The News and Observer
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
December 5, 1941


Referring to the award of the Mayflower
Cup for 1941, Mr. Josephus Daniels said:

	"I am greatly gratified that the cup goes in recognition
of the genius and ability of W.J. Cash, a brother journalist
of Charlotte, given posthumously to his wife, also a journalist.
"The Mind of the South" won instant recognition, bringing Mr.
Cash the most favorable reviews by competent critics and a Gug-
genheim Fellowship carrying a two year period of travel and
study. His ability was recognized by the University of Texas,
which honored him with an invitation to deliver the commence-
ment address. Leaving Austin, where his address was accclaimed
as able and original, Mr. Cash went to Mexico, accompanied by
his wife, and planned in the Spanish-American countries to 
gather material for a book which he hoped to make his masterpiece.

	"Then came the sad tragedy, the sudden snapping of the cord
that bound him to life. He was not without friends in that country.
His reputation had preceded him. The Ameriican Embassy felt privi-
leged to give welcome to his sorrowing wife and to aid in seeing
that his ashes could be brought to rest in his native Cleveland
county, to which he had brought distinction, to await in the sacred
native earth the day when the just will receive their everlasting
reward. In life he brought honor to the state he loved. And tonight
the award of the cup to the author of "The Mind of the South" assures 
him a lasting place in North Carolina's Hall of Fame."