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,...

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