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Show PRIZE AWARDED 1 TARKIGTDN 'Alice Adams' Found Best Novel of Year in Pulitzer Gifts NEW YORK. May 22. (By the As-s. As-s. .nited Tress.) -Booth Tarkington a m ha-s won the Pulitzer prize of $1,000 for the American novel best ' presenting the "wholesome atmosphere of American life and (he highest atand-; atand-; aids of American manners and man-i man-i hood,'' Columbia university announ-j announ-j ccd Sunday The prize-winning novel I was "Alice Adams." Cugene O'NfelU'l "Anna Christie" won the $1,000 prize for the American Ameri-can plav best representing th "edu-! "edu-! catlon il value ;md power of the stage i In raising the standard o( food morals, i good taste and good manners " riiani; m booms The $2,0o0 prize for the "best book ' of the year upon the history of the ! United Staler" goes to James Ti uslow Adams for The Founding of New England." and the Jl.000 prize for the i" I American olographs tench-I tench-I inp patriotic and unselfish services to ' .. in m.t r-i r f .1 hv :in ami nAnf example, excluding as to obvious the names of George Washington and braham Lincoln" to ilanilln Garland, Gar-land, tor "A Daughter of the Middle Herder " Edwin Arlington Robinson' "Collected "Col-lected Poems" won the 51,000 prize for the "; Volume of verse published publish-ed duiing the year The Arlington ceremonies for America's Am-erica's unknown soldier" last November No-vember provided the material from whuh were written the prize Winning Win-ning newspaper stories and the prize winning newspaper editorial of the year. ( m:vsppfr itVARDS Kirke L. Simpson, of the Washington Washing-ton staff of Tho Associated Tress for his stories on the return of the 1 unknown un-known soldier" were awarded 'he fi,-000 fi,-000 prize for the "hest example of a reporter's work during the year." Frank it, O'Brien's editorial, "Th Unknown Soldier," published in the New York Herald on November 11 war. awarded the $500 prize for liit "best editorial article written durlnf, the year, the test of excellence being I clearness of style, moral purpose sound reasoning and power to influ ence puouc opinion in me ngnt direction." di-rection." The prize of $500 for the het n mt paper cartoon went to Kollln Klrbyj of the New York World for his car-j toon "On the Road to Moscow," pub- llshed AupiiKt 1021 The New York World won the gold i mednl for "the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by i any newspaper" during the year for it expose of the Ku Klux Klan. WESTERN GIR.ES WDf Three traveling scholarships of $1,-500 $1,-500 each for graduates of the Columbia Colum-bia School of Journalism" who have passed their examinations with the highest honors and are otherwise most deserving'" went to Robert Arthur I urry of Nassau, Bahama Islands; I Zllpha Mary Carruthers of Denver, and Robert Henry Best of Spnrtenburg. . s. a These scholarships are awarded toj "enable them to spend a year In Europe Eu-rope to study the social, political and mofal conditions of the people, and tho character and principles of the Eu- ropcan press." Edith Bell of Des Moines Iowa, won j tho $1,500 scholarship to the Amerl-! ran art student ' who shall be certified certi-fied as the most promising and deserving de-serving by the National Academy of Design " n.i The first scientific training school for nurses was opened by FUender. at Ivalnerwerth. Germany. In 1836 |