For the best editorial article written during the year, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning and power to influence public opinion in the right direction, due account being taken of the whole volume of the writer’s editorial work during the year, $500.
Louis Isaac Jaffe of The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.
For his editorial entitled "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery," which is typical of a series of articles written on the lynching evil and in successful advocacy of legislation to prevent it.
The Jury
The Jury
R.C.E. Brown(Chair)
F. Fraser Bond
Arthur S. Draper
Winners in Editorial Writing
Grover Cleveland Hall of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
For his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance.
F. Lauriston Bullard of the Boston Herald
For the editorial entitled, "We Submit."
Edward M. Kingsbury of The New York Times
For the editorial entitled "House of a Hundred Sorrows."
Editorial Staff of the Charleston (S.C.) News and Courier
For the editorial entitled "Plight of the South."
1929 Prize Winners
Paul Scott Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News
For his coverage of international affairs including the Franco-British Naval Pact and Germany's campaign for revision of the Dawes Plan.
Rollin Kirby of the New York World
For "Tammany."