Jury.of Seven Appointed to Decide Award of "Hok"
Prize of $100,000
New York, Sept. 16.
The following jury of seven, which will award the $100,000 prize offered by Mr. Edward W. Hok for a practical plan to prevent war, was named to-day by the Policy Committee which has been administering the award Root, prominent lawyer who served in the Me-Kinley and Roosevelt Cabinets and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912, whose selection for the jury was reported some time ago; Colonel Edward M. House, former confidant of President Woodrow Wilson, who served as special representative of the United States Government at the inter-Allied Conference of Premiers and Foreign Ministers held in aris' in November, 1917; Major-General James—Guthrie Harbord, now President of the Radio Corporation of America, who served chief of staff of the American Exped'tionary Force and as chief of the American Military Mission to Armenia in 1919: Dr. Ellen" Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College Dr. Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School. who formerly served on the faculties of northwestern University and the University. of Chicago: Mr. William Allen White, of Emporia, Kans., editor and novelist, who was sent to France as an observer by the American Red Cross in 1917 and who was a delegate to the Russian Conference at Prinkipo/ ig 1919: Mr. Brand Whitlock, fio Ambassador to Belgium.
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