Evening star., 1925-04-27
SO BIG" IS NAMED
YEARS BEST NOVEL
Wins Pulitzer Prize-Play
J Attacked as immoral
: Also Wins.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 27.-The annual
Pulitzer prizes in journalism and in
letters for 1924 were announced yes
terday by President Nicholas Murray
Butler for the School of Journalism
of Columbia University.
Edna F'erber, for her novel, 80
Big" was awarded the $1,000 prize
for the best American novel publish
ed during the year which shall present
the wholesome atmosphere of Ameri-
can life and the highest standards of
American manners and manhood. p"
The $500 prize for the best cartoon
published in any American newpaper
during the year" was given to Rol-
lin Kirby the New York World
for his cartoon entitled News From
the Outside World published 'Octo-
Der 3,
Howard's Play is Best
Sidney Howard, author of "They
Knew What They Wanted" was
awarded the 81 900 prize for the orig
inal American play, performed in New
York, which shall best represent the
educational value and power of the
stage of raising the standard of good
morals, good taste and good man
ners.'
The play was one of thirteen re-
Gently investigated by District Attor-
ney Banton on complaint of citizens
that they We're immoral productions.
A citizens play jury later eXonerated
Mr.. Howard's play.
For the ''beSt book of the year, on
the history of the United States" the
s., 900 prize was awarded to Frederic
l.. PaXson for his History of the
American Frontier" and the $1,000
award for the years best American
biography was given to NJ. A. De
Wolfe Howe for his Barrett Wendell
and His Letters" Edwin Arlington
Robinson was given the $1,000 prize
for the years best volume of verse
by an American. The winning volume
was THE Man Who Died Twice"
Best Editorial Named.
The Charleston, S. c., News and
Courier was awarded the $500 prize
for the years best editorial article
for an editorial entitled THE Plight of
the South" published November 5.
James W. Mulroy and Alvin H. Gold
stein, reporters on the staff of the
Chicago Daily News. won the 81 900
prize, in duplicate. for the best ex-
ample of a reporters work during the
year" The award was made in recog-
milton Of their services toward the
solution of the murder of Robert
Franks, jr., by Nathan f. Leopold
and Richard Loeb.
Three travelling scholarships, hav.
ing a value of s1,500 each, awarded
to graduates of the Columbia School
Of Journalism who shall have passed
their examinations with the highest
honor" were given to Daniel Robert
Maue, Monticello, Mimi; William G.
Worthington, Providence, r. L., and
Richmond B. Williams of Brooklyn,
with Theodore Bernstein and Cicely
Dorothy Dodd of Tallahassee, Fla,
ma med as alternates.
Scholarships having the value of
81 500 each We're awarded Douglas
Moore, Cleveland Ohio, and Leopold
D. Names, New York City, to con-
tinue studies in music abroad. Only
one scholarship ordinarily is present
ed, but the award committee added
second this year lin view of the great
merits of the work presented"
Two Prizes Not Awarded.
There was no competition for the
81 900 prize for the best history of the
services rendered to the public by the
American press. and no award was
made of the $500 prize for the most
disinterested and meritorious public
service by an American newspaper
during the year.
The awards were made by the ad-
visory board on the reports of juries
composed, as to the prizes in journal
ism. of members of the teaching staff
of Columbia University and members
of the American Society of Newspaper
Editors, and, as to the prizes in let