the highest of
American manners and manhood.
Charles Warren was given the ST.
uUU DIlZc IoI tiiS OtoI Dooh uPoh thC
history of United States for his book
1.-THE Supreme Court in United States
History"
The $1,000 prize in biography was
awarded to 1.-The Life and Letters
Of Walter II. Page" by Burton j.
Hendrick. and the 1000 prize for the
original play performed in New York.
which best represented the educa-
tional value and power of the stage
in raising the standard of good
morals, good taste and good man.
ncrs, was awarded to "IcebOund' by
Owen Davis.
Edna St. Vincent MilIay was
named the winner of the $1,000 prize
for the best volume of verse pub
lshcd during the year by an Ameri-
can author.
Three awards of travelling scholar
ships valued at $500 each offered
to graduates of the Columbia School
of Journalism who passed their eX-
aminations with the highest honor
and otherwise were found most de-
serving, to allow each to spend a
year in Europe studying the social,
political and moral condition of the
people and the character and prin-
ciples of the European press, were
awarded to Geneva Bertha Seybold,
Topeka. Kansas; Lee Merriman,
Chicago; Roswell Sessions Britton,
award were: Paul Friederichsen.
Clinton, Iowa: Charlie Rsuggles
Smith, Cambridge. Mass. and Jo-
sephina Lula Chase. Bakers Field,
California.
An Annual scholarship valued at
$500 to the student of music in
America, deemed the best talented
and deserving. so that he may con-
tinue his studies with the advantage
of European instruction was award
ed to Winter Watts. Brooklyn. n. Y,
for suite for orchestra entitled
"Etchings" and for dramatic bal
lad for voice and orchestra entitled
1.-The Vinegar Man"
Henry Hensche. Chicago. STU
dent in the National Academy of
Design Schools. was awarded an an
nual scholarship valued at $500. Of
fcrcd to the art student in America
who should be certified by the Ma
tional Academy of Design, with
which the Society Of America Artists
has been merged. as the most promis-
ing and deserving.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal
was given the $500 medal for "its
courageous attitude in the publica-
ton of cartoons and the handling or
news in reference to the operations
of the Ku Klux klan," the announce
ment stated.
The editorial which won the award
for William Allen White was entitled
ITO an Anxious Friend" and appear
ed in the Emporia Gazette, July p,
1922. The jury found that the edi-
torial excelled in clearness of style,
sound reasoning and it's power to in
fluence public opinion in the right
direction.
Mr.. Johnston, selected for the ST.
600 prize for the best example of
reporters work. won the award for
his reports Of the proceedings of the
convention of the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of Science
held in Cambridge, Mass, December
q to 80. 1922.
The work Of Edna st. Vincent
Milay which won for her the $1,000
award for the best volume of verse.
included "The Ballad of the Harp
weaver" "A Few Figures from
Thistles," eight sonnets in American
Poetry" and a volume entitled "A
Miscellany"