Jackson advocate., 1947-03-08
President Truman Presenting Wilkie
Awards Praises coIored Press For Un-
derstandabIe Concern With Interracial
Problems
Says Example After Example Show
Courageous And Constructive Report
ing And Editorial Writing Expected OF
The Best of Our journalism

Washington D G - President
Truman las Friday night in pre-
senting the Wendell L. Wilkie
Awards for Journalism praised
the colored press for its under
standable concern with inter-
racial problems.
Speaking at the second annual
dinner held in the National Press
Club ballroom, he President told
his hearers that example after
example can be cited from the
columns of the calored press Of
reporting and editorial writing
which deal with these problems in
the courageous and constructive
manner that we expect of the
best of our journalism
Associate Justice Felix Frank
further of the United States Sup
RENE Court and Frank l. Stanley,
president of the Negro Newspap-
er Published Association, also
spoke at the dinner. DR. Douglass
S Freeman, noted Richmond ed
itor and president of the founda-
ton on awards which sponsored
the dinner, presided.
Mr.. Truman was escorted to
the banquet hall by Wilbur For
rest, president of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors and
Publishers and assistant editor of
the New York Herald Tribune.
Three cash awards af $3.50 each
were presented to the winners.
The runners-up received honor
able mention. The awards fol
low:
For public service to the COM
munity: The Norfolk Journal and
Guide, received by P Bernard Yo
ung, Jr., is editor and Albert L
Hinton, it's managing editor; hon
orable mention, the Louisville De-
fender Frank L Stanley editor
and the Louisiana Weekly, New
Orleans, C C Dejoie, editor, who
was not present.
Fir objective reporting: Ralph
Matthews, editor of the national
bureau of of the Afro-American
Newspaper; honoroble mention,
Enoch P Waters, Chicago Defend
er, and Louis Lautier, chief of
the Negro Newspaper Publisher
Association News Service.
Fro best example of individual
writing other than news report
ing: William o Walker, editor of
the Cleveland Call and Past; hon
orable mention, Lewis Jones, Hou
ston Inormer, and Robert FL Durr
editor the Birgingham Weekly
Review and columnist or the N
NPA News Service.
A special certificate merit was
presented to the Chicago Deender
and Radio Station WBBM Of the
Columbia Boardcasting System
for collaboration in a weekly pro
gram Democracy USA- pre-
pared by H Leslie Atlas of CHS
and Charles P Browning Of the
Chicago Refender. The parchment
scroll was accepted by Mr. Allan
and Mr. Browning.
After he had presented the a.
wards. launching into his speech
President Truman explained hat
they were made in recognition
of journalistic endeavor Of a high
order.
Referring to the award given
The Norfolk Journal and Guide,
he said that that paper had
prepared the way for a much
needed improvement in the Negro
Schools of its community. The
Louisville Defender, he said, had
accepted the challenge of equal
rights in citizenship and urged
Negro citizens to assume their
responsibilities. The Louisville
Defender, re adder, had expos
ed an example of intolerable dis
elimination.
A series of articles written by
Mr.. Matthews and published in
the Afro-American Newspapers.
on the Haitian revolution and the
Inauguration of Governor William
II Hastie of the Virgin Islands
was the basis of his award.
TIE Journal and Guide won its
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