Pulitzer Prizes

Pulitzer Prizes

The influence of the New York World, which he founded, unmistakably persists in the grand literary prizes which Joseph Pulitzer established. So this year the gold medal for "most distinguished and meritorious service rendered by an American newspaper" was awarded to a brave, obscure journal, which had dared in Georgia to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, the antievolutionists, the lynchers. That paper was the Columbus, Ga., Enquirer Sun.

Other cash awards were made to individuals as follows:

Edward M. Kingsbury, $500, for an editorial in the New York Times, a charity appeal for the "one hundred neediest cases."

William Burke Miller, $1,000, for best reporting. His subject was Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Ky.; his paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal.

D. R. Fitzpatrick, $500, for the best cartoon. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he pictured the multiplicity of modern laws in contrast with Moses' famed ten.

Edward Channing, $2,000. The sixth volume of his U. S. history was considered the year's best historic production in that field.

Harvey Gushing, $1,000. His Life of William Osier was judged the best American biography.

The late Amy Lowell, $1,000, for the best volume of verse--What's O'clock.

Sinclair Lewis, $1,000, for his novel Arrowsmith, deemed best presentation of the "wholesome atmosphere of American life."

George Kelley, $1,000, for his play, Craig's Wife, which "best represented the educational value and power of the stage. ..."