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.
The New York Times , by Edward M. Kingsbury
For the editorial entitled "House of a Hundred Sorrows."
The Jury
The Jury
R.C.E. Brown(Chair)
M.S. Sherman
Allen S. Will
Winners in Editorial Writing
No author named
For the editorial entitled "Plight of the South."
The Boston Herald
For an editorial entitled "Who Made Coolidge?"
William Allen White
For an editorial entitled "To an Anxious Friend."
Frank M. O'Brien
For an article entitled, "The Unknown Soldier."
1926 Prize Winners
D. R. Fitzpatrick
For "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today."