The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-14
EDITORIAL PEN Of
v. A. WHITE WINS
PULITZER P RTE
New York Reporter Gets
$1,000-Other Awards
Are Announced

NEW YORK. May lathe 1928
awards of the Pulitzer prizes in jour
nalism and letters. and of the trav-
cling scholarships. offered annually,
were announced tonight by the ad-
visory 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 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 disinterested and
meritorius public service rendered by
a newspaper.
The judges selected lone of Ours"
by Villa Gather. for the $1,000 prize
for the American novel published
during the year which best presented
the wholeso me atmosphere of Amer
lean life and the highest standard
of American manners and manhood.
Charles Warren was given the
$4,000 prize for the best book upon
the history of the United States for
his book. The Supreme Court in
United States History"
Hendrick Gets Prize.
The $1,000 prize in biography was
awarded to The Life and Letters of
Walter n. Page" by Burton J. Hen
drick. and the $1,000 prize for the
original play performed in New York
which best represented the aduca-
tonal value and power Of the stage
in raising the standard of good NOR
ais, good taste and good manners,
was awarded tC "Icebound," by owen
Davis.
Edna ST. Vincent Mllay was named
the winner of the $1,000 prize for
the best volume of verse published
during the year by an American au-
thor.
Three awards of travelling scholar
ships valued at $1,000 each offered to
graduates of the Columbia School of
Journalism who passed their exami-
nations with the highest honor and
otherwise were found most deserv-
ing, to allow each to spend year in
Europe studying the social, political
and moral condition of the people
and the character and principles of
the European press, were awarded to:
Geneva Bertha Seybold, Topeka.
KAN: Lee Mills. Merriman, Chicago;
Roswell Stssoms Britton, Hoochow,
China.
Alternates for this award were:
Paul Friederichsen of Ciinto, Ia.
Charles Ruggles Smith of Cambridge.
Mass, and Josephine Lula Chase of
Bakersfield, Cal
Award Music Schoiarship.
An annual scholarship valued at
$500 to the student of music in
America deemed the most talented
and deserving, so that he may con-
tinue his studies with the advantage
of European instruction was awarded
to Winter Watts, Brooklyn n. Y. for
suite fer orchestra entitled Fitch
ings" and for a dramatic ballad for
voice and orchestra entitled The
Vinegar Man."
Henry Hensche, Chicago, a student
in the National Academy of Design
Schools, was awarded an annual
scholarship valued at $500 offered
to the art student in America who
should be certified by the National
Academic Ct Design, with which the
Society of American Artists has been
| merged. as the most promising and
deserving.
No awards were made in the jour
nalism group of the $1,000 prize Of
fered for the best history of the
services rendered to the public by
the American press during the pre-
ceding year and the $500 prize Of
| fered for the best cartoon published
| in the United States during the year.
Memphi. Paper Landed.
The Memphis COMMERCIAL Appeal
was given the $500 medal for its
! COURAGE attitude in the publca-
ton of. cartoons and the handling of
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 ap-
peared in the Emporia Gazette July
81 1922. The jury found that the
| editorial excelled in clearness of
style, sound reasoning and its power
to influence public opinion in the
right direction.
Mr.. Johnston, selected for the
81 900 prize for the best example of
reporters work, won the award
with his reports of the proceedings
| of the convention of the Associate n
for the Advancement OF Science, held
in Cambridge, Mass, December q to
80 1922.
The works of Edna St. Vincent
Millay which won for her the $1,000
award for the best volume of verse
included The Ballad of the Harp
Weaver" "A Few Figs From This
ties" eight sonnets in American
| Poetry" and volume entitled "A
Miscellany"
Mr.. Watts. awarded the music
scholarship, is 81 years old and a
graduate of the Institute of Music
and Art.
The awards originally were recon-
mended by juries consisting of three
members and were formally adopted
| by the advisory board of the Column
bia School of journalism. The prizes
will be presented in connection with