Evening star., 1923-05-14
JOURNALISM PRIZES
:. AWARDED FOR 1928
New York Times Reporter
Wins $1,OO0-WiIliam Al
len White Honored.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. May LITTLE 1929
awards of the Pulitzer prizes in
Journalism and letters and of the
travelling scholarships, offered annu-
ally. were announced last night 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, EmpoTla,
Kans $500 for the best editorial and
the Memphis Commercial Appear;
Memphis Tenn. the $500 gold medal
for the most diSintereSted and mer-
Itorious public service rendered py
newspaper.
by Villa Gather for the $1,000 prize
for the American novel pubiishea
during the year which best presented
lean life and the highest standard
of American manners and manhooo.
Award to Warren.
Charles Warren was given the
$1,000 prize for the best book upon
the history Of the United States Tor
his book. The Supreme Court In
United States History
The $1,000 prize in biography was
awarded to THE Life and Letters OF
Walter ". Page" by Burton J. Hen
drirk. and the $1,000 prize for the
original play performed i'll New YORK,
which best represented the educa-
tiunaI value and power of the stage
In raising the standard of good NOR
ais good taste and good manners
was awarded to "Iccbound." by Owen
Davis.
Edna St Vincent Millay was named
the winner Of the $1,000 prize for the
hest volume of verse published dur
IN American
thor.
Three awards of travelling scholar
ships valued at $1,000 each offered
to graduates of the Columbia Schooi
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
peonle and the character and princi-
piles of the European press. were
awarded to Geneva Bertha Seybold
Topeka, kans lee Mills Merriman.
Chicago: Roswell Seasons Brltton
Sorchow. China. Alternates for this
Clinton. Iowa; Charles RuEgles
Smith. Cambridge. Mass. and Jose
phina Lula Chase. bakersfield, Calf.
Music Scholarship.
An annual scholarship valued at
S15OO 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 award
ed TO Winter Watts, Brooklyn. n. Y.
for suite for orchestra entitled
"Etchings" and for a dramatic bal
lad 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 S1.500. offered
to the art student in America who
should be certified by the National
Academy Of Design, with which the
Society of American Artists has been
merged. as the most promising ana
deserving.
No awards were made in the jour
nalism group of the $1,000 prize of
fered for the best history of the serv-
Ices rendered to the public by the
American press during the preceding
year, and the $500 prize offered for
the best cartoon published in the
United States during the year.
Medal to Newspaper.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal
was given the $500 medal for Its
courageous attitude In the publlca.
tion 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 appeared
in the Emporia Gazette July u. W..
The Jury found that the editorial eX-
celIed in clearness Of style. sound
reasoning and it's power to influence
public opinion in the right direction
Mr.. johnson, selected for the $1,000
prize for the best example or re
porter's work, won the award with
his reports of the proceedings of
the convention of the American AS.
sociation for the Advancement OF
Science, held in Cambridge, Mass. De-
cember 27 to 80, 1922.
The works of Edna st. Vincent
Millay, which won for her the $1,000
award for the best volume of verse,
Weaver" "a Few Figs From
Thistles," eight sonnets in american
poetry" and volume entitled "A
Miscellany"
Mr.. Watts. awarded the music
scholarship, is thirty-seven years old.
and a graduate of the Institute Of
Musical Art. He has studied paint
ing and architecture as we'll as music
and has written and conducted in
cidental music for several plays. The
jury. which selected him, was COM
posed of Prof. Daniel Gregory Mason,
Prof Walter Henry Hall and Frank
Damrosch, and stated that he has had
instruction in organ and voice. both
in America and Italy. has made an
extensive study of composition and
has taught theory.
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
the commencement exercises at Co
lumbia University.