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.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch , by Bart Howard
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
The Jury
The Jury
Carl Ackerman
Dean
Roscoe Ellard
Winners in Editorial Writing
Ronald G. Callvert
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year as exemplified by the editorial entitled "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
William Wesley Waymack
For his distinguished editorial writing during the year.
John W. Owens
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
Felix Morley and George B. Parker
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.
1940 Prize Winners
Otto D. Tolischus
For his dispatches from Berlin.
Edmund Duffy
For "The Outstretched Hand."